MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA Medicine


MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Plain Talks on Materia Medica with Comparisons by W.I. Pierce. What MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA can be used for? Indications and personality of MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA…


      MAGNESIUM PHOSPHATE.

Introduction

      Mag. phos. was first introduced by Schussler as one of his twelve tissue remedies, and it well illustrates the necessity of thorough provings of our remedies before we can begin to know of their virtues or can use them intelligently.

There have been but who provings made, the last one changing the side of the body on which the remedy seems to act best, and Dr. B.R. Johnston, who conducted the latter proving made by eight students of the State University of Iowa, in giving the report to the American Institute of Homoeopathy, in 1906, says: “The more intimately one is associated with this kind of work, the more he realizes its incompleteness, and I cannot leave this with you without expressing the hope that others will continue the proving of this grand remedy, until is fully known in all its finer details.”

I well recall the skepticism I felt in reference to the value of the remedy before I had used it; at present I would not be willing to question any report made of the cure of pain by Mag. phos.

While it is not a duplicate of either of the other Magnesias, it shows many points of similarity, especially noticeable in neuralgic conditions.

Symptoms

      I think of Mag. phos. as having neuralgias, where the pains are as bad or worse than found under Mag. carb. or Mag. mur., but without the restlessness or necessity to walk, as found under Mag. carb. The r. side is especially affected (the last proving says l. side), and there is pronounced relief from the application of heat. Neuralgic headaches, supraorbital (76) and infraorbital neuralgias are commonly found, especially of the r. side, with relief from the external application of heat.

The above is as I have found it; for the reverse, Dr. Johnston says : ” There were pains in the head in nearly all cases. These pains were intermittent, and in all cases but one, left sided. There was some relief from pressure but the most frequently recorded modality was relief from walking in the open air. There can be no question about this symptom as it occurred in a number of the provers and was repeatedly noted in their records.”

In the abdomen think of Mag. phos. in flatulent colic, forcing the patient to bend double (174), better by heat, rubbing and pressure (175), as we find in Coloc., but differing from that remedy in there being no relief from the belching of gas.

In case of gastralgia, with the above symptoms, there were, in addition, pains from the stomach to the back and profuse urine and necessity to void it after each paroxysm of pain.

Menstruation is preceded or accompanied by severe crampy pains, with pronounced relief from the application of heat.

I have use Mag. phos. with success in rheumatism of the r. deltoid (161) coming on only at night, and in this condition, with inability to stay in bed and necessity o walk the floor (10).

Schussler says that Mag. phos. acts best when given in hot water.

I use Mag. phos. 3d.

Willard Ide Pierce
Willard Ide Pierce, author of Plain Talks on Materia Medica (1911) and Repertory of Cough, Better and Worse (1907). Dr. Willard Ide Pierce was a Director and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Kent's post-graduate school in Philadelphia.