Magnesia phosphorica

Phosphate of Magnesia.

Keynotes

Is best adapted to thin, emaciated persons of a highly nervous organization; dark complexion.

Affections of right side of body; head, ear, face, chest, ovary, sciatic nerve (Bell., Bry., Chel., Kali c., Lyc., Pod.).

Pains : sharp, cutting, stabbing ; shooting, stitching ; lightning-like in coming and going (Bell.) ; intermittent, paroxysm becoming almost unbearable, driving patient to frenzy; rapidly changing place (Lac c., Puls.), with a constricting sensation (Coc., iod., Sulph.) ; cramping, in neuralgic affections of stomach, a1)domen and pelvis (Caul., Col.).

Great dread: of cold air; of uncovering; of touching affected part; of cold bathing or washing; of moving.

Languid, tired, exhausted; unable to sit up.

Complaints from standing in cold water or working in cold clay (Col.).

Ailments of teething children ; spasms during dentition, no fever (with fever, hot head and skin. Bell.).

Headache : begins in occiput and extends over head (Sang., Sil.) ; of school girls; face red, flushed; from mental emotion, exertion or hard study; < lo to ii A. M. or 4 to 5 p. M. ; > by pressure and external heat.

Neuralgia: of face, supra or infra-orbital; r. side; intermittent, darting, cutting < by touch, cold air, pressure > by external heat.

Toothache: at night; rapidly shifting; < eating, drinking, especially cold things; > by heat (> by cold, Bry., Coff., Fer. p.).

Spasms or cramp of stomach, with clean tongue, as if a band was drawn tightly around the body.

Colic : flatulent, forcing patient to bend double ; > by heat, rubbing and hard pressure (Col., Plumb.) ; of horses and cows when Colocynth fails to >.

Menses : early ; flow dark, stringy ; pains < before, > when flow begins (Lach., Zinc.); pains darting, like lightning, shooting, < r. side, > by heat and bending double ; vaginismus.

Enuresis : nocturnal ; from nervous irritation ; urine, pale, copious ; after catheterization.

Cramps: of extremities; during pregnancy; of writers, piano or violin players.

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Compare: Bell., Caul, CoL, Lyc., Lac c., Puls. ; Cham, its vegetable analogue.

Sometimes acts best when given in hot water.

Aggravation. — Cold air; a draft of cold air or cold wind; cold bathing or washing; motion; touch.

Amelioration. — Bending double; heat; warmth; pressure (burning pain > by heat, Ars.).