Calcarea Phosphorica is one of the remedies in homeopathy useful in treating a variety of diseases, is an indispensable remedy, proved and incorporated in Homeopathy by Dr.Hering.
Calcarea Phosphorica is commonly known as the Phosphate of lime.
It is prepared from the calcium phosphate, phosphorus, and a few more active principles that are present in it and possess medicinal properties.
It belongs to the mineral kingdom.
The crude substance for preparation is made from the phosphate of limestone.
Calcarea Phosphorica Constitution/ Personality
Calcarea Phosphorica is suited to pale persons, thin, and spare subjects.
It is suited to persons who are of dark complexion, dark hair, and eyes.
The constitution of calcarean phosphorica is more towards thin emaciation of body, sunken flabby abdomen, soft bones bent disproportionately.
The head is enlarged and the parson has a long weak emaciated, unable to support the head.
It is suited to people with melancholic temperament and in general scrofulous and gouty diathesis, the glands are swollen inflamed, and enlarged.
Guiding symptoms of Calcarea Phosphorica
Calcarea Phosphorica is a notable remedy in homeopathy, often used when ailments stem from grief, disappointed love, over-study, unpleasant news, or exposure to dampness. It is also recognized for its role in managing the adverse effects of alcohol consumption, with patients often craving salted, smoked meats such as ham and bacon.
This remedy is commonly employed in treating issues related to defective bone development and curvature of long bones, such as the tibia, fibula, and radius.
It is frequently prescribed for children who exhibit delayed milestones, particularly those who are slow to walk and have fontanelles, especially the posterior one, that remain open for too long.
Calcarea Phosphorica is also used in addressing malabsorption and deficiency disorders, where the body becomes emaciated, and the abdomen appears sunken and flabby.
It is effective in treating dyspepsia, with pain often relieved by-passing gas and temporarily alleviated by eating.
This remedy is particularly indicated when symptoms worsen with mental focus on them. It is also beneficial for treating fistula pain, which may alternate with chest discomfort.
In cases of chronic hydrocephalus, where the head is disproportionately large, and the neck is too weak to support it, Calcarea Phosphorica is frequently utilized.
Additionally, it is helpful in managing gastric disorders, especially when eating leads to colicky abdominal pain. It is also commonly used for treating lingering weakness and debility after acute illnesses.
Calcarea Phosphorica Uses
This article will cover from head to toe all the complaints body. And wherever the symptoms are matched, this medicine can be used-
Mind symptoms
The Calcarea Phosphorica patient often presents as sad, constantly in grief, peevish, and forgetful. This remedy is frequently used for depression that arises after experiences of grief or vexation.
It is indicated when the patient feels an urge to go somewhere, often accompanied by involuntary sighing. Calcarea Phosphorica is also helpful in treating depression where the individual finds relief from their complaints when thinking about them.
Head symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is indicated for treating migraines and sick headaches, particularly when they originate from gastric disturbances, abdominal flatulence, or mental exertion.
It is also useful for headaches near the sutures, often triggered by changes in weather.
This remedy is often prescribed for headaches in school children, especially around puberty, as well as in cases where the fontanelles, particularly the posterior ones, remain open for too long.
It is also beneficial when cranial bones are soft, thin, and underdeveloped due to defective calcium assimilation.
In some cases, defective hearing may occur due to delayed cranial development in childhood, often associated with hydrocephalus.
Calcarea Phosphorica is also used for treating headaches accompanied by abdominal flatulence and gastric acidity. Additionally, the head may feel hot, and there may be discomfort at the roots of the hair.
Eyes symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is commonly used in homeopathy for treating eye disorders, such as severe protrusion of the eyes. It is also indicated for squinting, where the eyeballs may feel sore or distended.
This remedy is beneficial for diffused opacity in the cornea, especially after an abscess. It is also helpful in managing photophobia, particularly sensitivity to artificial light, with symptoms such as a sensation of heat on the eyelids and sweating around the lids and brows.
Eye complaints tend to worsen with exposure to artificial light or when the patient thinks or talks about their symptoms.
Ears symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is a remedy indicated for otitis, where the patient experiences reduced hearing and sensitivity in the external ear to touch. It is also used when there are excoriating discharges from the ear.
Pain in the ear may occur, often alternating with rheumatic pain in other parts of the body. The ear complaints tend to worsen with touch.
Nose symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is a remedy used for allergic rhinitis, often accompanied by the sensation of a foreign body in the nose.
It is also indicated for epistaxis, particularly with marked bleeding in the afternoon, and is effective in cases of fluent coryza.
Mouth symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is used for swollen tonsils, where the pain is severe enough that the person cannot open their mouth without discomfort. It is also indicated for complaints during teething, particularly when teeth develop slowly.
This remedy is effective when there is rapid decay of teeth and is commonly prescribed in cases of adenoiditis, where there is an enlargement or excess growth of the adenoid tissue.
Face symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is indicated for facial neuralgia, particularly when the face aches after getting wet. The face may appear pale and sunken, with protruding eyes.
The head may be large, and the neck long, with weakness in supporting the head, indicating emaciation and malabsorption.
Throat symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is used for treating sore throat accompanied by hoarseness of voice.
It is also indicated for throat conditions where there is difficulty swallowing, with the patient unable to open their mouth due to severe pain caused by swollen and painful tonsils.
Chest symptom
Calcarea Phosphorica is indicated for asthma, particularly when accompanied by involuntary sighing. The chest may feel sore, and there may be a suffocative cough that improves when lying down.
It is also useful for asthma with pain in the lower left lung.
Heart symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is indicated for heart complications characterized by sharp, cutting pain and shooting sensations in the heart region that interrupt breathing.
It is also associated with suffocative attacks, syncope, and dropsy due to heart disease.
Stomach symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is indicated for gastric disorders in small infants who want to nurse frequently and vomit easily. It is also used for stomach issues characterized by cravings for bacon, ham, and salted or smoked meats.
This remedy is helpful for excessive flatulence, with symptoms including great hunger, thirst, and temporary relief from flatulence through sour eructations. It addresses heartburn associated with acidity, burning sensations, water brash, and a tendency for nausea and vomiting.
Many homeopaths use Calcarea Phosphorica to treat infantile indigestion and easy vomiting in children, particularly in cases with delayed milestones. It is effective for flatulence, bloatedness, and a sensation of emptiness in the stomach.
The abdomen may appear flabby, with loud eructations that alleviate pain, which often improves after eating.
Abdomen and Rectum symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is indicated for flatulent colic that improves with sour eructation after eating, often accompanied by colicky pain in the abdomen.
It is also used for abdominal colic, where the abdomen appears sunken and flabby, with soreness and burning sensations around the umbilicus.
This remedy is beneficial in cases of gallstone colic, particularly with pain in the right hypochondrium. It is effective for fistula in the anus, especially when symptoms alternate with chest discomfort and involve bleeding after hard stool.
Calcarea Phosphorica is also indicated for diarrhea resulting from the consumption of juicy fruits or cider, especially during teething in infants and children.
It is particularly useful when stools consist of undigested food, appearing green, slimy, hot, sputtering, and associated with fetid flatus.
Male symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica has a notable effect on male genital health, particularly in cases of impotence resulting from excessive alcohol indulgence. It is indicated when there is chronic fatigue and weakness of the genitals following grief, disappointment in love, or unpleasant news.
The patient may experience inadequate erections, primarily due to alcoholism or emotional distress.
Female symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is effective for female genital issues, particularly in treating uterine colicky pains before and after menses, as well as dysmenorrhea. Patients may experience a weak, sinking sensation in the hypogastrium and an empty feeling in the epigastrium, accompanied by aching in the uterus that may extend to the sacrum.
This remedy is also indicated for cream-like leucorrhea, with burning sensations in the vagina and pain on both sides of the bladder and uterus, as well as burning sensations radiating up into the chest. Patients may experience flushes of heat, faintness, and increased sweating.
Calcarea Phosphorica is useful for metrorrhagia characterized by profuse blood flow during menstruation, especially when the patient feels weak and consumptive, and may have partial profuse sweats.
It is also indicated for uterine weakness and infertility, particularly in patients who are weak and emaciated, as it may help restore the health of the uterus and support fertility treatment.
Urinary symptoms
It is useful in diabetes when the urine is copious, with weakness, so much that the patient is unable to walk.
Hand and Leg symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is indicated for the later stages of rheumatism, characterized by stiffness and pain, with a cold, numb sensation that worsens with any change in weather. Patients may experience crawling sensations and coldness in the hands and legs.
This remedy is effective for rheumatism involving numbness in the buttocks, back, and limbs, along with pain in the joints and bones. The joints may feel weary when going upstairs, and patients often experience aching and weariness in all limbs.
It is indicated when pains are migratory, affecting various parts of the body, especially after getting wet in the rain.
Calcarea Phosphorica is also useful for rheumatic pains in the shoulder and arm, particularly when accompanied by swelling in the affected area and febrile heat.
The remedy is effective for ulcerative pain, especially at the roots of the fingernails of the right hand and in the middle finger.
It also addresses gouty nodosities, soreness, torpor, and paralysis of the left arm, as well as paralysis in the joints of the hand and fingers, particularly the thumbs, which may occur after a chill.
Many homeopaths use Calcarea Phosphorica to treat cramps in the calves, especially when patients find it difficult to rise from a sitting position.
It is also indicated for leg pains, where the legs feel tired, weak, restless, and experience crawling or tingling sensations, along with pain above the knee and in the joints and bones, particularly the shin bones.
Back symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is indicated for backaches, particularly those with a rheumatic origin from exposure to a draft of air, accompanied by stiffness and dullness in the head.
It is effective when there is soreness in the back, with a sensation as if it is broken.
Skin symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is indicated for treating skin disorders such as chloasma, characterized by dark brown or yellowish marks on the skin.
It is also effective for red eruptions that produce a prickling sensation similar to nettles, particularly after a bath.
Fever symptoms
Calcarea Phosphorica is indicated for rheumatic fever, particularly when the patient experiences frequent creeping shiverings.
It is also useful for managing copious night sweats, especially localized to specific areas of the body.
Modalities
Modalities are the factors that, increase or decrease the complaints in a patient.
They are categorized as aggravating factors and amelioration factors.
Aggravating factors make the condition of the illness worst, while the amelioration factor makes the condition of the disease better.
It can be time, any part of the day, season, position, or any applications, etc.
Aggravated By
The condition of Calcarea Phosphorica is worse, on exposure to damp, cold weather, and melting snow.
Symptoms are of the eyes are worse from artificial light.
There is a general aggravation of symptoms when thinking or others talking about the complaints.
Amelioration By
The conditions of Calcarea Phosphorica are better, in summer and warm, dry atmosphere.
Relationship with Other Medicine
Complementary Medicines
This remedy completes the process of cure that is started by the first medicine given.
The remedies complementary to Calcarea Phosphorica are Ruta and Hepar Sulphuricum.
Similar Medicines
These remedies have many similarities in action but are different in origin, which means the source from which the medicine is prepared is another.
Remedies similar to Calcarea Phosphorica are Gelsemium, and Medorrhinum.
Compatible
These are the remedies that are suitable to be used together.
It is compatible with Calcarea flourica, Silicea.
Antidoted by
The bad effects of Calcarea Phosphorica are antidoted by Camphora.
It antidotes
It antidotes the effects of alcohol.
Calcarea Phosphorica Dosage & Potencies
The dosage and potency of the medicine depend on the individual case.
Calcarea Phosphorica 30 Uses
Lower potency is given when very few symptoms of the patient match with the medicine and help the doctor only to diagnose the disease condition.
It is used in treating dropsy, and acidity, debility, cough.
This potency requires frequent repetition, 3-4 times a day, till the expected result is seen.
Calcarea Phosphorica 200 Uses
This is considered as higher potency; they are given when the majority of mental symptoms and physical symptoms of Calcarea Phosphorica match.
It is useful in delayed milestones in kids and Rheumatism.
Higher potencies are advisable to be not repeated very often; they act for a long duration of days, so the second dose is repeated every 7-days or every 15-days once.
Calcarea Phosphorica 1M Uses
This is very high potency.
One should give it only after careful case analysis, where all medicinal symptoms of Calcarea Phosphorica and that given by the patient match perfectly.
It is useful in cases of Alcoholism and Nervous fever.
One should not repeat 1 M potency.
It is given 30 days once and waiting for symptoms to disappear.
Calcarea Phosphorica (Mother Tincture) Uses
The mother tincture of Calcarea Phosphorica is used to treat intermittent fever which needs frequent repetition.
Take 10 drops of mother tincture in half a cup of water three times a day till the improvement occurs.
Calcarea Phosphorica 3X/6X Uses
This lower potency of Calcarea Phosphorica works well to treat the conditions like Anemia, Dentition, bone disorders, and gallstones.
Take 2-3 drops of dilution directly on the tongue thrice a day for 3 months.
Clinical Indication of Calcarea Phosphorica
- Acidity
- Alcohol side effects
- Anemia
- Ankles weak
- Bone disease
- Brachial neuralgia
- Breasts painful
- Bronchial gland’s affections
- Caries
- Cataract
- Chorea
- Cold
- Coryza
- Cough
- Debility
- Delirium tremens
- Dentition
- Diabetes
- Diarrhea
- Dropsy
- Dyspepsia
- Epilepsy
- Affections on eyes
- Intermittent fever
- Fistula
- Gall-stones
- Glandular swellings
- Gonorrhea
- Gouty swellings
- Headache
- Hernia
- Herpes
- Hydrocephalus
- Hypochondriasis
- Hysteria
- Impotence
- Defective lactation
- Leucorrhoea
- Melancholia
- Menstruation disorders
- Milk-fever
- Miscarriage
- Nervous fever
- Neuralgia
- Night terrors
- Paralysis
- Parotitis
- Peritonitis
- Perspiration
- Pregnancy
- Psoriasis
- Renal colic
- Rheumatism
- Rickets
- Ringworm
- Sciatica
- Sleep disorders
- Sleeplessness
- Spinal cord affections
- Sycosis
- Tapeworm
- Taste disorder
- Teeth carious
- Toothache
- Tuberculosis
- Tumors
- Typhoid
- Urticaria
- Uterus affections
- Varices
- Vertigo
- Warts
- Whitlow
Side Effects of Calcarea Phosphorica
Homeopathic medicines are prepared by potentization where the dynamic curative power of the medication is aroused, so homeopathic medicines produce negligible side effects.
If any side effects of Calcarea Phosphorica like weakness and fatigue are seen, then it can be antidoted by Camphora.
Remember that homeopathic remedies should be prescribed based on individual symptoms and characteristics. It’s crucial to consult with a qualified homeopath for proper evaluation and personalized treatment. Homeopathy focuses on treating the whole person, so a detailed case study is necessary to select the most appropriate remedy.
Homeopathic medicines should be taken only when prescribed by a homeopathic physician. Self-medication may aggravate the original conditions.