Calcium phosphoricum Anhang

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Tuberkulöse Erkrankungen bei den Vorfahren

Auffällige Symptome:

Kinder sind schnell gelangweilt

Erwachsene suchen zwanghaft Veränderung/ Abwechslung (wechseln gern Arbeit, Partner oder Wohnung, Reisen viel)

leiden unter Ungerechtigkeit bzw. empfinden es als ungerecht, dass sie selbst bestimmte Dinge nicht können

Osteoporose, besonders wenn in der Familie früher Tuberkulose vorgekommen ist

Entwicklung allgemein langsam: lange offene Fontanellen, späte Zahnung, z.T. geistig zurückgeblieben

Kopfschmerzen bei Schulkindern, besonders entlang der Schädelnähte Lymphknotenschwellungen am Hals und/oder in den Leisten

Wachstumsschmerzen in den langen Röhrenknochen, bes. bei Kindern, die schnell gewachsen sind

<:

Wetterwechsel

Zugluft

Kälte und Nässe

Zahnung

Verlust von Körperflüssigkeiten

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Liegend

[Kebt]

During the growing period many children need this remedy. If the head is slow in forming, or do not keep pace with the growth of the child. Child losing flesh, slow learning to do things, slow learning to walk, or the legs are not strong enough to support the body, or it is behind in mental development: Child flabby, shrunken, emaciated children.

Non-union of fractured bones, swollen condyles. Polypi of nose, rectum and uterus. Enlarged glands of the neck, groin and abdomen. Rachitis, with open fontanelles open, and diarrhoea,

Calcium phosphoricumi

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Umstände:

Tuberkulöse Erkrankungen bei den Vorfahren

Symptome:

Kinder sind schnell gelangweilt

Erwachsene suchen zwanghaft Veränderung/ Abwechslung (wechseln gern Arbeit, Partner oder Wohnung, Reisen viel)

leiden unter Ungerechtigkeit bzw. empfinden es als ungerecht, dass sie selbst bestimmte Dinge nicht können

Auffällige allgemeine Veränderungen und Symptome:

Osteoporose, besonders wenn in der Familie früher Tuberkulose vorgekommen ist

Entwicklung allgemein langsam: lange offene Fontanellen, späte Zahnung, z.T. geistig zurückgeblieben

Auffällige körperliche Veränderungen und Symptome:

Kopfschmerzen bei Schulkindern, besonders entlang der Schädelnähte Lymphknotenschwellungen am Hals +/o. in den Leisten

Wachstumsschmerzen in den langen Röhrenknochen, bes. bei Kindern, die schnell gewachsen sind

<: Wetterwechsel

Zugluft

Kälte und Nässe

Zahnung

Verlust von Körperflüssigkeiten

>: liegend

in emaciating children.

Rheumatic pains in the joints and limbs, < cold weather/in every cold change of weather. Pale waxy skin; anaemia. Growing pains nights in fast growing children.

Phthisical subjects. Diseases of bone. Easy ulceration. Itching, burning eruptions. Sensitive to cold. Sensitive to ajar.

The pains are shooting, drawing, aching, burning, pressing. It has a shaking chill that spreads downward. Dry heat in evening. Copious night sweats.

The complaints of this remedy generally > rest, come on during motion, and << exertion. Stiffness on moving in bed. General bodily weakness.

Numbness of many parts. Trembling. Fear brings on complaints; palpitation. Electric shock, so severe that the patient could not remain standing.

Epileptic spasms. Convulsions of children; but the remedy must be given when not in the convulsion to secure the best effect.

The mind shows above all a tired and weak brain. Feeble memory, and inability to sustain mental effort. Suffering in the head from mental exertion. Dreads mental exertion.

Sluggish mind. Imbecility. Feeble minded children. The child grasps the head with the hands and screams. Thinking of complaints causes them to appear or increase.

Extremely fretful.

Ailments from bad news, grief, unrequited affections, vexation. She seeks solitude to commune with her thoughts and to shun the exertion of society. Discontented with his own surroundings and goes from place to place.

Vertigo: in cold wind, from mental and physical exertion, rising from sitting, when walking in cold air.

Head: symptoms still more striking. The dull headaches of school children—always come home from school with headache. The head is sensitive to ajar, to pressure, to the hat;

wants it washed in cold water; wants to be quiet and alone. Throbbing and burning in the head. Rheumatic headache, seems to be in the whole head, in cold weather, being out in the cold wind;

< at night/walking/exertion; Prevented hydrocephalus. Frontal headaches, and forehead and eyes < pressure of the hat. Perspiration of scalp; forehead cold to touch. Tearing pain in bones of

head. Cold occiput. Eczema of scalp. Ulcers of scalp.

Brain congestion + strabismus, diarrhoea, and losing flesh.

Eyes: < from reading in artificial light. Blurred. Soreness in eyeballs. Pains < thinking about them. Ulceration of cornea. Eyes feel hot. Easy lachrymation.

Sight: Glittering fiery circles before the eyes. Pain in eyes

Ears: Rheumatic tearing when the weather changes to cold. Ears very cold. Aching deep in ear. Enlarged, painful parotid plands. Eruption about the ears. Noises in ears after stool. Dry catarrh

of the middle ear.

Nose: Chronic catarrh of the nose general symptoms agreeing. Polypi in the nose. Icy cold nose. Fluent coryza in a cold room, stopped in a warm room. Epistaxis.

Face: Pale, waxy, dirty. Rheumatic faceache in every cold spell of weather. Cold perspiration on face. Neuralgia of face at night, in cold air;

< exertion, > heat; sensitive to pressure (Mag-p. > heat and pressure). Dark blotches and pustules on the face. Swollen upper lip, painful, hard and burning.

Mouth: Teeth late coming in or decay soon. Sensitive to touch, pressure, or masticating. Complaints of teething children. Foul taste in mouth. Bitter taste in the morning.

Tongue coated in the morning/swollen, numb and stiff.

Throat: Growing children suffer from chronic throat troubles. Enlarged tonsils.

Every cold settles in the tonsils (Bar-c./Alum.). Much mucus in throat. Dryness in throat at night.

Stomach: Craves salt bacon and smoked meats. Strong appetite. Infants want to nurse all the time. Easily disordered stomach. Cold drinks, ice cream, fruits disorder the stomach,

causing pain or diarrhoea. (Violent) Pain in stomach after (least) food.

Eructations and nausea. Soreness in the stomach. Sour eructations, nausea and vomiting. Burning in the stomach. Nausea from scraping the larynx or throat. Vomiting in infants/children/in

pregnancy. Gnawing, empty feeling in the stomach.

Abdomen: After becoming chilled, pain in the liver, soreness, < after eating/by motion; wants to keep quiet. Stitching pains in the liver from breathing or sudden motion. Pulsating in the liver.

Cutting pains in the spleen.

Sinking sensation in abdomen. Burning in the abdomen, rising up into the chest. Pain in the abdomen ameliorated by passing flatus Colic, followed by diarrhoea.

Ulceration of navel in infants. Motion in abdomen from flatus as from something alive. Abdomen large and flabby.

Tabes mesenterica with diarrhoea.

Rectum: Constipation, with difficult, hard stool. Bleeding from the rectum and anus during stool. Protruding piles so painful that he is kept in bed for weeks; pain intense standing,

walking from touch; > heat; with general sufferings, every sudden cold change of the weather. Piles itch and burn and discharge yellow pus. Itching of the anus in the evening. Stitching

pain in the anus, with or without hemorrhoids. Boils and abscesses about and near the anus, discharging blood and pus. Fistula in tuberculous subjects.

Fissured anus, with burning stitching pains.

Diarrhoea < least food/ Diarrhoea from fruit, ice cream, cold drinks or vexation. Diarrhoea in the morning in phthisical patients.

Stool: Green mucus and hot watery stools; white, mushy stools, copious, offensive flatus. Very offensive stools.

Bladder: Weak and irritable. Catarrh of the bladder. Frequent urging to urinate. Copious flow of urine. Pain in the neck of the bladder. Cutting in urethra. Stitching in prostate gland.

Pain in neck of the bladder before and after urinating. Aching in the empty bladder. This remedy has cured diabetes mellitus. Violent pain in the region of the kidneys.

Male organs: Sexual desire increased. Painful erections. It has cured many cases of chronic gonorrhoea when the discharge is gleety with sharp pains in the urethra and prostate gland.

Gonorrhceal rheuma of long standing and < in every cold change in the weather (Med.).

The woman has no better friend than Calc-p. Her sufferings at puberty when she is slow in maturing are often met by this medicine. From taking cold at first menstrual period often comes

a painful menstruation that lasts during menstrual life, unless cured by this remedy. Violent cramping in uterus and groin several hours before the flow starts, relieved after the flow has been

established. Pain make her cry out. Intense sexual excitement. Weak, sinking sensation in the pelvis.

Prolapsus of uterus during stool and micturition. Uterine polypus. Labor-like pains at the beginning of menstruation. Copious menstrual flow, with very dark clots and membranes.

Leucorrhea like white of egg day and night. Throbbing, titillating in external genitalia. Burning in the vagina and uterus during menses. Child refuses mother's milk. It may be given to a woman

who has brought forth one or two children that may be considered Calc-p. babies. The next child will be stronger and have a better constitution.

Voice and larynx: It is often observed that this patient scrapes, mucus from the larynx before he can talk or sing. Hoarseness, dry hacking cough day and night. Tubercular laryngitis.

Respiration: Suffocation on slight exertion, or on ascending stairs. In thin, pale, sickly people with dry, hacking cough < cold, damp weather in rheumatic constitutions. Yellow expectoration.

Stitching pains in the chest. Emaciation of the chest. Difficult expectoration. It is a very useful remedy in phthisis and blood spitting. Much sweat on the chest. Rattling in the chest with difficult expectoration, like Caust.

Soreness of the chest to touch. Palpitation, with trembling of the limbs.

Back and limbs: The back pains < in cold, stormy weather, attended with stiffness/< in the morning. The back is sensitive to draft. Pain in the back from lifting or straining. Curvature of spine.

Tearing, shooting; tenderness and aching in the spine. Soreness in sacroiliac symphysis. Pain in lumbar region and sacrum at the menstrual period.

Rheumatic pains in the limbs in cold weather, < from motion, > rest and from heat. Trembling in all the limbs. Stiffness after resting, and in the morning. Aching in the bones, like growing pains.

Gouty fingers and toes that become painful in cold weather. Ulcerative pains in the roots of the nails.

The most severe tearing, shooting pains in the lower limbs. The probable reason for this is that the lower limbs are always cold to the knees, and the cold parts are always the suffering parts.

Sharp pains in tendons of the lower limbs. Intense aching boring pains in the knees, and long bones. Pains in the tibia with soreness. Drawing pain in the tibia. Cramp in the calves. Ulcers on the legs;

weak, chronic; no granulation. Rheuma of the ankles. Caries of the os calcis. Stringing and shooting in the toes.

Sleep: Sleepy daytime and evening. Sleepless after going to bed until midnight or later. Very sleepy in the morning. Vivid dreams. Child cries out in sleep. Frightful dreams awaken with a start.

[Jonathan Hardy]

A wonderful remedy. It is remarkable that a remedy prepared from a major constituent of the body (calcium phosphate) should have such an interesting physical and psychological profile homeopathically. The main themes in this remedy have to do with nutrition, deprivation, grief and intellectual study.

A clue about is found from our everyday use of calcium phosphate: its main use is in fertilisers and animal feeds (promotion of growth) and in enamelling, glass manufacture and dental products (reinforcing hard structures). In the human body calcium phosphate is found in bones. The mineralisation of the matrix of the dense outer shell of bones with minute crystals of calcium phosphate makes

the bone hard. Calcium phosphate is the chief constituent of enamel, the extremely hard material covering the crown of teeth.

Nutrition and development

Calc-p. comes into usefulness at any time in life when nutrition and growth are especially important. It is therefore a major remedy for infants, children at times like dentition and at puberty when there is accelerated growth.

Infants and children needing this remedy tend to have a dark complexion with dark hair and eyes. They are delicate, lanky and scrawny. They have a sunken, flabby abdomen. They can be tall and thin, and have been described as looking “like a Chinese noodle”. Calc-p. children can be very insecure. They may bite their nails or often put their fingers into the mouth. They want to be carried all the time.

In developing countries this remedy can be applicable for deprivation syndromes like marasmus (wasting of the body) and protein-calorie malnutrition. Calc-p. infants can also be emaciated due to any physical illness like diarrhoea, amoebiasis, malabsorption or worms. They can suffer with malabsorption states like Coeliac disease. There is a tendency to develop brittle, soft, thin and weak bones and children can have growing pains or rickets. There can be late closure of sutures and non-union of fractures, imperfect ossification, kyphosis (curvature of the spine), scoliosis (bending of the spine), and

late closure of the fontanelles (the sutures between the bones forming the scalp).

Dentition is a time of stress for Calc-p. children and can be slow, delayed or simply debilitate the child. These children are unable to assimilate their nutrition properly and may have the peculiar symptom

of an aversion to their mother’s milk. They suffer with severe colic with belching. They can have a ravenous appetite but weak digestion with every bite of food hurting the stomach. They are extremely chilly and Calc-p. individuals of all ages are sensitive to the cold, draughts, easterly winds and, most characteristically, the air when snow is melting.

There often appears to be a strong emotional causation in the development of the Calc-p. state. One authority says these children often have parents who are generally immature and irresponsible or who have suffered from severe economic stress or marital disharmony. As a result, the child has suffered from emotional deprivation or, in developing countries, also from nutritional deprivation. These children are often, as a result, anxious and nervous with a desire to be carried all the time. They can be hyper-alert, conscious of every move made by the doctor when examined. One characteristic symptom is involuntary sighing, which appears to be as a result of internalised grief. They often can feel guilty, especially when another child is shouted at or reproached. They can even become violent when this happens. They are sensitive to criticism, timid and lack self-confidence, but can be snappy and abusive.

Teenagers

Calc-p. is a very important medicine for teenagers. They are stressed nutritionally as it is a time of rapid growth. They are also under immense pressure to learn and study which is a major aggravating factor for these individuals. It is a major remedy for headache in schoolchildren and students. It is also a major remedy for loss of motivation caused by diminished energy following too rapid growth or disappointments in love – another sadly common occurrence in teenagers! This can lead to the not-uncommon teenage state of apathy, aggravation from mental and physical exertion, peevishness, obstinacy and in some cases the characteristic sighing.

Another major theme in these individuals is a sense of dissatisfaction, boredom and a desire for change and travel. Calc-p. is a central remedy of the tubercular miasm which has a core sensation of feeling restricted with a strong desire to move and break free. A unique symptom of the remedy is: “Home, desires to go and when there, desires to go out”. In other words, restlessness and cannot find a place where they are at peace.

It is fascinating to analyse why this state should be in the remedy. You can gain an understanding by looking at the constituent parts of the remedy: Calcium and Phosphorus. Calcarea people need to have others around them, they want to be protected because they feel insecure and they find their security within their house and home. On the other hand, Phosphorus people have the feeling of being unloved and uncared for and they compensate for this feeling by being affectionate, friendly and sympathetic. We can therefore see that the Calc-p. individual wants to go out and relate to others, meet people, communicate and be affectionate and make friends but at the same time feels insecure and therefore wants to go home again where they can once again feel safe.

It is also interesting to consider that bone (Calc-p. is a chief component) not only provides security and stability, but also facilitates mobility. We move around through muscular action on our skeletal system. Calc-p. individuals tend to be very active physically as well as mentally. They are often found to be good sportspeople and love physical exercise. It is interesting that sport often involves the themes of activity, mobility and friendliness – the themes of Calc-p. These people are often of an athletic build – tall and muscular. They tend to be lean.

Conditions

As well as the conditions of infants and children I have mentioned, these individuals can suffer with rheumatism, arthritis, hip joint disease, exostoses (growths on bones and joints), traumatic arthritis, tubercular arthritis, osteoporosis, easy fractures and slow healing of fractures.

A condition I have found this remedy very helpful for is Osgood-Schlatter Disease. This causes inflammation and pain in the shinbone at the insertion of the patella tendon of the knee. It is found in teenagers and can often cause them to have to give up sport for several years. I have found Calc-p. invariably quickly curative in this condition.

I have also found this remedy very effective in joint diseases and especially in osteo-arthritis of the knees. The indications for its use are the general constitutional state of Calc-p. and also the modalities of worsening of the joint pain in cold, windy weather. If the left knee is first affected, followed by the right, that is also an indication for this remedy. One of my patients with osteoarthritis of the knees also had the helpful symptom of a very strong craving for pork. These individuals tend to like ham fat, pork, bacon, smoked food and salty food. On the other hand they can have weak digestion and

they are especially aggravated by ice cream and other cold foods like ice, cold drinks and fruit.

Another strong theme from Calc-p. “Aggravation from mental exertion and study” can also be understood by looking at its constituent elements.

Jan Scholten: has drawn attention to the Calcium themes of sensitivity to criticism and a feeling of shyness and insecurity while the Phosphorus element has themes of communication, curiosity, travel

and learning and study. Putting these two together produces a number of themes, including the idea of being very sensitive to what others feel about their ability to learn and study. He quotes a very interesting case of a woman who had never been well since a trauma at the age of twelve. This trauma was that the head of her school told her parents in front of a number of other people that she was

not very good at studying and should go to an easy secondary school. From this point she became anxious, lost her playfulness and started developing physical symptoms, including severe rheumatic pains in her back. Calc-p. produced a marked improvement – she felt better and calmer, her backache disappeared and she recovered her previous cheerfulness.

Because of the sensitivity about what others think of their learning capacities, the Calc-p. youngster may start to study extremely hard, a subconscious compensation to try and make sure others do not think they cannot learn or communicate well. They are always busy developing their knowledge and continuously want to see and experience new things. All this work can then lead to headaches and burn-out – with lassitude and apathy. Calc-p. is one of the main remedies for difficulty waking and I am sure we all know teenagers who cannot get out of bed in the morning! If the child feels that they cannot live up to the expectations they can sometimes give up and withdraw, developing an aversion to school with headaches or stomach aches and then we have another well-known Calc-p. rubric: “Desire to go home”.

Personality type

Calc-p. people are friendly and make friends easily. They love to travel. The characteristic thing is that they tend to make a new home wherever they go – home-making comes from the Calcarea element. Any remedy with Phosphorus as an element will show a strong theme of sympathy and communication and will be found in people for whom friends, family and acquaintances are very important in their lives. Calc-p. people can suffer with home-sickness, missing their loved ones when they go away from the home. They can suffer from grief and disappointment in love and their reaction can be one of jealousy and irritability. This is one of the remedy types which is very sensitive to injustice: children are likely to be heard saying “It’s not fair!” – especially when they feel others have been given more love and attention than they have. They can become intuitive. Perhaps as a means to bypass their limitations – knowing they want to learn and acquire knowledge but feeling they lack the energy and strength to acquire it in the usual way. This sensitivity may explain another keynote symptom of Calc-p. which is fear of receiving bad news. In one of the original provings by T. F. Allen (a great 19th-century homeopath), one of the provers was described as: “Unpleasant news makes him beside himself. Very much out of humour, disinclined to speak, after disagreeable news.”

One of the most fascinating aspects of homeopathy is that of strange, rare and peculiar symptoms. These are symptoms that are unique to one specific remedy and are completely unpredictable. In other words, by looking at the constituent elements of Calcium and Phosphorus we cannot predict the strange, rare or peculiar symptom. The same applies to any remedy and shows how important it is to have provings and clinical observations which are the only means by which we come to peculiar symptoms. Calc-p. has some wonderful strange, rare and peculiar symptoms. One is a strong liking for the colour pink and it is interesting that Calc-p. girls often have a strong desire for pink clothing. On the other hand, when they are older they can become tomboys, preferring to climb trees and other outdoor pursuits.

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