By Valerie Sadovsky, RSHom(NA), CCH
Remedy chart
Calcarea phosphorica (phosphate of lime) is mixture of the basic and others phosphates of lime made by dropping dilute phosphoric acid into lime water. It is one of the tissue salts of Schüssler.
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ESSENCE Calcarea: need for structure, protection, security à responsible, grounded, steady minded, etc.; when you stress them, you stress their structure. Phosphorus: activity, energy transfer (relationships), sensitivity, high need for attention, love, consolation, support à active, open, sympathetic, highly social; when you stress them, you stress their social situation, their connections. Calc-phos: gives Phos a structure and allows Calc to move à combined need for structure, stability and movement (social life, new experiences, adventure, etc.) Growth and development, either physical or emotional, is the most stressful time for Calc-phos (since it’s "moving" the structure). Calcarea adds another feature – they often feel feeble, not up to the task. MENTAL SYMPTOMS - Easily bored ("wants to be at home and when at home wants to go out, goes from place to place") … peevish and discontented … complaining, never satisfied … SIGHING (Cimi., Ign.) - Want consolation, but the more they get it, the more they whine - Desire to travel (Tub., but wants to get back home soon after arriving to his destination) … HOMESICKNESS - Fears: thunderstorms … darkness … being alone … disease - Easily frightened GENERAL SYMPTOMS - CHILLY and < cold and drafts - Delayed development (slow to walk, delayed dentition) - Children growing too rapidly: lack of energy … GROWING PAINS - Weakness and fatigue … "never well after" (e.g., mono) PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS Head: HEADACHE of SCHOOLGIRLS, STUDENTS (= worse mental exertion) … HA starting in cervical region … HA along the sutures … bad teeth, delayed dentition … delayed closure of fontanelles Throat: chronically enlarged tonsils … adenoids Musculoskeletal: SLOW OSSIFICATION, NON-UNION OF BONES ... pain in NAPE of NECK, or STIFFNESS, from DRAFT … curvature of the spine, esp. to the left … neck injuries … recurring sprains … shin splints … leg cramps … arthritis, < cold damp weather, esp. in spring and fall GI: chronic STOMACH or abdominal pain (esp. at times of stress; often "psychosomatic") … craving for SMOKED MEAT, salt, bacon, ham … intolerance of MILK, even mother's milk (Sil.) … diarrhea with much flatus, stool green, slimy … abdominal pain after every meal
PRIME INDICATIONS 1. Dissatisfaction. Desire for change, desire to wander, to travel. Sighing. 2. Growth too rapid, or dwarfishness. Weakness and loss of energy. 3. Headache from mental exertion. 4. Intolerance of milk. Craving for smoked meat, salty food, bacon. 5. Problems with bones and teeth. Nape of neck = bottle-neck. |
ETIOLOGIES GROWING TOO FAST … EXERTION (physical or mental) … broken bones … bad news … DENTITION … pregnancy … DEFECTIVE ASSIMILATION … operation for fistula AFFINITIES BONES … teeth MODALITIES <: MENTAL EXERTION … NEW SITUATIONS (e.g., school, home) … thinking of complaints … night … sudden grief … wet, cold weather, esp. melting snow … DRAFTS … COLD >: summer … warm dry atmosphere … lying NOTES - Children: very whiny (take the worries of Calc and combine them with the expressionism of Phos). Capricious and hard to make happy. Tend to get sick every Monday morning (time to go to school, to develop after a break). Tend to procrastinate with projects. Get very stressed if pushed to excel. Love team sports (social life) - Grauvogl recommended Calc-phos very highly in chronic hydrocephalus. He even advocated it as a preventive in hydrocephalus. It has been recommended as a prenatal remedy during pregnancy to women who have given birth to hydrocephalic children. DIFFERENTIALS Sighing: "Calc-phos, Cimi, and Ign, the main sighing remedies, are all three in a conflicting situation: Calc-phos between security and change; Cimi between attachement and unattachement; Ign between idealized feelings and reality" (Muller) Calc-phos and Calc-carb diffs: Calc-carb, large abdomen, like inverted saucer. Calc-phos, retracted and flabby abdomen. Calc-carb, craving for eggs. Calc-phos, craving for salt and smoked meats. Calc-carb, stool watery, white, mixed with curds. Calc-phos, stool green, slimy, hot with much flatus. Calc-carb, anterior fontanelle open. Calc-phos, both fontanelles open. Calc-carb, light hair, blue eyes. Calc-phos, dark hair and eyes. Silica: resembles Calc-phos esp. in rachitis, but has more offensive head sweat, more constipation and a strong tendency to suppuration, boils, etc. SOURCES Choudhuri, Study of MM Dewey, Essentials Farrington, Clinical MM Morrison, Desktop Guide Murphy, Homeopathic Remedy Guide Vermeulen, Synoptic |
Roger notes
Everyone pretty much knows about Calcarea Phosphorica with the great sense of dissatisfaction. They have a sudden drop in their energy from some sort of stress, and they get this inner kind of knowing that something is wrong with them. They don’t know exactly why it is or what to do about it, and they get this great sense of dissatisfaction.
A lot of times, they want to travel and that you will confuse with Tuberculinum, especially because of the craving for smoked meats. Mostly, it is an internal dissatisfaction, whereas Tuberculinum externalizes a little bit more, but you can’t be so absolute on that. It is a heavy sluggish feeling about the person and they are usually flabby, so that will help you with Tuberculinum because Tuberculinums are mostly thin, although they can be stout. The flabbiness goes on all levels. They are mentally flabby.
The emotions — there is sort of an apathetic quality about them. That’s the main hint in the personality that you may see. They are people who feel already that they can’t take anything more coming on, like Calcarea Carbonica. So, they have fear from bad news. It is one of their strongest fears and also fear of thunderstorms. That’s the Phosphoric element.
In the children, of course, just like Calcarea with the slow growth, poor nutrition, problems with the teeth and the bones and so forth, and especially growing pains in bones, in the epiphyses, growing pains. They are moaning, groaning children. Now, we have lots of dissatisfied moaning, groaning children, and I would put it in sort of a line like this. I would put Calcarea Phosphorica here, next Chamomilla and next Cina; Cina being more strength. They are kids that you want to kill. They drive you crazy. They are moaning, crying and complaining so much that you wish you could just drown them or something, or throw them into the fire if you were Nux. Nux has that keynote characteristic of wanting to throw the kid into the fire. Anyway, the way I think of it is that Calcarea Phosphorica mostly is moaning. Chamomilla sort of cries and shouts and Cina shrieks. It goes that one step, a little bit further. Moaning in their sleep, especially in the children can be Cal. Phos. Moaning in the sleep in an adult is mostly Aurum, and it’s a deep kind of moaning. At night in the sleep - it shows how much suffering, but they don’t show it during the days at all.
School headaches, of course, Calc-phos is probably the main remedy for that. Now, the other keynote that you should think of Calc-phos when you hear it, is the desire for travel, like Tuberculinum and like Ignatia. Ignatia has the following characteristic, not only do they like it and need to do it, but they are actually ameliorated when they travel. When you hear someone who has colitis or problems like that. As soon as they travel, the colitis gets better. That’s mostly Ignatia. So, if you hear a triad of symptoms - discontented, love to travel and smoked meats, as we said, that can be Calc-phos or Tuberculinum. If you hear craving smoked meats, a chronic cough and a fear of dogs, that is Tuberculinum or Causticum. If you hear a triad of grief, long histories of grief, sighing and a stiff neck, Causticum or Calc-phos; Calc-phos even more. Ignatia doesn’t so much have the stiff neck. Mostly with the grief it will have a lump in the throat.
The three remedies with the sighing, most prominent sighing, as Cimicifuga, Calc-phos and Ignatia. Ignatia does it though, with this sense of a weight or heaviness on the chest and they have to sigh to sort of open things up with the grief and very frequently you will see the lump in the throat with it. In Calc-phos it is more an emotional sign. But they just need the breath. It is not quite as charged a sighing as Ignatia with a deep heavy sigh Ignatia can go really far with that. They can go all the way with that kind of sighing. That kind of thing, especially at night when they get in bed and especially when they are alone you’ll have to ask them.
The stiff neck, worse draft is a keynote for Calc-phos. They are worse cold wet, and especially what kind of cold wet? When the snow melts. You probably won’t see that symptom a lot in San Francisco, unless they go up to Lake Tahoe.
© 2003-2004 Valerie Sadovsky, http://www.homeopathyplanet.com/AudeSapere
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