Magnesium phosphoricum

by H. C. Allen — Keynotes And Characteristics With Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

Phosphate of Magnesia.

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, paroxysym becoming almost unberable, driving patient to frenzy; rapidly changing place (Lac c., Puls.), with a constricting sensation (Cac., Iod., Sulph.); cramping , in neuralgic affections of stomach, abdomen 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 (Cal.). 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; < 10 to 11 a. m. or 4 to 5 p. m.; > by pressure and external heat. Neuralgia; of face, supra-orbital or infra-orbital; right 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 cramps of stomach, with clean tongue, as if a hand was drawn tightly around 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, < right 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.

Relations . - 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.).

Magnesium phosphoricum across the other classic books

Magnesium phosphoricum appears in 10 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Phosphate of Magnesia (MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA) The great anti-spasmodic remedy. Cramping of muscles with radiating pains. Neuralgic pains relieved by warmth . Especially suited to tired, languid, exhausted subjects. Indisposition for mental exertion. Goitre. Laments all the time about the pain. Inability to think…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“CRAMP, colic, etc. DIRECTION of sensations, Radiating LYING, BENT OR DOUBLED UP, AMEL. NERVE PAIN NERVES, nervous patients, etc. PAROXYSMS, REPEATED (COMP. SPASMODIC.) PRESSURE, Amel.; Lying on painful or affected side, etc., Amel. RUBBING, Amel. SHOOTING, darting like lightening, quick pains WANDERING, changeful…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“NERVES: Face. Head. Muscles. Right side. COLD: AIR. Uncovering. Drafts. Water (Calc-c.). Lying on R. side. Touch. Periodicity. NIGHT. Milk. Exhaustion. WARMTH. HOT BATHING. Pressure. Doubling up. Rubbing. Tall, slender, dark and neurotic. Nervous, tense and subject to sudden, violent neuralgias, colics, cramps, etc…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Phosphate of Magnesia, Hydric magnesia phosphate. (MgHPO 4 7 H 2 O.) Trituration. Catheterism / Chorea / Colic / Convulsions / Cough / Cracks / Cramps / Dentition / Dysmenorrhœa / Headache / Intercostal neuralgia / Locomotor ataxy / Membranous dysmenorrhœa / Meningitis / Menstruation, painful / Neuralgia / Rectum…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Phosphate of Magnesia. 2 mg O. P. O 5 . HO+14 H 2 O. Magnesia Phosphorica is one of the most important of the Twelve Tissue Remedies introduced by Schuessler. It still awaits proving, but the symptoms obtained from clinical practice, vouched for by good authorities, are sufficiently numerous and important to warrant…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“MAGNESIA PHOSPHa There are some provings of this salt in t Dec, 1889 i but as they were all made with tt the 200th they must (according to our rules) until confirmed by provings with lower atteni”
Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Magnesia phos. is best known for its spasmodic conditions and neuralgias. The pains : are very violent and may affect any nerve. A pain localizes itself in a nerve and becomes worse and worse, sometimes coming in paroxysms, but becoming so violent that the patient becomes frantic. The pains are ameliorated by heat and…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: phosphate of magnesia. General action: It corresponds to darting, spasmodic pains along the course of the nerves; spasms in different parts of the body; colic, cramps, etc. (D.). The patient is languid, tired and exhausted (D.). Pains lightning-like, coming and going (Bell.) (N.). Darting, spasmodic…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Cramping pains everywhere, also lightning-like in coming and going. Spasmodic affections without febrile symptoms. Colic, whooping cough, cramps in calves, etc. Modalities, heat, warmth, pressure, bending double. Now we come to the prince of the Magnesias. It is comparatively new and has never been accorded a place in…”

Magnesium phosphoricum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Magnesium phosphoricum in 374 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (72), FACE (49), GENERALITIES (40), HEAD (38), ABDOMEN (21).

ABDOMEN - PAIN - drawing - warmth amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Forearm - writing,when
EXTREMITIES - TENSION - Upper Limbs - writing,when
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower Limbs - pressure - amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Upper Limbs - writing - while
EXTREMITIES - TENSION - Forearm - extensors,whilewriting
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Wrist - writing, - while
ABDOMEN - PAIN - radiating
FACE - PAIN - tearing - periodic - pressure amel.
FACE - PAIN - tearing - warmth - amel.
VISION - SPARKS - headache, - during
EAR - PAIN - turning eyes outward,on - head,on
STOMACH - PAIN - warm applications amel.
FACE - PAIN - wind - dry cold
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Forearm - writing,while
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower Limbs - sciatica - pressure - amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper Limbs - writing,while
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Hand - writing
HEAD - PAIN, - pressure,external, - hard,amel.
FACE - PAIN - cold applications agg.

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