Calcarea hypophosphorosa

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key 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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

REGION

Nutrition.

WORSE

Vital losses.

Pale and weak, with violent drenching sweats. Rapid and extreme debility or emaciation. Scrofula. Pædatrophy. .................... Excitable, nervous and sleepless. Frying or sizzling in ears. Ravenous hunger, < 2 hours after meals; only > when stomach is full. Anorexia. Sore throbbing in spleen. Diarrhœa. Bronchitis. Starts in sleep. Exhausting nightsweats.

Related: Chin.

Calcarea hypophosphorosa across the other classic books

Calcarea hypophosphorosa appears in 6 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.

Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“DISCHARGES, Agg.; loos of vital fluids, etc.., Agg.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Hypophosphite of Lime. Ca 2 PH 2 O 2 . Trituration and solution. Angina pectoris / Arteries, affections of / Asthma / Congestion / Headache / Paralysis / Sweating This salt has been proved by A. R. Barrett and a friend, who each took one grain of 2x trit. The following are the chief symptoms it caused: Dull, heavy…”
Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(Calcis Hypophosphis.) Hypophosphite of Lime is a white salt, with a pearly, margarin-like lustre, and crystalizes in flattened prisms. Its composition, according to Wurtz, is CaO + 2HO PO, the water being essential to the salt. It is soluble in six parts of cold water, and in not much less of boiling water; soluble…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“CALCAREA HYPOPHOi Hypophosphitc of lime, Ca I. Provingi. — i. Dr. A. R. Barrett, friend, each took I gr. of the 2x trit. Th« in both provers, within i h. and lasting i dull heavy pain, pressive, on top of head acre, frontal and occipital bones ; the pain grad grew correspondingly more depressed in fe^ fulness and…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“I once had a case like this: A boy eight years of age had several (four or five) abscesses in and around the knee joint. The ulceration had also attacked the tibia, which was half eaten off, so that the ragged necrosed bone protruded through the surface plainly in sight. The little fellow was greatly emaciated, and…”

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