by Richard Hughes & Jabez P. Dake — A Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy
MAGNESIA PHOSPHa
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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.
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
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).
