Calcarea phosphorica appears in 10 of the 13 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.
- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Phosphate of Lime (Calcium Phosphate) For persons of anaemic and dark complexioned, dark hair and eyes; thin spare subjects, instead of fat. During first and second dentition of scrofulous children; diarrhoea and great flatulence. Children: emaciated, unable to stand; slow in learning to walk (Cal., Sil.); sunken…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“A mixture of the basic and other phosphates of lime, prepared by dropping dilute phosphoric acid into lime-water, as long as a white precipitate is formed; this precipitate is collected and triturated. (Hering, in Correspondenzblatt, 1837). Authorities. Emotional. Easily excited (from the 2d), 1. Likes to be alone, 5…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Phosphate of Lime One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in common with Calcarea carb , there are some differences and characteristic features of its own. It is especially indicated in tardy dentition and troubles incident to that period, bone disease non-union of fractured bones…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“NUTRITION: BONES (SUTURES. PERIOSTEUM. Cartilage.). GLANDS. Nerves. ABDOMEN. Vertex. Chest. Exposure to:Weather changes. Drafts. Cold, wet. Melting snows. East wind. DENTITION. Mental exertion. Loss of fluids. Puberty. Fruits. Cider. Lying down. Delicate, erethistic, tall or scrawny children; with dirty, brownish…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Phosphate of Lime. Tricalcic Phosphate. Ca 3 2 PO 4 . A mixture of the basic and other phosphates of lime, made by dropping dilute phosphoric acid into lime water. Trituration. Anæmia / Ankles, weak / Back, weakness of / Bones, affections of / Brain-fag / Bright's disease / Cholera infantum / Chorea / Consumption /…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“1. Pyrophosphoric acid in the vitreous state dissolved in distilled water by drops in lime water until the water acted neutral, the gelatinous deposit dried with filtering paper. Proved in 3d and 30th. Contains several combinations of Phosph. ac . and Calcarea . 2. Freitag : Calcined bones powdered in diluted…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“During the growing period many children need this remedy. if the head bones are slow in forming, or do not keep pace with the growth of the child, this remedy is often called for. Where the child is losing flesh, slow learning to do things, slow learning to walk, or the legs are not strong enough to support the body…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: phosphate of lime. Useful during first and second dentition of scrofulous children; diarrhœa and great flatulence (A.). Children: emaciated, unable to stand; slow in learning to walk (Calc., Sil.). SUNKEN, FLABBY ABDOMEN (A.). Hydrocephalus (Apis, Bry., Hell., Lyc., Op. Phos-Ac, Sulph.) (B.). SLOW…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Tardy closing or re-opening fontanelles in slim, emaciated children, with sweaty heads. Diarrhoea or entero-colitis; stool passes with much flatulence and spluttering noise. Rheumatic troubles, which are < in fall or spring, when the air is full of melting snow. While on the subject of Calcarea we may as well notice…”
