by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
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.
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Calcarea Hypophosphorica appears in 4 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.
“DISCHARGES, Agg.; loos of vital fluids, etc.., Agg.”
“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…”
“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…”
