Magnesia Phosphorica appears in 9 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 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…”
- 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…”
- 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…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“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…”
