Calcarea hypophosphorosa
Calcium hypophosphite · Mineral
Calcarea Hypophosphorosa suits debilitated, pale, and exhausted patients prone to vital losses, continued abscesses, and rapid emaciation, especially children. The remedy is characterized by a striking combination of intense fullness and congestion of the upper circulation alongside profound muscular weakness and inability to make any exertion.
Key symptoms
- Dull, heavy pressive pain across the entire top of head between frontal and occipital bones
- Great fullness and oppression around the heart and thorax
- Veins of upper extremities, neck, and head stand out like whipcords
- Dyspnoea; must have windows open and fresh air
- Profuse sweat all over the body
- Complete loss of muscular power with no desire to move
- Mental depression increasing in proportion to headache
- Pallor of skin; lips dry and cracked after symptoms subside
Worse (aggravation)
- Vital losses
- Mental exertion; depression increases with pain
Hypophosphite of Lime. Ca 2PH2O2. Trituration and solution.
Clinical
Angina pectoris. Arteries, affections of. Asthma. Congestion. Headache. Paralysis. Sweating.
Characteristics
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 pressure from whole top of head between frontal and occipital bones; pain generally increased with increasing depression. Great fulness and oppression round heart, fulness throughout thorax and head; veins of upper parts and upper extremities stand out like whipcords. Dyspnœa; must have air. Profuse sweat all over. Complete loss of muscular power with loss of desire to move. Pallor of skin. With the first trituration Nash cured a boy of eight who had several abscesses in and around the knee-joint. The tibia was ulcerated, and the ragged edge of the bone protruded through the surface. There was emaciation, loss of appetite, and he was as pale as a corpse. The appetite returned at once in great force.
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