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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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| COMMON NAME |
: | Phosphate
of Magnesia CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: Mg Hpo4 7 H2o. The crystals of Mag-p are needle like with a cooling, sweetish taste. They are an earthy constituent of muscles; nerves; bone; brain (grey matter) spine; sperma, teeth and blood corpuscles. By functional disturbances of magnesium molecules the muscular fibres contract and hence it is a remedy for cramps; convulsions and other nervous phenomena. |
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| A/F |
: | 1.
Standing in cold water; working with cold clay 2. Dentition 3. Cold wind or water 4. Catheterization |
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| MODALITIES |
: | < Cold air, drafts, water < Uncovering < Lying on right side < Touch < Periodically < Night < Exhaustion < Milk > Warmth > Hot bathing > Pressure > Doubling up > Rubbing |
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| MIND |
: | -Irritable
and oversensitive with many fears
(similar to Phosphorus). -Illusions of the senses. -Forgetful, dullness and inability to think clearly, Indisposition to study or mental effort. -Indisposition to mental or physical exertion. -Sobbing and lamenting. Laments constantly about the pain with hiccoughs; weeping during convulsions. -Talks to herself, or sits still in moody silence. |
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| GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Tall,
slender, dark, neurotic, persons. Young and
strong individuals and teething children. Languid, tried, exhausted
persons. -Right sided affections of head ear, face, chest, ovary, sciatic nerve. -Great dread of cold air, of uncovering, or touching the affected part. -Pains-Cramping, lightening-like, shooting, sharp, cutting, stabbing, stitching, rapidly changing place. -Pains come and go suddenly. -Colicky pain in abdomen, forcing her to bend double > heat, warmth, pressure > when menstrual flow begins. -Neuralgic pains, especially, facial neuralgia, supra or infra-orbital right sided neuralgic pains. In unbearable paroxysms, lightening-like, driving the patient to frenzy < draught of cold air > heat, warmth. -Mouth-Toothache-severe, neuralgic pains with ulceration of teeth < night from eating < cold drinks > warmth. -G.I.T.-Spasms of stomach with clean tongue. -Female genitalia-Membranous dysmenorrhoea with a tarry, dark, stringy flow, and severe, shifting, cramping pains. -Extremities-Spasms during dentition without fever. -Cramps of extremities, writer's cramps, cramps of piano players. |
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| KEYNOTES |
: | -Pains-sharp,
cutting, shooting, lightening-like,
rapidly changing place, causing restlessness, and prostration > warmth or heat, pressure < cold. -Enuresis after catheterization. |
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| NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Neurotic
persons subject to violent, sudden,
unendurable, tearing neuralgias, colics and cramps. -Right sided pains > warmth 3 < cold 3. -Women with membranous dysmenorrhoea and dark, tarry menses staining fast. |
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| CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -Pains
> warmth 3, < cold 3. -Pains cramping, shooting, spasmodic, sharp, cutting, stabbing, come and go suddenly. |
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| CLINICAL |
: | -Angina
pectoris, Chorea, Cramps, Dysmenorrhoea
(membranous), Enteralgia, Flatulent colic, Goitre, Neuralgias,
Nystagmus, Sciatica, Toothache, Vertigo, Whooping cough, Writer's
cramps. -Enuresis after catheterization-Dr.H.C.Allen. -Bad effects of tetanus shots-Dr.Grimmer. |
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| REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Colo,
Dios, Kali-p, Sil, Zinc. -Antidotes-Bell, Gels, Lach. |
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