MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA

MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA [Mag-p]
Neuralgic pains relieved by warmth. Flatulent colic, forcing patient to bend double, relieved by rubbing, warmth, pressure; accompanied by belching of gas, which gives no relief. Bloated, full sensation in abdomen, must loosen clothing, walk about, and constantly pass flatus.
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.
A/F	:	1. Standing in cold water; working with cold clay 2. Dentition 3. Cold wind or water 4. Catheterization
MODALITIES	:	< Cold 3 air 3, drafts, water > Warmth 3 < Uncovering > Hot bathing 3 < Lying on right side > Pressure 2 < Touch 2 > Doubling up < Periodically 2 > Rubbing < Night 3 < Exhaustion 2 < Milk 3
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.
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.
KEYNOTES	:	-Pains-sharp, cutting, shooting, lightening-like, rapidly changing place, causing restlessness, and prostration > warmth or heat, pressure < cold. -Enuresis after catheterization.
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.
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS	:	-Pains > warmth 3, < cold 3. -Pains cramping, shooting, spasmodic, sharp, cutting, stabbing, come and go suddenly.
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.
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS	:	-Compare-Colo, Dios, Kali-p, Sil, Zinc. -Antidotes-Bell, Gels, Lach. Please click here for more information about us For proof/evidence that Homeopathy is effective, please click here: Efficacy studies.

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