Respiratory Symptoms. Involuntary Sighing

Cough with expectoration of yellow albuminous mucus, not watery, worse mornings, with sore, dry throat. Soreness of chest to touch. Sore pain about sternum and clavicle, with contraction of chest and difficult breathing. Frequent hawking to clear the voice. Chest difficulties associated with fistula in ano. Chronic cough of consumptives who suffer from coldness of the extremities. Incipient phthisis in anaemic patients. Profuse was, especially about the head and neck. Whooping cough, in of esstimate cases, or in teething children and weakly constitutions Suffocative cough in children; better lying down. Catarrha in scrofulous or gouty constitutions with anaemia. Spasm of glottis from retarded dentition.

Circulatory Organs

Palpitation with anxiety, followed by a trembling weakness, particularly of calves. Non-closure of foramen ovale. Circulation imperfect. Sharp pain around the heart during inspiration.

Neck And Back

Thin neck in children. Rheumatic pain and stiffness of neck from slightest draught. Backache in the lumbar region in the morning on awaking. Cramp-like pain in neck and around shoulder blades, small of back, region of kidneys, when lifting, or blowing the nose. Soreness around sacro-iliac symphysis. Aching in os coccygis. Potts' disease. Spinal curvature in young girls especially at puberty. Spina bifida. Buttocks and back "asleep".

Extremities

Sore aching in shoulders and shoulder blades, and along arms; cannot lift arm. Shooting through elbows. Cramp-like pain in forearms, wrists, fingers, and especially in the thumb. Ulcerative pain in roots of finger nails. Gouty nodosities. Rheumatism of the joints with cold or numb feeling. Rheumatism worse from change of weather, getting well in spring and returning in autumn. Numbness of the limbs and coldness or a sensation of ants creeping on the parts affected. Rheumatic gout, worse at night and in bad weather. Aching in all the limbs, with great weakness. Rheumatic pains fiying about. Aching soilness of thighs. Pains in knees, worse walking. Lower limbs feel numb. Pain in shinbones. Cramp in calves. Ankle joint feels as if dislocated. Gouty pain in toes and ankle joints. Coxarthroeace, third stage. Bursae. Chronic synovitis. Swelling of the epipheses. Bow legs in ehibhren Slow in learning to walk. Fistulous ulcers on the foot Joints and on the malleoli. Potts' disease. Spinal curva-tive Lumbu abscess.

Svphilitie periostitis and ulcers.

Nervous Symptoms, Nemalgias, commencing at night, recur-ring periodically; deepseated, as if in the bone; tearing pains, worse from any change of weather, with sensation of crawling, numbness and coldness, or like electrical shocks. Pain in small spots. Rheumatic paralysis. Languor, weariness, especially ascending. Indisposition to work. Trembling of limbs. Great debility after weakening, acute diseases. Convulsions from teething. Spasms of all kinds after Magnes. phos. fails. Epilepsy.

Sleep

Drowsiness, especially in old people, associated with gloomy thoughts. Hard to wake in the morning. Children cry out at night. Constant stretching and yawning.

Febrile Symptoms

Creeping shivering. Copious night-sweats in phthisis. Cold sweat appears on the face and coldness of the body. Chronic intermittent fever in scrofulous children.

Skin

Skin dry and cold, wrinkled. Copper-colored, full of pimples. Ulceration of scars. Chafed skin, excoriations. Itchiness of the skin. Senile itching of the skin. Eczema with yellow, white scabs or vesicles in anaemic, scrofulous or gouty constitutions. Freckles are lessened by the use of this remedy. Herpes, acute or chronic, with itching. Lupus. Prurigo. Pruritis; itching of the skin. Vaginal pruritis of old women. Albuminous exudations in or on the skin. Tubercles on the skin. Scrofulous ulceration also of the bones. Boils form ulcers. Acne rosacea.

Tissues

Anaemia and chlorosis to supply new blood cells. Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children. Complexion waxy, greenish, white. Exostoses, osteophytes, bone diseases. Condyles swollen. Rickets. Non-union of fractured bones. Spina bifida. Polypi, nasal, rectal and uterine. Tabes. Phosphatic diathesis. Defective nutrition. Bones thin and brittle. Dropsical affections. Irregularity in development. Emaciations, accompanying ailments. Leucaemia. Excess of white corpuscles. Broncocele, goitre, cysts. Tumor albus. Pancreatic diseases. Bursae. Soreness of tendons and of joints.

Modalities

The symptoms are generally worse from cold, motion, Change Of weather, from getting wet. Many symptoms are ameliorated by lying down.

Homoeopathic Data

Proved by C. Hering, collected in 4 Guiding Symptoms, vol. iii, and Allerts Encyclopedia. A history of the different provings is found in the Hahnemannian Monthly, March, 1871, by C. Hering; also a Resume by him in the North American Journal of Homoeopathy, vol. xx.

Administration

The lower triturations, 3x to 6x, are the potencies usually employed, probably achieving most satisfactory results, although the higher potencies, 30 to 200, have given brilliant clinical results. Schussler prescribes the 6x trituration. Large doses are useless and even injurious. Prolonged administration has produced nephritic colic and passage of small calculi.

Relationship

Very similar to Calc. card., but with Calc phos. the patient, whose complexion is dirty-white or brown, is usually emaciated; it corresponds more to the acute affections of the lungs. In general the phosphate prefers the dark complexion, dark eyes and hair, while the carbonate acts best in the light-haired and blue-eyed. It occupies a ground between Calc. carb, and Phosphor., supplementing the latter frequently to great advantage. Calc. phos. and Berberis have both been beneficial in fistula in ano; both have great similarity in chest symptoms, particularly such as follow surgical operations. In anaemic headaches of schoolgirls, follow by Magnes. phos. In dental caries, similar to Fluor ac, Magnes. phos. and Silicea; in epilepsy, Ferr. phos., Kali mur., Kali phos. and Silicea; in diabetes, Kali phos., Natr. phos.; the latter also is similar in worm affections. Follows China in hydrocepha-loid and anaemia. Complimentary to Carb. an. and Ruta, In neurasthenia Calc. hypophos. may be called for preferably for similar symptoms. In the copious sweats after weakening, acute diseases compare Psorin. In acute articular rheumatism, if after Natr. mur. and Kali phos. there remains a trace of the disease. In lupus, compare Kali mur.

Buttermilk and koumyss are invaluable foods for the aged, because the lactic acid in them dissolves the phosphate of lime and prevents the ossification in tendons, arteries and elsewhere. As a remedy for the aged compare Baryta. In anaemia and chlorosis compare also Natr. mur., especially with constipation, palpitation on lying down, earthy complexion. In acne Calc. pier, is more frequently useful for boys, the Calc. phos. for girls. Dyspepsia temporarily relieved by eating is met by Calc. phos., but the drug for which this symptom is specific is Anacardium. Cheltdon. has a similar condition. Compare Helonias in the mental depression, debility and phosphatic urine. Silicea, anaemia of infants, thin and puny, with a tendency to rickets, but with much oily perspiration on the head; also Ferr., Cupr., Arsenic, etc. Zinc, is complementary in hydrocephaloid, and Ruta in joint affections. In nonunion of fractures compare Symphytum. In consumption Calc. phos. is followed well by Silicea, Sulph., Tuberc; and often indicated after Phos., Merc, Iod., Ars. iod.