Magnesium Phosphoricum

• ▸Dentition.
• ▸Cold winds.
• ▸Cold bathing.
• ▸Standing in cold water.
• ▸Working with cold

clay. Study. Catheterism.

Laments all the time about the pain. Inability to think clearly. Sleepless on account of indigestion.

Illusions of the senses; sobbing, crying, lamenting all the time about pain in affected

parts; with hiccough.—Mental depression and anxiety Drowsiness on every attempt to

study.—Very forgetful.—Dulness and inability to think clearly —Indisposition to study; to mental

effort—Mind seems clearer; can think and study more clearly after a few doses of Mag.

p.—Persistent depression of spirits.

Convulsions: whooping-cough.—Spasms without fever.—Crampy contraction

• ▸of fingers; staring, open eyes.
• ▸—Every twenty-three days, spasms.
• ▸—Tires easily.
• ▸—Shooting,

tingling, electric pains all over body.

Vertigo on moving, falls forward on closing eyes, better walking in open air. Aches after mental labor, with chilliness; always better warmth (Sil). Sensation as if contents were liquid, as if parts of brain were changing places, as of a cap on head.

Headache: pains shooting, darting, stabbing, shifting; intermittent and

paroxysmal.—Headache: excruciating; spasmodic; neuralgic or rheumatic; always > by external

application of warmth.—Nervous headache, with sparks before eyes; diplopia—During the night,

severe throbbing pressure on vertex, |. side, deep in brain —Dull headache, as if brain too heavy

(after protracted mental effort)—Headache > towards evening, but changes to a pressure above

eyebrows, esp. r—Headache beginning in, or worst in occiput, and constant whilst attending

school.—Severe headache; face flushed, red; pain began in occiput, extended over whole head;

• ▸sick at stomach; aches all over; < 9 or 10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸to 4 or 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Pressive pain in head down through

middle of brain —Pain through temples, top and back of head, with sensation of fulness, < lying

down.—Sensation of a strong shock of electricity beginning in head and extending to all parts of

body.—Severe headache began in occiput on waking, extending over head, located over both

• ▸eyes, with severe nausea, and terminated 5 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸in a pronounced chill.
• ▸—Severe pricking over

head and forehead, as if rubbed with a fine brush (after becoming warm from eating).—Pustules

or large pimples (like blood-boils), with redness and rawness, appeared on r. side of scalp, but

did not suppurate.—Large, white, shining scales can be combed out in handfuls twenty times a

day.—Scalp feels rough like a grater, and the fine particles combed out feel like sand.

• ▸Supraorbital pains; worse, right side; relieved by warmth applied externally.
• ▸Increased lachrymation.
• ▸Twitching of lids.
• ▸Nystagmus strabismus, ptosis.
• ▸Eyes hot, tired, vision blurred, colored lights before eyes.

Double vision (horizontal); sparks; rainbow colours; photophobia.—Pupils

contracted.—Dark spots before eyes on attempting to read.—Dull vision from weakness of optic

• ▸nerve.
• ▸—Nystagmus; strabismus, spasmodic; ptosis, < r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Twitching of lids.
• ▸—Neuralgia:

supra-orbital or orbital; intermittent, darting, lightning-like pains, < (or entirely) r. side, > by

warmth, exquisitely sensitive to touch; with increased lachrymation.—Itching and heat in lower 1.

lid.

Severe neuralgic pain; worse behind right ear; worse, by going into cold air, and washing face and neck with cold water.

Nervous otalgia, intermittent and spasmodic; > by heat.—Sharp intermittent pains

behind r. ear, greatly < by cold air or washing face in cold water.

Alternate stuffing and profuse gushing discharge (of a white, thin substance), < from 1.

nostril.—Smarting and raw feeling in 1. nostril.

Neuralgia: supra- and infra-orbital, r. side, intermittent, spasmodic, lightning-like

pains, < by touch and pressure, > by warmth.—Neuralgia of r. upper jaw and teeth, begins with

greatest fierceness 2 p.m., and lasts till he gets warm in bed; pains sharp, lightning-like, < by

cold, > by heat; face swollen as if stung by bees.—Boring, pinching, nipping pains, driving him

• ▸out of bed, soon spreading over entire r.
• ▸side of face.
• ▸—Pains radiating all over r.
• ▸side of face from

infra-orbital foramen, < by touch; by opening mouth to eat or drink; by cold air; by walking or

riding in cold wind.—Faceache < when body gets cold.—Face distorted from pains and weakness;

• ▸cramping colic.
• ▸—Lock-jaw.
• ▸—Hydroa on upper lip.
• ▸—Convulsive twitching of angles of

mouth.—Neuralgia from washing or standing in cold water.—Sensation of painful contraction of

jaw-joint for several days, with a nervous backward jerking.

• ▸Toothache; better by heat and hot liquids.
• ▸Ulceration of teeth, with swelling of glands of face, throat and neck and swelling of tongue.
• ▸Complaints of teething children.
• ▸Spasms without febrile symptoms.

Tongue: coated slightly yellow, crampy colic; clean or slight coating, with pain in

stomach; coated white with diarrhoea; a bright red, rawness in mouth; coated heavily; coated

white all over; sticky and coated a dirty yellow.—L. side of tongue sore; biting, burning, smarting

like a canker-sore; eating is painful—Taste as of sour bread; slightly bitter; as of bananas (a bit

of one had been eaten the day before).—Bad taste in mouth on waking; rawness in mouth; feels

as if cankered; warm food seems hot and burning.—Bad taste; food does not taste right; coffee

tasteless; fulness in bowels; belching of gas —Sour taste on waking in night.—Mouth very sore;

eating difficult; sores red and raw-looking on inside of cheeks, gums, (1.) lips, tongue, not in

corners of mouth; < by touch, particles of food caused smarting and burning —Mouth feels

scalded, or as if he had been smoking strong, hot cigars ——Mouth coated with a sticky substance

that rolls up in little shreds.—Mouth full of water tasting like potato water.—Taste of magnesia

and chalk (after each powder of 200 and 1,000, the prover not knowing what she was taking).

Toothache; < after going to bed; changes place rapidly; < eating or drinking, esp. cold

things, > by heat; teeth sensitive to touch or cold air—Severe pinching, stabbing, neuralgic pain

over root of r. bicuspid; can be covered with point of finger; < by cold, > by heat; could not

brush teeth with cold water for months.—Neuralgic pain in a filled tooth which had never ached

before.—Complaints of teething children; spasms during dentition, without febrile

symptoms.—Ulceration of teeth, with swelling of glands of face, throat, and neck, and swelling

of tongue.—Severe pain in decayed or filled teeth (in seven persons; three of them had to

discontinue the proving and be treated by a dentist).

Spasmodic constriction of throat on attempting to swallow liquids, with sensation of

• ▸choking.
• ▸—Throat very red and sore, muscles of r.
• ▸side of neck esp.
• ▸sore, must hold head to r.

side, without >.—Flow of mucus through posterior nares into throat; with sneezing and tingling in

nose and on tongue.—Sensation of a corn-husk lodged in upper part of throat, with constant

inclination to swallow.

Soreness and stiffness, especially right side; parts seem puffy, with chilliness, and aching all over.

Hiccough, with retching day and night. Thirst for very cold drinks.

Appetite: small, with faceache; unusually good, but food disagreed, leaving an

uncomfortable feeling all forenoon.—Aversion to coffee.—Acids taste stronger than

usual.—Appetite remains good, though food does not taste right.

Spasmodic sobbing (like a hiccough) for three days, ceasing with the second dose

• ▸in water.
• ▸—Hiccough thirty times a minute; for sixty days life in danger (Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸soon restored

health).—Hiccough with retching day and night for three days; ejected matter was coagulated

milk, bile and mucus, with great pain causing lamentations.—Burning, tasteless eructations come

on about three hours after eating in the evening; < by physical exertion, > by drinking hot water;

• ▸heartburn.
• ▸—Eructation of food tasting of injesta.
• ▸—Constant nausea.
• ▸—Bilious vomiting, at times

streaked with blood.—Nausea and vomiting attend headache and flatulent colic.—Gastralgia:

soreness and extreme sensitiveness of epigastrium to touch; some eructation and sour vomiting;

at 12 every day; > by eating.—(Cancer of stomach; intolerable burning pain; vomiting;

• ▸hiccough;—after Ars.
• ▸failed, Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸made the patient comfortable for six months.
• ▸).
• ▸—Distension

of stomach; very restless.—Fulness after eating.—Spasmodic pains in stomach, with clean

tongue.—Intense cutting, shooting, cramping pains in region of stomach and epigastrium,

extending sometimes towards back and abdomen.—Flatulent distension of stomach, with

constrictive pain, > by warmth and bending double —A drink of cold water starts a colicky pain

in stomach, which radiates to bowels, very severe, > by doubling up; by walking about; by rest;

by belching.

Enteralgia, relieved by pressure. *Flatulent colic, forcing patient to bend double; relieved by rubbing, warmth, pressure; accompanied with belching of gas, which gives no relief. Bloated, full sensation in abdomen; must loosen clothing, walk about and constantly pass flatus*. Constipation in rheumatic subjects due to flatulence and indigestion.

Sharp twinges in r. hypochondrium, on border of lower ribs.—Constrictive,

aching pain around body at lower margin of ribs, as of a lameness from lifting —Severe griping

colic-pain, at times shooting up towards stomach, > by hot applications.—Abdominal pains

caused great restlessness; walked about hurriedly, said he must have relief; lying on stomach

gave short relief, the pains compelled him to walk again—Abdominal muscles sore, with

tendency to constipation.—Colic: generally radiating from navel, > bending double, or from

pressure with hand; often accompanied by a watery diarrhoea.—Incarcerated flatulence.—Cramps

in abdomen, pains round navel and above it towards stomach, thence radiating to both sides,

towards back; now violent cutting compelling screaming; then shooting and contracting, like a

spasm; cannot bear to lie on back stretched out, must lie bent over —Swelling of r. abdomen over

ascending colon; on lying down a marked ridge became prominent, painful on pressure,

continued four weeks.—Pain begins in bowels to r. of navel while walking in cold air, > warmth

of room.—Sharp, cutting pain in r. abdominal ring, as if hernia would protrude, > hard

pressure.—Sharp, burning pain in a spot about an inch in diameter.—Bloated, full sensation in

abdomen, must loosen clothing, < sitting, > walking about—Much flatus in bowels, passing off

freely on walking; < after evening meal—(Cramps and wind-colic in horses; wind-colic of cattle,

meteorism of cows).

Immediately after breakfast, sudden diarrhoea; stools frequent; at first

thick, dark brown, mushy; then lighter; almost white and watery; finally mixed with

• ▸blood.
• ▸—Next day, 9 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, same diarrhoea returned in milder form; > of pain while at stool,

followed by chilliness; stools light brown, then lighter and more watery.—Dysentery: with

cramp-like pains, > by pressure or bending double; with spasmodic retention of urine; cutting,

darting, lightning-like pains in heemorrhoids.—Pains so severe as to cause fainting.: pains very

severe in abdomen and rectum, esp. latter; pain like a prolonged spasm of abdominal

muscles.—Constipation in infants, with spasmodic pains at every attempt at stool, indicated by a

sharp, shrill cry; much rumbling and flatulent colic.—Itching and scratching feeling in

anus.—Tedious stool, hard at first, soft afterwards, followed by burning in anus.—Chronic

• ▸constipation in rheumatic subjects.
• ▸—At 7 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸profuse stool, like yellow clay mixed with water

(enough for three ordinary movements), followed in an hour by one neither so large nor so loose,

which > the pain in bowels.

Spasm of bladder; of neck of bladder; spasmodic retention; tenesmus,

with constant and painful urging.—Nocturnal enuresis from nervous irritation.—When urinating,

violent, shooting, burning pains; mucous discharge from urethra.—Vesical neuralgia after use of

catheter.—Sensation as if no muscular contraction —(A bright, shiny discharge from urethra for

• ▸three years, in an old man.
• ▸).
• ▸—Deficiency or excess cif phosphates.
• ▸—Gravel.
• ▸—Cutting pain in

bladder before urinating. —Restless sleep from urging.

• ▸Menstrual colic. Membranous dysmenorrhoea.
• ▸Menses too early, dark, stringy.
• ▸Swelling of external parts.
• ▸Ovarian neuralgia.
• ▸Vaginismus.

Menstrual colic; pain precedes flow.—Menses six to nine days too

soon.—With menses: great weakness; intensely sore, bruised feeling all through, abdomen, could

hardly be up at all, but was much < lying down.—Labiz swollen and at times intensely

painful.—Flow dark, fibrinous, stringy.—Dysmenia; pains (cutting, drawing, pressing, cramping)

severe, intermittent, < r. side, > from heat; > by flow.

Almost constant sexual desire since beginning of proving, with no

bad effects from indulgence (which is unusual with the prover).

• ▸Asthmatic oppression of chest.
• ▸Dry, tickling cough.
• ▸Spasmodic cough, with difficulty in lying down.
• ▸Whooping-cough (Corall).
• ▸Voice hoarse, larynx sore and raw.
• ▸Intercostal neuralgia.

Cough: dry, spasmodic, violent; constant, can't speak for cough; face

crimson from violence of cough; uncontrollable, seemed she would choke; retching choking with

cough < warm room, > open air.—A violent dry cough came on after the headache left; not

excited by anything in particular—(Spasmodic, convulsive sobbing.)

Angina pectoris. Nervous spasmodic palpitation. Constricting pains around heart.

Darting pains in chest, < r. side; which radiate from pain in bowels.—Oppression:

desire to take deep breath; < on first entering warm room, > after being in it a short time; <

walking.

Sore pain in head, back of neck, and lower part of back.—Aching in small

of back; sensation as if a section of vertebra was missing.—Dorsal spine, for about six inches,

very painful and sensitive to touch for weeks.

Rheumatic pain in |. forearm from elbow to hand, < from wrist to

knuckles.—Darting pain in arms.—Skin of fingers feels as if stretched too tightly; followed by

• ▸pain in elbow-joint, then in wrist—Throbbing pain in r.
• ▸wrist near ulna.
• ▸—R.
• ▸shoulder-joint

lame.—Rheumatic, aching pain in r. shoulder, going to arm; > heat, < motion; coming on when

retiring, disturbing sleep; lasts all night, disappearing in morning after moving about (every night

• ▸for three weeks).
• ▸—Tingling in fingers of 1.
• ▸hand.
• ▸—Stinging pain in first joint of |.
• ▸thumb,

extending to next, like that of a panaritium.—First joint of fingers of both hands swollen, though

painless.

Every night neuralgia, now in lower limbs, in tibia or in thighs, now on I.

now onr. side, mostly with spasmodic muscular contractions; during day perfectly well—R. hip

• ▸lame, < walking.
• ▸—Sharp pain in |.
• ▸knee, followed by numbness.
• ▸—Tingling in 1.
• ▸toes —Legs ache

• ▸after getting into bed.
• ▸—Burning, stinging pain in bunion on I.
• ▸foot.
• ▸—Feet so tender and corns so

painful could not wear her ordinary shoes.—Burning, stinging, smarting, lancinating pain in

corns.

• ▸Involuntary shaking of hands.
• ▸Paralysis agitans.
• ▸Cramps in calves.
• ▸Sciatica; feet very tender.
• ▸Darting pains.
• ▸Twitchings.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Writers' and players' cramp.
• ▸Tetanic spasms.
• ▸Weakness in arms and hands, finger-tips stiff and numb.
• ▸General muscular weakness.

Drowsy; fall asleep and awake as from an electric shock, then fall asleep

again.—Sleepy when attempting to study.—Spasmodic yawning, severe, as if it would dislocate

the jaw; caused tears to flow.—Drowsy at time of rising.—Sleep disturbed by troublesome

dreams; wakes with impression that some one is in the room; saw some one standing

near.—Restless sleep from pain in occiput and back of neck.—Feels sick and prostrated on

waking in the night.—(Relieves sleeplessness in flatulent and gouty subjects.)

Chilliness after dinner, in evening. Chills run up and down the back, with shivering, followed by a suffocating sensation.

Chilly after dinner in evening, 7 p.m.; chills run up and down back, with shivering,

wants more clothes.—Chilliness, evening, when going from warm room into open air; shaking

and chattering of teeth as with an ague chill; > entering warm room.—A crop of boils took

possession of him, terminating in a five weeks' attack of remittent fever—Severe chill 9 a.m.;

lasts three hours; was compelled to go to bed, where he lay and shook; neither heat nor sweat

followed.—Creeping chills up and down spine, followed by suffocating sensation; must throw off

covering; no thirst.—Exhausted sensation compelled him to go to bed; chill for an hour, at end of

which exhausted feeling passed off; cough and catarrhal symptoms followed chill; no

fever.—Bilious fever.

• ▸Catheterism.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Colic.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Cracks.
• ▸Cramps.
• ▸Dentition.

• ▸Dysmenorrhoea.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸/ntercostal neuralgia.
• ▸Locomotor ataxy.
• ▸Membranous

• ▸dysmenorrheea.
• ▸Meningitis.
• ▸Menstruation, painful.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Rectum, prolapse of.
• ▸School-

• ▸headache.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Stomach, cancer of.
• ▸Sobbing, spasmodic.
• ▸Tic-douloureux.
• ▸Toothache.

Vaginismus. Whooping-cough. Writer's cramp.

Characteristics—Mag. Phos. is one of the most important of Schiissler's original additions to

• ▸the materia medica.
• ▸It has had a very fine proving in the potencies, conducted by H.
• ▸C.
• ▸Allen

• ▸(Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, xxxili.
• ▸386-415), but I will first give Schiissler's own account: Phosphate of

Magnesia is contained in—blood-corpuscles, muscles, brain, spinal marrow, nerves, teeth.

Disturbance of its molecules results in—pains, cramps, paralysis. The pains are—shooting like

lightning, or boring; often combined with or alternating with a sensation of constriction; at times

wandering; > by warmth; > by pressure; < by light touch. It will cure: Headache, toothache,

pains in limbs when of this kind; also cramps in stomach, pains in abdomen usually radiating

from umbilical region, > by hot drinks, by bending double, by pressing on abdomen with the

hand, sometimes accompanied with watery diarrhoea. Spasms of various kinds—of glottis,

whooping-cough, lockjaw, cramps of calves, hiccough, tetanus, chorea, spasmodic retention of

• ▸urine, &c.
• ▸In caseous tuberculosis and lupus Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸has a place.
• ▸When the cells near the caseous

• ▸masses are too weak to expel them, it is because they are deficient in Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸, and Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸given

medicinally will enable them to do it.—This sketch of Schiissler's is confirmed in every point by

• ▸Allen's proving, and by the clinical use of Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸in the highest attenuations.
• ▸Moreover, there is

• ▸a very strong family resemblance between these features and those of Mag.
• ▸c.
• ▸and Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸But it

is only right to say that Schiissler arrived at them by a way of his own, which shows that there

are other means besides provings of finding the keynote symptoms of remedies. Allen adds to the

above that the pains rapidly change place; that cramping is the most characteristic type of the

• ▸Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸pains.
• ▸Dread of cold air; of uncovering; of touching the affected part; of moving; of cold

washing. It is best adapted to: thin, emaciated persons of a highly nervous organisation, of dark

complexion; to affections on the right side of the body; to complaints from standing in cold

water; complaints of dentition; headaches of school children; professional neuroses (e.g., writer's

• ▸cramp); after-effect of catheterism.
• ▸Nash says Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸is in the first rank as a pain remedy, and it

has all kinds of pain (though cramping pain is the most characteristic) except burning pain, and

this distinguishes it from Ars., since both have > from heat. Allen's proving brought out canker

sores in mouth, sore lips, and cracked lips. A patient of mine who suffered intensely from cracks

at the corners of the lips found nothing relieve so well as Mag. p., and it did it best in the 1x

strength. Higher were tried. Hering says it is suited to: Young and very strong persons; teething

children. Allen says that though it is best adapted to emaciated persons, it acts promptly in stout,

fleshy persons when well indicated. The attacks (of pain, &c.) are often attended with great

prostration, and sometimes with profuse sweat. "Languid, tired, exhausted; unable to sit up."

• ▸Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸is more often called for in men than Mag.
• ▸c.
• ▸, but the indication, "worn-out women,"

• ▸answers for both.
• ▸The affections of Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸are often periodic.
• ▸I cured with Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸6x a very

severe attack of chorea in a girl of six. The spasms were general, but they affected the speech to

such an extent that she could not make herself intelligible. Rappaz, of Montevideo (quoted H.

• ▸M.
• ▸, xxix.
• ▸178) cured with Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸a young man of 17 of cerebral meningitis which began with

violent pain and inflammation in left eye, with terrific pains in head and delirium and intense

fever. He was at first treated allopathically, without success. When Rappaz first saw him he was

hemiplegic, with frequent and alarming convulsions, crying out violently, involuntary passage of

feeces and urine; dilated pupils, dropped jaw, escape of saliva, speech and comprehension

• ▸difficult.
• ▸Under Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸6x in water general improvement set in.
• ▸Later the 12x was given, and in

• ▸two months he was well.
• ▸W.
• ▸T.
• ▸Ord cured Miss G.
• ▸, 48, of pain in back extending down right

• ▸sciatic nerve and up spine, following influenza, with Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸3x, 5-gr.
• ▸doses.
• ▸The pains were

shifting, > by rest, < at night. The parts were tender to pressure and numb. Pains sometimes tense

in paroxysms, compelling her to cry out. Anxiety; depressed vitality. Skinner has cured with

Mag. p.a case of prolapse of rectum with feeling as if rectum were torn, the symptoms being >

by heat. The symptoms are < by: Motion; cold air; draught of air; cold wind; COLD

WASHING; TOUCH; lying on the back stretched out; when eating. > By: HEAT; WARMTH;

• ▸PRESSURE; BENDING DOUBLE (the italics and capitals are H.
• ▸C.
• ▸Allen's).
• ▸< Walking;

especially in open air; abdominal pain compels walking about, which >.

• ▸Antidoted by: Bell.
• ▸, Gels.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸(cough).
• ▸Compare: Cham.
• ▸(vegetable analogue; but

• ▸Cham.
• ▸has < from heat).
• ▸Shifting pains, Puls.
• ▸, Lac c.
• ▸Neuralgia recurring violently every night, >

• ▸warmth, Ars.
• ▸Dysmenorrheea, Caul.
• ▸, Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸, Xanthox.
• ▸, Cact.
• ▸, Lil.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Col.
• ▸Colic > bending double,

• ▸Col.
• ▸> From hot drinks, Lyc.
• ▸Meteorism, Lyc.
• ▸Hydroa, cracks on lips, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸Headache from

• ▸occiput to eye > warmth, Sil.
• ▸Chemical relatives: Mag.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Mag.
• ▸s.
• ▸Horizontal double

• ▸vision, Gels.
• ▸Neuralgia from standing in cold water, Calc.
• ▸Spasms during dentition, Bell.
• ▸(Bell.

• ▸has fever, Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸not).
• ▸Dysmenia, Puls.
• ▸(Puls.
• ▸< by heat, Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸>).

Compare: Kali phos; Colocy; Silica; Zinc; Diosc.

Antidotes: Bell; Gels; Lach.

First to twelfth potency. Sometimes the highest potencies are preferable. Acts especially well, given in hot water.

• ▸Magnesia phos.
• ▸is best known >for its spasmodic conditions and neuralgias.
• ▸The pains are very viofent 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 pressure. The patient

feels better in a warm place ; and his neuralgias are also better, he is

miserable, and his pains are brought on when he becomes cold or is in

a cold place. Pains arc brought on from riding in the cold, and in

cold, damp weather. Exposure for a long time to cold winds causes

neuralgia of the face.

The pains arc felt everywhere. Pain in the bowels, enteralgias,

cramps in the stomach and bowels, with the same modalities. Pains

in the spinal cord under the same rule — amelioration from heat. There

are times when a nerve, in which there is considerable pain, becomes

sensitive to pressure, becomes sore. The spinal cord becomes sore.

Convulsions, with stiffness of the limbs. Convulsions in adults or

children, followed by extreme sensitiveness to touch, to wind, to noise,

• ▸to excitement, to everything.
• ▸Such convulsions as children have during dentition.
• ▸Colic ; three months’ colic, cramps, bilious colic.
• ▸But

the special feature is its power to debilitate, to cause irritation of the

nerves and muscles. Cramps from prolonged exertion. Stiffness

numbness, awkwardness and deadness of a nerve from prolonged ex-

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«rtion. Thus it applies to long use of the hands and fingers in .wi;it*

• ▸ing, and gives a fair sample of writer’s cramp.
• ▸It is .
• ▸especially iweful in the cramps that come in the fingers, from .
• ▸writing, playing in-

.struments and piano practice. Pianists suddenly break down, with

■stiffness of the fingers, after several hours’ labor every day for years.

The fingers give out. In playing the harp a cramp comes on and tho

fingers cannot perform their use. Other parts are affected in the same

way from prolonged exertion. A laborer’s hand will sometimes cramp

and become almost useless. As soon as he undertakes to do that particular thing his hand cramps and he clutches the implement or loses

hold. The carpento: after prolonged use of a tool has a cramp. This

is a strong feature of the remedy in all sorts of over-exertion.

Violent cramps in dysentery and cholera morbus, that make him

scream out. Twitching of the muscles all over the body, as in cholera. It was Schuessler's main remedy for chorea, but we can only use

it by its proving. Schuessler prescribed it in all nervous conditions,

but its proving justifies its use in neuralgia ameliorated by heat and

pressure, cramps and twitchings. Shooting pains along the nerves,

but these are not so common as violent pains in paroxysms — a tearing

pain as if the nerve were inflamed and put on a stretch. Shaking as

in paralysis agitans and complaints resembling it. Amelioration front

heat and pressure, and aggravation from cold, cold bathing, cold winds,

cold weather, lack of clothing. Pains all over, but more likely pain

located in one part.

The mental symptoms have not been brought out to any extent. It

has been used clinically when diarrhoeas have ceased suddenly and

brain troubles have come on. Congestion of the brain, but this is

clinical. Neuralgia and rheumatic headaches ameliorated by heat.

Excruciating pains. Violent attacks of headache ameliorated by hard

.pressure, heat and in the dark. I liave seen this mitigation of the

symptoms in chronic congestive headache, when the face was red and

there was throbbing, almost like Bell.; those headaches give way to

Magnesia phos., when there is relief by heat and pressure. He wants

the head bandaged with a tight-fitting doth, a warm room, and he is

aggravated by cold.

Spasms and jerking about the eyes, or prolonged tonic spasms produdng a strabismus. Violent supra- and infra-orbital pains with

amelioration from heat and pressure. It has cured more face-aches

than other pains. Neuralgia of the face, worse on the right side, and

• ▸ameliorated by heat and pressure, and aggravated by cold.
• ▸Tic douknireaux.
• ▸Glmmic jerkings of the face.
• ▸It favors rheumatic said

, -gouty sul^ects -who suffer with neuralgia. It is -a wonderful remedy

^ior spasmodic 'hiccoughing. I have sometimes given Magnesia phos.

'for hkm^jhmg whenT gouM not get rmy other ^nnptoms to desezibo-en.

Mancanum

Psin at thfc pit of tht stoinach. Spasms of the stomach with clean

• ▸tongue.
• ▸Colic ameliorated by doubling up, like Coloc.
• ▸, and ameliorated by heat.
• ▸The colic is not so markedly relieved by heat in Coloc.
• ▸,

but is relieved by pressure. Distension of the abdomen and flatulence,

with much pain. Radiating pains in the abdomen. Compelled to

walk and groan from pain. Meteorism. It is said to cure cows of

this condition. Colchicum will cure cows when they are distended

with gas after being turned into clover patches.

Cutting, darting pains in haemorrhoids. If well proved we would

probably have many liver symptoms, because both Magnes. and Phos.

have liver symptoms.

Violent pains in acute rheumatism, ameliorated by heat. Neuralgic

pains in the limbs. Rest relieves many complaints, and the least motion brings them on. Pains changing place.

Sensation in limbs like a streak of electricity, followed by soreness of

muscles.—Aching feeling in arms and legs; weak and trembling.