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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.
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COMMON NAME
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Phosphate of Magnesia
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CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
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MgHPO4 7H2O.
The crystals of Mag-p are needle like with a cooling, sweetish taste.
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PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
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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
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| - | Standing in cold water; working with cold clay |
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MODALITIES
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| < | Cold air, drafts, water
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MIND
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| - | Irritable and oversensitive with many fears
(similar to Phos).
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| - | Illusions of the senses.
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| - | Forgetful, dullness and inability to think clearly, Indisposition to study
or mental effort.
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| - | Indisposition to mental or physical exertion.
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| - | Sobbing and lamenting. Laments constantly about the pain with hiccoughs;
weeping during convulsions.
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| - | Talks to herself, or sits still in moody silence. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | Tall, slender, dark, neurotic, persons. Young and
strong individuals and teething children. Languid, tried, exhausted persons.
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| - | Right-sided affections of head ear, face, chest, ovary, sciatic nerve.
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| - | Great dread of cold air, of uncovering, or touching the affected part.
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| - | Pains - Cramping, lightning-like, shooting, sharp, cutting, stabbing, stitching,
rapidly changing place.
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| - | Pains come and go suddenly.
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| - | Colicky pain in abdomen, forcing her to bend double > heat, warmth,
pressure > when menstrual flow begins.
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| - | Neuralgic pains, especially, facial neuralgia, supra or infra-orbital right
sided neuralgic pains. In unbearable paroxysms, lightning-like, driving the
patient to frenzy < draught of cold air > heat, warmth.
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| - | Mouth – Toothache: severe, neuralgic pains with ulceration of teeth <
night from eating < cold drinks > warmth.
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| - | G.I.T. - Spasms of stomach with clean tongue.
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| - | Female genitalia - Membranous dysmenorrhoea with a tarry, dark, stringy
flow, and severe, shifting, cramping pains.
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| - | Extremities - Spasms during dentition without fever.
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| - | Cramps of extremities, writer's cramps, cramps of piano players. |
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KEYNOTES
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| - | Pains - sharp, cutting, shooting, lightning-like,
rapidly changing place, causing restlessness, and prostration
> warmth or heat, pressure < cold.
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| - | Enuresis after catheterization. |
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Neurotic persons subject to violent, sudden,
unendurable, tearing neuralgias, colics and cramps.
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| - | Right sided pains > warmth < cold.
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| - | Women with membranous dysmenorrhoea and dark, tarry menses staining fast. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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| - | Pains cramping, shooting, spasmodic, sharp, cutting, stabbing, come and go
suddenly. |
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CLINICAL
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| - | Angina pectoris, Chorea, Cramps, Dysmenorrhoea
(membranous), Enteralgia, Flatulent colic, Goitre, Neuralgias, Nystagmus,
Sciatica, Toothache, Vertigo, Whooping cough, Writer's cramps.
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| - | Enuresis after catheterization - Dr.H.C.Allen.
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| - | Bad effects of tetanus shots - Dr.Grimmer. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Compare: Ars, Cact, Caul, Cham, Cimic, Lac-c, Lil-t, Lyc,
Nat-m, Puls, Sil, Xan
Similar: Ars, Bell, Spig, Zinc
Antidoted By: Bell, Gels, Lach
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