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+ | ====== MAGNESIUM PHOSPHORICUM ====== | ||
+ | <span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Magnesia Phosphorica.</span> | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Phosphate of Magnesia. 2 mg O. P. O5. HO+14 H2O.</span> | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s3}}Magnesia Phosphorica is one of the most important of the Twelve Tissue Remedies introduced by Schuessler. {{anchor:s4}}It still awaits proving, but the symptoms obtained from clinical practice, vouched for by good authorities, are sufficiently numerous and important to warrant us in giving it a place in the present work. {{anchor:s5}}We print Hering's own arrangement, with additions from current literature to date, and hope the drug will soon receive the careful attention at the hands of provers it deserves. {{anchor:s6}}--EDS. | ||
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+ | ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s8}}- <span grade2>Brain troubles in children with convulsive symptoms</span>, Morgan, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1882, p. 172; <span grade2>Neuralgic headache, particularly after childbirth</span>, Frantz, MSS.; <span grade2>Facial neuralgia</span> (3 cases), Huff, Minn. Med. Mo., vol. 1, No. 9; Wesselhoeft, Plate, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, by C. Hg., p. 31; <span grade2>Neuralgia of face and toothache</span>, Plate, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 246; <span grade2>Prosopalgia</span>, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 88, p. 46; Goullon, Zeit. f. Hom., vol. 17; Plate, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 245; <span grade2>Tic douloureux</span>, Fischer, Times Retros., vol. 1, p. 23; S. L., Hom. Obs., Aug., 1875; <span grade2>Faceache</span>, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, by C. Hg., p. 30; <span grade2>Ailments from optical defects</span>, Morgan, Org., vol. 3, p. 365; <span grade2>Singultus</span>, Quaglio; <span grade2>Spasmodic hiccough</span>, Schuessler; <span grade2>Persistent vomiting</span>, Martin, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1886, p. 95; <span grade2>Colic of new born infants</span>, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1880, p. 232; <span grade2>Daily colic in a child</span>, Frantz, MSS.; <span grade2>Colic from standing in cold water</span>, Koeck, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 94, p. 120; <span grade2>Neuralgia of stomach</span>, Huff, Minn. Med. Mo., vol. 1, No. 9; <span grade2>Profuse and frequent urination</span>, Goullon, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 109, p. 181; <span grade2>Whooping cough</span>, Schuessler; <span grade2>Intercostal neuralgia</span>, Knerr, MSS; <span grade2>Gressus gallinaceus</span>, Nichols, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 320; <span grade2>Neuralgia</span>, Boyce, Hahn. Mo., vol. 10, p. 458; <span grade2>Nervous ailment</span>, Schleglmann, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, Boericke & Dewey, 1887, p. 73; <span grade2>Nervous affection</span>, Schuessler, B. & D., p. 73; <span grade2>Infantile convulsions</span>, Morgan, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1880, p. 232; <span grade2>Spasms</span>, Schuessler, Plate, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 248; <span grade2>Chorea</span>, Saeger, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 102, p. 93; Whittier, Clarke, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, B. & D., p. 114; <span grade2>Typhoid fever with singultus</span>, Fearn, Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, B. & D., p. 158. | ||
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+ | ====== MIND. [1] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s10}}Laments all the time about pain, with hiccoughing.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s11}}Has to scream out, with cramps in abdomen.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s12}}Illusions of senses; sobbing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s13}}Talking to herself constantly, or sitting still in moody silence, or carrying things from one place to another and then back again.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s14}}~</span> <span grade3>Chorea.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s16}}Brain troubles in children, with unconsciousness and convulsive symptoms.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s17}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera infantum.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade4>{{anchor:s19}}Neuralgic or rheumatic headaches: amel. from external application of warmth; very excruciating, tendency to spasmodic symptoms; shooting, stinging, shifting, intermittent or paroxysmal pains; sparks before eyes; diplopia; more in young and strong persons.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s20}}Headache since two weeks at 10 P. M., lasts all night.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s21}}Attacks of severe headache, particularly after childbirth, at irregular intervals; sudden flashes of pain in back part of head and neck, spreading all over head, involving eyes, with sudden flashes of pain like lightning through head; amel. from hard pressure, rest and darkness; frequently nausea; crampy pains in abdomen and calves; occasionally flying pains in limbs; drawn feeling of eyelids; after attacks dullness of head and intellect, forgetfullness, irritability.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Eyes sensitive to light, photophobia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}Chromatopsia, spasmodic vision of sparks or rainbow colors; diplopia.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s25}}Dullness of vision from weakness of optic nerve.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s26}}Pupils contracted.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s27}}Increased lachrymation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Nystagmus; strabismus; spasmodic squinting; ptosis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Twitching or spasms of eyelids.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Headache, vertigo, etc., from optical defects.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s31}}Pain in supraorbital nerve over right eye, agg. at 11 A. M.; amel. by external warm applications.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s32}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade4>{{anchor:s34}}Otalgia, purely nervous.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s35}}Weakness of auditory nerve fibres causing deafness.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s37}}Loss or perversion of sense of smell.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Face distorted from pain and weakness.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s40}}~</span> <span grade3>Colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s41}}Prosopalgia, supra and infraorbital nerves involved; pains shoot about like lightning along course of nerves, always amel. from warmth, agg. on right side and when body gets cold; teeth sensitive.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s42}}Tic douloureux; pain, especially in supraorbital branch, extended sometimes to ramus mentalis of maxillaris inferior; a touch at latter caused pain in supraorbitalis; the slightest touch in any part of affected nerves renewed painful paroxysm.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s43}}Boring over right eye, spreading after a few minutes over whole right side of head to lower jaw, driving out of bed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Right side of face and supraorbital region swollen; severe crampy, shooting, darting pains; much tenderness over affected side; pains intermittent in character, and seem to affect different parts of head and face on different days; much prostration.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s45}}Neuralgia on right side of face and toothache, changing location frequently, returning every two or three hours, rushes about like lightning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s46}}Neuralgia of face, commencing over right eye and extending in a few minutes over whole right side of face; must get out of bed; towards ten o'clock pain ceases.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Neuralgia from exposure to a strong North wind; patient in bed, almost frantic with pain, flushed face, injected eyes and a high degree of photophobia; pain left sided, involving supramaxillary portion of trigeminus, lancinating, crampy, darting and shooting, extorting cries.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s48}}After catching cold severe trouble in ear, followed by prosopalgia, on left side, affecting lower maxillary bone, also frontal, and involving whole of left side of head, back to nape of neck; pain maddening; high fever and sleeplessness.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Convulsive twitching of corners of mouth.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s51}}Yawning, with excessive spasmodic straining of lower jaw.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s52}}Trismus; lockjaw.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s54}}Toothache: rheumatic, neuralgic and shooting; changes place rapidly; teeth sensitive; agg. after going to bed; hot liquids ease pain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s55}}During dentition: spasms of children.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Taste somewhat bitter, tongue slightly yellow.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s58}}~</span> <span grade3>Colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Spasmodic stammering.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s60}}Clean tongue.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s61}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastralgia.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s63}}Spasmodic constriction of throat on attempting to swallow liquids, sensation of choking.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}Little or no appetite.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s67}}~</span> <span grade2>Faceache.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s68}}~</span> <span grade2>Colic.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s69}}~</span> <span grade2>Gressus gallinaceus.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s71}}Eating and Drinking\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s72}}Sweetened coffee lessens desire to stool, but has great aversion to coffee.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s73}}~</span> <span grade2>Pain in stomach.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s75}}Spasmodic hiccough of three days' duration (after failure of morphine, chloroform, etc.).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Spasmodic hiccough day and night, with retching, what came up was coagulated milk, bile and slime, with great pain, she had to lament all the time.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s77}}~</span> <span grade3>Colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Obstinate singultus, causing long lasting soreness.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}~</span> <span grade3>Typhoid fever.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s80}}Eructation lessens colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Immediately after eating, sometimes while at table, spits up what he has eaten; little or no nausea; craves sugar.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}~</span> <span grade3>Persistent vomiting.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade4>{{anchor:s84}}Pains at pit of stomach, nipping, griping, pinching, with short belching of wind giving no relief.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s85}}Spasms or cramp in stomach, with clean tongue, pain as if a band was tightly laced or drawn around body.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s86}}Neuralgia of stomach.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}Left lobe of liver enlarged.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s90}}Cramps in abdomen; pains around navel and above it towards stomach, from there radiating to both sides towards back; violent cutting pains, so that she has to scream out, then shooting and violently contracting; amel. by bending double or by pressure with hand, external warmth and eructations; cannot lie on back stretched out.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s91}}Cramps and wind colic, often accompanied by watery diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}Colic: forcing patient to bend double, pain amel. by friction, warmth, or eructations; remittent gripes, crampy pain.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s93}}Flatulent colic forcing patient to bend double, amel. from rubbing, warmth, accompanied by belching of gas, which gives no relief.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s94}}Flatulent colic of children and the new born, with drawing up of legs; remittent colic, crampy pain with acidity.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s95}}Daily attacks of colic in a child, generally at 3 or 4 P. M., lasting several hours.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s96}}Pains spasmodic in stomach or bowels, griping, cutting, drawing, so as to bend body double, agg. on slightest muscular movement; amel. from warmth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}Meteorism, in cows.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s99}}Stools expelled with force.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s100}}Stools loose, watery, with urging.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s101}}~</span> <span grade2>Pain in stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s102}}Watery diarrhea, with vomiting and cramps in calves; choleraic cramps.</span>\\ {{anchor:s103}}(In sick:) Diarrhea, with pinching colicky pain from navel to back; stools every half hour; redness and itching on feet, cannot keep them still, in evening.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s104}}Dysentery: with crampy pain, amel. by bending double, warmth or friction; with spasmodic retention of urine.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s105}}Cholera caused by affection of nerves of intestinal canal.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s106}}Cutting, darting, lightning-like pains in hemorrhoids.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s107}}Stool torpid.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s108}}~</span> <span grade2>Faceache.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s109}}~</span> <span grade2>Crampy colic.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s111}}Every three or five minutes child passes a large quantity of urine; great appetite, empties six or eight bottles every day, restless sleep at night.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s112}}Gravel, windy pain.</span>\\ {{anchor:s113}}Spasm of neck of bladder; spasmodic stricture.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s114}}Nocturnal enuresis from nervous irritation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s115}}Vesical neuralgia after use of catheter, sensation as if muscles did not contract.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s116}}A bright, slimy discharge from urethra in an old man; when urinating, violent shooting and burning pains.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s117}}Urine clear like water.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s118}}~</span> <span grade3>Colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s119}}Deficiency or excess of urinary phosphates.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade4>{{anchor:s121}}Ovarian neuralgia, pain shooting and darting like lightning; agg. on right side.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s122}}Menstrual colic, pain during or preceding flow; vaginismus.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s126}}Spasmodic labor pains; cramp in legs.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s127}}Puerperal convulsions.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s130}}Laryngismus stridulus or spasm of larynx; constriction of chest; stiffness of limbs.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s132}}Spasmodic sobbing for three days.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s133}}Spasmodic, nervous asthma.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== COUGH. [27] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s135}}Spasmodic cough: at night, with difficulty in lying down; in paroxysms; without expectoration; ending in a whoop.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s136}}Violent spasmodic attacks of cough, recurring about ten times a day, during which face becomes blue and turgid.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s137}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s138}}Persistent semi-chronic cough of a pseudo-catarrhal, nervous character.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s140}}Constriction of chest and throat, with spasmodic, dry, tickling cough.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s142}}Angina pectoris; neuralgic spasms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s143}}Nervous, spasmodic palpitation.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s145}}Intercostal neuralgia, of a drawing, constrictive kind; spasms from cold.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s146}}An old lady had terrible pain from back under left scapula around to front and down to groin, constricted chest and affected breathing; paroxysms brought on by lying down, had to sit upright.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s147}}~</span> <span grade3>Intercostal neuralgia.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s149}}Pains in nape of neck very sharp, shooting, boring, shifting and remittent.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s150}}Shifting pains in back; intercostal neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s151}}Acute, boring, darting, neuralgic pains in back.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s153}}Shaking of hands, trembling; alcoholism.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s155}}Deficiency in locomotive power, from nervous causes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s156}}Sciatica, with excruciating spasmodic pains.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s157}}Pains settled in right leg from hip to ankle, agg. in joints; pain shifts its place, is often lightning-like, shooting, intermits, renders necessary a change of position, and is amel. by warmth of bed; patient is in despair; thinks he has tetanus and that he must die; is unable to leave bed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s158}}Every night neuralgia, now in lower limbs, in tibia or in thighs, now in left, now in right side, mostly with spasmodic muscular contractions; during day perfectly well.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s159}}Cramps in calves.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s160}}~</span> <span grade3>Intermittent.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s161}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s162}}Gressus gallinaceus.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s164}}Violent pains in acute rheumatism of joints.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s165}}Pains in limbs, neuralgic, rheumatic, very vivid, darting about, shifting and remittent.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s166}}Every night neuralgia, now in lower limbs, in tibia or in thighs, now in left, now in right side, mostly with spasmodic muscular contractions; during day perfectly well.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s170}}Rest: lightning-like pains in head amel.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Lying down: causes pain from back under scapula.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Difficulty in lying down: cough.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Cannot lie on back stretched out: pain in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Thumbs drawn in, fingers clenched: convulsions.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Bending double: pain in abdomen amel.; crampy pain amel.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Must sit upright: intercostal neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Must change position: severe pain in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Motion: the least, brings on pain in tic douloureux; trembling of limbs agg.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Slightest muscular movement: pain in abdomen agg.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Changes place: neuralgic pain.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Cannot keep feet still: itching.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Driving out of bed: pain in face. | ||
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+ | ====== NERVES. [36] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade4>{{anchor:s184}}Neuralgia appearing at intervals, amel. by warmth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s185}}At times pains in head, teeth, face and limbs; again cramps in stomach, and flatulent colic; at other times tormenting, spasmodic cough, day and night, together with retention of urine, sleeplessness; different disorders every day; cannot leave bed.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s186}}~</span> <span grade3>Nervous affection.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s187}}After catching cold, pain in back; dorsal vertebrae from third to fifth very sensitive to pressure; violent trembling of right foot and especially of right arm, agg. from motion.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s188}}~</span> <span grade3>Nervous ailment.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s189}}For three days, spasmodic, convulsive sobbing in a man; lies in bed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s190}}Spasms, with contraction of fingers, and staring, open eyes, lasting from a quarter to a half hour; during intervals spasmodic cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s191}}Convulsions, with stiffness of limbs or body, thumbs drawn in, fingers clenched.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s192}}After spasm, excessive sensitiveness to every impression of senses, even to touch, and especially to noise; look of suspicion and fear; easily agitated; spasm in early morning.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s193}}~</span> <span grade3>Infantile convulsions.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s194}}Convulsions and cramps during dentition, without fever; convulsive symptoms after failure of Bellad.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s195}}Writer's, piano or violin player's cramp.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s196}}Spasms from idiopathic affections of motory nerves.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s197}}Choleraic cramps.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s198}}Spasmodic muscular contraction with neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s199}}Tonic spasms, trismus; tetanus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s200}}Twitching all over body during waking hours, amel. during sleep; walked fairly well and could feed herself; speech very defective, meaning of her utterances a matter of pure conjecture; heart's action accelerated, no abnormal sound, later a presystolic blowing sound, as if muscular fibres of heart participated in general spasms; pupils symmetrically dilated; scared expression.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s201}}~</span> <span grade3>Chorea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s202}}Face and upper part of body affected, lateral and downward jerking of mouth, snapping of eyelids, sudden forward motion of head, and other irregular movements; amel. during sleep; agg. at stool and by emotions.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s203}}~</span> <span grade3>Chorea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s204}}Chorea, involuntary movements and contortions of limbs, with mute, appealing look for sympathy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s205}}Epileptic fits: spasm, stiffness of limbs, clenched fists or teeth; from local irritation of nerves, when an overexcited, not depressed condition of nerves exists; sometimes result of vicious habits; muscular contractions, twitchings and spasms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s206}}Neuralgic pains in any part, darting or shooting along nerve.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s207}}Trembling, involuntary shaking of hands, limbs or head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s208}}Palsy, paralysis agitans.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s210}}Spasmodic yawning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s211}}Insomnia from exhaustion or lack of brain nutrition.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== TIME. [38] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s213}}Morning: spasms, early.\\ {{anchor:s214}}At 10 A. M.: pain in face ceases.\\ {{anchor:s215}}At 11 A. M.: pain over eye agg.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Day and night: spasmodic hiccough.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Evening: itching of feet; headache, 10 P. M., lasting all night.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Night: restless sleep; enuresis; spasmodic cough; neuralgia. | ||
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+ | ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s220}}Warmth: neuralgia or rheumatism amel.; pain over eye amel.; prosopalgia amel.; pain in abdomen amel.; crampy pain amel.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Hot liquids: ease toothache.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Exposure to North wind: neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s223}}When body is cold: prosopalgia agg.\\ {{anchor:s224}}After washing and standing in cold water, crampy colic. | ||
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+ | ====== FEVER. [40] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s226}}Intermittent fever with cramps in calves.</span> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s228}}Pains at intervals, occurring in spells: colic; neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Every three or four minutes: passes large quantity of urine.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Lasting from a quarter to a half hour: spasms.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Every half hour: stools.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Every two or three hours: faceache.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Ten times a day: spasmodic cough.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Every day: attacks of colic from 3 to 4 P. M., lasting several hours; child takes six to eight bottles; different disorders.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Every evening: for two weeks, at 10 P. M., headache.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Every night: neuralgia in lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s237}}For three days: spasmodic hiccough; spasmodic sobbing.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Every twenty-three days: spasms of fifteen to thirty minutes' duration. | ||
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+ | ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s240}}Right: pain over eye; prosopalgia agg.; boring over eye, then to jaw; ovarian neuralgia; pains settled in leg, agg. in joints; trembling of foot and arm.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Left: neuralgia in face; prosopalgia on side of head to nape; lobe of liver enlarged; pain under scapula.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s242}}Changing place rapidly: toothache, neuralgia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s243}}Now right, now left: neuralgia.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s244}}Radiating pain: in abdomen.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s246}}Quick, shooting, stitching pains which come at intervals and change place.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Neuralgic pains shooting like lightning or boring, often with a feeling as if laced or drawn together, changing place often, amel. by warmth or pressure.\\ {{anchor:s248}}As if choking; as if a band was tightly laced or drawn around body; as if muscles of urethra did not contract; as if muscular fibres of heart participated in general spasm.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Pain: in supraorbital nerve over right eye; in stomach; around navel and above it towards stomach and to back; in right leg from hip to ankle; in limbs; in head, teeth, face and limbs; in back.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Maddening pain: in whole left side of head; back to nape of neck.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Excruciating pain: in headache; neuralgia; sciatica.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Terrible pain: from back, under left scapula to front and down to groin.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Violent pains: in acute rheumatism of joints.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Great pain: with retching.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Violent cutting: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Shooting, stinging: in head.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Violent shooting burning: in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Vivid darting: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Acute, boring, darting, neuralgic pains: in any part of back.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Severe crampy, shooting, darting pains: in face; in hemorrhoids; in right ovary.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Sharp, shooting, boring: in nape of neck.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Violently contracting pains: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Griping, cutting, drawing pains: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Lightning-like pains: along course of nerves; in face; in hemorrhoids.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Flying pains: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Shifting pain: in back.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Sudden flashes of pain: in back part of head and neck.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Lancinating pain: in face.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Shooting pains: in teeth; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Nipping, griping pain: at pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Boring: over right eye to lower jaw.\\ {{anchor:s272}}Pinching: in stomach; from navel to back.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Neuralgia: in head; in right side of face; on left side of face; in teeth; of stomach; of right ovary; intercostal.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Rheumatic pain: in head; in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Cramps: in abdomen; in stomach; in calves; in legs.\\ {{anchor:s276}}Spasmodic pains: in stomach and bowels; labor pains.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Soreness: caused by singultus.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Constriction: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Drawn feeling: of eyelids.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Dullness: of head.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Stiffness: of limbs; of body.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Spasmodic constriction: of throat.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Pricking: all over him, agg. about ankles, knees and elbows.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Itching: on feet. | ||
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+ | ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s286}}Nutrition and function remedy for the nerve tissues.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Bad effects from injurious stimulants having acted on sound nerve tissue.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Nervous asthma from primary irritation of affected nerves; spasm of glottis; tetanus; lockjaw; cramps of calves; St. Vitus' dance; convulsions, etc. | ||
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+ | ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s292}}Touch: of maxillaris inferior caused pain in supraorbitalis; slightest, in any part of affected nerves agg. pains.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Pressure: with hand amel. pain in abdomen; back very sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Hard pressure: lightning-like pain amel.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Friction: amel. pain in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Scratching: causes rash to turn red. | ||
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+ | ====== SKIN. [46] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s298}}(In sick:) Rash on arms, legs and face, like insect bites, running together in large patches; only red when scratched; feels a pricking all over him, agg. about knees, ankles and elbows. | ||
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+ | ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s300}}More suitable for young and very strong persons; teething children.\\ {{anchor:s301}}Baby, daily colic, generally 3 to 4 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Child, aet. 10 months; whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Colored child, aet. 15 months, teething; convulsions.\\ {{anchor:s304}}Child, teething, mother died of diabetes; profuse and frequent urination.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Child, aet. 6, suffering eight months; chorea.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Boy, aet. 10; persistent vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s307}}Girl, aet. 13, since six years, every two or three days; spasms.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Girl, aet. 13, delicate, slender growth, attacks every twenty-three days, suffering six years; spasms.\\ {{anchor:s309}}Woman, aet. 20, weakly, suffered much from scrofula during childhood; nervous ailment.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Miss S., aet. 20, brunette, tall and slender, nervo-bilious temperament, typographer; facial neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Miss B., aet. 22, dark complexion, nervous temperament, slight build, suffering three days, massive doses of Bromide of Potash and Chloral Hydrate, without relief; facial neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s312}}Miss S., aet. 24, dark complexion, nervous temperament, clerk, suffering two weeks, morphia brought no relief; facial neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s313}}Woman, aet. 26, nervous temperament; nervous affection.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Woman, aet. 28, nervo-bilious temperament, fleshy, healthy; neuralgic headache, particularly after childbirth.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Woman, aet. 30, hectic appearance; facial neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Woman, aet. 31, suffering thirteen years; chorea.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Woman, aet. 36, healthy appearance, suffering several weeks; faceache.\\ {{anchor:s318}}Woman; tic douloureux.\\ {{anchor:s319}}Woman, aet. 40, single; facial neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Woman, aet. 42, hectic appearance; menses scanty, often omitting; faceache.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Woman, aet. 60; colic after standing in cold water.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Woman, aet. 60; since six years, neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s323}}An old lady; intercostal neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s324}}Man, aet. 69, suffering some weeks; pains in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s325}}A little, lean man, aet. 70; since three years a discharge from urethra. | ||
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+ | ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s327}}Compare: <span grade2>Arsen.</span> (nightly neuralgic pains, amel. from warmth; <span grade2>Magn. phos.</span> sometimes acts better when given in hot water); <span grade2>Zincum</span> (action on nervous system). | ||
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+ | ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== | ||
+ | ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 07, 1888 | | ||
+ | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r239|Magnesium phosphoricum]] | | ||
+ | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r239|Magnesium phosphoricum]] | | ||
+ | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | | ||
+ | ^ Year: | 1888 | | ||
+ | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | | ||
+ | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |} | ||