CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA (Phosphate of Lime. Ca3(PO4)2)

Calcarea phosphorica (phosphate of lime) is mixture of the basic and others phosphates of lime made by dropping dilute phosphoric acid into lime water. It is one of the tissue salts of Schüssler.

ESSENCE ETIOLOGIES Calcarea: need for structure, protection, security  GROWING TOO FAST … EXERTION (physical or responsible, grounded, steady minded, etc.; when you mental) … broken bones … bad news … stress them, you stress their structure. Phosphorus: DENTITION … pregnancy … DEFECTIVE activity, energy transfer (relationships), sensitivity, ASSIMILATION … operation for fistula high need for attention, love, consolation, support  active, open, sympathetic, highly social; when you AFFINITIES stress them, you stress their social situation, their BONES … teeth connections. Calc-phos: gives Phos a structure and allows Calc to move  combined need for structure, MODALITIES stability and movement (social life, new experiences, <: MENTAL EXERTION … NEW SITUATIONS adventure, etc.) Growth and development, either (e.g., school, home) … thinking of complaints … physical or emotional, is the most stressful time for night … sudden grief … wet, cold weather, esp. Calc-phos (since it’s “moving” the structure). melting snow … DRAFTS … COLD Calcarea adds another feature – they often feel feeble, >: summer … warm dry atmosphere … lying not up to the task. NOTES MENTAL SYMPTOMS - Children: very whiny (take the worries of Calc and - Easily bored (“wants to be at home and when at combine them with the expressionism of Phos). home wants to go out, goes from place to place”) … Capricious and hard to make happy. Tend to get sick peevish and discontented … complaining, never every Monday morning (time to go to school, to satisfied … SIGHING (Cimi., Ign.) develop after a break). Tend to procrastinate with - Want consolation, but the more they get it, the more projects. Get very stressed if pushed to excel. Love they whine team sports (social life) - Desire to travel (Tub., but wants to get back home - Grauvogl recommended Calc-phos very highly in soon after arriving to his destination) … chronic hydrocephalus. He even advocated it as a HOMESICKNESS preventive in hydrocephalus. It has been - Fears: thunderstorms … darkness … being alone … recommended as a prenatal remedy during pregnancy disease to women who have given birth to hydrocephalic - Easily frightened children.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS - CHILLY and < cold and drafts - Delayed development (slow to walk, delayed dentition) - Children growing too rapidly: lack of energy … GROWING PAINS - Weakness and fatigue … “never well after” (e.g., mono)

PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS DIFFERENTIALS Head: HEADACHE of SCHOOLGIRLS, Sighing: “Calc-phos, Cimi, and Ign, the main sighing STUDENTS (= worse mental exertion) … HA remedies, are all three in a conflicting situation: Calc-

© 2004 Valerie Sadovsky, May 2004 CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA (Phosphate of Lime. Ca3(PO4)2) starting in cervical region … HA along the sutures … phos between security and change; Cimi between bad teeth, delayed dentition … delayed closure of attachement and unattachement; Ign between fontanelles idealized feelings and reality” (Muller) Throat: chronically enlarged tonsils … adenoids Calc-phos and Calc-carb diffs: Musculoskeletal: SLOW OSSIFICATION, NON- Calc-carb, large abdomen, like inverted saucer. UNION OF BONES ... pain in NAPE of NECK, or Calc-phos, retracted and flabby abdomen. STIFFNESS, from DRAFT … curvature of the spine, Calc-carb, craving for eggs. esp. to the left … neck injuries … recurring sprains Calc-phos, craving for salt and smoked meats. … shin splints … leg cramps … arthritis, < cold Calc-carb, stool watery, white, mixed with curds. damp weather, esp. in spring and fall Calc-phos, stool green, slimy, hot with much flatus. GI: chronic STOMACH or abdominal pain (esp. at Calc-carb, anterior fontanelle open. times of stress; often “psychosomatic”) … craving for Calc-phos, both fontanelles open. SMOKED MEAT, salt, bacon, ham … intolerance of Calc-carb, light hair, blue eyes. MILK, even mother's milk (Sil.) … diarrhea with Calc-phos, dark hair and eyes. much flatus, stool green, slimy … abdominal pain Silica: resembles Calc-phos esp. in rachitis, but has after every meal more offensive head sweat, more constipation and a strong tendency to suppuration, boils, etc.

PRIME INDICATIONS SOURCES 1. Dissatisfaction. Desire for change, desire to Choudhuri, Study of MM wander, to travel. Sighing. Dewey, Essentials 2. Growth too rapid, or dwarfishness. Weakness and Farrington, Clinical MM loss of energy. Morrison, Desktop Guide 3. Headache from mental exertion. Murphy, Homeopathic Remedy Guide 4. Intolerance of milk. Craving for smoked meat, salty Vermeulen, Synoptic food, bacon. 5. Problems with bones and teeth. Nape of neck = bottle-neck.