- Source: Derived from calcium🌿 CalciumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. phosphate (Ca₃(PO₄)₂), typically prepared from bone ash or mineral sources, processed for homeopathic use through triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy., serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity., and succussionVigorous shaking of homeopathic dilutionThe process of vigorously shaking a liquid homeopathic solution against a firm surface during dilution to potentize it. to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for growth, bone, and developmental disorders, particularly those involving weak bones, delayed healing, and mental restlessness.
- It is noted for symptoms such as growing pains, fractures, teething difficulties, and dissatisfaction, often aggravated by cold, damp weather, mental exertion, or puberty, and ameliorated by warmth, rest, or dry weather.
- Modern Context: Indicated for musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., rickets, osteoporosis🩺 OsteoporosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.),.
- Developmental issues (e.g., delayed milestones, learning difficulties), dental problems (e.g.,.
- Delayed dentition, caries), respiratory conditions (e.g., chronic rhinitis, tonsillitis🩺 TonsillitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), and psychological disorders (e.g., attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, adjustment disorder🩺 Adjustment DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by bone weakness, delayed growth,.
- Respiratory sensitivity , or mental restlessness , typically exacerbated by cold, damp conditions,.
- Growth spurts, or emotional stress, and often seen in individuals with a history of developmental delays, frequent infections, or poor nutrition.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a thin, sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like joint pain, slow healing,.
- Or recurrent colds alongside emotional traits like irritability, discontent, or inattention, commonly observed in growing children, adolescents, or adults with chronic musculoskeletal or psychological complaints.
- COMMENTS-Affects the parathyroid glands, which affect calcium metabolism.
- Paget's disease, Osgood-Schlatter disease, osteoporosis, osteomyelitis🩺 OsteomyelitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., acute or chronic (Calc.).
- Brittle bones.
- In a case of osteogenesis imperfecta🩺 Osteogenesis ImperfectaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., Calc-p lessened the frequency o f broken bones and helped to strengthen the bones.
- Helps to heal broken bones (Symph., Calc fl if the broken bone begins to decay).
- For both remedies, make sure that the bones are correctly set before giving the remedy.
- For problems associated with bony structures, calcium deficiency related to bone marrow problems and anemiaLack of healthy red blood cells or hemoglobinA condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness..
- Defective bone growth, bones thin and brittle.
- Brittled matrix.
- Lack of structure and cohesiveness, curvatures (Calc., Sil.🌿 Sil.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Flat feet and feet that are turning in too much (Calc.).
- Growing pains.
- Slow bone growth, fontanelles not closing properly.
- Scoliosis🩺 ScoliosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., weak tender feet.
- Stiffness on the neck and knees.
- Teething delayed and painful.
- Children with a lot of glandular problems, adenoid and tonsils problems.
- Stunted growth.
- En largement of tonsils, acute and chronic.
- Tumor of the parathyroid gland, hyperparathyroidism.
- Useful in cases of fistulaAbnormal passage connecting two body partsAn abnormal or surgically made passage between a hollow or tubular organ and the body surface, or between two hollow organs. and when fistula has been operated on with the symptoms appearing elsewhere.
- Fistula alternating with chest symptoms.
- Shortness of brea th.
- Involuntary sighing.
- Contraction of chest and difficult breathing, evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. until 10 p.m., better lying down, worse getting up.
- Constant stretching and yawning.
- Crying out in sleep.
- Cannot get awake in morning.
- Keynote moaning in fevers.
- Children that are peevish and have chronic discontent.
- Hyperactive, hard to please, irritable, emaciated, and scrawny.
- Sunken features and blue🌿 BlueMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. circles around the eyes.
- There is a weak, sinking sensation in the hypogastr ium and a sinking, empty feeling in the epigastrium.
- Poor assimilation problems, may have poor nutrition.
- Rickets, thin and weak.
- Flabby stomach (Bar-c..
- Is hard).
- Ag-gravation from fruits, resulting in diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
- Prolapsed uterus, worse during stool or uri nation.
- Aching in uterus, cutting through to sacrum.
- Cream-like leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection..
- Burning in vagina with pain on both sides of the bladder and uterus, burning like fire up into chest.
- Flushes of heat and faintness, sweats easily.
- Profuse sweats (less than Sep.🌿 Sep.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Menses are profuse and the patient is weak and tubercular.
- Nymphomania, all organs in erection with irresistible desire, particularly before menses.
- Voluptuous feeling, as if all the parts were filled with blood, pulses in all the parts with increased desire after urination.
- Grauvogl considered it the most important remedy in chronic hydrocephalus and he gave it as a prenatal remedy during pregnancy to women who had previously borne hydrocephalic children.
- Chills, run upward.
- Hering states: ‘ The chills r un up the back, terrible muscular jerks in body, which almost throw him out of his chair.” Cold sensation in the limbs as if cold water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. poured over them, creeping numbness pains and coldness, electric-like shooting pains.
- Very sensitive to draft.
- Worse fro m cold, wet weather.
- Every exposure increases the rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pains and uterine distress.
- Etiologies include a large stress resulting in a decrease of vital energy, like grief, separation, death.
- They may get sick after not enough sleep (Cocc.🌿 Cocc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Slow to lea rn, due to structural problem (Bar-c., neurologi cal).
- Headaches worse from studying and concentration.
- Temperature-Easily chilled.
- ChillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. with pains.
- Chills up the back, but heat down the back.
- Fever with dentition.
- Dry fever, in evening, hot breath, noticeable beating of heart, mouth and tongue without thirst, yawning, stretching.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., soreness and burning around navel.
- Colic, at every attempt to eat, by taking ice cream, cold water or fruits.
- Child suffers from colic after every feeding.
- Cutting, pinching, sharp pains, followed by diarrhea.
- Flatulent colic.
- Bellyache better passing wind, after stool or after leucorrhea.
- Griping pain and rumbling in bowels before menses.
- Burning pain in abdomen.
- Sunken and flabby.
- Aching soreness and pain around navel, better passing fetid flatus.
- Oozing of bloody fluid from navel of infants.
- Festering navel.
- Empty, sinking sensation around navel, or in whole abdomen.
- Mo tion in abdomen, as of something alive.
- Abdominal wall as if numb .
- Abdominal wall quivering or aching.
- Warm feeling in groins.
- Pressure and soreness in left side.
- Weak, sinking feeling in abdomen, with leucorrhea.
- Capricious, changeable appetite.
- Ravenous or wanting appetite.
- Desir es chocolate, coffee, sweets, sugar, fat, eggs, butter, cheese, cream, milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., ham fat, bacon, and smoked meat.
- Desires raw potatoes and onions, garlic🌿 GarlicMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., vinegar, fruit, soup, salt and pepper, spicy foods, farinaceous food that makes him worse.
- Aversion to soup, sweets, fat butter, eggs, ice cream, rich foods, alcoholic drinks, coffee, meat, salty food, and fruit.
- Aggravated from alcoholic drinks, wine, coffee, milk, eggs, fat, meat, fruit, rich food, salty things <span style="color:#0d9488; font-weight:600; margin:0 6px;">➔</span> Sweets.
- Thirst for large quantities.
- Desires cold drinks, cold milk, warm drinks, alcoholic drinks, wine
