- Source: Derived from magnesium🌿 MagnesiumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. phosphate ( MgHPO₄·3H₂O), a naturally occurring mineral salt,.
- Prepared 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. and serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. to eliminate material toxicity and enhance therapeutic action.
- Traditional Context : Historically employed in homeopathy for neurological, musculoskeletal,.
- Gastrointestinal, gynecological, and psychological disorders, particularly those involving spasmodic pains, cramps, and neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves..
- It is noted for symptoms such as shooting pains, muscle spasms, and colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., often aggravated by cold, touch, or night, and ameliorated by heat, pressure, or bending double.
- Modern Context: Indicated for neurological conditions (e.g., neuralgia, tension headaches),.
- Musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., muscle cramps, fibromyalgia🩺 FibromyalgiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), gastrointestinal conditions (e.g.,.
- Intestinal colic, irritable bowel syndrome), gynecological conditions (e.g., dysmenorrhea🩺 DysmenorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.,.
- Premenstrual syndrome), and psychological conditions (e.g., anxiety-related somatic complaints).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by spasmodic pains, muscle cramps, colicky abdominal pain , menstrual cramps, or nervous tension, typically exacerbated by cold, touch, or night, and often seen in individuals with sensitive, nervous constitutions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets., hyper-reactive constitution, often presenting with neurological symptoms like shooting pains or psychological symptoms like nervous irritability alongside physical symptoms like muscle or menstrual cramps, commonly observed in patients with neuralgia, dysmenorrheaPainful menstruation with abdominal crampsPainful menstruation, typically involving abdominal cramps., or irritable bowel syndrome🩺 Irritable Bowel SyndromeClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. triggered by cold exposure, stress, or physical exertion.
- COMMENTS-Acute or chronic cramps and spasms.
- Writer's or musician's cramps, Charley horses.
- Acute leg cramps in the elderly or in athletes.
- Lower leg cramps (Cupr., Calc-c.).
- ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body., or cramping pains followed by paralysis.
- Cramps and spasms are bet ter with heat, will often place a hot water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. bottle on the site (Cham, will want cold), better from pressure.
- Generally right sided (Coloc is left sided).
- Facial neuralgias (Kalm.) and sciatica🩺 SciaticaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., worse on the right side, better heat.
- Headache, better from applied heat.
- Chorea, respiratory spasms of the glottis, whooping cough.
- Hiccoughs (Nux-v.).
- Lockjaw, tetanus🩺 TetanusClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- For teething children or toothache, better drinking something warm or from warm applications.
- Useful for cracks at the corners of the lips.
- Allen's provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. brought out canker s ores in mouth, sore lips and cracked lips.
- Stomach cramps.
- Abdominal cramps radi ated from umbilical region, better by bend ing double, heat, sometimes with watery diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
- Colic in babies (Cham.), without irritability, better heat.
- Spasmodic retention of the urine.
- Inguinal hernia🩺 Inguinal HerniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Nondescript menstrual cramps.
- Labor pains.
- Cramping, burning pain, better from heat (Ars.).
- Pains are shooting like lightning or boring, often combined with or alternating with a sense of constriction, at times wandering, better by warmth, pressure, worse by light touch.
- Attacks of pain, often with great prostra tion or profuse sweat, leaving the patient “languid, tired, exhausted, unable to sit up.” More often called for in men than Mag-c, but the indication “worn-out women” applies to both.
- Disorders are often periodic.
- Useful for complaints from standing in cold water, complaints of dentition, headaches of school children, professional neuroses, after effects of catheter.
- Clarke cured a very severe attack of chorea in a girl of six with Mag-p.
- 6x.
- The spasms were general, but they affected the speech to such an extent that she could not make herself intelligible.
- Rappaz ofMontevideo cured with Mag-p a young man, 17, of cerebral meningitis🩺 MeningitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. which began with violent pain and inflammation in his left eye with terrific pains in his head, delirium🩺 DeliriumClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and intense fever.
- He was first treated allopathically, without success.
- When Rappaz first saw him, he was hemiplegic with frequent and alarming convulsions, violent crying out, involuntary passage of feces and urine, dilated pupils, dropped jaw, escape of saliva, with difficult speech and comprehension.
- 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 back pain extending down right sciatic nerve and up the back, following influenza🩺 InfluenzaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. with Mag-p.
- 3x, 5 grain doses.
- Skinner has cured with Mag-p a case of prolapsed of rectum with feeling as if rectum were torn, the symptoms being better by heat.
- Temperature-Chilliness after dinner in evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Chills run up and down the back.
- Chills with shivering, followed by a suffocating sensation.
- Abdomen contracted.
- Bloated, full sensation in abdomen, must loosen clothing, walk about and constantly pass flatus.
- Severe, griping colic, at times shooting up towards stomach, better by hot applications.
- Flatulent colic, forcing patient to bend double.
- Colic accompanied with belching of gas, which gives no relief.
- Colic relieved by rubbing, warmth, pressure.
- Colic in babies (Cham.).
- Cutting pain into thighs.
- Appetite remains good.
- Thirst for very cold drinks.
- Food doesn't taste right.
- Acids taste stronger than usual.
- Aversion to coffee.
- Craves sugar
