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Calcarea Phosphorica

30C / 200CCalc Phos

Phosphate of Lime · Calcium Phosphate · "The Growing Pains Remedy"

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🎯 A vital tissue remedy that supports bone development, recovery from wasting diseases, and the health of children during growth and teething.

📖 Boericke writes:

One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in common with Calcarea carb, there are some differences and characteristic features of its own. It is especially indicated in tardy dentition and troubles incident to that period, bone disease non-union of fractured bones, and the anaemias after acute diseases and chronic wasting diseases. Anaemic children who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and feeble digestion. It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphyses, and all its symptoms are worse from any change of weather. Numbness and crawling are characteristic sensations, and tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement are symptoms it shares with the carbonate. Scrofulosis, chlorosis and phthisis.

👤 Constitution

•Typically thin, flabby, and anemic children who are peevish, have cold extremities, and suffer from weak digestion.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Anaemic children who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and feeble digestion.

introduction

Numbness and crawling are characteristic sensations, and tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement are symptoms it shares with the carbonate.

introduction

Headache, worse near the region of sutures, from change of weather, of school children about puberty.

head

Adenoid growths.

mouth

Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats.

stomach

Much flatulence.

stomach

Sunken and flabby.

abdomen

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Useful for emotional irritability and restlessness following stress or grief.

Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation (Ignat; Phos ac).

Always wants to go somewhere.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

First to third trituration

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Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Ruta Graveolens →Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum →

🔄 Compare With

Silicea Terra →ConchiolinumSulphur →Calcarea Carbonica →Calcarea Arsenicosa →Psorinum →Calcarea Hypophosphorosa →Cheiranthus Cheiri

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Calcarea Phosphorica is listed in 252 rubrics across 21 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 89 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System33 Generalities32 Abdomen31 Female Sexual System22 Head18 Respiratory System15 Modalities12 Mind12 Stomach11 Nervous System10 Throat9 Skin8 Face7 Ears6 Male Sexual System6 Eyes5 Nose4 Urinary System3 Fever3 Teeth3 Circulatory System2

See all 252 rubrics for Calcarea Phosphorica →