Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA [mag-p] [Kent’s]Magnesia phos. is best known for its spasmodic conditions and neuralgias. The pains are veryviolent and may affect any nerve.A pain localizes itself in a nerve and becomes worse and worse, sometimes coming inparoxysms, but becoming so violent that the patient becomes frantic. The pains are . The patient fees better in a warm place; and his neuralgias are also better, he ismiserable, and his pains are brought on when he becomes cold or is in a cold place. Pains are broughton from riding in the cold, and in cold, damp weather.Exposure for a long time to cold winds causes neuralgia of the face.The pains are felt everywhere. Pain in the bowels, enteralgias, cramps in the stomach andbowels, with the same modalities. Pains in the spinal cord under the same rule--- amelioration fromheat. There are times when a nerve, in which there is considerable pain, becomes sensitive to pressure,becomes sore. The spinal cord becomes sore. Convulsions, with stiffness of the limbs. Convulsions inadults or children, followed by extreme sensitiveness to touch, to wind, to noise, to excitement, toeverything. Such convulsions as children have during dentition. Colic; three months' colic, cramps,bilious colic. But the special feature is its power to debilitate, to cause irritation of the nerves andmuscles. Cramps from prolonged exertion. Stiffness, numbness, awkwardness and deadness of a nervefrom prolonged exertion. Thus it applies to long use of the hands and fingers in writing, and gives a fairsample of writer's cramp. It is especially useful in the cramps that come in the fingers, from writing,playing instruments and piano practice.Pianists suddenly break down, with stiffness of the fingers, after several hours' labor every dayfor years. The fingers give out. In playing the harp a cramp comes on and the fingers cannot performtheir use. Other parts are affected in the same way from prolonged exertion. A laborer's hand willsometimes cramp and become almost useless. As soon as he undertakes to do that particular thing hishand cramps and he clutches the implement or loses hold. The carpenter after prolonged use of a toolhas a cramp. This is a strong feature of the remedy in all sorts of over-exertion.Violent cramps in dysentery and cholera morbus, that make him scream out. Twitching of themuscles all over the body, as in cholera. It was Schuessler's main remedy for chorea, but we only use itby its proving. Schuessler prescribed it in all nervous conditions, but its proving justifies its use inneuralgia ameliorated by heat and pressure, cramps and twitchings. Shooting pains along the nerves,but these are not so common as violent pains in paroxysms---a tearing pain as if the nerve wereinflamed and put on a stretch. Shaking as in paralysis agitans and complaints resembling it.Amelioration from heat and pressure, and aggravation from cold, cold bathing, cold winds, coldweather, lack of clothing. Pains all over, but more likely pain located in one part.The mental symptoms have not been brought out to any extent.It has been used clinically when diarrheas have ceased suddenly and brain troubles have comeon. Congestion of the brain, but this is clinical. Neuralgia and rheumatic headaches ameliorated byheat. Excruciating pains. Violent attacks of headache ameliorated by hard pressure, heat and in thedark. I have seen this mitigation of the symptoms in chronic congestive headache, when the face wasred and there was throbbing, almost like those headaches give way to Magnesia phos., whenthere is relief by heat and pressure. He wants the head bandaged with a tight-fitting cloth, a warmroom, and he is aggravated by cold.Spasms and jerking about the eyes, or prolonged tonic spasms producing a strabismus. Violentsupra- and infra-orbital pains with amelioration from heat and pressure. It has cured more face- achesthan other pains. Neuralgia of the face, worse on the right side, and ameliorated by heat and pressure,and aggravated by cold. Tic douloureaux. Chronic jerkings of the face. It favors rheumatic and goutysubjects who suffer with neuralgia. It is a wonderful remedy for spasmodic hiccoughing. I havesometimes given Magnesia phos. for hiccoughing when I could not get any other symptoms toprescribe on.Pain at the pit of the stomach. Spasms of the stomach with clean tongue. Colic ameliorated bydoubling up, like , and ameliorated by heat. The colic is not so markedly relieved by heat in, but is relieved by pressure. Distension of the abdomen and flatulence, with much pain.. Compelled to walk and groan from pain. Meteorism. It is said tocure cows of this condition. will cure cows when they are distended with gas after beingturned into clover patches.Cutting, darting pains in hemorrhoids. If well proved we would probably have many liversymptoms, because both and have liver symptoms.Violent pains in acute rheumatism, ameliorated by heat.