Phosphate of Magnesia
General
Is best adapted to thin, emaciated persons of a highly nervous organization; dark complexion. Affections of right side of body; head, ear, face, chest, ovary, sciatic nerve [Bell., Bry., Chel., Kali c., Lyc., Pod.]. Pains: sharp, cutting, stabbing; shooting, stitching; lightning-like in coming and going [Bell.]; intermittent paroxysm becoming almost unbearable, driving patient to frenzy; rapidly changing place [Lac c., Puls.], with a constricting sensation [Cac., Iod., Sulph.], cramping, in neuralgia affections of stomach, abdomen and pelvis [Caul., Col.]. Great dread: of cold air; of uncovering; of touching affected part; of cold bathing or washing; of moving. Languid, tired, exhausted; unable to sit up. Complaints from standing in cold water or working in cold clay [Cal.]. Ailments of teething children; spasms during dentition, no fever [with fever, hot head and skin, Bell.]. Headache: begins in occiput and extends over head [Sang., Sil.]; of school girls; face red, flushed; from mental emotion, exertion or hard study; (<). 10 to 11 A.M. or 4 to 5 P.M.; (>). by pressure and external heat. Neuralgia: of face, supra- or infra-orbital; r. side; intermittent, darting, cutting; (<). by touch, cold air, pressure; (>). by external heat. Toothache: at night; rapidly shifting; (<). eating, drinking, especially cold things; (>). by heat [ (>). by cold, Bry., Coff., Fer. p.]. Spasms or cramp of stomach, with clean tongue, as if a band was drawn tightly around the body. Colic: flatulent, forcing patient to bend double; (>). by heat, rubbing and hard pressure [Col., Plumb.]; of horses and cows when Colocynth fails to (>).. Menses: early; flow dark, stringy; pains (<). before, (>). when flow begins [Lach., Zinc.]; pains darting, like lightning, shooting, (<). r. side, (>). by heat and bending double; vaginismus. Enuresis: nocturnal; from nervous irritation; urine, pale, copious; after catheterization. Cramps: of extremities; during pregnancy; of writers, piano or violin players.
Relations
Compare: Bell., Caul., Col., Lyc., Lac c., Puls.; Cham. its vegetable analogue. Sometimes acts best when given in hot water.
Aggravation
Cold air; a draft of cold air or cold wind; cold bathing or washing; motion; touch.
Amelioration
Bending double; heat; warmth; pressure [burning pain (>). by heat, Ars.].