# Magnesia Phosphorica

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from magnesium phosphate ( MgHPO₄·3H₂O), a naturally occurring mineral salt,. prepared for homeopathic use through trituration and serial dilution 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 neuralgia. It is noted for symptoms such as shooting pains, muscle. spasms, and colic, 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), gastrointestinal conditions (e.g.,. intestinal  colic,  irritable  bowel  syndrome),  gynecological  conditions (e.g.,  dysmenorrhea,. 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 chilly, 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, dysmenorrhea, or irritable bowel syndrome triggered by cold exposure, stress, or physical. exertion.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Cold (weather, air, drinks), touch, night, rest, emotional stress, noise, light,. drafts, exertion, dairy, morning.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Very forgetful.
- Indisposition to study, to mental work.
- Mental dullness and inability to think clearly.
- Learning is difficult..
- Ailments from mental work.
- Drowsiness on every attempt to study.
- Capriciousness.
- Irritability.
- Ailments from suppressed anger, vexation.
- Mental depression and anxiety.
- Discontented, dis satisfied.
- Sadness, despondency.
- Weeping, tearful mood, during convulsions.
- S obbing, 
crying.
- Oversensitive to pain, noise, excitement.
- Restlessness and nervousness.
- Anxiety, depressed vitality.
- Fear 
of others approaching.
- Fear of being touched, motion.
- Excitable during convulsions.
- Anxiety from the pains.
- Despair with the pains.
- Startled from the pains.
- Screaming, shouting from pains, 
cramps in abdomen.
- Hypersensitive to pain (Cham., Mag -s.).
- Complaining.
- Lamenting about pain in affected 
parts.
- Always talking about the pains.
- Talks to himself constantly.
- Sits in moody silence.
- Carries things from one place to another and back again.
- Delusions, that he is about to die.Delusions, that another person is in the room.
- Illusions of the senses.
- Very forgetful.
- Indisposition to study, to mental work.
- Mental dullness and inability to think clearly.
- Learning is difficult..
- Ailments from mental work.
- Drowsiness on every attempt to study.
- Capriciousness.
- Irritability.
- Ailments from suppressed anger, vexation.
- Mental depression and anxiety.
- Discontented, dis satisfied.
- Sadness, despondency.
- Weeping, tearful mood, during convulsions.
- S obbing, 
crying.
- Oversensitive to pain, noise, excitement.
- Restlessness and nervousness.
- Anxiety, depressed vitality.
- Fear 
of others approaching.
- Fear of being touched, motion.
- Excitable during convulsions.
- Anxiety from the pains.
- Despair with the pains.
- Startled from the pains.
- Screaming, shouting from pains, 
cramps in abdomen.
- Hypersensitive to pain (Cham., Mag -s.).
- Complaining.
- Lamenting about pain in affected 
parts.
- Always talking about the pains.
- Talks to himself constantly.
- Sits in moody silence.
- Carries things from one place to another and back again.
- Delusions, that he is about to die.Delusions, that another person is in the room.
- Illusions of the senses.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo on moving.
- Vertigo falls forward on closing eyes, better walking in open air.
- Vision - Vision blurred.
- Dark spots before eyes on attempting to read.
- Colored lights before eyes.
- Sees rainbow 
colors.
- Double vision during headache.
- 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.).
- Paralysis, or cramping pains followed by paralysis.
- Cramps and spasms are bet ter with heat, will often place 
a hot water bottle on the site (Cham, will want cold), better from pressure.
- Generally right sided (Coloc.
- is left 
sided).
- Facial neuralgias (Kalm.) and sciatica, worse on the right side, better heat.
- Head ache, better from applied 
heat.
- Chorea, respiratory spasms.
- Spasms of the glottis, whooping cough.
- Hiccoughs (Nux-v.).
- Lockjaw, tetanus.
- For teething children or toothache, better drinking something warm or from warm 
applications.
- Useful for cracks at the corners of the lips.
- Allen's proving 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 diarrhea.
- Colic in babies (Cham.), without irritability, better heat.
- Spasmodic retention 
of the urine.
- Inguinal hernia.
- 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 which began with violent 
pain and inflammation in his left eye with terrific pains in his head, delirium 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 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.

### Head
- Headaches after mental labor with chilliness, better warmth (Sil.).
- Headaches of students.
- Sensation 
as if contents were liquid, as if parts of brain were changing places, as if a cap on head.
- Neuralgic or 
rheumatic pains, better external application of warmth.
- As if an electric shock in the head extending to all 
parts of the body.
- Boring pain over right eye, spreading over whole right side of head.
- Supraorbital pain worse 
right side, better external heat.
- Headaches after mental labor with chilliness, better warmth (Sil.).
- Headaches of students.
- Sensation 
as if contents were liquid, as if parts of brain were changing places, as if a cap on head.
- Neuralgic or 
rheumatic pains, better external application of warmth.
- As if an electric shock in the head extending to all 
parts of the body.
- Boring pain over right eye, spreading over whole right side of head.
- Supraorbital pain worse 
right side, better external heat.

### Eyes
- Eyes, hot, aching, tired.
- Increased lachrymation.
- Twitching of eyelids.
- Photophobia.
- Nystagmus, 
strabismus, spasmodic, ptosis, worse right side.
- Itching and heat in lower eyelid.
- Supra orbital pains, worse 
right side, relieved by the warmth.

### Ears
- Nervous otalgia, intermittent and spasmodic, better by heat.
- Severe neuralgic pain, worse washing 
face and 
neck with cold water.
- Neuralgic pain worse behind right ear, worse by going into cold air.

### Face
- Cracks in corners of mouth.
- Face blue and swollen from violent spasmodic attacks of cough.
- Face 
distorted from pains and weakness.
- Lock -jaw, tetanus.
- Painful contraction of jaw joint with backward jerking.
- Spasmodic twitching of facial muscles.
- Trigeminal neuralgia worse slightest touch.
- Facial neuralgia, worse 
when body gets cold from washing or standing in cold water, better from warmth.
- Neuralgia on opening mouth 
to eat or drink.
- Neuralgia on right side of face alternating with toothache, rushing about like lightning.

### Mouth
- Bitter taste.
- Taste of bananas.
- Food does not taste right.
- Swelling of tongue.
- Tongue, clean with 
colic.
- Cracks in angles of lips.
- Painful contraction of jaw joint.
- Spasms without febrile symptoms.
- Spas modic 
stammering.
- Nose - Alternate stuffing and profuse gushing discharge.
- Discharge of a white, thin substance, worse from left 
nostril.
- Smarting and raw feeling in left nostril.
- Loss or perversion of sense of smell.

### Throat
- Soreness and stiffness, especially right side, parts seem puffy w ith chilliness and aching all over.
- Spasmodic constriction of throat on attempting to 
swallow liquids.
- Sensation of choking, of a corn -husk lodged in upper part of throat.
- Voice harsh, larynx sore 
and raw.
- Nervous angina.

### Chest
- Darting pains in chest, worse right side, which radiate from pain in bowels.
- Intercostal neuralgia, 
must sit upright.
- Oppression of chest, with desire to take deep breath, worse on first ent ering warm room, 
worse walking.
- Constitutions - Hering thought it suited to young and very strong persons, teeth ing children.
- Allen said that, 
though it is best adapted to emaciated persons, it acts promptly in stout, fleshy persons when well indicated.
- Suited to tired, languid, exhausted subjects.
- Cough - Dry, tickling cough.
- Spasmodic cough, worse lying down, better cool air.
- Spasmodic cough during 
intervals of con vulsions with contraction of fingers and staring, open eyes.
- Spasmodic, whooping cough  
(Dros., Cor-r.), better cool air.
- Anginapectoris.
- Constricting pains around heart.
- Pulse irritable.
- Nervous spasmodic palpitations.
- Kidneys - Bladder neuralgic pains after use of catheter.
- Spasm of bladder of neck of bladder, spasmodic 
retention, tenesmus with constant and painful  urging.
- Cutting pain in bladder before urinating.
- Nocturnal 
bedwetting from nervous irritation.
- Spasmodic nervous asthma.
- Asthmatic oppression of chest.
- Oppressed breathing, with desire to take 
deep breath, worse on entering warm room, worse walking.
- Difficult breathing with inter costal neuralgia.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Stomach cramps.
- Intense cutting, shooting, cramping pains in region of stomach.
- Colic, better 
eructation.
- Colic in babies  (Cham.).
- Obstinate hiccough, causes long -lasting soreness.
- Hiccough with 
retching day and night.
- Burning pain, vomiting and hiccough, better hot drinks.
- Constant nausea.
- Persistent 
vomiting.
- Bilious vomiting, at times streaked with blood.
- Cancer of stomach.
- Teeth - Toothache, better by heat and hot liquids.
- Toothache, worse eating or drinking, cold things.
- Teeth 
sensitive to touch or cold air.
- Severe pain in decayed or filled teeth.
- Neuralgic pain in a filled tooth.
- Ulceration 
of teeth with swelling of glands of face, throat and neck.
- Complaints of teething children , spasms dur ing 
dentition without fever symptoms.
- Temperature - Chilliness after dinner in evening.
- 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.

### Urinary & Genital
- Menstrual colic, pain precedes flow.
- Menstrual cramps, better heat, bending over and by flow.
- Menses too early, dark, stringy, fibrinous, tarry.
- Menses flowing at night leaving a stain.
- Membranous 
dysmenorrhea.
- Swelling of labia, at times extremely painful.
- Vaginismus.
- Ovarian neuralgia, pain shooting 
and darting like lightning.
- Puerperal convulsions.
- Spasmodic labor pains, with cramps in legs.

### Extremities
- Muscle cramps or spasms, with a sensation of tightness or twitching, resembling.
- fibromyalgia or electrolyte imbalance, worse with cold, rest, night, or exertion, often.
- in the legs or abdomen.
- Joint  stiffness  or  soreness,  with  a  tendency  to  aggravation  in  cold  conditions,.
- resembling osteoarthritis, aggravated by cold, damp weather, or inactivity.
- Generalized aching or myalgia, with a sensation of heaviness, resembling chronic.
- pain syndrome, worse with cold or fatigue.
- Tendency to musculoskeletal hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cold or exertional.
- states.
- Gastrointestinal:.
- Colicky abdominal pain, with a sensation of cramping or gripping, resembling IBS or.
- intestinal colic, worse with cold, food, night, or emotional stress, often relieved by.
- bending double.
- Bloating or diarrhea, with a tendency to spasmodic attacks, resembling functional.
- dyspepsia, aggravated by cold, dairy, or stress.
- Nausea or flatulence, with a sensation of fullness, resembling gastroenteritis, worse.
- with cold or touch.
- Tendency to gastrointestinal hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cold or dietary-.
- triggered states.
- Gynecological:.
- Menstrual  cramps  or  dysmenorrhea,  with  a  sensation  of  sharp  or  gripping  pain,.
- resembling primary dysmenorrhea, worse with cold, night, or rest, often relieved by.
- heat or pressure.
- Magnesia phosphorica (Magnesium Phosphate) 1294.
- Premenstrual  pain  or  irritability,  with  a  tendency  to  aggravation  before  menses,.
- resembling PMS, aggravated by cold or emotional stress.
- Ovarian pain or tenderness, with a sensation of spasmodic discomfort, resembling.
- ovarian cysts, worse with cold or night.
- Tendency to gynecological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cold or hormonal.
- states.
- Psychological:.
- Nervous irritability or anxiety, with a sensation of restlessness or tension, resembling.
- generalized anxiety disorder, worse with cold, touch, or night.
- Restlessness or emotional sensitivity, with a tendency to aggravation under stress,.
- resembling somatic symptom disorder, aggravated by cold or solitude.
- Mental fatigue or difficulty concentrating, with a sensation of nervous exhaustion,.
- resembling mild cognitive impairment, worse with cold or exertion.
- Tendency  to  psychological  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  cold  or  stressed.
- states.

### Neck & Back
- Stiffness of neck and back.
- Cramps in back.
- One vertebra seems absent.
- Sore pain in neck and lower 
part of back.
- Very sharp, shooting, boring, shifting and remittent pains in nape.
- Aching pain in small of 
back.
- Dorsal spine, very painful and sensitive to touch.
- Causations - Ailments from suppressed anger, vexation, mental work, study.
- Complaints of teething children 
(Cham.).
- Ill effects of overuse of muscles, standing in col d water, cold bathing, working in cold clay, 
catheterism.

### Skin
- Barber's itch.
- Herpetic eruptions with white scales.
- Rash on arms, legs and face, like insect bites.
- Rash 
red when scratched.
- Pricking sensation all over.

### Sleep
- Sleepy when attempting to study.
- Spasmodic yawning as if it would dislocate the jaw with tears.
- Sleepless on account of indigestion or toothache.
- Insomnia from exhaustion.
- Wakes at night with leg and 
foot cramps.
- Sleep disturbed by troublesome dreams.
- Drowsy in morning.