MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- 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
- pains: sharp, cutting, stabbing; shooting, stitching; lightning-like in coming and going; intermittent
- paroxysms of pain becoming almost unbearable, driving patient to frenzy; rapidly changing place
- pains with a constricting sensation; cramping, in neuralgic affections of stomach, abdomen and pelvis
- great dread of cold air, uncovering, touching affected part, cold bathing, or moving
- languid, tired, exhausted; unable to sit up
- complaints from standing in cold water or working in cold clay
- ailments of teething children; spasms during dentition, no fever
- headache begins in occiput and extends over head; of school girls; face red, flushed
- headache: 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-orbital or infra-orbital; right side; intermittent, darting, cutting
- neuralgia of face: < by touch, cold air, pressure > by external heat
- toothache at night; rapidly shifting; < eating, drinking, especially cold things; > by heat
- spasms or cramps of stomach, with clean tongue, as if a hand was drawn tightly around body
- flatulent colic, forcing patient to bend double; > by heat, rubbing and hard pressure
- menses early; flow dark, stringy; pains < before, > when flow begins
- menstrual pains darting, like lightning, shooting, < right 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
- aggravation: cold air; draft; cold bathing; motion; touch
- amelioration: bending double; heat; warmth; pressure