Calcarea phosphorica is a tissue salt indicated for bone diseases, delayed dentition, and anemias following acute illnesses. It is especially useful for pale, weak children who are slow to develop physically and mentally. Symptoms are worse with changes in weather and include numbness, coldness, glandular swellings, and profuse sweating on the head. It can help treat rickets, osteomalacia, and other bone deficiencies.

1. Calcarea Phosphorica
Phosphate Of Lime, Calcium phos, Calc-phos, Calc Phos, Schuessler Tissue Salt, Cell
Salts, Tissue Salts, Biochemic Tissue / Cell Salt Number # 2 / Two, Calcium
Phosphate, Calcarea Phos, Cal Phos Calc-p.

2. GENERAL
 One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many
symptoms in common with Calc Carb 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 .

3. Description:
This is a white amorphous powder, which is
odourless and tasteless. It is stable in air. It is
almost insoluble in water and is decomposed
slightly by boiling water. It is insoluble in
alcohol, but is easily soluble in dilute HCl or
HNO3. It is commonly obtained by purifying
bone ash.

4. Preparation:
Trituration of precipitated phosphate of lime
are prepared with sugar of milk as directed in
our pharmacopoeia

5. Constitution and Physiognomy
It is best suited to people having a dark
complexion ,eyes, hair and pale face.
Persons are thin, sunken, have a flabby
abdomen, soft bones, an enlarged head and
a weak and emaciated neck

6. Region
 NUTRITION BONES (SUTURES)
 PERIOSTEUM
 Cartilage
 GLANDS
 Nerves
 ABDOMEN
 Vertex
 Chest
 Skin
 Female genital organs

7. Physio-pathological changes:
 Its act upon the vegetative system, exciting moderately the functions of secretion
and absorption, resulting in condition of impaired nutrition of all organs.
 It acts on glands causing induration and swellings.
 It has a special affinity for the mucous membrane, the fibrous system and the
nervous and lymphatics systems of the abdomen.
 It acts on deep muscles producing abscesses.
 Calcarea phosphorica helps in the formation of bones and teeth.
 Its deficiency causes rickets in children; osteoporosis and osteomalacia in old age,
paraesthesia, convulsions, opacity of lens, calcification of basal ganglia, tropical
ulceration and fungal infection of skin, bleeding disorders and curdling of milk,
and tetanic seizures.
 Its acts on bones producing swelling, softening and bending of bones. It is a
definite stimulant to the periosteum.

8. MODALITIES
 Worse
 WORSE, exposure to damp, cold weather, melting snow, changeable weather, melting
snow, mental exertion, thinking about complains, pressure of hat.
 Better
 Better in summer; warm, dry atmosphere, lying, after supper ,passing wind.
ALIMENTS FROM
 Getting wet, grief, over study, over study, disappointed love, bad news, fear, dentition.

9. MIND
 Peevish , forgetful; after grief and vexation ( gnat.; Phosphorus Phos)
 Ac) Always wants to go somewhere.
 Aversions, dislikes; open air
 Desires, wants; travel
 Mental exertion
 Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; discontent, displeased, dissatisfied, etc.
 Intellectual faculties
 Feel complaints more when thinking about them.
 impaired thinking; dull, sluggish; children
 Insecure, uncertain, scared
 anxiety
 fear
 Restlessness, nervousness

10. Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms
 Discharges: Thin, watery , albuminous like the white of an egg.
 Tongus : Swollen, numb, cracked with blisters at the tip.
 Taste: Sweetish or bitter taste in the morning.
 Coldness: General coldness of the body; lack of animal heat; cold limbs
with disordered digestion; cold occiput, chill runs up the back, tendency to
perspiration.
 Weakness: Great weakness and prostration, both mentally and physically.
Weakness runs all through the remedy.
 Sensitiveness: Great sensitiveness to take cold and coryza; cannot tolerate
cold in any form. Coryza is psoric in origin and chronic in nature.
 Cravings: Great desire for salted and smoked meats, bacon,etc
 Perspiration : Profuse sweating from head during sleep,mostly at the back
of the head and neck or chest. General coldness of the body, lack of
animal heat.

11.  Malassimilation: Malnutrition and malassimilation causes emaciation,
pit of stomach swollen; sunken, flabby abdomen; neck slender; child
looks old and wrinkled. Skin is dry and cold.
 Defective bone development: Imperfect ossification, defective
formation of bones, swelling and softening of bones. Difficulty in
learning to walk or stand, difficult dentition, fontanelles remain open
for a long time.
 Congestion: Congestion of head; sometime head is hot; external
coldness and internal heat.
 Glandular affections: Inflammation and induration of glands – parotid,
facial, cervical, inguinal, maxillary, etc.
 Ulceration: Ulcers with induration. Cancerous ulcers which burn and
sting. Every injury tends to ulceration.

12.  Stiffness and cramps: Stiffness all over the body; stiffness in joints.
Cramps and contraction of limbs.
 Dentition: Difficult and delayed dentition with characteristic head
sweat and open fontanelles.
 Cough: Cough during dentition, contraction of chest and difficulty in
breathing; suffocative cough better by lying down.
 Hunger: Unusual hunger at 4 pm.
 Leucorrhoea: Leucorrhoea like the white of an egg. Worse in
morning.
 Fistula, fissure: Fistula, alternating with chest symptoms; occur in
those who have pain in joints with every spell of cold.
 Numbness: crawling and numbness in parts affected with
rheumatism. Crawling in genitals.

13.  Sexual organs : Erection while riding in a carriage without desire.
Shooting through the periosteum into the penis.
 Menses: Menses too early, excessive and bright in girls; sometimes
dark, with violent backache. Nymphomania.
 Dyspepsia : Dyspepsia where pain in relieved by passing wind and
temporarily relieved by eating.
 Anemia: Marasmus is a disorder occurring very early in the life. The
child eats well and the food stuff is nourishing, yet the child gradually
looses weight. They are children coming out of sycotic parents .
 Scrofula or rachitis: Weak; bloodless; sunken abdomen; slow
dentition and learning to sit, stand and walk. The development of
mental faculties are all late

14. HEAD
 Fontanelles remain open too long
 Cranial bones soft and thin
 Defective hearing
 Coldness
 back of head (occiput )
 top of head (vertex)
 Skull; fontanels apart (separate bones of skull)

15. Headache
 Headache, Worse near the region of sutures, from change of
weather, of school children about puberty
 Headache, with abdominal flatulence
 Pain, headache
 from exertion; mental exertion
 school girls
 sides; extending to other parts; waist; pain follows sutures

16. Eyes
Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.
Pain; as from something in eye
Ear
Discharges from ear
Face
 Skin
 discoloration; iron deficiency anemia (greenish-yellow
discoloration)
 discoloration; pale
 discoloration; yellow
Nose
 nose bleed

17. Mouth
 Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain
 Adenoid growths.
 Gums and teeth
 Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of teeth
 Teeth
 teething; difficult
 teething; slow
 Tongue
 Pain; burning, raw and smarting; tongue; tip

18. Throat
 Catarrh; larynx
 Voice; hoarseness; morning
 Chest
 Lungs
 tuberculosis
 tuberculosis; early stages
 Pain

19. Respiration
 Involuntary sighing
 Chest sore
 Suffocative cough; better lying down
 Hoarseness
 Pain through lower left lung.
 Neck and Back.
 Rheumatic pain from draft of air, with stiffness and dullness of head
 Soreness in sacroiliac symphysis, as if broken ( Aesculus Aesc)
 hip.)
 Sighing

20. Expectoration
 Yellow
 Skin
 Coldness
 Neck
 Pain; neck; from a draft of air
 Stiffness; neck; from draft of air
 Back
 Pain
 in cold weather; change to cold weather

21. Abdomen
 Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats
 Heartburn
 At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen
 Sunken and flabby
 Colic, soreness and burning around navel.
 Pain
 in women; before period
 in women; during period
 Stomach
 appetite; ravenous, excessive
 pain; after eating

22. Eating
 Pain after dinner
Flatus
 much flatulence
 Great hunger with thirst, flatulence temporarily relieved by
sour eructations
Vomiting
 Stomach; Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily
 Easy vomiting in children.
 Pain; with vomiting, blood and mucus in stool (intussusception );
pain in region of liver

23. Rectum
 Haemorrhoids; protrude during stool
 Skin and lining; fistula (additional hole)
Stool
 Bleeding after hard stool
 Diarrhoea from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition
 Green, slimy, HOT, sputtering, undigested, With fetid flatus
 Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.
 Green

24. Urine
 Increased, with sensation of weakness
 Pain in region of kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose.
Urethra
 Urethra (urinary part of genitals)
 discharge; gonorrhoea; chronic
 discharge; white; chronic; in anaemic subjects
 pain; cutting

25. Female
 Female; vaginal discharge; after period
Womb
 Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine
( Platinum Metallicum Plat.) After prolonged nursing
 Female
 displacement of womb
 pain; cutting; womb; extending to sacrum
 polyp (growth inside); womb

26. Genitals
 If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with Violent
backache
 During lactation, with sexual excitement
 Leucorrhoea , like White of egg
 Worse morning
 Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty
 Prolapses in debilitated persons.
 Male; sexual passion; increased
 Female
 sexual intercourse; desire increased

27. Menses
 Menses too early, excessive and bright in girls
 period; clotted
 period; dark
 period; painful; and difficult (dysmenorrhea)
 pain; womb (see abdomen, pain); before period
 pain; cramping; womb; before period

28. Extremities, limbs
 Stiffness and pain, With cold, numb feeling, worse any change of weather
 Crawling and coldness
 Buttocks, back and limbs asleep
 Pains in joints and bones
 Weary when going upstairs.
 Coldness; upper limbs; hands
 Cramps; calf; on walking
 Diseased hip-joint (see pain in hip)
 Movements and positions; trembling; hand
 Pain
 rheumatic; in cold weather

29.  joints
 after exposure to cold
 in cold weather
 gouty
 rheumatic
 upper limbs; cold weather
 upper limbs; rheumatic
 sore, bruised; thigh; cold damp weather
 stitching, sudden, sharp; buttocks
 small spots
 Swollen; elbow; ends of bones
 Problems with walking, gait; late learning to walk

30. Sleep and dreams
 Deep; morning
 Sleepiness, tiredness
 morning
 difficult to wake up; morning
 Sleeplessness, insomnia; night; from before midnight
 Waking
 difficult to wake up; morning
 late

31. Generalities
 Morning
 Night
 Aversion to open air
 Draft
 Anaemia
 as from iron deficiency - greenish yellow skin
 Bones; slow repair of broken bones
 Dehydration
 Dwarfism
 Eating and food; after eating
 Emaciated (extremely thin); children (marasmus )
 Jerking; muscles
 Lean people

32.  In women
 symptoms before period
 symptoms at beginning of period
 Polyp (growth on mucus lining)
 Temperature (felt and effects of temperature)
 cold feeling; lack of vital heat
 cold in general
 cold air
 after becoming cold
 tendency to catch cold
 cold, wet weather
 Weariness

33. Baby
 Baby is self-willed, obstinate, and cries persistently. Baby is
fair, has a red face and is flabby. The abdomen is swollen and
sunken. The head is large and the bones are weak and soft.
They develop slowly hence they are late in learning to walk.
The fontanelles and sutures remain open for a long time.
Dentition is difficult and delayed. Mentally, the baby is very
peevish and fretful; wants to go home and when at home
wants to go out. Big head, neck is weak, weak spine and
disposed to curvature. The baby suffers from diarrhoea
which is very watery ,greenish , slimy, foetid and hot,
containing undigested food particles. There is intense
craving for salted and smoked meat.