Cal Hypo Phos 3X

Description

Cal Hypo Phos 3X
Introduction: This is Hypophosphite of lime. This salt was originally proved by A.R. Barret,
who took one grain of the 2x trituration. The main symptoms experienced, were heavy pressure
on top of the head, feeling of oppression around the heart, dyspnoea, profuse sweat and pallor of
the skin.
Synonym: Hypophosphite of lime, Ca2(PH2O2)2.
Source: It occurs in permanent, odorless, colorless crystals or as a white crystalline powder of a
pearly lustre.
Proved by: A.R. Barret
Preparation: Triturations
Guiding symptoms/Indications:
Patients suffering from neurasthenia attended by profuse night sweats. There is sleeplessness,
depression of spirits, loss of appetite and emaciation. The patient has a pale and haggard
appearance and complains of habitual coldness and venous congestion of the limbs; also of
debility and loss of virile power.
This remedy should be studied in cases where there is enervation with nervous prostration,
depression of spirits, and lack of nerve force.
– In scrofulous children, when the face is pale and emaciated.
– There is cerebral congestion and night sweats, the extremities are habitually cold.
– In the more advanced cases of tuberculosis, it is indicated when the appetite is poor, there is
loss of strength with cough, hectic fever, and night sweats, haemoptysis and profuse
menstruation in the female.
– It is often the remedy following pneumonia when resolution is not perfect and there is a
tendency for the lungs to break down.
– It is of service when the bone is the part involved, as in spinal curvature when the child shows
a tubercular diathesis and is anaemic.
– And in psoas abscesses and other exhibitions of tuberculosis when attended with debility and
anaemia.
– Incipient tubercular meningitis often finds in this a remedy during the early stages, and cases
are reported of cures when the case was advanced.
– The haemorrhages of young girls of the tubercular type have been relieved by it.
Dose and administration: 1 tab 3 to 4 times daily for adult. ½ tab for 3 to 4 times daily
children.
Side effects: No significant side effect has been observed in proper dosage
Contraindication: There is no known contraindication.
Relationship:
Compare- Calc. phos., Glon., Baryt. c.; K. ca. (excessive sweating, weakness, pallor); Cact.
(heart and arteries).
Presentations: 50 tabs (20 gm in PET bottle), 450gm powder in container.