Calcarea phosphorica
Tissue salt #2 for growth and nutrition. Essential for bone formation, cell growth, and recovery after illness. The "growing pains" remedy.
Source
Calcium phosphate (Ca3(PO4)2), the most abundant mineral in bones.
Available Potencies
Get Personalized Safety Info
Sign in and complete your health profile to see safety warnings personalized to your age, sex, medications, conditions, and allergies for this remedy.
Keynote Symptoms
Growing pains in children. Slow bone healing. Numbness and crawling sensations. Desire for smoked meats and salty food. Weakness after illness.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Discontent and restlessness. Poor memory. Peevish children who want to go somewhere but don't know where. School headaches.
General Symptoms
Worse from cold, damp weather, teething, mental exertion. Better from warm dry weather, summer. Anemia. Slow recovery from acute illness.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Headache of schoolchildren. Fontanelles slow to close. Headache worse from mental exertion.
Stomach
Craving for smoked meats, bacon, and salty food. Easy vomiting in children.
Chest
Involuntary sighing. Chest soreness.
Back
Stiff neck. Backache and soreness of the spine.
Extremities
Growing pains. Rheumatic pain worse from cold and damp. Slow healing fractures.
Modalities
Better From
Warm, dry weather. Summer. Lying down.
Worse From
Cold and damp. Teething. Mental exertion. Change of weather. Drafts.
Tissue Salt Information
Biochemic Function
The most abundant mineral salt in the body, forming the hard structure of bones and teeth. Essential for cell growth, blood formation, and protein assimilation. Required for new cell creation and tissue repair.
Facial Diagnosis Signs
Waxy, alabaster-white complexion. Earthy, pale face. Translucent, porcelain-like skin. Pointed nose tip.
Deficiency Symptoms
Slow bone healing, growing pains, dental problems in children, slow recovery from illness, anemia, numbness and tingling, poor digestion.
Clinical Indications
Growing pains, delayed dentition, slow fracture healing, teething problems, rickets, anemia, convalescence, headaches from mental exertion, bone diseases.
Dosage & Potency Guidance
Standard dose: 2-4 tablets of 6X potency, dissolved under the tongue, 3-4 times daily.
Acute conditions: Take every 15-30 minutes until symptoms improve, then reduce frequency.
Chronic conditions: Take 3 times daily for several weeks.
Children: Half the adult dose for children under 12.
Safety Information
Find the Right Remedy
Not sure if Calcarea phosphorica is the best match? Our Remedy Finder can help you compare remedies based on your specific symptoms, modalities, and constitutional type.