Magnesia Phosphorica – The Homeopathic Remedy for Spasmodic Pain & Neuralgia

• Common Name: Phosphate of Magnesia
• Source: Chemically prepared
• Family: Mineral
• Miasm: Psoric

Sphere of Action

Acts especially on nerves and muscles, producing cramps, spasms, neuralgias, and twitchings. It is one of the chief anti-spasmodic remedies in homeopathy and is also known as the "Homeopathic Antispasmodic."

Mind

• Sensitive to pain; weeps from slightest suffering
• Irritable, anxious, restless
• Exhausted from pain
• Oversensitive, especially to noise and touch

Nervous System & Pain

• One of the best remedies for neuralgic pain, especially when:
• Better by warmth and pressure
• Worse from cold air or cold applications
• Spasmodic affections: twitchings, convulsions, cramps
• Facial neuralgia, especially right side
• Writer's cramp, spasmodic hiccoughs, colic

General Characteristics of Pain

• Sharp, shooting, lightning-like, spasmodic, colicky pains
• Better from warmth, pressure, bending double
• Worse from cold, uncovering, and touch

Abdomen & Colic

• Colicky pain relieved by pressure and warmth
• Flatulent colic with distension
• Spasmodic pain causing patient to bend double
• Cramping pain with nausea and faintness

Muscles

• Cramps in calves, fingers, toes
• Writer’s cramp
• Twitching of single muscles
• Leg cramps in bed, at night

Menstrual & Female Complaints

• Dysmenorrhoea with cramping pain, relieved by warmth
• Painful menses with bearing-down pain
• Menses too early, dark, stringy

Throat & Respiratory

• Spasmodic cough, worse at night
• Hiccoughs, spasmodic sneezing
• Cramping in chest, asthma from cold air

Sleep

• Restless from pain
• Cannot sleep due to muscular twitching or neuralgia

Modalities

Worse From	Better From
Cold, touch, motion, open air	Warmth, pressure, bending double

Potency & Dosage

• Most commonly used in 6X and 12X trituration
• Also useful in 30C or higher for deep-seated neuralgias
• Given frequently in Biochemic form (6X) for muscle cramps and colic

Relationships

Complementary	Similar To	Antidotes
Calc phos, Kali phos	Colocynth, Chamomilla, Cuprum met	Nux vomica, Pulsatilla

Keynote Symptoms

• Cramping, neuralgic pain better by heat and pressure
• Colic pain forcing the patient to bend double
• Twitching, spasms, cramps in voluntary muscles
• Right-sided facial neuralgia better by warmth

One-Line Summary

Magnesia Phosphorica is the chief anti-spasmodic remedy for cramping and neuralgic pains that are better from warmth and pressure.