On the 8th Day of Cell Salts… Mag phos

On the 8th day of cell salts, Dr. Schüssler gave to us… Magnesium phosphoricum.

Like Kali phos, Mag phos helps with nerve issues but dealing with muscular nerves and fibers. Mag phos is an anti-spasmodic and anti-neuralgic — a relaxant for nerves and muscles as well as a nerve stabilizer. Mag phos is the nutritional remedy of the nerves.

Mag phos is an excellent pain remedy: pains that shoot from place to place; spasmodic pains; sharp pains; cramping pains; pains that come and go suddenly — conditions like PMS. For pains that run along nerves like sciatica.

Conditions which may benefit from Mag phos:

• Mouth/Teeth

  • teething

  • sensitive teeth

  • mouth pain

• Neuralgias/Nerve pains

  • sciatica

  • facial

    • trigeminal neuralgia

• Spasms

• Stammering

• Headaches and migraines

  • accompanied by shooting pains

• Respiratory

  • spasmodic cough

  • whooping cough

  • asthma

• Female

  • menstrual colic

  • PMS/PMT

• Digestion

  • colic/flatulent colic

    • forcing the person to bend double for relief

    • infants & children

  • rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen

  • hiccups

  • diarrhea with cramping

  • gallstones

  • constipation

    • of infants

• Kidney stones

• Musculo-skeletal

  • cramps

    • writer’s cramp/player’s cramp

  • muscle stiffness

  • arthritis

  • sciatica

  • hand tremor

Mentally and emotionally, Mag phos may be irritable, angry, sleepless — their pain is taking center stage.

Mag phos is a little different than all the other cells salts in that it “acts especially well, given in hot water” (Boericke 1916). “For speedy symptomatic relief of spasmodic ailments, dissolve 1-2 tablets under the tongue. Then dissolve 2-3 tablets in some hot water, taken in sips. Hold the liquid under the tongue for a minute each time. The 6x potency is usually sufficient” (Weintraub 1999).

Julia Coyte, CHom

Classically Practical homeopath

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Reference list

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Chapman, E., 1960. How to Use the Twelve Tissue Salts. Nutri Books.

Dewey, W. A. and Boericke, W., 2022. The Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schüssler: Comprising the Theory, Therapeutic Application, Materia Medica, and a Complete Repertory of These Remedies. H. Legare Street Press.

Hyland's, 2024. Cell Salt #1 Calc Fluor [online]. Hyland’s.

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Weintraub, S., 1999. Natural healing with cell salts. Pleasant Grove, Ut: Woodland Pub.

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