Bio = Living (life), Chemic = Chemical.
Biochemic combinations or cell salts or tissue salts have been dispensed as combination since the time of Schussler. A German physician Dr. Schussler realized that a deficiency of certain tissue salts can lead to a number of diseases. These salts are normal components of healthy tissues are essential for the growth and development of the body. Although this system is considered to be an offshoot of Homoeopathy, it has its independent standing. Unlike homeopathic medicines that are in thousands and are available in various potencies or scales, the biochemic remedies are just twelve in number and are available in the 3X, 6X, 12X, 30X, and 200X potencies.
It means chemical activity in living or life. In Homoeopathy whatever the drug that we ultimately use contains chemicals which may be organic or inorganic. The source may be from vegetable, animal kingdom or may be mineral, sarcode or nosode. For example, Colocynth which is derived from vegetable kingdom contains Magnesium phosphate (Mag-phos); Arnica and China contain Potassium phosphate (Kali-phos); Lycopodium contains Silicea and so on. Biochemic salts are nothing but Homoeopathic medicines in the Decimal scale.
Homoeopathy is one of the most popular holistic systems of medicine. The aim of homoeopathy is not only to treat deficiency symptoms but to address its underlying cause and individual susceptibility. As far as therapeutic medication is concerned, several well-proved remedies are available for various deficiency symptoms that can be selected on the basis of cause, condition, sensation and modalities of the complaints. A few remedies are known to help in proper assimilation of nutrients, certain biochemics such as Ferrum phos, Calcarea phos, Kali phos, Natrum phos and Mag phos. Five Phos is used as a general tonic for those people who are busy most of the time in mental work especially for students. The use of Five Phos keeps the person tired free all the day long.
KALIUM PHOSPHORICUM
§ Mind: Brain tonic, bashful, shy, timid. Home sickness; disappointment; lack of self confidence; loss of memory; weeping tendency; insominia.
§ Weariness, weakness, exhaustion in septic diseases
§ Motor and sensory nerves paretic to paralytic stage
§ Necrosis and gangrenous conditions
§ Twitching and jerking with numbness
§ Disorientation with time, space and personality
§ Produces euthanasia in grave diseases
FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM
§ First aid in injury
§ First stage of any diseases
§ Pain comes suddenly and disappears suddenly
§ Haemorrhage: Blood profuse, bright red, coagulate easily
§ Hungry after vomiting, must eat, food allergies
MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA
§ Pain: Crampy, neuralgic, spasmodic, electric like: comes suddenly, disappears suddenly
§ Right sided complaints
§ Chorea and convulsion in teething children without fever
§ Prevents deposition of calcium and cancerous condition
NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM
§ Hyperacidity, worms and gouty disposition
§ Constipation in obstructive jaundice, stool clay coloured
§ Gonorrhoea and Diabetes
§ Infertility in female due to excessive acidic vaginal secretion
§ Thin, watery frequent emission of semen during night with severe backache
§ Diarrhoea early morning, acrid, burning, golden yellow, sour smelling with much flatus
§ Mind: Easily started, feels as if some misfortune will happen, hears footsteps in next room
CALCAREA PHOSPHORIA
§ Craves for bacon, ham. Salted or smoked meats, PICA
§ Dentition diarrhea, spluttering
§ Fistula in ano alternates with chest symptoms
§ Tendencies to catch cold, growing rapidly, haemorrhage
§ Mind: Alternating states. Fear and frights. Wants to be magnetized
FIVE PHOS BIOCHEMIC COMBINATION
If the mental, physical, general and nervous weakness due to loss of vital fluid occur, then Five Phos is considerd a useful remedy. These symptoms may also appear because of any sudden shock. Five Phos is also useful when the physical, mental & general strength becomes weak. Five Phos regulates the lost strength. It also increases haemoglobin of lactating mothers and elderly women. Five Phos is used as a general tonic for those people who are busy most of the time in mental work especially for students. The use of Five Phos keeps the person tired free all the day long. A genere tonic for all chronically wasting diseases; anaemia of young quickly growing people. Recommended for women who have been weakened by frequent childbearing. General debility and exhaustion with a lack of vitality.
BABIES CARE WITH BIOCHEMIC MEDICINES
Biochemic tablets are sweetish and very simple to administer for children, effective, safe and easily affordable. Tissue salts come in chewable, tablet format where lactose (milk sugar) is the main ingredient. Therefore, they are not recommended for anyone who is lactose intolerance.
The following information gives a brief description of some of the more commonly used Biochemic for babies care:
Affections | Indicated Remedies |
Abdomen:
| Bloated - Kali sulph, Mag phos. Cold to touch – Kali sulph. Colicky pains in the lower abdomen – Silicea. Rumbling, griping pain – Nat sulph, Nat mur. Large abdomen in children – Silicea, Cal phos. |
Anemia:
| Chief remedy – Nat mur, Cal phos, Fer phos, Cal fluor, Kali mur, Kali phos. Anemia in infants – Silicea. |
Appetite:
| Loss of – Nat mur, Silicea, Nat phos, Fer phos, Kali mur, Nat sulph, Kali sulph, Cal phos. |
Asthma: | Chief remedy – Kali phos Asthma in children – Nat sulph. |
Atrophy: | Muscles of infants – Cal phos |
Bed wetting: | Nat sulph, Nat phos, Kali phos |
Chicken pox:
| First remedy – Fer phos Secondary remedy – Kali mur |
Cholera infantum: | Cal phos, Fer phos, Nat mur
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Chorea:
| Mag phos, Nat mur, Kali sulph From worms- Silicea, Nat phos. |
Colic: | Of children – Cal phos, Mag phos, Nat phos |
Constipation:
| Of infants – Cal phos Infantile – Mag phos |
Convulsions: | In teething children – Fer phos, Cal phos |
Cramps:
| Of infants, without fever – Mag phos, Cal phos Of infants, with fever – Fer phos. |
Cretinism: | During infancy – Cal phos, Kali phos. |
Cries or weeps easily: | Kali phos, Nat mur
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Cyanosis: | Kali mur , Nat mur, Silicea. |
Diarrhea: | In teething children – Cal phos. Infantile – Silicea, Cal phos, Nat phos. Of children – Nat phos |
Diphtheria:
| Chief remedy – Nat mur First stage – Fer phos. |
Dysentery: Ears: | Chief remedy – Fer phos, Kali mur. Aching in the ear – Cal phos, Silicea |
Enuresis:
| In children – Silicea, Cal phos Nocturnal Mag phos, Kali phos. |
Epistaxis: | In children – Fer phos. |
Energy, | lack of: – Kali phos. |
Eyes: | Ophthalmic Noenatorum – Kali sulph. |
Fever: | Fer phos, Kali mur, Nat mur. |
Hepatitis: | Chief remedy – Nat sulph. Secondary remedies – Kali mur, Kali sulph, Nat mur, silicea. |
Influenza: | Nat mur, Nat sulph. |
Lachrymation: | Cal phos, Nat mur, Nat sulph, Silicea. |
Marasmus:
| Kali phos, Cal phos, Nat phos. In teething children – Cal phos. |
Measles: | Chief remedies- Fer phos, Kali mur. |
Meningitis:
| Chief remedies – Fer phos, Kali mur. Later on – Kali phos. Spinal – Nat sulph. |
Memory poor: | Cal phos, Kali phos, Mag phos. |
Mumps:
| Chief remedies – Kali mur, Nat mur. Indurations – Cal fluor. |
Rickets:
| Fer phos, Cal phos, also Cal fluor, Nat mur, Mag phos, Kali phos, silicea. |
Restlessness: | Nat mur, silicea. |
Scurvy: | Kali mur, Nat mur, Silicea, Kali phos. |
Sleep: | Children cry out during sleep – Cal phos. |
Tetanus: | Chief remedy – Mag phos. Also – Kali phos. |
Tonsils:
| Enlargement, of – Cal phos, Kali phos, Nat mur Inflammation of – Nat phos, Fer phos, Kali phos. |
Vaccination: | After consequences of – Kali mur, Nat phos, Nat mur, Silicea. |
Vomiting:
| During dentition – Cal fluor. Immediately after nursing – Silicea. Infantile – Cal phos. Infants vomit curdled milk – Cal phos. |
Worms:
| General remedy – Nat phos Round worm – Nat mur, Silicea. Tape worm – Nat mur, Silicea. Thread worm – Silicea, Nat phos, Kali mur, Fer phos. |
