BCT # 24 (DEBILITY & EXHAUSTION)

Debility is the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigour. Exhaustion is the complete depletion of energy or strength. These terms are often used interchangeably.

Common causes of weakness include:

• Anaemia
• Thyroid disease
• Flu
• Depression or anxiety
• Lack of sleep
• Poorly managed diabetes
• Vitamin B12 deficiency
• Certain medications
• Muscular disorders

Action of Ingredients:

Calcarea phosphorica: Indicated for trembling or trembling hands with pain or other complaints. The mental state is one of weakness, inability for mental exertion. Hence it is appropriate in effects of mental strain, such as school headaches in children, weak-minded children. Involuntary sighing.

Ferrum phosphoricum: In the early stages of febrile conditions.Prostration is marked, can hardly move about. Great physical and mental lassitude indisposed to physical exertion, nervousness, prostration, rheumatic paralysis.

Kali phosphoricum: The Kali-p patient is nervous, sensitive, weak and easily fagged, by slight causes like pain, worry, mental fatigue, etc. One of the greatest nerve remedies. Conditions arising from lack of nerve power, neuraesthenia, mental and physical depression, are wonderfully improved by this remedy. Nervous prostration.

Magnesium phosphoricum: Schuessler's remedy for cramps, convulsions, neuralgic pains and spasmodic effects, showing its influence on nerves and muscles. Especially suited to tired, languid, exhausted subjects.

Natrum phosphoricum: Indicated for Great weakness and weariness. Weakness felt in the morning in bed. Easy exhaustion. Oversensitive to all sorts of influences. Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel weak. Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower limbs.