CALCAREA FLUORICA
Fluoride of Lime
(FLUOR SPAR)A powerful tissue remedy for hard, stony glands, varicose and enlarged
veins, and malnutrition of bones. Hard knots in female breast. Goitre. Congenital hereditary
syphilis. Induration threatening suppuration. Many cases
of cataract have undoubtedly been influenced favorably by it. Congenital syphilis
manifesting itself in ulcerating of mouth and throat, caries and necrosis with boring pains
and heat in parts. Arterio-sclerosis; threatened apoplexy. Tuberculosis. Used after
operations, the tendency to adhesions is reduced.
Mind.–
Great depression; groundless fears of financial ruin.
Head.–
Creaking noise in head. Blood-tumors of new-born
infants. Hard excrescences on the scalp. Ulcers on the scalp with callous, hard edges.
Eyes.–
Flickering and sparks before the eyes, spots on the
cornea; conjunctivitis; cataract. Strumous phlyctemular keratitis.
Subcutaneous palpebral cysts.
Ears.–
Calcareous deposits on tympanum; sclerosis of ossicula
and petrous portion of temporal bone, with deafness, ringing and roaring. Chronic suppuration of middle ear.
Nose.–
Cold in the head; stuffy cold; dry coryza; ozæna.
Copious, offensive, thick, greenish, lumpy, yellow nasal catarrh. Atrophic rhinitis,
especially if crusts are prominent.
Face.–
Hard swelling on the cheek, with pain or toothache,
hard swelling on jaw-bone.
Mouth.–
Gum-boil, with hard swelling on the jaw. Cracked
appearance of the tongue, with or without pain. Induration of the tongue, hardening after
inflammation. Unnatural looseness of the teeth, with or without pain; teeth become loose in
their sockets. Toothache, with pain if any food touches the tooth.
Throat.–
Follicular sore throat; plugs of mucus are
continually forming in the crypts of the tonsils. Pain and burning in throat; better by warm
drinks; worse, cold drinks. Hypertrophy of Luschka’s tonsil. Relaxed uvula, tickling
referred to larynx.
Stomach.–
Vomiting of infants. Vomiting of undigested food.
Hiccough (Cajup; Sulph ac). Flatulency. Weakness and
daintiness of appetite, nausea and distress after eating in young children who are overtaxed
by studies. Acute indigestion from fatigue and brain-fag;
much flatulence.
Stool and Anus.–
Diarrhœa in gouty subjects. Itching of anus.
Fissure of the anus, and intensely sore crack near the lower end of the bowel. Bleeding hæmorrhoids.
Itching of anus as from pin-worms. Internal or blind piles frequently, with pain in back,
generally far down on the sacrum, and constipation. Much wind in lower bowels. Worse,
pregnancy.
Male.–
Hydrocele; indurations of the testicles.
Respiratory Organs.–
Hoarseness. Croup.
Cough with expectoration of tiny lumps of yellow mucus, with tickling sensation and
irritation on lying down. Spasmodic cough. Calc. Fluor
removes fibroid deposits about the endocardium and restores normal endocardial structure
(Eli G. Jones, M. D).
Circulatory Organs.–
Chief remedy for vascular tumors with
dilated blood-vessels, and for varicose or enlarged veins.
Aneurism. Valvular disease. When the tuberculous toxins attack the heart and blood-vessels.
Neck and Back.–
Chronic lumbago;
aggravated on beginning to move, and ameliorated on continued motion. Osseous tumors. Rachitic enlargement of femur in infants. Pain lower part of
back, with burning.
Extremities.–
Ganglia or encysted tumors at the back of the
wrist. Gouty enlargements of the joints of the fingers. Exostoses on fingers. Chronic
synovitis of knee-joint.
Sleep.–
Vivid dreams, with sense of impending danger.
Unrefreshing sleep.
Skin.–
Marked whiteness of skin. Scar tissue; adhesions after
operations. Chaps and cracks. Fissures or cracks in the palms of the hands, or hard skin.
Fissure of the anus. Suppurations with callous, hard edges. Whitlow. Indolent, fistulous
ulcers, secreting thick, yellow pus. Hard, elevated edges of ulcer, surrounding skin purple
and swollen. Knots, kernels, hardened glands in the female breast. Swellings
or indurated enlargements having their seat in the fasciæ
and capsular ligaments of joints, or in the tendons. Indurations of
stony hardness.
Modalities.–
Worse, during
rest, changes of weather. Better, heat, warm
applications.
Relationship.–
Compare: Con; Lapis;
Baryt mur; Hecla; Rhus; Cacodylate of Soda (Tumors).
Calcar sulph-stibiata
(acts as an hæmostatic and absorptive
in uterine myoma).
Mangifera indica
(varicose veins).
Dose.–
Third to twelfth trituration. A “chronic”
remedy. Needs some time before manifesting its effects. Should not be repeated too
frequently.
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