THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA
Calcarea sulphurica
1847. Extracts from provings of C. Hg., Withy, and that of a young lady.
1873. Extracts from provings with the 30th and 200th by C. M. Conant (Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom.).
Cured symptoms by C. Hg., Koeck and Knerr.
Symptoms from Schuessler and Old school authorities are marked with : (OBSá:).
t. stands for toxicological symptoms.
Loses memory and power of thought suddenly, after lunch.
Sometimes a desire to walk, to attend to somethingá; as soon as she sets out to do it the desire is gone.
Liveliness and good spirits change to grief and melancholy, afternoon and evening.
While walking, dizzy in head and weakness and oppression from head and across stomach.
Pain in left forehead and head.
Severe frontal headache, < after dinner and in evening.
Ache across forehead and in vertex.
Pain around head, several times before going to bed.
Tearing around whole head, with nausea, when rising from lying, > while lying.
Headacheá: from concussioná; with feeling as if eyes were sunkená; during catameniaá; with pain in chest.
Sensation around head as if he had his hat on, 4 p. m.
On region of anterior fontanelle two red pimples, and a burning sore feeling on a place as large as a dollar.
Painful pimples on scalp leave a yellow scab.
Hard tender swellings in scalp in edge of hair, bleeding when scratched.
(OBSá:) Crusta lactea or “scald head” of children.
SIGHT AND EYES. [5] [Calc. s.]
Looking at a piece of paper pains right eye.
Occasional blindness, with twitching of eyelids.
(OBSá:) Deep ulcers on cornea.
(OBSá:) Ophtalmia, pus thick and yellow.
Cornea smoky, pus in anterior chamber, sensation as from a foreign bodyá; has to tie up eyeá; after injury to eye from a splinter.
Continued dull pain over right eyeá; evening.
Twitching of muscles on a supraorbital foramen, near outer corner of left eye.
Pressing pains in left eyeballá; cutting in left eye with soreness in evening, as if eyes were sunken in head, with headache.
Inflammation of eyes, evening and night, with slow feverá; sensation of heat, eyes red.
(OBSá:) Eyes bleared, redá; with colic.
Tears from left eye, with left-sided coryza.
Severe inflammation in canthi.
HEARING AND EARS. [6] [Calc. s.]
Singing in her ears Otitis after a slap on ear.
Dark brown earwax from right eará; A. M.
Soreness of right parotid glandá; > walking in open air.
SMELL AND NOSE. [7] [Calc. s.]
A quivering on root of nose, extending to cheek.
(OBSá:) Coryza, with thick, yellow, lumpy, mattery discharge.
Yellowish mucus from left nostril and tears from left eye.
During day right nostril discharges watery mucus, left dryá; at night vice versa.
Yellowish-green phlegm from posterior nares.
Scanty phlegm, mostly from posterior nares, morning and evening.
Posterior nares closed, watery coryza from anterior.
Influenza and sneezing, > in open airá; coryza on right side after a bath, > out-doors.
Blood-streaked mucus from left nostril after a bath.
Excoriating watery coryza in open air, > in-doors and after washing with cold water.
Edges of nostrils slightly sore, excoriated.
(OBSá:) Swollen cheek with toothacheá; if suppuration threatens.
A small swelling on left inferior maxilla, about lower and middle part of buccinator.
Swollen hard pimple on left cheek.
Darting pains in right side of face.
Exceedingly pale, sickly appearance (workers in plaster).
Blister-like sores on right lower lip, ulcerate, ooze bloody matter, and extend to right corner of chin.
Many tender pimples under beard discharge blood or oily transparent matter.
On outer lower lip a raw sore, forming a scab.
TEETH AND GUMS. [10] [Calc. s.]
Pain in right upper jaw, with swollen and tender gums about a decayed molar.
(OBSá:) with swollen cheeká; after dark, and in sleepá; first < by cold water, soon >.
Right lower molar decayedá; is tender and sensitive to cold air, water, etc.
(OBSá:) Inside of gums swollen and sore.
Gums bleed while brushing his teeth.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] [Calc. s.]
Tasteá: (OBSá:) flabbyá; soapyá; sour acridá; bitter.
At base of tongue slightly puckered sensation.
Tongue coated yellow at baseá; (OBSá:) resembling a layer of half-dried clay.
Tongue seamed with a deep red line.
Glossitisá; (OBSá:) when suppuration begins.
PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Calc. s.]
Soreness, left side of roof as if burned, while eating.
Pharynx red and sore, tonsils affected.
(OBSá:) Diphtheritis of soft palateá; fauces are much swollená; also in scarlatina.
(OBSá:) Tonsillitis if a discharge of pus is anticipated.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Calc. s.]
Excessive appetite and thirst.
Great desire for tea, claret, green sour vegetables and fruit.
EATING AND DRINKING. [15] [Calc. s.]
While eatingá: roof of mouth sore.
After eatingá: betterá; lunch, loses memoryá; dinner, headache.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] [Calc. s.]
Nauseaá: with vertigoá; with headacheá; with pain in pelvis.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Calc. s.]
(OBSá:) Pain in stomachá; motions and burningsá; pain extends into liver.
Severe pain in region of liver.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Calc. s.]
Sensation of weakness across stomach, as if from head.
Colicá: with rumblingá; with diarrh£aá; with bleared eyes.
A feeling in lower part of abdomen as if skin was too tight, with pain.
Pain in right side of pelvis, followed by weakness, nausea and pain at stomach.
(OBSá:) Intestinal ulcers, with typhus.
(OBSá:) Buboesá: to prevent suppuration.
STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Calc. s.]
Diarrh£a, with pain in abdomen, from change of weather or after eating maple sugar.
(OBSá:) Diarrh£aá: with discharge of pus, or bloody pusá; with typhus.
(OBSá:) Dysentery, if passages consist of pus-like slime.
Painful abscesses about anus in cases of fistula.
(OBSá:) Costivenessá; with hectic feverá; with difficult breathing.
URINARY ORGANS. [21] [Calc. s.]
(OBSá:) Bright’s disease, if symptoms correspond.
(OBSá:) Red urine, with hectic fever.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Calc. s.]
(OBSá:) Spermatorrh£a with impotency.
(OBSá:) Gonorrh£aá; in suppurative stage.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] [Calc. s.]
Menses came later and continued longerá; usual symptoms, headache, twitchings, great weakness, etc., were aggravated.
PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] [Calc. s.]
(OBSá:) Mastitis, when pus begins to form or to prevent suppuration.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] [Calc. s.]
Catarrh, with thick, lumpy, white yellow or pus-like secretion.
Short-breathed, costive and cachectic (workers in plaster of paris).
(OBSá:) Asthma, with hectic fever.
After great dryness of mouth, suffocative attacks with protrusion of eyes, loss of consciousness, an deathá; t.
(OBSá:) Cough, with hectic fever.
Chronic cough of the tuberculous.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] [Calc. s.]
Pain in sternum became so much <, she was obliged to double up.
(OBSá:) Pain in chest, and headache.
(OBSá:) Pneumonia, third stage.
(OBSá:) Empyemaá; after thoracocentesis.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] [Calc. s.]
Pain from anterior of heart down to lower part of thigh.
NECK AND BACK. [31] [Calc. s.]
Chronic pain in os coccygis was greatly aggravated.
The third phalanx of index finger had been bruisedá; had a misformed surface, suppurating, full of granulations, bone was bare, pains very violent.
Fingers are stiff in a dreamá; stiff and painfully rigid, puffy and stiff, mainly on right hand, A. M.
Swelling of phalanges of fingers.
Inflammation and swelling of little finger.
(OBSá:) Whitlow, when suppuration begins.
(OBSá:) Inflammation of hip jointá; in suppurative stage of hip disease.
Pain from heart to lower thigh.
Painful rigidity of legs, A. M., especially rightá; later, upper part < P. M.á; the worst in early evening.
Weariness in knees after walking.
(OBSá:) Pain in knees from a blow.
Lameness in inner part of left knee when in bath, A. M., when stooping or walking fast, later in posterior part.
Legs tender to touchá; feet slightly swollen and tender.
A great burning and itching of soles of her feet.
(OBSá:) Burning on soles, with hectic fever.
The basis of fourth left toe suddenly tender while walking.
LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] [Calc. s.]
REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] [Calc. s.]
Better while lyingá; headache.
Obliged to double up to > pain in stomach.
When rising from lying downá: headache.
Better walking in open airá; improves soreness in parotid glandá; desire to walk.
While walkingá; dizzyá; toe tender.
After walkingá; weariness in kneesá; walking fast, lameness in knees.
Great disposition to lie down and stretch out.
Weakness and oppression from head down to stomach.
Great lassitude, 2 p. m. till evening.
Weak, languid, no plucká; intolerable lassitude after siesta.
Weariness after pain in pelvis.
(OBSá:) Sleepy during day, wakeful at night.
Before going to bed, pain in head.
She dreamed she had a convulsion from fright, awoke screaming and much exhausted.
Internal lassitude after siesta.
In morningá: lameness of knee, in bath.
At 2 p. m. till eveningá: lassitude.
Afternoon and eveningá: liveliness alternates with melancholy.
At 4 p. m.á: external headache.
Eveningá: toothacheá; pain in legs.
Late p. m.á: half-sightedness.
Before going to bedá: headache.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] [Calc. s.]
(OBSá:) Burns and scaldsá; when suppuration begins.
(OBSá:) Suppurating chilblains.
Open airá: < walking in itá; desire to be in it.
Suffered unusually from cold, while taking his usual bath, A. M.
Sensitive to water, first < then >, toothache.
From change of weatherá: diarrh£a.
After washing with cold waterá: coryza.
(OBSá:) Quotidian or tertian fever.
(OBSá:) Intermittent feverá; back of tongue has a coating, resembling dry clay.
(OBSá:) Typhusá: when diarrh£a sets iná; intestinal ulcers.
(OBSá:) Hectic feverá: with costiveness and red urineá; with asthma, cough and burning in soles of feet.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] [Calc. s.]
Rightá: over eye dull painá; in eye, painá; soreness of parotid glandá; earwax darká; pimple on top of eará; watery mucus from nostrilá; pain in upper jawá; sores on lipá; toothacheá; pain in pelvisá; fingers stiffá; rigid legs.
Leftá: pain in foreheadá; twitching of muscles about eyeá; pressing pain in eyeballá; cutting in eyeá; tears from eyeá; boil over eyeá; coryza from nostrilá; swelling on infra maxillaá; pimple on cheeká; soreness roof of mouthá; knee lameá; toe tender.
Direction of pain acrossá: in head, stomach, liver, chest and neck.
Above downwardá: heart to leg.
As if he had his hat oná; as if eyes were sunkená; as of a foreign body in eyeá; as if skin was too tight in lower abdomen.
Cuttingá: in eye Dartingá: in right side of face.
Burningá: sore feeling on anterior fontanelleá; in stomachá; of soles of feet.
Pressing painá: in left eyeball.
Sorenessá: of right parotidá; roof of mouthá; inside of upper lip.
Achingá: across foreheadá; in vertex.
Undefined painá: in left forehead and headá; in right upper jawá; in stomachá; in region of liverá; in lower abdomená; in r. side of pelvisá; in anal abscessá; across chestá; in chestá; from heart to thighá; across back of necká; in lower part of backá; in jointsá; in sternum.
Puckered sensationá: at base of tongue.
(OBSá:) Its sphere of action is in the connective tissueá; inflammation with suppuration.
(OBSá:) Arrests hemorrhage and blennorrh£a.
(OBSá:) Abscesses which have their seat in the connective tissue, if they are the result of stasis in the connective tissue tubuli.
(OBSá:) Serous swellings, post-scarlatinal dropsy, in rare cases.
(OBSá:) Hard or suppurating glands.
(OBSá:) In third stage of inflammationá; lumpy or bloody discharge.
(OBSá:) Acute and chronic rheumatism.
(OBSá:) Discharge in cough, leucorrhoea, gonorrh£a, etc., yellow, thick and lumpy, sometimes bloody.
After mechanical injuries, when in neglected cases suppuration has set in.
(OBSá:) Greenish, brownish, yellow crusts.
(OBSá:) Cystic tumorsá; fibromaá; fibrous polypi.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] [Calc. s.]
Legs tender to touchá; toe tender while walking.
From a blow or concussioná: headacheá; pain in knee.
After a bruiseá: suppuration of finger.
After a hurt by a splinterá: sore eye.
Cuts and wounds, to control suppuration, thick yellow matter.
Burns and scalds, if suppurating.
(OBSá:) Scarlet rashá; scarlatina, with excessive swelling of soft palate.
(OBSá:) Suppurating pustules and nodules.
(OBSá:) Skin affections, with greenish, brownish or yellowish scabs.
Yellow scab follows pimples on scalp.
(OBSá:) Abscesses and carbuncles, to control the formation of pus. [Obs. Anthracin is much better. –C. Hg.]
Many little matterless pimples under hair, bleeding when scratched.
(OBSá:) Ulcers discharging thick yellow matter.
Greyish, lead-colored skin (workers in gypsum).
(OBSá:) Chilblains, when suppurating.
Compatibleá: after Kali mur., Natr. sulph., Silica.
Compareá: Calend., in suppurationsá; Hepar, in suppurative processes, but has wider sphere and acts with more intensityá; Kali mur. in milk crust and other skin affections, swollen cheek, croup, dysenteryá; Natr. sulph., in post-scarlatinal dropsyá; Silica, in hard or suppurating glands, ulcers of cornea, tonsillitis, mastitis, frostbites.