Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homśopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
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Calcarea Acetica.
To follow the symptomatology use the drug as prepared
by Hahnemann, a solution of clean broken oyster-shells in dilute Acetic
Acid.
General Action :- ►
Compare
Calcarea carb. and Acetic
acid ; but not the brilliant clinical results in
inflammations of mucous membranes characterized by a membranous exudation,
(uterus, bronchi, etc.).
Generalities :- ►
Weary from want
of sleep during the day, but unable to sleep.
Clinical :- ►
A
valuable remedy for inflammation of mucous membranes ; see under Respiratory
and Genital Organs.
Mind :- ►
Anxiety as if he had
committed a crime or feared reproaches, with constant inclination to
work ; A. about the present and future, with deep thought and with
indifference to anything not concerned with himself, though not without
inclination to work ; intermittent, in evening before sleep, amel.
emission of flatus, with which objects seemed like different objects and
with dread of darkness ; the first part of the day, liveliness and
contentment the last part. ► Apprehensive, sad mood, as if awaiting
depressing news. ► Sadness, almost to weeping, with solicitous care
for the present and future.►
Fretfulness as soon as he left the open
air, where he felt better, with disinclination to talk and with increased
headache ; F. as soon as he was quiet and thoughtful, with sleepless
and aversion to everything ; with indifference to most important
objects, he did all his work with aversion ; all day, but good humor
and talkativeness in the evening. ► Disinclination to talk, without
moroseness. ► Liveliness and desire to be with people and to talk.
► Loss of will power though he feels strong.
Head :- ►
Aching, especially in
temples ; A. while standing after stooping, with heaviness in head
and with pressure outward in forward, especially over left eye ;
drawing and at times tearing, now in forehead, now in occiput, now in
temples, amel. pressure or on exerting mind. ► Shattering in brain
on stepping, like an echo in the head. ► Heaviness on stopping,
amel. rising with jerks in temples and with pain in whole head. ►
Stupid feeling from 3 A.M. till 4 P.M.,
as if he had turned in a circle. ► Vertigo ; on
walking in open air ; on walking in open air, as if he
would fall to the right ; stupefying, the head inclines forward to
the left ; as if his body did not stand firmly.
Forehead :- ►
Stitches on
walking, which especially affect left side of forehead, amel. continuing
to walk ; intermittent, in left ; boring, in left when sitting, amel.
walking, standing and touch ; boring, in middle, extending into
brain. ► Aching on walking in open air, especially above left
eyebrow ; in right eminence, extending to right eye and compelling
him to close it ; stupefying,
with confusion of senses and obscuration of head while
reading, and he did not know where he was ; stupefying, in
right, agg. stooping ; stupefying in morning after rising, as if he
had not slept enough or had been dissipating ; drawing, above right
eye on exerting mind, and in occiput ; drawing and pressive A. in
left supraorbital region or in temporal bone.
Temples :- ►
Stitches penetrating
T. ; digging, near left eyebrow on moving jaw ; rhythmical,
intermittent, boring outward, extending upward into left, amel. touch and
when sitting. ► Drawing aching in right
muscle, also in evening, at times with pressure on upper teeth,
on pressing upon the temple the pain changes into aching in the
forehead ; the drawing aching always agg. after eating and even while
eating, with sensitiveness of teeth while chewing as if they were loose
and would be bent over. ► Cramplike pain in right ; in left.
► Pressure as from something hard, close to right eye ; in left
bone as if it would be pressed in, internally and externally ;
outward in left, and on whole left side of head and on right occiput.►
Stitches in vertex externally. ►
Pressure on V., extending into eye. ► Throbbing in V. as in an
artery, with cutting shocks extending outward. ► Jerking stitches in
right half of brain, which often return and leave a pressure bursting
sensation. ► Pulsating stitches in left parietal bone. ►
Feeling in right side of head on stooping as if headache would begin.►
Pain suddenly shooting through
occiput ; sore pain in O. on touch, as if suppurating ; drawing
pain in left side of O., with stiff feeling in neck ; jerklike
pressing-outward in left side of O., extending into neck ; feeling as
if O. would be pressed asunder. ► Whole scalp sensitive on moving
frontal muscles back and forth ; crawling and itching on S. not amel.
rubbing ; tickling-itching on S., with pain at roots of hair on
touch.
Eyes :- ►
Inflammation, the white
entirely red, with much matter in eyes, especially in external canthi, and
ulceration of external canthi. ► Tearing-stitching in right, as if
inflamed. ► Itching. ► Pupils dilated, then contracted.
► Agglutination in morning on waking. ► Stickiness of lids on
moving them, with pressure in canthi, especially external one. ►
Burning in left upper lid, extending to internal canthus. ► Hardened
matter in canthi. ► Sticking in canthi ; itching, in inner,
amel. rubbing. ► Itching in canthi ; tickling, in right
external canthus. ► Boring-stitching on upper margin of orbit.
► Twitching on upper margin of orbit, extending to nose. ►
Far-sightedness in one naturally near-sighted.
Ears :- ►
Twitching in cartilage.
► Cramplike feeling on back of concha. ► Stitches. ►
Feeling as if something were before right drum, without diminished
hearing. ► Sensitiveness to noise in evening on falling asleep.
► Whizzing, with confusion of head.
Nose :- ►
Pimples in nostrils,
with scabs. ► Gnawing pain in root. ► Frequent sneezing
without coryza. ► Coryza, with sensitiveness of nose and internal
heat in head ; fluent, with headache ; fluent, with much
sneezing ; stopped, with frequent sneezing.
Face :- ►
Yellow. ► Pain in
muscles of left cheek. ► Tension in right cheek as if swollen.
► Throbbing on cheek-bones. ► Tearing in right upper jaw.
► Aching in right upper jaw when chewing. ► Moist scurf below
right angle of mouth. ► Roughness of lips, especially of upper, with
dryness, as if they would crack. ► Itching-crawling on upper lip,
which, after rubbing, appears on another spot near by.
Mouth :- ►
Stitches in teeth.
► Gnawing pain in right upper molars, as if they would be hollow.
► Throbbing toothache, with sensitiveness of teeth to touch and with
swelling of gum, which pained when touched. ► Stitches in upper gum.
► Boring in right upper gum, then swelling, with pressive drawing in
right temporal muscles. ► Blisters on tongue, with burning pain and
heat in mouth. ► Rawness on tongue, with soreness and white
coat ; R. on back of tongue, with scraping, provoking cough. ►
Dry sensation of tongue. ► Dryness in mouth as from chalk. ►
Mucus, which he could not swallow fast enough. ► Milk tastes sour,
and he is averse to it. ► Little taste to food, especially to meat.
Throat :- ►
Submaxillary glands
swollen, with a pressive sensation in them. ► Throat hoarse and
rough. ► Sensation of much mucus in fauces on swallowing, with
dryness in mouth. ► Sticking in right upper part of śsophagus when
not swallowing.
Stomach :- ►
Thirst in
morning ; T., with dryness of throat ; for cold drinks,
especially for water. ► Eructations
sour ; and offensive ; empty E. ► Hiccough.
► Woke at midnight from nausea, cough and a kind of head burn.
► Nausea, with eructations, accumulation of water in mouth and a
kind of vertigo ; N. after drinking milk in morning, as from a sour
stomach. ► Pinching-retching just below pit. ► Anxiety at pit.
► Anxiety as if it arose from the pit, when sitting, amel. walking
or standing, with burning in abdomen.
Abdomen :- ►
Rumbling and
gurgling, as from emptiness ; R. in right side, as before diarrhśa ;
audible, and crawling in right side, extending outward, as from flatus,
which is passed. ► Tearing in muscles, agg. inspiration. ►
Cutting every morning, and in evening and night, amel. after eating,
leaving a gurgling. ► Pinching, almost cramplike pain in walls, in
right groin, in a spot, when speaking, with pain on pressure.►
Griping in hypochondriac region, below
pit of stomach, with chilliness over whole body. ► Tensive pinching
in hypochondrium and in pit of stomach. ► Pinching in H. and in
chest, which here and there ends in stitches. ► Griping-twinging in
H., extending to beneath sternum, where its becomes sticking and causes
eructations. ► Griping in a spot below umbilicus, which becomes a
gurgling, on rubbing ; frequent in region of bladder, always with
emission of flatus. ► Pressure in hypogastrium, causing confusion of
head. ► Pinching on crest of ilium. ► Swelling of glands of
left groin. ► Tearing in inguinal glands when sitting and walking.
► Sore pain in groins as if glands would swell, agg. walking, with
slight swelling of glands. ► Pressive tension in region of left
groin.
Rectum and Stool :- ►
Twinging in
end of R. when at stool, with rumbling and gurgling in abdomen. ►
Itching in anus. ► Pressure in anus. ► Frequent
diarrhśa. ► Frequent stools, first solid, afterwards pasty, then
thin, with difficulty, then constipation. ► Constipation. ► No
stool.
Urinary and Sexual Organs :- ►
Frequent urgings to urinate, with profuse discharge ; frequent
desire, with scanty discharge. ► Urine turbid, like gruel, after
standing. ► Tickling itching at end of glans ; tickling left on
prepuce. ► Left testicle spasmodically drawn up to abdomen, with
pain on touch and with pain in left groin. ► Emission at
night ; with voluptuous dreams ; without voluptuous
dreams ; frequent. ► Itching of pudenda. ► Discharge of
blood from uterus in the last quarter of the moon, in a woman who had not
menstruated for years.
Clinical :- ►
Membranous dysmenorrhśa in persons of a Calcarea
habit.
Respiratory Organs :- ►
Rattling
on expiration, as from mucus in chest. ► Tickling, which provokes
cough. ► The cough becomes loose, with expectoration of large pieces
like purulent matter. ► Breathing difficult, amel. bending shoulders
backward.
Clinical :- ►
A most
brilliant cure was made of an obstinate membranous bronchitis, which for
months and resisted all other treatment ; the paroxysms recurred
every two or three weeks ; each time it seemed as if the patient
would die, until extensive casts of the membrane of the bronchi were
expectorated ; entirely cured of this drug.
Chest :- ►
Stitches beneath right
ribs ; broad, in muscles at every beat of the heart ; outward in
right side ; outward beneath left axilla, agg. inspiration ; out
through spine, between scapulć ; itching, agg. expiration, amel.
rubbing. ► Cutting outward in lowest ribs, agg. inspiration. ►
Anxiety, as if too narrow, agg. sitting, with short breath, with aching in
chest, agg. inspiration, the heart beating anxiously and trembling.
► Constrictive, anxious sensation, as if there were not room enough
to breathe, with stoppage of nose. ► Anxious constriction and
difficult breathing, like a tension in lower chest, almost suffocation on
motion and when sitting.
Heart and Back :- ►
Sticking-drawing pain in prćcordial region. ► Jerks from posterior
wall of chest to between scapulć, synchronous with beat of heart, with
anxiety. ► Stitches on inner side of scapula ; in middle of
spine on walking in open air, amel. when standing ; in a spot above
small of back on touch ; jerking, in sacrum and at same time above
ankle. ► Cutting, pressing-out pain in right loin, transiently amel.
touch.
Upper Extremities :- ►
Pain in
shoulders. ► Stitches in axillć. ► Upper arm, jerking in left
; tearing-jerking ; tearing-stitching in muscles of left when
sitting ; pinching (with tearing) in muscles on walking in open air.
► Tearing in muscles of left forearm ; with boring
stitches ; cramplike tearing in muscles of left forearm. ►
Cramplike pain in forearm, in front of elbow ; in outer side of F.
near left wrist. ► Sprained pain just above wrist, agg. rest.
► Stitches in outer condyles of wrists. ► Crawling and
sticking in wrist.
Lower Extremities :- ►
Soreness
between nates when walking. ► Pinching-jerking on posterior side of
hip-joint, agg. rest. ► Stitches on outer side above left
knee ; on inner side of left thigh when sitting ; cramplike, in
muscles of right thigh when standing and walking, amel. sitting ;
tearing, on inner side above knee when sitting. ► Tearing on inner
side of thigh on motion ; in hip-joint and about anterior crest of
ilium on motion, extending into groin. ► Cutting in socket of
hip-joint when sitting. ► Bruised pain in muscles of thigh when
walking. ► Drawing, sprained pain in hip-joint when walking.►
Stitches in right knee. ► Pain in
knees when turning or touching them ; in left knee, even during
rest ; drawing cramp-like on knee-cap ; sprained in left
knee-cap when sitting, amel. walking and standing. ► Tearing-jerking
in forepart, below knee during rest. ► Aching in left tibia near
ankle when walking in open air ; intermittent, in calf. ►
Cramplike pain close to fibula when sitting. ► Bruised pain in leg
when lying, especially in lower leg ; below patella on walking in
open air ; in leg, as if weary, he was obliged to change frequently
from one place to another. ► Drawings in legs extending to tips of
toes.►
Swelling of left external malleolus.
► Cramp in soles and toes at night, and on drawing on the boots
during the day ; in soles after walking, amel. continuing in walk,
and ceased when sitting. ► Cramplike pain in left sole. ►
Stitches in last joint of great toe during rest ; in left little toe,
as if outside of it ; intermitting cramplike, in right toe when
sitting and standing, amel. walking.
Skin :- ►
Inflamed swelling below
patella. ► Pimple beneath lobule of ear, causing tensive pain in
joint of jaw on chewing ; P. in middle of cheek, that became moist
after scratching, then greenish crusts. ► Pustule above left
eyebrow. ► Ulcer on cheek, with sticking. ► Crawling beneath
eye and on side of nose. ► Itching below
calves ; on a spot where there was a tetter years
previous ; tickling on index finger. ► Itching tickling on
border of left hand ; itching-sticking tickling in right palm.
Sleep :- ►
Frequent yawing, as if
he had not slept enough. ► Sleepiness in morning, with fretfulness
and pain in forehead ; S. in evening, with fretfulness. ►
Sleeplessness nearly all night, with tossing about and general sweat.
► Restless sleep, with talking and frequent waking. ► Frequent
waking as if he had slept enough ; as from some disturbance ; on
account of tossing about and he thought he was lying turned around in bed.
Dreams :- ►
Frightful,
shuddering. ► Of sick people, and of dead people, with violent
weeping in sleep. ► Vivid, full of strife and anger ; V.,
confused unremembered ; of previous transactions, with long, deep
morning sleep.
Fever :- ►
Frequent chilliness,
with yellow color of skin. ► Shivering, with frequent yawning ;
S. over back ; over whole body, with warmth or heat of forehead and
face and cold hands. ► External heat, even on lying down, with
internal chilliness. ► Heat and redness of face, with hot forehead,
cold hands and thirst. ► Sweat every
morning ; exhausting, day and night.
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