CALCAREA CARBONICA.
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Preparation,
For Hahnemann’s provings, trituration of the middle layer of the oyster-shell. For Dr.
Koch’s provings, precipitated carbonate of lime from a solution of chalk in hydrochloric
acid, is triturated with an equal quantity of sugar of milk; twenty parts of this are mixed
with one hundred parts of alcohol, and this is termed the tincture. [Neither of these
preparations consists of pure Calcium Carbonate.)
Authorities.
1, Hahnemann,
Ch, Kr., 2; 2, Franz, ibid.; 3,
Gross, ibid.; 4, Hartmann, ibid.; 5, Langhammer, ibid.; 6,
Rummel, ibid.; 7, Stapf, ibid.; 8,
Wislicenus, ibid.; 9, Schreter, ibid.; (10, Omitted); 11, A man, aged
31, took the tincture, Hygea, 5, 318 (Dr. Koch’s preisschrift); 12,
A woman, aged 26, took the tincture, ibid.; 13, The same
person proved the 1st, 2d, and 3d dils.; 14, A maid,
aged 17, proved the tincture, ibid.; 15, The same girl
proved the 1st dil.; 16, A man, aged 40, proved the
tincture, ibid.; 17, The same man proved the 1st and 3d
dils.; 18, Knorre, A. H. Z., 6, 33, fragmentary
symptoms, dose not given; 19, Robinson (B. J. of Hom.,
25, 322), a young man proved the 1000th, 200th, 30th, 12th, and 6th, in rotation, and
afterward the 1st X trit.; 20, A young woman proved the
3d X trit., ibid.; 21, A young man proved the 30th,
ibid.; 22, A young man proved the 30th, ibid.; 23, A women proved the 30th, ibid.; 24,
Dr. Lillie gave a boy, aged 12, Calc. potentized higher from the 2000th, Berridge, Fragment.
Provings, Am. J. of Hom. M. M., 8, 125; 25, A man took
the 107th (of Fincke), ibid.; 26, Dr. L. W. B., took the
107th (Fincke), ibid.
MIND.
► Emotional. ► Illusion of fancy when going to sleep, as if she heard noises
and clattering about her bed, which caused shuddering, [1].
► As soon as she closes the eyes, in the evening, in bed,
a swarm of fancies present themselves to her, [1]. ► Great desire to be mesmerized, [1]. ► Repugnance, aversion,
disgust for most persons, [1]. ► Disinclination for every kind of labor, [1]. ► Dread and aversion to
labor, with great irritability, and heaviness of the feet, [1].
► Loneliness is very oppressive, with coldness of the
face, hands, and feet, [1]. ►
Much crying (in an infant, whose mother had taken Calcarea), [9].
► Cries and complains about the long-past offences, [1]. [10.] ► Weeping about trifles, with a sensitive, irritable mood, [1]. ► Weeping when
remonstrated with, [1]. ►
Moods. ► Sad, despondent mood, with irritable
inclination to weep, [1]. ►
She became sad, and was obliged to weep, from every walk in the open air, [1]. ► *Despondent and melancholy,
in the highest degree, with a kind of anguish, [1]. ► Melancholy, not exactly a sad feeling, about the heart,
without cause, with a kind of voluptuous trembling of the body, [1]. ► Sorrowful and peevish; she
looked upon everything from the worst side, and imagined everything evil, [1]. ► She is very hypochondriac;
she thinks that she is deadly sick, nevertheless can complain of nothing, [1]. ► Despairing mood, with dread
of disease and suffering, with foreboding of sad events, [1].
► She despaired of her life, and believed that she must
die, with a most sad mood, and weeping, and frequent sudden attacks of general heat, as if
hot water had been dashed over her, [1]. ► Anxiety in the afternoon, subsequent to nausea in the
forenoon, with headache, [1]. [20.]
► At night, she was very anxious and raving; she started
up anxiously in a dream, with trembling on waking out of it (after twenty days), [1]. ► Anxious at night,
as if she would become insane, followed by shuddering chilliness for a few minutes, and a
sensation as if the body were dashed to pieces, [1]. ► Anxious, restless, and busy mood; she is undertaking many
things but accomplishing nothing; after this activity, she is very much exhausted, [1]. ► Anxious about
every trifle, and lachrymose, [1]. ►► *Great anxiety and palpitation, [1]. ► *Frightened, apprehensive mood,
as if some misfortune were about to happen to him, or some one else, which he could in no
way overcome (after twenty-three days), [1].
► Every near sound frightened him, especially in the
morning, [1]. ►
*Fearful and restless, as if something evil would happen (after four days), [1]. ► *She feared that
people would observe her confusion of mind, [1].
► She feared she would lose her reason, [1]. [30.] ► Dread and anxiety of the future, with fear of consumption, [1]. ► Irritable, weak,
and despondent, in the morning, after a little work, [1].
► Fretful, with persistent obstinacy for three days
(after twenty-eight days), [1]. ►
Frequent attacks of irritability and anxiety, [1]. ► Very peevish after a few hours, [1]. ► Peevish, without cause,
especially in the morning, [1]. ► Peevish without cause, for two evenings in succession, [1]. ► Very peevish and
irritable (after taking cold), [1]. ► So peevish about trifles that she was dizzy the whole
evening, and went to bed early, but could not sleep (after twenty days), [1]. ► Peevish about trifles, and
very irritable, in the morning, before the stool; he gets angry at everything, [1]. ► Frequently
peevish, and she spits out saliva, [1]. ► Peevish and restless, [1].
[40.] ► Obstinate
disposition, [1]. ►
Obstinate, depressed mood, [1]. ►
Insupportable and sullen mood, [1]. ► Everything is disagreeable, with great peevishness, [1]. ► The thought of
former vexations provokes him to anger, [1]. ► Impatient and desperate, [1].
► Unnaturally indifferent, unsociable, taciturn (after
eight days), [1]. ►
Intellectual. ► Thoughts vanish; his memory is
short, [1]. ► She
misplaces words and easily chooses a wrong expression, [1].
► Great weakness of the imagination; during a slight
effort in speaking, it seemed as if the brain were paralyzed, especially in the occiput; he
could no more think nor recollect what been said; with confusion of the head, [1]. [50.] ►
Very forgetful (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► On stooping or moving the head, it seemed as if she did not
know where she was, [1]. ►
Loss of consciousness, with anxious oppression of the stomach, from which she was suddenly
awakened as by a violent fright, [1]. ► In the evening, two attacks of loss of consciousness, when
walking; she would have fallen to the floor, if one had not caught her (after five days), [1]. ► Loss of
consciousness, with illusion as regards place; it seems as if the room were a bower, [1]. ► Stupefaction, like
unconsciousness of external objects, with waving tingling on the upper part of the head, [1].
HEAD.
► Confusion. ► Confusion of the head (first day), [16]. ► The head feels confused, [1]. ► A dull, continued
confusion of the head, [1]. ► Sudden confusion of the head, as if it were too full, [1]. [60.] ► Painful confusion of the head, so that she did not understand
what she had read, did not comprehend what was spoken, [1].
► Confusion in the head, in the morning, on waking, [1]. ► Confusion of the
head, in the morning, on waking, with trembling through the whole body, and rush of blood to
the head, [1]. ►
Great confusion of the head, after the midday nap, [1].
► Confused trembling condition of the head (first day), [6]. ► Stupefaction of
the head, like vertigo, the whole afternoon (after twenty-four days), [1]. ► Stupefaction of the head at
night, on account of which he awoke; it continued to get worse until it almost amounted to
faintness, followed by trembling of the limbs and weariness, so that he was unable to fall
asleep again, [1]. ►
Insensibility and bluntness of the whole head, as in a severe coryza, [1]. ► Vertigo. ► A feeling of vertigo, as if he were raised up and pushed
forward, [1]. ►
Vertigo from vexation, [1]. [70.]
► Vertigo and painful turning of the head, as if in a
circle, in the morning, when rising; especially very dizzy when walking and standing, with
chilliness and needle stitches in the left side of the head, [1].
► At night, excessive vertigo, with flickering before the
eyes, which lasted till midday, [1]. ► Very transient vertigo, mostly when sitting, less when
standing, and still less when walking, [1]. ► During menstruation, vertigo, on stooping, and rising up
again, [1]. ►
Severe vertigo when stooping, followed by nausea and headache, [1]. ► Vertigo in paroxysms, after
stooping, when walking and standing; she was obliged to steady herself, [1]. ►► *Vertigo, on suddenly
turning the head, and also when at rest, [1]. ► *Vertigo, on walking
in the open air, as if he would tumble, especially on
suddenly turning the head, [1]. ► *Vertigo after walking, when standing, and looking about, as if
everything were turning around with her, [1].
► Vertigo, even to falling down, with weakness, [3]. [80.] ► Dizziness and loss of sense, after turning in a circle, [1]. ► Dizziness in the
head, in the morning, after rising, with nausea and roaring in the ears, and feeling as if
he would fall down in consequence (after twenty-two days), [1].
► So great dizziness, in the forenoon, that everything
seemed in a half dream, [1]. ►
Dizzy tottering, in the evening, when walking in the open air, so that he staggered to and
fro, [1]. ► Sensations.
► *Warm streaming of blood from the pit of the stomach to the
head, twice, [1]. ►
*During menstruation, rush of blood to the head, and
heat in it, [1]. ►
*Rush of blood to the head, with heat in the face (two hours after dinner), [1]. ► *Rush of blood to the
head, with heat of the face, seven hour after a meal, [1]. ► Rush of blood to the head,
with discharge of blood from the anus, for several days in succession, [1]. ► Congestion of blood to the
head and chest, preceded by painful stiffness in the spine, [1].
[90.] ► Great
affection of the head, the day after coition, [1]. ► Great dulness in the head, every morning, on rising from bed,
[1]. ► Heaviness
and heat of the head, almost only in the forehead, [1].
► Heaviness in the heat, in the morning, on waking, for
several hours (after twenty hours), [1]. ► Great heaviness of the head, in the morning, on waking, with
heat in it; both are much aggravated on moving the head and on raising it (after
twenty-seven hours), [1]. ►
*Constant fulness, [1]. ► Shivering in the brain, on severe motion, with dull tearing
pain (twelfth day), [1]. ►
Painful shivering in the brain, especially in the left side of the occiput, on slightly
shaking the head, and on every step, [1]. ► *Icy coldness in and on the head (after four hours), [1]. ► *The head becomes cold
very easily, which causes headache, as if a board lay upon the head, with pressive pain in
it, and chilliness of the whole body (after six days), [1]. ► Heat about the head, in the
evening, [1]. [100.]
► Headache the day before menstruation, [1]. ► Headache, also vertigo,
every morning on waking, [1]. ►
In the forenoon, first, headache, which continually increased, with rapid sinking of the
strength, so that he could scarcely reach the house, with great heat in the forehead and
hands, with much thirst for acid drinks; then, after lying down, ice-cold hands with rapid
pulse (after twenty-one days), [1]. ► Pain in the head, as though the skin were detached, extending
downwards upon the neck, [1]. ►
Headache, with nausea (after twelve days), [1]. ► *Feeling of fulness in the head, constantly, [1]. ► The head hurts as
if tense, [1]. ►
During every cough, the head is painfully shattered, as if it would burst out, [1]. ► Digging and
pressure in the head, which extend to the eyes, the nose, the teeth, and the cheeks, with
great sensitiveness to noise, and attacks of faintness, [1].
► Painful dragging, from within outward, in the whole
head, with a feeling as if the brain were pressed together (fifteenth day), [1]. [110.] ►
Drawing headache, extending upward from the neck, [1].
► Pressive headache, mostly in the forehead, increased in
the open air, [1]. ►
Sticking headache, extending outward to the eyes (the first days), [1]. ► Sticking pains in the
brain, with a feeling of emptiness of the head, for three days (after twenty-eight days), [1]. ► Stitches in the head,
[1]. ► Stitches in
the brain, [17]. ►
Transient stitches, here and there, in the head, [1]. ► Stitches in the head, in the evening, with stitches in the
limbs, [1]. ►
Stitches in the whole head, for half an hour, if she rises up from lying flat on the back,
and also after stooping, [1]. ►
During the cough, stitches in the head, [1]. [120.] ► Several stitches
through the head, with great chilliness, [1]. ► During the cough, painful shootings in the head, like
tearings, [1]. ►
Tearing on the head and in the eyes, with redness of the whole face, every afternoon, from
three or four till nine or ten, [1]. ► Jerks in the head, momentarily, [1]. ► Single jerks or shocks
through the brain, [1]. ►
Throbbing headache in the middle of the brain, every morning, and continuing the whole day, [1]. ► Stitch-like
throbbing in the head, when walking rapidly, [1]. ► Forehead. ► *Heaviness in
the forehead aggravated by reading and writing, [1].
► Headache in the forehead, [11]. ► Headache in the forehead,
over the nose, [1]. [130.]
► Painful, full sensation in the forehead, with throbbing
in the temples, [1]. ►
Sharp tensive pain in the forehead, [1]. ► Pinching pain in the forehead, [6].
► Stupefying, pressive aching in the forehead, as
in vertigo, during rest and motion (after one and a half
hours), [1]. ►
Boring pain in the left side of the forehead externally, after walking in the open air, [1]. ► Dull pain in the
forehead, with confusion of the head, in the morning, on waking, with dry coated tongue
(after five days), [6]. ►
Violent dull headache, first in the forehead, then also in the occiput, for several days
(after eight days), [1]. ►
Stitching-like tearing in the forehead, [17]. ► Pressure in the forehead, [1].
► Pressing in the forehead (after four days), [1]. [140.] ► Violent pressive headache in the forehead (first day), [13]. ► Pressive headache
in the forehead, as if it were very thick there, [1]. ► *Painful pressure in the forehead, extending down into the nose
(evening of first day), [12]. ►
Pressive pain in the forehead (about noon, first day), [13].
► Pressing out in the forehead, very severe, and causing
vertigo, relieved by pressure of the cold hand, and disappearing on walking in the cold air
(after nine days), [1]. ►
Sticking headache, in one-half of the forehead, which is better when lying, [1]. ► Four stitches in the left
side of the forehead, at 11 A.M. (second day), [13]. ► Tearing in the left frontal eminence (first day), [16]. ► Throbbing pain in
the forehead, [1]. ►
Sticking-throbbing pain on the right frontal eminence, [11].
► Temples. [150.]
► Swelling in the right temple, in the morning, which at
evening had disappeared (after fifteen days), [1]. ► Swelling below the left temple (after fifteen days), [1]. ► At first dull,
then pressive headache, in the temples, in the morning on waking, with many empty
eructations, [6]. ►
Pinching-drawing pain in the left temple, towards the parietal bone, with heat of the face, [6]. ► Pressure in the
temples, every day, for eight days, [1]. ► Sticking pain in the left temple (in the nervus temporalis
profundis), [11]. ►
Frequent stitches in the temples (after seven days), [1].
► Stitches in the left temple (second day), [11]. ► Stitches inward
through the left temple, and again outward through the right (after five hours), [1]. ► Tearing pain the
whole day in the temples, the orbital bones, and the cheeks, which become much swollen, [1]. [160.] ► Spasmodic jerking pain in the right temple, [1]. ► Slight creeping, as of
formication on the left temple (first day), [11]. ► Vertex. ► Tension in
the upper part of the head, [1]. ►
Drawing pain in the upper part of the head, [1]. ► Pressure in the head, now in the upper part, now in the
temples (after twelve days), [1]. ► Stupefying pressure in the upper part of the head, as after
rapidly turning in a circle (after twenty-four days), [1].
► Spasmodic pain, extending from the forehead to the
vertex (after taking cold), (after six days), [1]. ► Almost constant drawing pain beneath the vertex, [1]. ► Drawing pain
beneath the vertex, and in the temples, which seems to come up from the back, [1]. ► Spasmodic drawing beneath
the vertex, in the upper part of the head, with stitches in the temples, and heat in the
ears (after forty-eight hours), [1]. [170.] ► Violent, pressive
pain in the vertex, [19]. ►
Severe pressive pain in the vertex, awakens him every morning at 5 o’clock, and after an
hour disappears, [1]. ►
Pressure in the vertex and forehead, after dinner, [1].
► During menstruation, pressive pain on the vertex, [1]. ► Violent pressing
outward, almost sticking pain, in the region of the vertex, while stooping (after fourteen
days), [1]. ► When
walking in the open air, a pressive headache in the vertex, which continued until going to
sleep, [1]. ►
Parietals. ► Swelling on the right side of the
head, without pains (after fifteen days), [1]. ► Heat in the left side of the head, [1]. ► A numb spot externally, on
the right side of the head, [1]. ►
Headache only on the side on which he had just been lying (a burning?), [1]. [180.] ► Frequent one-sided headache, always with much empty eructation,
[1]. ► Tension and
pressure in the right side of the head, as from a blunt instrument pressed downward through
the head, by paroxysms, [1]. ►
Compressive pinching headache on the left side, [1]. ► Drawing pain in the whole right side of the head, in the
zygoma, and in the jaw (after four days), [1]. ► Sudden pain in the left parietal bone, as if the bone were
hacked to pieces, with shivering over the whole body, [6].
► Pressive headache on the parietal bones, apparently
more in the bones (immediately after taking), (first day), [11].
► Sticking headache on the right side, extending into the
eye, [1]. ► Sticking
headache in the left side, above the temple (after two days), [1]. ► Stitches in the upper part
of the right side of the head, extending to the right eye (after twenty-nine days), [1]. ► Shooting pains in
both sides of the head, with nausea, [20]. ► Occiput. [190.] ► Crackling, audible for several minutes, in the occiput,
towards midday, followed by warmth in the neck, [1]. ► Heaviness and pressure in the occiput (after thirteen hours),
[1]. ► Headache in
the occiput, whenever she ties anything tightly about the head, [1]. ► Drawing pain in the
occiput, always towards the side to which he moved the head; disappeared after sneezing
(after twelve days), [1]. ►
Gnawing sensation in the occiput, [1]. ► Tensive pressure in the occipital bone, [11]. ► Cutting pain in the
occiput, and in the forehead, as if something sharp were pressed into them, aggravated by
walking, and by pressure with the hand (after third day), [1].
► Stitches in the right side of the occiput (after eleven
days), [1]. ►
Itching on the occiput, [1]. ►
External. ► The hair falls out on combing, [1]. [200.]
► Much eruption on the head, [6]. ► Eruption on the scalp, with
swelling of the glands of the neck, [1]. ► The scalp at the vertex becomes scaly, [1]. ► Thin moist scurf on the
scalp (after twelve days), [1]. ►
Several places on the head pain when touched (after fourteen days), [1]. ► *Itching on the scalp,
[1]. ► *Itching on the
head, every night, on waking, [1]. ► Itching on the scalp, when walking in the open air, [1]. ► Burning-itching on
the scalp (after thirteen days), [1]. ► Burning-itching, as from nettles, with severe crawling on the
scalp, and the lower portion of the face, in the evening, before going to sleep, [1].® 2000
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