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CALCAREA IODATA
Iodide of Lime

It is in the treatment of scrofulous affections, especially enlarged
glands, tonsils, etc, that this remedy has gained marked beneficial results. Thyroid
enlargements about time of puberty. Flabby children subject to colds. Secretions inclined to
be profuse and yellow. Adenoids. Uterine fibroids. Croup.


Head.–

Headache while riding against cold wind. Lightheaded.
Catarrh; worse at root of nose; sneezing; very little sensation. Polypi of nose and ear.

Throat.–

Enlarged tonsils are filled with little crypts.

Respiratory.–

Chronic cough; Pain in chest, difficulty
breathing after syphilis and mercurialization (Grauvogl). Hectic fever; green purulent
expectoration. Croup. Pneumonia.

Skin.–

Indolent ulcers, accompanying
varicose veins
. Easy perspiration. Copper-colored and papulous eruptions, tinea,
favus, crusta lactea, swelling of the glands, skin cracked, falling out of hair.

Relationship.–

Compare: Agraphis-Bluebell
(adenoids with enlarged tonsils). Here Sulph iod follows
both Agraphis and Calc iod.
Acon lycotonum
(swelling of glands, Hodgkin’s disease).

Compare also: Calc fluor; Sil; Merc iod.


Dose.–

Second and third trituration.

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