CALCAREA CARBONICA
Carbonate of Lime
(CALCAREA CARBONICA – OSTREARUM)This great Hahnemannian anti-psoric is a constitutional remedy par excellence. Its chief action is centered in the vegetative
sphere, impaired nutrition being the keynote of its action, the glands, skin, and bones,
being instrumental in the changes wrought. Increased local and general perspiration,
swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions generally offer numerous
opportunities for the exhibition of Calcarea. Incipient phthisis (Ars
jod; Tuberculin). It covers the tickling cough, fleeting chest pains, nausea,
acidity and dislike of fat. Gets out of breath easily. A jaded
state, mental or physical, due to overwork. Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses.
Pituitary and thyroid disfunction.Raised blood coagulability (Strontium).
Is a definite stimulant to the periosteum. Is a hćmostatic and gives this power probably to
the gelatine injections.Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence. Persons of scrofulous type, who
take cold easily, with increased mucous secretions, children who grow fat, are
large-bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look, the so-called leuco-phlegmatic
temperament; affections caused by working in water. Great sensitiveness to cold; partial
sweats. Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible things; are prone to diarrhśa.
Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour.
Mind.–
Apprehensive; worse
towards evening; fears loss of reason, misfortune,
contagious diseases. Forgetful, confused, low-spirited.
Anxiety with palpitation. Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head. Averse to work
or exertion.
Head.–
Sense of weight on top of head. Headache, with cold
hands and feet. Vertigo on ascending, and when turning head. Headache from overlifting, from
mental exertion, with nausea. Head feels hot and heavy, with pale face. Icy coldness in, and on the head, especially right side. Open
fontanelles; head enlarged; much perspiration, wets the pillow.
Itching of the scalp. Scratches head on waking.
Eyes.–
Sensitive to light. Lachrymation in open air and early
in morning. Spots and ulcers on cornea. Lachrymal ducts
closed from exposure to cold. Easy fatigue of eyes. Far sighted. Itching of lids, swollen,
scurfy. Chronic dilatation of pupils. Cataract. Dimness
of vision, as if looking through a mist. Lachrymal fistula; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Ears.–
Throbbing; cracking in ears; stitches; pulsating pain
as if something would press out. Deafness from working in water. Polypi which bleed easily.
Scrofulous inflammation with muco-purulent otorrhśa, and enlarged
glands. Perversions of hearing; hardness of hearing. Eruption on and behind ear (Petrol). Cracking noises in ear. Sensitive to cold about ears
and neck.
Nose.–
Dry, nostrils sore, ulcerated.
Stoppage of nose, also with fetid, yellow discharge. Offensive odor in nose. Polypi; swelling at root of nose. Epistaxis. Coryza. Takes cold at every change of weather. Catarrhal symptoms with
hunger; coryza alternates with colic.
Face.–
Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with deep-seated eyes,
surrounded by dark rings. Crusta lactea; itching, burning after washing. Submaxillary glands
swollen. Goitre. Itching of pimples in whiskers. Pain from right mental foramen along lower
jaw to ear.
Mouth.–
Persistent sour taste.
Mouth fills with sour water. Dryness of tongue at night. Bleeding of gums. Difficult and
delayed dentition. Teeth ache; excited by current of air, anything cold or hot. Offensive
smell from mouth. Burning pain at tip of tongue; worse, anything warm taken into stomach.
Throat.–
Swelling of tonsils
and submaxillary glands; stitches on swallowing. Hawking-up of mucus. Difficult swallowing. Goitre. Parotid fistula.
Stomach.–
Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for
eggs, salt and sweets. Milk disagrees. Frequent sour eructations;
sour vomiting. Dislike of fat. Loss of appetite when overworked. Heartburn and
loud belching. Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water. Ravenous hunger. Swelling
over pit of stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up. Repugnance to hot food. Pain in
epigastric region to touch. Thirst; longing for cold
drinks. Aggravation while eating. Hyperchlorhydria (Phos).
Abdomen.–
Sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver region
painful when stooping. Cutting in abdomen; swollen abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal and mesenteric glands swollen and painful. Cannot
bear tight clothing around the waist. Distention with
hardness. Gall-stone colic. Increase of fat in abdomen.
Umbilical hernia. Trembling; weakness, as if sprained. Children are late in learning to
walk.
Stool.–
Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and
hard (Bry); whitish, watery, sour.
Prolapse ani, and burning, stinging hćmorrhoids. Diarrhśa of undigested, food, fetid, with
ravenous appetite. Children’s diarrhśa. Constipation;
stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid.
Urine.–
Dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white
sediment, bloody. Irritable bladder. Enuresis (Use 30th, also Tuberculin.
1 m.).
Male.–
Frequent emissions.
Increased desire. Semen emitted too soon. Coition followed by weakness and irritability.
Female.–
Before menses, headache, colic, chilliness and
leucorrhśa. Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. Menses too
early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold,
damp feet; the least excitement causes their return. Uterus easily displaced.
Leucorrhśa, milky (Sepia).
Burning and itching of parts before and after menstruation; in little girls. Increased
sexual desire; easy conception. Hot swelling breasts. Breasts tender and swollen before
menses. Milk too abundant; disagreeable to child. Deficient lactation, with distended
breasts in lymphatic women. Much sweat about external genitals. Sterility with copious
menses. Uterine polypi.
Respiratory.–
Tickling cough troublesome at night, dry and
free expectoration in morning; cough when playing piano, or by eating. Persistent,
irritating cough from arsenical wall paper (Clarke). Extreme dyspnśa. Painless
hoarseness; worse in the morning. Expectoration only during the day; thick,
yellow, sour mucus. Bloody expectoration; with sour sensation in chest. Suffocating spells; tightness, burning and soreness in chest; worse going upstairs or slightest ascent, must sit down. Sharp
pains in chest from before backwards. Chest very sensitive to
touch, percussion, or pressure. Longing for fresh air. Scanty, salty
expectoration (Lyc).
Heart.–
Palpitation at night and after eating. Palpitation
with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after suppressed eruption.
Back.–
Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from
overlifting. Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Rheumatism in lumbar region;
weakness in small of back. Curvature of dorsal vertebrć. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Renal colic.
Extremities.–
Rheumatoid pains, as after exposure to wet.
Sharp sticking, as if parts were wrenched or sprained. Cold, damp
feet; feel as if damp stockings were worn. Cold knees cramps in calves. Sour foot-sweat.
Weakness of extremities. Swelling of joints, especially knee. Burning of soles of feet.
Sweat of hands. Arthritic nodosities. Soles of feet raw.
Feet feel cold and dead at night. Old sprains. Tearing in muscles.
Sleep.–
Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep. Horrid
visions when opening eyes. Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy. Drowsy in
early part of evening. Frequent waking at night. Same disagreeable
idea always arouses from light slumber. Night terrors (Kali
phos). Dreams of the dead.
Fever.–
Chill at 2 pm begins internally in stomach
region. Fever with sweat. Pulse full and frequent. Chilliness and heat. Partial
sweats. Night sweats, especially on head, neck and
chest. Hectic fever. Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep. Sweat over head in children, so that pillow becomes wet.
Skin.–
Unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid. Small wounds do
not heal readily. Glands swollen. Nettle rash; better in cold air. Warts on face and hands. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. Boils.
Modalities.–
Worse, from
exertion, mental or physical; ascending; cold in every
form; water, washing, moist air, wet weather; during full moon; standing. Better, dry climate and weather; lying on painful side.
Sneezing (pain in head and nape).
Relationship.–
Antidotes: Camph;
Ipec; Nit ac; Nux.Complementary: Bell; Rhus; Lycop; Silica.
Calcar
is useful after Sulphur where the pupils remain
dilated. When Pulsatilla failed in school girls.Incompatible: Bry; Sulphur should not
be given after Calc.Compare: Aqua calcar.–Lime-water–(1/2
teaspoonful in milk); (as injection for oxyuris vermicularis), and Calc
caust–slaked lime–(pain in back and heels, jaws and malar bones; also symptoms
of influenza). Calc brom (removes inflammatory products
from uterus; children of lax fiber, nervous and irritable, with gastric and cerebral
irritation. Tendency to brain disease. Insomnia and
cerebral congestion. Give 1x trituration). Sulph
(differs in being worse by heat, hot feet, etc).
Calcar calcinata
-Calcined oyster-shell-a remedy for warts. Use
3d trituration. Calcarea ovorum. Ova tosta-Toasted
egg-shells–(backache and leucorrhśa. Feeling as if
back were broken in two; tired feeling. Also effective in controlling suffering from
cancer).
Calcar lactic
(anćmias, hćmophilia, urticaria, where the
coagulability of the blood is diminished; nervous headache with śdema of eyelids, lips or
hands; 15 grains three times a day, but low potencies often equally effective).
Calcar lacto-phosph
(5 grains 3 times a day in cyclic vomiting
and migraine).
Calc mur.–Calcium chloratum
-Rademacher’s Liquor–(1 part to 2
of distilled water, of which take 15 drops in half a cup of water, five times daily. Boils. Porrigo capitis. Vomiting of all food and drink, with
gastric pain. Impetigo, glandular swellings, angioneurotic śdema. Pleurisy with effusion.
Eczema in infants).
Calcar picrata
, (peri-follicular inflammation; a remedy of
prime importance in recurring or chronic boils,
particularly when located on parts thinly covered with muscle tissue, as on shinbones,
coccyx, auditory canal, dry, scurfy accumulation and
exfoliation of epithelial scales, etc, styes, phlyctenules. Use 3x trit).Compare also with Calcarea: Lycop; Silica;
Pulsat; Chamom.
Dose.–
Sixth trit. Thirtieth and higher potencies. Should not
be repeated too frequently in elderly people.
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