Calcarea Carbonica

Oyster shell calcium · Abbrev.: CALC

Abdomen

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Obese abdomen with sour, pasty, offensive stools containing undigested food; easy displacement of inner organs from relaxed fibre.

Back

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Pain as if sprained ; can scarcely rise ; from overlifting. Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Rheumatism in lumbar region ; weakness in small of

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Curvature of dorsal vertebrae. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Renal colic.

Chest

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Suffocating spells; tightness, burning and soreness in

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after suppressed eruption. Cough at night, from tickling in throat, aggravated by dampness. Sharp pains in chest from before backwards. Chest very sensitive to touefi, percussion, or pressure.

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worse going upstairs. Longing for fresh air.

Compare

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Lycop.; Sil.; Cham.; Kali bich.; Puls.

Dose

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Sixth to thirtieth attenuation. Should not be repeated frequently in elderly people. Dram doses of lime-water once a day for urticaria. 172

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200C and above traditionally preferred for constitutional action; repetition spaced widely.

Extremities

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Cold, damp feet and clammy hands; bone and joint pains with easy dislocation sensation; slow teething with convulsive irritability.

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Rheuma^^id 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- 170

Female

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Menses too early, too profuse, too long-lasting; bearing-down sensations; leucorrhoea like milk, worse before menses.

Generalities

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Chilly yet head sweats; tired from slight exertion; acidity of all secretions marks the type.

Guiding symptoms

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with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return. Uterus easily displaced. Leucorrhoea, 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. [Bell.; Phos.; Tencr.; Thuja.]

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and malar bones). Calc. brom. (removes inflammatory products from uterus ; children of lax fiber, nervous and irritable, with gastric and cerebral irritation. Tendency to brain disease). Sulph. (differs in being worse by heat, hot feet, etc.). Ileracleum (seborrhoea capitis ; violent itching and fatty perspiration around head). 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). Calc. mur. — Rademacher’s Liquor — (1 part to 2 of disStilled water, of which take 15 drops in half a cup of water, five times daily. Boils. f*orrigo capitis. Vomiting of all food and drink, with gastric pain. Impetigo, glandular swellings, angioneurotic oedema). Calcar, lactic, (anemias, haemophilia, urticaria, where the coagulability of the blood is diminished; 15 grains three times a day, but low potencies often equally effective). Calcar, calcinata — Calcined oyster-shell — a remedy for warts. Use 3d trituration. Calcarea ovorum. Ova tosta — Toasted eggshells — (backache and leucorrhcea) .

Head

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Profuse sour-smelling sweat of the scalp in children, wetting the pillow; open fontanelles delay closing; head sweats during sleep.

Heart

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Palpitation at night and after eating. Palpitation with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of

Introduction

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The fair, fat, chilly, sweaty-headed child grown into a responsible but anxious adult who fears losing control.

Mind

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Apprehension with fears — of insanity, of heart disease, of being observed; fretful over trifles. Industrious yet slows from discouragement; dread of hearing bad news.

Modalities

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Worse: cold damp weather, exertion (mental or physical), milk, ascending. Better: dry weather, lying on painful side, warming.

Relationships

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Complementary to Belladonna; compare Calcarea phosphorica (taller, more restless), Sepia (hormonal collapse without the chilliness).

Respiratory

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Cough troublesome at night and dry and free expectoration in morning; cough when playing piano. Extreme dyspnoea. Painless hoarseness ; worse in the morning. Expectoration only during the day; thick, yellow, sour mucus. Bloody expectoration; with sour sensation in

Stomach

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Craving for eggs and indigestible things (chalk, coal); sour eructations and sour vomiting of curdled milk in infants; milk disagrees.

References

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