Calcarea Carbonica (calc) ক্যাল্কেরিয়া-কার্ব্বোনিকা Calcarea Ostrearum

 

Calcarea Carbonica (calc) ক্যাল্কেরিয়া-কার্ব্বোনিকা

Calcarea Ostrearum

Middle layer of Oyster Shell. (Calcium Carbonate), Carbonate of Lime

(CALCAREA CARBONICA - OSTREARUM)

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পরিচয়ঃ ইহার অপর নাম কার্বোনেট অব লাইম।ডাঃ হেরিং এ ঔষধকে ক্যাল্কেরিয়া-অষ্ট্রিয়েরাম (Ostrearum) নামে অভিহিত করিয়াছেন।

ধাতুগত বৈশিষ্ট্যঃ মোটাসোটা, থলথলে শিশু ও পূর্ণবয়স্ক লোকের ক্ষেত্রে বিশেষ উপযোগী। শিশুর হাড়গুলি নরম এবং মেদের অংশ অত্যধিক,কিন্ত মাংসপেশী সকল শিথিল, গলা ও হাত-পা সরু, গ্রীবার গ্রন্থি সকল ফুলা। শিশু বিলম্বে হাটিতে শিখে। শরীর গৌর বর্ণ ও অলস প্রকৃতির। সহজে প্রচুর ঘাম, বিশেষত মাথায় প্রচুর ঘাম ইহার বৈশিষ্ট্য। রোগীর মনটি অত্যন্ত সরল, কোন রূপ হিংসা দ্বেষ নেই।শিশুর মাথা ও পেটটি বড়, মাথার জোড় ও বক্ষ্মরন্ধ্র খোলা, সমস্ত হাড় নরম, হাড় অতি ধীরে ধীরে পুষ্ট হয়। হাত সরু, মাংস থলথলে, একটু মাত্র পরিশ্রমেই ঘাম হয়, একটু ঠান্ডাতেই ঠান্ডা লাগে। মেরুদন্ডের অস্থি, হাত পায়ের ও অন্যান্য স্থানের লম্বা অস্থিগুলি বাঁকা, হাড় অসমান ও বাঁকাভাবে বৃদ্ধি হয়, বিকলাঙ্গ দেখায়।  

• Antidote food / ঔষধের ক্রিয়ানাশক খাদ্য:  কফি, কর্পূর ।
• ক্রিয়ানাশকঃ নাইট্রিক এ্যাসিড, ক্যাম্ফর, ডাল, নাক্স, সালফার, নাইটি স্পিরি, ব্রায়ো, চায়না, ইপি, হিপার।
• ঔষধের পরিপন্থী বা অনিষ্টকর খাদ্য Inimical food:  দুগ্ধ, শুষ্ক খাদ্য, আলু, মটর-ডাল, শিম, মিষ্টি, ঠান্ডা খাদ্য, ঠান্ডা পানীয়, কাঁচা শাকের চাটনী, ফল, বাছুরের মাংস, লবণ, বায়ু বর্ধক খাদ্য, গাজর, আলু, তামাক, মাদক দ্রব্য, গুরুপাক খাদ্য । 

According to Hahnemann, Calc. must not be used before Nit-ac. and Sulph.; may produce unnecessary complications.

 

• মোটাসোটা, থলথলে (FFF) শিশু ও পূর্ণবয়স্ক লোকের ক্ষেত্রে বিশেষ উপযোগী।
• দেহের স্থুলূতা, শিথিলতা ও শ্লেষ্মা প্রবণতা।(অস্থিপুষ্টির অভাব)।
• দেহের স্থুলতা/মোটা, ফর্সা, নাদুস নুদুস/থলথলে নরম দেহ-যেন হাড় হাড্ডি ছাড়া একটা মানুষ।
• ঠান্ডা লাগিয়াই থাকে-নাকে সর্দি, কানে পুঁজ থাকে।
• শ্লেষ্মা প্রবণতা।
• ভীরুতা এবং ভ্রান্তধারণা।
• মাথার ঘামে বালিশ ভিজিয়া যায় এবং খুব সহজেই ঠান্ডা লাগে।
• ডিম খাইবার প্রবল ইচ্ছা কিন্তু দুধ/দুগ্ধ সহ্য হয় না।
• শিশুরা নিজ বাড়ীর মধ্যে খুব জেদি, আক্রমণাত্মক, কিন্তু বাড়ীর বাহিরে যথেষ্ট লাজুক, ভীতু, ভদ্র।
• ক্যাল্কেরিয়া কার্বের পর সাল্ফার ব্যবহার করিলে ক্ষতি হয়, কিন্ত সাল্ফারের পর ক্যাল্কেরিয়া কার্ব উত্তম বয়স্ক ব্যক্তিদের বেলায় ইহা বার বার ব্যবহার করা উচিৎ নয়, বিশেষতঃ উপকার হইতে আরম্ভ করিলে।
• শিশুদের, বিশেষতঃ খুব অল্প বয়স্ক শিশুদের বার বার প্রয়োগে কোন দোষ হয় না।

সর্তকতা:

ইহা পূর্ণিমা বা অমাবস্যায় কখনই প্রয়োগ করবেন না: কারণ, ঐ দিনগুলো ইহার রোগের বৃদ্ধি কাল –ডাঃ কেন্ট।

বড় শিশুদের ক্ষেত্রে ইহার পুনঃ প্রয়োগ চলে (কেবলমাত্র নির্দেশিত হলে); কিন্তু বয়স্কদের, বিশেষত বৃদ্ধদের বেলায় পুনঃ পুনঃ প্রয়োগে অনিষ্ট হওয়ার সম্ভাবনা –ডাঃ নোয়েল পুডেফাট্‌ ।

টিউবারকুলার রোগী যার ফুসফুসে টিউবারকুলার গুটিকা জন্মেছে তাকে ক্যাল-কার্ব এবং তারপর সালফার দিলে নিশ্চিত মৃত্যুছাড়া আর কিছুই আশা করা যায় না; সাইলেসিয়া দিলেও একই ফল হয় –কেন্ট ।  

 

কাতরতাঃ

• শীতকাতর (প্রথম গ্রেড): [Dr. Robert Gibson Miller এবং James Tyler Kent]
• গরমকাতর (দ্বিতীয় গ্রেড): [James Tyler Kent]

 

মায়াজমেটিক অবস্থাঃ (মায়াজমের দোষ নষ্ট করার শক্তি)

• এন্টি-সোরিক (প্রথম গ্রেড)
• এন্টি-সাইকোটিক (দ্বিতীয় গ্রেড)
• এন্টি-সিফিলিটিক (তৃতীয় গ্রেড)
• এন্টি-টিউবারকুলার (প্রথম গ্রেড)

মূল কথাঃ

• ভীরুতা ও ভ্রান্ত ধারণা।
• পীড়া ভীতি, বিশেষত যক্ষা।
• মাথার ঘামে বালিশ ভিজিয়া যায়।
• শিশুর ঠান্ডা প্রায়ই লাগিয়াই থাকে।
• বয়স অপেক্ষা লম্বা ও শীর্ণকায়।
• ডিম খাইবার প্রবল ইচ্ছা।
• অতিরিক্ত লবণ পছন্দ।
• মিষ্টি পছন্দ।
• ঠান্ডা পানীয় পছন্দ।
• পীড়া ডান দিকে বেশি প্রকাশ পায়।
• গভীর মাংশপেশীতে বারবার ফোঁড়া হইবার প্রবণতা (ক্যালকেরিয়া সালফ, টিউবারকুলিনাম)।
• আক্রান্ত স্থান চাপিয়া শয়ন করিতে ভালবাসে (ব্রায়োনিয়া, পালস, পেটরোলিয়াম)।
• অখাদ্য, যেমন মাটি খাইবার প্রবল ইচ্ছা।(টিউবারকুলিনাম)
• দুগ্ধ সহ্য হয় না-উদরাময়ে ভুগে।
• শিশুর বক্ষ্মতালু বহুদিন পযর্ন্ত নরম ও থলথলে থাকে।
• দাঁত বিলম্বে উঠে এবং বসিতে গেলে মেরুদন্ড বাঁকিয়া পড়ে।
• দাঁত উঠার সময় নানাবিধ রোগ।
• বয়স অনুপাতে শিশুরা বড় বড় কথা বলে।
• ছোট ছোট বালক বালিকা পরলোকের বা ধর্ম সম্বন্ধে কথা বলে।
• যে বয়সে ঋতুস্রাব হওয়া উচিত তাহার পূর্বেই ঋতুস্রাব হয়;
• ঋতুস্রাবে বেশী রক্তস্রাব হয় এবং স্রাবটি ঋতু শুরু হইবার দিন হইতে স্বাভাবিক ভাবে ৪/৫ দিন পরেই বন্ধ হয় না, স্রাবটি অনেক দিন পযর্ন্ত চলিতে থাকে;
• ঋতুস্রাব শীঘ্র শীঘ্র ও অধিক পরিমাণে হয়, পরে কমতে কমতে একেবারে কমিয়া যায়।
• ঋতুর সময় পদদ্বয় ঠান্ডা কিন্তু শরীর গরম।
• নখে সাদা বিন্দু চিহ্ন।

ব্যবহারস্থলঃ মোটা থলথলে শিশুর অম্লরোগ, রক্তাল্পতা, অস্থি-বিকৃতি, ক্ষুধা-বিকৃতি, সর্দি, যক্ষ্মারোগ, পুরাতন কাসি, মেদবৃদ্ধি, নানাবিধ চর্মরোগ, দন্তোদ্গমকালিন নানাবিধ পীড়া, অজীর্ণ, কর্ণস্রাব, চক্ষুর নানাবিধ পীড়া, নানাজাতীয় জ্বর, নালীক্ষত, পাথুরী, গলগন্ড, সন্ধিবাত, মস্তিষ্কে জলসঞ্চয়, মুর্চ্ছাবায়ূ, ধ্বজভঙ্গ, স্তনদুগ্ধের বিকৃতি, শ্বেত-প্রদর ও নানাবিধ স্ত্রীরোগ, কৃত্রিম মৈথুনজনিত পীড়া, জিহ্বামুলে অর্বৃদ, গর্ভাবস্থার পীড়া, গন্ডমালা, চর্মরোগ, আঁচিল, দাঁতের নানা রোগ, আঙ্গুল-হাড়া, শিরঃপীড়া প্রভৃতি। 

সর্বদা গঠন ও স্বভাবের দিকে লক্ষ্য রাখিয়া ক্যাল্কেরিয়া কার্ব ব্যবহার করা উচিৎ। 

উপশম/হ্রাসঃ  শুষ্ক জলবায়ু ও আবহাওয়ায়; যেদিকে ব্যথা সেই দিকে শুইলে; হাটিলে; (মাথা ব্যথা); অন্ধকারে; খাইবার পর; পিঠের উপর শুইলে; কাপড় ঢিলা করিলে; ঘর্ষণ করিলে; আঁচড়াইলে; শুষ্ক দিনে; স্পর্শে উপশম; হাঁচিতে-মাথার এবং ঘাড়ের যন্ত্রণার উপশম।

বৃদ্ধিঃ  নড়াচড়ায়; শারীরিক বা মানসিক পরিশ্রমে; সিঁড়ি দিয়া উপরে উঠিলে; ঠান্ডায়; আর্দ্র বায়ুতে; বর্ষাকালে; পূর্ণিমায়; ঠান্ডা জলে স্নানে; রতিক্রিয়ার পর; দুধ খাইলে; ভিজিলে; ঘাম বসিয়া গেলে, দন্ডায়মান অবস্থায়, আহারের পর বৃদ্ধি।

 ক্রিয়া স্থিতিকালঃ৩৫-৬০ দিন।

লক্ষণ সূত্রঃ এম, ভট্রাচার্য্য: পৃষ্ঠা-১৯৯, এন, সি ঘোষ: পৃষ্ঠা-১৮৩, উইলিয়াম বোরিক: পৃষ্ঠা-১০২, নরেন্দ্রনাথ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়: পৃষ্ঠা- ১৩৮, অতুল কৃষ্ণ দত্ত: পৃষ্ঠা-২৭০, ই. এ. ফ্যারিংটন: পৃষ্ঠা-৫১৬, জেমস টেইলর কেন্ট: পৃষ্ঠা-২১৮, নীলমনি ঘটক: পৃষ্ঠা-১৭৬, ই. বি ন্যাশ: পৃষ্ঠা-৬৯, জে এম মিত্র: পৃষ্ঠা-২০৭, এস কে সাহা: পৃষ্ঠা-১৯৯, এইচ. সি এলেন: পৃষ্ঠা-৭২, জন হেনরি ক্লার্ক: পৃষ্ঠা-৩২৬ ।   

 

Super Grade Symptoms of [Calcarea Carbonica ক্যাল্কেরিয়া-কার্ব্বোনিকা Calcarea Ostrearum ক্যাল্কেরিয়া-অষ্ট্রিয়েরাম(calc)] ::: (Total 12)

BACK - PERSPIRATION - Cervical region

EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Legs - Calves - stretching - agg. - bed agg.; in

EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Legs - Calves - stretching - leg - agg.

MIND;cc - DELUSIONS - visions, has - closing the eyes, on চোখ বন্ধ করলে মনে হয় দৃষ্টিশক্তি আছে-এমন ভ্রান্ত বিশ্বাস

MIND;cc - DELUSIONS - visions, has - horrible অপ্রীতিকর, ভয়ানক দৃষ্টি-এমন ভ্রান্ত বিশ্বাস

CHEST - PAIN - Mammae (Breasts) - menses - before - agg. মাসিক ঋতুস্রাবের আগে / পূর্বে স্তনে ব্যথার বৃদ্ধি; স্তন ব্যথা বাড়ে ( aster. bry. canth. TUB. :RM)

EXTREMITIES - MILK LEG সন্তান প্রসব করার পর নারী / মহিলাদের ব্যথাযুক্ত পা, ফোলা, চরণ, পায়ের স্ফীতি

EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Knees - gouty গেঁটেবাত; হাঁটুর বাত; হাঁটু ফোলা, স্ফীত

MIND - DESPAIR - recovery, of আরোগ্যের ব্যাপারে হতাশা; তার রোগ ভাল হবে না ভেবে হতাশ হয় (AUR-3, CARC-3, Med-2, MERC-3, NIT-AC-3 :RM)

MIND - HORRIBLE things, sad stories affect her profoundly অতীতের দুঃখের বীভৎস, ভয়ঙ্কর, ভয়ংকর, ভয়ানক ঘটনাবলী (গল্প) গভীরভাবে প্রভাবিত করে। (রূপক অর্থেঃ পূর্বে ঘটে যাওয়া কোন ঘটনা; রোগ ভোগের কথা, কষ্ট মনকে নাড়া দেয়)

MIND;c - FEAR – insanity (insanity, of) মস্তিষ্ক বিকৃতি, উন্মাদ হওয়ার ভয়, পাগল হয়ে যাওয়ার/হওয়ার ভয় [main]

VERTIGO - TURNING; when - head; or moving the - quickly দ্রুততার সাথে, দ্রুত মাথা ঘোরালে শিরোঘূর্ণন, মাথা ঘুরানি হয় (ঘুরালে, মোচড় দিলে)

 

Calcarea Carbonica

(CALCAREA CARBONICA - OSTREARUM)
Middle layer of Oyster Shell. (Calcium Carbonate)

Calcarea Carbonica, Carbonate of Lime, Calcarea Ostrearum

H.C. Allen

Calcarea Ostrearum
Middle layer of Oyster Shell. (Calcium Carbonate)

 

• Leucophlegmatic, blond hair, light complexion, blue eyes, fair skin; tendency to obesity in youth.
• Psoric constitutions; pale, weak, timid, easily tired when walking.
• Disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldly.
• Children with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat easily and take cold readily in consequence.
• Large heads and abdomens; fontanelles and sutures open; bones soft, develop very slowly.
• Curvature of bones, especially spine and long bones; extremities crooked, deformed; bone irregularly developed.
• Head sweats profusely while sleeping, wetting pillow far around (Sil., Sanic.).
• Profuse perspiration, mostly on back of head and neck, or chest and upper part of body (Sil.).
• Difficult and delayed dentition with characteristic head sweats, and open fontanelles.
• During either sickness or convalescence, great longing for eggs; craves indigestible things (Alum.); aversion to meat.
• Acidity of digestive tract; sour eructations, sour vomiting, sour stool; sour odor of the whole body (Hep., Rheum.).
• Girls who are fleshy, plethoric, and grow too rapidly.
• Menstruation too early, too profuse, too long lasting; with subsequent amenorrhoea and chlorosis with menses scanty or suppressed.
• Women: menses too early, too profuse; feet habitually cold and damp, as if they had on cold damp stockings; continually cold in bed.
• The least mental excitement causes profuse return of menstrual flow (Sulph., Tub.).
• Fears she will lose her reason or that people will observe her mental confusion (Act.).
• Lung diseases of tall, slender, rapidly growing youth; upper third of right lung (Ars. - upper left, Myr., Sulph.); oftener the guide to the constitutional remedy than Phosphorus (compare, Tub.).
• Diseases: arising from defective assimilation; imperfect ossification; difficulty in learning to walk or stand; children have no disposition to walk and will not try; suppressed sweat.
• Rawness of soles of feet from perspiration (Graph., Sanic.); blisters and offensive foot sweat.
• Longing for fresh air (when in a room) which inspires, benefits, strengthens (Puls., Sulph.).
• Coldness: general; of single parts (Kali bi.); head, stomach, abdomen, feet and legs; aversion to cold open air, "goes right through her:" sensitive to cold, damp air; great liability ot take cold (opposite of Sulph.).
• Sweat: of single parts; head, scalp wet, cold; nape of neck; chest; axillae, sexual organs; hands, knees; feet (Sep.).
• Pit of stomach swollen like an inverted saucer, and painful to pressure.
• Uraemic or other diseases brought on by standing on cold, damp pavements, or working while standing in cold water; modelers or workers in cold clay.
• Feels better in every way when constipated.
• Stool has to be removed mechanically (Aloe., Sanic., Sel., Sep., Sil.).
• Painless hoarseness < in the morning.
• Desire to be magnetised (Phos.).

 

Relations:

Complementary: to Bell., which is the acute of Calc.Calcarea acts best: before Lyc., Nux., Phos., Sil. It follows: Nit. ac., Puls., Sulph. (especially if pupils are dilated); is followed by, Kali bi. in nasal catarrh. According to Hahnemann, Calc. must not be used before Nit. ac. and Sulph.; may produce unnecessary complications. In children it may be often repeated. In aged people should not be repeated; especially if the first dose benefited, it will usually do harm.

Aggravation:

• Cold air; wet weather; cold water; from washing (Ant. c.); morning; during full moon.

Amelioration:

• Dry weather; lying on painful side (Bry., Puls.).

William BOERICKE

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 haemostatic 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 diarrhoea.
• 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 otorrhoea, 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 haemorrhoids.
• Diarrhoea of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite.
• Children's diarrhoea.
  
• 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 leucorrhoea.
• 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.
• 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.

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 dyspnoea.
• 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 vertebrae.
• 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.

Calc ar 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 leucorrhœa. Feeling as if back were broken in two; tired feeling. Also effective in controlling suffering from cancer).

Calcar lactic(anæmias, hæmophilia, urticaria, where the coagulability of the blood is diminished; nervous headache with œdema 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 œdema. 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.

 

E. B. NASH

Calcarea Ostrearum

• Deficient or irregular bone development. (Fontanelles open, crooked spine, deformed extremities.)
• Leucophlegmatic temperament.
• Fairs fat, flabby, obesic.
• Coldness, general and local, subjective and objective, especially as if had on cold, damp stockings. Affections from working in cold water.
• Sweats general (night sweats and on exertion). Local; head (children), axillæ, hands, feet, etc.
• Digestive tract sour (sour taste, eructations, vomiting, sour curds, diarrhœa).
• Great debility: cannot walk far or go upstairs for short breath; easily strained.
• Modalities: < cold air, ascending, or exertion; straining from lifting.
• Leocophlegmatic temperament.
  
• "Softening of the bones; fontanelles remain open too long and skull very large."
• It is found in the profuse sweats on head of large-headed, open fontanelled children.

HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T

 

  
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 hæmostatic 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 diarrhœa. 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 otorrhœa, 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 hæmorrhoids. Diarrhœa of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite. Children's diarrhœa. 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 leucorrhœa. 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. Leucorrhœa, 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 dyspnœa. 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 vertebræ. 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 leucorrhœa. Feeling as if back were broken in two; tired feeling. Also effective in controlling suffering from cancer).

Calcar lactic (anæmias, hæmophilia, urticaria, where the coagulability of the blood is diminished; nervous headache with œdema 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 œdema. 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.