Materia Medica
Calcarea Carbonica-Ostrearum
Carbonate of Lime
This great Hahnemannian anti-psoric is a constitu- tional remedy par excellence. Its chief action is cen- ered in the vegetative sphere. impaired nutrition be- ing the keynote of its action, the glands, skin, and bones, being instrumental in the changes wrought. In- creased local and general perspiration,s swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions generally offer numerous opportunities for the cexhibition of Calcarea. Incipient phthisis. [Ars. jod.; Tubcrculin.] It covers the tickling cough, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity and dislike of fat. Gets out of breath easily. A j
Mind
Apprchensize; worse towards evening; fears loss of reason, nisfortunc. Forgetful, confused, low- spirited. Anxiety. with palpitation. Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head.
Head
Headache, with cold hands and feet. Ver- tigo on ascending, and when turning head. Headache from overlifting, from mental exertion, with nausea. Head feels hot and heavy, with 1 pale face. Icy coldness in, and on the head, especially I right side. Open fon- tanelles; head enlarged; much perspiration, wets the pillow. Itching of the scalp. Scratches head on wak- ing.
Eyes
Sensitive to light. Lachrymation in open air and early in morning. S Spots and ulcers on cornea. Lachrymal ducts closed from exposure to cold. Easy fatigue of eyes. Far-sighted. Itching of lids, swollen, scurfy. Chronic dilaiation of pupils. Cataract. Dim- ness of vision, as if looking through a mist. Lachrymal fistula : scrofulous ophthalmia.
Ears
Throbbing, cracking in ears; stitches; pul- sating pain as if something would press out. Deafness from working in water. Polypi which bleed easily. Scrofulous inflammation zvith muco-purulent otorrhoea, and enlarged glands. Perversions of hearing; noise; hardness of hearing.
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. Ca- tarrhal symptoms with hunger; coryza alternates with colic.
Face
Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with deep-seated eyes, surrounded by dark rings. Crusta lactea; itch- ing, burning after washing. Submaxillary glands swol- len. 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 s and submaxillary glands; stitches on swallowing. Hawking-up of mucus. Difficult swallowing. Goitre. Cracking noises in ear. Parotid fistula.
Stomach
Aversion to meat, boiled things, craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils, eggs, salt, and sweets. Milk disagrees. Frequent sour eructa- tions; sour vomiting. Dislike of fat. Loss of appetite when overworkcd. 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. Hyperchlor- hydria [Phos.]
Abdomen
Sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver region painful when stooping. Cutting in abdomen; enlargement of abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence. I- guinal and mesenteric glands swollen and painful. Can- not bear tight clothing around the waist. Disterition with hardness. Gall-stone colic. Increase of fat in Umbilical hernia. Trembling; weakness, as if sprained. ( Children are late in learning to walk. [Caust.] Stooi. - Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and hard [Bry.]; whitish, watery. sour. Pro- lapsus ani, and burning, stinging haemorrhoids. Diar- rhcea of undigested food, fetid, with ravenous appetite. Children's diarrhaa. Constipation; stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid. Urine.-— Dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody. Irritable bladder.
Male
Frequent emissions. Increased desire. Se- men emitted too soon. Coition followed by weakness .and irritability. : Female. — Before menses, headache. colic, chilliness and leucorrhaa. Cutting pains in uterus during men- struation. Menses too early, too profuse, too long, 169 with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return. Uterus easily dis- placed. Leucorrhoea, milky [Sepia.] Burning and itch- ing 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. De- ficient lactation, with distended breasts in lymphatic women. Much sweat about external genitals. Sterility with copious menses. Uterine polypi. [Bell.; Phos.; Teucr.; Thuja.]
Respiratory
Cough troublesome at night and dry and free expectoration in morning; cough when playing piano.1 Extreme dyspncea. 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. Longing for fresh air.
Heart
Palpitation at night and after eating. Pal- pitation with feeling of coldness, with restless oppres- sion of chest; after suppressed eruption. Cough at night, from tickling in throat, aggravated by dampness. Sharp pains in chest from before backwards. Chest very sensitive to touch, percussion. or pressure.
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 vertebr?. 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, specially knee. Burning of soles of feet. Sweat of hands. Arthritic nodosities. Soles of feet rarv. Feet feel cold and dead at night. Old sprains.
Skin
Unhealthy ; readily ulcerating. Small wounds do not heal readily. Glands swoliei1. Nettle rash; bet- ter in cold air. Warts on face and hands. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. Boils.
Sleep
Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep. Horrid visions when opening eyes. Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy. 1 Drowsy in early part of evening. Frequent waking at night. Same dis- agrccable idca alzways arouses from light sluinbcr. Night terrors [Kali phos.] Dreams of the dead.
Fever
Chill at 2 p. M. begins internally in stomach region. Fcz'cr weith szwcat. Pulse full and frequent. Chilliness and heat. Partial sweats. Night szwcats, cs- pecially on head, neck and chest. Hectic fever. Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep. Sweat over head in children, so that pillozu becomes wet.
Modalities
Worse, from exertion, cold in every form; water, washing, inoist air, wet weather, during full moon. Betler, dry climate and weather; lying on painful side.
Relationships
Antidotes: Camph.; Ipec.: Nit ac.; Nu.'. Complementary : Bell.; Rhus; Lycop.; Silica. Calcar. is useful after Sulphur where the pupils re- main dilated. Incompatible: Bry.; Sulphur shouid not be given after Calc. Compare: 4qua calcar —-Lime-water — (% tea- spoonful in milk); (as injection for oxyuris ver- micularis). Calc. caust. (pain in back and heels, jaws 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 discuse). Sulph. (differs in being worse by heat, hot feet, etc.). Heracleum (sebor- rhcea capitis; violent itching and fatty perspiration around head). Calcar. picrata, peri-follicular inflammation (a rem- edy 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). Cal. mur.—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. Vomit- ing of all food and drink, with gastric pain. Impetigo, glandular swellings, angioneurotic cedema). Calcar. lactic. (anemias, hemophilia, 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. Calcarca ovorum. Ova tosta -- Toasted eggshells -- (backache and leucorrhcea). Compare: Lycop.; Sil.; Cham.; Kali bich.; Puls.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth attenuation. Should not be repeated frequently in elderly people. Dram doses of lime-water once a day for urticaria.