Materia Medica
Calcarea Fluorica
Fluoride of Lime
A powerful tissue remedy for hard, stony glands, varicose and enlarged veins, and malnutrition of bones. Hard knots in female breast. Goitre. Congenital hereditary syphilis. Induration threatening suppura- tion. Many cases of cataract have undoubtedly been in- fuenced favorably by it. Congenital syphilis manifest- ing itself in ulceration of mouth and throat, caries and necrosis with boring pains and heat in parts. Arterio- sclerosis ; threatened apoplexy. Tuberculosis.
Mind
Great depression ; groundless fears of finan- cial ruin.
Head
Creaking noise in head. Blood-tumors of new-born infants. Hard excrescences on the scalp. Ulcers on the scalp with callous, hard edges.
Eyes
Flickering and sparks before the eyes, spots on the cornea; conjunctivitis; cataract. Strumous phlyctcnular keratitis. Subcutaneous palpebral cysts.
Ears
Calcareous deposits on tympanum; sclerosis of ossicuia and petrous portion of temporal bone, with deafness, ringing and roaring. Chronic suppuration of middle ear.
Nose
Cold in the head; stuffy cold; dry coryza; ozaena. Copious, offensive, thick, greenish, lumpy, yel- low nasal catarrh. Atrophic rhinitis, especially if crusts are prominent.
Face
Hard swelling on the cheek, with pain or toothache, hard swelling on jaw-bone
Mouth
Gum.boil, with hard swelling on the jaw. Cracked appearance of the tongue, with or without Ain. Induration of the tongue, hardening after in- without pain; teeth becoime loose in their sockets. Toothache, with pain if any food touchies the tooth.
Throat
Pain and burning in throat; better hy warm drinks; worse, cold drinks. Hypertrophy of Luschka's tonsil. Relaxed uvula, tickling referred to larynx.
Stomach
Voiniting of infants. Vomiting of undi- gested food. Hiccough [Cajup.; Sulph. ac.]. Flatu- lency. [Nux mosch.] Weakness and daintiness of ap- petite, nausea and distress after eating in young chil- dren who are overtaxed by studies. Acute indigestion from fatigue and brain-fag; much flatulence. Stool and Anus. -- Diarrhcea in gout subjects. Itch- ing of anus. Fissure of the anus, and intensely sore crack near the lower end of the bowel. Bleeding hemorrhoids. Itching of anus as from pin-worms. In- ternal or blind piles frequently, with pain in back, gen- trally far down on the sacrum, and constipation. Much wind in lower bowels.
Male
Hydrocele; indurations of the testicles. Respiratory Organs.— Hoarseness. Croup. Cough with expectoration of tin lumps of yellow mucus, with tickling sensation and irritation on lying down. Spas- modic cough. Calc Fluor. removes fibroid deposits about the endocardium and restores normal endocardial structure. (Eli G. Jones, M.D.) Circulatory Organs.— Chief remedy for vascular tumors with dilated blood-vessels, and for zaricose or enlarged veins. Aneurysm. Valvular disease. When the uberculous toxins attack the heart and blood-vessels. Neck and Back.-- Chronic lumbago; aggravated on beginning to move, and ameliorated on continued mo- :ion. Osseous tumors. Rachitic enlargement of femur in infants. Pain lower part of back, with burning.
Extremities
Ganglia or encysted tumors at the back of the wrist. Gouty enlargements of the joints of the fingers. I Exostoses on fingers. C Chronic synovitis of knee-joint.
Skin
Marked whiteness of skin. Scar tissue; ad- hesions after operations. ( Chaps and cracks. Fissures or cracks in the palms of the hands, or hard skin. Fis- sure of the anus.S Suppurations with callous, hard edges. Whitlow.1 Indolent, fistulous ulcers, secreting thick, yellow pus. ] Hard, elevated edges of ulcer, sur- rounding skin purple e and swollen. Knots, kernels, hardened glands in the female breast. Szwellings or in- durated cnlargeincnts having their seat in the fasciae and capsular ligaments of joints, or in the tendons. In - durations of stony hardness.
Sleep
Vivid dreams, with sense of impending dan- ger. Unrefreshing sleep.
Modalities
Worse, during rest, changes of weather. Better, heat, warm applications.
Relationships
Compare: Con.: Lapis; Baryt. mur.; Hecla; Rhus. Calcar. sulph-stibiata (acts as an hamostatic and ab- sorptive in uterine myoma). Mangifcra indica (varicose veins).
Dose
Third to twelfth trituration. Needs some time before manifesting its effects.