Materia Medica

Calcarea Sulphurica

Sulphate of Lime -- Plaster of Paris

Eczema and torpid glandular swellings. Cystic tumors. Fibroids: Suppurative processes come within the range of this remedy, after pus has found a vent. Mucus discharges are yciloze, thick and lumpy. 179

Head

Scald-head of children, if there be purulent discharge, or yellow, purulent crusts.

Eyes

Inflammation of the eyes, with discharge of thick, yellow attcr. Sees only one-half an object. Cornea smoky. Ophthalmia neonatorum.

Ears

Deafness. with discharge of matter from the middle ear, sometimes mixed with blood. Pimples around ear.

Nose

Cold in the head, with thick, yellowish, puru- lent secretion, frequently tinged with blood. One-sided discharge from nose. Yellowish discharge from pos- terior nares. Edges of nostrils sore.

Face

I'implcs and pustules on the fucc. Herpes.

Mouth

Inside of lips sore. Tongue flabby, re- sembling a layer of dried clay. S Sour, soap, acrid taste. Yellow coating at base.

Throat

Last stage of ulcerated sore throat, with discharge of yellow matter. Suppurating stage of ton- sillitis, when abscess is discharging.

Abdomen

Pain in region of liver, in right side of pelvis, followed by weakaess, nausea, and pain in

Stool

Purulent diarrhoea mixed with blood. Diar- rhoea after maple sugar and from change of weather. Pus-like, slimy discharge from the bowels. Painful ab- scesses about the anus in cases of fistuia.

Female

Menses late, long-lasting, with headache, twitching, great weakness.

Respiratory

Cough, with purulent and sanious sputa and hectic fever. Empyema, pus forming in the lungs or pleural cavities. Purulent, sanious expectora- tion. Catarrh, with thick, lumpy, white-yellow or pus- like secretion.

Extremities

Burning-itching of soles of feet.

Skin

Cuts, wounds, bruises, etc., unhealthy, dis- charging pus; they do not heal readily. Yellow, puru- lent crusts or discharge. Purulent exudations in or upon the skin. Skin affections with yellowish scabs. Many little matterless pimples under the hair, bleeding when scratched.

Fever

Hectic fever, caused by formation of pus. With cough and burning in soles.

Relationships

Compare: Hcpar; Silica.

Dose

Second and third trituration.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 176. Public domain.

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