Remedy

Calcarea carbonica

Carbonate of lime

65 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • 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.
  • It covers the tickling cough, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity and dislike of fat.
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  • Gets out of breath easily.
  • A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork. Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses.
  • Raised blood coagulability.
  • 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.

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Mind & mood

  • 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.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

From exertionMental or physicalAscendingCold in every formWaterWashingMoist airWet weatherDuring full moonStanding

Better

Dry climate and weatherLying on painful sideSneezing

Symptoms by body part

Head

Sense of weight on top of head. Headache, with cold hands and feet. Dizziness 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. Watering eyes 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. Dimness of vision, as if looking through a mist.

Ears

Throbbing; cracking in ears; stitches; pulsating pain as if something would press out. Polypi which bleed easily. Scrofulous inflammation with muco-purulent ear discharge, and enlarged glands. Perversions of hearing; hardness of hearing. Rash on and behind ear. 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. Nosebleed. Runny nose (cold). Takes cold at every change of weather. With mucus symptoms with hunger; runny nose (cold) 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. 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.

Stomach

Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things - chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets. Milk disagrees. Frequent sour belching; 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.

Abdomen

Sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver region painful when stooping. Cutting in abdomen; swollen abdomen. Incarcerated gas. 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. Trembling; weakness, as if sprained. Children are late in learning to walk.

Stool

Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and hard; whitish, watery, sour. 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. Bed-wetting. (Use 30th, also Tuberculin. 1m.)

Male

Frequent emissions. Increased desire. Semen emitted too soon. Coition followed by weakness and irritability.

Female

Before menses, headache, colic, feeling cold and white vaginal discharge. Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with dizziness, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return. Uterus easily displaced. White vaginal discharge, milky. 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.

Respiratory

Tickling cough troublesome at night, dry and free phlegm coughed up 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. Phlegm coughed up only during the day; thick, yellow, sour mucus. Bloody phlegm coughed up; 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.

Heart

Palpitation at night and after eating. Palpitation with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after suppressed rash.

Back

Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from overlifting. Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Joint and muscle pain 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 Dreams of the dead.

Fever

Chill at 2 p.m. Begins internally in stomach region. Fever with sweat. Pulse full and frequent. Feeling cold 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 rashes. Cold-induced itchy swelling. Boils.

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