Calcarea Carbonica

Calcarea is one of the greatest monuments of Hahnemann's genius. His

method of preparing insoluble substances brought to light in this instance a whole world of

therapeutic power formerly unknown. Moreover, Calcarea is one of the polychrest remedies, and

ranks with Su/phur and Lycopodium at the head of the antipsorics. It is absolutely essential to a

correct appreciation of the homceopathic materia medica that these three medicines should be

thoroughly known, as these are in a sense the standards around which the rest are grouped. All

three have a very wide range and deep action. They have many symptoms in common, but Calc.

is somewhat sharply distinguished from Su/phur in that it is a chilly remedy, the patient seeking

warmth, whilst the Su/phur patient is < by heat, and > by cold. Calc. has cold, clammy feet, "as

if there were damp stockings on"; Su/phur has characteristically hot, sweaty feet. The "sinking

• ▸sensation" common to all three is most marked with Su/phur at 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, with Lycopod.
• ▸at 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸,

with Calcarea at any time. Calcarea is closely allied to Belladonna, Nux, Puls., and Rhus in its

• ▸action.
• ▸It follows well Su/ph.
• ▸and Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, to both of which it is complementary.
• ▸It is inimical to

Bryonia, and should not be given immediately before or after that medicine. Like many of the

• ▸other carbonates, Calc.
• ▸carb.
• ▸corresponds to persons of soft fibre with tendency to be fat.
• ▸"This

remedy is particularly adapted to the real Leucophlegmatic Constitution. Where we find a large

head, large features, pale skin, with a chalky look, and (in infants) open fontanelles, we may

• ▸think strongly of Calc.
• ▸c.
• ▸" (Guernsey).
• ▸The scrofulous constitution embraces a large number of

Calcarea's characteristic effects: fat children rather bloated than solid, pale but flushing easily.

Fair; slow in movement; of irregular growth, large heads, with wide-open fontanelles; large

abdomens; irregular and partial sweats: the head sweats profusely, wetting the pillow for a space

around the head; enlarged and hard lymphatic glands. Icy coldness in abdomen. In addition there

are night terrors; child wakes at 2 or 3 a.m. screaming, cannot be made to understand, remembers

nothing of it in the morning.

Children are slow in teething and walk late. Sourness is one of the characteristic notes of Calc.

c.; the body is sour; taste sour; sour stool and urine. All the symptoms are made worse by taking

cold. In all cases where there is improper nutrition and imperfect digestion, such as described

above, and where there is chilliness, aggravation from contact with water and from cold, cold,

clammy feet and sinking sensations, Calcarea will most likely prove the remedy. Calc. also

corresponds to ailments following losses of fluids, such as from self abuse; and it corresponds to

a form of menorrhagia, the flow being excessive and the intervals shortened. Periods return too

soon after excitement. There is often pain in the breasts before the flow commences, as with

Conium. But if the menses are scanty or absent, and the Calc. characteristics of chilliness and

cold, clammy feet are present, Calc. will still be the remedy. Suppression of menses in women of

full habit after working in water. Bearing-down pains. Ovarian or uterine pains, right side,

• ▸extending down thighs; < on reading or writing (left, Li/.
• ▸f.
• ▸).
• ▸In addition to the cold symptoms

there are sensations of heat and burning: heat in and on the vertex. In connection with this the

sweat of the head must be remembered. It occurs chiefly on occiput and forehead (that of Si/. is

• ▸all over).
• ▸There is > uncovering during the heats (as with Lyc.
• ▸and unlike Si/.
• ▸).
• ▸Burning in soles

of feet at night; burning in back of hands. The characteristic Calc. hand is soft, warm, and moist;

a boneless hand. Also hands inclined to chap. There are copious night sweats, which may be sour

• ▸or odourless.
• ▸Foot-sweat, sour or odourless.
• ▸The sweats of Calc.
• ▸give no relief.
• ▸Bloody sweats.

Among other heat symptoms is hot breath, with heat in mouth. Rumination is among the Calc.

effects. Nausea after drinking water, even ever so little; but not ificed. The "sinking" sensation

of Calc. has some modifications. There is ravenous hunger; hunger and feeling of emptiness

immediately after a meal, and in the early morning. If he doesn't have his breakfast at the proper

time, a headache comes on. Craving for eggs; for indigestible things, chalk, coal, &c. Nausea

• ▸when fasting.
• ▸Sour eructations.
• ▸Sour diarrhoea.
• ▸Sour body smell.
• ▸Milk disagrees; sour vomiting

of large curds. Inability to swallow solids. Chronic disease of left tonsil; feeling of lump in left

side of throat which he wants to swallow down. Pain from left tonsil to ear. Semilateral swelling

• ▸of tongue.
• ▸The prosopalgia of Calc.
• ▸is > warm fomentations, like Pu/.
• ▸Biliary colic: cutting pain

under right scapula running to right hypochondrium and epigastrium. Crawling in rectum as from

• ▸worms.
• ▸Burning in rectum.
• ▸Weight in lower rectum.
• ▸Stools hard and pasty; like chalk or clay

• ▸offensive; undigested.
• ▸Ardor uring; offensive urine.
• ▸Impotence penis cold and relaxed.
• ▸Calcarea

is related to the pretubercular stage of phthisis; it is more especially suited to affections of the

right apex. Stitching in chest and sides of chest when moving and when lying on affected side.

The cough is provoked by going into a cold room; by chilliness. Tickling cough, sensation of

• ▸feather in throat.
• ▸I have cured with Calc.
• ▸a "fat cough"—i.
• ▸e.
• ▸, a cough with easy expectoration of a

little mucus—and an arsenical cough (brought on by sleeping in a room having an arsenical

wallpaper) which waked the patient in the middle of the night, causing him to sit up and cough

till phlegm was raised. Rattling in the chest; miller's and stone-cutter's phthisis; old suppurating

cavities. Swelling of cervical and bronchial glands. Scrofulous glands and scrofulous diseases of

bones; spinal curvature; rickets. Swellings; false appearance of fat; milk leg > by elevating the

limb, < hanging it down. The same conditions mark the sciatica of Calc., which follows on

working in water. Rheumatic and gouty conditions from wetting. Joints crack and crepitate as if

• ▸dry.
• ▸The skin is rough and scaly and inclined to chap.
• ▸Rhagades.
• ▸Chapped hands.
• ▸Chilblains from

• ▸wetting.
• ▸Eruptions.
• ▸Cooper has cured with it psoriasis palmaris.
• ▸Eruption behind right ear.
• ▸Warts

and polypi. Calc. is an eminently sycotic medicine, as the early morning aggravation would

indicate.

The mental and nervous systems of Calc. are no less remarkable than the bodily. The Calc.

patient is slow in movements (Su/. quick and active). The state of mind is one of apprehension.

The patient fears she will lose her reason, or that people will notice her mental confusion. Fears

she has some fatal disease, especially heart disease. Shuddering and dread as evening, draws

near. Sees visions on closing eyes (hence useful in delirium tremens). Cries out, twitches, grasps

at flocks; restless and anxious though unconscious (nervous and typhoid fever); beside herself

with anguish; on the borders of acute mania. Evil forebodings; talks of Mice, rats, murders.

Forgetful. The epilepsy of Calc. has an aura spreading up from the solar plexus, in which case

the convulsion comes on immediately; or it may be like a mouse running on the arm; or it may

run down from epigastrium into uterus or limbs. The causes are fright, suppressed eruptions and

discharges, sexual excesses. Rush of blood to head; a sensation of something rising up from

epigastrium to head is very characteristic. Trembling, twitching; internal trembling sensation on

awaking. Fainting, coming on in the street with sensation of something rising from stomach to

head. Talking = a feeling of weakness which compels him to desist. Exertion or excitement =

exhaustion, though he may feel well before. Ascending = great weakness. Exhaustion in the

morning. Vertigo: tendency to fall to left; to either side; backward. Caused by turning head; <

• ▸looking upward; going (especially running) upstairs.
• ▸Sensation as if in a dream.
• ▸Calc.
• ▸is one of

the remedies that has been used for the sensation of levitation. Aversion to darkness. Cloud

coming over head. In sleep the mental symptoms come out again: the patient is either abnormally

• ▸sleepy or sleepless.
• ▸Wakes 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, and cannot get to sleep again; tosses about.
• ▸Horrible

phantasms. The child wakes in the night screaming and cannot be pacified; in the morning

remembers nothing of it. Chews and swallows in sleep. Frightful dreams of sickness, death, and

smell of corpses.

• ▸Neuralgias and paralyses are among the Calc.
• ▸effects.
• ▸A remarkable case (of Dr.
• ▸Mayntzer's)

• ▸improved by Silic.
• ▸and cured by Calc.
• ▸is quoted in Hom.
• ▸League Tract, vol.
• ▸11.
• ▸p.
• ▸108.
• ▸A girl of

nineteen had had for some months neuralgic pains in both arms, coming on every evening,

lasting all night, and being replaced during the day with sensation of lameness and weakness.

Pressure and movements aggravated. Hands trembling, numb, fingers often remained opened out

stiff and could not be bent. The Silica symptoms are: "Tearing pains in upper arm. Pain as of

dislocation at wrist. Cramp pain and lameness of hand on slight exertion. Gone-to-sleep feeling

• ▸of hands at night.
• ▸Numbness and formication of hands.
• ▸Restlessness and trembling in right arm.
• ▸"

The symptoms of Calc. are: "Bruised pain of arms on moving or grasping. Pain as if sprained in

wrist, with shooting and tearing in it when moved. Tearing in whole arm, shooting, tearing pain

in upper arm and elbow. Nocturnal tearing and drawing in arms. Spasmodic tearing pain on outer

side of forearm from elbow to wrist. Cramp in whole of one or other arm. Cramp in hands at

night until she rises in morning. Cramp-like contraction of fingers. Pain and weakness of hands;

• ▸trembling of hands in morning.
• ▸Weakness and a kind of lameness of arm.
• ▸Fingers feel furry.
• ▸"

Both remedies were given, and great improvement occurred under Si/ic., but as the pain was not

gone the patient took Calc. (which was only to be taken in case of need) on the fifth day. On the

sixth day the pain was gone "as if blown away," as the patient expressed it—and no wonder! It

would be difficult to find a closer simillimum. The general condition of the patient underwent a

complete change for the better at the same time. Both remedies were given in globules of 6th. Dr.

Van den Neucker (H. Recorder, 1886, p. 139) once cured a baker of paralysis of both arms with

Calc.; and also a case of paralysis with many symptoms of locomotor ataxy in a lymphatic

blonde girl of nineteen.

According to Guernsey Calc. is in general a right-side remedy. It affects specially right external

head; right eye; right face; right abdominal ring; sexual organs right side; right back; right upper

extremities. Left side neck and nape of neck; left chest; left ower extremities. Complaints

prevailing in inner parts. Among the sensations of Calc. are: Pain as if the parts would burst,

were pressed asunder, were pushed asunder; as if cold, damp stockings were on the feet.

Creeping on the limbs like a mouse. Pain as if sprained in outer parts. Sensation of dust in inner

parts as the eye, bronchial tubes. Pricking, darting, jerking, trembling; itching > by scratching. It

is often indicated in epilepsy, disposition to strain a part by lifting heavy things, pricking corns,

polypus, cysts, occurring in leucophlegmatic constitutions. Where a cold wind strikes the body

and it immediately runs to the teeth, causing them to ache. Ranula. Flatulence or gurgling in right

• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸Cramp in legs at 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸Hands chap from hard water.

Alexander Villers cured with Calc. c. 200 in rare doses a case combining many of the features of

the remedy. The patient, a lady, zt. 20, very despondent through long-continued depressing

circumstances, became very nervous. She was companion to an exceedingly deaf lady, whose

voice was high-pitched. This, with the strain on her voice to make herself heard, caused

headache through temples > by rapid motion of head. Outdoor exercise was accompanied by

hard pressure on chest, which only eructations seemed to relieve. Bowels constipated. Menses

every fortnight, with backache and great prostration. Under the remedy, repeated at rare

intervals, the menses came on monthly, headache and pressure on chest disappeared.

Among the Conditions of Calc., dread of the open air ranks most prominently; the least cold air

• ▸goes right through.
• ▸Great sensitiveness to cold, damp air.
• ▸Also cannot bear sun.
• ▸The slightest

change <. Dread of bathing and water. There is inclination to stretch and put the shoulders back;

but straightening < rheumatism. Calc. is hydrogenoid and sycotic—sensitive to cold and damp

and early morning aggravation. Warts and polypi also point to the same constitutional state. The

• ▸Calc.
• ▸patient generally feels better when constipated.
• ▸The diarrhoea of Calc.
• ▸is generally < in

• ▸afternoon.
• ▸There is painless hoarseness < in morning.
• ▸"The Calc.
• ▸pains are most generally felt

while lying in bed, or while sitting; they are felt in the parts upon which the body has been lying

• ▸for a time" (Teste).
• ▸There is < after midnight and in early morning; on awaking.
• ▸Chill at 2 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸In

the evening, 6 to 7, there is fever without chill, < from working in water or bathing, < at full

moon; at new moon and at solstice. < After eating (smoked meats, milk); when fasting. < By

• ▸mental exertion (writing).
• ▸< From pressure of clothes.
• ▸< From lifting; from stooping.
• ▸< Walking

in open air, cold air, wet weather, to which he is very sensitive. < From letting limbs hang down.

In spite of the sensitiveness to cold, cannot bear sun. < From light in general; from looking

fixedly at any object; from looking upward; from turning the head. Some symptoms are >

inspiring fresh air; and during heat, uncovers. > After breakfast; on rising from drawing up

limbs; from loosening garments. > In the dark when lying on the back; after lying down; from

rubbing, from scratching; in dry weather; wiping or soothing with the hands; from being touched.

Great weakness on ascending, on walking, talking (chests feels weak), or excitement.

• ▸Alcohol.
• ▸Cold, moist winds.
• ▸Excessive venery.
• ▸Self-abuse.
• ▸Injury to lower spine.

• ▸Over-lifting.
• ▸Strains.
• ▸Mental strain.
• ▸Losses of fluids.
• ▸Suppressed sweat.
• ▸Suppressed eruption.

Suppressed menses. Fright.

• ▸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.

Melancholy, dejection, and sadness.—Disposition to weep, even about

trifles——Vexation and lamentation, on account of old offences.—Anxiety and anguish, excited by

fancies, or frightful stories, also with shuddering and dread during the twilight, or at

night.—Excessive anguish, with palpitations of the heart, ebullition of the blood, and shocks in

• ▸the epigastrium.
• ▸—Anxious agitation, forbidding rest.
• ▸—Disposition to take alarm.
• ▸—Sadness, with

• ▸heaviness in the limbs.
• ▸—Apprehensions.
• ▸—Easily frightened or offended.
• ▸—Children are self-

willed.—Despair in consequence of the impaired condition of the health; or hypochondriacal

humour, with fear of being ill or unfortunate, of experiencing sad accidents, of losing the reason,

of being infected by contagious diseases.—Discouragement and fear of death_—Impatience,

excessive excitability, and excessive liability to mental impressions; the least noise

fatigues.—Excessive ill-humour and mischievous inclination, with obstinacy and a disposition to

take everything in bad part.—Indifference, apathy, and repugnance to conversation.—Aversion to

• ▸others.
• ▸—Solitude is insupportable.
• ▸—Disgust and aversion to all labour whatever.
• ▸—Absence of

will.—Great weakness of memory and of conception, with difficulty in thinking. —Dizziness of

mind.—Tendency to make mistakes in speaking, and to take one word for another.—She fears she

will lose her understanding, or that people will observe her confusion of mind.—Loss of sense

and errors of imagination —Delirium with visions of fires, murders, rats and mice.

Cramps and contractions of the limbs (which draw the limbs crooked), esp. of

• ▸the fingers and toes.
• ▸—Wrenching pains.
• ▸—Pulsative pains.
• ▸—Shootings and drawing pains in the

limbs, chiefly at night, or in summer, and on change of weather.—Stinging and cutting in outer

• ▸and inner parts.
• ▸—Arthritic tearing in the muscles.
• ▸—Arthritic nodosities.
• ▸—Attacks of torpor and

paleness of some parts of the body, which appear as if dead —Great tendency to strain the back in

lifting, often followed by pains in the throat, or stiffness and swelling of the nape of the neck,

with headache.—Tendency of the limbs to numbness.—Bleeding from inner parts —Sensation of

dryness of inner parts.—Ebullition of the blood, mostly in plethoric individuals, and often with

congestion in the head and chest.—Startings in different limbs.—Epileptic convulsions, also at

night with cries; during the full moon; with hallooing and shouting —The symptoms are

aggravated or renewed after labouring in the water, as well as in the evening, at night, in the

morning, after a meal, and every second day.—The sufferings are periodical and

intermittent——Great uneasiness, which forces the patient to move constantly and to walk

much.—Visible quivering of the skin, from the feet to the head, with which he becomes

dizzy.—Trembling of the inner parts.—Frequent trembling of the whole body, increased in the

• ▸open air.
• ▸—St.
• ▸Vitus' dance.
• ▸—Pain, as from a bruise, in the arms and in the legs, and also in the

loins, esp. on moving, and on going upstairs.—General uneasiness in the evening, as preceding an

attack of intermittent fever—Want of strength, and dejection, chiefly in the morning

early.—Fatigue and nervous weakness, often with paleness of the face, palpitation of the heart,

vertigo, shivering, pain in the loins. —Fainting, esp. in the evening, with obscuration of the eyes,

sweat on the face, and cold in the body.—Great fatigue after speaking, or after a moderate walk in

the open air, as well as after the least exertion, with ready and abundant perspiration.—Strong

desire to be magnetised.—Excessive dejection, sometimes with violent fits of spasmodic

laughter.—Tendency in children and young persons to grow very fat.—Bloatedness of the body

and of the face, with enlargement of the abdomen, in children.—Emaciation (with swelled

abdomen), without failure of appetite —Great plumpness and excessive obesity.—Sensation of

coldness in inner parts—Great tendency to take cold, and great sensibility to cold and damp

air.—On walking in the open air, sadness with tears, headache, inflation of the abdomen,

palpitation of the heart, sweat, great fatigue, and many other sufferings.

• ▸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.

Head compressed, as if by a vice.—Dizziness after scratching behind the ear; or else,

before breakfast, with trembling —Headache, with empty eructations, and nausea, vertigo; < from

mental exertions, stooping, or walking in the open air; > by closing the eyes, and by lying

down.—Vertigo, sometimes with obscuration of the eyes, on mounting to a great height, or only a

flight of stairs, on walking in the open air, on turning the head briskly, or after a fit of

anger.—Vertigo at night, in the evening, or in the morning —Headache from over-lifting,

straining the back, or from having wrapped the head in a handkerchief, or in consequence of a

chill—Headache every morning on waking.—Attacks of semi-lateral headache, with risings and

nausea.—Pulsations in the occiput.—Pains in the head, producing giddiness, pressive or pulsative,

< esp. by reading, writing, or any other intellectual labour, as well by spirituous drinks, or by

stooping.—Fulness and heaviness of the head, esp. of the forehead, with shutting of the eyes, <

by movement and physical exertion.—Heat in the vertex.—Pressive pains at the vertex, appearing

in the open air—Tensive and cramp-like pains, with pressure outwards, commencing from the

temples and extending to the vertex.—Drawing pains in the right side of the forehead; the part is

painful when touched.—Shooting pains in the head.—Piercing in the forehead, as if the head were

going to burst.—Pains of hammering in the head, which force the patient to lie down, and which

• ▸appear esp.
• ▸after a walk in the open air.
• ▸—Icy coldness in and on the head, esp.
• ▸at the r.
• ▸side, with

pale, puffed face Congestion in the head.—Congestion of blood to the head, with heat and

stupefying headache; with redness of the face and bloatedness; < in the morning when awaking,

and from spirituous drinks.—Buzzing and pains in the head, with heat of the cheeks and in the

head.—Movement of the brain on walking.—Immense size of the head, with the fontanel open in

children.—Sweat on the head (profuse, particularly where it stands out in large, bead-like drops,

and in such profusion as to soak the pillow thoroughly; it may run down upon the face and neck)

in the evening.—Profuse perspiration, mostly on the back part of the head and on the neck (in the

• ▸evening).
• ▸—Strong disposition to take cold through the head.
• ▸—Scabs on the scalp.
• ▸—Scaling off of

the skin at the scalp (dandriff; milk crust).—Painful sensibility in the roots of the hair.—Falling

off of the hair (sides of head—temples).—Tumours and boils in the scalp, which tend to

suppuration.

• ▸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.

Aching in the eyes.—Itching and shooting in the eyes.—Pressure, itching, burning and

stinging in the eyes.—Smarting, burning, and incisive pains in the eyes and the eyelids, esp. on

reading during the day, or by candle-light.—Sensation of cold in the eyes.—Eyes inflamed, with

redness of the sclerotica and abundant secretion of mucus.—Inflammation of the eyes from

foreign bodies coming into them; in infants or scrofulous subjects.—Ulcers, spots, and opacity of

• ▸cornea.
• ▸—Dimness of the cornea.
• ▸—Flow of blood from the eyes.
• ▸—Inflammation and swelling of

the corners of the eyes.—Lachrymal suppurating fistula—Lachrymation, esp. in the open air, or

early in the morning.—Quivering in the eyelids.—Red and thick swelling of the eyelids, with

abundant secretion of humour and nocturnal agglutination.—Closing of the eyelids in the

morning.—Pupils greatly dilated —Confusion of sight, as if there were a mist, a veil, or down,

before the eyes, chiefly on reading, and on observing an object attentively.—Obscuration of the

sight on reading, or after a meal.—A dark spot is seen before the eyes, on reading, to accompany

the letters—Great photophobia and dazzling from too strong a light—Presbyopia.

• ▸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.

Shootings in the ears.—Pulsation, beating, and heat in the ears.—Internal and external

inflammation and swelling of the ear—Purulent discharge from the ears—Humid eruption upon

and behind the ears.—Polypus in the ears —Humming, buzzing, tingling, or rumbling, sometimes

alternately with music, in the ears.—Crackling and detonation in the ears, when swallowing and

when chewing.—Sensation, at intervals, of stoppage in the ears, and hardness of

hearing.—Hardness of hearing, esp. after the suppression of intermittent fever by

Quinine.—Inflammatory swelling of the parotids.

• ▸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.

Inflammation of the nose, with redness and swelling, chiefly at the

extremity.—Ulcerated and scabby nostrils.—Epistaxis, chiefly morning and night, sometimes

producing fainting.—Fetid smell from the nose.—Sense of smell dull, or exceedingly

sensitive.—Painful dryness in the nose.—Obstruction of the nose by yellowish and fetid

• ▸pus.
• ▸—Polypus of the nose.
• ▸—Dry coryza, in the morning, with frequent sneezing.
• ▸—Excessive

fluent coryza.—Coryza, alternately with cutting pains in the abdomen.—Fetid odour before the

nose, as if from a dunghill, rotten eggs, or gunpowder.

• ▸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.

Yellow colour of the face.——Face pale and hollow, with eyes sunk and surrounded by a

livid circle-—Red patches on the cheeks.—Heat, redness, and puffing of the face ——Erysipelas in

one cheek.—Ephelis on the cheeks.—Itching and eruption on the face, chiefly on the forehead, in

the cheeks, and in the region of the whiskers, sometimes humid and scabby, with burning heat

• ▸(sycosis menti).
• ▸—Milk crusts.
• ▸—Acute pains in the face and the bones of the face.
• ▸—Swelling of the

face without heat——Pale bloatedness of the face.—Eruptions and scabs on the lips and round the

• ▸mouth.
• ▸—Lips cracked —Swelling of the upper lip.
• ▸—Ulcerated corners of the mouth.
• ▸—Fissures in

the ulcerated lips ——Attacks of torpor and paleness in the lips, which appear as if dead.—Painful

swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.

• ▸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.

Accumulation of mucus in the mouth—Constant spitting of acid saliva.—Vesicles in

the mouth and on the tongue —Cramp-like contraction of the mouth.—Dryness of the tongue and

of the mouth, chiefly at night and in the morning on waking.—Swelling of the tongue, sometimes

on one side.—Tongue loaded with a white coating —Burning and pain as of excoriation on the

tongue and in the mouth.—Tongue difficult to move, with embarrassed and indistinct

speech.—Ranula under the tongue.

Toothache, aggravated or excited by a current of air, or by cold air, or by taking

anything too hot or cold, or by noise, or else during and after the catamenia; the pains are, for the

most part, shooting, piercing, contractive, pulsative, or gnawing, and digging, with a sensation as

of excoriation.—Toothache at night, as if from congestion of blood.—Sensation of lengthening

and loosening of the teeth —Fetid odour of the teeth —Painful sensibility of the gums, with

shootings.—Difficult dentition —Ready bleeding and swelling of the gums, with throbbings and

pulsations.—Fistulous ulcers in the gums of the lower jaw.

Sore throat, as if from a plug or a swelling in the gullet —Constriction in the throat,

and cramp-like contraction of the gullet—Excoriation of the gullet, with shooting and pressure

on swallowing.—Inflammatory swelling of the gullet and of the uvula, which are of a deep red

colour, and covered with vesicles Swelling of the amygdalz, with sensation of contraction in

the throat on swallowing.—Affection in the throat after straining the back.—Hawking up of

mucus.

• ▸Swelling of tonsils and submaxillary glands; stitches on swallowing.
• ▸Hawking-up of mucus.
• ▸Difficult swallowing.
• ▸Goitre.
• ▸Parotid fistula.

• ▸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).

Unpleasant taste in the mouth, mostly bitter, or sour, or metallic, esp. in the

• ▸morning.
• ▸—Insipidity, or sickly or sour taste of food.
• ▸—Burning or constant thirst, esp.
• ▸for cold

drinks, and often with total absence of appetite.—Continued violent thirst for cold drinks (at

• ▸night).
• ▸—Hunger, a short time after having eaten.
• ▸—Bulimy, generally in the morning.
• ▸—Prolonged

distaste for meat and hot food.—Repugnance to tobacco-smoke; desire for salt things, for wine,

and for dainties—Weakness of digestion.—After having taken milk, nausea or acid

regurgitations.—After a meal, heat or inflation of the abdomen, with nausea and headache, pain

in the abdomen or in the stomach, or else risings and water-brash, or dejection or

drowsiness.—Risings, with taste of undigested, or bitter, or sour food.

Pyrosis after every meal, and noisy and constant eructations.—Eructations tasting

• ▸like the ingesta.
• ▸—Regurgitation of sour substances.
• ▸—Frequent nausea, esp.
• ▸in the morning, in the

evening, or at night, sometimes with shuddering, obscuration of sight, and fainting.—Sour

vomitings.—Sour vomiting, esp. in children, and during dentition —Vomiting of food, or of bitter

mucus, often with incisive and cramp-like pains in the abdomen.—Black or sanguineous

vomiting.—Flow of saliva from the stomach, even after a meal.—The vomitings appear chiefly in

the morning, at night, or after a meal—Pressive, or pinching pain in the stomach, or cramp-like

and contractive pains, chiefly after a meal, and often with vomiting of food.—Cramps in the

stomach at night.—Pressure on the stomach, even when fasting, or in coughing, or with pressure

on the hypochondria, or else with squeezing as if from a claw, on walking.—Pinchings, cutting

pains, and nocturnal aching in the epigastrium.—Inflation and swelling of the epigastrium and of

the region of the stomach, with painful sensibility of those parts to the touch (they look like a

saucer turned bottom up).—Pain, as of excoriation, and burning in the stomach.

• ▸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.

Pains generally shooting, or tensive, or pressive, with swelling and induration of

the hepatic region.—Stinging pain in the liver (during or after stooping).—Painful pulling from

the hypochondria and the back, with vertigo and obscuration of sight.—Tension in the two

hypochondria.—Inability to wear tight clothes round the hypochondria.—Tension and inflation of

the abdomen.—Frequent gripings and shootings in the sides of the abdomen, in children.—Colic,

with cramp-like and gnawing contractive pains, esp. in the afternoon, and sometimes with

vomiting of food.—Frequent attacks of griping, chiefly in the epigastrium.—Shootings or

pinchings, and aching in the abdomen, even without diarrhcea.—The pains in the abdomen appear

chiefly in the morning, in the evening, or at night, as well as after a meal—Sensation of cold in

the abdomen.—Pain, as of excoriation and burning, in the abdomen.—Swelling and induration of

the mesenteric glands Enlargement and hardness of the abdomen.—Incarceration of

flatulency.—Pressure of wind towards the inguinal ring, as if hernia were about to protrude, with

noise and borborygmi.—Painful pressure, pullings, griping, and shootings, or heaviness or

traction in the groins—Swelling and painful sensibility of the inguinal glands.

• ▸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.

Constipation.—Evacuations suspended, hard, in small quantity, and often

with undigested substances.—Ineffectual efforts to evacuate, sometimes with pain.—Difficult

evacuation, and only every two days.—Relaxation of the abdomen, frequent or continual; two

evacuations a day.—Evacuations like clay, in small quantity, knotty, or serous, or in the form of

pap.—White evacuations, sometimes with streaks of blood and hepatic pains, on touching the

region of the liver, and on breathing.—Diarrhcea of sour smell; putrid; during

dentition —Involuntary and frothy evacuations.—Diarrhcea, of a sour smell, or fetid, or yellowish,

in infants.—Ejection of ascarides and of tenia—Prolapsus of the rectum during

evacuation.—Before the evacuation, great irascibility.—After the evacuation, dejection, and

relaxation of the limbs.—Flow of blood from the anus during the evacuation, also at other

times.—Swelling, and frequent protrusion of hemorrhoidal excrescences, esp. during the

evacuations, with burning pain.—Cramps, tenesmus, and contraction of the rectum.—Burning in

the rectum and in the anus, with itching and tingling.—Burning eruption, in the form of a cluster,

in the anus.—Excoriation at the anus, and between the buttocks and the thighs.—Affections of the

rectum, as fissures, which are very painful, bleeding after every stool, followed by extreme

exhaustion.

Tenesmus of the bladder —Too frequent emission of urine, even in the

night—Wetting the bed_—Deep-coloured urine, without sediment.—Urine red like blood, or a

brownish red, of an acrid, pungent, and fetid smell, with white and mealy sediment.—Passing of

• ▸blood.
• ▸—Flow of blood from the urethra.
• ▸—Abundant discharge of mucus with the urine.
• ▸—Polypus

of the bladder —Burning in the urethra, when making water, and at other times.

• ▸Dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody.
• ▸Irritable bladder.
• ▸Enuresis (Use 30th, also Tuberculin.
• ▸1 m.
• ▸).

• ▸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.

Catamenia premature and too copious.—Sterility, with catamenia

too early, and too profuse.—Before the catamenia, mamme swollen and painful, fatigue,

headache, disposition to be frightened, colic, and shivering.—During the catamenia, congestion in

the head, with internal heat, or cuttings in the abdomen, and cramp-like pain in the lumbar

region, or else vertigo, headache, toothache, nausea, colic, and other sufferings —Suppressed

menstruation, with full habit—Miscarriage.—Voluptuous sensation in the genital parts, with

• ▸emission.
• ▸—Flow of blood at a time different from the catamenia.
• ▸—Metrorrhagia.
• ▸—Itching or

pressing in the vagina.—Shootings in the orifice of the matrix, and pressive pain in the

• ▸vagina.
• ▸—Prolapsus uteri, with pressure on the parts.
• ▸—Itching in the womb.
• ▸—Inflammation and

swelling of the womb, with redness, purulent discharge, and burning pain.—Varices in the labia

majora.—Leucorrhcea before the catamenia.—Leucorrheea, with burning itching, or else like milk,

flowing by fits, and during the emission of urine.—Pain, as of excoriation and ulceration, in the

nipples.—Inflammatory swelling of the mamme and of the nipples —Swelling of the glands of

the breast.—Breasts painful and tender before menses.—Milk too abundant, or suppressed.

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

Inflammation of the prepuce, with redness and burning

pain.—Pressure, and pain as from a bruise, in the testes.—Weakness of the genital functions, and

absence of sexual desire —Increase of sexual desire, with voluptuous and lascivious

ideas.—Absence of pollutions, or great frequency of them.—Erections of too short continuance,

and emission of semen too slow and too feeble during coition.—Lancinations and burning in the

genital parts, during the emission of semen in coition.—After coition, confusion of the head and

weakness.—Flow of prostatic fluid, after evacuation and emission of urine.

• ▸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).

Ulceration of the larynx.—Ulceration of the lungs.—Frequent or long-

continued hoarseness.—Hoarseness (painless).—Sensation, as if something were torn loose in the

trachea.—A bundant accumulation of mucus in the larynx and in the bronchia.—Cough, without

expectoration, excited by a tickling in the throat, and often accompanied by vomiting.—Tickling

cough, caused by a sensation of dust in the larynx.—Short cough in the day, as if from a feather

in the throat—Cough excited by playing on the piano, or by eating.—Cough in the evening, in

bed, or at night, when asleep, or in the morning, and generally violent and dry (with

expectoration during the day, but not at night), sometimes even spasmodic.—Cough, with

expectoration of thick mucus; gray; bloody; purulent; tasting sour; or yellowish and fetid,

generally at night, or in the morning. —Expectoration of purulent matter, on coughing. —Cough,

with expectoration of blood, pain of excoriation in the chest, vertigo, and unsteady walk.—On

coughing, pressure in the stomach, shootings or shocks in the head, and pains in the chest.

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

Obstructed breathing on stooping, walking against the wind, or on lying

down.—Urgent inclination to inspire deeply.—Sensation, as if respiration were obstructed

between the shoulder-blades.—Oppression at the chest, as if from congestion of blood, with

tension, mitigated by bringing shoulder-blades together.—Wheezing respiration.—Shortness of

breath, chiefly on ascending.—Anxious oppression of the chest, as if it were too narrow, and

could not be sufficiently dilated —Great difficulty of respiration.—Sensation of fatigue in the

• ▸chest after speaking.
• ▸—Anxious feeling in the chest.
• ▸—Pressure on the chest.
• ▸—Shootings in the

chest and the sides, esp. during movement, on breathing deeply, and when lying on the side

• ▸affected.
• ▸—Shocks in the chest.
• ▸—Sensibility, and pain, as from excoriation, in the chest.
• ▸esp.

during inspiration and on being touched.—Burning in the chest.

Palpitation of the heart, also at night, or after a meal, sometimes with anxiety and

trembling movements of the heart—Shootings, pressure, and contraction in the region of the

heart.—Pricking shootings in the muscles of the chest.

• ▸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.

Rigidity of the neck.—Hard and strumous swelling of the thyroid

gland.—Hard and painful swelling of the glands of the neck—Tumour between the shoulder-

blades.—Suppuration of the axillary glands.—Pains, as of dislocation, in the loins, back, and in

the neck, as if caused by a strain in lifting a weight.—Pain in the small of the back (as if

sprained); he can scarcely rise from his seat, after being seated Shooting pains in the shoulder-

blades, loins, and back.—Nocturnal pains in the back.—Pains in the lumbar region, when riding in

a catriage.—Drawing between the shoulder-blades, or pressive pain, with sensation of

suffocation.—Pressive pain between the shoulder-blades, impeding breathing, when

moving.—Swelling, and distortion of the spine.

Drawing pains in the arms, even at night—Cramp, and cramp-like pains, in

• ▸the arms, hands, and fingers.
• ▸—Sudden attacks of paralytic weakness in the arms (1.
• ▸).
• ▸—Acute,

cramp-like pains in the forearm.—Furunculi on the forearm.—Pains, as of dislocation, in the

• ▸wrist-joint (r.
• ▸).
• ▸—Swelling of the hands.
• ▸—Arthritic nodosities, swelling of the wrist, and of the

• ▸joints of the fingers.
• ▸—Swelling of the veins of the hands.
• ▸—Sweating of the hands.
• ▸—Perspiration

of the palms of the hands.—Trembling of the hands.—Hands and fingers dead, even in a warm

temperature, and esp. on taking hold of an object.—Warts on the arms and on the

hands.—Furunculi on the hands and the fingers.—Tingling in the fingers, as when they are

asleep.—Frequent paralytic weakness in the fingers—Heavy movement of the

fingers.—Contraction of the fingers.—Panaris.

Drawing lancinations, or incisive, acute pains in the hips and in the thighs,

chiefly when resting upon them.—Limping, which occurs when resting on the toes in

walking.—Weight and stiffness of the legs —Cramps in the legs.—Pain, as of dislocation, in the

joints of the hips, knees, and the feet.—The legs go to sleep when one is seated.—Itching in the

• ▸thighs and the feet.
• ▸—Varices in the legs.
• ▸—Tearing and stinging in the knee.
• ▸—Drawings,

shootings, and acute pains in the knees, esp. when standing or sitting, also when walking.—The

child is late learning to walk.—Swelling of the knees —Tension in the ham, when in a squatting

position.—Cramps in the hams, the calves of the legs, the soles of the feet, and the toes, chiefly

on extending the legs, pulling on boots, or during the night.—Red spots on the legs.—Phlegmasia

• ▸alba dolens.
• ▸—Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the legs.
• ▸—Ulcers on the legs.
• ▸—Swelling

of the malleoli and of the soles of the feet—Inflammatory swelling of the instep.—Furunculi on

the feet and legs.—Burning in the soles of the feet—Sweating of the feet.—In the evening,

coldness and numbness of the feet; esp. at night, in bed. —Painful sensibility of the great,

toe—Corns on the feet, with burning pain, as of excoriation.—Contraction of the toes.

• ▸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.

• ▸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.

Flaccidity of the skin —Visible quivering of the skin from head to foot, followed by

• ▸giddiness.
• ▸—Burning, smarting, itching.
• ▸—Ephelis.
• ▸—Nettlerash, mostly disappearing in the fresh

air.—Eruption of lenticular red and raised spots, with great heat, much thirst, and want of

appetite —Skin hot and dry during motion.—Skin of the body rough, dry, and as if covered with a

kind of miliary eruption.—Furfuraceous coating of the skin; burning; chapped.—Humid, scabby

eruptions and tetters, or in form of clusters, with burning pains.—Itching pemphigus over the

whole body.—Skin excoriated in several places.—Skin unhealthy; every injury tends to

ulceration; even small wounds suppurate and do not heal.—Ulcers deep; fistulous;

• ▸carious.
• ▸—Ulcers with too little pus—Erysipelatous inflammations.
• ▸—Furunculi.
• ▸—Warts.
• ▸—Corns,

with pain as of excoriation, and burning. —Polypus (nose, ear, uterus).—Encysted tumours, which

are renewed and suppurate every month.—Bloatedness.—Swelling and induration of the glands,

• ▸with or without pain.
• ▸Varices.
• ▸—Arthritic nodosities.
• ▸—Swelling; softening; curvature of; stinging

• ▸in; caries and distortion of the bones.
• ▸—Ulceration of the bones.
• ▸—Panaris.
• ▸—Flaws in the fingers.

• ▸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.

Drowsiness in the day and early in the evening.—Retarded sleep and sleeplessness

from activity of mind, or in consequence of voluptuous or frightful images, which appear as soon

as the eyes are shut.—During sleep, talking, groans, cries, and starts, anxiety which continues

after waking, or movements of the mouth, as if one were chewing or swallowing.—Snoring

during sleep.—Dreams frequent, vivid, anxious, fantastic, confused, frightful, and horrible; or

dreams of sick and dead persons.—Sleep disturbed, with tossing about and frequent

waking.—Sleep of too short duration, from eleven in the evening till two or three in the morning

only.—Waking too early, sometimes even at midnight.—At night, agitation, asthmatic suffering,

anxiety, heat, pains in the stomach and in the precordial region, thirst, beatings of the head,

toothache, vertigo, headache, ebullition of the blood, fear of losing the reason, pains in the limbs,

and many other sufferings.—On waking, lassitude, exhaustion, and desire to sleep, as if the

patient had not slept at all.—Fearful of fantastic dreams during sleep.

• ▸Chill at2 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.

Pulse full, accelerated or tremulous.—Excessive cold, internally.—Shivering and

shuddering, principally in the evening, or in the morning after rising.—Heat with thirst, followed

by chilliness.—Frequent attacks of transient heat, with anguish and beating of the heart—Heat in

the evening, or in bed at night.—Quotidian fever towards two o'clock in the afternoon, with

yawning and cough, followed by general heat, with desire to lie down, at least for three hours,

after which the hands become cold; all with absence of thirst—Tertian fever in the evening, at

first heat of face, followed by shivering.—Profuse sweat by day, after moderate corporeal

exercise.—Sweat with anxiety Nocturnal sweat, chiefly on the chest.—Sweat in the morning.

• ▸Abdomen, large.
• ▸Acidity.
• ▸Alcohol, effects of.
• ▸Anemia.
• ▸Ankles, weak.
• ▸Appetite,

• ▸depraved.
• ▸Beard, sycosis of.
• ▸Bone, disease of.
• ▸Brachial neuralgia.
• ▸Breasts, painful.
• ▸Bronchial

• ▸glands, affections of.
• ▸Calculus.
• ▸Caries.
• ▸Cataract.
• ▸Chilblains.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Cold.
• ▸Consumption.

• ▸Corpulency.
• ▸Coryza.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Coxalgia.
• ▸Croup.
• ▸Crusta lactea.
• ▸Debility.
• ▸Delirtum tremens.

• ▸Dentition.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Ear, affections of.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Epulis.
• ▸Eyes,

• ▸affections of.
• ▸Fever, intermittent.
• ▸Fistula.
• ▸Gall-stones.
• ▸Glandular swellings.
• ▸Gleet.
• ▸Goitre.

• ▸Gonorrheea.
• ▸Gouty swellings.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Hernia.
• ▸Herpes.
• ▸Hydrocephalus.
• ▸Hypochondriasis.

• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Impotence.
• ▸Joints, affections of.
• ▸Lactation, defective.
• ▸Leucocythemia.
• ▸Leucorrhea.

• ▸Lupus.
• ▸Masturbation.
• ▸Melancholia.
• ▸Menstruation, disorders of.
• ▸Milk-fever.
• ▸Miller's phthisis.

• ▸Miscarriage.
• ▸Molluscum contagiosum.
• ▸Neevus.
• ▸Nervous fever.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Night terrors.

• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Parotitis.
• ▸Peritonitis.
• ▸Perspiration.
• ▸Plethora.
• ▸Polypus.
• ▸Pregnancy.
• ▸Prosopalgia.

• ▸Psoriasis palmaris.
• ▸Ranula.
• ▸Renal colic.
• ▸Rhagades.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Rickets.
• ▸Ringworm.
• ▸Sciatica.

• ▸Scrofula.
• ▸Skin, affections of.
• ▸Sleep, disorders of.
• ▸Sleeplessness.
• ▸Smell, disorder of: Spinal

• ▸affections.
• ▸Stone-cutter's phthisis.
• ▸Strains.
• ▸Sycosis.
• ▸Sycosis menti.
• ▸Tabes mesenterica.

• ▸Tapeworm.
• ▸Taste, disordered.
• ▸Teeth, carious.
• ▸Toothache.
• ▸Trachea, affections of.
• ▸Tuberculosis.

• ▸Tumours.
• ▸Typhoid.
• ▸Urticaria.
• ▸Uterus, affections of.
• ▸Varices.
• ▸Vertigo.
• ▸Walking, late.
• ▸Warts.

Whitlow. Worms.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸, Ip.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸sp.
• ▸dulc.
• ▸, Nux, Sul.
• ▸Antidote to: Bism.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸,

• ▸Chi.
• ▸sul.
• ▸, Dig.
• ▸, Mez.
• ▸(headache), Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Phos.
• ▸Follows well: Cham.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Cup.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸,

• ▸Nux, Pul.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸(especially if the pupils dilate).
• ▸Fo//owed well by: Lyc.
• ▸, Nux, Pho.
• ▸, Plat.
• ▸, Sil.

• ▸Hahnemann says that Calc.
• ▸must not be given before Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, or Sul.
• ▸Complementary: Bell.

• ▸Incompatible: Bry.
• ▸Compare: Alum.
• ▸and Am.
• ▸mur, (tightness of chest); Arn.
• ▸(strains, &c.
• ▸);

• ▸Arsen.
• ▸(swollen mesenteric glands).
• ▸Calcarea ovi testa, Calc.
• ▸ars.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸ph.
• ▸, and other Calcareas.

• ▸In ardor.
• ▸urinze (Sep.
• ▸, burning and cutting; Canth.
• ▸, cutting); losses of fluids (Chi.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸); left tonsil

• ▸(Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸); nausea when fasting (Pul.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸); leucorrhcea, acrid or bland (Graph.
• ▸,

• ▸Sul.
• ▸, Alum.
• ▸); glandular enlargement; alcohol, effects of (Ars.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Nux, Lach.
• ▸); acid stomach

• ▸(Chi.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Rob.
• ▸); menses too copious and too early (Bell.
• ▸); one side of tongue

• ▸(Lauro.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Thu.
• ▸); waking at 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸(Bellis, Nux, Kalic.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸); swelling and painfulness

• ▸of breasts before menses (Con.
• ▸—Con.
• ▸is an anti-fat, like Calc.
• ▸, precedes and follows it well; suits

well Calc. subjects who have scanty menses, Bell. corresponds otherwise); dread of losing senses

• ▸(Lyc.
• ▸, Nux, Sul.
• ▸); levitation, as if raised from the ground (Sil.
• ▸, Can.
• ▸1.
• ▸, Sticta, Gelsem.
• ▸, Asar.
• ▸,

• ▸Thu.
• ▸; Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸has feeling as if legs were raised above the level of head); prosopalgia > by warm

• ▸fomentations (Pul.
• ▸); sinking immediately after meals (Ars.
• ▸, Cin.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸, Ur.
• ▸n.
• ▸); cough

• ▸when eating or in open air Rx.
• ▸c.
• ▸(after eating, Nux, Ip.
• ▸; < change of temperature, Lach.
• ▸; <

• ▸current of cold air, Sil.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸); ravenous hunger (Ars.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Cin.
• ▸, Iod.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Stp.
• ▸); hot breath

• ▸(Sul.
• ▸, Rhus); aversion to darkness (Am.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸a.
• ▸, Stro.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸); > uncovering (Aco.
• ▸,

• ▸Camph.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸, Iod.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Sec.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸); vertigo on turning head or looking up (Pul.
• ▸,

• ▸looking up; Sul.
• ▸, looking down); vomits milk (44th.
• ▸, Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸); tightness of chest (Alum.
• ▸, Am.
• ▸m.
• ▸);

• ▸child chews and swallows in sleep (Amyl.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸); convulsions, scarlatina, headache (Bell.
• ▸);

• ▸weak from talking (Cocc.
• ▸, Stan.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸); epilepsy (Cupr.
• ▸); nzevus (Fluor.
• ▸ac.
• ▸); diarrhoea,

cholera infantum (Ip.); constipation, intertrigo, gout, ophthalmia, gonitis, epilepsy, typhus (Lyc.);

intertrigo, &c. (Cham.); canker sores, quinsey, heart, stool, sweat, especially on chest with old

• ▸people (Merc.
• ▸—compare the Hydrarg.
• ▸cum creta of the old school); burning on vertex (Phos.
• ▸,

Sul.); rheumatism from damp, ophthalmia, inflamed glands from strains (Rhus—Rhus is a very

• ▸close analogue of Calc.
• ▸; Bell.
• ▸, Dulc.
• ▸, Nux, Puls.
• ▸, and Rhus may be regarded as the acute satellites

• ▸of Calc.
• ▸); desire to be mesmerised (Phos.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸), nzevus, mesenteric glands (Sil.
• ▸); epilepsy, aura of

• ▸mouse running up arm (Sul.
• ▸—Sul.
• ▸should be given first, and if it does not cure, then Calc.
• ▸);

• ▸polypus (Teuc.
• ▸); scarlatina (Zn).
• ▸; sunstroke and sunheadaches (Aco.
• ▸, Glo.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Nat.

• ▸c.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸—headache > by heat of sun, Stro.
• ▸).
• ▸Teste puts Calc.
• ▸in the Pulsatilla group of

• ▸remedies.
• ▸He says there is a "sort of negative relation between the symptoms of Merc.
• ▸sol.
• ▸, or

• ▸rather between those of Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸and the symptoms of Calc.
• ▸This contrast has struck me several

times, and it is the most remarkable for this reason, that Nit. ac. is one of the best antidotes to

Calc."

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 leucorrhoea.
• ▸Feeling as if back were broken in two; tired feeling.
• ▸Also effective in controlling suffering from cancer).

Calcar lactic (anaemias, haemophilia, urticaria, where the coagulability of the blood is diminished; nervous headache with oedema 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 oedema.
• ▸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.

Sixth trit. Thirtieth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too frequently in elderly people.

If you were about to produce a Calcarea subject to order you could

do so by feeding him lime or lime water until the digestive organ.s

were so debilitated that they could no longer digest lime ; and then the

tissues would be increasingly deprived of what they need, and give

us the lime subject, the “bone salt inanition*' case, for that is really

what it is. Infants that are fed lime water in the milk will in a little

while be lime subjects. They will soon get in such a state that they

oannot take the lime from their natural food, and the result will be

a Chkarca subject, such as we are about to describe. But the natural

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ual he has had to do with, on every conceivable subject ; and it multiplies and it grows, and he imagines it is all real. We sec how far

that is removed from the healthy mind, and yet he is not lit for the

insane asylum, with all of these strange things, for when he is roused

he does carry on a conversation, and he docs as ordinary people do.

When he is alone, when he has nobody to talk with him, he does

these strange things. He is controlled and dominated when he is in

company, to a great extent, and hence these things are not brought

•out. He carries out that same idea when he becomes delirious or insane. Picks his fingers, and does all sorts of peculiar little things.

Sees visions and faces of persons when eyes are closed. ‘Imagines

some one is walking beside her.’’ In the proving of Sth that was

observed very strongly. It has been observed in Petroleum, and in

Calcarea. In a perfect state of health, with a strong, vigorous intelligence, it is not likely to be felt, but in nervous people, and especially

in women, it is common. “Mental aberration with horrid visions.

Secs dogs crowding around him, fights them off.” Here is a sensation, occurring in nervous women, “Feels as if she would like to run

up and down, and scream.” Feels as if she could not help it, she must

scream. That occurs in persons overwrought, dreadfully excited from

a loss in the household by death. The mother loses her child, or husband ; or a young girl loses her itutended. She is broken-hearted, and

greatly excited. It is a hysterical fixate. And yet I have seen the same

in men. I remember one. It came upon him from business cares.

He had that same feeling ; he would walk up and down the house,

he said he felt as if he must fly or jump out of a window, or do something. That is analogous to the mental state found in hysteria, or a

great state of nervous excitement. “She thinks and talks of nothing

but murder, fire, rats, etc.” That is that same idea of talking about

little things and foolish things. Things that are not interesting to

anybody. And yet I have seen these things in patients and I would

ask them why they did it. It is generally said, “I tried a good while

to stop it, and when I could not I just kept right on at it, for it seemed

to do me good.” “She thinks and talks of murder, fire, rats, etc.”

Your patient may talk about other foolish things, but it is only to illustrate the idea that she sits and talks about foolish things, and cannot control herself ; thinking, thinking, or expressing it, talking, talking, talking. Violent screaming spells. And then the Calcarea patient

will refuse to talk, will say nothing. She may talk to herself when

alone, but will decline to enter into conversation, and will sit perfectly silent. A Calcarea patient sometimes takes an aversion to work,

and quits work. He will quit a most thriving business, and go home

and do nothing, after being fatigued in carrying on the business until

it reaches a most thriving condition. He says business is not good for

him. He is tired of business, and when he goes to his business again

it seems as if it would drive him crazy. He does not want to see it,

he does not want to know anything about it. Of course, you can readily see that it is not so much in the Calcarea patient that he is driven to

weakness and fatigue from distress in business, although it has that,

but that which I am speaking about is that he has overworked until he

has given out, and right in the midst of his success he quits his business and goes home, and leaves all — it looks just as if he were lazy.

If you look at him you come to the conclusion that he is lazy. Yet

it is an insanity ; not the laziness that belongs to tramp nature, though

that also might be cured many limes. He has been industrious, and all at

once takes a turn. A great change occurs in the mind, and he takes

on symptoms. It is not such persons as were born that way, born lazy,

never would work ; but those that become lazy. It is like the symptom

in a pious upright man, whose walk and conversation has been upright,

but all at once he turns and commences to swear. Of course we know

that individual is insane. On the other hand, we have patients that

have been only ordinarily imUistrious that develop an insanity for work,

and it seems they have ability m that insane industry to work almost

night and day ; they are up early and late. It is a sick state. vSo w^hen

wc see in the Repertory “Industry’’ ii docs not mean an ordinarily

industrious state but one that is exaggerated into a symptom. He has

become so industrious that he has a mania for work.

“Whimpering. Low-spirited and melancholy.” It is a strange

thing to sec a bright little girl of 8 or 9 years old taking on sadness,

melancholy, and commencing to talk about die future world, and the

angels, and that she wants to die and go dicrc, and she is sad, and

wants to read the Bible all day. I'hat is a strange thing ; and yet

Calcarea has cured that. Ars, has cured that state, and also Lackesis. They arc a little inclined to be precocious, and they have attended the Sunday-school, and they have taken too seriously the

things they have learned. Children sad and unhappy, and old people

who take on a loathing of life, become weary of life. That is a good

deal like Aimnn. In going over Aimirn I explained that, and dwelt

upon it, that the highest love is the love of life ; and when an individual

ceases to love his own life, and is weary of it, and loathes it, and

wants to die, he is on the border line of insanity. In fact, that is an

insanity of the will. You have only to look with an observing eye to

see that one may be insane in the affections, or insane in the intelligence. One may remain quite intact, and the other one be destroyed.

We find in Calcarea both equally disturbed. One patient may be insane in his voluntary system, so that all of his loves are perverted ;

he has no affection that is like what it used to be, like it was when he

was well. Antipathy to his family or some member of his family.

Or, he may have the affection fairly intact, but no intelligence, and

does all sorts of strange things.

He is full ol fear. Weary of life : hopelessness, anxiety. The world

is black. 'Tear that something sad or terrible will happen. Fears that

she will lose her reason, or that people will observe her confusion of

mind.*’ “Fear of death ; of consumption ; of misfortune : of being

• ▸alone.
• ▸” Fear abounds, especially when the voluntary system is disturbed.
• ▸She is startled at every noise.
• ▸He can’t sleep so that the

• ▸body rests or the mind rests.
• ▸He is disturbed in his sleep with horrible dreams, Ilis sleep is a restless one “Great anxiety and oppression.
• ▸Restlessness and palpitation.
• ▸Despairing : hopeless.
• ▸” These

symptoms have to be coupled and connected with that leucophlegmatic,

• ▸pale, flabby, sickly individual.
• ▸“Child cross and fretful.
• ▸Easily frightened.
• ▸” Many complaints after exertion of the mind.
• ▸Many complaints

after excitement, chagrin or fright.

He is so weak in his circulation, so much disturbed in the heart, it

[talpitates from e\ery excitement. He is out of breath from every

physical exertion ; and these take part so much in the circulation of

l)lood in the body, have so much to do with circulation of blood in

the brain, liave so much to do with the intellect, with the sensorium,

that we see at once vertigo on almost all occasions, intermingled with

all sorts of symptoms. Fear, anxiety, and vertigo. If his emotions

stir him up he becomes dizzy. Frc^ tipstairs the l)lood mounts

to the head, and he Ijccoincs dizjljy. ConfiKsion of mind and vertigo

from mental exertion. If he heco^ies shocked, or has had news, or

has any mental excitement or chagrin, this \eriigo will come out. Confusion of mind, determination of blood to the licad, cold extremities,

covered with sweat, with \ertigo. “Vertigo, when climbing into high

places tluit is the effort of going up The blood rushes to the head

and he becomes dizzy. “On going upstairs or up a hill. On suddenly

rising, or turning the head, even when at rest.”

One of the most striking symptoms of thv head of the Calcarca

patient is the sweat, the sweat of the head upon ihe slightest exertion.

He will sweat on the face when he sweats nowhere else, and liis liead

is covered with cold swx*at when he is comfortable in other places

about the body. The same thing is true about tlic feet. When his feet

become very cold they will sw^eat. When they arc warm they will

sweat. You would naturally think that a person going into a cold

room would stop his sweating, but sometimes the Calcarea patient

will break out in a sweat, upon the head, and upon the feet, in a cold

room. He sweats upon the forehead, so that every draft of air makes

him chilly, and this brings on headache. Coldness of the whole scalp,

so he has to wrap up the head. Yet during congestions, the head is

hot. So it has at times great heat in the head. The Calcarea headzSo

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aches are stupefying, they are benumbing ; they bring on confusion of

mind. The Calcarea patient has a catarrh in the nose, with more or

less discharge ; at his best he has considerable discharge. But he goes

into a cold place, the discharge is slacked up, and he gets a headache. Headache over the eyes. Congestion of the head ; back of the

head. ‘Tearing headache above the eyes down to nose,” is a strong

symptom of Calcarea. It seems sometimes as if a great wedge were

in there. This is relieved by very hot applications. It is relieved in

the dark ; it is aggravated in the daylight. He must go into dark

room and lie down for relief. Sometimes this headache is ameliorated

by lying down in the dark. This headache continues to grow worse

during the day, until in the evening it becomes so severe that it is attended with nausea and vomiting. It is one of the forms of constitutional headache, is a headache that sometimes occurs once in

two weeks. Headache every seven days, or headache once in two

• ▸weeks.
• ▸Periodical headaches.
• ▸Sick-headache, the old-fashioned Amican sick-headache.
• ▸There is commonly a periodicity belonging to it,

of seven to fourteen days, but again, it comes on whenever he is exposed, by riding in the wind, for he is a very chilly patient, if he becomes really chilled or very cold, he gets a headache, a sick-headache.

Then, again, it has pain in the left side of the head. One-sided headache. Headache worse from noise, from talking, but ameliorated in

the evening, from lying in the dark It has headache in the temples,

and this headache seems to draw through to the root of the nose. The

headaches from the supraorbital region draw through to the nose.

Headaches in the temples seem to produce a feeling of tightness, a

feeling of great tension in the forehead. Headaches worse from motion, from walking, from talking. Most of the Calcarea headaches,

as soon as they become severe, arc attended with pulsation. The pulsation is so strong that the patient Is not satisfied by merely saying it is

• ▸a pulsation, he describes it as hammering.
• ▸Most of the pains are pressive, or tearing.
• ▸“C/oncussive headaches.
• ▸” Stitching, pulsating pains

in the head, as if it would split. Headaches worse from walking, and

from a jar. Sometimes he feels a coldness in the head, it seems as if

the cold head is numb, cold as if made of wood. He sometimes feels

this numbness, and describes it as if he had a cap, sometimes as if there

were a helmet, on the head. Now, all of these sensations are difficult

to describe, but sometimes they are one and the same thing. All the

headaches of Calcarea, are more or less congestive. It is a peculiar

feature of Calcarea, that the more marked the congestion of internal

parts, the colder the surface becomes. With chest troubles, and stomach troubles, and bowel troubles, the feet and hands become like ice,

and covered with sweat; and he lies in bed sometimes with a fever

in the rest of his body, and the scalp covered with cold sweat. That

is Strange. You cannot account for that by any process of reasoning

in pathology, and when a thing is so strange that it cannot be accounted

for, it becomes very valuable as descriptive of the remedy, and is

one that cannot generally be left out when prescribing for a patient.

That is almost a general state, it is so marked. It has burning in the

vertex, and this is often present coldness of the forehead, or the

whole head may feel cold except a burning spot on the vertex. Calcarea will again have cold head and icy cold feet when walking in cold

air or in very cold weather ; but as soon as the feet get warm, they go

to the other extreme, and burn so that he puts them out of bed. This

has often led inexperienced prescribers to (prescribe Sulpha, because

that is a keynote of Sulph. All keynote prescribers give Sulph, whenever the patient puts the feet out of bed, but a number of remedies

have burning feet, hot feet, so we are not limited to Sulph, Calcarea

has affections of the bones of the skull, the outer part of the head.

Slow formation of bone. The fontanelles remain open a long time.

It has hydrocephalic conditions, effusion in the membranes, and the

bones do not grow and keep pace with the growth of the head, and

hence the sutures commence to separate and the head grows wider

and larger all the time with hydrocephalus In hydrocephalic children

this sweating head is a common feature. The child lies at night upon

the pillow, and the sweat pours from the head and wets the pillow

all around; especially sweating at i night. In persons suffering from

softening of the brain, the pillow Is wet all around the head. Children

going through difficult dentition have dreadful times in their dreams,

they screech out in the night, and the pillow is wet all around their

head. Old plethoric patients, broken down constitutions, fat, flabby,

lymphatic patients, with enlarged glands, with sweating of the head,

cold sweating of the head. The hair falls out, not in the regular way

such as occurs in old age, but in patches here and there. You see a

bald spot on the side of the head, or the back of the head ; a tuft of hair

has come out, or in two or three places. Then it has eruptions upon

the head and face ,* eczema that we find in children and infants. “Thick

scabs on the head, with yellow pus.” Offensive eruptions.

The eye comes in for a share of troubles, and Calcarea is one of the

best friends the oculist has. if he knows how to use it. It is not

especially suitable for every inflammation, but in those fat, flabby constitutions, where every cold settles in the eyes, and produces an inflammation, and this goes on for a few days, and ulceration begins, then

study Calcarea. Vesicles are formed and break and spread into an

ulcer. From exposure of the feet in water, from riding in the wind,

from cold, damp weather he gets eye troubles. Ulceration of the cornea. In all of the complaints of the eyes and of the head the photophobia is so marked that the Calcarea subject when he is at all dis-

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turbed cannot even stand ordinary light, and to be out in the sunlight

is extremely painful, and many times inflammations are started from

merely going into a bright sunlight, from steady looking, and from

straining the eyes. All kinds of exertions bring on headaches and

• ▸eye troubles.
• ▸Tension, because one muscle is weak.
• ▸There is a disturbance of accommodation.
• ▸Worse from every exertion of the eyes ;

you see that is like its generals, that is, aggravated from exertion. He

<:annot endure any prolonged exertion ; you see that is just as true of

• ▸his parts as the whole.
• ▸You know that reading, writing and looking .
• ▸at one thing all are marked exertions.
• ▸With Calcarea, the part

itself is worse from exertion, and the whole body is worse from exertion. Calcarea has cured cataract. Calcarea has other disturbances

of the eyes, in connection with head troubles, in connection with fevers,

and when he is out of sorts from great exertion ; he so easily gets into

a fidgety state, confusion of mind that is almost a delirium, and on

closing the eyes he sees the most horrible visions, spectres, ghosts.

Long before any disturbance can be observed in the tissues, or in the

retina, or any disturbance of the eye by looking into it with the ophthalmoscope he will complain of seeing smoke, or steam in the air before

his field of vision, as if looking through a veil, as if looking through a

cloud, all meaning the same thing. '‘Dim vision.*' His vision is weak.

The muscles are weak. He suffers from dim vision, which is going

on gradually to blindness as he grows increasingly weak. All of his

eye symptoms, and his headaches, and his nervous symptoms are aggravated from reading, from writing, from looking steadily at one

thing. He is very much exhausted after such an exertion and will

have tearing pains over the eyes, behind the eyes in the head. That

is a peculiar kind of a headache, such as he is in the habit of having.

• ▸It may be in any part of head.
• ▸Called eye-strain.
• ▸It is a wonderful remedy for eye-strain {Onosmodium).
• ▸Calcarea has cured many

cases of opacity of the cornea {Bar, iod). In an old case a cure can

never be promised. It is one of the results of disease, and we never

know when we are going to remove the results of disease, because the

intelligent homoeopath never prescribes for the results of disease. He

prescribes for the patient. An opacity itself, when it is present, is not

a symptom, but a result of disease. Often when a patient is prescribed for on his general symptoms, such a state of opacity of the

cornea will, after a while, begin to pass away. The patient grows

better, feels better himself. His symptoms commence to subside, and

after the symptoms have subsided pathological conditions will commence to subside. Do not be discouraged in prescribing if the pathological conditions do not go away; but if all the symptoms of the

patient have gone away, and the patient is eating well, and is sleeping

well, and doing well, do not feel that it is impossible for that opacity

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of the cornea to go away, for sometimes it will. I have known patients to come back, years later, even after I had given them up as

cured, as their symptoms had all disappeared, and I was foolish

enough to say to the patient, “Well. I do not suppose this condition

will ever go away, but you are all well, there is nothing to prescribe

on, there is not much use of your taking any more medicine,'' but in

six months from that time the patient would come back to me and say

“Doctor, do you suppose the treatment you gave me had anything

to do with this trouble going away? It has nearly all disappeared."

I only tell you this to give you an idea how long it takes to restore

order, for nature herself to replace the bad tissue and put healthy tissue

in that same place, to restore an organ. It takes time, and it is best that

we should not be surprised. It may be that the medicine has done all it

can do. Here is another thing I have seen : even when there were no

symptoms left, and after waiting a considerable time and there were no

symptoms, I have seen another dose of the same medicine that was

given on the last symptoms give the patient a great lift, and pathological conditions commence to go way. So Calcarea is a great friend to

the oculist, and every physician ought to be just as good a prescriber

as the oculist can be, for he prescribes for the patient. So must the

oculist. In prescribing I am in doubt whether there can be any such

thing as a specialty, because the ^homoeopathic physician prescribes for

the patient. He prescribes for the patient, whether he has eye disease,

or ear disease, or throat disease,! or lung disease, or liver disease, etc.

In the ear we have a great deid of trouble. It produces thick yellow

discharge from the ears. Gold, chilly weather brings on ear trouble ;

quite likely from becoming cold or chilled, from an exposure, or from

a sudden change of cold damp weather he has additional complaints in

the ears. While he is at his best the idea holds good here as in other

catarrhal conditions, there is copious discharge. But from exposure

and cold this slacks up a little, and when it does there is a little inflammation, and like enough throbbing, and headache. That occurs every

time from exposure. Whether the catarrh is in the nose, the eyes, or

the ears, there will be headache. The Calcarea patient is so easily disturbed from cold weather and exposure, he is so sensitive to the cold,

that it is next to impossible for him to dress and protect himself. He

is flabby and soft, easily disturbed, sensitive to his surroundings* If it

is an ear trouble, he may have difficult hearing, abscess of the middle

ear, catarrh of the Eustachin tubes, etc., but all of these bring on

headaches ; and around about the ear the glands are all affected.

lime cascw^ arc those that have a natural sickness, are horn so, born

with an inability to digest the lime that is in their natural fotKl. and

they grow fat and flabby, and produce deficient l)oncs. There is a

greater proportion of cartilaginous material in the hones than lime,

and the bones bend, and take on diseases and destructive troubles.

Deficient teeth, or no teeth at all. The lx)nes simply stop growing,

and the patient goes into marasmus. What a foolish notion it is to

feed that infant lime water because he cannot digest lime! Is it not

just as reasonable as anything else in allopathy ? And yet our homoeopaths use allopathic medicines. They use the lowest potencies they

can get and it would seem strange if those substances cured any better in the hands of the homceopath than in the hands of the allopath.

Now, it is astonishing that one single dose of the potency suitable to

meet the state of disorder will make that infant commence to digest

its food, and appropriate from its food the lime substance that it

needs in its bones, and wherever else it needs it. All at once the

teeth begin to grow ; the bones begin to grow, and the legs get stiff

enough for him to begin to walk, and they will hold him up. It is

astonishing what changes will take place under the various medicines

that are suitable for the disturbances of the hair, and the bones and

nails. The remedy must be sufficiently potentized to correspond

with the wrong. It certainly must not be crude because the

child is already stunted by the crude material. You will see within

a month or six weeks after giving; a solitary dose of the sufficiently

potentized remedy the nails that vwere corrugated and uneven and

spotted and irregular will form a liiargin and will grow out smooth.

You will see the ugly little crowns upon the teeth, distorted, and black

things as they come up out of the gums : but when they have been

under the suitable homoeopathic remedy you will see them fonn a margin line, and from there on the teeth look healthy, and from there on

the little body of the tooth is smooth and round : just as if that child

had had an impulse to grow^ better teeth. That same thing probably

takes place where the bones exist. The periosteum takes on healthy

work. This is the Calcarea stale when the patient needs lime and he

cannot get it l^ccausc he has been cloyed ; or, because he lias an indigestion, he is unable to assimilate the lime that is in his food,

and it goes through him and does not aflPect him. So it is with

much of the sickness we have, an inability to extract from the food

and assimilate such things as the body needs. Would not anyone be

a simpleton to suppose that he had l^ecn the cause of the building of a

tooth ? You do not build mole hills out of our high potencies ; they

simply establish a state of order, so that digestion and assimilation go

on, order is established and the tissues are improved. Health comes,

beauty, a growth of hair, better skin, better nails.

The catarrh of the nose is extremely troublesome. Old lingering

stubborn catarrhs, with thick yellow discharge ; great crusts from the

nose. In the morning he blows out enormous blackish, bloody chunks.

He breathes part of the night through the nose, and then his nose clogs

up SO that he breathes through the mouth. It has cured a great many

times polypi of the nose. The homoeopathic physician, trusting so much

to his symptoms, knows so well the remedy alter studying the case, that

he very likely will prescribe for the patient on the symptoms alone.

He says: This patient needs Calcarea, there is no doubt about it. He

prescribes for him and sends him away. After three or four weeks

the patient comes back with a gelatinous looking tough thing on a

.handkerchief, and says; “Doctor, look there at what came out of my

nose. Do you suppose your medicine had anything to do with that

Perhaps you did not know he had polypus, it does not make any difference, your prescription cannot be any different if he has polypi in the

nose, and you do not know it is there ; you cannot by any process of torsion remove it before you prescribe, so you will have to leave that

torsion to those that do not know about Homoeopathy ; and hence the

examination is not so important as it is to those who prescribe for the

polypi, and forget about the patient. Affections of the bones of the

nose. That is, the catarrhs go on so long, and they are so deep-seated,

that the bones of the nose and the cartilage of the nose are infiltrated,

any they break down. Then operators cut out bones, remove cartilage,

and perform operations too numerous to mention ; and every one must

have the same operation ; but in order for him to be cured, he must even

after that go to an homoeopathic physician. He should first be cured

and then if there is anything to be removed let him be operated on.

The face is sickly, cold, covered with sweat. Sweats on the slightest

exertion, and sometimes it sweats in the night, on the forehead. “Cold

sweat on the face. Face pale and cachetic,"’ such as we see in advanced

cases of cancer, and consumption. Face sallow, pale, sickly, dropsical.

• ▸Eruptions on the face.
• ▸Eruptions about the lips ; and the lips are chapped and the mouth is raw.
• ▸The lips are cracked and bleeding.
• ▸Painful swelling on the parotid glands ; painful swelling of the sub-lingual

and sub-maxillary glands. The glands all take part in the Calcarea

troubles.

Calcarea is a medicine for chronic sore throats. The throat appearance itself is not always sufficient to prescribe on, but the complaints in

the throat are those that come on in persons taking cold so frequently

that the patient has not time to get over one before he goes into another,

and this engrafts upon him a chronic sore throat. It may in the beginning be a Bell, throat, which is quite likely, but before he gets over it

he has taken another cold. Remember that this is a part of the Calcarea patient, that he takes cold so easily ; he takes cold from every

draft, from very exposure, and from damp weather. When getting

over a Bell, sore throat — about the time he thinks he is over it he takes

a new cold. Perhaps it has been relieved two or three times with Bell,

and then it settles down into a chronic state, and there are little red

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patches, perhaps little tdcers, in the throat, this extends all over. It

extends to the roof of the mouth, with a sore tongue, and a constant

dry, choking feeling in the pha^nx, covering the tonsils and extending

up into the posterior nares, filling with thick, yellow mucus. Chronic

inflammation. The uvula may be puffed ; swollen. “Parts swollen, red,

tumid,” but it patches. The throat very painful on swallowing; dry,

choking feeling.

The stomach in Calcarea is slow in its action. “Food taken into the

• ▸stomach remains.
• ▸” It does not digest.
• ▸It turns sour.
• ▸“Sour vomiting.
• ▸” Milk sours.
• ▸Milk disagrees ; the digestion is also slow, feeble.

He has a feeling of tumefaction and fullness ; enlargement after eating ; and everything sours in the stomach ; everything disorders the

stomach. Weak digestion. The Calcarea patient has a very strong

longing for eggs. Little children crave eggs ; at every meal they will

eat eggs, and eggs will digest better than anything else. It is very

seldom that little children naturally long for eggs ; children with cold

feet, emaciated extremities, large heads, enlarged abdomen ; stomach

distended like an inverted saucer, rounded out; bloated abdomen, and

slender extremities ; cold and sensitive to cold ; pale skin ; pale, waxy

surface. Then, there is complete loss of appetite ; no desire for any

kind of food. If any desire at alL it is for eggs. Aversion to meat ;

aversion to warm food. This with enlarged glands, with goitre.

Flatulency. Sour vomiting ; sour ifiarrhoea ; that is, it has a pungent,

sour odor, especially in cliildren. In infants living on milk, the milk

passes in an undigested form; the stool is so sour that it is pungent.

It excoriates the parts, and keep# the nates raw in infants where the

diaper comes in contact with the parts. There are times when the

abdomen is emaciated ; the gases go out and the abdomen sometimes

Becomes flabby ; but most of the time it is distended with flatulence.

When it is flabby it can be observed that there are nodules in the abdomen, The lymphatic glands are hard, and sometimes can be felt

through the emaciated abdomen. There is a tubercular tendency, and

tabes mesenterica is one of the natural endings of the lime constitution,

with this we get the glandular affections of the bowels. Tubercular

deposits in the mesenteric glands. Diarrhoea comes on, sour, watery

diarrhoea ; gradual emaciation, especially of the extremities. Every

cold brings on more indigestion, and more sour vomiting. Diarrhoea

that can’t be stopped, because every time he gets a cold it renews the

•diarrhoea. When it is an acute attacl^ Dulc. often relieves it, but

when it has recurred several times Dulc. can no longer relieve it, and

Calcarea then becomes one of the remedies.

Again, it is one of the most useful medicines in old, lingering, stubborn cases of constipation. When there is only a moderate diarrhoea

the stool is white ; and when this constipation is present, the stool is

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white, or like chalk. In infants taking milk you can account for the

white or pale stool, because of the milk ; but when the patient does

not live on milk, and lives on ordinary substances, the stool becomes

bileless and is very light colored ; is yellow or white ; and in the

constipation, often the stool is very light colored and hard,

Calcarea has a kind of indigestion, a fermentation that favors the

formation of worms, so that Calcarea babies arc sometimes wormy.

Pass worms in the stool, and vomit worms. Calcarea so corrects this

indigestion, when the symptoms agree, that worms no longer hatch

out. The symptoms disappear, and we really wonder what becomes

of the worms. The idea with the homoeopathic physician is not to give

vermifuges, but to so correct the digestion that worms will not thrive ;

and it is true that worms will not thrive in the healthy stomach and

intestines. Whether they leave by expulsion or whether they are destroyed, or what becomes of them, I do not know. To remove them

by physicking them out, and by vermifuges, only makes a bad matter

worse, because it increases the indigestion, it increases the turmoil.

So it is with all worms in the stomach and rectum ; all those worms

will come if they are favored with just exactly the right kind of fluids

to hatch out in. They come, and they grow. I suppose at least

twenty-five times in the last twenty years have I known Calcarea to

bring away tape worm, and in most instances I did not know it was

present ; but 1 simply prescribed for the patient. I was not aware of

its existence. It is so with many remedies, but this more than others.

The Calcarea patient is weak sexually, with general relaxation and

weakness. Sometimes an inordinate carving, sometimes an overwhelming desire keeps him awake at nights. But weak ; weak in this way,

that any indulgence is followed by weak back, sweating, weakness in

general, so that he is compelled to abstain because of the sufferings.

The woman is affected in a similar way. You need not be surprised,

when you hear all of the constitutional weakness, that it is a common thing for Calcarea women to be sterile. So tired, so relaxed ;

wholly unfit for reproduction. And the same as in the male, she suffers from lassitude, swelling, wakefulness, and weakness in general

after every coition. The parts feel relaxed. The uterus drags down.

Sensation as if parts would be forced out. State of general weakness

and general relaxation of the sexual organs of both male and female.

Calcarea has a tendency to grow warts and polypoid growths, pedunculated growths, that bleed easily, that are soft and spongy.

The woman flows too much at the menstrual period ; too long, and,

of course, this naturally brings her around too soon. Often every

three weeks, lasting a week, with a copious flow. Menstrual period

too soon, lasting too long, and profuse, Calcarea is not always indicated ; not unless all of the symptoms go together to make up the

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Calcared patient. Sametimes it may occur to your mind to say, that

with five or six key-notes, certainly you would give Calcarea ; but suppose you did have five or six key-notes of Calcarea, and the patient

should be a Puls, patient, would you expect to cure her with Calcarea ?

Suppose the patient always avoided warm things and much clothing,

and wanted the cold open air, and still had a dozen key-notes, you

would find every time that Calcarea would fail. Unless you combine

the particulars with the things that are general, and the generals with

the particulars, unless the remedy fits the patient from wihin out,

generally and particularly, a cure need not be expected. That is why

I say, do not prescribe on key-notes, but upon the symptoms of the

patient.

This great state of relaxation which we always have in every Calcarea patient is also manifested in leucorrheea. Copious, thick, constant leucorrhoea, discharging day and night. Leucorrhoea that is

acrid, keeping up an itching, and smarting, and burning. “Leucorrhoea

• ▸thick and yellow,’' from one menstrual period to another, and sometimes it intermingles with the menstrual flow.
• ▸“Vaginal polypi.
• ▸Burning soreness in the genitals” from leucorrhoea.
• ▸“Itching and rawness”

from leucorrhoea. Haemorrhage of the uterus from over-lifting ,* from

excitement ; from shocks ; from anything that greatly disturbs ,* front

fear, from any great emotion, or from straining the muscles. Such

are the conditions of relaxation smdl weakness. Inability to strain the

muscles, or to exert himself mentallj^ or physically.

The complaints of pregnancy generally those of great relaxation

and weakness. Threatened abortion. After delivery, weakness and

prostration ; sweating. Weakness from nursing.

The Calcarea voice is that of painless hoarseness. The vocal cords

are tired, and cannot endure strain ; almost a paralytic weakness.

Sometimes a copious flow of mucus from the larynx. Much irritation

in the larynx, but weakness. Not that burning and rawness that we

• ▸find in Bell, and Phos.
• ▸but painless hoarseness.
• ▸In Phos.
• ▸it is painful,

in Bell, it is very painful. He cannot speak without pain. But in

Calcarea he wonders why he has so much trouble in the larynx, because he has no feeling in it. This goes on from bad to worse, and

with the tubercular tendency, look out for tubercular laryngitis. Given

early it may keep off such a tubercular tendency. It has cured tubercular laryngitis. Much rattling of mucus ; rattling breathing ; coarse

rattling ; that is, much mucus in the trachea, in the larynx, in the

bronchial tubes, in the chest. Great dyspnoea. The dyspnoea comes on

front going up stairs, from walking against the wind. Anything that

has any exertion in it will bring on the dyspnoea. We find this in

asthma, weak ’heart, weak chest and in threatening phthisis. That

state of the lungs you will know very often by the kind of breathing ;

because all that are going into phthisis, are tired and weak. He is

too tired to make any effort at breathing, and he tires very easily,

so that he has difficulty in going up stairs, climbing a hill, walking

against the wind.

The chest troubles furnishes one of our best fields for Calcarea. We

having spitting of blood ; prolonged cough ; copious expectoration of

thick yellow mucus, or even pus ; ulceration, or abscess. Tickling

cough. We have, in threatening chest trouble, the beginning emaciation, the pallor, the sensitiveness to cold^ changes, and to the cold

air, and to wet weather and to winds. He takes colds, and they all

settle in the chest ; gradual emaciation in the limbs ; always so tired.

It corresponds to just such constitutional weakness as precedes, or is

present in the first stages of phthisis. It stops the patient taking

cold, which is the very beginning of it. The patient will begin to feel

better after taking Calcarea, and it improves his general state, and

it will even encyst tubercular deposits. It turns them from a caseous

into a calcareous form, and cysts have been found in the chest long

afterwards. Patients have lived a long time and improved, and gone

into a general state of health, when quite well advanced with tubercular deposits. Of course, when any person is well into a tubercular

condition, it may be expected that he will go. Do not believe or

think favorably of cures for consumption. Every little while we have

some one coming out with something or Other that cures consumption,

a new cure. Every one who knows much about the real nature of

phthisical conditions, cannot have much confidence in such things, and

I certainly lose respect for an individual who has a consumption cure.

He must either be crazy or something worse. Generally he is after

the money that may be in it. Hardly anyone who knows anything

about it can conscientiously present a consumption cure to the world.

To prevent those things is what we want to do, and this is the great

sphere of Calcarea. The expectoration is sweetish very often, like

Phos. and Stannum, White, yellow, thick. We might go over all the

general symptoms here, the soreness, the tenderness, the kind of pains,

the lassitude, and a great many symptoms of that sort, they are too

numerous to mention, but they are not descriptive, for the reason that

after you get these pains and study them carefully, you are no better

off. You must study the constitution of Calcarea, the nature of Calcarea, its character.

There are spine symptoms ; plenty of them. Weak ; all degrees of

weakness. The Calcarea patient is so weak in the back that he slides

down in the chair while sitting ; cannot sit upright in his chair. Rests

on the back of his head. The back of his chair and the back of his

head come in contact. A weak spine, a sensitive spine, and the glands

of the neck arc swollen. Again, a marked condition of the spine is

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The Calcarea constitution is what we want to know. We do not

need to know that the individual has been poisoned by lime ; it is not

worth much to know it, because that is not the index to the remedy.

If indigestion of lime has been brought about by lime, it may need

one of ten other remedies to overcome that indigestion for lime. It

is not always Calcarea that covers the symptoms. The medicine that

covers the symptoms is the one that will change the economy from an

abnormal to a normal state, and digestion will become orderly, and we

will have growth and prosperity in the economy. The Calcarea case

is to be known by the symptoms, and not by the fact that the patient

has been poisoned by lime ; the chances are that those we have to

treat have never had any lime. Many of them have never been poisoned by lime but have been unable to assimilate lime from birth.

Calcarea is full of congestions, determination of blood to the head :

cold feet ; hot head ; congestion of the chest. Calcarea corresponds

in a very high degree to the chlorotic and anaemic, pale and waxy,

and in spite of this plump. It has both fat, flabby and pale patients,

and it has emaciated states, too. Muscles emaciate. Emaciated about

the neck ; emaciated about the neck and from there downwards.

Anaemic conditions ; pale, waxy, sickly ; pale lips ; pale ears ; pale fingers ; pale and yellowish. Chlorosis is a word especially relating to the

anaemia of girls. A large number of remedies is indicated in those

conditions, but Calcarea produces the kind of anaemia known as chlorosis. It produces most pernicious anjemia. Great relaxation in the

tissues everywhere ; relaxation of muscles ; relaxation of, veins ; relaxation of the walls of blood-vessels to such a great extent, especially

in the lower limbs and anus, that there are marked haemorrhoidal

manifestations or marked varicose veins in the legs. Distended veins,

burning in these varicose veins. Burning and smarting. Bleeding and

oozing. Inflammation and painful sw^elling of joints.

Another marked feature running through the remedy is its tendency

to attack glands, the glands of the neck, all of the glands of the body,

especially the lymphatic glands. The lymphatic glands in the abdomen become hard, inflamed and sore, like great nodules, like hickory

• ▸nuts ; tubercular.
• ▸Calcarea is useful in tubercular formations.
• ▸Calcareous degenerations, calcareous glands, induration of glands.
• ▸It is

useful in indurations in ulcers, and the base of ulcers, and round

about ulcers, hence its wonderful use in palliating and restaining the

growth of malignant ulcers, as malignant ulcers always have an indurated base. Old cancerous ulcers arc greatly restrained in their growth,

that is, the constitutional state is much improved, the patient himself

has more endurance and the ulcers will take on healing. In cancel ous

affections that would kill in sixteen months the patient will live five

years with Calcarea, if Calcarea is indicated* That is something, and

many times that is all that can be expected in a cancerous growth.

In glandular affections where the glands round about are infiltrated

and hard, where there is much burning and stinging pain, where the

growth has invaded and appropriated the surrounding tissues so that

there are adhesions, matters are serious. There is malignancy in almost

all these cases. They differ entirely from glands that are loose from

the skin, glands that roll under the skin, and have no fibrous attachment. Cancerous affections burn and sting. Cialcarea cures many

tumors, fatty, cystic, if the symptoms agree, so strongly is it 1 elated

to this building up process in glands. It builds up glands and bone.

Another thing running through the remedy is a pyxmic state, in

which there are abscesses in deep muscles. Abscesses deep in the

neck, deep in the thigh, in the abdomen. You will be astonished to

learn that Calcarea will take care of the abscess (when the symptoms

agree), and it will not break. I have many times seen an abscess disappear when fluctuation was most positive. I have seen those abscesses disappear when pus was shown to be present by the needle ; I

have not only seen the abscesses go aw^ay, but also the pyacmic state

which was prior to it. We have but a few medicines that will do that.

There is something singular about this. Why does Calcarea favor the

resorption of that fluid and encourage the part to become calcareous?

It is more than I am able to explain, but it does it — when the symptoms

agree. But Sulph, and SiL, when their symptoms agree hasten suppuration. But Calcarea has that |)eculiar action of concentrating and

contracting. One may be indicated in one case, the other may be indicated in the other. There are times when SiL is indicated and the

abscess is in such a dangerous place than if SiL is given the result

that naturally belongs to the spreading of that abscess is dangerous ;

in such an instance the surgeon must be called to drain the abscess

in a safe manner, even when we know that if that abscess were located

in a safe place, it w^ould be far better for that patient to have the remedy he needs. Sometimes the periosteum is injured by a hammer

striking it through muscles, injuring or contusing the periosteum.

Inflammation will set in, pus will form rapidly, and if Calcarea is indicated by the constitution of the patient the surgeon’s knife is entirely

useless, and a most detrimental thing. But in thinking from the old

standpoint, the physician who knows nothing about Homooeopathy, and

the wonders of our homoeopathic remedies, would hold up his hands

in horror. “Why, if you produce a resorption of that pus into the

system you will have blood poisoning and death.” But under Calcarea

this resorption does take place in some manner, and the patient improves every moment, he stops his sweating, his rigor has disappeared,

he becomes perfectly comfortable, his appetite improves, he is stronger

by the time it is over, and remains well. Judging from the old standpoint, we cannot conclude anything about the problems that will come

up under Homoeopathy. We can only judge from our standpoint, and

from what we know. And if you hear that somebody has tried this

and tried that without success, remember that somebody has only demonstrated his own failure. Homoeopathy is capable of demonstrating

itself in all iiitelligeni hands ; wherever the physician has intelligence

and makes use of the law and applies the remedy in accordance with

the symptoms he will sec the case turn out as described.

Another grand feature running through this remedy is its ability

to grow polypi. Those Avho need Calcarea will grow polypi in the

nose and cars, in the vagina, in the bladder, and here and there.

Cystic growths also and strange little papillomata.

Another strange thing that it does is to cause exostoses. 'Fhis state

of disorder comes from the irregularity in the distribution of the lime.

You would think that nature would try to distribute it around evenly

where it can do the most good. But when this bone salt inanition has

commenced the lime may be piled up hi one place, and almost absent

in another. One hone will be cartilaginous and another will ha\e

bony growths on it. Softening of the bone. Defectite formation of

bone. A keynote has grown out of this, vi/ : “Late learning to walk/'

because the legs are so weak, Jt is not late learning to walk, but it is

late walking. It know-s how^ to walk, hut it can’t walk. Natnim miir.

has brain troulde, in which the child is late Icarnitig to do things,

“Tardy development (h' bone tissues. Curvatures.” Muscles flabby.

Joint affections, like hip-joint disease, it is full of rheumatism. Rheumatic and gouty conditions of the joints.

The Calcarea paiiciit is a ehilly patient. Sensitive to the cold air.

Sensitive to the raw' winds. Sensitive to the coming of a storm ; sensitive to the coming of cold weather, and when the weather clianges

from warm to cold it seems impossible for him to keep warm ; he wants

the body kept warm. The head is sometimes congested : and it is hot

to the touch ; but it often feels cold to him. His scalp feels avS if it

were cold. But the body is neatly always cold to the touch and he

feels cold, and he wants plenty of clothing. The feet arc cold. He

sweats in various places, sweats in spots. Sweats upon the forehead,

or upon the face, or upon the back of the neck, or the front of the

chest, or his feet. Sensitiveness to cold and weakness run through

• ▸the remedy.
• ▸Weakness in the legs.
• ▸Inability to endure.
• ▸Worse from

every kind of exertion. Out of breath. Fat, flabby anaemic subjects,

sometimes they look plump, often flushed in the face, but they have

no endurance, and if such a patient undertakes a little exertion he

is down sick with a fever, or a headache. Calcarea is full of complaints brought on from lifting, from exertion, from walking, from

walking ^enough to get into a sweat; and these come very suddenly,

because he cannot stop that perspiration by keeping still without getting sick. If he gets into a sweat, and stops long enough to be comfortable, the prespiration will stop so suddenly that he will have a

chill, or he will have a headache. Weak, tired, anxious. Ditliculties

• ▸of breathing.
• ▸Weak heart.
• ▸Weak all over.
• ▸No ability of the muscles to sustain prolonged effort, and it is the same way with the mind.

No ability of the mind to sustain prolonged mental effort. Calcarea is

a tired patkmt. He is suffering from want of lime. He has been

unable to digest lime, and he goes into a stale with enlarged glands,

emaciation of the neck and of the limbs, while the fat and the glands

of the belly increase. Especially is this noticed in children, A bigbellied child, with emaciated limbs and emaciated neck. Enlarged

glands. Pale, and flabby, and sickly. Those that rake on flesh wffihout

any increase of strength. They take on flesh and grow flabby. Remain

feeble. Those that get up from sickness take on flabby flesh, and in

a little wdiilc they become dropsical. The Calcarea patient can’t go

upstairs ; he is so lircd in his legs, raid so tired in the chest; he pants

• ▸and suffocates from going upstairs.
• ▸He has every evidence of muscular weakness and flabbiness.
• ▸Nutrition is impaired every wheie.
• ▸This

is the kind of patient that used to be called scrofulous ; now W'e call

the condition psora : and Calcanea is one of our deepest anti-psorics.

It is a medicine that goes deep into the life, and takes a deep hold of

every part of the economy.

Now wc Avill take up the nw%tal symptoms. All the mind symptoms

represent Calcarea as in a state of great zerakness ; in ability to prolong

mental operation. Becomes very tired from mental work. Full of

anxiety. He is tired mentally, and tired physically, from mental work

and breaks down in a sweat, and becomes excited and irritable and

disturbed. Great disturbance of the emotions : complaints lasting for

days and weeks from excitement of the emotions ; from worrying,

from vexation, or a general emotional disturbance is prostrated. “Inability to apply himself.’' Inability to do good thinking for some

time after such excitement, disturbance or worry. It is very useful

in complaints from prolonged worry, from prolonged application to

business, from excitement. It is full of a peculiar kind of mental

feeling, differing quite considerably from most remedies ; he feels his

exhaustion of mind, and it seems to him that this weakness, and this

inability to do and to think connectedly, must be going towards insanity, he broods over it, he is convinced that he is insane, or about

to become insane, that he is getting weak-minded, and he looks it, too,

because what he has in his mind is this : that he is becoming insane or

weak-minded, and he thinks people will obsene it. He thinks people

look at him suspiciously, and he looks at them suspiciously, and he

wonders why they do not say something to him about it. He thinks

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that he is going insane, and that other people are observing his state

ot mind, and he keeps that in his mind most of the time, fie thinks

of it day-times, and he gets greatly roused up over it ; he thinks of

it nights, and it keeps him awake. He lies awake late at night thinking. (Jalcarea leads to little ideas, that is, it compels the mind to littleness, to little ideas, or to dwell on little things, but his mind, as it

were, is forced to dwell upon things that he cannot put aside. When

the Calcarea patient begins to relate to his friends how he feels they

all naturally say to him, “Why don’t you put that aside ; that doesn’t

amount to anything,’’ but to him it is a big thing, and he cannot put

it aside ; all these little things combine to convince him that he is going

crazy. He cannot calculate, he cannot do deep thinking, he cannot

dwell upon deep things ; he may have been a philosopher, and he has

lost his ability to think out things in philosophy. He has lost his mental depth. He forms conclusions out of his emotions rather than from

his intelligence. He forms conclusions about things as he wants them

to be. You would almost think he wants to grow crazy, he keeps

talking about it so much, fie is unable to accept any sort of argument,

and this grows worse and worse. He is unable to accept the assurance

of his physician, in whom he has always had confidence. It is no use,

it seems, to try to reason with him ; yet he is not so far gone but he

can reason about other things except his own mental state. He imagines things ; and the things he imagines you will really wonder at his

dwelling upon them so, because they are such little things. And so

it is when he goes into insanity, or imbecility, or a general breakdown.

It is a passive stare, in which he sits and thinks about his little affairs,

and his little things that amount to nothing at all, and he sits and sits

— the text says, “Sits and breaks sticks, or bends pins all day long,

with his fingers.” Does little things, and in this way he keeps himself

• ▸busy, wears himself out more and more.
• ▸Any amount of thinking becomes impossible.
• ▸It is almost impossible for him to come to a conclusion, for he never figures it twice alike.
• ▸He cannot add and subtract even in the simplest forms.
• ▸Now, he thinks about this matter

so much and thinks everybody else is watching him, until finally the

instant he closes his eyes he has visions. Just as soon as he gets down

quiet and thinks “Now I will go to sleep, I will get rid of all this,”

and he closes his eyes to sleep, then he must get them open as quick

as possible, he is in a state of excitement, for he sees horrid little

spooks ; he cannot keep his mind clear. He cannot go to sleep because

his thoughts trouble him, and he sees all sorts of things. There is no

congruity in his mind. We know that strong intelligence puts aside

such follies, but these are just the things that Calcarea patients dwell

upon. Talking to himself. He lies in bed, or sits, when he is alone,

and carries on a general conversation with every conceivable individ-

As if the parts would burst; were pressed, or pushed, asunder; as if cold, damp

stockings were on the feet; sensation of crepitation; cramp pain in the muscles; creeping on the

limbs like a mouse.