Calcarea Acetica

The symptoms of Calc. acet. (the first of the lime preparations proved by

Hahnemann) are in the main identical with those of Calc. carb. (both being prepared from oyster

shells), and are included in the pathogenesis of that medicine. Among its most marked symptoms

may be named: Vertigo when walking in the open air. Stupefying, pressive pains in the forehead

with compression of the whole head and obscuration of the senses whilst reading: he was obliged

to stop while reading and did not know where he was. Clotar Muller cured many cases of

megrim with Calc. acet. The indications he relied on were: "Sour taste in mouth, sour

eructations, sensation of coldness in the head, and of emptiness. Pain one-sided, affecting right

eye, which was red, causing lachrymation." Sour, offensive eructations. Profuse, painless, not

exhausting diarrhoea. Severe itching of anus. Allen (Handbook) mentions that it has cured some

marked cases of membranous dysmenia and also of violent spasmodic cough ending in the

• ▸expulsion of casts of bronchial tubes.
• ▸For comparisons see Calc.
• ▸c.
• ▸It has been used in the

excruciating pains of open cancer (compare Calc. oxal.).

Vertigo in open air. Senses obscure while reading. Megrim, with great coldness in head and sour taste.

Membranous dysmenorrhoea (Borax).

• ▸Rattling expiration.
• ▸Cough loose, with expectoration of large pieces like casts of bronchial tubes.
• ▸Breathing difficult; better bending shoulders backward.
• ▸Constrictive anxious sensation in chest.

• ▸Anus, itching of.
• ▸Bronchitis membranosa.
• ▸Cancer, pains of.
• ▸Dysmenorrhcea

membranosa. Headache. Vertigo.

Compare: Brom; Borax; also Calc oxal, in excruciating pains of open cancer.

Third trituration.