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Calcarea Caustica

19 sectionsClarke · 19
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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke

This preparation has only been used as a local application, for boils and

carbuncles chiefly, in the form of the Liquor Calcis Chlorate of the British Pharmacopeeia.

Mentals

Symptoms — Mind
Clarke

Thought very difficult——Weary and peevish on waking; as if he had been intoxicated.

Head

Symptoms — Head
Clarke
  • Confusion of the head; esp.
  • 1.
  • side.
  • —Vertigo, as if room turning in a circle; thinks she

will fall from chair—Throbbing in frontal sinus > by contracting skin of forehead.

Eyes

Symptoms — Eyes
Clarke

Burning in eyes, evening by candlelight—Pain in r. eye as if foreign body under upper

lid; in 1. eye on rising in morning as if a thorn in it.

Face

Symptoms — Face
Clarke
  • Tearing in r.
  • cheek-bone.
  • — Violent pain, swelling, stiffness of r.
  • joint of Jaw.
  • —Lips

unusually red.

Mouth

Symptoms — Mouth
Clarke

Mouth offensive; palate feels as if mucus were upon it, but none is expectorated.

Symptoms — Teeth
Clarke

Severe toothache every night, 2 a.m., as if tooth was fuzzy and too large, with tensive

pain in |. ear as if something was sticking in it—Teeth feel too large; fuzzy.

Throat

Symptoms — Throat
Clarke

Mucus in throat, difficult to raise, almost causing vomiting. —Hawking of granular,

glutinous material like cooked rice.—Burning in fauces and cesophagus caused by

water.—Sensation as of a bone sticking in pharynx.

Stomach

Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke

Severe hunger three hours after eating.—Nausea followed by vomiting of some

fluid.

Abdomen

Symptoms — Abdomen
Clarke

Sticking in both hypochondria, esp. severe in 1—Pain in |. side of region of

spleen as if a ball were turning on its axis.—Constrictive pain in abdomen; griping;

stitches —Violent stitches in small intestines when bending forward.

Stool

Symptoms — Stool and Anus
Clarke

Three thin stools before breakfast and one immediately after —Painful

stool as if a nail were scratching in anus.—Thin, pasty stool with much mucus immediately after

  • breakfast.
  • —Passed many pieces of tapeworm.
  • —Hzemorrhoids.
  • —Sticking, tearing motions in

rectum extending towards anus.—Crawling in rectum and anus.

Respiratory

Symptoms — Respiratory Organs
Clarke

Stitches in larynx; |. half.—Hoarseness, with pain in throat; feeling of

rawness in trachea; cough.—Cough with stitches in chest, expectoration of mucus and

  • blood.
  • —Sternum: oppression; pressive sticking under; stitches across.
  • —Stitches in |.
  • chest.

Neck & Back

Symptoms — Neck and Back
Clarke

Stiffness of neck; of back of neck; of all neck muscles —Tearing in

nape.—Violent pains in scapulz extending into small of back, when sitting; < on

inspiration.—Tearing between shoulders.—Tearing in both scapule, between shoulders, then

through neck and occiput as far as forehead.—Sensation in both shoulder-blades as if they were

  • fuzzy and had gone to sleep (8 p.
  • m.
  • ).
  • —Pain in small of back; on waking > by moving

about.—Pressive, drawing pains; sticking; tearing, in small of back.—Tearing in coccyx.

Upper Limbs

Symptoms — Upper Limbs
Clarke

Tearing in shoulders, arms and axillee—Paralysed condition of r.

hand.—Stitches and tearing in 1. wrist.

Lower Limbs

Symptoms — Lower Limbs
Clarke

Severe tension in lower extremities —Stitches in hip-joints.—Tearing in

  • knees; in r.
  • side of r.
  • tibia down to toes; in 1.
  • tendo Achillis; in 1.
  • heel—Sticking in a corn.

Skin

Symptoms — Skin
Clarke

Rash-like eruption on forehead.—Biting, itching vesicles; on neck and back extending

later to occiput and behind ears.

Fever

Symptoms — Fever
Clarke

Violent chill with chattering teeth 7 to 7.30 p.m.

Calcarea Chlorinata.

Chlorinated Lime. CaOCh. Hypochlorate of lime with Chloride of Calcium and a varying

amount of Hydrate of Lime.

Relations

Relations
Clarke
  • Compare: Besides the Calcareas, Rhus (pain in joint of jaw); Mez.
  • and Mag.
  • c.
  • (pain
  • in malar bones); Valer.
  • (pain in heel); Pic.
  • ac.
  • and Sep.
  • (loins); Hep.
  • and Nit.
  • ac.
  • (bone sensation

in throat).

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.

Additional notes

Symptoms — Limbs
Clarke

Trembling in limbs; could not continue work; > by eating a piece of

bread.—Rheumatic pain alternating in all the joints Wandering pains.—Pains in hands and feet

after a foot-bath.

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