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Calcarea Fluorica

Fluoride of Lime
37 sectionsBoericke · 21Clarke · 16

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • Induration threatening suppuration

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Fluoride of Lime (FLUOR SPAR)

  • A powerful tissue remedy for hard, stony glands, varicose and enlarged veins, and malnutrition of bones.
  • Hard knots in female breast.
  • Goitre.
  • Congenital hereditary syphilis.
  • Induration threatening suppuration.
  • Many cases of cataract have undoubtedly been influenced favorably by it.
  • Congenital syphilis manifesting itself in ulcerating of mouth and throat, caries and necrosis with boring pains and heat in parts.
  • Arterio-sclerosis; threatened apoplexy.
  • Tuberculosis.
  • Used after operations, the tendency to adhesions is reduced.
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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke
  • Calc.
  • fluor.
  • is Schiissler's "bone salt.
  • " It is found in the surface of bones, the

enamel of teeth, in elastic fibres and in the cells of the epidermis. It has been principally used for

dispersing bony growths; ulcerations of bone; and for fistula. A giant-celled sarcoma of upper

maxilla causing the deformity known as "frog-face" was very greatly relieved by Calc. fluor. ina

  • short space of time, after Silica had failed to make much impression.
  • W.
  • P.
  • Wesselhceft cured

two cases of syphilitic periosteal swelling, one on right radius, one on left ulna, one sensitive,

one not, one patient male dark, the other blonde female. Each case received a dose of Calc. fl.

  • c.
  • m.
  • G.
  • P.
  • Hale, with the 3x, has removed induration after typhlitis, also encysted tumour of

eyelids. He regards induration threatening suppuration as a marked indication. Induration in

epigastric region after a kick from a horse was cured. Also indurated glands (of neck; of breast,

&c.) of stony hardness. The mental condition is one of depression; anxiety; indecision.

  • Cephalhzmatoma.
  • Spots on cornea.
  • Senile cataract has been cured by it.
  • Ozzena.
  • Herpes (hard,

small) on lips. Deficient enamel of teeth. Prickly, burning, suffocating sensation in throat.

  • Bleeding piles.
  • One prover, Dr.
  • Sarah N.
  • Smith, had among other symptoms this peculiar and

constant one in the head: A sort of creaking, straining, and drawing, like the noise of a corn-stalk

  • fiddle, greatly interfering with sleep.
  • Dr.
  • Sarah Hogan gave Calc.
  • fluor.
  • with complete success in

a case of flatulency in a pregnant woman. The patient passed through the labour quite easily,

whereas the previous labour had been very difficult. In many other cases Dr. Hogan found the

remedy facilitate labour. She found flatulency a marked indication for the remedy independently

of pregnancy. In hemoptysis it has been used with success, its effect being apparently to cause

contraction of the blood-vessels. Lumbago from strains; < after rest, > after moving a little and

  • from warmth.
  • Vivid dreams of death.
  • Warmth >; warm drinks >, cold drinks < throat pain.
  • <

From damp weather, but > from fomentations. > By rubbing.

Mentals

Mind
Boericke

Great depression; groundless fears of financial ruin.

Modalities

Modalities
Boericke
Worse
during rest, changes of weather
Better
heat, warm applications

Head

Head
Boericke
  • Creaking noise in head.
  • Blood-tumors of new-born infants.
  • Hard excrescences on the scalp.
  • Ulcers on the scalp with callous, hard edges.
Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Exostosis.—Cephalheematoma.—A sort of creaking, straining, and drawing, like the

noise of a corn-stalk fiddle, greatly interfering with sleep.

Eyes

Eyes
Boericke

Flickering and sparks before the eyes, spots on the cornea; conjunctivitis; cataract. Strumous phlyctemular keratitis. Subcutaneous palpebral cysts.

Symptoms — Eyes
Clarke
  • Flickering and sparks before eyes.
  • —Spots on cornea.
  • —Cataract.
  • —Eye balls ache; >

closing eyes and pressing tightly.

Ears

Ears
Boericke

Calcareous deposits on tympanum; sclerosis of ossicula and petrous portion of temporal bone, with deafness, ringing and roaring. Chronic suppuration of middle ear.

Nose

Nose
Boericke

Cold in the head; stuffy cold; dry coryza; ozaena. Copious, offensive, thick, greenish, lumpy, yellow nasal catarrh. Atrophic rhinitis, especially if crusts are prominent.

Symptoms — Nose
Clarke

Copious, offensive, thick, greenish-yellow nasal catarrh; with bony growths.—Post-

nasal catarrh.

Face

Face
Boericke

Hard swelling on the cheek, with pain or toothache, hard swelling on jaw-bone.

Symptoms — Face
Clarke

Hard swelling on jaw; under jaw.—Cold sores, rather small, hard, on lips.

  • 7, 8.
  • Teeth and Mouth.
  • —Deficient enamel of teeth.
  • —Great dryness of mouth and throat, and

dryness and harshness of skin.

Mouth

Mouth
Boericke
  • Gum-boil, with hard swelling on the jaw.
  • Cracked appearance of the tongue, with or without pain.
  • Induration of the tongue, hardening after inflammation.
  • Unnatural looseness of the teeth, with or without pain; teeth become loose in their sockets.
  • Toothache, with pain if any food touches the tooth.

Throat

Symptoms — Throat
Clarke

Prickling, burning, suffocative sensation in throat; < at night and from cold drinks; >

from warm drinks.—Increased mucus in posterior nares.

Throat
Boericke
  • Follicular sore throat; plugs of mucus are continually forming in the crypts of the tonsils.
  • Pain and burning in throat; better by warm drinks; worse, cold drinks.
  • Hypertrophy of Luschka's tonsil.
  • Relaxed uvula, tickling referred to larynx.

Stomach

Stomach
Boericke
  • Vomiting of infants.
  • Vomiting of undigested food.
  • Hiccough (Cajup; Sulph ac).
  • Flatulency.
  • Weakness and daintiness of appetite, nausea and distress after eating in young children who are overtaxed by studies.
  • Acute indigestion from fatigue and brain-fag; much flatulence.

Abdomen

Symptoms — Abdomen
Clarke

Flatulence.—Paroxysm of lancinating pains in r. hypochondrium under 11th rib,

awaking him about midnight; < lying on painful side, which causes a feeling of bursting

  • outward; > lying on painless side, and by doubling up; with restlessness.
  • At 8 a.
  • m.
  • frequent

attacks of lancinating pain in hepatic region; < when sitting; > after lying down at night—Dull

weight and discomfort in r. hypochondrium.

Stool

Stool and Anus
Boericke
  • Diarrhoea in gouty subjects.
  • Itching of anus.
  • Fissure of the anus, and intensely sore crack near the lower end of the bowel.
  • Bleeding haemorrhoids.
  • Itching of anus as from pin-worms.
  • Internal or blind piles frequently, with pain in back, generally far down on the sacrum, and constipation.
  • Much wind in lower bowels.
  • Worse, pregnancy.
Symptoms — Stool and Anus
Clarke

Slight diarrhoea with painful urging before stool.—Constipation with

  • dizziness and dull headache.
  • —Itching in anus awakening him at night.
  • —Bleeding piles.
  • —Fissure;

fistula.

Urinary

Symptoms — Urinary Organs
Clarke

Urine causes smarting along urethra, particularly at external

orifice.—Urine diminished, high-coloured, offensive.

Female

Symptoms — Female Sexual Organs
Clarke

Excessive menses.—Prolapsus uteri—Bearing-down; dragging

  • pains in uterus and thighs.
  • —Hard knots in breasts.
  • —Flatulence in pregnant women.
  • —Favours

parturition.—A fter-pains from feeble contractions.

Male

Male
Boericke

Hydrocele; indurations of the testicles.

Respiratory

Respiratory Organs
Boericke
  • Hoarseness.
  • Croup.
  • Cough with expectoration of tiny lumps of yellow mucus, with tickling sensation and irritation on lying down.
  • Spasmodic cough.
  • Calc. Fluor removes fibroid deposits about the endocardium and restores normal endocardial structure (Eli G.
  • Jones, M.
  • D).
Symptoms — Respiratory Organs
Clarke

Hoarseness after laughing or reading aloud.—Soon after itching at

anus, itching tickling in larynx, forcing a spasmodic cough, which was relieved after a few hours

by hawking, a little mucus from larynx.—Hacking cough, from tickling in larynx as of a foreign

body; not > by coughing.—Difficulty of breathing, as if epiglottis was nearly closed.

Neck & Back

Neck and Back
Boericke
  • Chronic lumbago; aggravated on beginning to move, and ameliorated on continued motion.
  • Osseous tumors.
  • Rachitic enlargement of femur in infants.
  • Pain lower part of back, with burning.
Symptoms — Neck and Back
Clarke

Goitre.—Indurated cervical glands of stony hardness.—Lumbago from

strains; severe backache after a long ride; < after rest, > after moving a little and from

warmth.—Tired aching, as from a long ride; with restlessness.

Extremities

Extremities
Boericke
  • Ganglia or encysted tumors at the back of the wrist.
  • Gouty enlargements of the joints of the fingers.
  • Exostoses on fingers.
  • Chronic synovitis of knee-joint.

Skin

Skin
Boericke
  • Marked whiteness of skin.
  • Scar tissue; adhesions after operations.
  • Chaps and cracks.
  • Fissures or cracks in the palms of the hands, or hard skin.
  • Fissure of the anus.
  • Suppurations with callous, hard edges.
  • Whitlow.
  • Indolent, fistulous ulcers, secreting thick, yellow pus.
  • Hard, elevated edges of ulcer, surrounding skin purple and swollen.
  • Knots, kernels, hardened glands in the female breast.
  • Swellings or indurated enlargements having their seat in the fasciae and capsular ligaments of joints, or in the tendons.
  • Indurations of stony hardness.

Sleep

Sleep
Boericke

Vivid dreams, with sense of impending danger. Unrefreshing sleep.

Symptoms — Sleep
Clarke

Vivid and distinct dreams, with weeping. —Jumped from bed in a dream and tried to

get out of a window, which woke him.

Clinical

Clinical
Clarke
  • Adenoids.
  • Aneurism.
  • Bone affections.
  • Breast, indurations of.
  • Cataract.
  • Catarrh.
  • Cold
  • sores.
  • Corneal opacities.
  • Cough.
  • Exostosis.
  • Flatulence.
  • Glands, indurated.
  • Heemoptysis.
  • Herpes.
  • Hodgkin's disease.
  • Joints, cracking of.
  • Liver, affections of.
  • Lumbago.
  • Nodes.
  • Ozzna.
  • Parturition.
  • Postnasal catarrh.
  • Spavin (horses).
  • Strains.
  • Syphilis.

Relations

Relations
Clarke
  • Compare: Calc.
  • ph.
  • (ozana; suppuration of bones); Nat.
  • m.
  • (cold sores); Sil.
  • (swellings on skulls of infants; suppuration of bones; spavin); Phos.
  • ac.
  • (spavin).
  • It cured

lumbago < by rest, > by motion, after failure of Rhus.

Relationship
Boericke

Compare: Con; Lapis; Baryt mur; Hecla; Rhus; Cacodylate of Soda (Tumors).

Calcar sulph-stibiata (acts as an haemostatic and absorptive in uterine myoma).

Mangifera indica (varicose veins).

Posology

Dose
Boericke
  • Third to twelfth trituration.
  • A "chronic" remedy.
  • Needs some time before manifesting its effects.
  • Should not be repeated too frequently.

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

Circulatory Organs
Boericke
  • Chief remedy for vascular tumors with dilated blood-vessels, and for varicose or enlarged veins.
  • Aneurism.
  • Valvular disease.
  • When the tuberculous toxins attack the heart and blood-vessels.
Symptoms — Limbs
Clarke
  • Cracking in joints.
  • —Synovial swellings.
  • —Easy dislocations.
  • —Exostoses.
  • —(Spavili).
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