Calcarea Phosphorica

"Indicated by clinical experience for perifollicular inflammation. The extreme

prostration of Picric acid is relieved by this salt also" (Houghton). Minute and excessively

painful boils in meatus. Picric acid and all its salts are curative in states of intense prostration and

fatigue.

• ▸Over-growth.
• ▸Lifting.
• ▸Ascending.
• ▸Over-study.
• ▸Sexual excesses.
• ▸Sexual

• ▸irregularities.
• ▸Grief.
• ▸Disappointed love.
• ▸Unpleasant news.
• ▸Operation for fistula.
• ▸Getting wet.

Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation (Ignat; Phos ac). Always wants to go somewhere.

Great depression; slow comprehension; cretinism.—Children are peevish and fretful;

difficulty in performing intellectual operations.

Large pedunculated polypi; copper-coloured face, full of pimples; tongue

swollen.—Rheumatic pains of all kinds.—Pains in different parts of the body, proceeding along

the muscles into the joints—Rheumatism which gets well in summer and becomes bad again in

cold weather.—The loins, knees, and thumbs are principally affected—Veins swollen.—Burning

• ▸itching over the whole body.
• ▸—Ulcers.
• ▸—Caries.
• ▸—Weariness, when going upstairs; wants to sit

down; hates to get up.—Il|-humour, and aversion to labour.—On every little cold she is much

worse.—Sensations frequently on small spots.—Children do not learn to walk, or lose the ability;

lose flesh.—Pains along sutures or at symphyses.—Flabby, shrunken, emaciated

children.—Soreness of tendons when flexing or extending.—The heat of the room appears

insupportable.

• ▸Headache, worse near the region of sutures, from change of weather, of school children about puberty.
• ▸Fontanelles remain open too long.
• ▸Cranial bones soft and thin.
• ▸Defective hearing.
• ▸Headache, with abdominal flatulence.
• ▸Head hot, with smarting of roots of hair.

Large open fontanelles.—Delayed closure or re-opening of fontanelles Headache <

from change of weather extending from forehead to nose; from temples to jaws; with some

rheumatic feeling from collar-bone to wrists.—Vertigo, with nausea—Head compressed, heavy,

and painful, on waking in the morning.—Painful sensation of fulness in the head, as if the brain

were pressed against the crantum, < by movement and by change of position, > by lying

still Headache with craving for tobacco smoke, which >.—During the headache, face and head

hot with indolence and ill-humour.—The headache is < in the open air, or on

stooping.—Headache on vertex, behind ears, with drawing in muscles of neck to nape and

occiput.—Headache, with flatulency in the abdomen.—Headache of school-girls with

diarrhoea.—Crawling sensations run over top of head as if ice were lying on upper part of occiput;

the head is hot with smarting of the roots of the hair.—Skull soft; crackling noise like paper when

pressed, mostly in occiput.—Itching in the scalp every evening.

Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.

Sensation in the eye as if something in it, renewed if others talk about it—Cannot read;

light hurts, esp. candle or gaslight.—Cataract; amaurosis; ulcers on the

• ▸cornea.
• ▸—Squinting.
• ▸—Lachrymation; most with yawning.
• ▸—Pain in the eyes and nose, as if a

foreign body were introduced into them.

Singing or other noises in the ears.—Inner and outer ear red, sore itching.—External ear

swells suddenly and appears as if it would burst with eczema.—Excoriating discharge from ears.

Coryza: fluent in cold room; stopped in warm air and out of doors.—Swollen nose with

sore nostrils in scrofulous children.—Large pedunculated polypi.—Streaks of blood, nose-bleed in

afternoon.—Frequent sneezing, with flow of mucus from the nose, and salivation.—Blood follows

when the nose is blown.

• ▸Pain esp.
• ▸in upper jawbone from r.
• ▸to |.
• ▸; extends from other parts to face or from face

to other parts——Coppery face full of pimples —(Warts on mouth).—Acne in the face; red pimples,

filled with a yellowish pus, with shooting pains on being touched.—Swollen upper lip; painful,

hard and burning.

Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain. Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of teeth. Adenoid growths.

Tongue: swollen, numb, and stiff—Tip of tongue sore, burning, little blisters on

it-—Tongue white furred at root, most in morning.—Accumulation of acid saliva in the

mouth.—Insipid disgusting taste.—Bitter taste in the morning with headache.

Teeth sensitive to chewing.—Pain in molars.—Tearing, boring pain at night; < from

warm or cold things.—Slow dentition, with cold tumours and emaciation.—Too rapid

decay.—Convulsions without fever during dentition.

Sore aching (on waking in morning) < by swallowing.—Sensation of contraction in

throat—When swallowing, pain in tongue, fauces, pharynx, chest, and pit of stomach.—Chronic

swelling of tonsils.

• ▸10.
• ▸Appetite-—Unusual hunger 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Infant wants to nurse all the time.
• ▸—Craves fat bacon salt

meats.—Desire for tobacco smoke; smoking > headache.—Complete loss of appetite before and

during catamenia.—Colic and diarrhoea from ice creams; juicy fruit or cider; every attempt to eat;

drinking cold water (colic or diarrhoea).

• ▸Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily.
• ▸Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much flatulence.
• ▸Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations.
• ▸Heartburn.
• ▸Easy vomiting in children.

Nausea, with vertigo, perplexity of head, and confusion of ideas —After taking

coffee, nausea, pyrosis, head confused and painful, and excessive ill-humour.—Heartburn and

water-brash.—Sour rising.—Acute pains in the stomach, with great weakness, headache, and

diarrhoea; the least morsel that is eaten renews the pains in the stomach.—After belching, a

• ▸burning in epigastrium.
• ▸—Empty, sinking sensation (at the epigastrium); 7 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Persistent

vomiting of milk, whether of breast or other—Vomiting from hawking phlegm.—Easy vomiting

in children.

At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen. Sunken and flabby. Colic, soreness and burning around navel.

Aching soreness and pain round navel; > after fetid flatus passes off—Oozing of

bloody fluid from navel of infants—Violent colic with inflation of abdomen, and great

accumulation of flatulency, or with headache.—Difficult escape of wind, without mitigation of

• ▸suffering.
• ▸—Burning in abdomen.
• ▸—Aching soreness, cutting, drawing in 1.
• ▸groin, later in

r.—Burning aching in groins.—Abdominal weakness in anemic patients.

• ▸Bleeding after hard stool.
• ▸Diarrhoea from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition.
• ▸Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested, with fetid flatus.
• ▸Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.

Evacuations with much flatulency.—Stools in which there were many

small white points or flakes, like pus, scarcely perceptible —Offensive pus with stools.—Daily

watery, very hot stools.—Stools green and loose, sometimes slimy.—Diarrhcea, very

fetid.—Offensive flatus —Cutting, pinching, sharp colic, followed by diarrhoea.—Diarrhoea from

juicy fruit or cider; from vexation.—Diarrhcea of dentition.—Hard stools, with mental

depression.—Hard stools with much blood.—After stool, buzzing in ears; weak feeling in male

sexual organs.—Bleeding after stool; protruding piles, aching, itching, sore; oozing of a yellow

fluid and bleeding.—Itching in anus; most in evening.—Single stitches in rectum towards anus, or

shooting in anus.—Sore feeling in anus, < one side, with shaking, burning, throbbing.—Fistula in

ano, alternating with chest symptoms.—Fistula; in persons who have pains in joints with every

spell of cold, stormy weather.—Fissures.—Hzemorrhoids oozing a watery fluid all the time.

In region of kidneys violent pain when lifting, or blowing nose.—Frequent

micturition.—Urine passed in large quantities with sensation of weakness.—Urine deep-coloured

and sometimes hot.—After evacuation of feeces and emission of urine, the genital parts feel, as it

were, fatigued. —Cutting in urethra before and after urinating; burning

during.—Enuresis.—Phosphatic urine (Bright's disease).

Increased, with sensation of weakness. Pain in region of kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose.

• ▸Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls.
• ▸If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache.
• ▸During lactation with sexual excitement.
• ▸Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine region (Plat).
• ▸After prolonged nursing.
• ▸Leucorrhoea, like white of egg.
• ▸Worse morning.
• ▸Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty.
• ▸Prolapsus in debilitated persons.

Nymphomania; esp. before catamenia—Aching in uterus;

weakness and distress in uterine region; < during defecation and micturition; uterine

displacement.—Pressure upward over mons veneris, throbbing.—Voluptuous feeling as if the

parts were filling up with blood; feels pulse in all the parts, with increased sexual

• ▸desire.
• ▸—Prolapse.
• ▸—Polypus.
• ▸—Menses: too early, light, or dark (esp.
• ▸with rheumatic patients);

labour-like pains.—Menses too early, blood bright, with girls; too late; blood dark, or first bright,

then dark, in women.—Leucorrheea, like white of egg, day and night; < morning after rising; of

sweetish odour; increased whites with a stool of bad odour.—Burning, pain, swelling of vagina

and external parts.—Pains in navel; sacrum; symphysis pubis; mammee (sore and burning; nipples

aching, sore) during pregnancy.—Child refuses breast, milk has a saltish taste.

Increase of sexual desire in the morning, with unusual enjoyment in

• ▸coition.
• ▸—Nocturnal emissions.
• ▸—Erections while riding in a carriage, without desire.
• ▸—Shooting

through the perineum into the penis.—Swelling of testicles —Scrotum: itching; sweating; sore;

oozing a fluid —Hydrocele.—Chronic gonorrhoea in anzmic subjects.

• ▸Involuntary sighing.
• ▸Chest sore.
• ▸Suffocative cough; better lying down.
• ▸Hoarseness.
• ▸Pain through lower left lung.

Hoarseness; burning in throat; constant hawking and hemming to

clear voice when talking.—Cough; tickling; with dryness of throat and hoarseness; with yellow

expectoration, < morning; with stitches in chest—Cough during difficult dentition.—Breathing

frequent, short, difficult—With inhalation; shooting in |. breast and r. temple; sudden jerking

pain in back.—Involuntary sighing.

Contraction of chest, and difficult breathing, evening till 10 p.m.; > lying down; <

• ▸when getting up.
• ▸—Obstinate pain through lower |.
• ▸lung and |.
• ▸hypochondrium (uterine

disease).—Burning sensation in chest from below up into throat.—Sharp pain like an instrument

through end of sternum.—Cracking in sternum.

Sharp cutting pain, shooting in heart region interrupting breathing.—Dropsy from

heart disease.

Rheumatic pain from draught of air, with stiffness and dullness of head. Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if broken (Aesc hip).

Rheumatic pain and stiffness of neck with dulness of head; from slight

• ▸draught of air—Cramp-like pain in neck first one side then the other (r.
• ▸to 1.
• ▸).
• ▸—Throbbing or

jerking pains below scapula.—Violent pain in region of back when making the least

effort—Backache and uterine pains.—Sharp pains in sacrum and coccyx.—Soreness as if separate

in sacro-iliac synchondrosis.—Curvature of the spine to the left; lumbar vertebrz bend to the left;

spina bifida.

Rheumatic pains in shoulder and arm, also with swelling of the diseased part

• ▸and febrile heat.
• ▸—Ulcerative pain esp.
• ▸in roots of finger nails of r.
• ▸hand; and in middle

• ▸finger —Gouty nodosities.
• ▸—Soreness, torpor, and paralysis of the (1.
• ▸) arm.
• ▸—Paralysis of the joints

of the hand and of the fingers, esp. in the thumbs, sometimes from a chill.

Buttocks and back "asleep," with a sensation of uneasiness.—Lower limbs

fall asleep; restless; anxious feeling; has to move them to jump out of carriage; also at

night.—Abdomen, sacrum, and lower limbs asleep; cannot rise from seat.—Cramp in calves; on a

small spot inside, when walking.—Legs tired, weak, restless, crawling, tingling —Pains above

knee.—Pains in joints and bones, esp. shin bones.

• ▸Stiffness and pain, with cold, numb feeling, worse any change of weather.
• ▸Crawling and coldness.
• ▸Buttocks, back and limbs asleep.
• ▸Pains in joints and bones.
• ▸Weary when going upstairs.

Constant stretching and yawning.—Cannot awake in early morning.—Sleep, early in

the evening, with frequent waking during the night.—Restlessness for two or three hours after

midnight.—Frequent dreams, sometimes with reflections, dreams of dangers and

fires.—Transient, frequent shuddering.—Starting from sleep as from fright.

Frequent creeping shiverings.—Copious night sweats, on single parts.

Calcarea Picrica.

Picrate of Calcium. 2 (CoH2 (NQ2z)3) OCa.

• ▸Gout.
• ▸Gravel.
• ▸Joints, nodosities on.
• ▸Renal calculi.
• ▸Stone in bladder.
• ▸Teeth, tartar on.

• ▸Characteristics——H.
• ▸Recorder (Aug.
• ▸, 1895) reprints a paper by Dr.
• ▸Bredenoll, of Erwitte, in

which he gives his experience with this remedy in his own case. Following a repercussed

eruption he had among a host of other troubles renal colic of great intensity, with passage of uric

acid calculi. One of these was triturated in the proportion of 5 parts to 95 of sugar of milk, and of

this he took 1/2 grain doses for a considerable time, with the result that the formation of calculi

ceased, the tartar which had formed on the teeth dropped off, and a nodosity of stony hardness

disappeared from the extensor tendon of the right middle finger.

Compare: Picric acid, Ferr. pic.

Calcarea Renalis.

Urate of Lime renal calculi. Also Phosphate of Lime renal calculi. Trituration.

Complementary: Ruta; Hepar.

• ▸Compare: Calcar hypophosphorosa (is to be preferred when it seems necessary to furnish the organism with liberal doses of phosphorus in consequence of continued abscesses having reduced the vitality.
• ▸Give first and second decimal trits.
• ▸Loss of appetite, rapid debility, night sweats; Acne pustulosa.
• ▸--Pallor of skin, habitually cold extremities.
• ▸Phthisis-diarrhoea and cough; acute pains in chest.
• ▸Mesenteric tuberculosis.
• ▸Bleeding from lungs; angina pectoris; asthma; affection of arteries.
• ▸Veins stand out like whipcords.
• ▸Attacks of pain occurring two hours after meals (relieved by a cup of milk or light food).
• ▸Cheiranthus (effects of cutting wisdom teeth).
• ▸Calcarea renalis-Lapis renalis--(arthritic nodosities.
• ▸Rigg's disease; lessens tendency to accumulation of tartar on teeth; gravel and renal calculi).
• ▸Conchilion.
• ▸--Meter perlarum.
• ▸--Mother of pearl (Osteitis.
• ▸--Has a wide range of action in bone affections, especially when the growing ends are affected.
• ▸Petechiae).
• ▸Silica; Psorin; Sulph.

First to third trituration. Higher potencies often more effective.

During the growing period many children need this remedy. If

the head bones are slov/ in forming, or do not keep pace with the

growth of the child, this remedy is often called for. Where the child

is losing flesh, slow learning to do things, slow learning to walk, or

the legs are not strong enough to support the body, or it is behind in

mental development, this remedy is one to be examined (like Baryta

carb,, Borax, Ph, ac,, Nat, m,, Calc,), Flabby, shrunken, emaciated

children. Non-union of fractured bones, swollen condyles, are symptoms accepted by all text-books as strong symptoms of this remedy.

It has cured polypi of nose, rectum and uterus. It has cured enlarged

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glands of the neck, groin and abdomen. Rachitis, with fontanelles

open, and diarrhoea, in emaciating children. Rheumatic pains in the

joints and limbs, worse from cold weather, or in every cold change

of weather. Pale, waxy skin ; anaemia. Growing pains nights in fast

• ▸growing children.
• ▸Phthisical subjects.
• ▸Diseases of bone.
• ▸Easy ulceration.

Itching, burning, eruptions. Sensitive to cold. Sensitive to a jar.

The pains are shooting, drawing, aching, burning, pressing. It

has a shaking chill that spreads downward. Dry heat in evening.

Copious night sweats.

The complaints of this remedy arc generally better during rest,

• ▸come on during motion, and are greatly aggravated by exertion.
• ▸Stiffness on moving in bed.
• ▸General bodily weakness.
• ▸Numbness of

many parts. Trembling. Fear brings on complaints ; palpitation.

Electric shock, so severe tliat the patient could not remain standing.

Epileptic spasms. Convulsions of children ; but the remedy must be

given when not in the convulsion to secure the best elFect. The mind

shows above all a tired and weak brain. Feeble memory, and inability

TO sustain mental effort. Suffering in the head from mental exertion.

• ▸Dreads mental exertion.
• ▸Sluggish mind.
• ▸Imbecility.
• ▸Feeble minded

children. The child grasps the head with the hands and screams.

Thinking of complaints causes them to appear or increase. Extremely

fretful. Ailments from bad news, grief, unrequited affections, vexation. She seeks solitude to commune with her thoughts and to shun

the exertion of society. Discontented with his own surroundings and

goes from place to place.

Vertigo in cold wind, from mental and physical exertion, when

rising from sitting, when walking in cold air.

The head symptoms arc still more striking. The dull headaches of

school jchildren— always come home from schqoLjyith headac^^ The

head is sensitive to a jar, to pressure, to the hat ; wants it washed in

cold water ; wants to be quite and alone. Tbro})bing and burning in

the head. Rheum atic headache, seerns to be in the, whole head^ in cold

weath er, being^ouTtr worse from walking, wor?e from

exertion, worse at njg^. It has many times prevented hydrocephalus.

FrontaI""*hea3aches, and forehead and eyes worse from pressure of the

hat. Perspiration of scalp ; forehead cold to touch. Tearing pain in

• ▸bones of head.
• ▸Cold occiput.
• ▸Eczema of scalp.
• ▸Ulcers of scalp.

In children when coming out of brain congestion if there is strabimus, diarrhoea, and losing flesh. Glittering fiery circles before the

eyes. Pain in eyes from reading in artificial light. Eyes blurred.

Soreness in eyeballs. Pains worse thinking about them. Ulceration

of cornea. Eyes feel hot. Easy lachrymation.

Rheumatic tearing in the ears when the weather changes to cold.

Ears very cold. Aching deep in car. Enlarged, painful parotid glands.

Eruption about the cars. Noises in ears after stool. Dry catarrh

of the middle ear.

This remedy is useful in chronic catarrh of the nose when the general symptoms agree Polypi in the nose. Icy cold nose. Fluent

coryza in a cold room, stopped in a warm room. Epistaxis.

Pale, waxy face, dirty skin. Rheumatic faceache in every cold

spell of weather. Cold perspiration on face. Neuralgia of face at

night, in cold air ; worse from exertion, ameliorated by heat ; sensitive

• ▸to pressure {Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸is better by heat and pressure).
• ▸Dark blotches

and pustules on the face. Swollen upper lip, painlul, hard and burning.

Teeth late coming in or decay soon. Teeth sensitive to touch,

pressure, or when masticating. Complaints of teething chiidren. Jboul

taste in mouth. Bitter taste in the morning. Tongue coated in the

morning. Tongue swollen, numb and stiff.

Growing children suffer from chronic throat troubles. Enlarged

tonsils, cold settles in the tonsils Alumen). Much

mucus in throat. Dryness in throat at night.

Craves salt bacon and smoked meats. Strong appetite. Infants

want to nurse all the time. Easily disordered stomach. Cold drinks,

ice cream, fruits disorder the stomach, causing pain or diarrheea. Pain

in stomach after food. Eructations and nausea. Soreness in the

stomach. Sour eructations, nausea and vomiting. Burning in the

stomach. Nausea from scraping the larynx or throat. Vomiting in

infants, in children, and in pregnancy. Violent pain in the stomach ;

diarrhoea aggravated by the least food. Gnawing, empty feeling in

the stomach.

After becoming chilled, pain in the liver, soreness, aggravated after

eating and by motion ; wants to keep quiet. Stitching pains in the

liver from deep breathing or sudden motion. Pulsating in the liver.

Cutting pains in the spleen. Sinking sensation in abdomen. Burning

• ▸in the abdomen, rising up into the chest.
• ▸Pain in the abdomen ameliorated by passing flatus.
• ▸Colic, followed by diarrhoea.
• ▸Ulceration of

naval in infants. Motion in abdomen from flatus as from something

alive. Abdomen large and flabby.

Tabes mesenterica with diarrhoea.

Green mucus and hot watery stools ; white, mushy stools, copious,

• ▸offensive flatus.
• ▸Diarrhoea from fruit, ice cream, cold drinks or vexation.
• ▸Diarrhoea in the morning in phthisical patients.
• ▸Very offensive

stools.

Constipation, with difficult, hard stool. Bleeding from the rectum

and anus during stool. Protruding piles so painful that he is kept

in bed for weeks ; the pain is intense standing, walking, from touch ;

ameliorated by heat ; with general sufferings, every sudden cold change

of the weather. Piles itch and bum and discharge yellow pus. Itch-

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ing of the anus in the evening. Stitching pain in the anus, with or

without haemorrhoids. Boils and abscesses about and near the anus,

discharging blood and pus. Fistula in tuberculous subjects. Fissured

anus, with burning stitching pains.

Weak and irritable bladder. Catarrh of the bladder. Frequent

urging to urinate. Copious flow of urine. Pain in the neck of the

• ▸bladder before and after urinating.
• ▸Aching in the empty bladder.
• ▸This remedy has cured diabetes mellitus.
• ▸Violent pain in the

region of the kidneys.

Sexual desire increased. Painful erections. It has cured many

cases of chronic gonorrhoea when the discharge is glecty and there are

sharp pains in the urethra and prostate gland. Gonorrhoeal rheumatism

when of long standing and worse in every cold change in the weather

(Med.),

The woman has no better friend than Calc. p. Her sufferings at

puberty when she is slow in maturing are often met by iliis medicine.

Front t aking cold a t first men strual period often comes a . painfu.1, menst ruation that lasts during me nst rual Jife, unless cured by this remedy.

Violent cramping in uterus and groin several hours before the flow

starts, relieved after the flow has been fully established. The pains

make her cry out. Intense sexual excitement (like Platina, Graiiola,

Origanum). Weak, sinking sensation in the pelvis. Prolapsus of

uterus during stool and micturition. Uterine polypus. Labor-like

pains at the beginning of menstruatios. Copious menstrual flo w, with

very dark clots and membranes. Leucorrhoea like white of egg day

and night. Throbbing, titillating in external genitalia. Burning in the

vagina and uterus during menses. Child refuses mother’s milk. It

may be given to a woman who has brought forth one or two children

• ▸that may be considered Calc.
• ▸p.
• ▸babies.
• ▸The next child will be stronger

and have a better constitution.

It is often observed that this patient scrapes mucus from the larynx

before he can talk or sing. Hoarseness, dry hacking cough day and

night. Tubercular laryngitis.

Suffocation on slight exertion, or on ascending stairs. In thin, pale ,

sickly people with dry, hacking cough w orse in cold, damp weather in

rhciTmatic constitutions. Yellow expectoration.

• ▸Sfildsing pains in the chest.
• ▸Emaciation of the chest.
• ▸Difficult expectoration.
• ▸I is a very useful remedy in phthisis and bloodspitting.

• ▸Much sweat on the chest.
• ▸Rattling in the chest with difficult expectoration, like Caust.
• ▸Soreness of the cheiit to touch.
• ▸Palpitation, with

trembling of the limbs.

The back pains are worse in cold, stormy weather, attended with

stiffness, and worse in the morning. The back is sensitive to draft.

Pain in the back from lifting or straining. Curvature of spine. Tear-

Aching in all the limbs with weariness.—Pains flying about, in all parts of rump and

limbs after getting wet in rain—Extensors more affected than flexors.