Calcarea Sulphurica

• ▸Calc.
• ▸sulph.
• ▸is closely related to Hepar sulph.
• ▸calc.
• ▸, which is an impure

sulphide of calcium, but has a wider sphere and deeper action in suppurative processes. It is

Schiissler's "Connective-tissue salt," and most of the indications for its use are derived from his

clinical experience. In the last edition of his Biochemic Therapy Schissler discards Calc. sul.

because it is not an actual constituent of the tissues, and he distributes its functions between

Silicea and Nat. Phos. Homeeopaths, having no Biochemic theory to support, may continue its

use without scruple, especially as it has been proved by Hering and others. It is indicated in all

kinds of cases after pus has found a vent. Nash has cured a case of suppurating kidney with it. It

differs from Hepar in sensitiveness to air: Hepar cannot bear the slightest exposure; Calc. sul.

has > in open air; better walking in it; desire for it. Both have < from change of weather. Calc.

sul. has not the excessive sensitiveness to touch found in Hepar. Hansen recommends it in dry

eczema in children. Cystic tumours, fibromata and polypi have been cured with Calc. sul.

Scald-head of children, if there be purulent discharge, or yellow, purulent crusts.

Sensation round head as if he had his hat on.—Painful pimples; hard swellings at edge

of hair, bleeding when scratched.—Crusta lactea.—Cranio-tabes.

• ▸Inflammation of the eyes, with discharge of thick, yellow matter.
• ▸Sees only one-half an object.
• ▸Cornea smoky.
• ▸Ophthalmia neonatorum.

Sees only half an object.—Ophthalmia with purulent discharge.—Ulceration of

cornea.—Eyes protrude.

Deafness, with discharge of matter from the middle ear, sometimes mixed with blood. Pimples around ear.

• ▸Cold in the head, with thick, yellowish, purulent secretion, frequently tinged with blood.
• ▸One-sided discharge from nose.
• ▸Yellowish discharge from posterior nares.
• ▸Edges of nostrils sore.

Coryza, with thick, yellow, lumpy, mattery discharge.—Influenza and sneezing > in

open air; coryza r. side after a bath, > out of doors.—Edges of nostrils sore, excoriated.

Pimples and pustules on the face. Herpes.

Swollen cheek with toothache.—Herpetic eruptions; pimples; pustules —Exceedingly

pale, sickly appearance (gypsum workers).—Blister-like sores on lower lip.

• ▸Inside of lips sore.
• ▸Tongue flabby, resembling a layer of dried clay.
• ▸Sour, soapy, acrid taste.
• ▸Yellow coating at base.

Diphtheria of soft palate; scarlatinal sore throat.—Tonsillitis with suppuration.

Last stage of ulcerated sore throat, with discharge of yellow matter. Suppurating stage of tonsillitis, when abscess is discharging.

Pain in region of liver, in right side of pelvis, followed by weakness, nausea, and pain in stomach.

• ▸Purulent diarrhoea mixed with blood.
• ▸Diarrhoea after maple sugar and from change of weather.
• ▸Pus-like, slimy discharge from the bowels.
• ▸Painful abscesses about the anus in cases of fistula.

Diarrhcea with discharge of pus or bloody pus.—Dysentery with pus-like

slime.—Painful abscesses about anus in cases of fistula—Costiveness with hectic fever; with

difficult breathing.

Menses late, long-lasting, with headache, twitching great weakness.

Spermatorrhcea with impotency.—Gonorrhoea in suppurative

Stage.—Chronic syphilis.

• ▸Cough, with purulent and sanious sputa and hectic fever.
• ▸Empyaema, pus forming in the lungs or pleural cavities.
• ▸Purulent, sanious expectoration.
• ▸Catarrh, with thick, lumpy, white-yellow or pus-like secretion.

Croup.—Catarrh with thick, lumpy, white-yellow or pus-like

• ▸secretion.
• ▸—Asthma or cough with hectic fever.
• ▸—Pain in chest and headache.
• ▸—Pneumonia third

stage.—Emphysema.

• ▸Itching and podagra.
• ▸—Pain in knee from a blow.
• ▸—Stitches in knee.
• ▸—Legs

tender to touch, feet slightly swollen —Burning and itching in soles of feet.

Burning-itching of soles of feet.

• ▸Cuts, wounds, bruises, etc, unhealthy, discharging pus; they do not heal readily.
• ▸Yellow, purulent crusts or discharge.
• ▸Purulent exudations in or upon the skin.
• ▸Skin affections with yellowish scabs.
• ▸Many little matterless pimples under the hair, bleeding when scratched.
• ▸Dry eczema in children.

Suppurating chilblains.—Burns and scalds when suppuration takes place.—Scarlet

rash.—Skin affections with greenish, brownish or yellowish scabs.—Greyish lead-coloured

skin.—(Dry eczema in children.)

Hectic fever, caused by formation of pus. With cough and burning in soles.

• ▸Compare: Calend.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Kali mur.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸sul.
• ▸(postscarlatinal dropsy); Sil.
• ▸(hard, or

suppurating glands, ulcers of cornea, tonsillitis, mastitis, frostbites). Follows well: Kali m., Nat.

sul., Sil.

Compare: Hepar; Silica.

Second and third trituration. The twelfth potency has been found effective in Lupus.

ing, shooting ; tenderness and aching in the spine. Soreness in sacroiliac symphysis. Pain in lumbar region and sacrum at the menstrual

period.

Rheumatic pains in the limbs in cold weather, worse from motion,

better during rest and from heat. Trembling in all the limbs. Stij9[ness

after resting, and in the morning. Aching in the bones, like growing

pains. Gouty fingers and toes that become painful in cold weather.

Ulcerative pains in the roots of the nails.

The most severe tearing, shooting pains are in the lower limbs. The

probable reason for this is that the lower limbs are always cold to the

knees, and the cold parts arc always the suffering parts in this remedy.

Sharf) pains in tendons of the lower limbs. Intense aching boring

pains in the knees, and long bones. Pains in the tibia with soreness.

Drawing pain in the til)ia. Cramp in the calves. Ulcers on the legs ;

weak, chronic ; no granulation. Rheumatism of the ankles. Caries

of the os calcis. Stringing and shooting in the toes.

Sleepy daytime and evening. Sleepless after going to bed until

• ▸midnight or later.
• ▸Very sleepy in tlie morning.
• ▸Vivid dreams.
• ▸Children cry out in sleep.
• ▸Frightful dreams cause him to awaken with a

start.

Many years ago Schiiessler introduced this remedy, and it has been

used extensively upon the bio-chemic theory. Many excellent cures

have been made in this way that most of us are able to recognize as

homoeopathic cures, though it is a sort of crude homoeopathy. By

studying these cures many symptoms may be obtained not supposed

to be of importance by these reporters. These symptoms often furnish

a basis for further consideration or further clinical observation. Many

fragmentary provings have also been made, furnishing many of the

symptoms recorded in this article. The author frequently made use

of Schiiessler’s 12th potency, later the 30th and 200th ; at present much

higher potencies. From all of these many valuable symptoms have

been obtained. Some of these symptoms have come out upon the sick

while under the influence of this remedy, and have been since confirmed, so that the following symptoms must now furnish the best basis

that we have to prescribe on. The best consideration that this remedy

has ever received will be found in Boericke and Dewey's Materia Mcdica

of the Tissue Remedies.

The tendency to the formation of abscesses in the body in any place

is a strong feature of this remedy, and is quite similar to Pyrogen, An

abscess that has ruptured and is slow to heal with a continuous discharge of yellow pus, is a strong indication for this remedy. The

patient desires the open air ; is sensitive to drafts ; takes cold easily.

It is very useful in the management of malignant growths after ulcer*

ation has set in. It is under such circumstances an excellent palliative.

It is a deep acting constitutional remedy, and anti-psoric, and if given

early enough will prevent a malignant growth terminating in its usual

way. It is useful in the affections of bone, caries of bone. While the

patient is cold in general, he often requires to be uncovered because

of particular conditions. For instance, in croup and in headaches he

feels the heat too much, but the pains of the body are often relieved by

heat. He is sensitive to both cold and heat. After becoming cold,

complaints come on. Tendency to take cold in drafts, or on slight

• ▸occasions.
• ▸He is sensitive to cold, wet weather.
• ▸It cures the underlying basis of epilepsy, epileptiform and hysteric convulsions.
• ▸The patient is aggravated from exertion.
• ▸His muscles are flabby ; he is disposed to haemorrhages.
• ▸When well selected remedies act only a short

time, and the symptoms agree, this remedy is one that should be

thought of along with Sulphur, Psorinum and Tuberculinum, Complaints from straining muscles and tendons, from overlifting, etc.

Lame back from such causes. Throughout the chest and head, and

sometimes extending into the limbs, there is a violent orgasm of blood,

flushes of heat and pulsations. Onanism and sexual excesses reduce

the economy to a state whereby they feel their constitutional disturbance, and this is one of the remedies that elevate the body to a better

state of order in such conditions,, ?Pain in the bones day and night.

Pulsating all over the body. Staitding aggravates many complaints,

but especially the joints. Swollen and indurated glands. Twitching

• ▸of the muscles all over the body.
• ▸Many of the symptoms arc aggravated on waking.
• ▸Many symptoms are aggravated walking and especially walking fast and becoming heated.
• ▸Aggravation from being overheated.
• ▸Wants to uncover.
• ▸Aggravation from the warmth of the bed.

A warm room aggravates. Warm wraps aggravate. Great bodily

weakness. Thick yellow discharges from the mucous membranes. Thick

bloody discharges. Purulent exudations in serous sacs. Bloody pus

from abscesses, ulcers and mucous membranes. Prolonged suppuration, Wants to keep still.

Now, it will be found that the above general symptoms prevail

throughout the particulars in many instances, and it will appear that

the bodily state is more or less penetrated with these symptoms.

The patient is absent minded ; irritable ; easily angered. He becomes

weak after anger and vexation. Aversion to answering questions. He

is easily made anxious, especially in the evening in bed, during the

night and when lying. Anxiety with fear during fever. Anxiety about

th6 future. Anxious about his heart and his health in general. His

• ▸anxiety is ameliorated in the open ait.
• ▸He has anxiety about his ssalvation.
• ▸He has anxiety in the morning on waking.
• ▸Many changeable

moods and capriciousness. Aversion to company. Confusion of mind

in the morning on waking and again in the evening. This is also

ameliorated in the open air. Confusion of mind from mental exertion.

Contrary and contradictory moods. He has many little delusions,

whims and strange fancies. Frightful images in the night when trying

• ▸to sleep.
• ▸Has visions.
• ▸Great despair of recovery during heat.
• ▸Craves

stimulants to overcome his tremulous weakness. He is discontented

at all times. Great sluggishness of mind. Continuously in a state of

apprehension. Fear of death. Fear that some evil will befall him.

Fear of insanity and fear of misfortune, and this comes on at night.

Forgetful. Full of hatred of people who do not agree with him.

• ▸Always in a hurry.
• ▸Hysterical.
• ▸Impatient.
• ▸Feeble minded, even to

• ▸imbecility.
• ▸Indifferent as to his surroundings.
• ▸Irresolution.
• ▸Extreme

irritability in the evening. Irritable after coition. Lamenting because

• ▸he is not duly appreciated.
• ▸Loathing of life.
• ▸Malicious.
• ▸This remedy

is especially useful in broken-down constitutions from drunkenness. Weakness of mind, of memory and of body. Some of the

mental states that are aggravated in the morning with sadness, on

waking become mirthful in the evening, even to hilarity. He stumbles

• ▸in speaking and misplaces words.
• ▸Changeable moods.
• ▸Morose.
• ▸Obstinate.
• ▸Easily offended or insulted.
• ▸Prostration of mind.
• ▸Quarrelsome.
• ▸Restlessness.
• ▸Mental depression in the morning, with mirthfulness in the evening.
• ▸Sadness during perspiration.
• ▸Dullness of the

senses. Sits and meditates over imaginary misfortune. Does not

• ▸want to be talked to.
• ▸Easily startled.
• ▸Stupefaction.
• ▸Suspicion.
• ▸Suspicious.
• ▸Indisposed to talk.
• ▸Tormenting, persistent thought.
• ▸While

busily engaged thinking, his thoughts vanish. Becomes timid# bashful

and apprehensive, and in his conversation is extremely wearisome.

Weeping during perspiration. An aversion to mental and physical

work. Real indolence.

Vertigo is a common feature with this patient. In the morning on

getting up, or again in the evening ; but this is ameliorated in the open

• ▸air.
• ▸Vertigo with nausea.
• ▸Vertigo with a tendency to fall.
• ▸Epileptic

vertigo. Vertigo on moving the head quickly, on stooping and on

• ▸walking fast.
• ▸Coldness of the head, especially of the vertex.
• ▸Hypersemia of the brain, aggravated in the evening and at night.
• ▸Aggravated

after stimulants ; especially on coughing ; during menses ; with suppressed menses, and in a warm room. Ameliorated in the open

air. The head feels constricted, especially the forehead and occiput.

Much dandruff forms upon the scalp. Eruptions upon the scalp

with thick yellow crusts. Eczema, also pimples. Coldness in

the head, especially forehead. Formication of the scalp. The

hair falls Out. Heat of the head morning and evening. Flushes

m

of heat. Heat in the forehead and in the vertex. Heaviness in

the forehead and occiput. Itching, burning, of the scalp. Many

inveterate chronic headaches and periodical headaches have been

cured with this remedy. Headaches in the morning on waking. Headache coming on in the afternoon, lasting through the evening and at

night, ameliorated in the open air. Catarrhal headaches. Pain in the

head on coughing, after eating or disordering the stomach. Headache

• ▸from becoming heated, and the pain is aggravated from jarring.
• ▸Compels him to lie down.
• ▸Aggravated looking upwards.
• ▸Headaches in

women before and during menses. The headaches are aggravated

from mental exertion, from moving the head, from motion, from noise.

• ▸Periodical sick headaches with nausea and vomiting.
• ▸Pressure ameliorates.
• ▸Pulsating with nearly all the headaches.
• ▸Reading aggravates.

Rising from lying causes pulsating and increases the pain. Shaking

the head aggravates. He wakes up out of sleep with the headache.

The headache is aggravated from spirituous liquors, from standing,

from stooping, from the heat of the sun, from talking, from walking,

from washing. Aggravated in cold weather. The headache comes

on from becoming cold, and yet the headache when on is ameliorated

in the cool air. Many of the headaches are in the forehead in the

morning on waking, or come on iti the evening after dinner. These are

aggravated on stooping and walking. Severe pain above the eyes. It

has occipital headaches ; pain in the vertex and sides of the head. Many

of these headaches are pressing and are aggravated from mental exertion, Stitching pains on coughii^i Stitching pains in the forehead

and temples. Tearing pain throughout the head. Tearing pain around

the head, ameliorated from lying. Pulsation in the head and temples.

Sensation as if he had his hat on at 4 p. M.

There are numerous eye symptoms, catarrhal and psoric. The lids

stick together in the morning. This remedy has partly cured several

cases of cataract. It has produced and cured double vision. Chronic

inflammation of the eyes, with thick yellow pus. Ulceration of the

cornea. Itching and burning, aggravated in the morning. Pressing

pain in the eyes in the evening. Soreness to touch. Photophobia.

Redness of the eyes, like raw beef. Redness of the canthi. Fissures

• ▸of the canthi.
• ▸Twitching of the lids.
• ▸Dim, often foggy, vision.
• ▸Flickering before the eyes

Discharge from the ears, offensive and purulent. Cases dating back

to scarlet fever, with thick and bloody pus, soreness and enlargement

of the right parotid. Eruptions behind the ear. Itching in the ear

and behind the car. Buzzing, humming, ringing, roaring and singing

in the ear* Aching pain in the ear. Stitching, pulsating, stopped sensation. It cures catarrh of the Eustachian tube when the symptoms

agree. Swollen parotid gland and swelling behind the ear.

Most inveterate catarrh of the nose has been cured by this remedy.

Coryza, with discharge, ameliorated in the open air. Dry coryza. The

discharge from the nose is bloody, excoriating, offensive, purulent,

thick, yellow and greenish yellow. Clinically it has cured the one-sided

cases best. Crusts form in the nose. Crusts form upon the margins

of the nose. A sensation of great dryness in the nose. Epistaxis in

the morning. Offensive odors from the nose. Itching in the nose and

of the end of the nose. Obstruction of the nose, so that it is impossible

for him to breathe through it. Keeps the mouth open. Caries of the

bones of the nose. Loss of smell. Sneezing, ameliorated in the open

air. Swelling of the nose.

Cracked lips and flushes of heat of the face. Pale, sickly, face.

Many eruptions upon the face, boils, eczema, herpes ; itching ; pimples ;

pustules ; scurfy eruptions ; vesicles. Itching of the face. Pain in the

face from becoming cold. Cutting pain. Cold sweat on the face.

Swelling of the glands. Swollen sub-maxillary.

Dryness of the mouth and tongue. Hot mouth. Inflammation of the

mucous membranes of the mouth. Inflammation of the tongue, with

swelling. Much mucus in the mouth in the morning. Offensive odor

in the mouth. Rawness and burning inside of the lips. Burning of the

• ▸tongue.
• ▸Flow of saliva from the mouth.
• ▸The speech is difficult on account of the stiffness and swelling of the tongue.
• ▸Swelling of the

mucous membranes of the mouth. Gums swollen. Taste bad,

bitter, metallic, sour, sweetish. Ulceration of the mouth, tongue and

throat. Vesicles in the mouth. Thick yellow coating at the base of the

tongue.

Choking is a characteristic of this remedy as it is of Hepar. Redness

and swelling of the throat. Dryness and inflammation of the mucous

membranes of the throat and of the tonsils. A sensation of a plug in

the throat. Mucus in the throat. Mucus drawn from the posterior

nares, thick and yellow. Pain in the throat on swallowing. Pressing

• ▸pain.
• ▸Rawness in the throat.
• ▸Soreness of the throat.
• ▸Stitching pains

• ▸in the throat.
• ▸Scraping mucus from the throat.
• ▸Swallowing is difficult.
• ▸Swelling of the tonsils, with suppuration.
• ▸— Ulcers in the throat.

The external throat is swollen ; the glands are enlarged and painful.

• ▸Increased appetite.
• ▸Ravenous appetite.
• ▸Or, appetite entirely wanting.
• ▸Aversion to coffee, to meat and to milk.
• ▸Desires, fruit, cold

drinks, acids, salt things ; sweets. Thirst extreme. Distension after

eating.

• ▸Emptiness in the stomach.
• ▸Eructations after eating.
• ▸Empty eructations, Eructations acrid, bitter, foul, sour.
• ▸Eructations of food.

• ▸Waterbrash.
• ▸Fullness of the stomach after eating.
• ▸Heartburn.
• ▸Heaviness in the stomach, as of a load.
• ▸Subject to indigestion on the

slightest provocation. Nausea in the evening. Nausea with headache

and with vertigo. Pain the stomach in the evening. Pain in the

stomach after eating. Burning pain, cramping, cutting, gnawing,

• ▸pressing, after eating.
• ▸Tenderness to pressure.
• ▸Stitching pains.
• ▸Throbbing in the stomach.
• ▸Sensation of a stone in the stomach.
• ▸Vomiting

at night after eating, with headache. Bile, bitter, blood, food, mucus ;

sour vomiting.

In the abdomen there is great coldness, with distension, after eating.

Fullness after eating. Heaviness. Many of the pains in the abdomen

are like colic and come on at night. Burning pain. Cramping, cutting,

• ▸dragging, drawing.
• ▸Soreness.
• ▸Stitching.
• ▸There is pain in the liver,

pressing, soreness, stitching. There is pulsating, rumbling and distension of the abdomen.

• ▸Inveterate constipation.
• ▸Difficult stool.
• ▸Insufficient stool.
• ▸Fistula

in ano. Painless abscesses of the anus. Like Sulphur^ it has cured

morning diarrhoea, but has also an evening diarrhoea, and is very useful for diarrhoea in children. Aggravated after eating ever so little. It

has a painless diarrhoea. In the rectum there is formication and intense

• ▸itching.
• ▸Haemorrhage from the rectum and anus.
• ▸External piles.
• ▸Inactivity of the rectum.
• ▸Involuntary stool.
• ▸Moisture about anus, causing smarting and itching.
• ▸Pain during and after stool.
• ▸Burning pain

during stool. Pressing, stitching and soreness in the anus. Tenesmus

• ▸at stool.
• ▸Prolapsus of the rectum.
• ▸Ineffectual urging to stool.
• ▸The

stool is bloody, dry, hard, knotting, large ; lienteric, soft, white, yellow

and purulent.

This is a valuable remedy for catarrh of the bladder, with copious

yellow pus. It has cured chronic hiflammation of the kidney. It is a

valuable remedy in urethral discharges, when the discharge is yellow,

bloody, and often gleety. Burning in the urethra during urination. It

is an excellent remedy for impotency, when other symptoms agree.

In women who have had several abortions, when the symptoms agree.

Excoriation of the labia. Inflammation of the labia, with suppuration.

• ▸Itching of the genitals from leucorrhoea.
• ▸Thick, yellow, bloody, leucorrhoea.
• ▸Itching of the labias during menses.
• ▸Itching after menses.

Itching high up in the vagina. The leucorrhoea is excoriating, bloody,

burning, copious, thick and yellow. Leucorrhoea before and after

• ▸menses.
• ▸Absent menses.
• ▸The menstrual flow is copious, dark, too frequent or too late.
• ▸Irregular.
• ▸Sometimes pale, protracted, scanty, suppressed.
• ▸Delayed first menses in girls.
• ▸Haemorrhage from the uterus.

Pain in the uterus during menses. Dragging down in the pelvis during

• ▸menses, as if there were prolapsus.
• ▸Burning in the genitals.
• ▸Prolapsus of the uterus.
• ▸Swelling of the labia.
• ▸Fibroid tumors of the

uterus. Ulceration of the genitals and os uteri.

Catarrh of the larynx and trachea. Dryness and inflammation.

Copious expectoration of mticus, which is yellow and sometimes bloody.

Rawness and soreness. Patients threatening to go into phthisis.

Much scraping of the larynx. Obstinate hoarseness. It has now long

been a valued croup remedy. Croupy cough, where there is much

choking, when an experienced practitioner might well think of Hepa ^ —

but it will be remembered that in Hepar^ uncovering a hand or throwing off the covers from the chest will increase the croupy tendency

and aggravate the croupy cough, and that the patient in Hepar is very

sensitive to a draft and to the air. In this patient uncovering is grateful. The patient throws off the covers and wants the air and seems to

breathe better and croups less. It may seem strange that such a great

difference should come between the sulphide and the sulphate of lime.

Respiration is difficult in the evening and night ; aggravated on

ascending, lying and walking. The respiration is rattling, is short.

There is suffocation, and even wheezing. This is an excellent asthmatic

remedy, when the symptoms agree.

The cough is aggravated in the evening and night. Ameliorated in

the cool air — unlike Hepar, Asthmatic cough, croupy in morning on

• ▸waking and after siesta.
• ▸Dry cough at night.
• ▸Hacking cough.
• ▸Hoarse

cough. Loose, rattling cough. The cough racks the whole body.

Short dry cough. Spasmodic cough and cough coming in paroxysms.

The expectoration is copious in the morning. The expectoration is

bloody, greenish, purulent, thick, viscid and yellow.

Abscess in the axilla. Anxiety in the region of the heart. Catarrh of

the trachea and bronchial tubes. Hasmorrhage from the lungs. Badly

treated pneumonia or results of pneumonia. Hepatization of the lungs.

Oppression of the chest. Rawness in the chest. Soreness in the chest

on coughing, or inspiration. Burning pain in the chest. Cutting in

the chest. Palpitation at night ; anxious ; aggravated ascending, in

persons going into phthisis. Suppuration in the chest. Weakness in

• ▸the chest.
• ▸Itching, burning of the external chest.
• ▸Sensation of coldness in the back.
• ▸This has been a valuable remedy in the treatment of

curvature of the spine in the lumbar region, making it difficult for him

to sit up.

The symptoms of the extremities make a gouty constitution. Gouty

joints. Awkward, clumsy fingers, from gouty finger joints. Coldness

of the extremities, of the hands, legs and feet. Cramps in the calves.

Eruptions, pimples and vesicles. Heat of the hands. Heaviness of the

lower limbs. This remedy has been of great service in many casc^

of hip joint disease. Itching of the skin of the extremities. Often

itching and burning. Burning of hands and feet ; burning palms and

soles. Numbness of bands and also of the lower limbs and of the feet.

Pain in the extremities during chill ; rheumatic pain. Pain in the

joints, gouty and rheumatic. Pain in upper limbs at night. Pain in

the shoulder, elbow, wrist and fingers. Pain in the lower limbs ; sci-