CALCAREA CARBONICA-OSTREARUM

CALCAREA CARBONICA-OSTREARUM (Carbonate of Lime)

Calc.

This essential Hahnemannian anti-psoric is a premier constitutional remedy. It primarily affects the vegetative system, with impaired nutrition being its focal point, impacting glands, skin, and bones. It is characterized by increased local and general perspiration, gland swelling, and scrofulous and rachitic conditions. It is used in early stages of tuberculosis, tickling coughs, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity, and aversion to fat. Patients easily get out of breath and suffer from mental or physical fatigue due to overwork. It also addresses deep muscle abscesses, polyps, exostosis, pituitary, and thyroid dysfunction.

It enhances blood coagulability and stimulates the periosteum. It acts as a hemostatic agent, possibly benefiting gelatin injections. It is useful for easy relapses and interrupted recovery, especially in scrofulous constitutions prone to colds with increased mucoid secretions. Children who are large-bellied, pale-skinned, with a chalky look and the leuco-phlegmatic temperament, often benefit from Calc., especially those who grow fat and have partial sweats. These children crave eggs, eat dirt, and are prone to diarrhea. The Calc. patient is often fat, fair, flabby, perspiring, cold, damp, and sour.

Mind: Apprehensive, worse in the evening, with fears of losing reason, misfortune, and disease. Forgetful, confused, low-spirited, with anxiety and palpitations. Obstinate, with slight mental effort causing a hot head and aversion to work.

Head: Sensation of weight on the head, headaches with cold hands and feet, and vertigo on ascending or turning the head. Headaches from overexertion, with nausea, hot and heavy head, pale face, icy coldness on the head, open fontanelles, enlarged head, excessive scalp perspiration, itching, and scratching on waking.

Eyes: Sensitive to light, with tears in open air and mornings. Spots and ulcers on the cornea, blocked tear ducts from cold exposure, eyes tire easily, farsightedness, itching, swollen lids, chronic pupil dilation, cataract, dim vision, lachrymal fistula, and scrofulous ophthalmia.

Ears: Throbbing, cracking, stitches, pulsating pain, deafness from water exposure, bleeding polyps, scrofulous inflammation with discharge, perverted hearing, eruptions on and behind the ears, and sensitivity to cold around the ears and neck.

Nose: Dry, sore, ulcerated nostrils, nasal stoppage with fetid discharge, offensive odor, polyps, nasal root swelling, nosebleeds, and catarrhal symptoms with alternating coryza and colic.

Face: Swollen upper lip, pale face with dark-ringed eyes, itching, burning after washing, swollen submaxillary glands, goiter, itching pimples in whiskers, and pain from the right mental foramen along the lower jaw to the ear.

Mouth: Persistent sour taste, waterbrash, nighttime dry tongue, bleeding gums, delayed dentition, toothache from air currents or temperature changes, burning tongue tip, worse with warm food.

Throat: Swollen tonsils and glands, mucus hawking, dysphagia, goiter, and parotid fistula.

Stomach: Aversion to meat, craving indigestible items like chalk or eggs, milk intolerance, frequent sour eructations, sour vomiting, loss of appetite when overworked, heartburn, loud belching, stomach cramps, ravenous hunger, epigastric pain on touch, thirst for cold drinks, worse while eating, and hyperchlorhydria.

Abdomen: Sensitive to pressure, liver pain when stooping, abdominal cutting pains, swollen abdomen, flatulence, painful swollen glands, tight clothes intolerance, abdominal fat, umbilical hernia, trembling, weakness, and delayed walking in children.

Rectum: Crawling and constriction, large hard stools, prolapsed anus with hemorrhoids, diarrhea with undigested food, constipation with varying stool consistency.

Urinary: Dark, sour, fetid urine with sediment or blood, irritable bladder, and enuresis.

Male: Frequent emissions, increased desire, premature ejaculation, and post-coital weakness and irritability.

Female: Pre-menstrual headaches, colic, chilliness, leucorrhea, menstrual pain, early, profuse, prolonged menses, easy uterine displacement, milky leucorrhea, increased sexual desire, hot swollen breasts, excessive or deficient lactation, increased genital sweat, and sterility.

Respiratory: Troublesome night cough, dry in the morning, cough from piano playing or eating, arsenical wallpaper cough, extreme dyspnea, painless hoarseness, expectoration during the day, bloody or sour mucus, suffocating spells, chest tightness and sensitivity, longing for fresh air, and scanty expectoration.

Heart: Night palpitations, post-eating palpitations, sensation of coldness, restless chest oppression, and symptoms post-suppressed eruptions.

Back: Sprain-like pain, difficulty rising, shoulder blade pain, lumbar rheumatism, lumbosacral weakness, dorsal vertebrae curvature, stiff neck, and renal colic.

Extremities: Rheumatoid pains post-water exposure, sharp sticking pains, cold damp feet, cramps, sour foot sweat, joint swelling, burning soles, hand sweat, arthritic nodosities, raw soles, cold feet at night, old sprains, and muscle tearing.

Sleep: Crowded ideas preventing sleep, horrid visions on opening eyes, noise sensitivity, early evening drowsiness, frequent waking, repetitive disagreeable thoughts, night terrors, and dead people dreams.

Fever: Chills starting at 2 p.m., internal stomach region chills, fever with sweat, full pulse, chills with heat, partial sweats, night sweats on head, neck, chest, hectic fever, nighttime menstrual heat, and excessive head sweat in children.

Skin: Unhealthy, ulcer-prone, flaccid, slow-healing small wounds, swollen glands, nettle rash, warts, petechial eruptions, and chilblains.

Modalities: Worse with exertion, cold, water, moist air, wet weather, during full moon, standing; better in dry climate, lying on painful side, sneezing relieves head and nape pain.

Relationships: Antidotes: Camph., Ip., Nit-ac., Nux-v. 

Complementary: Bell., Rhus-t., Lyc., Sil. Useful after Sulphur for persistent pupil dilation and when Puls. fails in school girls. 

Incompatible: Bry., Sulphur after Calc.

Comparisons: Lime water, slaked lime, calcarea bromata, calcarea lactica, calcarea lactica phosphorica, calcium chloratum, calcarea picrica.

Dosage: Sixth trituration, thirtieth and higher potencies, with caution in the elderly.