Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Calcarea Fluorata calc-f.

Allen (1889)In every bookSave

General

The finest crystals of Fluor spar are triturated for use.

Generalities, etc.

Fatigue. ▶ Depression of spirits; with anxiety about money matters. ▶ Indecision. ▶ Headache, with faintish nausea all the afternoon, amel. evening. ▶ Vision blurred after writing some time, with aching in eyeballs; amel. closing eyes and pressing lightly upon them. ▶ Sneezing. ▶ Blowing of much mucus from nose, with ineffectual desire to sneeze. ▶ Cold sore at left corner of mouth.

Throat

Hawking of mucus in morning caused an attack of hiccough, which was weakening and recurrent frequently all day. ▶ Prickling, burning, suffocative sensation, agg. in latter part of day; at night and by cold drinks, amel. transiently by warm drinks.

Stomach and Abdomen

Thirst. ▶ Paroxysms of lancinations in right hypochondrium, under eleventh rib, waking about midnight, agg. lying on painful side, so as to cause a bursting sensation, amel. lying on painless side and doubling up, with restlessness. ▶ Frequent attacks of lancinating pains in hepatic region at 8 A.M., agg. sitting, amel. walking. ▶ Much wind in lower bowels, agg. riding and towards evening, agg. after lying down at night.

Stool and Urine

Urging to stool, the first part of the stool natural, the last part loose. ▶ Itching in anus as from pin-worms, waking at night. ▶ Constipation, with vertigo and dull headache. ▶ Frequent urging to urinate, urine causes smarting along urethra, particularly at external orifice, urine had a pungent odor. ▶ Micturition twice at night, with profuse urine. ▶ Urine copious from 8 A.M. till 3 P.M., pale and watery. ▶ Urine copious and pale, afterwards scanty, high-colored and turbid.

Respiratory Organs

Larynx. ▶ Oppression, with tickling. ▶ Tickling in forenoon, with desire to clear it and with hawking. ▶ T. extending about three inches down trachea, as from a foreign body, after dinner, causing paroxysmal hacking cough, not amel. by cough, a desire to swallow from the same cause, but without relief. ▶ Itching tickling, amel. hawking mucus from that spot; at night, forcing a spasmodic cough, amel. hawking mucus. ▶ Tickling itching, agg. from 3 to 4 P.M., inducing, hacking cough. ▶ Dryness of larynx; towards night, with desire to clear it and with hoarseness. ▶ Hoarseness; in evening after reading aloud, with desire to clear the throat; after laughing. ▶ Cough at 4 P.M., with hoarseness. ▶ Respiration oppressed, as from taking cold, increased after a few days so that it seemed as if the epiglottis were nearly closed or as if he breathed through a thick substance.

Back

Tired aching, with restlessness; in lower part in afternoon.

Sleep

Unrefreshing, on account of indistinct dreams of unsuccessful efforts to do various things, leaving and unpleasant impression on waking. ▶ Dreamed constantly, jumped from bed and tried to get out of the window, which woke him. ▶ Unremembered dreams. ▶ D. of the death of his daughter and of great grief and weeping. ▶ Vivid and distinct D. of the death of a relative, causing grief and weeping; of new scenes, places, books, etc.; of new scenes and places, not unpleasant, but with a sense of impending danger. ▶ Distinct and apparently long-continued D. of cutting a woman to pieces, as an animal for salting.

Clinical

In biochemical therapeutics it had been especially recommended for varicose and enlarged veins, indurated glands of stony hardness. ▶ Mal-nutrition of bones, especially of teeth. ▶ Many cases of cataract. ▶ Chronic synovitis of knee-joint. ▶ Exostosis after injuries.