Calcarea Carbonica calc.

Leucophlegmatic, blond hair, light complexion, blue eyes, fair skin; tendency to obesity in youth. Psoric constitutions; pale, weak, timid, easily tired when walking. Disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldly. Children with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat easily and take cold readily in consequence. Large heads and abdomens; fontanelles and sutures open; bones soft, develop very slowly. Curvature of bones, especially spine and long bones; extremities crooked, deformed; bone irregularly developed. Head sweats profusely while sleeping, wetting pillow far around (Sil., Sanic.). Profuse perspiration, mostly on back of head and neck, or chest and upper part of body (Sil.). Difficult and delayed dentition with characteristic head sweats, and open fontanelles. During either sickness or convalescence, great longing for eggs; craves indigestible things (Alum.); aversion to meat. Acidity of digestive tract; sour eructations, sour vomiting, sour stool; sour odor of the whole body (Hep., Rheum.). Girls who are fleshy, plethoric, and grow too rapidly. Menstruation too early, too profuse, too long lasting; with subsequent amenorrhoea and chlorosis with menses scanty or suppressed. Women: menses too early, too profuse; feet habitually cold and damp, as if they had on cold damp stockings; continually cold in bed. The least mental excitement causes profuse return of menstrual flow (Sulph., Tub.). Fears she will lose her reason or that people will observe her mental confusion (Act.). Lung diseases of tall, slender, rapidly growing youth; upper third of right lung (Ars. - upper left, Myr., Sulph.); oftener the guide to the constitutional remedy than Phosphorus (compare, Tub.). Diseases: arising from defective assimilation; imperfect ossification; difficulty in learning to walk or stand; children have no disposition to walk and will not try; suppressed sweat. Rawness of soles of feet from perspiration (Graph., Sanic.); blisters and offensive foot sweat. Longing for fresh air (when in a room) which inspires, benefits, strengthens (Puls., Sulph.). Coldness: general; of single parts (Kali bi.); head, stomach, abdomen, feet and legs; aversion to cold open air, "goes right through her:" sensitive to cold, damp air; great liability ot take cold (opposite of Sulph.). Sweat: of single parts; head, scalp wet, cold; nape of neck; chest; axillae, sexual organs; hands, knees; feet (Sep.). Pit of stomach swollen like an inverted saucer, and painful to pressure. Uraemic or other diseases brought on by standing on cold, damp pavements, or working while standing in cold water; modelers or workers in cold clay. Feels better in every way when constipated. Stool has to be removed mechanically (Aloe., Sanic., Sel., Sep., Sil.). Painless hoarseness < in the morning. Desire to be magnetised (Phos.).

Complementary: to Bell., which is the acute of Calc. Calcarea acts best: before Lyc., Nux., Phos., Sil. It follows: Nit. ac., Puls., Sulph. (especially if pupils are dilated); is followed by, Kali bi. in nasal catarrh. According to Hahnemann, Calc. must not be used before Nit. ac. and Sulph.; may produce unnecessary complications. In children it may be often repeated. In aged people should not be repeated; especially if the first dose benefited, it will usually do harm.

Cold air; wet weather; cold water; from washing (Ant. c.); morning; during full moon.

Dry weather; lying on painful side (Bry., Puls.).

We find this remedy particularly adapted to the real leucophlegmatic constitution--where we find a large head, large features, pale skin with a chalky look, and (in infants) open fontanelles.

Right eye; face, right side; right abdominal ring; sexual organs, right side, forearm. Inguinal glands often become swollen; left side of the neck and nape of the neck; left chest; left lower extremity. Right side of the back; right upper extremity. General symptoms, right. Light haired people; pale face.

Peevishness; dizziness of mind; feels as if she will go crazy; melancholy; desire to weep. Fearful apprehensions--of death, of forthcoming sad events, misery, etc.

External, right side. All symptoms worse on ascending, such as vertigo, peculiar headache, etc. Headache of various kinds; lancinating pains in; icy coldness of; jerks and shocks in; as if pressed or pushed asunder; as if it would split. Arising from nape. Scalp; scaling off; dandruff; milk crust. Profuse perspiration of the head, particularly where it stands out in large, bead-like drops, and in such profusion, as to soak the pillow thoroughly; it may run down upon the face and neck.

Eyeballs; injected; cornea, as little white ulcers on the cornea, etc.; eyes water; eyelids, particularly lower eyelids; external angles of the eyes; constant mist before the eyes; dimsightedness; pupils dilated. As if a little foreign body were in. Dancing wavelets of light. Itching of. Can't see well, or use eyes comfortably by gaslight.

Affections of the internal ears; noises in the ears in general; when swallowing, noise in; cracking in when chewing; hard hearing; deafness.

Internal nose; bleeding of the nose; smelling is feeble; imaginary smells; polypus; nasal secretion with bad smell; purulent nasal secretion; stoppage of.

Upper gums; teeth can't bear any cold; cold wind striking the body, immediately runs to the teeth, causing them to ache; thirst. Taste bad, sour, bitter. Ranula.

Uvula dark red and covered with blisters; saliva; hawking.

The region over the stomach is swollen and looks like a saucer turned bottom up; hunger; extreme hunger; vomiting of sour matter; affections of inner region of the stomach; heartburn; milk disagrees. Sleepy after supper; nausea in morning.

Pains in heart and region of the heart; palpitation of the heart; palpitation of the heart with anguish; trembling pulsation of the heart.

Obstructed evacuation; stool with ascarides; with tape-worm. Affections of the rectum, as fissures, which are very painful, bleeding after every stool, followed by extreme exhaustion; burning.

Male: Complaints from coition; nocturnal pollutions. Female: Affections of the vagina; discharge of blood before the proper period; metrorrhagia; menstruation too early; too profuse; complaints before menstruation. Leucorrhœa in general; burning; itching; milk-like. Amenorrhœa. Too scanty flow of milk. Nipples cracked; ulcerated; very tender to touch.

Cough in general; with expectoration; expectoration, mucous, purulent, yellow, sour taste, offensive smell.

Joints in general; hand; shoulder; wrist; finger; of the leg in general, especially hip-joint; cramp pain in; darting in; weakness of.

Shin-bones; darting in; pricking in. Bending of; softening, swelling.

Can't bear tight clothing around; stitches in liver during or after stooping. Flatulency or gurgling in the right hypochondrium.

Bloatedness of; paleness of; dryness of; exanthema in general, dry, in blotches, like milk crust, like nettle-rash, scurfy. Flaccidity of; chapping; chapping after washing; sensibility of in general; tetters in general; furfuraceous, scurfy; deep ulcers; fistulous ulcers; ulcers with too little pus.

As if the parts would burst; were pressed, or pushed asunder; as if cold, damp stockings were on the feet; of crepitation; cramp pain in the muscles; creeping on the limbs like a mouse; cutting pain, and pain as if sprained in outer, or inner parts; griping with sense of tearing away; jerking pain in outer parts; knocking in outer, or inner parts; pricking (darting) in outer parts; darting and drawing in the muscles; dartings with jerkings; puffiness; itching; better by scratching. Complaints prevailing in inner parts of coldness in; of dust in inner, as in the eyes, bronchial tubes, etc.; of heaviness, of pulsations and of jerks in; parching, pinching and pressing in; sensations of trembling of; dryness of inner parts that are usually moist.

Falling asleep late; complaints preventing; waking too late; concomitant complaints of waking (as a patient may always awaken with a headache, or with some other trouble, or may always feel worse when awakening); waking frequently during the night; sleeps in the early morning. Sleepiness in the morning; in the evening. Sleeplessness in general; before midnight; dreams pleasant; fantastical.

Pulse tremulous; internal chilliness; sense of cold in inner parts; heat with thirst; perspiration in general, of single parts, of forepart of the body; want of perspiration with anxiety: chilliness with heat at the same time; internal chilliness with external heat; heat followed by chilliness. Chills coming at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Aversion to open air; attacks of sick feeling; bleeding from inner parts; erethism of blood (flush); chlorosis; epilepsy; epilepsy without consciousness; tendency to get fat; disposition to strain a part by lifting heavy things; secretion of mucus increased; laxness of muscles; sprains: inflammatory swelling; debility; pricking corns; cystic tumors: polypus (nose, ear, vagina, uterus). Tape worm; worms; ascarides.

These complaints occurring in a leucophlegmatic constitution particularly furnish us with the strongest characteristic.

Affections of the legs; calves; arthritic nodes; limbs drawn together crooked. Cramps in the legs coming on at three o'clock A.M.; bunions on the large toe joint, or on adjoining joint; hands chap from lime water; children can't learn to walk, they won't put their feet on the ground.

In the morning (frequently awakens at three or four o'clock in the morning, and can't get sleep afterwards); before falling asleep; on washing; on stooping down; from suppressed catarrh; worse in children; after coition; in cold, wet weather; after eating; from exertion of the mind (after reading, writing, thinking, etc.); fasting before breakfast; affecting females particularly; when giddy; on ascending (apt to produce giddiness); from loss of fluids; when letting the limbs hang down; from spraining the parts; from lights in general; from light of the sun; from lamp light; looking fixedly at one object; looking upwards; from masturbation; before menstruation; dry food; from milk; from wet poultices; from reading; after sexual excess; while suckling the child; on stretching the affected part; from washing, and water; from getting wet; when writing; when turning the head; from lying on the side; from suppressed perspiration; from lifting; for stone cutters; by pressure of the clothes; from talking.

After breakfast; in the dark; from drawing up the limbs; while lying on the back; after lying down; from loosening the garments; from raising the limbs; on rising from rubbing; from scratching; in dry weather; wiping or soothing with the hands; from being touched.

Agar., Bellad., Bismuth, Ipec., Lycop., Natr. carb., Nitr. ac., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sarsap., Sepia, Sulphur.

Bryon., Nitr. ac., Nux vom.

Head too large, fontanelles not closing. Itching of the scalp, children scratch their heads when their sleep is disturbed or they are awakened. In teething children milk disagrees, may be vomited in curds, or pass the bowels in the same manner. Difficult dentition with little children. Sour taste in the mouth or of the food, sour vomiting, especially during dentition, also sour diarrhoea. Pit of the stomach swollen, like a saucer turned bottom up. Menses several days too early and too copious. Chronic rheumatism and other troubles caused by working in water. Feet constantly cold and damp, as if she had on cold damp stockings. Tendency in children and young persons to grow very fat. Very sensitive to the least cold air, which goes right through her. Weak and sick for several days after coition. Especially indicated in fair, plump children, those of a leuco-phlegmatic temperament.

Carbonate of Lime (CALCAREA CARBONICA - OSTREARUM)

This great Hahnemannian anti-psoric is a constitutional remedy par excellence. Its chief action is centered in the vegetative sphere, impaired nutrition being the keynote of its action, the glands, skin, and bones, being instrumental in the changes wrought. Increased local and general perspiration, swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions generally offer numerous opportunities for the exhibition of Calcarea. Incipient phthisis (Ars jod; Tuberculin). It covers the tickling cough, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity and dislike of fat. Gets out of breath easily. A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork. Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses. Pituitary and thyroid disfunction.

Raised blood coagulability (Strontium). Is a definite stimulant to the periosteum. Is a hæmostatic and gives this power probably to the gelatine injections.

Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence. Persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous secretions, children who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look, the so-called leuco-phlegmatic temperament; affections caused by working in water. Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats. Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible things; are prone to diarrhœa. Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour.

Apprehensive; worse towards evening; fears loss of reason, misfortune, contagious diseases. Forgetful, confused, low-spirited. Anxiety with palpitation. Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head. Averse to work or exertion.

Sense of weight on top of head. Headache, with cold hands and feet. Vertigo on ascending, and when turning head. Headache from overlifting, from mental exertion, with nausea. Head feels hot and heavy, with pale face. Icy coldness in, and on the head, especially right side. Open fontanelles; head enlarged; much perspiration, wets the pillow. Itching of the scalp. Scratches head on waking.

Sensitive to light. Lachrymation in open air and early in morning. Spots and ulcers on cornea. Lachrymal ducts closed from exposure to cold. Easy fatigue of eyes. Far sighted. Itching of lids, swollen, scurfy. Chronic dilatation of pupils. Cataract. Dimness of vision, as if looking through a mist. Lachrymal fistula; scrofulous ophthalmia.

Throbbing; cracking in ears; stitches; pulsating pain as if something would press out. Deafness from working in water. Polypi which bleed easily. Scrofulous inflammation with muco-purulent otorrhœa, and enlarged glands. Perversions of hearing; hardness of hearing. Eruption on and behind ear (Petrol). Cracking noises in ear. Sensitive to cold about ears and neck.

Dry, nostrils sore, ulcerated. Stoppage of nose, also with fetid, yellow discharge. Offensive odor in nose. Polypi; swelling at root of nose. Epistaxis. Coryza. Takes cold at every change of weather. Catarrhal symptoms with hunger; coryza alternates with colic.

Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with deep-seated eyes, surrounded by dark rings. Crusta lactea; itching, burning after washing. Submaxillary glands swollen. Goitre. Itching of pimples in whiskers. Pain from right mental foramen along lower jaw to ear.

Persistent sour taste. Mouth fills with sour water. Dryness of tongue at night. Bleeding of gums. Difficult and delayed dentition. Teeth ache; excited by current of air, anything cold or hot. Offensive smell from mouth. Burning pain at tip of tongue; worse, anything warm taken into stomach.

Swelling of tonsils and submaxillary glands; stitches on swallowing. Hawking-up of mucus. Difficult swallowing. Goitre. Parotid fistula.

Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets. Milk disagrees. Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting. Dislike of fat. Loss of appetite when overworked. Heartburn and loud belching. Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water. Ravenous hunger. Swelling over pit of stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up. Repugnance to hot food. Pain in epigastric region to touch. Thirst; longing for cold drinks. Aggravation while eating. Hyperchlorhydria (Phos).

Sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver region painful when stooping. Cutting in abdomen; swollen abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal and mesenteric glands swollen and painful. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. Distention with hardness. Gall-stone colic. Increase of fat in abdomen. Umbilical hernia. Trembling; weakness, as if sprained. Children are late in learning to walk.

Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and hard (Bry); whitish, watery, sour. Prolapse ani, and burning, stinging hæmorrhoids. Diarrhœa of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite. Children's diarrhœa. Constipation; stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid.

Dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody. Irritable bladder. Enuresis (Use 30th, also Tuberculin. 1 m.).

Frequent emissions. Increased desire. Semen emitted too soon. Coition followed by weakness and irritability.

Before menses, headache, colic, chilliness and leucorrhœa. Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return. Uterus easily displaced. Leucorrhœa, milky (Sepia). Burning and itching of parts before and after menstruation; in little girls. Increased sexual desire; easy conception. Hot swelling breasts. Breasts tender and swollen before menses. Milk too abundant; disagreeable to child. Deficient lactation, with distended breasts in lymphatic women. Much sweat about external genitals. Sterility with copious menses. Uterine polypi.

Tickling cough troublesome at night, dry and free expectoration in morning; cough when playing piano, or by eating. Persistent, irritating cough from arsenical wall paper (Clarke). Extreme dyspnœa. Painless hoarseness; worse in the morning. Expectoration only during the day; thick, yellow, sour mucus. Bloody expectoration; with sour sensation in chest. Suffocating spells; tightness, burning and soreness in chest; worse going upstairs or slightest ascent, must sit down. Sharp pains in chest from before backwards. Chest very sensitive to touch, percussion, or pressure. Longing for fresh air. Scanty, salty expectoration (Lyc).

Palpitation at night and after eating. Palpitation with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after suppressed eruption.

Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from overlifting. Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Rheumatism in lumbar region; weakness in small of back. Curvature of dorsal vertebræ. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Renal colic.

Rheumatoid pains, as after exposure to wet. Sharp sticking, as if parts were wrenched or sprained. Cold, damp feet; feel as if damp stockings were worn. Cold knees cramps in calves. Sour foot-sweat. Weakness of extremities. Swelling of joints, especially knee. Burning of soles of feet. Sweat of hands. Arthritic nodosities. Soles of feet raw. Feet feel cold and dead at night. Old sprains. Tearing in muscles.

Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep. Horrid visions when opening eyes. Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy. Drowsy in early part of evening. Frequent waking at night. Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber. Night terrors (Kali phos). Dreams of the dead.

Chill at 2 pm begins internally in stomach region. Fever with sweat. Pulse full and frequent. Chilliness and heat. Partial sweats. Night sweats, especially on head, neck and chest. Hectic fever. Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep. Sweat over head in children, so that pillow becomes wet.

Unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid. Small wounds do not heal readily. Glands swollen. Nettle rash; better in cold air. Warts on face and hands. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. Boils.

Worse, from exertion, mental or physical; ascending; cold in every form; water, washing, moist air, wet weather; during full moon; standing. Better, dry climate and weather; lying on painful side. Sneezing (pain in head and nape).

Antidotes: Camph; Ipec; Nit ac; Nux.

Complementary: Bell; Rhus; Lycop; Silica.

Calcar is useful after Sulphur where the pupils remain dilated. When Pulsatilla failed in school girls.

Incompatible: Bry; Sulphur should not be given after Calc.

Compare: Aqua calcar.--Lime-water--(1/2 teaspoonful in milk); (as injection for oxyuris vermicularis), and Calc caust--slaked lime--(pain in back and heels, jaws and malar bones; also symptoms of influenza). Calc brom (removes inflammatory products from uterus; children of lax fiber, nervous and irritable, with gastric and cerebral irritation. Tendency to brain disease. Insomnia and cerebral congestion. Give 1x trituration). Sulph (differs in being worse by heat, hot feet, etc).

Calcar calcinata-Calcined oyster-shell-a remedy for warts. Use 3d trituration. Calcarea ovorum. Ova tosta-Toasted egg-shells--(backache and leucorrhœa. Feeling as if back were broken in two; tired feeling. Also effective in controlling suffering from cancer).

Calcar lactic (anæmias, hæmophilia, urticaria, where the coagulability of the blood is diminished; nervous headache with œdema of eyelids, lips or hands; 15 grains three times a day, but low potencies often equally effective).

Calcar lacto-phosph (5 grains 3 times a day in cyclic vomiting and migraine).

Calcium chloratum-Rademacher's Liquor--(1 part to 2 of distilled water, of which take 15 drops in half a cup of water, five times daily. Boils. Porrigo capitis. Vomiting of all food and drink, with gastric pain. Impetigo, glandular swellings, angioneurotic œdema. Pleurisy with effusion. Eczema in infants).

Calcar picrata, (peri-follicular inflammation; a remedy of prime importance in recurring or chronic boils, particularly when located on parts thinly covered with muscle tissue, as on shinbones, coccyx, auditory canal, dry, scurfy accumulation and exfoliation of epithelial scales, etc, styes, phlyctenules. Use 3x trit).

Compare also with Calcarea: Lycop; Silica; Pulsat; Chamom.

Sixth trit. Thirtieth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too frequently in elderly people.

Deficient or irregular bone development. (Fontanelles open, crooked spine, deformed extremities.)

Leucophlegmatic temperament.

Fairs fat, flabby, obesic.

Coldness, general and local, subjective and objective, especially as if had on cold, damp stockings. Affections from working in cold water.

Sweats general (night sweats and on exertion). Local; head (children), axillæ, hands, feet, etc.

Digestive tract sour (sour taste, eructations, vomiting, sour curds, diarrhœa).

Great debility: cannot walk far or go upstairs for short breath; easily strained.

This is another of Hahnemann's constitutional remedies which, as Farrington says, "may come into use, in almost any form of disease." We may say come into use because it may be on account of certain idiosyncrasies. which come under the remedial power of Calcarea that the disease, whatever it is, is made less amenable to ordinary treatment.

The temperament of Calcarea is altogether different from that of Sulphur. You remember the lean stoop-shouldered Sulphur subject. Calcarea is on the contrary what cannot be better expressed than in the term used by Henry N. Guernsey viz.; Leocophlegmatic temperament.

The Calcarea patient is constitutionally fat, over-fat or strongly inclined to obesity. The color of the skin is white, watery or chalky pale. Of torpid disposition (especially children), sluggish or slow in its movements. The Sulphur is almost the exact opposite, quick, wiry, nervous, active. There is none of the bilious, swarthy, yellowish appearance in Calcarea that we find in Lycopodium. These three remedies Calcarea, Sulphur, Lycopodium are a trio that find each their counterpart in many persons the world over. Of course we find the tendency to obesity under other remedies, as for instance, under Graphites, but with this obesity we almost always find accompanying it the peculiar skin troubles of Graphites. Sometimes we seem to find a condition that seems to simulate each remedy in some one feature; for instance, the obesic temperament of Calcarea and the eruptive tendency of Sulphur. This may combine so as to make a case that will be covered by Hepar sulph. Such cases are more difficult to cover with a perfect simillimum. But when we do find a purely Calcarea, Sulphur or Lycopodium subject the fact is inestimable as a help to a brilliant result in many cases.

Malnutrition is one of the disorders calling for the exhibition of this remedy.

"Tardy development of the bony tissues with lymphatic enlargements."

"Curvature of the bones, especially spine and long bones."

"Extremities deformed, crooked."

"Softening of the bones; fontanelles remain open too long and skull very large."

These symptoms are quoted from "Hering's Guiding Symptoms," and show the lack of, or imperfect, nutrition of bones. They are nourished irregularly, or unevenly. One part of a bone, the vertebræs for instance, is nourished while the other is starved. While all this irregular bone development is going on the soft parts are suffering from over-nutrition. Thus we have recorded in the pathogenesis: "Tendency to obesity especially in children and young people."

"Nutrition impaired with tendency to glandular enlargements."

"Granular vegetations: polypus (in nose, ear, bladder, uterus, etc.)."

This is a fair picture of the general or constitutional use of Calcarea ost., and it remains to give some of the characteristic or peculiar symptoms guiding to its selection.

When writing of Sulphur we called particular attention to the sensation of burning under that remedy. Calcarea has characteristically the opposite, viz., Coldness (Cistus.).

"Cold, damp feet."

"Sensation in feet and legs as if she had on cold, damp stockings."

"Coldness of legs with night-sweats."

"Internal and external sensation of coldness of various parts of head as if a piece of ice were lying, against it; with pale puffed face."

"She feels a sort of inward coldness."

"Aversion to open air, the least cold air goes right through her."

All this is so directly opposite to Sulphur that any confusion between them seems impossible.

Sensations of coldness in single parts should always call to mind Calcarea, as well as general coldness. (Cistus and Heloderma.)

If Calcarea has one symptom that not only leads all the rest, but also all other remedies, it is found in the profuse sweats on head of large-headed, open fontanelled children. The sweat is so profuse that during sleep it rolls down the head and face wetting the pillow far around. Many a little child has been saved from dying of hydrocephalus, dentition, rachitis, marasmus, eclampsia, cholera infantum, etc., where this sweating symptom was the guiding symptom to the use of Calcarea. It is also especially indicated, other symptoms agreeing, in sweats of male organs, nape of neck, chest, axilla, hands, knees, feet, etc. Partial sweats. It is also a remedy for night sweats generally when they occur in connection with consumption or other debilitating diseases.

In all these sweatings of Calcarea the surface is characteristically cold at the same time, and especially would we find the lower extremities cold.

Calcarea has characteristic symptoms in the digestive tract. One is that everything in the whole length of the tract seems soor. Eructations sour; sour vomiting of large curds (Æthusa); sour diarrhœa. And then there is a sour smell of the whole body. This is not like the offensive odor of the body that Sulphur has.

Then there is a peculiar symptom of the appetite that has often been verified -"Longing for eggs, particularly in children in sickness or during convalescence, even before they are able to swallow. The stomach externally is swollen or seems distended, standing right out like an inverted saucer. Abdomen is also much distended from hard and swollen mesentery, even when the rest of the body is emaciated."

The diarrhœa, which may vary as to color and consistence, instead of being aggravated in the morning, like Sulphur, is worse in the afternoon. The patient is generally better when constipated.

Calcarea has not so positive and unvarying action upon the skin as Sulphur, but is indispensable in skin affections which seem to depend upon some constitutional dyscrasia that it covers in its general action, for instance, in eczema capitis or milk crusts. in children of the Calcarea type. Here, of course, no remedy can take its place. Indeed all skin troubles in Calcarea subjects disappear when through its action the system is set right, showing that the skin troubles after all were only secondary. The skin of the Calcarea subject is generally cold, soft and flabby.

We must not omit to notice the action of Calcarea ost. on the respiratory organs, for the reason that it is of great importance in its use in that dread disease, pulmonary consumption. Whether, as Professor Bennet believes, this disease be essentially one of faulty nutrition or as Virchow believes, one of inflammation, or if Professor Rindflesch's theory relegating it to the class of diseases known as infections, be true, or whatever its primary cause may be, we know that Calcarea ost. is one of the most effective agents, if indicated by the temperament and symptoms, in the cure of this malady, and if applied at a stage when a cure is at all possible.

Very many cases in the incipient stage come within range of Sulphur or Calcarea. As we have already given the leading indications of Sulphur, we will now give some of them for Calcarea:

"Leucophlegmatic temperament."

"Middle and upper portion of right lung." (Sulph., upper left.)

"Chest painfully sensitive to touch and on inspiration."

"Shortness of breath on walking, especially on ascending."

"Painless hoarseness, < in the morning."

"Especially in women who have always been too early and profuse in menstruation, and who have habitually cold feet to the knees."

"Tendency to looseness of the bowels, < afternoons."

"Appetite failing and emaciation progressing."

Here are a few of the prominent indications, and on them many a case has been cured. Of course this is generally cough, and it may be tight or loose, yet the case rests mainly on the symptoms outside the cough. This remedy in this disease and the success attending its use is one of the illustrations of the soundness of Hering's advice when he says "treat the patient, not the disease."

Modalities: < cold air, ascending, or exertion; straining from lifting.

Easily frightened, or offended. Inclination to weep. Children are self-willed. Apprehensive anxiety about his health, or of some future misfortune. Anguish, with palpitation of the heart. She fears she will lose her understanding, or that people will observe her confusion of mind. Despairing mood, with fear of disease and misery. Thinking is difficult.

Vertigo, when ascending a height, walking in the open air, or turning the head quickly, or looking upwards (in the morning). Mania-a-potu, with delirious talk about fire, rats, mice and murder. Congestion of blood to the head, with heat and stupefying headache ; with redness of the face and bloatedness ; worse in the morning when awaking, and from spirituous drinks. Headache, from overlifting. Fulness and heaviness in the head. Pulsations in the occiput. Heat in the vertex. Headache, with empty eructations and nausea, vertigo ; aggravated from mental exertions, stooping or walking in the open air ; from mental exertions, stooping or walking in the open air ; ameliorated by closing the eyes, and by lying down. Internal and external sensation of coldness of one (right) side of the head, as if a piece of ice were lying there ; with pale, puffed face. Enlargement of the head, with open fontanelles. Profuse perspiration, mostly on the back part of the head and on the neck (in the evening). Tumors and suppurating boils on the head. Itching of the hairy scalp -scabs on the head. Falling off of the hair (sides of the head -temples).

Pressure, itching, burning and stinging in the eyes. Cutting in the eyes and lids ; worse when reading by candlelight. Inflammation of the eyes, from foreign bodies coming into them ; in infants, or scrofulous subjects. Ulcers, and specks on the cornea. Dimness of the cornea. Oozing of blood from the eyes. Watering of the eyes in the morning, or in the open air. Fungus medullaris. Fistula lachrymalis. Pupils dilated. Dimness of sight (mist before the eyes when looking sharp). Bright light dazzles the eyes.

Stitches, or pulsations in the ear. Inflammation of the external and internal ear. Discharge of pus from the ears. Tingling in the ears. Polypus of the ear. Hardness of bearing, especially after the suppression of intermittent fever by quinine. Inflammatory swelling of the parotid gland.

Inflamed, swollen, red. Dryness of the nose. Nostrils ulcerated and scabby. Bleeding of the nose (in the morning). Polypus of the nose. Stench before the nose (as from manure, gunpowder or putrid eggs). Stench from the nose. Smell diminished.

Pale bloatedness of the face. Yellow color of the face. Moist, itching, scurfy eruption on the cheeks and forehead (with burning pain). Eruptions on the lips ; around the mouth ; in the corners of the mouth. Ulcerated corners of the mouth. Itching of the face and under the whiskers. Swelling of the upper lip (in the morning). Painful hard swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Difficult dentition. Gums swollen and bleeding. Toothache, drawing, stinging, from a draft of air ; aggravated by noise, from drinking any thing cold, during and after the catamania, during pregnancy. Fistula dentalis.

Dryness of the tongue at night, and when awaking. Ranula. Accumulation of mucus in the mouth.

Spasmodic contraction of the œsophagus. Inflammatory swelling of the palate, with blisters on it. Stinging in the throat when swallowing. Swelling of the tonsils.

Continued violent thirst for cold drinks (at night). Canine hunger (in the morning). Desire for wine, salt or sweet things. After drinking milk, nausea and sour eructations. After eating, heat, or bloatedness, with nausea. Sour taste of the food, or by itself.

Eructations tasting like the ingesta. After eating, heartburn, and continued loud belching of wind. Morning nausea. Sour vomiting, especially in children, and during dentition. Vomiting of the ingesta (tasting sour). Pit of the stomach swollen and painful to pressure. Pressure and cramp-like pain in the stomach, especially whet fasting, or after meats, with vomiting of the ingesta. Stinging pain in the liver, (during or after stooping). Cutting in the upper part of the abdomen. Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. Enlargement of the abdomen, with swelling of the mesenteric glands. Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal glands swollen and painful.

Constipation ; stools hard and undigested. White stools. Diarrhœa of sour smell ; putrid ; during dentition. Involuntary stool, (as if fermented). Tapeworm, and ascarides, with the stool. Discharge of blood from the rectum. Prolapsus ani. Itching of the anus. Varices, swollen, protruding, burning.

Frequent micturition, also at night. Urine dark, brown ; with white sediment ; of putrid smell. Bloody urine. During micturition, burning in the urethra. Polypus in the bladder.

Men. Inflammation of the prepuce, with redness and burning pain. Frequent nocturnal, involuntary emissions. During coition, erections of too short duration. Burning and stinging while the semen is discharged during coition. Women. Catamenia too early, and too profuse. Suppressed menstruation, with full habit. During menstruation, cutting in the abdomen ; grabbing in the back ; heat and congestion to the head. Stitches in the os uteri. Itching or pressing in the vagina. Varices on the labile. Prolapsus uteri, with sensation of pressing on it. Sterility, with catamenia too early, and too profuse. Fluor albus like milk ; burning ; itching ; in starts ; during micturition ; before the catamenia.

Hoarseness, (painless). Sensation, as if something were torn loose in the trachea. Tickling cough, caused by a sensation of dust in the larynx. Ulceration of the larynx. Cough in the evening in bed, at night ; while sleeping ; with expectoration through the day, but not at night. Expectoration of thick mucus ; gray, yellow, of putrid smell ; bloody ; purulent ; tasting sour. Hæmoptysis. Ulceration of the lungs.

Tightness of the chest, as if too full, (filled with blood). Arrest of breath, when walking against the wind, or stooping. Burning in the chest. Inclination to draw a deep breath. Sensitiveness and sensation of soreness in the chest, drawing a deep breath, and when touching it. Stitches in the chest, and sides of the chest when as when taking a deep inspiration ; when leaning the painful side. Palpitation of the heart at night ; after eating ; with anguish. Trembling pulsation of the heart. Hot swelling of the mammæ. Secretion of milk too abundant, (galactorrhœa), or suppressed.

Pain in the small of the back, or in the neck from over-lifting. Pain in the small of the back, (as if sprained) ; he can scarcely rise from his seat, after being seated. Pressing pain between the shoulder-blades, impeding breathing, when moving. Curvature of the dorsal vertebræ. Painful swelling of the cervical glands. Thick, struma-like swelling of the thyroid gland.

Upper. Suppuration of the axillary glands. Weakness and lameness of the arms, (left). Pain as if sprained in the wrist-joint, (right). Arthritic nodosities on the hand and finger-joints. Deadness of the fingers. Trembling of the hands. Lower. Coxalgia, with drawing stitches, or tearing, cutting. The child is late learning to walk. Heaviness and stiffness of the legs. Swelling of the knee. Tearing and stinging in the knee. Cramp in the bend of the knee, in the calves of the leg, soles of the feet ; toes ; especially when extending the leg, (pulling on the boots). Erysipelas, (lower leg, with swelling). Phlegmasia alba dolens. Itching on the lower limb and foot-joint. Burning of the soles of the feet. Perspiration on the feet, (foot-sweat). Perspiration of the palms of the hands. Coldness and deadness of the feet, especially at night, in bed. Corns, sore, with burning pain.

Great weakness and debility, from a short walk ; from talking. Cramps in single parts, which draw the limbs cracked, specially the toes and fingers. Epileptic attacks, at night ; during the full moon ; with hallooing and shouting. St. Vitus' dance. Fainting, with loss of sight and coldness. Full habit and ebullitions. Tendency in children and young persons to grow very fat. Bloatedness of body and face, with swelled abdomen, in children. Great emaciation, with swelled abdomen and good appetite. Visible quivering of the skin, from the feet to the head, with which he becomes dizzy. Trembling of inner parts. Bleeding from inner parts. Pulsating pains. Sensation of dryness of inner parts. Sensation of coldness in inner parts. Stinging and cutting in outer and inner parts. Arthritic tearing in the muscles. Arthritic nodosities.

Sleeplessness, from many thoughts crowding his mind. When closing his eyes, he has many horrid visions. He falls asleep late. Awakens early in the night. Fearful of fantastic dreams during sleep. At night, oppression of the chest, with heat and restlessness, thirst. Sleepy the whole day, and early in the evening.

Pulse full, accelerated or tremulous. Chilliness, when rising in the morning. Chilliness, mostly in the evening ; internal with external heat. Frequent flushes of heat, with anxiety and palpitation of the heart. Heat, with thirst, followed by chilliness. Heat, after eating. Perspiration from the least exertion, even in the open, cold air. Perspiration, in the first sleep. Night sweat, especially on head, neck and chest. Night sweat, sticky only on the legs.

Flaccidity of the skin. Bloatedness. Nettle rash, mostly disappearing in the cold air. Eruptions moist, scurfy. (Milk crust). Herpes, burning ; chapped ; furfuraceous. Rhagades, especially in those who work in water. Unwholesome, readily ulcerating skin ; even small wounds suppurate and do not heal. Polypus (nose, ear, uterus). Ulcers, deep ; fistulous ; carious. Steatoma, reappearing and suppurating every four weeks. Warts, inflamed ; stinging ; suppurating. Painful swelling of the glands. Varices. Bones, swelling ; softening ; curvature of ; stinging in ; caries.

Easy straining, from which he gets sore throat, stiff-neck, backache, or headache. Sprains, from overlifting. Liability to take cold, and great sensitiveness to moist, cold air. Aversion to the open air. Full habit and ebullitions. Puffiness. (Chlorosis). Desire to be mortised. Aggravation. Morning ; evening, or after midnight. In the cold air, and in wet weather. After washing, and by cold water. On awaking. After eating (smoked meat, milk). From exertion of the mind (after writing). From pressure of the clothes. From sexual excess. From suppressed perspiration. Amelioration. After breakfast ; on rising ; from drawing up the limbs ; from loosening the garments.

Impure Calcium Carbonate. Ca CO 3 . Including symptoms of Calcarea acetica, and Calcarea ostrearum, a trituration of the middle layer of oyster shells, of both of which Hahnemann made provings. Koch's provings were made from carbonate of lime precipitated from a solution of chalk in hydrochloric acid. Trituration.

Abdomen, large. Acidity . Alcohol, effects of. Anæmia. Ankles, weak. Appetite, depraved. Beard, sycosis of. Bone, disease of . Brachial neuralgia. Breasts, painful. Bronchial glands, affections of. Calculus . Caries. Cataract . Chilblains. Chorea. Cold. Consumption. Corpulency . Coryza. Cough . Coxalgia. Croup . Crusta lactea. Debility . Delirium tremens. Dentition . Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Dropsy. Dyspepsia. Ear, affections of. Epilepsy . Epulis. Eyes, affections of . Fever, intermittent. Fistula. Gall-stones. Glandular swellings . Gleet. Goître . Gonorrhœa. Gouty swellings. Headache. Hernia . Herpes. Hydrocephalus . Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Impotence. Joints, affections of. Lactation, defective. Leucocythæmia. Leucorrhœa. Lupus . Masturbation. Melancholia. Menstruation, disorders of . Milk-fever. Miller's phthisis. Miscarriage. Molluscum contagiosum. Nævus . Nervous fever. Neuralgia. Night terrors. Paralysis. Parotitis. Peritonitis. Perspiration . Plethora. Polypus. Pregnancy . Prosopalgia. Psoriasis palmaris. Ranula . Renal colic. Rhagades. Rheumatism . Rickets. Ringworm . Sciatica. Scrofula. Skin, affections of. Sleep, disorders of. Sleeplessness. Smell, disorder of . Spinal affections. Stone-cutter's phthisis. Strains. Sycosis. Sycosis menti. Tabes mesenterica . Tapeworm. Taste, disordered. Teeth, carious. Toothache. Trachea, affections of. Tuberculosis. Tumours . Typhoid. Urticaria. Uterus, affections of . Varices. Vertigo. Walking, late. Warts . Whitlow. Worms .

Calcarea is one of the greatest monuments of Hahnemann's genius. His method of preparing insoluble substances brought to light in this instance a whole world of therapeutic power formerly unknown. Moreover, Calcarea is one of the polychrest remedies, and ranks with Sulphur and Lycopodium at the head of the antipsorics. It is absolutely essential to a correct appreciation of the homœopathic materia medica that these three medicines should be thoroughly known, as these are in a sense the standards around which the rest are grouped. All three have a very wide range and deep action. They have many symptoms in common, but Calc . is somewhat sharply distinguished from Sulphur in that it is a chilly remedy, the patient seeking warmth, whilst the Sulphur patient is < by heat, and > by cold. Calc . has cold, clammy feet, "as if there were damp stockings on"; Sulphur has characteristically hot , sweaty feet. The "sinking sensation" common to all three is most marked with Sulphur at 11 a.m., with Lycopod . at 4 p.m., with Calcarea at any time. Calcarea is closely allied to Belladonna, Nux, Puls ., and Rhus in its action. It follows well Sulph . and Nit. ac ., to both of which it is complementary. It is inimical to Bryonia , and should not be given immediately before or after that medicine. Like many of the other carbonates, Calc. carb . corresponds to persons of soft fibre with tendency to be fat. "This remedy is particularly adapted to the real Leucophlegmatic Constitution . Where we find a large head, large features, pale skin, with a chalky look, and (in infants) open fontanelles, we may think strongly of Calc. c ." (Guernsey). The scrofulous constitution embraces a large number of Calcarea's characteristic effects: fat children rather bloated than solid, pale but flushing easily. Fair; slow in movement; of irregular growth, large heads, with wide-open fontanelles; large abdomens; irregular and partial sweats: the head sweats profusely, wetting the pillow for a space around the head; enlarged and hard lymphatic glands. Icy coldness in abdomen. In addition there are night terrors; child wakes at 2 or 3 a.m. screaming, cannot be made to understand, remembers nothing of it in the morning.

Children are slow in teething and walk late. Sourness is one of the characteristic notes of Calc. c .; the body is sour; taste sour; sour stool and urine. All the symptoms are made worse by taking cold. In all cases where there is improper nutrition and imperfect digestion, such as described above, and where there is chilliness, aggravation from contact with water and from cold, cold, clammy feet and sinking sensations, Calcarea will most likely prove the remedy. Calc . also corresponds to ailments following losses of fluids, such as from self abuse; and it corresponds to a form of menorrhagia, the flow being excessive and the intervals shortened. Periods return too soon after excitement. There is often pain in the breasts before the flow commences, as with Conium . But if the menses are scanty or absent, and the Calc . characteristics of chilliness and cold, clammy feet are present, Calc . will still be the remedy. Suppression of menses in women of full habit after working in water. Bearing-down pains. Ovarian or uterine pains, right side, extending down thighs; < on reading or writing (left, Lil. t .). In addition to the cold symptoms there are sensations of heat and burning: heat in and on the vertex. In connection with this the sweat of the head must be remembered. It occurs chiefly on occiput and forehead (that of Sil . is all over). There is > uncovering during the heats (as with Lyc . and unlike Sil .). Burning in soles of feet at night; burning in back of hands. The characteristic Calc . hand is soft, warm, and moist; a boneless hand. Also hands inclined to chap. There are copious night sweats, which may be sour or odourless. Foot-sweat, sour or odourless. The sweats of Calc . give no relief. Bloody sweats. Among other heat symptoms is hot breath, with heat in mouth. Rumination is among the Calc. effects. Nausea after drinking water, even ever so little; but not if iced . The "sinking" sensation of Calc . has some modifications. There is ravenous hunger; hunger and feeling of emptiness immediately after a meal, and in the early morning. If he doesn't have his breakfast at the proper time, a headache comes on. Craving for eggs; for indigestible things, chalk, coal, &c. Nausea when fasting. Sour eructations. Sour diarrhœa. Sour body smell. Milk disagrees; sour vomiting of large curds. Inability to swallow solids. Chronic disease of left tonsil; feeling of lump in left side of throat which he wants to swallow down. Pain from left tonsil to ear. Semilateral swelling of tongue. The prosopalgia of Calc . is > warm fomentations, like Pul . Biliary colic: cutting pain under right scapula running to right hypochondrium and epigastrium. Crawling in rectum as from worms. Burning in rectum. Weight in lower rectum. Stools hard and pasty; like chalk or clay offensive; undigested. Ardor urinæ; offensive urine. Impotence penis cold and relaxed. Calcarea is related to the pretubercular stage of phthisis; it is more especially suited to affections of the right apex. Stitching in chest and sides of chest when moving and when lying on affected side. The cough is provoked by going into a cold room; by chilliness. Tickling cough, sensation of feather in throat. I have cured with Calc. a "fat cough" — i.e ., a cough with easy expectoration of a little mucus — and an arsenical cough (brought on by sleeping in a room having an arsenical wallpaper) which waked the patient in the middle of the night, causing him to sit up and cough till phlegm was raised. Rattling in the chest; miller's and stone-cutter's phthisis; old suppurating cavities. Swelling of cervical and bronchial glands. Scrofulous glands and scrofulous diseases of bones; spinal curvature; rickets. Swellings; false appearance of fat; milk leg > by elevating the limb, < hanging it down. The same conditions mark the sciatica of Calc ., which follows on working in water. Rheumatic and gouty conditions from wetting. Joints crack and crepitate as if dry. The skin is rough and scaly and inclined to chap. Rhagades. Chapped hands. Chilblains from wetting. Eruptions. Cooper has cured with it psoriasis palmaris. Eruption behind right ear. Warts and polypi. Calc . is an eminently sycotic medicine, as the early morning aggravation would indicate.

The mental and nervous systems of Calc . are no less remarkable than the bodily. The Calc . patient is slow in movements ( Sul . quick and active). The state of mind is one of apprehension. The patient fears she will lose her reason, or that people will notice her mental confusion. Fears she has some fatal disease, especially heart disease. Shuddering and dread as evening, draws near. Sees visions on closing eyes (hence useful in delirium tremens). Cries out, twitches, grasps at flocks; restless and anxious though unconscious (nervous and typhoid fever); beside herself with anguish; on the borders of acute mania. Evil forebodings; talks of Mice, rats, murders. Forgetful. The epilepsy of Calc . has an aura spreading up from the solar plexus, in which case the convulsion comes on immediately; or it may be like a mouse running on the arm; or it may run down from epigastrium into uterus or limbs. The causes are fright, suppressed eruptions and discharges, sexual excesses. Rush of blood to head; a sensation of something rising up from epigastrium to head is very characteristic. Trembling, twitching; internal trembling sensation on awaking. Fainting, coming on in the street with sensation of something rising from stomach to head. Talking = a feeling of weakness which compels him to desist. Exertion or excitement = exhaustion, though he may feel well before. Ascending = great weakness. Exhaustion in the morning. Vertigo: tendency to fall to left; to either side; backward. Caused by turning head; < looking upward; going (especially running) upstairs. Sensation as if in a dream. Calc . is one of the remedies that has been used for the sensation of levitation. Aversion to darkness. Cloud coming over head. In sleep the mental symptoms come out again: the patient is either abnormally sleepy or sleepless. Wakes 3 a.m., and cannot get to sleep again; tosses about. Horrible phantasms. The child wakes in the night screaming and cannot be pacified; in the morning remembers nothing of it. Chews and swallows in sleep. Frightful dreams of sickness, death, and smell of corpses.

Neuralgias and paralyses are among the Calc . effects. A remarkable case (of Dr. Mayntzer's) improved by Silic . and cured by Calc . is quoted in Hom. League Tract , vol. ii. p. 108. A girl of nineteen had had for some months neuralgic pains in both arms, coming on every evening, lasting all night, and being replaced during the day with sensation of lameness and weakness. Pressure and movements aggravated. Hands trembling, numb, fingers often remained opened out stiff and could not be bent. The Silica symptoms are: "Tearing pains in upper arm. Pain as of dislocation at wrist. Cramp pain and lameness of hand on slight exertion. Gone-to-sleep feeling of hands at night. Numbness and formication of hands. Restlessness and trembling in right arm." The symptoms of Calc . are: "Bruised pain of arms on moving or grasping. Pain as if sprained in wrist, with shooting and tearing in it when moved. Tearing in whole arm, shooting, tearing pain in upper arm and elbow. Nocturnal tearing and drawing in arms. Spasmodic tearing pain on outer side of forearm from elbow to wrist. Cramp in whole of one or other arm. Cramp in hands at night until she rises in morning. Cramp-like contraction of fingers. Pain and weakness of hands; trembling of hands in morning. Weakness and a kind of lameness of arm. Fingers feel furry." Both remedies were given, and great improvement occurred under Silic ., but as the pain was not gone the patient took Calc . (which was only to be taken in case of need) on the fifth day. On the sixth day the pain was gone "as if blown away," as the patient expressed it — and no wonder! It would be difficult to find a closer simillimum. The general condition of the patient underwent a complete change for the better at the same time. Both remedies were given in globules of 6th. Dr. Van den Neucker ( H. Recorder , 1886, p. 139) once cured a baker of paralysis of both arms with Calc.; and also a case of paralysis with many symptoms of locomotor ataxy in a lymphatic blonde girl of nineteen.

According to Guernsey Calc . is in general a right-side remedy. It affects specially right external head; right eye; right face; right abdominal ring; sexual organs right side; right back; right upper extremities. Left side neck and nape of neck; left chest; left lower extremities. Complaints prevailing in inner parts. Among the sensations of Calc . are: Pain as if the parts would burst, were pressed asunder, were pushed asunder; as if cold, damp stockings were on the feet. Creeping on the limbs like a mouse. Pain as if sprained in outer parts. Sensation of dust in inner parts as the eye, bronchial tubes. Pricking, darting, jerking, trembling; itching > by scratching. It is often indicated in epilepsy, disposition to strain a part by lifting heavy things, pricking corns, polypus, cysts, occurring in leucophlegmatic constitutions. Where a cold wind strikes the body and it immediately runs to the teeth, causing them to ache. Ranula. Flatulence or gurgling in right hypochondrium. Cramp in legs at 3 a.m. Hands chap from hard water.

Alexander Villers cured with Calc. c . 200 in rare doses a case combining many of the features of the remedy. The patient, a lady, æt. 20, very despondent through long-continued depressing circumstances, became very nervous. She was companion to an exceedingly deaf lady, whose voice was high-pitched. This, with the strain on her voice to make herself heard, caused headache through temples > by rapid motion of head. Outdoor exercise was accompanied by hard pressure on chest, which only eructations seemed to relieve. Bowels constipated. Menses every fortnight, with backache and great prostration. Under the remedy, repeated at rare intervals, the menses came on monthly, headache and pressure on chest disappeared.

Among the Conditions of Calc ., dread of the open air ranks most prominently; the least cold air goes right through. Great sensitiveness to cold, damp air. Also cannot bear sun. The slightest change < . Dread of bathing and water. There is inclination to stretch and put the shoulders back; but straightening < rheumatism. Calc . is hydrogenoid and sycotic — sensitive to cold and damp and early morning aggravation. Warts and polypi also point to the same constitutional state. The Calc . patient generally feels better when constipated. The diarrhœa of Calc . is generally < in afternoon. There is painless hoarseness < in morning. "The Calc . pains are most generally felt while lying in bed, or while sitting; they are felt in the parts upon which the body has been lying for a time" (Teste). There is < after midnight and in early morning; on awaking. Chill at 2 p.m. In the evening, 6 to 7, there is fever without chill, < from working in water or bathing, < at full moon; at new moon and at solstice. < After eating (smoked meats, milk); when fasting. < By mental exertion (writing). < From pressure of clothes. < From lifting; from stooping. < Walking in open air, cold air, wet weather, to which he is very sensitive. < From letting limbs hang down. In spite of the sensitiveness to cold, cannot bear sun. < From light in general; from looking fixedly at any object; from looking upward; from turning the head. Some symptoms are > inspiring fresh air; and during heat, uncovers. > After breakfast; on rising from drawing up limbs; from loosening garments. > In the dark when lying on the back; after lying down; from rubbing, from scratching; in dry weather; wiping or soothing with the hands; from being touched. Great weakness on ascending, on walking, talking (chests feels weak), or excitement.

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Enfeebled memory. θ Epilepsy.
Forgetfulness ; vanishing of thoughts.
Misplaces words, tendency to express himself wrongly.
When roused opens eyes with absence of mind and alarm, murmuring, frightened. θ Intermittent.
Buried in deep thought ; anxiety about present and future.
Rush of thoughts prevents sleep.
Cannot get rid of one and the same thought at night, even during light slumbers. θ Typhoid.
Mind full of concern about imaginary things that might happen to her. θ Chlorosis.
Mind is confused, so that what is read or heard is not understood or comprehended.
Intellect dull ; unable to progress in her studies. θ Epilepsy.
Thinking is difficult.
Absent-minded, after nausea in afternoon.
Stupid, peevish, in the intervals. θ Epilepsy.
Appears to be lapsing into complete imbecility. θ Epilepsy.
Imagines some one is walking beside her ; that something hanging over back of chair is a person sitting there, etc.
Feels as if she would lose her senses. θ Megrim.
Visions of faces and persons, when eyes are closed. θ Typhus.
Mental aberration with horrid visions before eyes and cardiac anxiety ; he despairs of his salvation and wants to stab himself.
Delirium. θ Second week of typhus.
Sees and plays with cats and other animals in delirium. θ Nervous fever.
Mania-a-potu, with delirious talk about fire, rats, mice and murder.
Mania ; sees many curs crowding around him, fights them off. θ From chilling feet and legs in potter's clay.
Desire to go home. θ Insanity.
Desire for company.
Steady inclination to work, with mental anxiety.
Inclination to weep, with mental depression ; weeps when admonished.
Feels as if she would like to run up and down and scream.
She thinks and talks of nothing but murder, fire, rats, etc.
Violent screaming spell every day at 5 P. M., so hard as to cause a scrotal hernia ; infant, æt. 5 weeks.
Changeable mood ; easily laughing or crying. θ Neurosis cordis.
Disinclined to talk, and very irritable.
Taciturn, with a dry tongue.
Disinclination for every kind of work. θ Coryza. θ Addison's disease.
Does not care to get well, or to do anything to assist recovery.
Weeping mood. θ Muscular atrophy.
Weeping and anxious.
Whimpering. θ Catarrh.
Low-spirited and melancholy, with weeping and despair of life.
Low-spirited and depressed. θ Diarrhœa. θ Muscular atrophy. θ Phthisis
pulmonalis. θ Chorea.
Despondent and melancholy, in highest degree, with a kind of anguish.
Children sad and unhappy.
Weary of life. θ Catarrh.
Hopelessness ; despair.
Hypochondriacal mood. θ Coryza.
Restless anxiety.
Anxious and irritable by spells.
Anxiety : with nausea ; during sweat ; during typhus.
Anxious about getting well, during the intervals. θ Epilepsy.
Apprehension about present and future.
Apprehensive mood : as if some misfortune was about to happen ; about his health ; that he might have an organic disease of the heart.
Fear, that something sad or terrible will happen.
Fears she will lose her reason, or that people will observe her confusion of mind.
Fear : of death ; of consumption ; of misfortune ; of being alone.
Child is afraid of everything it sees. θ Inflammation of brain.
Concern about spiritual welfare.
Feels awe-stricken at night. θ Diarrhœa.
Anxiety, shuddering and dread as soon as evening comes on, with fear of death ; torments those around him day and night.
Great anxiety : with spasm in rectum ; with dull shocks from posterior wall of chest up to between shoulders.
Great anxiety and oppression. θ Scarlatina.
Great anxiety, restlessness and palpitation.
Anguish, with palpitation of heart.
Fear excited by reports of cruelties.
Great anxiety, in evening, for which no reason could be assigned. θ Uterine tumor.
Easily startled.
Despairing ; hopeless of ever getting well ; with fear of death, tormenting all around day and night.
Indifference ; does not care to get well ; reticence and inertness.
Apathy and depression of mind. θ Addison's disease.
Quiet, mild disposition. θ Strabismus.
Active, full of fun. θ Boy with chronic diarrhœa.
Excessive mischievousness, with obstinacy.
Voluptuous, lascivious fancies.
Ill-humored, with white blood-streaked stool.
Dissatisfied and easily angered.
Aversion to everything as soon as he sits idle.
Obstinacy and irritability.
Children self-willed, inclined to grow fat.
Hateful, vindictive.
Irritable without cause ; cries about trifles ; borrows trouble.
Irritable mood. θ Leucorrhœa.
Child cross, fretful and restless. θ Scarlatina.
Children very fretful and stubborn. θ Rachitis.
Irritability, with pressing frontal headache.
Peevish without cause.
Peevishness, much nervous excitement and irritability.
Very peevish and easily vexed. θ Chorea.
Easily offended ; takes everything amiss.
Violence and anger.
Restless mood, with gloominess and anxiety.
Child restless and cross during day. θ Keratitis.
Easily frightened ; tendency to start.
Mental occupation > headache ; better from engaging his attention. θ Chorea.
Nervousness < by mental exertion, > from closing eyes.
After exerting mind : hyperemia of head ; chorea ; trembling spells.
Aggravation from mental emotions. θ Neuralgia cordis.
Headaches of school-children.
The slight effort of talking gave him sensation as if brain would be paralyzed, mostly in occiput.
From thinking : drawing pain in right side of forehead.
Affections from egotism.
Excitement brings on dysmennorrhœa ; least excitement endangers return of catamenia, or causes metrorrhagia.
Great anxiety and worriment of mind. θ At onset of typhoid.
Mental anxiety, producing palpitation, sweat, nausea and tremor.
Excited by chagrin or fear. θ Epilepsy.
Vexation causes vertigo.
Fright followed by trembling motions of upper and lower limbs in repeated paroxysms. θ Chorea.

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If you were about to produce a Calcarea subject to order you could do so by feeding him lime or lime water until the digestive organs were so debilitated that they could no longer digest lime; and then the tissues would be increasingly deprived of what they need, and give us the lime subject, the "bone salt inanition" case, for that is really what it is. Infants that are fed lime water in the milk will in a little while be lime subjects.

They will soon get in such a state that they cannot take the lime from their natural food, and the result will be a Calcarea subject such as we are about to describe.

But the natural cases are those that have a natural sickness, are born so, born with an inability to digest the lime that is in their natural food, and they grow fat and flabby, and produce deficient bones.

There is a greater proportion of cartilaginous material in the bones than lime, and the bones bend, and take on diseases and destructive troubles. Deficient teeth, or no teeth at all. The bones simply stop growing, and the patient goes into marasmus.

What a foolish notion it is to feed that infant lime water because he cannot digest lime! Is it not just as reasonable as anything else in allopathy? And yet our homeopaths use allopathic medicines. They use the lowest potencies they can get and it would seem strange if those substances cured any better in the hands of the homeopath than in the hands of the allopath.

Nor, it is astonishing that one single dose of the potency suitable to meet the state of disorder will make that infant commence to digest its food, and appropriate from its food the lime substance that it needs in its bones, and wherever else it needs it.

All at once the teeth begin to grow; the bones begin to grow, and the legs get stiff enough for him to begin to walk, and they will hold up. It is astonishing what changes will take place under the various medicines that are suitable for the disturbances of the hair, and the bones and nails.

The remedy must be sufficiently potentized to correspond with the wrong. It certainly must not be crude because the child is already stunted by the crude material. You will see within a month or six weeks after giving a solitary dose of the sufficiently potentized remedy the nails that were corrugated and uneven and spotted and irregular will form a margin and will grow out smooth.

You will see the ugly little crowns upon the teeth, distorted, and black things as they come up out of the gums; but when they have been under the suitable homeopathic remedy you will see them form a margin line, and from there on the teeth look healthy, and from there on the little body of the tooth is smooth and round; just as if that child bad had an impulse to grow better teeth.

That same thing probably takes place where the bones exist. The periosteum takes on healthy work.

This is the Calcarea state when the patient needs lime and he cannot get it because he has been cloyed; or, because he has an indigestion, he is unable to assimilate the lime that is in his food, and it goes through him and does not affect him.

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Adapted to the leucophlegmatic; blond hair, light complexion, fair skin and blue eyes.

Scrofulous constitutions; pale, weak, timid, easily tired when walking; vertigo on ascending a height, going upstairs, is out of breath, has to sit down (vertigo on descending, Borax); disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldy.

Children: with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat easily and take cold readily in consequence; large heads and abdomens; fontanelles and sutures open; head sweats profusely while sleeping; wetting pillow far around (San., Sil.); diseases of dentition; during sickness or convalescence great longing for eggs.

Acidity of digestive tract; sour eructation, sour vomiting, sour stool; sour odor of the whole body (Hep., Rheum).

Girls who are fleshy, plethoric, grow too rapidly; who begin with early, profuse, protracted menstruation; subsequently have amenorrhœa and chlorosis with menses scanty or suppressed.

Women: with menses too early and too profuse; feet constantly cold and damp, feel as if she had on cold, damp stockings; difficult to stop menstruating, the least mental excitement causes profuse return (Sul., Tub.).

Fears she will lose her reason, or that people will observe her mental confusion (Act.).

Aversion to cold air; least cold air seems to go through and through; very sensitive to damp cold air.

Lung diseases of tall, slender, rapidly growing youth; upper third of right lung (Ars.—upper third of left, Myr., Sul., Tub.). Oftener the guide to the true remedy than Phosphorus.

Disorders arising from defective assimilation; imperfect ossification; difficulty in learning to walk; have no disposition, will not try.

Longing for fresh air, which inspires, benefits, strengthens (Sul.).

Coldness: general; of single parts (Benz., Kali bi.); head, stomach, abdomen, feet and legs.

Sweat: of single parts; head, scalp wet, cold; nape of neck; chest; axillæ; sexual organs; hands; knees; feet (Sep., Tub.).

Pit of stomach swollen like an inverted saucer, and painful to pressure.

Uræmic or other diseases brought on by standing on cold, damp pavements, or working while standing in cold water; modelers or workers in cold clay.

Constipation: inactivity of rectum; stool has to be removed mechanically (Aloe, Sanic., Sel., Sep., Sil.).

Painless hoarseness, < in the morning.

Feels better in every way when constipated.

Desire to be magnetized (Phos.).

Complementary: Belladonna, which is the acute of Calcarea and Tuberculinum.

According to Hahnemann, Calc. must not be used before Nit. ac. and Sulph.; may produce unnecessary complications.

Cold air, damp winds; getting wet; ascending heights; exertion of mind or body, walking, talking, writing.

In dry, warm weather; lying on painful side.

Tertian. Chronic intermittent or remittent fevers.

2 P. M.—Fever without chill at 11 A. M. and 6 to 7 P. M. (11 A. M. one day, 4 P. M. the next.—E. C. PRICE).

Working while standing in cold water. Potters, brick-makers who work in wet clay; gardeners and fruit growers, handling cold vegetables and fruit (Zinc., Val.).

Drawing in all the joints, and great heaviness of head and body.

With thirst. Begins in scrobiculus cordis, with spasms, or fixed, cold, agonizing weight, increasing with the chill and disappearing with it. External coldness and internal heat, or internal coldness and external heat, or chill and heat alternating (Ars.). Coldness of single parts; of face, of hands, of feet, of internal organs; icy coldness in and on head; feels an inward coldness. Heat followed by chill and cold hands. Shaking chill at night. Chill in the evening in bed; was unable to get warm, though covered warmly, as though he had no warmth in his body. He was cold and his teeth chattered though he sat over the fire. Chill with headache and drowsy fatigue of all the limbs.

Without thirst: Followed by chill and cold hands. Frequent flashes of heat. Severe heat in the head and great orgasm of blood. Nightly internal heat, especially in the feet and hands; anxiety and palpitation. Frequent attacks of sudden universal heat, as if she had been drenched with hot water, with despair of life.

Heat, with inclination to uncover (Acon., Lyc., Sec., Sul.).

Fever at 11 A. M. without thirst and without previous chill, she felt hot and was hot to the touch, with red face.

No thirst. Hot sweat. Sweats during the day from the least exertion, even in the cold air (Am. m., Bry.). Profuse sweat in the morning on moderate exertion. Sweat of palms of hands; of the feet; knees; over whole body, with severe cramp in stomach; chest; nape of neck; male organs. Clammy sweat only on the limbs Often sleep after sweat.

Dry in the morning on awaking; coated white. Taste: bitter, sour, foul, offensive; "too fresh," like ink, like iron.

Never clear. Intermittents with spasmodic symptoms; after abuse of quinine; chronic forms with scrofula; cachectic constitutions; suppressed eruptions, or sweat; desire for eggs.

The constitutional symptoms existing or aroused by the fever, form the chief guide in selection of remedy. The psoric cachexia of the patient is guiding, and is generally found in the apyrexia.

Chill, heat and sweat of single parts. The cause often indicative.

Forgetfulness.
Misplaces words, and tendency to express himself wrongly.
Thinking is difficult.
Mania-a-potu, with delirious talk about fire, rats, mice and murder.
Disinclination for every kind of work.
Depression and melancholy; tearfulness.
Apprehensive mood; as if some misfortune were about to happen.
Shuddering and dread as evening draws near.
Fear seemingly starting from pit of stomach.
Fears she will lose her reason; or that people will observe her confusion of mind.
Great anxiety and palpitation of heart.
Irritable without cause; peevishness and obstinacy.
Restless mood, with gloominess and anxiety.

Vertigo: when walking in open air, as if he would reel, especially when turning the head quickly; on going up stairs; worse in the morning, with nausea and vomiting; abdominal congestion; hypertrophy of left ventricle; amenorrhœa gradually developed.
Rush of blood to head, with heat, redness and puffiness of the face; worse from alcoholic drink; worse in the morning when awaking; worse after mental exertion.
Continued dulness of the head, as if too full.
Feeling of fulness in head; dulness and feeling of stupidity.
Heaviness in forehead; worse when reading or writing.

Frequent one-sided headache, always with much empty eructation.
Stupefying, pressing ache in the forehead, as in vertigo, during rest and motion.
Stitching headache above the left temple.
Headache begins in occiput and spreads to top of head, so severe she thinks the head will burst, and that she will go crazy.
Throbbing headache in middle of brain every morning, lasts all day.
Headache: worse going up stairs, talking, or walking, in hot sun or from taking cold; chronic, from brainfag; better from tight bandaging, closing the eyes, vomiting mucus and bile, lying down or pressure with the cold hand.
Icy-coldness in and on the head; also one-sided; congestion alternating with icy-cold sensation.
Headache from overlifting, or other muscular strain.

Large open fontanelles, head large.
Whitish-yellow scales of dandruff; scalp sensitive; hair dry, falls out, on sides of head; head feels cold.
Pimples on the forehead.
Thick scabs, bleeding when picked, itching slightly.
Thick scabs, with yellow pus; spreading to the face.
Icy-coldness on the head.
Burning on top of head.
Scratches the head impatiently on awaking or being aroused from sleep.

Farsightedness.
Sensitiveness to light; photophobia.
Like a shadow before the eyes, obscuring one side of the object; much dilated.
Dancing wavelets before the eyes which are very annoying.
Ophthalmia: from taking cold; entrance of foreign body; in the newborn; scrofulous.
Opacity of cornea, maculæ, ulcers and fungus hæmatodes; transverse calcareous band of the cornea.
Interstitial keratitis.
Stitches in the inner canthus.
Stinging pains; worse from candle-light.
Itching in the eyes and canthi.
Sensation of coldness, heat, even burning in the eyes.
Swelling and redness of the eyelids, with nightly agglutination; during the day full of gum, with heat, smarting pain and lachrymation.
Eyes become inflamed and injected at every exposure to cold.
Quivering in the upper eyelid.
Suppurating fistula lachrymalis.

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Triturations of the pure white middle layer of the oyster-shell are used (Hahnemann).

A general nutrition (tissue) remedy. ▶ It seems to produce a well-marked cachexia which may develop tuberculosis, epilepsy or other chronic disorders. ▶ The functions of various organs are disturbed, but the lymphatics are most prominently affected.

Baryta c., Magnes. c., Kali c., Sulph., Phos., Lyc., Sepia, etc.

Restless motion of whole body on account of suppressed eructations. ▶ Trembling; in morning; in body on waking, with twitches of various muscles in thigh and arm; agg. in open air; with weakness. ▶ Anxious, with weakness. ▶ Twitching of muscles. ▶ Epileptic attacks, while standing he suddenly fell to the ground sideways and on returning to consciousness found himself lying with outstretched arms, then heat and sweat. ▶ Starting from slight prick of a needle in finger, so that she became nauseated, tongue, lips and hands became white and cold, with coldness of forehead and face, obscuration of vision, uneasiness, flushes of heat, trembling and necessity to lie down, all amel. mesmerizing.

▶ Congestions of blood. ▶ Rushing of blood in all veins in morning on waking from a restless sleep, with swollen veins and with bruised sensation in whole body. ▶ Pulsation in vessels after dinner, especially in chest, with rapid pulse. ▶ Stitches in various joints and muscles; in upper arm, beneath arms, in back and limbs. ▶ The pain was intense, but disappeared quickly. ▶ Strained easily (Con.), pain in small of back from lifting anything heavy (Sil.). ▶ Taking cold easily (Kali c.). ▶ Painful tension over whole body. ▶ Drawing in whole body when walking, extending into head, obliging her to sit down.

Sick feeling in whole body, with necessity to spit much and dread of open air; S. feeling after a walk, with hoarseness and oppression of chest. ▶ Great indisposition, amel. motion, with coldness of hands and feet, paleness of face and palpitation. ▶ Indisposition, as in previous pregnancy. ▶ Discomfort in evening as before an attack of ague. ▶ Greatly affected by noise. ▶ Inclination to stretch in morning. ▶ Uneasiness; in evening, especially in limbs; in evening, after nausea in afternoon, with absent-mindedness; with orgasm of blood. ▶ Attack of general depression, with confusion of head, vertigo, pain in small of back and general chilliness.

▶ Inability to go up-stairs and exhaustion from it (Ars., Baryta, Spong.). ▶ Weakness; in morning, also on waking from deep sleep, so that the confused and sleepy condition continued after rising; in evening; on walking, especially in limbs, with exhausting sweat; after walking, even to feverishness, attack of chilliness and thirst; from speaking; for several days after coition, with sickness, after dinner; after stool; the day before menstruation, with fright at a trifle amel. walking; amel. fresh open air, with oppression and anxiety; all day, with sleepiness; with yawning; with attacks of convulsive laughter. ▶ Faintness; in evening, with blackness before eyes when sitting; with sweat on face; in attacks, with coldness and indistinct vision. ▶ Heaviness of body. ▶ Parts on which he has lain during afternoon nap go to sleep. ▶ The chronic troubles are better every other day.

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A general nutrition (tissue) remedy. It seems to produce a well-marked cachexia which may develop tuberculosis, epilepsy or other chronic disorders. The functions of various organs are disturbed, but the lymphatics are most prominently affected.

General loss of power, especially inability to go upstairs.
Weakness, particularly of the limbs, on walking, with exhaustive sweat; from talking; after coition; general relief in the fresh, open air.
Patients are inclined to be too fat (especially young people).
General emaciation, with large abdomen, and good appetite.
Easy taking cold, and special sensitiveness to cold, damp air.
Easily sprained.

Clinical:
Very frequently indicated in affections caused by working in water.
In chronic inflammations of joints; swellings, without inflammations.
Pains relieved by change of weather, especially in damp weather.
Muscular rheumatism.
Glandular enlargement, with suppuration, with fistulous ulcers.
Various phases of scrofula.
It is generally indicated in persons of a fair complexion, who are very sluggish and inclined to be fat (fair, fat and flabby).
The child is not able to walk, is very backward.
Epilepsy; very frequently indicated in the cachexia, which leads to the development of epileptiform spasms, and it will sometimes radically cure the disease.
Marasmus.
A general condition of malnutrition; the patient is flabby, weak, sluggish, has profuse sweats, profuse discharges generally, and cold extremities.

Very nervous, anxious, lachrymose mood.
Anxiety, particularly during twilight.
Is frightened easily.
Solicitude about the future, with dread.
General anxiety, with palpitation.
Fear that she will lose her reason, or that some misfortune will overtake her or her friends.
Disinclined to make any mental effort.
Children become very obstinate.
Intellect dull.

General confusion, as if a board were before the head.
Tendency to rush of blood to the head, with heat, sometimes even with throbbing in the middle of the brain.
Vertigo on suddenly turning the head, or on going upstairs; also, in the morning before breakfast.
Heaviness in the forehead; a painful pressure, extending into the nose; < reading and writing.
Icy coldness on the right side of the head.
Pulsation in the middle of the brain, coming on every morning and lasting all day.
General headache, < muscular strain or from mental effort.
Much scurf on the scalp.
Itching, especially at night on waking.
Sweat over the head, especially in the evening while asleep (in children).
(The fontanelles remain open in children, and the cranial bones are not well developed, with enlarged glands, etc.)
Falling of the hair.

A feeling of sand under the lids.
Lachrymation.
Eyes agglutinated in the morning.
Itching of the margins of the lids.
General burning and cutting pains in the eyes, especially in the evening by the light.
Tendency to ulcers and spots on the cornea.
Photophobia, especially in the evening, or in the morning.
Dim vision when trying to look intently, like a mist before the eyes.
(Obstruction of the lachrymal ducts.)

Throbbing in the ears.
Heat within the ears.
Cracking noises when chewing.
Roaring.

Clinical:
Deafness from working in water.
Scrofulous inflammations of the ear, with muco-purulent otorrhœa, enlarged glands, etc.
Chronic inflammation of the ear; thickening of the drum.
Polypi, which bleed easily.

Offensive dryness of the nose.
Inflammation, redness, swelling of the nose.
Sore, ulcerated nostrils.
Offensive smell in the nose.

Clinical:
Coryza, clear, watery secretion or chronic ozæna, with a thick, purulent, fetid discharge, with swelling at root of nose and ulceration.
Nasal polypi.
Inclination to nose-bleed in fat children.

Pale, puffy.
Yellow.
Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark rings.
Upper lip swollen, Tearing pains in the bones of the face.
Moist eruption on the forehead and cheeks.

Drawing, stinging toothache, < cold or draft of air, especially by taking cold water or air into the mouth.
Toothache after menstruation.
Gums spongy and bleeding.
Tongue, coated white.
Pain beneath the tongue on swallowing.
Burning pain at tip of tongue, < anything warm taken into the mouth.
Tongue dry in the morning.
Speech indistinct.
Sour taste, not only of food, but also when not eating.

Spasmodic contraction of pharynx.
Stitches when swallowing.
Pain as from internal swelling, extending to the ears.
A feeling as if food stuck in the throat, with nausea.
On swallowing, cracking noises in the ear.
Externally, the submaxillary glands are swollen and hard, with pain when chewing, and stinging when touched.

Frequent, ravenous hunger, especially in the morning.
Thirst great.
At times complete loss of appetite, but with constant and great thirst; after beginning to eat, food relishes.
Extreme thirst at night.
General aversion to meat.
Aversion to customary tobacco.
Longing for eggs.
Desire for sweets and pastry; also, for indigestible things, such as chalk, coal, etc.
Eructations of food; tasting of food; of tasteless fluid in the evening.
Nausea in the morning; after drinking milk; in the morning, fasting.
Vomiting sour water at night; of food which has a sour taste.
Swelling of the epigastric region.
This region is sore to touch.
Pressing pain as from a lump.
Burning, extending from the stomach to the throat after eating.

Distention; with hardness.
Cutting colic in the upper abdomen.
Distention about the hypochondria; cannot endure tight clothes.
Swelling of the inguinal glands.

Clinical:
Enlargement of liver, which is sore, with jaundice.
Gallstone colic, terrible darting pain, profuse sweat, intolerance of garments about the waist.
Tendency to great increase of fat in the abdomen and flatulent distention, enlarged mesenteric glands; abdominal dropsy.
Umbilical hernia.

Protrusion.
Pressure and heaviness.
Crawling as from worms.
Hæmorrhoids protrude and become painful.
Burning in the anus during a stool.

Clinical:
Diarrhœa of undigested stools; of sour odor, large in quantity, sometimes fetid.
Ascarides and chronic diarrhœa, with great appetite and distention of stomach, which is sore to touch.
Cholera infantum, with vomiting of sour food or curdled lumps, ravenous appetite.

Frequent micturition; at night.
Urine dark colored, offensive, with a white sediment: sour smelling at night.
Burning in the urethra during and after micturition.

Increased sexual desire.
Diminished sexual power.
Emissions too quick, followed by weakness, irritability, etc.
Impotency.

Unnatural sexual desire.
Great prostration after coition.
Menstruation too early, and too long continued.
Leucorrhœa milk-like.

Clinical:
Hydrocele in children.
Profuse menstruation is the rule in women who require Calcarea.
General weakness of women, with exaggerated desires.
Membranous dysmenorrhœa, with cold, sweaty extremities and sensitiveness to cold air (see Calc. acet.).
Endocervitis.
Often indicated in girls whose menses do not come on, but, instead, congestion of the head, dyspnœa, palpitation, hæmorrhage from the lungs, night cough, general anæmia, unnatural appetite, etc.
Constant aching in vagina.
Leucorrhœa like milk, very profuse, with general Calcarea symptoms.
Excessive flow of milk in nursing women; it is thin and does not satisfy the child; with itching of vulva, with swollen veins or sometimes glandular swellings.
The milk of a nursing woman is disagreeable to the child, who refuses it and does not thrive on it, though the secretion be very great.

Whistling in the larynx in the evening after lying down.
Painless hoarseness; could not speak; worse in the morning.
Violent, dry cough at night, < on inspiration; caused by a sensation of a plug in the throat, and moved up and down; or by tickling, as of a feather in the throat; at times, a feeling as if something were torn loose from the larynx.
Cough in the morning, with profuse, yellow expectoration, which is sometimes purulent, sometimes offensive.
Expectoration of blood, which leaves a sore, rough feeling in the chest.
Respiration very short on going up the slightest ascent.
Need to breathe deeply, which causes stitches in the sides of the chest or hypochondrium.
Chest, internally, sore; sometimes, also, sore externally under the clavicles.
Lancinating pains through the chest, frequently from before backward, more rarely, from side to side.

Clinical:
Chronic inflammation of larynx and bronchi, and hoarseness, chronic cough.
Extreme dyspnœa on going up the slightest ascent (one of the most marked indications for the drug).
Chronic inflammation of the larynx, especially in the upper part.
Asthmatic attacks in children, from suppressed eruptions.
Ulcers in the lungs, with purulent expectoration.
Hæmorrhage from the lungs.
Calcarea is very generally indicated in the general cachexia leading to various forms of consumption.
The cough is usually troublesome at night and dry, with free expectoration in the morning.
The patient perspires easily, and frequently has enormous appetite, though the emaciation is rapid.

Palpitation after eating, or from the slightest effort.
Palpitation at night, with cough, with anxiety.

Swelling of the glands of the neck; painful.
Stiffness and cracking in the nape of the neck from straining the muscles.
Pain in the back, so that he could scarcely rise.
Backache from strains.

Bruised, paralytic-like pains in the long bones on motion, and in various joints.
The muscles of the extremities become sore to the touch.
General weariness.
Rheumatic pains in the shoulders, sometimes shooting.
Weakness, paralytic, of the arm; a sudden weariness.
Muscles of the arms feel bruised.
Pain as from a sprain in the wrist.
Trembling of the hands.
Nodes form on the fingers.
Fingers feel numb and dead.
Tips of the fingers thick, swollen.

Weariness of the legs, with trembling, especially of the thighs.
Weariness of the muscles on the front of the thighs on beginning to walk, with stiffness.
Swelling of the knees.
Stitching pain.
Cramps in the calves at night on stretching out the legs, and in the hollows of the knees.
Cramp in the sole of the foot.
Feet feel cold and dead at night.

Nettlerash, with itching and burning after rubbing.
Eruptions sometimes moist.
Development of warts.
Skin unhealthy, ulcerating easily.
Itching pain in the cold air.

Sleeplessness at night from nervous excitement.
Falls asleep very late on going to bed.
Very anxious, frightful dreams.
Heavy snoring during sleep, can scarcely be wakened.

Chilliness, largely internal; at times alternating with heat.
Heat, also internal, in the head, in the hands and feet, sometimes with dry tongue.
Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep.
Sweat in the morning; during the day on slight effort; on the hands and feet; particularly over the head in children, so that the pillow becomes wet.

CALCAREA CARBONICA. LIME.

Break in pieces a clean, somewhat thick oyster shell, take one grain of the softer, snow-white calcareous substance found between the outer and the inner harder shell. This is prepared in all the degrees of potencies up to X in the manner directed as to the preparation of dry medicinal substances for homœopathic use, given at the conclusion of Part I. This is preserved from sunlight and great warmth, to be used for its various purposes. For the sake of comparison I have also observed the symptoms of acetate of lime, and have given them marked with a dash [-] in front. Lime when thus potentized belongs among the most effective antipsoric remedies, especially in cases where the following symptoms, are prominent : Dejection ; inclination to weep ; lack of cheerfulness, with heaviness of the lower limbs ; anxiety when sweating ; restless anxiety ; anxiety ; shivering and horror when evening approaches ; anguish, excitable by thoughts ; anxiety after hearing of cruelties ; nervous excitation ; timidity ; fits of despondency about shaken health ; sensitive peevishness ; self-will ; indifference ; difficulty in thinking ; long-continued numb feeling of the head as if a board was before the head ; dizziness and trembling before breakfast ; vertigo when going up stairs ; vertigo when mounting high, e. g., on the roof heaviness and pressure in the forehead, so that he has to close the eyes ; headache from reading and writing ; headache from overlifting ; boring in the forehead, as if the head would burst ; beating headache in the occiput ; throbbing in the middle of the brain ; hammering headache after walking in the open air, compelling him to lie down ; headache and humming in the head, with heat of the cheeks ; icy cold in the right side of the head ; evening-sweat in the head ; falling out of the hair ; pressure in the eyes ; burning and excoriation of the eyelids ; burning and cutting in the eyes during reading by candle-light ; cutting in the eyelids ; stitches in the eyes ; itching of the eyes ; closing of the eyes by suppuration ; suppuration of a fistula lachrymalis ; lachrymation in the open air or in the morning ; quivering in the upper and lower eyelids ; agglutination of the eyelids every morning ; obscuration of the sight when reading ; obscuration of the eyes, after eating ; dim vision, feathers before the eyes ; dim-sightedness as from gauze ; mist before the eyes, when straining the eyes and reading ; long-sightedness, he cannot read without convex spectacles ; dazzling of the eyes by a bright light ; stitches in the ears, running of pus from the ears ; cracking in the ears, when swallowing ; throbbing in the ears ; ringing in the ears ; humming before the ears ; roaring in the ears ; rushing in the ears, with hardness of hearing ; thundering in the ears ; obstruction in hearing ; hardness of hearing ; sore nose obstruction of the nose with yellow, fetid pus ; bleeding at the nose ; bad smell and fetor from the nose ; smell of dung before the nose ; faceache ; itching and eruption of the face ; freckles on the cheeks ; itching and itching pimples in the whiskers ; eruption on the mouth, pain in the glands of the lower jaw ; toothache whenever drinking something cold ; drawing toothache, with stitches, day and night, renewed by cold and by warmth ; toothache, like digging and soreness ; difficult teething of children ; painful sensitiveness of the gums ; stitches in the gums ; gum-boils ; bleeding of the gums ; dryness of the tongue, at night, or in the morning on awaking ; aphthæ under the tongue ; accumulation of mucus in the mouth ; hawking up mucus ; constriction in the throat ; bitter taste in the mouth in the morning ; lack of appetite ; lack of appetite, with constant thirst ; aversion to his customary smoking of tobacco ; aversion to warm food ; long-continued aversion to meat ; hunger immediately or soon after eating ; voracious hunger in the morning, she cannot eat enough, she cannot get it down ; after meals, heat ; eructation after eating, bitter eructation ; water-brash, weakness of digestion in the stomach, pressure in the stomach, fasting and after eating ; nocturnal pressure in the scrobiculus cordis ; stinging pressure, in the stomach after eating ; cramps in the stomach ; pinching and cutting in the scrobiculus cordis ; during pressure in the stomach, a pressing out under the last rib ; inability to bear tight clothing over the scrobiculus cordis ; swelling of the scrobiculus cordis, with pressive pain, the scrobiculus cordis painful to the touch ; tension in both hypochondria ; pressive lancinating colic, without diarrhœa ; colic in the epigastrium ; in the afternoon, cutting and griping in the abdomen, with vomiting of food eaten at dinner ; coldness in the abdomen ; inflation and hardness of the abdomen ; obstruction of flatus ; pressure of flatus to the abdominal ring, as if hernia was about to come ; constipation ; costiveness ; stool scanty and hard ; stool twice a day ; frequent, continual soft stool ; involuntary discharge of foaming stool ; during stool protrusion of the varices of the rectum, with burning pain ; after the stool, lassitude and feeling, as if bruised all over ; itching of the anus ; ascarides in the rectum ; burning in the urethra ; too frequent urination ; hæmaturia ; flow of blood from the urethra ; wanton, lewd ideas ; lack of sexual instinct ; deficient sexual powers ; lack of pollutions ; too brief erections during coitus ; stinging and burning in the male genitals during the emission of semen in coitus ; pressive pain in the vagina ; pressure upon the prolapsed womb ; stitches in the os uteri itching on the pudenda and anus ; distended veins on the labia pudendi ; after pains or milk fever after parturition ; bloody flux from the uterus ; (suppressed menses) ; menses too early and excessive ; during the menses, cutting in the abdomen and griping in the sacrum ; leucorrhœa before the menses ; leucorrhœa, like milk, in jets ; burning, itching leucorrhœa ; during the flow of leucorrhœa, itching on the pudenda. Frequent sneezing ; troublesome dryness of the nose ; constant coryza ; delayed flow of the coryza ; dry coryza ; dry coryza in the morning ; stoppage of the nose ; ulceration of the larynx ; hoarseness ; mucus on the chest ; evening cough in bed ; night-cough during sleep ; cough in the morning ; dry cough ; yellow fetid expectoration ; during cough, pressure on the stomach ; arrest of breathing in stooping ; pressure on the chest ; stitches in the side of the chest on moving ; stitches in the left side, on bending to that side ; burning in the chest ; prickling stitches in the muscles of the chest ; palpitation of the heart, also at night ; pain in the sacrum ; pain as of a sprain in the back ; stiffness and rigidity in the nape of the neck ; swelling of the cervical glands ; goitre ; pressive pain in the right upper arm ; nocturnal drawing and tearing in the arms ; sudden exhaustion of the arms, like paralysis ; dying off [numbness] in the hands on grasping ; swelling of the hands ; sweat of the hands ; arthritic nodosities on the wrists and the joints of the fingers ; formication as from going to sleep of the fingers ; numbness of the fingers and sensation as if they were dead, also in the warmth ; awkwardness of the fingers ; frequent paralysis of the finger ; heaviness of the legs ; stiffness of the legs ; cramps in the legs ; going to sleep of the legs in sitting ; ulcers of the legs ; stitches in the thigh on treading ; distended veins in the thighs ; stitches in the knees, when standing and sitting ; stitches and tearing in the knee ; drawing pain in the knee, when sitting and walking ; swelling of the knee ; red spots on the legs ; burning of the soles of the feet ; swelling of the soles ; coldness of the feet, in the evening ; foot-sweat ; dying off [numbness] of the feet, in the evening ; sensitiveness of the big toes, corns ; pains in the corns ; going to sleep of the limbs ; cramps in the arms and legs ; pain as of bruising in the upper arms, also in the middle of the thighs, on going up stairs ; tearing in the limbs, in the arms and legs ; tendency to strain oneself, making the nape of the neck rigid and stiff, with headache ; tendency to strains, with sore throat thence ; great fatness and corpulence with youths ; exhaustion from speaking ; lack of strength, lassitude ; lassitude in the morning ; great exhaustion after every little walk ; attacks of epilepsy at night during full moon, with cries ; great fatigue from moderate walking in the open air ; copious perspiration on moderate exertion of the body ; great sensitiveness to cold ; tendency to take cold ; visible twitching in the skin, from the feet up to the head, causing dizziness ; dry feeling in the skin ; roughness of the skin, as if covered with miliary eruption ; bran-like covering of the skin ; furuncle ; warts ; drowsiness in daytime ; drowsiness early in the evening ; frequent waking up at night ; insomnia ; at night, tossing in bed ; thirst at night ; at night, pressure in the scrobiculus cordis and rising from there to the larynx and the head ; nocturnal pain in the back and in the arms ; nocturnal asthma ; nocturnal palpitation of the heart ; heat and anguish at night ; horrible fantastic visions before going to sleep, in the evening in bed ; anxious dreams ; fantastic exaltation and delirium at night ; chill in the morning after rising ; frequent rushes of heat ; rushes of heat with palpitation and anguish of heart ; tertian, evening fever, at first, heat in the face then chill. Calcarea when potentized has a long-continued action. When nitric acid, given previously, though selected apparently properly, yet acts in some respects unfavorably, then Calcarea may generally be profitably employed ; so also any unfavorable effects of Calcarea, even when selected apparently homœopathically, may be neutralized by following it with nitric acid, and the effect will be changed into favorable ones. Especially in nausea, produced by Calcarea, removed by smelling of the spirits of nitre ; this is almost a specific and much more effective than smelling of camphor. There are, however, troublesome effects which call for the smelling of nux vomica. Calcarea is frequently useful after the use of sulphur, also when the pupils of the eyes are apt to dilate. If the catamenia usually come several days before the period and are excessive. Calcarea is frequently the indispensable curative and the more so, the more abundant the flow. But if the menses always appear at the right period or later, even if the menses are profuse, Calcarea is yet but rarely useful. Calcarea can rarely be advantageously repeated with older persons, even after other intervening medicines, and very rarely, yea, hardly ever, can its doses be repeated at once, without injury. But with children, when it is indicated by the symptoms, it may be repeated several times, and the younger they are, the more frequently. The symptoms marked with a dash [-] before them were the effects of acetate of lime. The names of my fellow-provers are designated by the following marks : Fr. Dr. Franz ; Gr., Dr. Gross ; Htn., Dr. Hartmann ; Lgh., Dr. Langhammer ; Rl., Dr. Rummel ; Stf., Councillor of Medicine Stapf ; Wl., Dr. Wislicenus ; Sr., Dr. Schréter.

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Cal. c. / (1st C - Lime.) / Calvin.

Calcarea carb., - Is fat and pale,
Or he may be "slender as a rail."
His eyes are sore, his hair is dry,
His hearing dull, while polypi
And ranula are on supply.
And lumpy glands, and scabby head,
And water on the brain o'er spread.
And curving spine - A sad condition,
In evidence of mal-nutrition.
He longs for eggs - Milk disagrees,
Acidity his nemesis.
His belly large - with bulging pit,
That gives his clothes too tight a fit.
A head all wet with sweat in sleep,
While cold and damp, or raw his feet,
The least exertion causes sweat,
With dread of chilly air beset.

Calvin, - Has Cold, damp feet.

Calvin Helo, is suspicious of black Mag.

This Calvin, - Who is subject to Acidity of the stomach, is up on one of the Sultana's splendid cars, with Maggie Nap's children, Rob and Ira.

Cold, Damp Feet: Cal. c., Helo. H., Sul., Sil., Pul., Sep., Mag. c.

Acidity of the Stomach: Cal. c., Pho., Nat. m., Sul. a., Sul., Pul., Lyc., Nux. v., Carb. v., Mag. c., Nat. p., (Nat. c.), Cham., Robin., Iris., (Sour eructations, Cham., Lyc., Nat. c., Nat. m., Nat. p. Nux. v., Sul., Sul. a., -- Sour vomiting, Cal. c., Cham., Iris v., Lyc., Nat. p., Nux v., Pho., Pul. Sul.)

Indicated in the treatment of almost every disease resting upon a constitutional basis expressed in the leucophlegmatic temperament and the ailments to which it predisposes. Among these may be named: derangements of nutrition, glandular affections; catarrhal disorders; indigestion; diarrhoea; constipation; menstrual derangements; coughs and many serious diseases of the respiratory organs; gall-stone colic; affections of the nervous system, including the psychoses tumors, polypi, and a long list of other phases of morbid action, all characterized by symptoms peculiar to this remedy.

Children of fair complexion; large; with flabby skin, large, open fontanelles, perspiring so freely about the head that they keep the pillow wet on which they are resting.

Patients, especially women, easily exhausted from slight physical exertion, though they may look vigorous; tired from going up stairs; get breathless, so they must sit down and rest.

Discouraged; fears she never will get well, that she will become insane; that others are noticing that she is losing her mind.

Great sensitiveness to cold air.

Feet always cold and damp; feel as though the stockings were wet; soles of feet raw.

Takes cold at every change of weather.

Headache; heavy; from within outwards; one part at a time. Feeling of heat and congestion alternates with sense of coldness.

Hallucinations of smell; thinks he smells gunpowder, bad eggs, compost.

Nasal catarrh with fetid, yellow discharge and offensive odor in the nose.

Otorrhoea, muco-purulent, with glandular enlargement, crackling and stitching, pulsating pains in the ears.

Sour taste; sour eructations; sour diarrhoea.

The epigastric region appears as though "caved in" with protruding abdomen of drumlike hardness.

Great longing for (hard-boiled) eggs, marked in children who are convalescing.

Aversion to meat and hot food (boiled); craves indigestible things, as starch, pencils, sweets. Milk does not agree with him.

Indigestion with morbid, ravenous hunger.

Abdomen bloated, hard, with incarcerated flatulence and cutting pain; swelling of inguinal glands.

Diarrhoea of undigested food, pale, watery, sour.

Constipation of large, hard stools, or of stools first hard and then pasty, then thin and watery.

Aching, burning, jerking in the rectum.

Chest very sensitive to pressure and touch.

Cough at night; worse from dampness.

Cough, with oppression on the chest and soreness in the sub-clavicular region. Tight at night, loose in the morning and forepart of the day, with free, yellow expectoration.

Cough with expectoration, during the day only of thick, yellow mucus; bloody expectoration.

Tendency to uterine displacements.

Menses too early, too profuse, too protracted with dizziness and cold feet; flow returns from least excitement.

Leucorrhoea milky, copious, with burning, itching; of little girls.

Itching and burning of genitalia of both sexes.

Urine dark-brown, fetid, with white sediment.

Worse in cold air; water; from washing; damp weather; in the morning; from ascending; during full moon.

Better from dry weather; lying on painful side; fresh air; after lying down; from loosening garments.

Dull confusion, as of a board before head. Nervous debility. Tearfulness. Anxiety, especially in twilight. Easily frightened. Timidity. Fearful solicitude concerning the future. Despair about shattered health. Self - will and peevishness, especially in children.

Whirling, with nausea and vomiting, worse stooping, ascending, or looking up. Dizziness with trembling in the early morning, until he has eaten breakfast. Fainting attacks with blindness and coldness.

Violent congestion and heat in, with a puffy red face. Stupefying ache after three AM, ceasing only in afternoon. Icy coldness on, and in one side of (r.) Beating and hammering in center of brain. Unilateral ache with nausea and belching. Heaviness and fullness in forehead with twitching of eyes or necessity to close them. Boring in forehead and temple (l). Empty feeling in. Cutting in vertex and occiput (r). Fine jerking or tearing stitches on vertex, toward evening. Inward sticking from temple to temple (r). Tensive ache in temples and right side. Stitching, tearing and bursting pains in. Crackling in occiput, then warmth rises from nape into head. Fontanelles remain open too long. Inflammatory swelling of bones with sticking and throbbing, ending in suppuration, better rubbing. Worse: Early on awaking, walking in open air, stooping, external pressure, mental exertion, moving lower jaw, change of weather, during wet weather, spirituous liquors, standing, rising from bed, after dinner, exertion, overlifting. Better: Touch. Lying: Quietly, on back. Closing eyes, raising eyes, warmth.

Scalp: Crampy tearing in, and in muscles of Sore smarting in occiput. Bald swellings and follicular tumors which readily suppurate, and are painful in open air. Painfully sensitive, especially when moving muscles of forehead back and forth. Painful biting, burning and crawling itching, spreading from occiput, scratching better, but causes swelling and bloody eruptions which form thick, dry, foul crusts. Hair dry, falling out from sides and temples down to beard, with yellowish - white dandruff and a cold scalp. Worse: Washing, drafts: open, especially cold damp air, evening, motion, slight touch, warmth of bed. Better: Pressure, rubbing, scratching, after lying down, sitting quietly, dry weather, warm room.

Pressing, burning and cutting in, mostly in evening by artificial light Inflamed, with ulcers and maculate on corners. Bluish, cloudy cornea with health lids. Widely dilated pupils. Lachrymation in open air. Dim vision, as of a mist before eyes when looking intently, before. Blackness before. Suffused with tears in morning, but dry in evening.

Throbbing in. Discharge of pus. Aural polypi. Swelling of parotid gland. Difficult hearing.

Persistent dryness of. Inflammatory redness and swelling of. Sore, ulcerated nostrils, Diminished sense of smell. Stuffy colds, with retarded nasal discharge. Fluent coryza with sore, ulcerated nostrils, often ends - colic.

Pale, puffy. Tearing pain in bones of. Moist eruption upon forehead and cheeks. Inflamed and suppurating follicular tumor. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

Difficult, and delayed dentition. Drawing sticking, ache, excited by cold or drafts. toothache renewed by either cold or warmth. Dental fistulae.

Stitching pains in hard palate. Roughness in throat. Spasmodic constriction and narrowing of throat. Dry tongue early in morning. Indistinct speech.

Appetite: Frequent ravenous hunger, especially early in morning. Continued intense thirst with complete loss of appetite. Nightly thirst, for cold drinks. Persistent dislike for meat and aversion to tobacco. Insatiable thirst for cold drinks at night but it disagrees with him and the more he yields to it the more violent it becomes.

Taste: Sour, in mouth, as well as to food.

Eructations: Continuous heartburn after every meal.

Nausea, etc. - Qualmishness. Early in morning, after milk. Vomiting of sour tasting ingesta, of food and sweetish mucus.

Pressive spasm in after eating, with vomiting of ingesta. Great weakness of digestion. Swelling and sensitiveness of pit on pressure.

Hypochondriac: Intolerance of tight clothes about stomach. Stitches in liver.

Cutting in upper. Corroding and gnawing sensations in. Hard and distended. hard, swollen mesenteric glands. Thrusts in. Protrusion of inguinal hernia.

Retarded, hard. Angriness before, and weariness after. Chronic looseness of bowels. Sour smelling diarrhoea in children. Constipation.

Prolapsed with burning pains during stool.

Acrid and offensive. Too frequent micturition. Haematuria. Burning in urethra during, and independent of urination.

Increased (or diminished) sexual desire.

Menses: Too early, and too profuse. Bloody discharge in period between in. Itching, during, milky leucorrhoea, before.

Tightness, as from congestion of blood to chest. Frequent inclination to take a deep breath.

Violent, dry, in evening and at night. Short paroxysms of few, but frequently repeated coughing fits, excited by a feeling of feather down in throat and trachea, in morning and during day with much mucus or pus like, yellow or grayish, sometimes bloody expectoration mostly sour and stinking. Expectoration, as if from suppuration of lungs. Sequence of whooping cough, worse drinking water.

Chronic hoarseness. Feeling as if something tore loose in. Accumulation of tenacious mucus in trachea, difficult to loosen. Dryness of larynx.

Roughness in. Sticking in sides of, during motion. Painful soreness during inspiration. Stoppage (or too profuse) secretion of milk of nursing mothers. Nightly exhausting sweat on. Palpitation after eating.

Pain in lumbar region and back after overlifting.

Neck: Goitre - like swelling of. Painful swelling of cervical glands. Stiffness and rigidity of nape from overlifting.

Sudden weakness of arms, as if paralysed. Arthritic nodes on wrist and finger joints. Sweaty hands. Deadness of hands ad fingers. Fingers tips are thick are swelled.

Heaviness of legs. Children are slow in learning to walk. Swelling of knees, with stitches. Tension in legs, especially from knees to toes. Inflammatory swelling and ulcers on lower leg. Profuse foot sweat. Coldness and insensibility of feet in evening.

Nervous debility with weariness and want of strength. Great emaciation with a large abdomen and good appetite. Tendency to take cold and sensitive to cold, moist air. Very plethoric. Epileptiform attacks. Easily sprained. Water and washing renew and aggravate the symptoms. Children are heavy, fat, big - headed and big - belled, have sour diarrhoea and profuse head - sweats, more on occiput.

Glands painfully swollen.

Swelling and softening of epiphyses (rachitis). curvature of. Caries of.

Nettle rash disappearing in cold air. Moist tatters. Follicular tumors recurring every four weeks at full moon. Many small warts, especially on arms and hands. Polypi. Unhealthy, Easily excoriates in children.

Disturbed, at night, on account of heat, apprehension, tightness of chest and restlessness. Wandering and flightiness during, with continuous anxiety upon awaking. Sleepiness early in evening, but late falling to sleep on account of rush of ideas and frightful fantasies.

Pulse: Full, and accelerated, often trembling. Much throbbing in blood vessels, and palpitation of heart, Strong ebullitions of blood. Chill: With shuddering, most in evening, but also in forenoon. Internal chilliness in morning after rising. Alternating with heat. Heat: Frequent attacks of overrunning heat, with anxious palpitation. Then chill, and cold hands. Evening in bed, external, with internal chill. After eating. Sweat: From slightest movement, even in cold, open air. In first sleep. Early morning sweat. Most on head and chest. Sticky, exhausting, more on occiput and neck, while legs remain cold.

Allied Remedies: AGAR, Ag-c., Alum., Ambr., Am-c., Anac., Ang., Ars., Aur., Bar - c., BELL., BISM., Bor., Bry., CALC-PH., Cann., Caust., Chel., Chin., Coccl., Cupr., Flu-ac., Graph., Ign., Iod., IP., Kali-n, LYC., Mag-m., Men, Merc., NAT-C., NIT-AC., NUX-V., Petr., Phos., Phos-ac., Puls, Rhus-t., Sabi, SARS., Slain., Sep., Sil., SUL.

Complementary: Hep., Lyc.

Apprehension of some future misfortune.

She fears she will lose her understanding and that persons will observe her confusion of mind.

Low-spirited and melancholy.

Nervous excitement, with debility and loss of strength.

Inclination to become fat (in children and young persons).

Bloatedness of the body and face, with swollen abdomen in children.

Puffiness.

Flaccidity of the skin.

Great emaciation and swollen abdomen, the appetite being good.

Sensitiveness to cold and damp air, and inclination to catch cold.

Aversion to the open air.

Full habit and ebullitions.

Sensation of coldness in inner parts.

Cutting pains.

Prickling in outer parts and in the bones.

Sensation of dryness or of trembling in inner parts.

Tearing in the muscles.

Arthiritic tearing and artificial nodosities.

Cramps in single parts, which draw the limbs crookedly, especially in the toes and fingers.

Painful swelling of the glands.

Bones swollen with softening.

Caries.

Pupils dilated.

Often suitable during dentition of children.

Bleeding from inner parts.

Vomiting of sour substances.

Catamenia too early and too profuse.

Aggravation in the morning on awakening, from exertion of the mind, after eating, in cold air and wet weather, from fasting, and in the evening and after mid-night.

Amelioration form rubbing, from drawing the limbs up, whilst lying on the back, in the dark and in dry weather.