Calcarea Acetica calc-ac.

Acetate of Lime

Has had brilliant clinical results in inflammation of mucous membranes characterized by a membranous exudation; otherwise its action and application is like the carbonate. Cancer pains.

Vertigo in open air. Senses obscure while reading. Megrim, with great coldness in head and sour taste.

Membranous dysmenorrhœa (Borax).

Rattling expiration. Cough loose, with expectoration of large pieces like casts of bronchial tubes. Breathing difficult; better bending shoulders backward. Constrictive anxious sensation in chest.

Compare: Brom; Borax; also Calc oxal, in excruciating pains of open cancer.

Third trituration.

Impure Calcium Acetate. Ca (C 2 H 3 O 2 ) 2 . Tincture.

Anus, itching of. Bronchitis membranosa. Cancer, pains of. Dysmenorrhœa membranosa. Headache. Vertigo.

The symptoms of Calc. acet . (the first of the lime preparations proved by Hahnemann) are in the main identical with those of Calc. carb . (both being prepared from oyster shells), and are included in the pathogenesis of that medicine. Among its most marked symptoms may be named: Vertigo when walking in the open air. Stupefying, pressive pains in the forehead with compression of the whole head and obscuration of the senses whilst reading : he was obliged to stop while reading and did not know where he was. Clotar Muller cured many cases of megrim with Calc. acet . The indications he relied on were: "Sour taste in mouth, sour eructations, sensation of coldness in the head, and of emptiness. Pain one-sided, affecting right eye, which was red, causing lachrymation." Sour, offensive eructations. Profuse, painless, not exhausting diarrhœa. Severe itching of anus. Allen ( Handbook ) mentions that it has cured some marked cases of membranous dysmenia and also of violent spasmodic cough ending in the expulsion of casts of bronchial tubes. For comparisons see Calc. c . It has been used in the excruciating pains of open cancer (compare Calc. oxal .).

To follow the symptomatology use the drug as prepared by Hahnemann, a solution of clean broken oyster-shells in dilute Acetic Acid.

Compare Calcarea carb. and Acetic acid; but not the brilliant clinical results in inflammations of mucous membranes characterized by a membranous exudation, (uterus, bronchi, etc.).

Weary from want of sleep during the day, but unable to sleep.

A valuable remedy for inflammation of mucous membranes; see under Respiratory and Genital Organs.

Membranous dysmenorrhœa in persons of a Calcarea habit.

A most brilliant cure was made of an obstinate membranous bronchitis, which for months and resisted all other treatment; the paroxysms recurred every two or three weeks; each time it seemed as if the patient would die, until extensive casts of the membrane of the bronchi were expectorated; entirely cured of this drug.

Anxiety as if he had committed a crime or feared reproaches, with constant inclination to work; A. about the present and future, with deep thought and with indifference to anything not concerned with himself, though not without inclination to work; intermittent, in evening before sleep, amel. emission of flatus, with which objects seemed like different objects and with dread of darkness; the first part of the day, liveliness and contentment the last part. ▶ Apprehensive, sad mood, as if awaiting depressing news. ▶ Sadness, almost to weeping, with solicitous care for the present and future.

Fretfulness as soon as he left the open air, where he felt better, with disinclination to talk and with increased headache; F. as soon as he was quiet and thoughtful, with sleepless and aversion to everything; with indifference to most important objects, he did all his work with aversion; all day, but good humor and talkativeness in the evening. ▶ Disinclination to talk, without moroseness. ▶ Liveliness and desire to be with people and to talk. ▶ Loss of will power though he feels strong.

Aching, especially in temples; A. while standing after stooping, with heaviness in head and with pressure outward in forward, especially over left eye; drawing and at times tearing, now in forehead, now in occiput, now in temples, amel. pressure or on exerting mind. ▶ Shattering in brain on stepping, like an echo in the head. ▶ Heaviness on stopping, amel. rising with jerks in temples and with pain in whole head. ▶ Stupid feeling from 3 A.M. till 4 P.M., as if he had turned in a circle. ▶ Vertigo; on walking in open air; on walking in open air, as if he would fall to the right; stupefying, the head inclines forward to the left ; as if his body did not stand firmly.

Stitches on walking, which especially affect left side of forehead, amel. continuing to walk; intermittent, in left ; boring, in left when sitting, amel. walking, standing and touch; boring, in middle, extending into brain. ▶ Aching on walking in open air, especially above left eyebrow; in right eminence, extending to right eye and compelling him to close it; stupefying, with confusion of senses and obscuration of head while reading, and he did not know where he was; stupefying, in right, agg. stooping; stupefying in morning after rising, as if he had not slept enough or had been dissipating; drawing, above right eye on exerting mind, and in occiput; drawing and pressive A. in left supraorbital region or in temporal bone.

Stitches penetrating T.; digging, near left eyebrow on moving jaw; rhythmical, intermittent, boring outward, extending upward into left, amel. touch and when sitting. ▶ Drawing aching in right muscle, also in evening, at times with pressure on upper teeth, on pressing upon the temple the pain changes into aching in the forehead; the drawing aching always agg. after eating and even while eating, with sensitiveness of teeth while chewing as if they were loose and would be bent over. ▶ Cramplike pain in right; in left. ▶ Pressure as from something hard, close to right eye; in left bone as if it would be pressed in, internally and externally; outward in left, and on whole left side of head and on right occiput.

Stitches in vertex externally. ▶ Pressure on V., extending into eye. ▶ Throbbing in V. as in an artery, with cutting shocks extending outward. ▶ Jerking stitches in right half of brain, which often return and leave a pressure bursting sensation. ▶ Pulsating stitches in left parietal bone. ▶ Feeling in right side of head on stooping as if headache would begin.

Pain suddenly shooting through occiput; sore pain in O. on touch, as if suppurating; drawing pain in left side of O., with stiff feeling in neck; jerklike pressing-outward in left side of O., extending into neck; feeling as if O. would be pressed asunder. ▶ Whole scalp sensitive on moving frontal muscles back and forth; crawling and itching on S. not amel. rubbing; tickling-itching on S., with pain at roots of hair on touch.

Inflammation, the white entirely red, with much matter in eyes, especially in external canthi, and ulceration of external canthi. ▶ Tearing-stitching in right, as if inflamed. ▶ Itching. ▶ Pupils dilated, then contracted. ▶ Agglutination in morning on waking. ▶ Stickiness of lids on moving them, with pressure in canthi, especially external one. ▶ Burning in left upper lid, extending to internal canthus. ▶ Hardened matter in canthi. ▶ Sticking in canthi; itching, in inner, amel. rubbing. ▶ Itching in canthi; tickling, in right external canthus. ▶ Boring-stitching on upper margin of orbit. ▶ Twitching on upper margin of orbit, extending to nose. ▶ Far-sightedness in one naturally near-sighted.

Twitching in cartilage. ▶ Cramplike feeling on back of concha. ▶ Stitches. ▶ Feeling as if something were before right drum, without diminished hearing. ▶ Sensitiveness to noise in evening on falling asleep. ▶ Whizzing, with confusion of head.

Pimples in nostrils, with scabs. ▶ Gnawing pain in root. ▶ Frequent sneezing without coryza. ▶ Coryza, with sensitiveness of nose and internal heat in head; fluent, with headache; fluent, with much sneezing; stopped, with frequent sneezing.

Yellow. ▶ Pain in muscles of left cheek. ▶ Tension in right cheek as if swollen. ▶ Throbbing on cheek-bones. ▶ Tearing in right upper jaw. ▶ Aching in right upper jaw when chewing. ▶ Moist scurf below right angle of mouth. ▶ Roughness of lips, especially of upper, with dryness, as if they would crack. ▶ Itching-crawling on upper lip, which, after rubbing, appears on another spot near by.

Stitches in teeth. ▶ Gnawing pain in right upper molars, as if they would be hollow. ▶ Throbbing toothache, with sensitiveness of teeth to touch and with swelling of gum, which pained when touched. ▶ Stitches in upper gum. ▶ Boring in right upper gum, then swelling, with pressive drawing in right temporal muscles. ▶ Blisters on tongue, with burning pain and heat in mouth. ▶ Rawness on tongue, with soreness and white coat; R. on back of tongue, with scraping, provoking cough. ▶ Dry sensation of tongue. ▶ Dryness in mouth as from chalk. ▶ Mucus, which he could not swallow fast enough. ▶ Milk tastes sour, and he is averse to it. ▶ Little taste to food, especially to meat.

Submaxillary glands swollen, with a pressive sensation in them. ▶ Throat hoarse and rough. ▶ Sensation of much mucus in fauces on swallowing, with dryness in mouth. ▶ Sticking in right upper part of œsophagus when not swallowing.

Thirst in morning; T., with dryness of throat; for cold drinks, especially for water. ▶ Eructations sour; and offensive; empty E. ▶ Hiccough. ▶ Woke at midnight from nausea, cough and a kind of head burn. ▶ Nausea, with eructations, accumulation of water in mouth and a kind of vertigo; N. after drinking milk in morning, as from a sour stomach. ▶ Pinching-retching just below pit. ▶ Anxiety at pit. ▶ Anxiety as if it arose from the pit, when sitting, amel. walking or standing, with burning in abdomen.

Rumbling and gurgling, as from emptiness; R. in right side, as before diarrhœa; audible, and crawling in right side, extending outward, as from flatus, which is passed. ▶ Tearing in muscles, agg. inspiration. ▶ Cutting every morning, and in evening and night, amel. after eating, leaving a gurgling. ▶ Pinching, almost cramplike pain in walls, in right groin, in a spot, when speaking, with pain on pressure.

Griping in hypochondriac region, below pit of stomach, with chilliness over whole body. ▶ Tensive pinching in hypochondrium and in pit of stomach. ▶ Pinching in H. and in chest, which here and there ends in stitches. ▶ Griping-twinging in H., extending to beneath sternum, where its becomes sticking and causes eructations. ▶ Griping in a spot below umbilicus, which becomes a gurgling, on rubbing; frequent in region of bladder, always with emission of flatus. ▶ Pressure in hypogastrium, causing confusion of head. ▶ Pinching on crest of ilium. ▶ Swelling of glands of left groin. ▶ Tearing in inguinal glands when sitting and walking. ▶ Sore pain in groins as if glands would swell, agg. walking, with slight swelling of glands. ▶ Pressive tension in region of left groin.

Twinging in end of R. when at stool, with rumbling and gurgling in abdomen. ▶ Itching in anus. ▶ Pressure in anus. ▶ Frequent diarrhœa. ▶ Frequent stools, first solid, afterwards pasty, then thin, with difficulty, then constipation. ▶ Constipation. ▶ No stool.

Frequent urgings to urinate, with profuse discharge; frequent desire, with scanty discharge. ▶ Urine turbid, like gruel, after standing. ▶ Tickling itching at end of glans; tickling left on prepuce. ▶ Left testicle spasmodically drawn up to abdomen, with pain on touch and with pain in left groin. ▶ Emission at night; with voluptuous dreams; without voluptuous dreams; frequent. ▶ Itching of pudenda. ▶ Discharge of blood from uterus in the last quarter of the moon, in a woman who had not menstruated for years.

Rattling on expiration, as from mucus in chest. ▶ Tickling, which provokes cough. ▶ The cough becomes loose, with expectoration of large pieces like purulent matter. ▶ Breathing difficult, amel. bending shoulders backward.

Stitches beneath right ribs; broad, in muscles at every beat of the heart; outward in right side; outward beneath left axilla, agg. inspiration; out through spine, between scapulæ; itching, agg. expiration, amel. rubbing. ▶ Cutting outward in lowest ribs, agg. inspiration. ▶ Anxiety, as if too narrow, agg. sitting, with short breath, with aching in chest, agg. inspiration, the heart beating anxiously and trembling. ▶ Constrictive, anxious sensation, as if there were not room enough to breathe, with stoppage of nose. ▶ Anxious constriction and difficult breathing, like a tension in lower chest, almost suffocation on motion and when sitting.

Sticking-drawing pain in præcordial region. ▶ Jerks from posterior wall of chest to between scapulæ, synchronous with beat of heart, with anxiety. ▶ Stitches on inner side of scapula; in middle of spine on walking in open air, amel. when standing; in a spot above small of back on touch; jerking, in sacrum and at same time above ankle. ▶ Cutting, pressing-out pain in right loin, transiently amel. touch.

Pain in shoulders. ▶ Stitches in axillæ. ▶ Upper arm, jerking in left ; tearing-jerking; tearing-stitching in muscles of left when sitting; pinching (with tearing) in muscles on walking in open air. ▶ Tearing in muscles of left forearm; with boring stitches; cramplike tearing in muscles of left forearm. ▶ Cramplike pain in forearm, in front of elbow; in outer side of F. near left wrist. ▶ Sprained pain just above wrist, agg. rest. ▶ Stitches in outer condyles of wrists. ▶ Crawling and sticking in wrist.

Soreness between nates when walking. ▶ Pinching-jerking on posterior side of hip-joint, agg. rest. ▶ Stitches on outer side above left knee; on inner side of left thigh when sitting; cramplike, in muscles of right thigh when standing and walking, amel. sitting; tearing, on inner side above knee when sitting. ▶ Tearing on inner side of thigh on motion; in hip-joint and about anterior crest of ilium on motion, extending into groin. ▶ Cutting in socket of hip-joint when sitting. ▶ Bruised pain in muscles of thigh when walking. ▶ Drawing, sprained pain in hip-joint when walking.

Stitches in right knee. ▶ Pain in knees when turning or touching them; in left knee, even during rest; drawing cramp-like on knee-cap; sprained in left knee-cap when sitting, amel. walking and standing. ▶ Tearing-jerking in forepart, below knee during rest. ▶ Aching in left tibia near ankle when walking in open air; intermittent, in calf. ▶ Cramplike pain close to fibula when sitting. ▶ Bruised pain in leg when lying, especially in lower leg; below patella on walking in open air; in leg, as if weary, he was obliged to change frequently from one place to another. ▶ Drawings in legs extending to tips of toes.

Swelling of left external malleolus. ▶ Cramp in soles and toes at night, and on drawing on the boots during the day; in soles after walking, amel. continuing in walk, and ceased when sitting. ▶ Cramplike pain in left sole. ▶ Stitches in last joint of great toe during rest; in left little toe, as if outside of it; intermitting cramplike, in right toe when sitting and standing, amel. walking.

Inflamed swelling below patella. ▶ Pimple beneath lobule of ear, causing tensive pain in joint of jaw on chewing; P. in middle of cheek, that became moist after scratching, then greenish crusts. ▶ Pustule above left eyebrow. ▶ Ulcer on cheek, with sticking. ▶ Crawling beneath eye and on side of nose. ▶ Itching below calves; on a spot where there was a tetter years previous; tickling on index finger. ▶ Itching tickling on border of left hand; itching-sticking tickling in right palm.

Frequent yawing, as if he had not slept enough. ▶ Sleepiness in morning, with fretfulness and pain in forehead; S. in evening, with fretfulness. ▶ Sleeplessness nearly all night, with tossing about and general sweat. ▶ Restless sleep, with talking and frequent waking. ▶ Frequent waking as if he had slept enough; as from some disturbance; on account of tossing about and he thought he was lying turned around in bed.

Frightful, shuddering. ▶ Of sick people, and of dead people, with violent weeping in sleep. ▶ Vivid, full of strife and anger; V., confused unremembered; of previous transactions, with long, deep morning sleep.

Frequent chilliness, with yellow color of skin. ▶ Shivering, with frequent yawning; S. over back; over whole body, with warmth or heat of forehead and face and cold hands. ▶ External heat, even on lying down, with internal chilliness. ▶ Heat and redness of face, with hot forehead, cold hands and thirst. ▶ Sweat every morning; exhausting, day and night.

The clinical uses of this drug have been based chiefly upon the well-known power of Acetic acid to produce inflammations of the mucous membranes, characterized by membranous exudation; when these conditions appear in persons presenting a strongly marked Calcarea cachexia.

Clinical:
Membranous dysmenorrhœa in persons of Calcarea habit.

Clinical:
A most brilliant cure was made of an obstinate case of membranous bronchitis, which for months had resisted all other treatment; the paroxysms recurred every two or three weeks; each time it seemed as if the patient would die, until extensive casts of the membrane of the bronchi were expectorated; entirely cured by this drug.