Calcarea Silicata calc-sil.

Silicate of Lime

A deep, long acting medicine for complaints which come on slowly and reach their final development after long periods. Hydrogenoid constitution (Nat sulph). Very sensitive to cold. Patient is weak, emaciated, cold and chilly, but worse from being overheated; sensitive generally. Atrophy of children.

Absent-minded, irritable, irresolute, lacks self-confidence. Fearful.

Vertigo, head cold, especially at vertex; catarrh of nose and posterior nares, discharge thick, yellow, hard crusts. Corneal exudation.

Sensation of coldness, especially when empty. Sinking sensation at pit. Great thirst. Flatulence and distention after eating. Vomiting and eructations.

Uterus heavy, prolapsed. Leucorrhœa, painful and irregular menses. Flow between periods.

Sensitive to cold air. Difficult respiration. Chronic irritation of air passages. Copious, yellow-green mucus. Coughs with coldness, weakness, emaciation, sensitiveness and peevishness, worse from cold air. Pain in chest walls.

Itching, burning, cold and blue, very sensitive. Pimples, comedones, wens. Psoric eruptions.

Compare: Arsenic; Tubercul; Baryt carb; Iod.

All potencies from lowest to high.

Silicate of Calcium. Ca Si 2 O 5 . Trituration.

Atrophy. Cornea, ulcer of. Scrofula. Ulcers.

This preparation has been used by Ussher ( H. W ., xxxiv. 491) in the 1x and 6x potencies in cases of atrophy of children. He has found it succeed where Silica has failed in these cases and in corneal affections. It causes absorption of corneal exudations. Ulcers with punched-out edges indicate it.

Compare: Salufer, Fluoric acid, Lapis alb.

The silicate of lime is a very deep-acting remedy. The symptoms come on during all parts of the day and night-morning, forenoon, afternoon, EVENING, NIGHT, after midnight. It acts profoundly upon the skin, mucous membranes, bones and glands. Abscesses, catarrhal discharges, ulcers, are marked with thick, greenish-yellow pus. Thick, greenish-yellow expectoration.

Aversion to the open air. Extreme sensitiveness to drafts. One prover felt better in open air ; very sensitive to wine and alcoholic stimulants. Marked paleness as in anaemia Weakness and out of breath ascending stairs, like calcarea.

Aversion to bathing and worse from bathing ; especially cold bathing makes worse, in a prover who had always enjoyed cold bathing. Complaints worse after breakfast. It has cured epithelioma and lupus. From what is known of both calcarea and silica it ought to be a remedy in caries where the symptoms agree.

Change of weather, from warm to cold, makes all symptoms worse. Many symptoms are worse after coition. Worse from cold in general, cold air, becoming cold and after becoming cold ; worse in cold, wet weather. Takes cold in cold weather ; seems to be constantly taking cold ; many internal congestions.

Contraction of orifices, a convulsive tendency. It greatly mitigates the constitutional condition in patients suffering from epilepsy, making the fits lighter and farther apart. The veins are greatly distended and a sensation of fullness in many parts. The symptoms are worse during and after eating. Emaciation is marked and especially in children who have inherited phthisis. Weakness, night sweats and seminal emission.

The least exertion prostrates and increases many symptoms. Faintness creeps over her. The muscles become flabby. He is more comfortable on low diet or when fasting ; cold food, cold milk and cold drinks make many complaints worse. The mucous membranes bleed easily.

Hemorrhage from throat, nose, larynx and chest. He is cold all the time ; marked lack of vital heat. One chilly prover became warm after the proving, curative action. Great aggravation from being overheated. The body feels heavy and the organs drag down. Inflammation in external and internal parts ; in bones and glands. Ex tremely sensitive to a jar in all internal parts. Lassitude day and night, but worse evening and night ; must lie down all the time.

The muscles, tendons and joints are weak and easily strained. The weakness is much like arsenicum and china, or as though from loss of fluids. He is most comfortable when lying: in bed on the back ; lying helps most symptoms ; after lying a while he seems very well, but as soon as he walks about all the lassitude returns and he must lie down.

Many symptoms come at the menstrual period-before, during and after. All symptoms are worse from motion. Mucous secretions increased and greenish-yellow. Numbness of single parts, of parts lain on and of painful parts. The weakness suggests it in complaints following onanism. The blood seems to rush from body to head with great flushes of heat.

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