Calcium Carbonate taken from the soft, snow-white calcareous substance found between the outer and inner harder shell of the oyster. Prepared by Trituration method, following Hahnemann’s Homoeopathic Proving. Chief remedy of the calcium compounds and is one of the greatest of Hahnemann’s genius. This great anti-psoric remedy is a constitutional remedy par excellence. It is one of the great polychrest remedies and ranks with Sulphur and Lycopodium at the head of the anti-psorics.

1. CALCAREA
CARBONICA
BY
DR PREETHI JAMES
P

2. COMMON NAME :
CALCIUM CARBONATE (CACO3)
 SOFT GREY ALKALINE EARTH METAL
 SYMBOL CA
 NUMBER 20
 ATOMIC WEIGHT 40 G/MOL
 SINGLE OXIDATION STATE +2
 FIFTH MOST ABUNDANT ELEMENT IN EARTH´S CRUST

3. PREPARATIONS:
PART USED:
TRITURATION OF THE MIDDLE LAYER OF OYSTER SHELLS
 Hahnemann first proved Calc. acet.
 His proving of Calc. carb. appears in Vol. II of his Chronic Diseases.
 He says :
" Take a clean oyster shell, somewhat thick ;
of soft snow-white calcarean substance which is found
between the internal and external hard shell,
take one grain, which is then to be triturated and
dynamized in the usual manner.”

4. CALCIUM OCCURRENCE :
 IN NATURE:
 DOES NOT EXIST FREELY
 OCCURS MOSTLY IN SOIL SYSTEMS AS LIMESTONE (CACO3),
GYPSUM (CASO4*2H2O) & FLUORITE (CAF2) .
 IN THE BODY:
 THE MOST ABUNDANT MINERAL - AVERAGE ADULT BODY
CONTAINS APP. 1 KG
 99 % IN THE SKELETON (BONES CAN SERVE AS LARGE RESERVOIRS)
 0.1 % IN THE EXTRA CELLULAR FLUID
 1 % IN THE CELLS

5. PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION:
 THE FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE OF BONE AND TEETH
 COAGULATION OF BLOOD
 REGULATION OF NEUROMUSCULAR IRRITABILITY
 MUSCULAR CONTRACTILITY.

6. SOURCE:
 MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS ARE MAIN SOURCE
OF CALCIUM.
 FISH, VEGETABLE, FRUITS, CEREALS (RAGI RICH IN
CALCIUM) AND DRINKING WATER ARE OTHER
SOURCES.
 GREEN LEAFY VEGETABLES ARE THE CHEAPEST
NATURAL SOURCE OF CALCIUM BUT THE BIO
AVAILABILITY OF CALCIUM IS POOR.
 RECOMMENDED IN TAKE OF CALCIUM
(ADULT) – 400 –500 MG / DAY.

7. CALCIUM FUNCTIONS:
 BONE:
 OSTEOCLASTS (BONE CELLS)
REMODEL THE BONE BY
DISSOLVING OR RESORBING BONE
 OSTEOBLASTS (BONE FORMING
CELLS) SYNTHESIZE NEW BONE TO
REPLACE THE RESORBED BONE
 FOUND ON THE OUTER SURFACES
OF THE BONES AND IN THE BONE
CAVITIES
 A COFACTOR FOR MANY ENZYMES
(E.G. LIPASE) AND PROTEINS
 COMPONENT IN THE BLOOD
CLOTTING
 RELAXATION AND CONSTRICTION
OF BLOOD VESSELS
 MUSCLE PROTEIN DEGRADATION
 SECRETION OF HORMONES AS
INSULIN
 CELL DIVISION
 NERVE IMPULSE TRANSMISSION

8. SPHERE OF ACTION:
 AFFECTS EXCLUSIVELY THE VEGETATIVE SYSTEM
 DEFECTIVE NUTRITION
 IMPERFECT CELL DEVELOPMENT
 DECAY OR DESTRUCTION OF TISSUE ESPECIALLY IN
THE OSSEOUS AND GLANDULAR SYSTEMS.

10. LEFT
MIDDLE
RIGH
T
ROW - 4

11. “I know who I am but
now I need safety and security”
 CALCAREA IS TO FIND SECURITY –VERY MUCH DEPENDENT
 In the case of the slightest external threat will resort back to
their support.
 Need support in difficult situations,
will avoid any risks which will involve their security.
 Dependence of a child:
‘He can walk and move,
but he stills needs the protective cover of the house’
RAJAN
SHANKARAN

12.  KENT:
“SULPHUR HAS HEAT IN PATCHES,
CALCAREA HAS COLD AND SWEAT IN PATCHES.
CALCAREA GROWS AND CURES POLYPI.
CALCAREA BABIES ARE ALWAYS MORE OR LESS WORMY.”
o Kent says that infants fed with lime water in the milk soon become lime
subjects: unable to take lime from their natural food, they grow fat and
flabby.
 CONSTANTINE HERING :
" TARDY DEVELOPMENT OF THE BONY TISSUES WITH
LYMPHATIC ENLARGEMENTS.
CURVATURE OF BONES: SPINE AND LONG BONES.
SOFTENING OF BONES : FONTANELLES REMAIN OPEN TOO LONG WITH LARGE SKULL"

13.  CLARKE:
" ONE OF THE GREATEST MONUMENTS OF
HAHNEMANN'S GENIUS”
 MARGARET TYLER :
With the chalky complexion, goes-
“FATNESS WITHOUT FITNESS.
SWEATING WITHOUT HEAT.
BONES WITHOUT STRENGTH.
TISSUES OF PLUS QUANTITY AND MINUS QUALITY.
MERE FLABBY BULK, WITH WEAKNESS AND WEARINESS.”

14.  Calcarea has at least five definite pictures in the provings ; they are
distinct, yet they merge into one another.
 There is the teething picture
 The picture of rickets
 The picture of anaemia
 The picture of tuberculosis
 The picture of mental deficiency, and decay.
 CALC, EPILEPSY HAS FOR AURA THE “ MOUSE SENSATION ”
SENSATION OF A MOUSE RUNNING UP ARM OR LEG. (BELL, HAS
THIS ALSO, AND SIL.)
M.L.TYLER
:

15. 1. TEETHING : " TEETHING COUGH ”
(One used to give something for the bronchitis and with it Calc,
helps the teeth though unknowingly- physician finds it later)
2. RICKETS:
“Bracelets of fat begin to surround the wrists and ankles,
the rickety rosary may be felt”
3. ANAEMIA: “Such weakness ! such weariness !
such breathlessness ! such palpitation ! “
4. TUBERCULOSIS:
“They tell of submaxillary glands as big as hens' eggs {Dros.). Night sweats. Tickling
cough, with sweetish expectoration and spitting of blood”
5. MENTAL DEFICIENCY:
“Can’t help it ! She sits—sits and fidgets with small things
bends pins by the hour”

16. PORTRAITS OF HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES
-CATHERINE R. COULTER
 CALCAREA carbonica is the potentized carbonate of lime, taken
from the middle layer of the oyster shell.
 FIRST, there is the animal itself-cold, pale, moist, limp, inactive.
(OYSTER)
 SECOND, there is the shell thick, impenetrable, fixed to a rock,
protecting the completely defenseless creature within. (SHELL)
 THIRD, within this otherwise undistinguished creature there
grows a pearl of polished and delicate beauty, born through
steady concretion around an irritating grain of sand. (PEARL)
 Keeping in mind these three images: THE OYSTER ITSELF, THE
SHELL, AND THE PEARL, they relate to the Calcarea individual.

17. P
M
BAILEY
 The stranger may be treated with some caution but once he has demonstrated his
good intentions, he is allowed into the oyster’s shell to enjoy the homeliness and
comfort of his interior.
 Present more in countryside where it is still possible to live simpler life.
 Calcareas are good at remembering the little things which shows that they care. Such
as, birthday present, a bunch of flower, a cup of tea etc.
 Family is very important to calcarea, invite her ageing mother or move in with her
family as she is too frail to look after herself. When away from home they tend to feel
homesick, they are the ones who enjoy family holidays fully.
 When upset they react irrationally but they tend to come back to their senses pretty
quickly. Eg, She may cry when her husband forgets their anniversary and in sadness
she may burn dinner but she’ll quickly come back to her senses and apologise.
 Calcarea tends to fear the challenges that would result from being successful esp.
academically and professionally.
(Because she feels she won’t be able to cope with the increase in demand upon her as
regards time and skill)

18. CALCAREA CARB CHILD ESSENCE:
1. Development Arrested:
 Walking
 Talking
 Learning
 Toilet training
2. Working Pattern:
 Very meticulous but slow
 Does not like any change
 Very rigid and obstinate
3.FEAR:
 DOGS
 DARK
 INSSECT
 ANIMAL
 GHOST
4. OTHERS:
 Nightmares of children
 Excessive perspiration on head, wet
the pillow during sleep
 Walks in sleep
Farokh
J.
Master

19. CHILDHOOD ILLNESS:
 Childhood obesity
 Cretinism
 Congenital malformation
Eg., cleft palate, spina bifida, flat
feet
 Congenital heart disease
 Childhood leukemias
 Ehler-Danlos Syndrome
 Hydrocephalus
 Tabes mesenterica
 Lactose intolerance
 Delayed milestones
 Atopic eczema
 Hydrocele , Phimosis
 Umbilical hernia , Inguinal hernia
 Growing pains

20. CONSTITUTION:
 3F - FAIR, FAT, FLABBY TYPES.
 LEUCOPHLEGMATIC
 BLOND HAIR, LIGHT COMPLEXION, BLUE EYES, FAIR SKIN.
 OLD LOOKING EXPRESSION.
 SWOLLEN UPPER LIP.
 PALE DEEP SEATED EYES , SURROUNDED BY DARK RINGS.
 “FATNESS WITHOUT FITNESS”
 PALE, WEAK, TIMID, EASILY TIRED.
 THERMAL: CHILLY PATIENT
 MIASM - PSORA AND SYCOSIS
 DIATHESIS - SCROFULOUS, RACHITIC AND TUBERCULAR
DIATHESIS.

21.  THESE PEOPLE GAIN WEIGHT EASILY AND HAVE DIFFICULTY
LOSING IT EVEN WHEN CONSUMING VERY FEW CALORIES.
 THEY DO NOT HAVE MUCH STAMINA, SO THEY GENERALLY
AVOID PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES.
 THEY WOULD RATHER SIT AND WATCH THAN, ACTIVELY
JOIN THE GAMES OF OTHER CHILDREN.
 DON’T TIE THE LACE OF THE SHOES: INDOLENT, SLUGGISH.
 TENDENCY TO OBESITY IN YOUTH.
 FLABBY MUSCLES, WHO SWEAT EASILY AND TAKE COLD
READILY
 CURVATURE OF BONES ESPECIALLY SPINE & LONG BONES.
 CHILDREN HAVE NO DISPOSITION TO WALK AND WILL NOT
TRY.

23. MIND


 HOME BUILDER-Home represents the protective shell he needs around
him.





24.  A woman completely protected first by her parents during childhood and now
by her husband.
 Cal carb woman coming from the world of security happens to marry a violent
drunkard, she can develop a Rhustox state. She becomes tense, nervous and
can feel the threat of being killed inside her own house.
“RHUS TOXICODENDRON IS COMPLEMENTARY TO CALCAREA CARBONICA”
 Very obstinate and can even get aggressive, but this behaviour is confined only
to within their home and is directed especially to their parents.
 Outside, they are quite timid and fearful, well-behaved, sensitive to rudeness
and admonition.
 When all attempts to seek protection fail, they become indifferent:
"SITS AND BREAKS PINS THE WHOLE DAY, INDIFFERENT ABOUT RECOVERY“
 Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head.
 Averse to work or exertion.

25.  CHILDHOOD: lot of whining and moaning, a discontentment, a state of
complaining and dissatisfaction. an intense curiosity about supernatural
things.
 ANXIOUS FROM WATCHING OR HEARING ABOUT CRUELTY.
On watching scenes of fighting or of horror on TV, the Calcarea carbonica child
either leaves the room or closes his eyes.
 ADULTHOOD: Fear of insanity, fear of losing control, a fear of pain and
suffering, fear of injections and surgery.
 DIFFICULT TO CONCENTRATE, LEARNS WITH DIFFICULTY.
 DELUSIONS - VISION OF FIRE, SEES FIGURES, SOMEONE IS BEHIND
HIM,BEING SICK.
 INDIFFERENCE – TO DUTIES, TO IMPORTANT THINGS.
 GRIEF - HEADACHE FROM GRIEF, FROM LONG PAST GUMBLING, HIS VALUE IS
NOT UNDERSTOOD BY OTHER.
 AILMENTS FROM- ANGER, VEXATION ANXIETY , WITH FRIGHT, WITH
ANTICIPATION, FORE BODING , BAD NEW, SEXUAL EXCESSES.

26. PHYSICAL GENERALS:
 DISPOSED TO GROW FAT .
 IMPERFECT OSSIFICATION; DIFFICULTY IN LEARNING
TO WALK OR STAND.
 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.
 FEET HABITUALLY COLD AN DAMP, AS IF THEY HAD ON
COLD DAMP STOCKINGS; COLD IN BED.
 PIT OF STOMACH SWOLLEN LIKE AN INVERTED
SAUCER, AND PAINFUL TO PRESSURE.

27.  SWEATS PROFUSELY WHILE
SLEEPING, WETTING PILLOW FAR AROUND (
SILICEA, SANICULA ).
 PROFUSE PERSPIRATION, MOSTLY ON
BACK OF HEAD AND NECK, OR CHEST AND
UPPER PART OF BODY ( SILICEA ).
 SOURNESS PRESENT IN EVERYTHING (
HEPAR SULPH, RHEUM. )
MAINLY THE STOOLS(SULP)(IN LYCO – URINE)
 COLDNESS: GENERAL (OF SINGLE PARTS -
KALI BICHROMICUM )
 DIFFICULT TO CONCENTRATE, LEARNS WITH
DIFFICULTY.

28.  FEELS BETTER IN EVERY WAY WHEN
CONSTIPATED.
 STOOL HAS TO BE REMOVED
MECHANICALLY ( ALOE., SANICULA,
SELENIUM, SEPIA, SILICEA ).
 DIFFICULT AND DELAYED DENTITION
 GREAT LONGING FOR EGGS
 CRAVES INDIGESTIBLE THINGS ( ALUMINA )
 AVERSION TO MEAT.
 THE LEAST MENTAL EXCITEMENT CAUSES
PROFUSE RETURN OF MENSTRUAL FLOW
( SULPH., TUBERCULINUM ).

30. HEAD:
 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.

31. EYES:
 Sensitive to light.
 Lachrymation in open air and early in morning.
 Spots and ulcers on cornea.
 Lachrymal ducts closed from exposure to cold.
 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.

32. EARS:
 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
otorrhoea, and enlarged glands.
 Hardness of hearing.
 Eruption on and behind ear (Petrol).
 Cracking noises in ear.
 Sensitive to cold about ears and neck.

33. NOSE:
 Dry, nostrils sore, ulcerated.
 Polypi - Stoppage of nose with fetid, yellow discharge, Offensive.
 Coryza - Takes cold at every change of weather.
 CORYZA ALTERNATES WITH COLIC.
FACE:
 SWELLING OF UPPER LIP.
 Crusta lactea; itching, burning after washing.
 Submaxillary glands swollen.
 Itching of pimples in whiskers.

34. MOUTH:
 Dryness of tongue at night.
 Bleeding of gums.
 Difficult and delayed dentition.
 Teeth ache <current of air, anything cold or hot.
THROAT:
 PAINLESS HOARSENESS < IN THE MORNING.(CARB.VEG)
 Hawking-up of mucus. Difficult swallowing.
 Swelling of tonsils and submaxillary glands.
 Goitre.
 Parotid fistula.

35. COMPARISON FOR TONSILITIES:
 BELLADONNA: red, inflamed, swollen tonsils<Food swallowing
 MERC SOL: White deposits with severe burning &excessive salivation. Pain radiates to the ear.
 HEPAR SULPH: Peritonsilar abscess ,pain in the throat may spread to the ear. voice is hoarse.
 BARYTA CARB: Gets cold quickly. Pain <empty swallowing. Liquid swallowed easily.
 MERC IODATUS RUBER: left-sided tonsillitis. Dark red fauces with tendency to hawk.
 LACHESIS: Tonsillitis from left to right. Purple <swallowing drinks, Hot liquids.
 LYCOPOD: Right-sided then radiates to left. Pain <swallowing Cold drinks>warm drinks.
 PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA:. Tonsils- dark red or bluish hue. Radiates to the ears. Swallowing
<Eating hot foods.
 MERC IOD FLAVUS: Right-sided tonsillitis. Persistent desire to swallow >drinking cool fluids.
 TUBERCULINUM: Tonsils <cold exposure. Indicated when well selected remedies fails to
improve.

36. STOMACH:
 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<pressure, cold water.
 Ravenous hunger. Aggravation while eating.
 Pain in epigastric region to touch.
 Thirst; longing for cold drinks.
 Hyperchlorhydria (Phos).

37. Abdomen:
 Umbilical hernia.
 Fatty liver in obese people
 Liver region painful when stooping.
 Cutting Pain & swollen abdomen.
 Incarcerated flatulence.
 Sensitive to slightest pressure.
 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. x

38. COMPARISON FOR FATTY LIVER:
 Chelidonium- Fatty liver with pain right upper abdomen and soreness under the right scapula.
Swollen abdomen with nausea and vomiting. jaundice .
 Lycopodium- Fatty liver with the fullness of the stomach after eating just a little gas and acidity
with heaviness and pain in right upper quadrant. Abdominal distension or bloating with
Burning belching. Easy satiety.
 Nux Vom- Fatty liver due to over-consumption of alcohol. Abdominal feels like a stone after
eating and with sour belching. Constipation with an ineffective urge to pass stool.
 Phosphorus- Fatty liver with increased thirst, food regurgitates after eating with sour belching.
Very fetid stool and flatus. Warm water is intolerable >cold foods.
 BRYONIA - Liver is heavy, sore, swollen, stitching pain > lying on painful side, pressure, rest
and cold things
 CARDUS MAR - Left lobe. There is fullness and soreness with constipation, nausea and
vomiting, vomiting of green acid fluid.
 PODOPHYLLUM - Chronically congested Liver- painful sore <rubbing. The face,eyes and
tongue are yellow with a bad taste in mouth.

39. COMPARISN FOR HERNIA
 NUX VOMICA - Femoral, inguinal, and umbilical hernia. Weak muscles due
to chronic constipation or diarrhea. left-sided inguinal hernia.
 LYCOP - Femoral & inguinal hernia. Weak digestive system and excess flatus.
 COCCULUS -Inguinal hernia, lacerating pain in the intestines with bloating and flatus
<difficulty in standing.
 AURUM METALLICUM -Inguinal & umbilical hernia of children < crying.
 LACHESIS -Inguinal, umbilical and strangulated. The skin over the hernia is mottled
and dark.
 BELLADONNA - Strangulated hernia such as burning sensation or a bulge near the
navel <sitting.
 OPIUM - Inguinal hernia, umbilical hernia and strangulated hernia. Inability to pass
urine, vomiting, abdominal pain.
 BRYONIA - Umbilical hernia with history of chronic constipation.

40. STOOL:
 Crawling and constriction in rectum.
 Stool large and hard (Bry); whitish, watery, sour.
 Prolapse ani, and burning, stinging haemorrhoids.
 Diarrhea of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite.
 Children's diarrhoea.
 Constipation; stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid.
MALE:
 Frequent emissions. Semen emitted too soon.
 Increased desire.
 Coition followed by weakness and irritability

41. Female:
 Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold,
damp feet; the least excitement causes their return.
 Before menses, headache, colic, chilliness and leucorrhoea.
 Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation.
 Uterus easily displaced.
 Leucorrhoea, 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.

42. COMPARISON FOR UTERINE FIBROIDS & PCOD:
 THLASPI BURSA PASTORIS - Metrorrhagia; too frequent and copious menses.
Every alternate period very profuse. Scarcely recovers from one period before
another begins.
 CALCAREA FLUOR - Large and hard, multiple fibroids. It restores the elasticity
of the smooth muscles in the uterus and helps shrink uterine fibroids.
Subsides the pain and heaviness of uterine fibroids.
 PHOSPHORUS - Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long.
Weeps before menses. Amenorrhœa, with vicarious menstruation (Bry).
Uterine polyps.
 PULSATILLA - Irregular and late periods due to hormonal disturbances. very
late, scanty and thick. large and dark blood clots along with periods. severe
pain of menstruation.
 EUPHRASIA - Shorter menstrual cycle, last for one or two days.

43.  SEPIA – Late, scanty ,Irregular menses, Facial Hair And Pigmentations. Improper
hormonal levels due to ovarian cyst. Bearing down feel as if pelvic organs is
pushed out of vagina. Facial hair - upper lips and chin.
 NATRUM MUR – Menses irregular; usually profuse. Suppressed menses (Follow
with Kali carb).Vagina dry. Bearing-down pains; worse in morning (Sep). Prolapsus
uteri, with cutting in urethra. Hot during menses.
 OLEUM JECORIS ASELLI – Hair Growth On Face. HIRSUTISM
 KALI CARB – Menses Late By Several Months (3 or more). On appearance heavy
in nature with backache, a colicky pain in lower abdomen.
 THUJA – Hair Growth On Face And Skin pigmentation. Multiple cysts within the
left ovary, painful. Delayed menstrual flow.
 SENECIO - Menses retarded, suppressed. Functional amenorrhœa of young
girls with backache. Better by menses. Premature and too profuse menses (Calc;
Erig).PCOS with heaviness or pain in their pelvic region even during the absence
of periods.

44. RESPIRATORY:
 UPPER THIRD OF RIGHT LUNG ( ARSENICUM)
(UPPER LEFT- MYR, SULPHUR ).
 Tickling cough troublesome at night.
 Expectoration only during the day; thick, yellow, sour mucus.
 Persistent, irritating cough from arsenical wall paper (Clarke).
 Cough when playing piano, or by eating
 Painless hoarseness; worse in the morning.
 Bloody expectoration; with Chest very sensitive to touch, percussion.
 Longing for fresh air. Scanty, salty expectoration (Lyc).
 Suffocating spells; tightness, burning and soreness in chest; worse
going upstairs or slightest ascent, must sit down.

45. URINE:
 Dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody.
 Irritable bladder. Enuresis (Use 30th, also Tuberculin. 1 m.).
BACK:
 Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from overlifting.
 Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing.(chel)
 Rheumatism in lumbar region; weakness in small of back.
 Curvature of dorsal vertebrae. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Renal
colic.

46. EXTREMITIES:
 Rheumatoid pains Sharp sticking after exposure to wet.
 < getting up from a sitting position, walking, working in water like washing
clothes.
 Cold, damp feet; feel as if damp stockings were worn.
 Old knees cramps in calves.
 Swelling of joints, especially knee. ARTHRITIC NODOSITIES.
 Burning of soles of feet. Soles of feet raw.
 Feet feel cold and dead at night.
 Old sprains.
 Tearing in muscles. Weakness of extremities.
 Varicose veins <standing or walking

47. COMPARISON FOR OA
 BRYONIA ALBA -Pain with stiffness and swelling <stairs to go up,walking >rest.
 CALC FLOUR - pain > heat and motion. Joints become enlarged and hard and
nodosities or bone spurs may develop.
 KALI CARB - Pain in knee radiates to hip <pressure > moving, warmth .
 APIS MELLIFICA - knees swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore , with much stinging pain
<Warmth >cold application
 RUTA- pain <bending the knee, kneeling, going down the stairs >pressure ,
stretching the limb.
 CAUSTICUM - knee pains with much stiffness and cracking in knee joints >heat
<exposure to cold air
 SULPHUR - knee joint pains <using the stairs, standing. excessive heat in the feet
patients cannot walk erect because of pain.

48. HEART:
 Palpitation at night and after eating with feeling of coldness, with
restless oppression of chest; after suppressed eruption.
FEVER:
 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.

49. SKIN:
 Unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid.
 PSORIASIS STARTS FROM ANKLE
(Knee – natrum, Sulphur – neck)
 Small wounds do not heal readily. Glands swollen.
 Nettle rash; better in cold air.
 Warts on face and hands.
 URTICARIA < EXERCISE
 Petechial eruptions.
 Chilblains. Boils.
 cracking skin that is worse in the wintertime

50. COMPARISON:
 ARS ALBUM - Dry & burns intensely. Itching <Scratching , >heat.
 GRAPHITES - Tough or leathery skin with cracks and soreness.
Itching <warmth of bed, scratches till they bleed.
 HEPAR SULPH - very sensitive, sore deeply cracked,slow to heal.
 MEZEREUM - Intensely itching eruptions start as blisters, then ooze and
form thick crusts, and scratching can lead to thickened skin >Cold
applications.
 RHUSTOX - (blister)Red and swollen, itching> hot application.
 SULPHUR - Intensely burning, itching, inflamed eruptions< warmth, bathing.
Eruptions dry with scaling or crusted skin.
 ANTI CRUDUM - Eczema with thick, cracked skin. Itching<warmth and sun
exposure
 PETROLEUM - Dry cracks easily on the fingertips and palms <winter, deep
cracks that often bleed. COLDNESS after scratching. Itching <night, warmth
of bed.

51. SLEEP:
 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.

52. MODALITIES:
 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).

53. RELATIONSHIP:
 ANTIDOTES: Camph; Ipec; Nit ac; Nux.
 COMPLEMENTARY: Bell; Rhus; Lycop; Silica.
 Calc, is the chronic of Belladonna : i.e. when Bell, has again and
again helped the acute condition, Calc, will be curative, and so,
prevent its recurrence.
 Calcarea 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 also with Calcarea: Lycop; Silica; Pulsat; Chamom.

54.  DOSE.--Sixth trit. Thirtieth and higher potencies.
 In aged people should not be repeated; especially if the first dose benefited,
it will usually do harm.
 In children it may be often repeated.
 Calcarea must not be used before Acid nitricum and Sulph.; may produce
unnecessary complications.
 Potency of Choice:(RAPID CLASSICAL PRESCRIBING by DR SUBRATA KUMAR BANERJEA)
 Dentitional : 200C
 Enuresis : 30C
 Acidity : 200C
 Rheumatism : 200C
 Respiratory : 30C
 Constitutional : 1M and higher

55. REMEDY CHAIN:
 BELLADONNA→ CALCAREA CARBONICA
 CALCAREA CARBONICA→ THUJA OCCIDENTALIS
 CALCAREA CARBONICA→ RHUS TOXICODENDRON
 DULCAMARA→ RHUS TOXICODENDRON→ CALCAREA CARBONICA
 SULPHUR→ CALCAREA CARBONICA→ LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM
 RHUS TOXICODENDRON→ CALCAREA CARBONICA→ SILICEA TERRA
 TUBERCULINUM BOVINUM KENT → CALCAREA CARBONICA→ SILICEA
TERRA → PSORINUM

56.  C - Chilly
 A - Antipsoric
 L - Leucophlegmatic constitution
 C - Coldness in general
 A - Affection of glands
 R - Ravenous hunger
 E - Excessive sour discharge
 A - Assimilation altered
 C - Congestion
 A - Aversion meat
 R - Relaxation
 B - Better when constipated

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