Calcarea carbonica
The great constitutional remedy of defective nutrition and slow development. Fair, fat, flabby, perspiring. Cold, damp feet, sour discharges. Slow, stubborn, dependable but overwhelmed by work. Craves eggs.
Source
Prepared from the middle layer of the oyster shell (calcium carbonate, CaCO3), triturated.
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Keynote Symptoms
Fair, fat, flabby. Head sweats profusely during sleep, wetting the pillow. Cold, clammy feet (wears socks to bed). Sour discharges — sweat, stool, vomit. Craves eggs and indigestible things (chalk, dirt, pencils). Slow development in children — late walking, late teething, fontanelles open.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Apprehensive, fears loss of reason, misfortune, contagious diseases. Easily overwhelmed, cannot cope with responsibilities. Obstinate, slow, cautious. Aversion to work. Forgetful, confused. Homesickness. Despair of recovery. Fears others will observe her confusion.
General Symptoms
Chilly, cold, worse from cold wet weather. Profuse sour perspiration, especially on head at night. Deficient assimilation of calcium. Glandular swellings. Worse from exertion (mental or physical), cold, damp, full moon, standing, milk. Better from dry weather, lying on painful side, dark.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Open fontanelles, large head. Profuse perspiration wets the pillow. Vertigo on ascending. Icy coldness on or in the head. Headache with cold hands.
Eyes
Sensitive to light. Lachrymation in open air and early morning. Spots and ulcers on cornea.
Ears
Throbbing, cracking. Offensive otorrhoea. Polyps. Deafness from working in water.
Nose
Dry, nostrils sore, ulcerated. Stoppage of nose. Offensive odour in nose. Polyps.
Mouth
Difficult dentition in children. Sour taste. Teeth ache from cold or warm things. Burning tip of tongue.
Throat
Swelling of tonsils and submaxillary glands. Difficulty swallowing. Painless hoarseness.
Stomach
Ravenous hunger. Craves eggs, salt, sweets, indigestible things. Aversion to meat, milk (though may also crave it). Sour eructations, sour vomiting. Milk disagrees.
Abdomen
Enlarged mesenteric glands. Hard, distended. Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal and umbilical hernias.
Rectum
Sour-smelling stool. First part hard, then pasty, then liquid. Children's diarrhea with sour smell.
Female Genitalia
Menses too early, too profuse, too long. Vertigo with menses. Profuse milky leucorrhoea. Breasts tender and swollen before menses.
Respiratory
Shortness of breath on going upstairs or any exertion. Tickling cough at night. Painless hoarseness.
Chest
Chest sore. Milk too abundant or deficient. Nipples cracked.
Back
Curvature of vertebrae. Pain between shoulder blades. Weakness of back, must lean against something.
Extremities
Cold, damp feet. Soles of feet raw. Rheumatism from working in water. Cramps in calves.
Skin
Unhealthy; small wounds do not heal readily. Petechiae. Warts. Polyps.
Modalities
Better From
Dry weather, lying on painful side, dark, sneezing, rubbing, being constipated
Worse From
Cold and damp, exertion (physical or mental), ascending, full moon, standing, milk, dentition, night
Constitutional Type
Fair, fat, flabby, chilly. Large head, open fontanelles. Sweaty head. Slow, cautious, obstinate. Reliable but easily overwhelmed. Round-faced, pale children with slow development.
Clinical Indications
Delayed development, rickets, teething troubles, eczema, hypothyroidism, obesity, osteoporosis, recurrent infections, anxiety, glandular swellings
Comparative Materia Medica
Silicea also has sweaty head but is thin, chilly, and yields to pressure (lacks Calcarea's stubbornness). Baryta carbonica has delayed development but more marked mental slowness. Phosphorus has similar fears but is slender, warm-blooded.
Safety Information
Bryonia, Camphora, China, Ipecac, Nitric acid, Nux vomica, Sepia, Sulphur.
Calcium carbonate is a common antacid. No significant toxicity from low potencies. Safe in all potentised forms.
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