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Calcarea Carbonica

30C / 200C / 1MCalcarea Carb
Calcium Carbonate · Oyster Shell · "The Oyster Shell Remedy"
calc.PolychrestMineralCommonPsoric
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🎯 A constitutional remedy that addresses impaired nutrition, glandular swelling, and slow development in individuals with a sluggish, chilly, and damp temperament.
📖 Boericke writes:
(CALCAREA CARBONICA - OSTREARUM)
This great Hahnemannian anti-psoric is a constitutional remedypar 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 haemostatic 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 diarrhoea. Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour.
👤 Constitution
•The typical patient is fat, fair, and flabby, often with a large head and belly. They are leuco-phlegmatic, sensitive to cold, and prone to dampness and sour-smelling sweat.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork.
introduction
Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses.
introduction
Apprehensive; worse towards evening; fears loss of reason, misfortune, contagious diseases.
mind
Icy coldness in, and on the head, especially right side.
head
Open fontanelles; head enlarged; much perspiration, wets the pillow.
head
Spots and ulcers on cornea.
eyes
Chronic dilatation of pupils.
eyes
Scrofulous inflammation with muco-purulent otorrhoea, and enlarged glands.
ears
Dry, nostrils sore, ulcerated.
nose
Takes cold at every change of weather.
nose
Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets.
stomach
Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting.
stomach
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for anxiety and mental fatigue where the patient feels overwhelmed by fears and struggles with concentration.
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.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
6X
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝Sixth trituration.
Primary Dosage
30C
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝Should not be repeated too frequently in elderly people.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Calcarea Arsenicosa →Lycopodium Clavatum →Silicea Terra →Belladonna →Rhus Toxicodendron →
🚫 Antidotes
Nux Vomica →Ipecacuanha →Camphora →Nitricum Acidum →
⏭️ Similar
Pulsatilla Pratensis →
🔄 Compare With
Calcarea Arsenicosa →Parthenium Hysterophorus →Chamomilla →Silicea Terra →Calcarea Bromata →Sulphur →Calcarea Muriatica →Pulsatilla Pratensis →
⚠️ Inimical
Sulphur →Bryonia Alba →
📚 Sources & References

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