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Calcarea Caustica
6XCalc-cauCalcarea Caustica · Slaked Lime · "The Slaked Lime Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the connective tissues, joints, and mucous membranes, often addressing inflammatory conditions and sharp, tearing pains.
📖 Clarke writes:
Aqua Calcis. Ca H2 O2. Quicklime is slaked in distilled water. Afterwards alcohol is added and the clear liquid decanted.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Sticking, tearing, throbbing pains in various parts
•Burning sensations in eyes, throat, and stomach
•Inflammatory action
•Stiffness in back and coccyx
•Aggravation of most symptoms in the evening
•Amelioration from motion
•Aggravation from hanging down limb
•Pains in hands and feet after a foot-bath
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
•Thought very difficult
•Confusion in the head
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Vertigo; as if room turning in a circle
•Pain in right eye as if a foreign body were in it
•Burning and tearing in eyes
•Tearing in right cheekbone and in right articulation of jaw
•Toothache every night, 2 a.m., with feeling as if teeth were fuzzy and too large
•Fuzzy sensation noticed in other parts
•Mucus in throat; burning; sensation as if a bone were sticking in it
•Burning in stomach
•Tapeworm passes
•Hoarseness, with pain in throat; rawness in trachea and cough
•Stitches in chest
•Stiffness and tearing in all regions of back and in coccyx
•Tearing in either shoulder down arms
•Tearing in left tendo Achillis; left heel
•Sticking in corns
•Lime-water as an external application in the form of compresses has an ancient repute in allaying inflammation of many kinds
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Severe toothache at 2 a.m. with a sensation that teeth are fuzzy and too large.
Clarke
Sensation of a foreign body or bone sticking in the throat.
Clarke
Vertigo as if the room is turning in a circle.
Clarke
Tearing, throbbing, and sticking pains in various parts of the body.
Clarke
Symptoms generally worse in the evening.
Clarke
Expulsion of tapeworm segments.
Clarke
Stiffness and tearing in the back and coccyx.
Clarke
Pains in hands and feet triggered by a foot-bath.
Clarke
Throbbing in the frontal sinus relieved by contracting the forehead skin.
Clarke
Trembling in limbs relieved by eating bread.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Difficulty in thinking, confusion, and a weary, intoxicated feeling upon waking.
Thought very difficult.
Weary and peevish on waking
as if he had been intoxicated.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Evening
most symptoms
fever
↑Better from
Motion
most symptoms
back pain
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Mezereum →Sepia Officinalis →Hepar Sulphur →Rhus Toxicodendron →Picricum Acidum →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM
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