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Calcarea Lactica

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Calcarea Lactica · Lactate of Lime · "The Milk-Salt Calcarea"
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Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 It acts primarily on the vascular and nervous systems to address specific types of migraine, localized edema, and digestive disturbances like sprue.
📖 Clarke writes:
Lactate of Lime. CA6H10O6, 5H2O. Trituration.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Action on Calcium metabolism and its salts
Remedy for sprue
Action in migraine
Action in vasomotor rhinitis
Acts as a blood tonic (in crude doses)
Potential for producing meningeal edema
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Migraine accompanied by slight edema affecting the eyelids, upper lip, or one hand
Edema associated with no abnormal sensations
Migraine often runs in families
Dull headache with sickness
Severe attack of migraine starting with visual phenomena (zigzag lines and balls of light before the left eye)
Migraine finishing with dizziness and a diabolical headache in the right temple
Vasomotor rhinitis
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Migraine accompanied by painless edema of the eyelids, upper lip, or hands.
Clarke
Visual disturbances including zigzag lines and balls of light before the eyes.
Clarke
Severe, diabolical headache localized in the right temple.
Clarke
Clinical history of sprue.
Clarke
Vasomotor rhinitis associated with migraine symptoms.
Clarke
Headache often associated with dizziness and sickness.
Clarke
Symptoms may run in families.
Clarke
Edema occurs without any abnormal sensations.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
Clarke Exclusive
👤Head
Migraine headaches characterized by visual phenomena, dizziness, and associated localized edema.
Migraine with oedema, visual disorders and dizziness.
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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