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CALCAREA OSTREARUM
Calcarea Ostrearum
calc-ostrPolychrestMineralCommonPsoric✨ Exclusively from Hering
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Exclusively Documented in Hering
This remedy is documented exclusively in Hering's Guiding Symptoms. It does not appear in Boericke's Materia Medica or other standard texts.
🎯 It acts primarily on the nutrition, glandular system, and bone development, particularly in individuals with impaired metabolism and slow growth.
About: This remedy is essential for individuals who suffer from slow development, glandular swellings, and chronic nutritional imbalances. It is frequently indicated for children who are slow to walk or teeth, and for adults with chronic fatigue, coldness, and a tendency toward obesity or flabby tissues.
👤 Constitution
•Pale, leuco-phlegmatic, weakly timid persons.
•Scrofulous constitutions, with pale face, rather fair complexion and disposition to corpulence.
•More frequently indicated with the young ; cannot be often repeated with the old, unless higher potencies are used.
•Diseases of children, especially during dentition.
•Children and sucklings become thick and gross, as if fat, but are pale and unhealthy.
•Leuco-phlegmatic temperament in childhood. ✓ Dentition.
•Fair, plump children. ✓ Crusta lactea. ✓ Urticaria, etc.
•Children : self-willed ; fair, plump ; fat, flabby, with red face, sweat easily, and readily take cold ; large heads and abdomens, open fontanelles and sutures, and crooked legs.
•Puberty : girls who begin with menses too early and too profuse ; fat, yet chlorotic ; plethoric girls, amenorrhœa, etc.
•Light-haired youth, growing rapidly. ✓ Tuberculosis.
•Young who grow too fat and heavy. ✓ Ozæna scrofulosa.
•Plethoric woman. ✓ Vulvar tumor.
•Climacteric years ; hysteric women who have not been married ; who have had profuse catamenia ; metrorrhagia.
•Fat, unhealthy children. ✓ Ulcer of cornea.
•Flat, flabby children, with red face, who sweat and catch cold easily. ✓ Enuresis nocturna.
•During dentition. ✓ Eclampsia.
•Nervous, hemorrhoidal, plethoric and lymphatic constitutions ; disposed to grow fat.
•Chronic headaches of torpid constitutions.
•Gouty people.
•Herpes in the scrofulous, with enlarged glands.
•Tuberculous diathesis.
•Scrofulous diathesis. ✓ Rachitis. ✓ Hydrocephalus. ✓ Crusta lactea. ✓ Keratitis. ✓ Catarrh. ✓ Strabismus. ✓ Herpes. ✓ Polypus auris. ✓ Cancrum oris. ✓ Intestinal catarrh. ✓ Worms. ✓ Amenorrhœa. ✓ Menorrhagia. ✓ Uterine displacement. ✓ Uterine cancer. ✓ Pruritus valvæ. ✓ Dysmenorrhœa. ✓ Gonarthrocace. ✓ Bronchial catarrh. ✓ Asthma. ✓ Scarlatina. ✓ Coryza. ✓ Nasal catarrh. ✓ Herpetic affections.
•Leuco-phlegmatic, light complexion, blue eyes, blonde hair, fair skin.
•Fair, light complexion, grows too rapidly. ✓ Tuberculosis.
•Full habit and ebullitions.
•Sanguine temperament, muscles soft, flabby. ✓ Goitre.
•Darkish yellow complexion, spare habit. ✓ Icterus calculosus.
•Nervous temperament, delicate constitution. ✓ Megrim.
•Black hair, dark complexion, blue eyes. ✓ Rheumatism.
•Nervous temperament, dark hair and grey eyes. ✓ Prosopalgia.
•Nervo-bilious temperament, black hair, dark complexion. ✓ Muscular atrophy.
•Fat persons. ✓ Prosopalgia.
•Persons inclined to grow fat. ✓ At onset of typhus.
•Leuco-phlegmatic temperament. ✓ Cholera infantum. ✓ Laryngo-tracheitis. ✓ Bronchitis. ✓ Hæmaturia. ✓ Gleet. ✓ Menorrhagia.
•Persons subject to nightly emissions. ✓ Bronchial catarrh.
•For drunkards.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Profuse sweating of the head, especially during sleep, wetting the pillow far around.
Hering
Children who are slow to develop, late to walk, or have open fontanelles.
Hering
A strong craving for boiled eggs, often accompanied by an aversion to meat.
Hering
Sensation of cold, damp stockings on the feet.
Hering
Great anxiety about the future, with a fear of losing one's reason or being observed by others.
Hering
Tendency toward glandular swellings and chronic enlargement of the lymph nodes.
Hering
Easily fatigued by physical or mental exertion, with a feeling of general weakness.
Hering
Symptoms are generally worse from cold air, damp weather, and physical exertion.
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Abdomen is often distended and hard, even in otherwise emaciated children.
Hering
Frequent sour eructations, sour vomiting, or diarrhea with a sour smell.
Hering
🩺 Systems & Indications
✨ Hering Exclusive🧠Mind
Think of this remedy for individuals suffering from persistent, anxious, or obsessive thoughts, fear of losing their sanity, and a stubborn, irritable, or depressed mood.
Thinking is difficult.
Visions of faces and persons, when eyes are closed. ✓ Typhus.
Fears she will lose her reason, or that people will observe her confusion of mind.
Anxiety, shuddering and dread as soon as evening comes on, with fear of death
- •torments those around him day and night..
Great anxiety, restlessness and palpitation.
Despairing
- •hopeless of ever getting well ;
- •with fear of death, tormenting all around day and night..
Children self-willed, inclined to grow fat.
After exerting mind:hyperemia of head
- •chorea ;
- •trembling spells..
Excitement brings on dysmennorrhœa
- •least excitement endangers return of catamenia, or causes metrorrhagia..
Rush of thoughts prevents sleep.
Cannot get rid of one and the same thought at night, even during light slumbers. ✓ Typhoid.
Mind full of concern about imaginary things that might happen to her. ✓ Chlorosis.
Stupid, peevish, in the intervals. ✓ Epilepsy.
Inclination to weep, with mental depression
- •weeps when admonished..
Taciturn, with a dry tongue.
Whimpering. ✓ Catarrh.
Hypochondriacal mood. ✓ Coryza.
Anxiety : with nausea ; during sweat ; during typhus.
Great anxiety and oppression. ✓ Scarlatina.
Obstinacy and irritability.
Children very fretful and stubborn. ✓ Rachitis.
Peevishness, much nervous excitement and irritability.
Affections from egotism.
Fright followed by trembling motions of upper and lower limbs in repeated paroxysms. ✓ Chorea.
Enfeebled memory. ✓ Epilepsy.
When roused opens eyes with absence of mind and alarm, murmuring, frightened. ✓ Intermittent.
Intellect dull
- •unable to progress in her studies. ✓ Epilepsy..
Appears to be lapsing into complete imbecility. ✓ Epilepsy.
Feels as if she would lose her senses. ✓ Megrim.
Mental aberration with horrid visions before eyes and cardiac anxiety
- •he despairs of his salvation and wants to stab himself..
Delirium. ✓ Second week of typhus.
Sees and plays with cats and other animals in delirium. ✓ Nervous fever.
Mania
- •sees many curs crowding around him, fights them off. ✓ From chilling feet and legs in potter's clay..
Desire to go home. ✓ Insanity.
Changeable mood
- •easily laughing or crying. ✓ Neurosis cordis..
Disinclination for every kind of work. ✓ Coryza. ✓ Addison's disease.
Weeping mood. ✓ Muscular atrophy.
Low-spirited and depressed. ✓ Diarrhœa. ✓ Muscular atrophy. ✓ Phthisis pulmonalis. ✓ Chorea.
Weary of life. ✓ Catarrh.
Anxious about getting well, during the intervals. ✓ Epilepsy.
Fear:of death
- •of consumption ;
- •of misfortune ;
- •of being alone..
Child is afraid of everything it sees. ✓ Inflammation of brain.
Feels awe-stricken at night. ✓ Diarrhœa.
Anguish, with palpitation of heart.
Great anxiety, in evening, for which no reason could be assigned. ✓ Uterine tumor.
Indifference
- •does not care to get well ;
- •reticence and inertness..
Apathy and depression of mind. ✓ Addison's disease.
Quiet, mild disposition. ✓ Strabismus.
Active, full of fun. ✓ Boy with chronic diarrhœa.
Hateful, vindictive.
Irritable mood. ✓ Leucorrhœa.
Child cross, fretful and restless. ✓ Scarlatina.
Peevish without cause.
Very peevish and easily vexed. ✓ Chorea.
Child restless and cross during day. ✓ Keratitis.
Mental occupation > headache
- •better from engaging his attention. ✓ Chorea..
Aggravation from mental emotions. ✓ Neuralgia cordis.
Great anxiety and worriment of mind. ✓ At onset of typhoid.
Excited by chagrin or fear. ✓ Epilepsy.
Forgetfulness ; vanishing of thoughts.
Misplaces words, tendency to express himself wrongly.
Buried in deep thought ; anxiety about present and future.
Mind is confused, so that what is read or heard is not understood or comprehended.
Absent-minded, after nausea in afternoon.
Imagines some one is walking beside her
- •that something hanging over back of chair is a person sitting there, etc..
Mania-a-potu, with delirious talk about fire, rats, mice and murder.
Desire for company.
Steady inclination to work, with mental anxiety.
Feels as if she would like to run up and down and scream.
She thinks and talks of nothing but murder, fire, rats, etc.
Violent screaming spell every day at 5 P. M., so hard as to cause a scrotal hernia
- •infant, aged 5 weeks..
Disinclined to talk, and very irritable.
Does not care to get well, or to do anything to assist recovery.
Weeping and anxious.
Low-spirited and melancholy, with weeping and despair of life.
Despondent and melancholy, in highest degree, with a kind of anguish.
Children sad and unhappy.
Hopelessness ; despair.
Restless anxiety.
Anxious and irritable by spells.
Apprehension about present and future.
Apprehensive mood:as if some misfortune was about to happen
- •about his health ;
- •that he might have an organic disease of the heart..
Fear, that something sad or terrible will happen.
Concern about spiritual welfare.
Great anxiety:with spasm in rectum
- •with dull shocks from posterior wall of chest up to between shoulders..
Fear excited by reports of cruelties.
Easily startled.
Excessive mischievousness, with obstinacy.
Voluptuous, lascivious fancies.
Ill-humored, with white blood-streaked stool.
Dissatisfied and easily angered.
Aversion to everything as soon as he sits idle.
Irritable without cause
- •cries about trifles ;
- •borrows trouble..
Irritability, with pressing frontal headache.
Easily offended ; takes everything amiss.
Violence and anger.
Restless mood, with gloominess and anxiety.
Easily frightened ; tendency to start.
Nervousness
< by mental exertion, > from closing eyes.
Headaches of school-children.
The slight effort of talking gave him sensation as if brain would be paralyzed, mostly in occiput.
From thinking : drawing pain in right side of forehead.
Mental anxiety, producing palpitation, sweat, nausea and tremor.
Vexation causes vertigo.
Hering Symptom Grade:
Keynote (Grade 3)
Important (Grade 2)
Minor (Grade 1)
🔑 Modalities
✨ Hering Exclusive↓Worse from
Ascendingvertigo · headache · want of breath · palpitation · exhaustion
↑Better from
Horseback ridingheadache
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
BELLADONNA →
🚫 Antidotes
IPECACUANHA →CHINA OFFICINALIS →BISMUTHUM SUBNITRICUM →
🔄 Compare With
CALCAREA CARBONICA →DULCAMARA →NUX VOMICA →SULPHUR →DIGITALIS PURPUREA →PHOSPHORUS →CHINA OFFICINALIS →LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM →PULSATILLA PRATENSIS →ALUMEN →ARSENICUM ALBUM →ARNICA MONTANA →BRYONIA ALBA →BELLADONNA →CINA MARITIMA →COCCULUS INDICUS →IGNATIA AMARA →IPECACUANHA →KALIUM CARBONICUM →MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS →RHUS TOXICODENDRON →SEPIA OFFICINALIS →ZINCUM METALLICUM →
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia Medica✓ Hering's Guiding Symptoms↗Hahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's KeynotesPhatak's Concise MM
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