The menorrhagia may be associated with metritis and subinvolution after a septic confinement, with prolapsus, “erosion” of cervix or polypi (mucous). The accompanying leucorrhoea is thick and yellow and causes soreness and itching.
The iodide of lime has been used in fibroids with some lessening of haemorrhage.
Respiratory system.-Subacute or chronic laryngitis, with painless hoarseness or aphonia, may precede or accompany cough. Dyspnoea on exertion, especially ascending or facing a strong wind, may bring on a cough.
The expectoration may contain pus or blood, and many presage or form a feature in a tuberculous condition requiring calcarea. The choice of this remedy (as else where) must depend on the presence of the “calcarea constitution.” This medicine is no specific for this or any malady.
Limbs.- Rheumatic and gouty conditions having the usual causative features should bring calcarea to mind. Stiffness on first moving (rhus), worse at night, worse on rising from sitting, pains in any joints, aggravated by becoming cold, by cold winds and by every change from warm to damp, cold weather. These conditions all indicate calcarea.
Extremes sometimes occur, such as the alternation of burning hat of the feet with the cold, damp feet so characteristic of the drug.
LEADING INDICATIONS
(1) Extreme sensitiveness to cod, local and general, i.e., cold is disagreeable or distressing and is liable to cause ailments. Patients take cold readily.
(2) Coldness of surface, especially damp, cold feet; perspiration of feet; coldness and sweat of single parts-clammy hands.
(3) Craving for acids, pickles, chalk or coal, sweets, raw potatoes (chiefly in children). Aversion: adults dislike milk, coffee or meat, and smokers dislike tobacco.
(4) Sourness of excreta-breath, eructations, vomited matter, stools, perspiration and body-smell.
(5) Excessive sweat of head, especially at night (sil)-and of other parts less markedly; he [perspiration is sour. sweating when cold.
(6) The calcarea subjects are blondes, with blue eyes and fair skin, fat, pale, flabby, easily fatigued and timid; fontanelles late in closing; dentition delayed.
(7) Weakness of limbs-children late in walking; bones bend.
(8) Women with chest weakness, who have grown rapidly and are flabby, plethoric, anaemic or breathless.
(9) Women who menstruate too early, too long and too profusely, and especially if the period recurs from emotions, excitement or exertion.
(10) Mental state is one of lowered resistance-ailments from worry, controversy, and mental strain, leading to indecision, loss of self-confidence, fear of losing reason; easily startled by noises and fears being alone: easily fatigued in mind and body; nervous, overstrained, and hysterical, and in children lethargy and dulness and slowness.
(11) The patient feels better when constipated.
AGGRAVATION:
After midnight, cold air (e.g., in tooth-ache), and wet weather, letting limbs hang down; morning (hoarseness), afternoon (diarrhoea).
AMELIORATION:
In dry, warm weather, and by lying on affected part; by heat and by lying down in the dark (head), when constipated.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,