Calcarea Carbonica



Coition followed by sweat and prostration. Itching and burning in genitals.

Absence of menses in plethoric women; from fright. Clumsy, awkward and tired, during pregnancy. Severe stitches in mammae, when nursing.

Respiratory organs

      Painless hoarseness worse morning. Everything makes him short of breath. Emphysema. Tickling cough as from dust or feather in throat.

Cough; worse inspiration, playing on piano, eating. Sharp pains in chest going backwards. Purulent, loose, sweet, expectoration.

Chest very sensitive to touch, percussion or pressure. Suffocative spells. Weak feeling in chest, cannot even speak. Ulcers or abscesses in the lungs. Habit cough.

Heart

      Weak. Palpitation, with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of the chest.

Neck and Back:

      Neck pains worse lifting. Pain in back as if sprained, can scarcely rise from his seat. Pain between shoulder blades impeding breathing.

Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Cannot sit upright in the chair from weakness of back. Vertebrae; feel loose; painful on pressure.

Extremities

      COLD DAMP FEET; feel as if damp stockings were worn is a classic keynote of Calcarea carbonica. Cold, clammy, hands; knees. Cramps in calves when stretching out leg, at night. Burning of soles. Soles raw. Arms; weak, lame. Hands numb, when grasping. Want of mobility of fingers.

Creeping on the limbs like a mouse. Chapped hands. Clumsy, awkward, easily falls. Weakness of ankles in children, turn inward, while walking. Tired from short walk. Swelling of joints esp. knee. Weakness and trembling of limbs. Arthritic; nodosities; deformans.

Skin

      Cold, like snake; flaccid; unhealthy. Small wounds do not heal readily. Psoriasis. Urticaria better in cool air. Visible quivering of skin from head to foot, followed by giddiness.

Blood boils; recurring. Milk white spots. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. COLDNESS; ICY, on vertex. Cold spots on head or coldness; of head, hands, knees, feet, of affected part.

Sleep

      Sleepless from rush of ideas; some disagreeable idea always arouses from slight slumber. Nightmares; children scream after midnight and cannot be pacified. Fearful and fantastic dreams. Horrible visions on closing eyes.

Fever

      Chill with thirst. Coldness; icy in different parts of the body; of affected part. Internal heat with external coldness and sweat. Fever with sweat. Sweat cold; partial. Heat; at night, during menses.

Complementary

      Baryta-carb; Lycopodium; Silicea

S.R. Phatak
A pioneer of Homoeopathy in Maharashtra, Dr Shankar Raghunath Phatak was born on 6th September, 1896. He did his MBBS from Grant Medical College, in 1924. Started his practice but somehow not satisfied with Allopathic Treatment.

He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.

He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.