Calcium Fluoride. Fluor spar. Ca F2. Trituration.
Clinical
Adenoids. Aneurism. Bone affections. Breast, indurations of. Cataract. Catarrh. Cold sores. Corneal opacities. Cough. Exostosis. Flatulence. Glands, indurated. hemoptysis. Herpes. Hodgkin’s disease. Joints, cracking of. Liver, affections of. *Lumbago. Nodes. Ozaena. Parturition. Post-nasal Catarrh. Spavin (horses). Strains. Syphilis.
Characteristics
*Calcarea fluor. is Schussler’s “bone salt. ” It is found in the surface of bones, the enamel of teeth, in elastic fibres and in the cells of the epidermis. It has been principally used for dispersing bony growths, ulcerations of bone, and for fistula. A giant-celled sarcoma of upper maxilla causing the deformity known as “frog-face” was very greatly relieved by *Calcarea fluor. in a short space of time, after Silica has failed to make much impression. ***W. P. Wesselhoeft cured two cases of syphilitic periosteal swelling, one on right radius, one on left ulna, one sensitive, one not, one patient male dark, the other blonde female. Each case received a dose of *Calcarea fl. c.m. ***G. P. Hale, with the 3X, has removed induration after typhlitis, also encysted tumour of eyelids. He regards induration threatening suppuration as a marked indication. Induration in epigastric region after a kick from a horse was cured. Also indurated glands (of neck, of breast, etc.) of stony hardness. The mental condition is one of depression, anxiety, indecision. Cephalhematoma. Spots on cornea. Senile cataract has been cured by it. Ozaena. Herpes (hard, small) on lips. Deficient enamel of teeth. Prickly, burning, suffocating sensation in throat. Bleeding piles. One prover, Dr. Sarah N. Smith, had among other symptoms this peculiar and constant one in the head: A sort of creaking, straining, and drawing, like the noise of a cornstalk fiddle, greatly interfering with sleep. Dr. Sarah Hogan gave Calcarea fluor. with complete success in a case of flatulency in a pregnant woman. The patient passed through the labor quite easily, whereas the previous labor had been very difficult. In many other cases Dr. Hogan found the remedy facilitate labor. She found flatulency a marked indication for the remedy independently of pregnancy. In hemoptysis it has been used with success, its effect being apparently to cause contraction of the blood- vessels. Lumbago from strains, worse after rest, better after moving a little and from warmth. Vivid dreams of death. Warmth better, warm drinks better, cold drinks worse throat pain. Worse From damp weather, but better from fomentations. Better By rubbing.
Relations.
*Compare: Calc-p. (ozaena, suppuration of bones), Natrum mur. (cold sores), Silicea (Swellings on skulls of infants, suppuration of bones, spavin), Ph-ac. (spavin). It cured lumbago worse by rest, better by motion, after failure of Rhus.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Indecision. -Anxiety about money matters, fear of want.
Head
Exostosis.- Cephalhematoma. -A sort of creaking, straining and drawing, like the noise of a corn-stalk fiddle, greatly interfering with sleep.
Eyes
Flickering and sparks before eyes. Spots on cornea. Cataract. Eyeballs ache, better closing eyes and pressing tightly.
Ears
Calcareous deposits on tympanic membrane.
Nose
Copious, offensive, thick, greenish-yellow nasal catarrh, with bony growths. Post-nasal catarrh.
Face
Hard swelling on jaw, under jaw. Cold sores, rather small, hard, on lips.
Mouth
Deficient enamel of teeth. Great dryness of mouth and throat, and dryness and harshness of skin.
Throat
Prickling, burning, suffocative sensation in throat, worse at night and from cold drinks, better from warm drinks. Increased mucus in posterior nares.
Stomach
Vomits undigested food. Hiccough.
Abdomen
Flatulence.- Paroxysm of lancinating pains in right hypochondrium under 11th rib, awaking him about midnight, worse lying on painful side, which causes a feeling of bursting outward, better lying on painless side, and by doubling up, with restlessness. At 8 a.m. frequent attacks of lancinating pain in hepatic region, worse when sitting, better after lying down at night. -Dull weight and discomfort in right hypochondrium.
Stool and Anus.
Slight diarrhoea with painful urging before stool. -Constipation with dizziness and dull headache. Itching in anus awakening him at night. -Bleeding piles. -Fissure, fistula.
Urinary Organs
Urine causes smarting along urethra, particularly at external orifice. Urine diminished, high-colored, offensive.
Male Sexual Organs:-
Induration of testes. Hydrocele. Hunterian chancre.
Female Sexual Organs:-
Excessive menses. Prolapsus uteri. Bearing-down, dragging pains in uterus and thighs. Hard knots in breasts. Flatulence in pregnant women. Favours parturition. After-pains from feeble contractions.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness after laughing or reading aloud. -Soon after itching at anus, itching tickling in larynx, forcing a spasmodic cough, which was relieved after a few hours by hawking a little mucus from larynx. -Hacking cough, from tickling in larynx as of a foreign body, not better by coughing. -Difficulty of breathing, as if epiglottis was nearly closed.
Neck and Back
Goitre. Indurated cervical glands of stony hardness. Lumbago from strains, severe backache after a long ride, worse after rest, better after moving a little and from warmth. Tired aching, as from a long ride, with restlessness.
Limbs:
Cracking in joints. Synovial swellings. Easy dislocations. Exostoses. (Spavin).
Skin
Skin harsh and dry. Chaps, fissures. Fistulae.
Sleep
Vivid and distinct dreams, with weeping. Jumped from bed in a dream and tried to get out of a window, which woke him.
