Where are data concerning Calcarea phosphorica found?
In the same source as the foregoing.
Give general action of Calcarea phosphorica.
Useful for defective nutrition, as a restorative after acute diseases, and in pains where bones from symphyses and sutures; aids formation of callus in fractures.
Mention four characteristics of Calcarea phosphorica.
1. Headaches near the sutures.
2. Sunken, flabby abdomen.
3. Chest difficulties with fistula in ano.
4. Non-union of fractured bones.
When is Calcarea phosphorica indicated in dentition?
There is slow development and rapid decay of the teeth, dental troubles in flabby, emaciated children who have open posterior fontanelles, and are slow in learning to walk.
Give the gastric symptoms of Calcarea phosphorica.
Excessive flatulence; the patient craves ham, bacon, salted or smoked meats. Enlarged mesenteric glands; pain after a small quantity of food.
What is the diarrhoea of Calcarea phosphorica?
Diarrhoea in teething, scrofulous and rachitic children; the stools are green, slimy and undigested; it is a noisy, offensive, watery and spluttering diarrhoea; cholera-infantum, with a great deal of offensive flatus.
Give indications for Calcarea phosphorica in defective nutrition or marasmus.
Thin, emaciated children, predisposed to glandular and osseous diseases; large head and open fontanelles; the teeth develop tardily; there is curvature of the spine, it is so weak it cannot support the body; the neck is very thin; the child vomits persistently; there is a diarrhoea of green, slimy and undigested stools.
What action has Calcarea phosphorica on the bones?
It has an action at the places where the bones form a suture or joint; it is also useful to favor the uniting of fractures, hastening the formation of callus.
What are the indications of Calcarea phosphorica in anaemic conditions of young girls?
The complexion is waxy, greenish and white; the menses are too early; chlorosis.
Give in general some distinguishing features between Calcarea phosphorica and Calcarea carbonica.
Calcarea carb., large abdomen, like inverted saucer.
Calcarea phos., retracted and flabby abdomen.
Calcarea carb., craving for eggs.
Calcarea phos., craving for salt and smoked meats.
Calcarea carb., stool watery, white, mixed with curds.
Calcarea phos., stool green, slimy, hot with much flatus.
Calcarea carb., anterior fontanelles open.
Calcarea phos., both fontanelles open.
Calcarea carb., light hair, blue eyes.
Calcarea phos., dark hair and eyes.
Give some indications for Calcarea phosphorica in phthisis Associated with fistula in ano; chronic cough, with cold extremities; profuse night sweats in phthisis; sweats especially about the head and neck. Incipient phthisi, in anaemic subjects.
CALCAREA SULPHURICA.
Where are data concerning this remedy found?
In the same source as the foregoing.
Give the clinical applicability of Calcarea sulphurica.
It corresponds to suppurative, processes, abscesses, etc.
What are the indications for Calcarea sulphurica in abscess?
When the abscess has broken or has been lanced and is discharging, then Calcarea sulphurica comes in; the presence of pus with a vent is the characteristic indication.
In what special disease is Calcarea sulphurica indicated?
Suppuration of the tonsils; abscesses of the cornea; suppurative processes in the lungs, boils or any suppurating wounds.
How does it compare with Hepar and with Silicea?
It is deeper acting than Hepar, and acts after that remedy ceases to act; Silicea comes in before this remedy to favor or to prevent the suppuration.
HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREA.
Where are studies of Hepar to be found?
In Hahnemanns’s Materia Medica Pura; Chronic Diseases.
How is Hepar prepared?
By triturating equal parts of the middle layer of the oyster shell and pure sulphur flowers, having been calcined together in a crucible, according to Hahnemann’s directions.
Give the general action of Hepar.
It produces an over-sensitiveness of the nervous system, causing intolerance of pain, low spirits, etc.
Give five characteristics of Hepar.
1. Suppurative processes.
2. Sensitive to cold air.
3. Over-sensitiveness of nervous system.
4. Cravings for strong things, as acids, etc.
5. Unhealthy skin; every little wound suppurates.
What are the head symptoms of Hepar?
Headache as if a nail were being driven into the right side of the head; offensive eruption on the scalp, with non- excoriating discharges and great tenderness.
What other drugs have headache as if a nail were being driven into the head?
Ignatia, as if driven into the top of the head; Thuja, as if driven into the frontal eminence.
What are the eye symptoms of Hepar?
Purulent affections about the eyes, hypopyon, etc.; worse from cold applications. The lids are sensitive to touch, the pains are throbbing, and heat relieves.
What are the throat symptoms of Hepar?
Sharp splinter-like pains in the throat, or a sensation as if there were a lump in the throat. Tonsillitis with tendency to suppuration.
What other drugs have sticking pains in the throat?
Argentum nitricum and Nitric acid.
Give two other drugs having peculiar throat symptoms.
Natrum mur. Sensation of a hair in the throat.
Valeriana. Sensation as of a string hanging down into throat.
What are the stomach symptoms of Hepar?
Craving for acids, alcoholics and strong tasting substances; hunger and gnawing in the stomach; cannot bear anything tight about the waist.
Give the indications for Hepar in laryngeal affections.
The cough of Hepar is never a dry one, it has a slightly loose edge; the expectoration is slight, and there is little fever. Croup, where the patient is sensitive to the least draft of air; it comes in here after Aconite and Spongia.
How is the cough of Hepar distinguished from that of Belladonna, Conium, Rumex and Lachesis?
From Belladonna by absence of laryngeal soreness and fever.
From Conium, the irritation being higher in the throat.
From Rumex by hot being affected by respiration.
From Lachesis by not being excited by pressure on larynx.
What are the skin symptoms of Hepar?
The skin is sensitive to the open air; inflamed skin; injuries suppurate easily; eruptions and ulcerations are sensitive, and bleed easily, and discharge a foul smelling excretion; around the principal ulcerations there are little pimples.
When should Hepar be given in suppurative processes?
In boils or abscesses where there is much throbbing and sticking in them; if given low it will favor suppuration, and if given high it will sometimes abort the suppurative process; it always comes in after Belladonna.
SILICEA.
Where are studies of Silicea found?
Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases; British Journal of Homoeopathy, Vol. XXVIII. Considered as a tissue remedy in Boericke and Dewey’s Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schussler. Fourth edition.
How is Silicea prepared?
By trituration to the 6x, and then by dilutions as directed by Hahnemann.
What is the general action of Silicea?
Silicea corresponds to the scrofulous diathesis; its action is deep and long lasting. It suits ill-nourished constitutions due to defective assimilation. It corresponds to suppurative processes.
What are the mental symptoms of Silicea?
The patient is over-sensitive to noise, is despondent, and has a disgust for life.
Give the headache of Silicea.
The headache of Silicea commences at the nape of the neck and extends up over the vertex to the frontal region. Is worse from noise, light, exertion and study. Is worse on right side, and relieved from warmth or wrapping the head up warmly.
How does the headache of Menyanthes compare here?
It commences at nape and comes up over head, there is a bursting pain as if the skull would burst open. Pressure, rather than warmth, relieves; worse by going up stairs; when there is a sensation of weight on vertex.
What eye affections indicate Silicea?
Styes or pustular affections about the eyes.
What are the ear symptoms of Silicea?
It is a useful remedy in suppurative ear troubles, accompanied by caries in the mastoid cells.
In what affections of the teeth and gums do we find Silicea indicated?
In abscesses about the roots of the teeth and dental fistulae.
When is Silicea indicated in tonsillitis?
When there is suppuration; when the abscess has broken and the suppurative gland will not heal.
What is there characteristic about the constipation of Silicea?
It is a constipation which is accompanied by a spasmodic condition of the sphincter, it contracts suddenly and the stools recede after having been partially expelled. Monroe calls this “a bashful stool.”
What are the general glandular symptoms of Silicea?
It is the remedy in suppurating glandular affections, such as inflammation of the breast and in inflammation and suppuration of the inguinal glands or suppurative conditions about the salivary glands.
In what other suppurative affections is Silicea indicated?
In any affection where there is a suppurating surface which refuses to heal, such as abscess of the hip, hip joint disease, Pott’s disease of the spine, felons, boils and carbuncles.
In what respiratory affection is Silicea indicated?
In abscesses of the lungs, and in pneumonia in the stage of suppuration.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.