CALCAREA CARBONICA



FEVER

Great internal chilliness. Constant chilliness with much thirst. Internal chilliness, with uneasiness and tremulous anguish. (Frequent chilliness, with yellow color of the skin.) Chilliness in the evening. (In the evening, when lying down, external heat with internal chilliness.) Heat in the chest and head, the remainder of the body feeling chilly. (Glowing heat and redness of the face, with hot forehead, cold hands, and violent thirst, for several hours.) Heat in the face, followed by chilliness, every third day. A good deal of sweat in the daytime, when walking, and at night, when in bed. (Exhausting sweat, day and night.) Violent sweat in the day, the air being cold, or during the slightest exercise. Night-sweat, mostly before midnight, with cold legs. Nightly sweat on the back. Intermittent fever, particularly after abuse of China or Quinine; hectic fever. Fever, in the forenoon: alternate chills and heat. Feverish heat and burning thirst, alternating with chilliness. Evening fever: external chilliness, with internal heat and violent thirst; he feels chilly even in bed, and sweats at the same time, at least violent sweats break out. In the forenoon: headache, with sudden failing of strength, accompanied by great heat in the forehead and hands, great desire for acidulated drinks, after lying down the hands became icy cold, with quick pulse. Fever, from morning until noon or afternoon, commencing with lacerating in the joints and heaviness of the head, then languor, which scarcely permitted her to raise her self up in bed, with heaviness, stretching of the limbs, heat, and constant sensation as if sweat would break out, accompanied by trembling and uneasiness in all the limbs.

MORAL SYMPTOMS

Low spirited and melancholy, also with anxiety; want of cheerfulness, with heaviness of the limbs; sad mood, with voluptuous tremor of the body; great desire to weep, also in an infant. Anxiety about every trifle, accompanied by a weeping mood. Anxiety of mind. Great anguish and palpitation of the heart. Sweat, as from anguish, with nausea. Anxiety in the evening, at twilight, with horror and shuddering; anxiety, which can be excited by a thought or by listening to the narration of cruelties. Uneasiness of mind, with gloom and anxiety. Seething of the blood, and uneasiness. Apprehension, as if some misfortune were about to happen. The mind is full of dread and anxiety of the future, with fear of consumption. She fears she will lose her understanding, or that people will observe her confusion of mind. Hypochondriasis. Despairing mood, with fear of disease and misery, with foreboding of sad events. She despairs of her life, and imagines that she is obliged to die. Frequent attacks of irritability and anguish. Noise affects one a good deal. Impatient, desperate. Unnaturally indifferent, unsociable, taciturn. Peevishness and obstinacy. Very peevish and disinclined to talk. As soon as he sits idle and quiet he becomes peevish and sleepy, and everything is disagreeable to him. Vexed, peevish, sullen, and extremely indifferent towards the most important things. Intolerable sulkiness and peevish mood. Repulsive disposition. Everything is disagreeable to her. Ill-humor. Disinclined to every kind of work. The first part of the day anxious, the latter part cheerful.

SENSORIUM

Very forgetful. Chronic dullness of mind, with difficulty to think, and sensation as if a board were pressing against his head. Mania a potu, with delirious talk about fire, murder, rats, and mice. Giddiness and loss of senses, as if turning in a circle. Loss of the senses. Sense of confusion and tremor in the head. Sense of dullness and giddiness in the head, every morning on rising. Painful dullness of the head, she cannot understand that which she has been reading, nor comprehend that which is spoken. The head feels constantly as if it were too full. Dizziness of the head, early after rising, with nausea and roaring in the ear, and a sensation as if he would fall down senseless, or with tremor. Giddiness from catching behind the ears. Stupefaction of the head, like vertigo the whole afternoon. Vertigo and staggering in the evening, when walking in the open air. Vertigo as if the body did not stand firmly. Quickly-passing vertigo, mostly when sitting, less when standing and still less when walking, when going up-stairs. Violent vertigo when stooping, then nausea and headache, or standing. Vertigo when walking in the open air, after walking, and when standing.

HEAD

The head is affected by mental labor. Headache, also with giddiness, every morning on waking. Headache over the nose, in the forehead. Frequent semi-lateral headache, with empty risings. Headache, with nausea. Violent dull headache, first in the fore part, then in the back part of the head, for some days, stupefying pressure on the top of the head, as after quickly turning in a circle. Stupefying pain in the forehead, as in vertigo, both when at rest and in motion. Stupefying oppressive headache, in the forehead, with cloudiness of the whole head, and inability to recollect anything when reading. Painful feeling of fullness in the forehead, with beating in the temples. Heaviness in the forehead, increased by reading and writing. Great heaviness of the head, with violent jerks in both temples, and pain of the whole head when stooping, which goes off again when the head is raised. Pressure in the head. Intense aching pain in the whole head, especially in both temples. Pressure in the forehead. Aching in the forehead, especially over the left eye- brow, when walking in the open air. Pressure in the forehead, from within outward, resembling vertigo, relieved by pressing upon the parts with the cold hand, and going off when walking in the open air. Pain in the left temporal region and the whole left side of the head, pressing from within outwards. Sensation in the occiput as if pressed asunder. violent, almost lancinating pain in the region of the vertex, pressing from within outward, when stooping. Painful pressing from within outward, in the whole head, with sensation as if the brain were pressed together. Tensive sharp pain in the forehead. Tension across the top of the head. The head aches, it feels tight. Cramp-like pain, from the forehead to the vertex (after a cold). Cramp-like pain in the temples. Drawing pain, in the sinciput, with coldness of the forehead, and nausea; in the whole of the right side of the head, in the malar bone and the jaw. Headache arising from the nape of the neck. Drawing pain in the head. Drawing, sometimes also lacerating headache, at times in the forehead, at times in the occiput, sometimes in the temples, diminishing when pressing upon the parts, and disappearing when exerting the thinking faculty. Lacerating pain, the whole day, in the temples, the bones of the orbit, and the cheek. Gnawing or cutting in the occiput. Stitches in the head. Stitching pains in the brain, with sense of emptiness in the head. Single stitches through the head, with great chilliness. Lancinations through the eyes. Frequent stitches in the temples. Boring in the forehead, as if the head would burst. Jerkings in the head, for moments. Throbbing headache, in the middle of the brain, every morning and continuing the whole day. Throbbing pain in the forehead. Stitch-like throbbing in the head when walking fast. Throbbing, aggravated by mental exertions and spirituous drinks. Hammering, particularly in the occiput, or after a walk in the open air. Rush of blood to the head, with heat of the face, and buzzing in the head. Heat in the head, and considerable seething of the blood. Heat in the left part of the head. Heat all over the head, in the evening. Icy coldness, in and about the head.

SCALP

Itching of the hairy scalp. Itching behind the ear, with dizziness in the head after scratching. Burning itching of the hairy scalp. Eruption on the hairy scalp, with glandular swellings at the neck. Pimples on the forehead. Painful tumor on the right side of the head, suppurating. Soft, sore tumor behind the ear. Thin, moist porrigo on the hairy scalp. The hair of the head comes out when combing it, particularly in lying-in women. Sweat about the head, in the evening. Enlargement of the head of infants, with open fontanelles.

EYES

Pain in the eyes, as if they were pressed in. Pressure in the eyes in the evening. Pressure as from sand. Pressure and burning in the eyes, with lachrymation. Tension in the muscles of the eyes, when turning the eyes, or exerting them while reading. Twitching and slight beating in the eye. Stitches in the eye and head (during the menses). Cutting in the lids; in the eyes, with burning of the eyes when reading by candle-light. Itching in the margin of the eye-lids. Itching in the eyes, in the evening. Violent itching of the eyes. Itching in the canthi. Pain, as excoriation, in the lower eye-lid. Feeling of

heat in the eyes, with heaviness in the upper lids. Burning in the eyes, when he closes the lids. Itching burning of the eyes, head, and neck. Redness of the margins of the eye-lids. (Violent inflammation of the eyes, the whites of the eyes are quite red.) Ophthalmia of new-born infants: of scrofulous persons; of arthritic persons; from foreign bodies having got into the ball of the eye. Swelling and redness of the eye-lids; they become agglutinated every night; in the daytime the eyes are full of gum, with a feeling of heat and soreness, as from excoriation, and there is lachrymation. Lachrymation, when writing lachrymation, and fatigue and weakness of the eye. The eyes look watery, and their lids are agglutinated early in the morning Fistula-. Specks, ulcers, and obscuration of the cornea; fungus-haematodes in the eye. Slight twitching in the upper eye- lids, with a sensation as if the eye were moving spontaneously Dilatation of the pupils. A darkness or sense of blackness sometimes shoots across her eyes. Dimness of the eyes, after having caught a cold in the head; with a desire to close the eyes, without being sleepy. Sensation as of feathers before the eyes. Sensation as of a gauze before the eyes, in both the inner canthi. Flashes of light before the eyes. Far-sightedness; she is obliged to wear convex glasses when reading. Long- sightedness. Black spots before the eyes. Dancing wavelets of light, and fiery sparks before the eyes, early in the morning, on waking. Light dazzles her eyes.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.