CALCAREA CARBONICA



STOMACH

(The region of the stomach is painful to the touch.) Sudden distensive pain in the stomach. Fullness of the stomach. Pressure at the stomach the whole day. Sense as of a weight being firmly lodged in the stomach. Painful pressure at the stomach, like a spasm. Pressure at the stomach, with griping lacerating when walking; with pressing out under the last rib; pressure with sticking after a meal; nightly pressure in the pit of the stomach. Spasm of the stomach, with nausea, eructations, and yawning after eating, with vomiting of food and oppression. Violent spasms of the stomach, in the afternoon, until sweat broke out all over the body. Contractive pain in the stomach. Griping in the pit of the stomach, or cutting and pinching. Soreness in the stomach. Burning at the stomach. (Anguish in the pit of the stomach.).

HYPOCHONDRIA

(Tension in the hypochondria.) Sense as of constriction below the hypochondria, with trembling and throbbing in the region of the stomach. Tensive and crampy pain in the region of the hypochondria, and in the pit of the stomach. (Griping in the hypochondriac region, below the pit of the stomach, accompanied by chilliness over the whole body.) She cannot bear tight clothes around the hypochondria. Tension and pressure in the region of the liver, as if the parts were very much enlarged, even unto bursting. Aching pain in the liver, especially at night, when the hardness is more perceptible. Pressure in the region of the liver, at every step when walking. Drawing pain in the posterior part of the region of the liver, towards the back, like lacerating. Drawing pain, extending from the right hypochondrium to the symphysis -pubis, also with obscuration of sight, and vertigo. Darting pain in the region of the liver. Stitches in the liver, during or after stooping. (Lancinations in the right side, below the ribs.) Pain as of rawness in the liver.

ABDOMEN

Excessive pain in the middle of the belly. Pain in the belly over the hips, when walking and breathing. Pain in the hypogastrium, after having walked a few steps, with sense of heat through the whole body. Pressure in the abdomen, from the pit of the stomach downwards. Aching pain in the belly, below the navel, early after rising, as if pressure were made upon the abdomen, with constipation. Violent pressure in the abdomen, and hard stool. Aching pain in the abdomen, with nausea. Pressure in the abdomen, with stitches in the pit of the stomach downwards; also with dullness of the head. Considerable distention of the abdomen, with colic, frequently during the day. Contractive pains in the abdomen, towards the small of the back. Gnawing-griping in the abdomen and in the stomach, coming from the chest, also with cutting and vomiting of food. Frequent serve spasms in the intestinal canal, especially in the evening and at night, with coldness if the thighs. Spasmodic turning and twisting around the navel. Sense as of a sudden griping- lacerating in the hypogastrium, in the direction of the uterus, for several days, with discharge of bloody mucus with the stool. Twisting in the bowels. Writhing cutting pain in the abdomen. Pinching, deep in the hypogastrium, in the region of the bladder, with pain at every step, as if the internal parts were drawn down by a weight. Violent cutting in the abdomen, early in the morning, on waking, Shooting stitches in the abdomen, especially when breathing. Drawing in the abdomen, with uneasiness, early on waking. Soreness in the abdomen, with painful tension when keeping the body erect, or when bending it backwards. Burning in the abdomen, frequently. Feeling of coldness in the in the abdomen. Enlargement and hardness of the abdomen, particularly in children, with swelling of the mesenteric glands. Heaviness and drawing pain in the groin. Sense as of swelling in the inguinal glands. Glandular swellings in both groins. Constant gurgling in the abdomen. Fermentation in the abdomen. Frequent incarceration of flatulence, with rumbling in the abdomen. Incarceration of flatulence, with pain in the small of the back. Incarceration of flatulence, with great vertigo.

STOOL AND ANUS

Constipation, the first days; constipation, increasing from day to day. No stool, with constant urging, accompanied by gloominess in the head. Hard, undigested stool, and hot every day. Hard, black stool. Hard, burning stool, with slime. Constant urging, with difficult and scanty stool. Urging, as if diarrhoea would ensue, nevertheless the stool are natural. Diarrhoea, the first eight days. Diarrhoea, particularly of children, having a sour smell, or yellowish and fetid; of scrofulous individuals; of phthisicky persons; during dentition; clay-like evacuations, scanty and knotty, or watery and papescent; frothy, involuntary. Undigested stool, rather loose. Undigested, hard, intermittent stool. The stools are white, streaked with blood, with great despondency, and pain of the liver, produced by breathing and contact. Stool, mixed with blood, scanty. Discharge of blood from the rectum. The varices of the rectum are distended, painful, and emit blood. The distended varices of the rectum protrude, and make even the loose stool painful. Ascarides of the rectum. Burning in the rectum during stool. Tenesmus, followed by pressure upon the rectum, and dyspnoea. Dyspnoea, after stool. After stool: feeling of faintishness, drawing cutting in and about the rectum; drawing and cutting in the lower part of the rectum, with a feeling of heat there; burning in the rectum, early in the morning; burning itching in the rectum. Violent pressure in the rectum. Spasm of the rectum, the whole forenoon, a pinching together, stinging, accompanied by great anguish, so that she was not able to sit still, but had to walk about. Tensive shooting pain in the rectum, between the evacuations in the evening. Stinging pain in the rectum, as from excoriation. Burning in the rectum. Tingling in the lower rectum. Prickling in the rectum, as of ascarides. Violent itching of the lower rectum. Grape-like eruption around the an us, inflamed, burning, painful. Troubles from suppression of the haemorrhoidal flux.

URINE

Stitches in the female urethra. Cutting stitches in the urethra, with unsuccessful desire to urinate. polypus of the bladder. Desire to urinate, especially when walking. Wetting the bed. Frequent micturition at night. Nightly micturition, with burning in the orifice of the urethra. A good deal of mucus is passed with the urine, resembling leucorrhoea; this mucus is only seen when urinating. Frequent deposition of a white, flour-like powder in the urine. Urine with bloody sediment; bloody urine; haemorrhage from the urethra. Catarrh of the bladder. Stone. Fetid, dark-brown urine, with a white sediment. Fetid, pungent smell of the urine, which is very clear and pale. Acrid smell of the urine Burning in the urethra during micturition.

MALE GENITAL ORGANS

Violent stitches in the glans. Violent burning in the tip of the glans. Pain, as from contusion, in the testicles. Cutting and smarting pain, as from excoriation, in the testicles, commencing in the groins. Violent itching of the scrotum. Pain in the spermatic cord, as if contracted. The sexual desire is very much increased Violent sexual desire, originating in lewd fancy, with deficient erection and excessive weakness, and great irritation of the nerves after the embrace. Frequent nocturnal emissions. The erections are too short; stinging and burning in the parts.

FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS

Itching and stitches in the female parts. Burning soreness of the organs of generation. Aching in the vagina; pressing on the prolapsed uterus; stinging in the ostincae. Discharge of blood between the menses, nine days before the period, for two days. (Haemorrhage from the uterus of an old woman, who had ceased menstruating for many years, in the last quarter of the moon.) The menses appear too soon. The menses last eight days. There was an excessive menstrual flow twice in succession, this occasioned the expulsion of a small foetus, with a sort of labor-pains, violent desire for stool, and cutting and bearing- down in the hypogastrium. Voluptuous dream at night; headache; great depression and nervousness. During the menses: vertigo, rush of blood to the head, and heat in the head; painful pressure on the vertex. Attack of toothache; boring in the hollow tooth, which becomes pulsating when stooping; nausea and unsuccessful desire for stool; drawing and oppressive pains, with stitches in the abdomen and in other parts of the body, with uneasiness, even unto falling. After the menses: toothache, drawing and lancinating, day and night, worse upon bending the head either left or right, or backwards. Leucorrhoea, like mucus; like milk; milk-like leucorrhoea, which is mostly discharged during micturition, or the discharges taking place at intervals; leucorrhoea with burning and itching in the pudendum. Varices of the pudendum. Sterility; chlorosis. In pregnant females, toothache. In lying-in females: too long after-pains; debility; falling off of the hair; milk fever; deficiency of milk, or- galactorrhoea; soreness of the nipples. In infants at the breast: ophthalmia; acidity; muscular weakness In the mammae: pain as if ecchymozed, and soreness of the nipples. In infants at the breast: ophthalmia; acidity; muscular weakness. In the mammae: pain as if ecchymozed, and soreness of the nipple, particularly when touching them.

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.