Introduction
Calcarea acet. is one of the two lime salts proved by Hahnemann, who dissolved oyster shells in vinegar and evaporated this until he obtained a saturated solution. To this he added one-half its bulk of alcohol. This solution which we look upon as the first decimal, he says is seldom too strong for our use.
Symptoms
Calcarea acet. combines to a great degree the characteristics of Calcarea and Acetic acid, the latter having as prominent features, profound anaemia and emaciation, feeble pulse and night-sweats. It has produced membranous laryngo-tracheitis.
Calcarea acet. is to be thought of especially in membranous exudations the result of inflammation of the various mucous membranes.
Allen speaks of it for membranous dysmenorrhoea (138) in women of a Calcarea habit and membranous bronchitis, citing the following case: “A most brilliant cure was made of an obstinate membranous bronchitis, which for months had resisted all other treatment; the paroxysms recurred every two or three weeks and each time it seemed as if the patient would die, until extensive casts of the membrane of the bronchi were expectorated.” Profuse sweat, especially in the morning, is found under Calcarea acet.
