Carbonate of Lime.
CHARACTERISTICS.
Rachitic and scrofulous states. Washing diseases of scrofulous states. Wasting diseases of scrofulous children. Scrofulous sores and glandular enlargements., Unhealthy, moist skin, very sensitive to cold air. Chromic vomiting and diarrhoea. Too early and too free menstruation, with tendency to corpulence, in young women of leucophlegmatic temperament.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Excessive use of the time salts produces great debility and wasting of the tissues.
DOSE
Calcarea CARBONICA, 5-60 gr.
Therapeutically effective in doses ranging, probably, from the sixth decimal trituration to two tablespoonful of time water.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Rickety children; large head, large fontanelles, large features, pale, chalky skin. (Fourth or sixth decimal trituration).
Wasting diseases of scrofulous children.
Scrofulous sores.
Glandular enlargements of children.
Unhealthy, moist skin. Very sensitive to cold air. (Fourth or sixth decimal trituration)
Caries of the bones.
Chronically enlarged tonsils in scrofulous subjects.
Sub-acute and chronic diseases of the eye dependent upon the general cachexia of the patient.
Acute otitis of scrofulous children.
Young children suffering from chronic vomiting and diarrhoea and consequent wasting. (Lime water: teaspoonful to tablespoonful in water every three or four hours).
Too early and too free menstruation in young women of leuco- phlegmatic temperament. With these patients there is a tendency to corpulence. (Sixth decimal trituration).
