Whatever organ is affected, if this constitution is present, calcarea carbonica will be the remedy. Nevertheless there is a special direction towards certain organ system. The formative, solidifying properties of calcium point to its value in diseases of the cartilages and bones and of the nervous system. Softening of the bones , irregular distribution of calcium-deposits in the bones leading to exostoses, chronic inflammation of bones and joints is one field for calcarea carbonica as a remedy.
A state of irritable weakness of the nervous system, neurasthenia with its various symptoms, congestive headache, sleeplessness, tendency to cramps and convulsions, epileptic attacks are some other clinical indications. We find calcium in nature everywhere in the water, and in the body in the countless channels with their interposed glands which carry the fluids to and from the cells, forming the lymphatic system.
The constitution of the person who needs calcarea carbonica is so to speak a watery one, it is unprotected against the overflow of the lymph fluids which transudate already under-normal conditions, producing the bloated appearance. Under the slightest inflammatory stimulus the flood gates of the lymph and blood capillaries open and serum transudates into the interstitial tissue and over the mucous membranes, bringing about lingering catarrhs of the various organs.
Following the inflammations of the lymphatic system the lymph-glands become enlarged, hypertrophic, hard or suppurating. The mucous membranes are bloated and irritated by the chronic flow of secretions and tend to produce polyps. There unfolds the whole pathology of what is called leucophlegmatic constitution, or exudative diathesis. Here calcarea carbonica develops again its tightening, drying, consolidating qualities, protecting the organism against the overflow of fluids.
The provings give us the most important modalities and numerous symptoms, indispensable for exact prescribing in many different conditions, fitting into the outlined general picture.
What remains when life has vanished is the inorganic part of the body, the Calcarea Skeleton, the symbol of death. Wherever in the body necrosis occurs, the dying tissue attracts calcium, and when it is dead, calcium precipitates, calcification takes place.
The less life and metabolism is in a tissue or organ the more does it attract calcium. Looking at man we see the most formed organs and parts of his body, rich in calcium, confining the human figure, putting as it were in end to its development. Through silicea the formative force still works in the softer parts of the structure, in the connective tissue. Through calcium the definite materialization and crystallization takes place the end of the cycle of life.
Journal of the Ame. Inst. of Homoeopathic. Vol. 39 No. 10.
