Calcarea subjects are prone to eruptions on the skin, especially eczema, which appear on the scalp with a tendency to spread downward over the face, forming thick crusts, often bleeding, and appearing white like chalk deposits. The hair falls out. leaving bare spots on the scalp. An offensive moisture exudes from the eruptions. Silicia also has patches of eruptions on the posterior portion of the scalp, which are SCABBY, scaly, offensive and moist. These eruptions, like the ulcerations, are further proof of the power of these remedies in eradicating the miasm of syphilis.
The ability of Calcarea to grow polypi is marked; in subjects who need this remedy or who are poisoned through its action, polypi grow in the nose, ears, vaginal tact, or bladder; in fact any mucous surface may furnish the site for such a growth. These polypi are sycotic calcarea also causes the formation of exostoses, which deformity is the product of syphilis,, causing defective nutrition of the bone, resulting in the irregularity in the distribution of lime.
Typical of the Calcarea sluggishness,the stomach is slow in action; food remains here too long; milk disagrees and causes sour vomiting in these syphilitic children. Silicia has a great aversion to its mothers milk, and vomits after taking it. As in silicia, the aversions to warm food is somewhat contrary to the constant desire for warmth. The strong psoric craving of Calcarea for eggs, especially during convalescence, is a strong feature the craving for indigestible things such as chalk, is no doubt due to the defective assimilation of lime, and manifests the desire of the organism for the acquisition of the element in which it is deficient.
Calcarea has a hard, chalky white stool which he expels with difficulty; Silicia partly expels his stool, when due to defective expulsive power, the fecal material recedes into the rectum. Silicia often comes in to cure diarrhoea after vaccination; fissures and fistulas of he anus are common representing the existence of a latent tubercular diathesis; the basic miasms often become active after surgical treatment of fistulas, so that without the exhibition of the remedy, the condition of pulmonary tuberculosis shortly after the suppression, springs into active manifestation, Calcarea like silicia, has diarrhoea especially during dentition, yet strange as it may seem, the patient is improved in every respect when constipated; he passes tapeworms and ascarides with his stool.
Calcarea seems especially adapted to the female constitution. At adolescence it may be indicated in girls when the menses are delayed in making their appearance. Though apparently plethoric and robust, suffering from congestions to the head and chest, causing palpitation, dyspnoea and headache, the blood is actually in a state of anaemia.
The menstrual flow may be too profuse, may come too soon, and last too long. The Calcarea type is usually sterile. Silicia produces uterine haemorrhage or small bloody flow between the menstrual period; this is noticed most often at the time of the new moon. The menses are irregular, and there may be menstruation during lactation. Amenorrhoea follows the suppression of a foot sweat. At puberty too, Calcarea is indicated when tuberculosis of the lungs threatens, as evidenced by the dyspnoea, palpitation especially on ascending and even haemorrhages from the lungs; dry cough at night which becomes loose in the morning;the fever is < at night, with partial sweat and soreness of the chest to touch, especially beneath the clavicles.
Even late in phthisis, when large cavities have formed, Calcarea is useful; its chief action centers on the middle third of the right lung. In its tubercular state, Calcarea shows strongly the syphilitic aversion to animal food especially meat emaciation progresses, sweat increases and in the female organism a state of amenorrhoea arises. Silicia, in advanced phthisical conditions, is dangerous and therefore contraindicated, silica unlike Calcarea it stimulates the formation of pus, rather than the absorption of purulent matter.
In summarizing these great polychrests, we can most accurately describe the Calcarea state as one of sluggishness, which feature is especially true in the mental sphere and in the nervous reactions. Silicia, however, even in its state of exhaustion and depression, is hyperirritable, as evidenced by spasms which occur during a state of muscular exertion with fatigue, manifested by the sensation of weakness and cramp in the feet at night and when walking;the sensation of weakness of the hand, together with simultaneous spasm of that organ when writing, and the sensation of paralysis in the rectum and the spasm of the sphincter ani during defecation; always a condition of erethism and stimulation conjoined with the state of exhaustion, paralysis or depression. NEW HAVEN, CONN.
Arnica, Rhus and Calcarea often follow one another this way: A sprain in joint, bruised condition of muscles, would be well covered immediately by Arnica. The injury does well for a time, but after a week or two there is still some weakness and pain. Now Rhus is also similar, but belongs to a later period. So Rhus takes up the case, carries him comfortably on for some months, when he suddenly finds its power over the condition gone, and that he has a rheumatic stiffness in the strained joint coming on after cold, damp weather.
Now Calcarea is indicated and will finish the case.
In such conditions the needled remedy seems to go deeper and deeper, and to eradicated the remaining vestiges of excited psora-J.T.KENT, M.D., 18876.
