GROUP SYMPTOMS: CALCAREA

CALCAREA

Types of Calcarea:

• Calcarea acetica.

• Calcarea ars.

• Calcarea brom.

• Calcarea caust.

• Calc chlor.

• Calc citrica.

• Calc Fluoric.

• Calc formicum.

• Calc hypophos.

• Calc hydroid.

• Calc lactica.

• Calc mur.

• Calc metallicum.

• Calc nitricum.

• Calc oxydata.

• Calc picrica.

• Calc oxalia

• Calc stib sulph

• Calc fluor.

• Calc carb.

• Calc iod.

• Calc phos.

• Calc sulph.

• Calc sil.

CHARACTERISTICS:

• All calcareas are chilly (except Calc iod and Calc sulph.)
• Local or general coldness. Local coldness in epigastrium, palms, soles, vertex, etc.

CONSTITUTION:

• Fat, flabby and obese (Except Calc. phos)

CONGESTION:

• Red congested face, flushed face.
• Congestion felt in arteries, veins, eyes, ears, chest etc.
• Flushes of heat.
• Slowness, sluggishness, torpidity :
• This is found at both mental and physical level.
• At physical level, lack of reaction & delayed healing.
• In children : Delayed milestones. Delayed teething.
• In adults : Late menarche. Dwarfism. Dull, lethargic, obese patients.
• At mental level :
• Slow learning & grasping.
• Affinity or bones and glands.
• Bones, brittle, easily fractured, deformed. Delayed ossification. Glands hypertrophied and indurated.

Discharges:

• Profuse, white aluminous occasionally yellowish.
• Tendency to bleed easily.
• Bright, red, profuse, continuous flow. Menses - too early, too profuse, long lasting.

Craving:

• Indigestible things; like chalk, charcoal, pencil, earth etc.

Aversion:

• Tobacco, coffee, meat milk aggravates.
• Tendency to spasms and convulsions.

Skin:

• Unhealthy, oily, waxy, shiny

Pains:

• Throbbing shooting, pricking. Burning pains here and there.

Periodicity:

• Moon phases.
• Cannot tolerate tight clothing, esp. around the waist.

Modalities:

• < Cold in general. Damp weather.
• < Exertion
• > Heat in general.
• > Rest.
• > Lying on abdomen.

Mind:

• The remedy is prepared from the middle layers of inner part of the oyster shell. Thus one of the features of calcarea is protection and withdrawal. They withdraw and make a protective layer around them.