====== CALCAREA FLUORICA ====== {{anchor:s1}}Calcarea Fluorica. {{anchor:s2}}Calcium fluoride. {{anchor:s3}}The bone salt. {{anchor:s4}}Proved by J. B. Bell on himself and others; N. E. M. G., 1874, p. 300. {{anchor:s5}}The provings of J. B. Bell, including those of J. U. W. and J. S. H. (made and led by a master observer), are confirmed: {{anchor:s6}}"1. By internal evidence; the symptoms were mostly new to the provers and arose without any apparent cause. {{anchor:s7}}2. By repetition of the same symptoms in the same provers. {{anchor:s8}}3. By striking likeness of some of those symptoms to the symptoms of Calcarea ostrearum, particularly those of the mind and larynx. {{anchor:s9}}4. By equally marked similarity of symptoms to those of Fluoric acid (vivid dreams of new scenes, death of relatives, and of the cadaver). {{anchor:s10}}Thus also incidentally and inferentially the provings of Calc. ostr. and Fluor. ac. are confirmed; and all by the 15th potency of an inert substance. {{anchor:s11}}--J. B. Bell." {{anchor:s12}}The same could be shown throughout the whole of our Mat. Med. --C. Hg. {{anchor:s13}}All contained in Schuessler's latest edition is added. {{anchor:s14}}The cures are principally from Schuessler and his followers. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s16}}All day an unusual tendency to look on the dark side of things; with much depression of spirits.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Depression of spirits and disposition to set a higher value on money than natural to him (avarice ?).\\ {{anchor:s18}}Feeling of anxiety about money matters; thought he would come to want or would soon be "running astern" financially (entirely without occasion).\\ {{anchor:s19}}Indecision. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s21}}Dull headache over whole head, with a faintish nausea at stomach, all afternoon, amel. in evenings. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s23}}On left side of head (corresponding to os temporale) a flat swelling about a quarter of an inch high and one and a half inches in diameter; skin of unaltered color; no pain in it; by gently pressing, a fluid could be felt; pressing hard, a rough, jagged, hard mass, growing on bone.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Enlargement or swelling on parietal bones of newborn children, with an apparent osseous wall.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Cephalematoma. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s27}}Flickering and sparks before eyes, mostly left.\\ {{anchor:s28}}After writing some time was no longer able to see distinctly, because of a blur or mist before eyes, with some aching in eyeball; amel. when closing eyes and pressing tightly upon them.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Spots on cornea; opacities.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Conjunctivitis. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s32}}Calcareous deposits on the tympani. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s34}}Blowing of much mucus from nose, with ineffectual desire to sneeze.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Copious, offensive, thick, greenish-yellow nasal catarrh. {{anchor:s37}}~ Osseous growths. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s39}}A hard swelling on jaw bone.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Swelling of size of a pigeon egg under lower jaw, very hard and jagged.\\ {{anchor:s41}}A "cold sore" commences at left corner of mouth; after two days it is quite extensive, but no cold with it; never had a cold sore before.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Cold sores rather small; hard herpetic sores on lips, from colds, not diffused like Natr. mur. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s44}}Deficient enamel of teeth. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s46}}Desire to swallow from a tickling in larynx as from a small foreign body, but without relief.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Hawking of mucus. {{anchor:s48}}See 16.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Prickling, burning, suffocative sensation in throat; agg. at night and from cold drinks, amel. from warm drinks. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s51}}Soon after dinner hacking cough. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s53}}Hawking of mucus in morning caused an attack of hiccough, which was long and weakening, and recurred frequently during day.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Faintish nausea at stomach, with headache. {{anchor:s55}}See 3. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s57}}About midnight, or soon after, was awakened by a sharp lancinating pain in right hypochondrium under eleventh rib, occurring in paroxysms; agg. when lying on painful side; so much so as to cause a feeling of bursting outward; amel. when lying on painless side and when doubling up; accompanied by restlessness.\\ {{anchor:s58}}At 8 A. M., frequent attacks of lancinating pains in hepatic region; agg. when sitting, amel. when walking about. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s60}}For some days much wind in lower part of abdomen; agg. when riding and towards evening; amel. after lying down at night. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s62}}Slight diarrhea, with painful urging before stool; first part of stool natural, last part loose.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Constipation with dizziness and dull headache.\\ {{anchor:s64}}During night awakened by itching at anus from pin worms, not felt to that degree since childhood and rarely felt at all.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Bleeding piles. {{anchor:s66}}~ Osseous tumors. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s68}}Profuse emission of pale watery urine, from 8 A. M. to 3 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Arose twice during night to pass urine profusely, which he never did before.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Increased secretion of pale urine; 3d day.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Urine scanty, high colored and turbid; 5th day.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Urine emits a pungent odor.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Urine causes smarting along urethra, particularly at its external orifice. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Induration of testicles. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s79}}Hard knots in breasts. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s82}}Some tickling in larynx and occasional hawking, with desire to clear larynx.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Occasional attacks of tickling-itching in larynx, inducing a hacking cough; agg. from 3 to 4 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Slight feeling of oppression, with tickling in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Soon after itching at anus, itching-tickling in larynx, forcing a spasmodic cough, which was relieved after a few hours by hawking a little mucus from larynx.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Dryness in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s87}}The tickling extends from larynx 3 inches down trachea.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Towards night, dryness in larynx, with desire to clear it, and some hoarseness, but no cough.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Hoarseness after laughing or reading aloud. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s91}}Oppression of breath, as from taking cold.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Difficulty of breathing; as if epiglottis was nearly closed. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s94}}Hacking cough. {{anchor:s95}}See 25.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Soon after dinner a hacking cough occurring in one or two paroxysms at a time, caused by a tickling in larynx, as from a small foreign body; not relieved by coughing.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Spasmodic cough from itching in larynx. {{anchor:s98}}See 25. ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== {{anchor:s100}}Osseous growth at angle of eighth right rib, size of a man's fist. {{anchor:s101}}~ Exostosis. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s103}}Small goitres improved.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Indurated cervical glands of stony hardness.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Tired aching of small of back, as after long ride, but did not ride far; can sit in no position to relieve back.\\ {{anchor:s106}}During afternoon much pain and tired aching in lower part of back with bodily restlessness; must walk about.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Lumbago, from strains; pains agg. after rest, amel. after moving a little, and from warmth (when Rhus tox. did no good). ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s109}}Osseous tumor on spine of scapula.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Swelling of elbow joint; after maltreatment improved by Ferr. phosph., until jerks and starting led to an examination of joint and discovery of crepitation, showing a want of synovial fluid; one grain each morning and evening improved it so much that the opening closed and some motion became possible.\\ {{anchor:s111}}The left thumb, after being wounded and badly treated, had fistulous ulcers and a crepitation of joint of first phalanx; after Silic. had been given.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Exostoses on fingers. {{anchor:s113}}See 47. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s115}}Swelling on lower limb of a young lady (formerly treated for periostitis of humerus); a rough, hard, bony swelling, covering whole width of shin bone, several inches long, had lasted 6 weeks; 3d cured in 3 weeks.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Spavin of horses.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Patellae surrounded by supernumerary bones, irregular in shape, varying from size of mullet-seeds to marbles; also abounding at various depths in tendons under knees and in tarsal and carpal articulations. {{anchor:s118}}~ Osseous growths. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s122}}After rest: lumbago worse.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Sitting: agg. pain in hepatic region.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Can sit in no position to amel. back.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Lying: on painful side agg. pain in hepatic region; on painless side amel. pain in hepatic region; amel. wind in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Doubling up: amel. pain in hepatic region.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Motion: pain in back better.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Writing: eyes blurred and misty after.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Walking about: amel. pain in hepatic region and back.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Riding: agg. wind in lower abdomen. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s132}}Restlessness, with pain in liver; tired backache.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Feeling of fatigue all day. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s135}}Sleep unrefreshing on account of indistinct dreams of unsuccessful efforts to do various things, leaving an unpleasant impression on waking.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Dreams in siesta, vivid and distinct, of new scenes, places, books, etc.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Vivid and distinct dreams of wholly new scenes and places, not unpleasant, but with a sense of impending danger.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Vivid and distinct dreams, also natural and connected; of death of a relative, causing much grief and weeping.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Vivid dreams and dreams with weeping about such as had died seven years before.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Dreamed of cutting up a woman in pieces as an animal for salting; the details very distinct and the dream seemed to continue a long time.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Last night jumped from bed in a dream and tried to get out at window, which woke him.\\ {{anchor:s142}}During night awakened by itching in anus from pin worms. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s144}}All day: depressed spirits.\\ {{anchor:s145}}From 3 to 4 P. M.: larynx tickling-itching; cough.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Afternoon: headache with nausea; backache.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Towards night: larynx, dryness and hoarseness.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Evening: dull headache, with faintish nausea, better.\\ {{anchor:s149}}At night: throat feels agg.; itching at anus; rises to pass urine; jumps from bed.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Midnight: sharp pain, right hypochondrium; itching of anus.\\ {{anchor:s151}}At 8 A. M.: pains in hepatic region; profuse emission of urine.\\ {{anchor:s152}}From 8 A. M. to 3 P. M.: profuse emission of urine. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s154}}Warmth: lumbago amel. from; warm drink, amel. throat.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Cold drinks: throat agg. from.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Worse in damp weather, but amel. by fomentation. {{anchor:s157}}~ Osseous growth. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s159}}Attacks of fever, lasting a week or more, with thirst; dry, brown tongue; sleepless unrest. {{anchor:s160}}~ Osseous growths. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s162}}Attacks of tickling-itching in larynx; hiccough agg. from 3 to 4 P. M., and all day.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Fever: lasting a week or more, with thirst, brown tongue, sleepless and weak.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Hiccough: from hawking mucus.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Lancinating pains: in hepatic region. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s167}}Right: sharp pain in hypochondrium; osseous growth at angle of eighth rib.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Left: swelling on side of head; cold sore on corner of mouth; thumb, fistulous ulcers. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s170}}Piercing, darting, grinding pains in all joints; crampy knotting of leg muscles. {{anchor:s171}}~ Osseous growth.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Lancinating: in hepatic region.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Burning: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Prickling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Smarting: along urethra.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Dull pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Aching: in eyeball.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Tired aching: small of back.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Bursting outward: in hepatic region.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Suffocative: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Oppression: of breath.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Tickling: in larynx; in trachea.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Itching: at anus; in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Dryness: in larynx. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s186}}Corresponds to solidified infiltrations.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Indurated enlargements in fascia and capsular ligaments of joints.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Exudation from surface of bones which quickly harden and assume a nodular or jagged form.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Nodes and hard bone swellings.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Suppuration of bones; similar to Silic. and Calc. phosph.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Osseous growths in tarsal and carpal articulations.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Supernumerary bones (rice bodies ?).\\ {{anchor:s193}}Indurated glands, of stony hardness. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s197}}Better from slight pressure: eyes.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Following an injury: osseous growth.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Relieved by rubbing: osseous growth. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s201}}Occasional erysipelas. {{anchor:s202}}~ Osseous growths.\\ {{anchor:s203}}A warty growth the size of a pea in bend of right elbow, of 30 years' standing, disappeared while taking Calc. fluor. {{anchor:s204}}C12 for indurated testicle. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s206}}JBB., aet. 29, sanguine mental bilious temperament, dark brown fine hair and beard, blue eyes; proved the 15th and 30th.\\ {{anchor:s207}}JUW, aet. 23, sanguine temperament, light hair, bald in front, blue eyes, reddish beard; proved 15th.\\ {{anchor:s208}}JSH, aet. 22, bilious sanguine temperament, black rather dark beard, dark hazel eyes; proved 15th.\\ {{anchor:s209}}A man, aet. 30, pale and lean. {{anchor:s210}}~ Osseous tumor.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Strong healthy girl, aet. 3. {{anchor:s212}}~ Cephalematoma. {{anchor:s213}}After Calc. fluor. [3] in a few weeks it had entirely disappeared.\\ {{anchor:s214}}A negro, aet. 28, after an injury received 12 years ago, a bunch on angle of 8th right rib, increasing rapidly, within 3 months as large as a man's fist. {{anchor:s215}}Calc. fluor. [12] every 12 hours for 3 days, then omitting 3 days; in 2 weeks diminished two-thirds; 3 months afterwards an inconsiderable roughness only left. {{anchor:s216}}~ Exostosis.\\ {{anchor:s217}}A man, aet. 50, blonde, lymphatic; for 10 years rheumatic arthritis; articular exostoses on fingers, feet and knees; after partial relief by Bryon. and Calc. ostr., Calc. fluor. [12], the supernumerary bones disappeared. {{anchor:s218}}~ Osseous growths. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s220}}Compatibles: Calc. phosph.; Natr. mur., which has similar cold sores; Silica, in affection of thumb, 32.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Useful: after failure of Rhus tox. in lumbago; after Ferr. phosph. in synovitis; after Silica in suppuration; after Bryon. and Calc. ostr. in arthritis.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Compare: in ozaena, Calc. phosph.; in cold sore, Natr. mur.; in swelling on skulls of infants, Silica; in suppuration of bones, Calc. phosph., Silica; in spavin of horses, Phosph. ac., Silica. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 03, 1881 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r226|Calcarea fluorica]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r226|Calcarea fluorica]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1881 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}