CALCAREA CARBONICA, CHINA OFFICINALIS

CALCAREA CARBONICA

Carbonate of Lime(CALCAREA CARBONICA - OSTREARUM)

Calcarea carb prepared from carbonate of lime.

It's a great antipsoric remedy.


Its chief action is on  the glands, skin, and bones, Increased local and general sweating, swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions. Also useful in incipient phthisis. Patinet is so much exhausted mentally and physically, due to overwork. Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses. Pituitary and thyroid disfunction.

Indicated in easy relapses, interrupted convalescence stages of the complaints.

The constitution of calcarea carb persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous secretions. The childrens who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look, complaints developed due to working in water. Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats. Children craves for eggs and eat indigestible things; are likely to develop diarrhœa. 

Calcarea carb patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring.

Mind or mental symptoms

Patient is obstinate ( like slight mental effort produces hot head). 
Aversion towards work. 
Anxiety with palpitation.
Feeling insecure, scared about future.
Feeling restless, nervousness after sexual intercourse.
Delusions about other people.
Mental symptoms from sexual excesses.

Apprehensive ( his/her complaints worse towards evening). 
Forgetful, confused, low-spirited. 

Head symptoms

Feeling like head will burst and will go insane.
Sense of weight on top of head. 
Headache, with cold hands and feet. 
Vertigo on ascending, and when turning head. 
Head feels hot and heavy, with pale face. 
Icy coldness in, and on the head, especially right side. 
Itching of the scalp. 
Dislikes open air.
Scratches head on waking.
Headache during sex.
Headache with wet weather.

Eyes symptoms

Getting tears with open air.
Lachrymation worse in open air and early in morning. 
Sensitive to light. 
Spots and ulcers on cornea. 
Lachrymal ducts closed from exposure to cold. 
Easy fatigue of eyes. Far sighted. 
Itching of lids, swollen, scurfy. 
Chronic dilatation of pupils. 
Cataract. 
Dimness of vision, as if looking through a mist. 
Scrofulous ophthalmia.

Ears symptoms

Discharges from ear.
Swelling inside the ear.
Noises in ear while swallowing.
Ringing noises in ear.
Deafness from working in water. 
Polypi which bleed easily.
Perversions and hardness of hearing.

Nose symptoms

Getting cold at every change of weather.
Running or blocked nose.
Epistaxis. 
Coryza. 
Nose lost sense of smell.
Nose bleeding.
Dry, nostrils sore, ulcerated. 
Stoppage of nose, also with fetid, yellow discharge. 
Offensive odor in nose. Polypi; swelling at root of nose.
Sneezing without running (or) blocked nose.
Nose swelling.

Face symptoms

Crusta lactea (itching, burning after washing). 
Submaxillary glands swollen. 
Goitre. 
Swelling of upper lip. 
Pale, with deep-seated eyes, surrounded by dark rings. 
Face swelling.
Itching of pimples in whiskers. 

Mouth symptoms

Mouth fills with sour water. 
Taste bad.
Teeth sensitive (pain from hot and cold things).
Tongue dryness.
Bleeding from gums. 
Difficult and delayed dentition. 
Teeth ache; increased by slight flow of air, anything cold or hot. 
Offensive smell from the mouth. 
Burning pain at tip of tongue; worse, anything warm taken into stomach.

Throat symptoms

Swelling of tonsillitis.
Indicated in Goitre. 
External throat swelling.
Voice hoarseness.
Throat pain while change of weather.
Difficult swallowing. 

Stomach symptoms

Ravenous hunger. 
Heartburn and loud belching. 
Cramps in stomach. 
Swelling over pit of stomach (like a saucer turned bottom up). 
Frequent sour vomiting (morning and night). 
Dislikes fat and milk. 
Worse while eating.  
Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils, eggs, salt and sweets. 

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Abdomen symptoms

Abdomen is sensitive to slightest pressure. 
Liver region painful when stooping. 
Cutting pain in abdomen; swollen abdomen. 
Incarcerated flatulence. 
Cramping and gripping pain in abdomen.
Patient cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. 
Distention with hardness. 
Gallbladder-stone colic. 
Increase of fat in abdomen. 
Umbilical hernia. 
Children are late in learning to walk.

Large and hard stools; whitish, watery, sour. 
Prolapse anus, and burning, stinging hemorrhoids. 
Diarrhea of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite. 
Constipation; stool at beginning hard, then pasty, then liquid. 
Children's diarrhea.
Sensation of movement in abdomen. 

Urine Symptoms

Urine is dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody. 

Irritable bladder. 
Enuresis.
Kidney stones.
Bloody urine.

Male symptoms

Thick emission from penis.
Pain, burning and itching.
Sexual passion increased. 
Semen emitted too soon. 
Coition followed by weakness, tiredness  and irritability. 

Female symptoms

Vaginal burning discharge before period.
Sterility with copious menses. 
Uterine polypi.
Uterine fibroids.

Headache, colic, chilliness and leucorrhœa before menses. 
Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. 
Patient can get menses too early, too profuse, too long, along with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet. 
Uterus easily displaced. 
Milky Leucorrhoea, . 
Burning and itching of parts before and after menses in girls. 
Increased sexual desire; easy conception. 
Hot swelling of breasts. 
Breasts tender and swollen before menses. 
Milk too abundant ( like disagreeable to child). 
Deficient lactation, with distended breasts in lymphatic women. 
Increased sweat about external genitals. 

Respiratory symptoms

Tickling cough at night, dry and free expectoration in morning ( like cough when playing piano, or by eating). 
Persistent, irritating cough from arsenical wall paper . 
Extreme dyspnea. 
Painless hoarseness ( bad in the morning). 
Expectoration only during the day; thick, yellow, sour mucus. 
Bloody expectoration  with sour sensation in chest. 
Suffocating spells ( tightness, burning and soreness in chest). 
Sharp pains in chest from before backwards. 
Chest very sensitive to touch. 
Longing for fresh air. 
Scanty, salty expectoration.

Musculoskeletal symptoms

Back symptoms

Pain as if sprained (can scarcely rise). 
Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. 
Rheumatism in lumbar region ( feeling weakness in small of back). 
Curvature of dorsal vertebrae. 
Nape of neck stiff and rigid. 
Renal colic.

Extremities symptoms

Rheumatoid arthritis, as after exposure to wet. 
Sharp sticking, as if parts were wrenched or sprained. 
Cold, damp feet; feel as if damp stockings were worn. 
Sour foot-sweat. 
Weakness of extremities. 
Swelling of joints, especially knee. 
Burning of soles of feet. 
Sweat of hands.
Joint pains in wet and dry weather.  
Feet feels cold and dead at night. 
Old sprains. 
Pain in knee. 
Arthritic nodosities.

Fever symptoms

Hectic fever.
Chills at 2 pm begins internally in stomach region. 
Fever with sweat.
Pulse full and frequent. 
Chilliness and heat alternates. 
Partial sweats. 
Night sweats, especially on head, neck and chest.  
Sweat over head in children, so that pillow becomes wet.

Skin symptoms

Unhealthy skin. 
Skin is ulcerating; flaccid. 
Swollen lands . 
Nettle rash; better in cold air. 
Warts on face and hands. 
Chilblains. 
Boils.

CALCAREA CARBONICA

Modalities 

Worse - From exertion, mental or physical; ascending; cold in every form; water, washing, moist air, wet weather; during full moon; standing. 
Better - Dry climate and weather; lying on painful side. 
Sneezing

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Peruvian Bark-China (CINCHONA OFFICINALIS)

China is prepared from peruvian bark.

Debility from exhausting and increased discharges due to loss of vital fluids. Periodicity is most marked (e.g., malaria). Sensitive to draughts of cold air. Rarely indicated in the earlier stages of acute disease. Post operative gas pains, with no relief from passing it.

Mind or mental symptoms

Apathetic, indifferent, disobedient, taciturn, despondent. 
Ideas crowd in mind; prevent sleep. 
Disposition to hurt other people's feelings. 
Sudden crying and tossing about.

Head symptoms

As if skull would burst. 
Sensation as if brain were balancing to and fro, and striking against skull, receiving great pain (Sulph; Sulph ac). 
Intense throbbing of head and carotids. 
Spasmodic headache in vertex, with subsequent pain, as if bruised in sides of head. 
Face flushed after haemorrhages, or sexual excesses, or loss of vital fluids. 
Relieved from pressure and warm room. 
Scalp sensitive; worse combing hair. 
Aches worse in open air, from temple to temple. 
Worse by contact, current of air, stepping. Dizzy when walking.

Eyes symptoms

Photophobia. Distortion of eyeballs. Night blindness in anæmic persons. Spots before eyes. Amaurosis.

Ears symptoms

Ringing and buzzing in ears. 
External ear is sensitive to touch. 
Hearing sensitive to noise and external impressions.

Nose symptoms

Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge. 
Violent dry sneezing. 
Checked catarrh. 
Easily bleeding from nose, especially on rising. 

Face symptoms

Sick complexion. 
Bloated and red face.

Mouth symptoms

Toothache; better pressing teeth firmly together, and by warmth. 
Tongue coated thick, dirty; Ptyalism. 

Stomach symptoms

Tender, cold. 
Vomiting of undigested food. 
Slow digestion. 
Weight after eating. 
Ill effects of tea. 
Hungry without appetite. 
Flat taste. 
Darting pain crosswise in hypogastric region. 
Milk disagrees. 
Hungry longing for food, which lies undigested.
Flatulence; belching of bitter fluid or regurgitation of food gives no relief; worse eating fruit. Hiccough. 
Bloatedness better by movement.

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Abdomen symptoms

Much flatulent colic; better bending double. 
Tympanitic abdomen. 
Pain in right hypochondrium. 
Gall-stone colic(Triumfetta semitriloba). 
Liver and spleen swollen and enlarged. 
Jaundice. 
Internal coldness of stomach and abdomen. 
Gastro-duodenal catarrh.

Stool symptoms

Undigested, frothy, yellow; painless; worse at night, after meals, during hot weather, from fruit, milk, beer. 
Very weakening, with much flatulence. 
Difficult even when soft (Alum; Plat).

Male symptoms

Excited lascivious fancy. 
Frequent emissions, followed by great weakness. 
Orchitis.

Female symptoms

Menses too early. 
Dark clots and abdominal distention. 
Profuse menses with pain. 
Desire too strong. 
Bloody leucorrhœa. 
Seems to take the place of the usual menstrual discharge. 
Painful heaviness in pelvis.

Respiratory symptoms

Influenza, with debility. 
Cannot breathe with head low. 
Labored, slow respiration; constant choking. 
Suffocative catarrh; rattling in chest; violent, hacking cough after every meal. 
Haemorrhage from lungs. 
Dyspnœa, sharp pain in left lung. 
Asthma; worse damp weather.

Cardiac symptoms

Irregular with weak rapid beats followed by strong, hard beats. 
Suffocative attacks, syncope; anæmia and dropsy.

Musculoskeletal symptoms

Back symptoms

Sharp pains across kidneys, worse movement and at night. 
Knife-like pains around back. 

Extremities symptoms

Joints swollen; very sensitive, with dread or open air. 
Weariness of joints; worse, mornings and when sitting.
Pains in limbs and joints, as if sprained; worse, slight touch; better by hard pressure . 
Great debility, trembling, with numb sensation. 
Averse to exercise; sensitive to touch. 

Skin symptoms

Over sensitiveness to touch, but hard pressure relieves. 
Coldness. 
One hand ice cold, the other warm. Anasarca. 
Dermatitis. 
Indurated glands; scrofulous ulcers and caries.

Fever symptoms

Periodicity marked in fever. 
Intermittent, paroxysms anticipate; returns every week. 
Malaria. C
hill generally comes in forenoon, commencing in breast or chest; thirst before chill, and little and often. 
Debilitating night-sweats. 
Free perspiration caused by every little exertion, especially on single parts. 

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Modalities

Worse - Slight touch. Draught of cold air,  every other day; loss of vital fluids; at night; after eating; bending over.
Better - Bending double, hard pressure, open air and warmth.

Note:

Homeopathic Treatment requires stringent individualization. Please do not take any medicine without consulting your Homeopathic Physician.