REMEDIES FOR THE EMERGENCY KIT

REMEDIES FOR THE EMERGENCY KIT
Dr. Pierre Schmidt Geneva, Switzerland.
Presented by Vladislav G.Ivantsov (See Russian version)

Translated from the Proceedings of the Groupement Hahnemannien De Lyon;
7th series, by Roger Schmidt, M.D., San Francisco, Calif. P.184-188.

Calcarea ostrearum, Calcarea arsenicosa, Cadmium sulphuratum.

CALCAREA OSTREARUM:

This remedy is never considered as an acute one, yet it has many interesting acute indications. CALCAREA is one of the great monuments of the Hahnemannian genius. His idea of preparing from insoluble substances with his process of trituration and dynamization, thus transforming completely inactive substances and developing a therapeutic power entirely unknown, constitutes one of the most splendid discoveries in medicine. Hahnemann experimented with it first on himself by dissolving oyster shells in vinegar, calling it: TERRA CALCAREA ACETICA. Later he abandoned this procedure and triturated the middle layer of the oyster shell representing pure CALCIUM CARBONATE, calling it CALCAREA OSTREARUM. Thus it is a living calcium produced by the animal with a much greater value than the ordinary lime carbonate.

Noticing the much more intense efficacy of dynamized insoluble substances (as compared with simply dissolved substances) then dissolved in water and alcohol, he abandoned the calcium acetate which had been proved on healthy humans. So the complete proving of calcarea is a MIXTURE OF THE SYMPTOMS OF CALCAREA ACETICA AND CALCAREA OSTREARUM.

Let us not forget that lime is a constituent of the body. It is part of our bones and teeth, but also a part of our muscles, nerves, blood, and other fluids of our body.

CALCAREA, with SULPHUR and LYCOPODIUM is one of the great triumvirate of Psora. It is Hahnemann's PSORA-SYCOTIC par excellence. Although indicated mostly in chronic disturbances, it has numerous indications in acute states, as in acute exacerbations of chronic diseases. They are listed below according to the Hahnemannian scheme:

First observe in these 3 remedies the required sequence: SULPHUR, CALCAREA, LYCOPODIUM. From long experience, one can say that 85% of patients are found in the big cycle of these 3 remedies; and always in this order, and sometimes along the line, a patient will need these 3 remedies. If you prescribe lycopodium AFTER sulfur, you run the risk of provoking a symptomatic imbroglio which will be very difficult to unravel later. So my advice to you is to follow the experience of the old masters and follow the prescribed order.

Everybody knows that Calcarea fits particularly both EXTREMES OF LIFE, mostly indicated in leuco-phlegmatic children, indolent, with a large head, a big tummy, a puffed and pale face, with a slow and imperfect bone development, with delayed closing of the fontanelles, delayed dentition, delayed growth and delayed walking. Strange enough, these children are not delayed in talking. (It is NATRUM MURIATICUM, who talks late.)

However it is also the remedy of girl growing too fast. It acts perfectly in many acute conditions where the constitutional characteristics are utterly absent. There is no need at all to be indolent and fat in order to need CALCAREA in an acute condition. At the beginning of life, the child is fed with milk containing lots of calcium needed for bone and teeth formation; yet at the end of life we get calcified, sclerosed, everything hardens and one becomes again a little lump of brittle calcium. . . .

If CALCAREA is the remedy of too fast growing girls, the remedy for boys who grow too fast is often PHOSPHORIC ACID.



MENTAL SYMPTOMS:

Mentally speaking, CALCAREA is a great worrier and very fearful. It is one of the most ANXIOUS remedy of the Materia Medica. It has practically all the types of anxiety and fears that are on the book and their sequellae as well. So it is first a great remedy for ailments FOLLOWING BAD NEWS, whether heard by telephone, wire, letter or directly: the police coming and telling you your wife had an automobile accident, or notice by telephone that some dear one passed away. In such cases, give the XM of CALCAREA at once in case GELSEMIUM, which is a vegetable drug, and which should be your first choice, fails usually give GELSEMIUM first, as CALCAREA is rather the remedy corresponding to recurring situations.

Did I tell you the case of a janitor of the Geneva Conservatory who was taking a stroll every morning with a friend, for years, regularly, and one day his friend failed to come; so he phoned and was told that his friend was dead. Our janitor then suddenly felt a terrible noise in his right ear, and so became deaf in that ear ever since. He went to see his doctor first, without relief he then consulted three different specialists who could find nothing in his ear, yet prescribed tranquilizer of various kinds which did nothing to improve his ear, yet they produced dyspesia, constipation and insomnia as iatrogenic symptoms. . . . Several months later, his brother who is professor at the Conservatory told me about his case, and asked if anything could bo done for this unfortunate man. I simply administered GELSEMIUM XM, one dose: ten minutes later the noise stopped and has not returned. I could have given CALCAREA, but when we hesitate between remedies, one of which is a vegetable the other a mineral, it is always better to start with the vegetable, keeping the mineral in reserve as acting deeper. Vegetables live from minerals and not vice-versa. Minerals act deeper than either vegetable or animal remedies. When in the study of a case you find mostly vegetable remedies, you can be sure that the case is never as serious as if minerals were rather indicated. Animal remedies, like minerals, are a bad sign. Of course, we know that mineral remedies have acute phases, for example a chronic type of Phosphorus might need Phosphorus in an acute condition, but then you better go no higher than the 200th potency. Likewise with vegetable remedies. Pulsatilla for example you deal with both acute and chronic situations. The safe rule is, in an acute case, to prefer a vegetable remedy and keep the mineral remedy in reserve, as William Tell did his second arrow. Although produced by an animal, CALCAREA OSTREARUM is a mineral substance nevertheless.

CALCAREA IS ANXIOUS. He is afraid to go to bed. You will be called to see children having this fear. It isn't the fear of the night nor that of obscurity. You also find: fear at night; fear to go to sleep; fear of death; of insanity, of possible mishap, OF THE FUTURE; of getting poor, of suffering; of going to the dentist and naturally of operations; for his health; thinks he is getting sick for his soul's salvation. It is the remedy for the type of children who are afraid to go to bed because they see all kinds of grimaces and strange figures on falling asleep. They can't bear to go to the movies or look at a scene of crime, cruelty, battle, a western. I have seen a 10 year old boy who could not sleep since he saw a western at the movies, and CALCAREA improved him almost at once. As I have often repeated, when a patient has more than three kinds of fears, think of CALCAREA.

Calcarea is particularly fearful DURING FEVER and DURING CHILLS. That is the child who wakes up between 2-3 a.m. Howling and cannot be quieted down. He has forgotten everything in the morning. So it is really one of the best remedies for nocturnal fears to remember. The aura of Calcarea fear is generally in the epigastric region. It is also for sad children and who think that they are unhappy. Calcarea is sad during FEVER mostly, before menses, and during SWEATS.

It is the King pin for children's diseases during dentition. After prescribing Chamomilla for troubles during dentition without success, or after it fails to act, then try Calcarea. It works beautifully for children filching money. Women are very agitated and nervous during menses. Calcarea cries at the least remark or scolding or reproach, and is no better from consolation. Weeping often alternates with laughter. Calcarea weeps DURING TRANSPIRATION and mostly during chills.

Children are very unstable during dentition, and startle from noise. The Calcarea child can bite, spit in people's face, or howl day and night. The other day, I was travelling by air between London and Bruxelles and could hardly contain myself: there was a Scandinavian mother holding a pretty baby in her arms but it never ceased howling during the whole trip. I would have abstained giving Chamomilla, because the mother was holding the baby in her arms, coddling it without getting anywhere. Maybe Cina was indicated or perhaps Calcarea. . . . Later on, it will be irritable during headaches and, in women before or during menses, but mostly during SWEATS and DURING CHILLS. It is a wonderful remedy for ailments following EMOTIONAL CONFLICTS. The imagination is exhalted at night, and in certain states like grippe, fever, etc., desires to go home though being at home. (However Bryonia is more typical For this symptom.)



GENERAL SYMPTOMS:

It is the classical remedy for any trouble developing during DENTITION, and the remedy for babies, par excellence. It is indicated for LOSS OF VITAL FLUIDS: Hemorrages; diarrheas, sweats, seminal emissions. It is useful for THOSE WHO CANNOT FAST and have ailments from lack of nutrition. The sun aggravates, producing headaches and sunstrokes. Remember that Calcarea has both lateralities. However, it acts mostly on the right side for the head, the eye, the face, the abdomen, the male genitalia, and the upper extremities; But on the left side for the neck, the chest and the lower limbs.

In the Repertory, Calcarea is indicated for the left testicle ectopy in small print at "Retractation" p.709. These ectopies are difficult to treat and one is thinking of Calcarea because it works well in congenital disturbances. Surgical operations often modifies the psyche of these children in an extraordinary way. Up to now, I have been lucky with a few remedies such as Calcarea, Tuberculinum, sometimes Psorinum or Syphilinum. But Calcarea comes first in such cases.

Remember that it is a remedy in the 3d degree for sprains, muscle strain after lifting heavy material; it has an elective action on sinews and ligaments (Ruta). Generally one thinks of Rhus Tox. For such things, but you well know that Calcarea is the chronic of Rhus, and it works well even in acute cases.

Calcarea can faint during severe headaches or after stool, or during menses, or in the street. The patient states that his illness starts from the stomach and rises into the throat.

You might be called to prescribe for an epileptic; think of Calcarea for convulsion epileptic and epileptoid. Epilepsy is a mysterious disease of unknown origin; be generous and when talking to the parents speak of "epitoid" state, not epilepsy. Epitoid is a very general term covering epilepsy. Also during OB deliveries, do not speak of "pains" but of contractions, and your lady will be quieted knowing she will get contractions and not pain during delivery of their child.

If epilepsy fits or convulsions occur or are worse during the full moon think of Calcarea. The aura starts from the solar plexus, as for the fears or the fainting spells, or he feels that a mouse is climbing up a limb before a convulsion. I had such a case which responded beautifully with Calcarea. The causes of convulsions vary a great deal and can be from fears, from vexation or mortification, in children during dentition, or from suppressed eruptions, i.e. So called "cured" by an ointment or other outer applications; Finally after masturbation.

These convulsions can be either tonic or clonic. Most of the time there is loss of consciousness. It is a great remedy for CHOREA, most often for hemi-chorea from fears, from worms or in onanism. It is specific for convulsions in Addison's disease. They occur mostly evening, but also night or morning, at 4 a.m. And last until 4 p.m.



Vertigo:

Acute vertigo. The homeopathic remedy will seldom fail to stop vertigo. The Calcarea vertigo is latero-pulsive, sometimes retro-pulsive. Worse turning the head, looking up, but mostly looking down a staircase or through a window. It is the best remedy for MOUNTAIN SICKNESS, with the Lily Of The Valley, Convallaria Maialis. Mountain sickness is to be found in the Repertory in Generalities: Ascending High Places, p.1345. What are the symptoms of mountain sickness (from 3500 feet up): precordial anxiety, dyspnea from exertion, nausea, intense fatigue, prostration cutting the legs, headaches, vertigo, cyanosis, epistaxis, blurred vision. All these symptoms lead to the following remedies: Arsenicum, Aurum, Belladonna, Calcarea, Carbo-veg; Causti-cum, Conium, Cuprum, Gelsemium, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Natrum mur; and Pulsatilla.

But the main remedies are LACHESIS and CALCAREA, next ARSENICUM. For cardiac symptoms, think of Convallaria, and for the prostration Oleander and Spigelia.

Vertigo ascending stairs rapidly. So much for the picture of Calcarea Ostrearum for you to remember.



Head:

Warm head during menses. Yet, Calcarea is notoriously characterized by everything COLD; it has icy INTERNAL feelings or external on head, mostly on the right side. Very useful in students' headaches, often with midriasis (school girls).

Headaches from sun stroke. Profuse sweat localized exclusively to the scalp, especially in children with late hardening of the fontanelles, leaving a large greasy spot on the pillow.



Eyes:

Calcarea is often indicated in TRAUMATIC OPHTALMIAS; in new-born CONJUNCTIVITIS. Infantile kerato-conjunctivitis with marked photophobia; morning agglutinated eyes and lachrymation, outside. Corneal ulcers. Children complain of having horrible visions at night when closing the eyes. They are afraid to go to bed because as soon as they close their eyes, they see hideous, frightful figures. Be careful never to tell tragic or terrible stories to the Calcarea type children, or to let them see violent movies because of their extreme sensitivity that makes them dream for several nights and they get night terrors for a long time.



Ears:

Indicated for those catching cold in their ears when the neck is exposed. Acute external otitis, but mostly INTERNAL. Pussy otitis, particularly when the drum is ulcerated.



Nose:

Sniffles, worse morning. Colds at each change of the weather. Colds with Frequent sneezes. Coryza with cough, dry nose, obstructed nose, violent attacks; epistaxis.

It is one of the remedies in the 3d degree for EUSTACHIAN TUBE CATARRH. Sneezing without coryza. For the sneezing morning on waking, think of Ammonium Carbonicum.



Face:

Crusta lactea. In the very beginning of my practice, I converted a colleague who went to all his classes with me, by curing one of his patients, a six months old child covered with crusta lactea over the entire body. I had prescribed SULPHUR XM which aggravated frightfully with enormous cervical glands. This ganglion association in a child having a rather big head and late fontanelles, indicated Calcarea XM, one dose, which, in 3 days improved all the symptoms. The glands faded away, the itching disappeared, and gradually the eruption cleared.

PAROTIDITIS: Calcarea fits all kinds of swellings. PAROTIDITIS DURING SCARLET FEVER: Calcarea is a specific. ADENITIS, mostly the acute submaxillary. PROSOPALGIA better from warm applications.



Mouth:

Calcarea sleeps with an open mouth. When, entering the room, if you see a child sleeping with an open mouth, think of Calcarea. Then putting your hand in front of it, you find a very warm breath: it is Calcarea. Chewing motions, and swallowing during sleep. Such things should be mentioned by the parents. Hahnemann described it. In order to find the remedy, we need the symptoms observed by the physician, by the patient and by the bystanders. It is a great remedy for EPULIS, this little tumor of the gum betwixt and between benignancy and malignancy. Before advising surgery, try Calcarea which quite often might take it away.



Teeth:

Odontalgias due mainly to cold wind exposure. The pains are always worse from cold air and cold food. Odontalgia during pregnancy. In such case you'll help both mother and child. Any disturbances during dentition.



Throat:

Aphthous angina.



Stomach:

Calcarea has strange and very marked DESIRES: for SALT, SWEETS (pastry, chocolate, etc.), SUGAR, ACIDS, WINE and EGGS, particularly SOFT BOILED, mostly when sick or convalescent. He is very fond of things STRANGE, INDIGESTIBLE and DIRTY; paper, pencils which he often chews, coal, flour and raw potatoes. (This desire for indigestible, unassimilable materials is called PICA.)

HE HATES COFFEE, MEAT, TOBACCO AND MILK. Peas, cabbage, saurkraut, milk and veal, give him indigestion. Warm food, warm milk and dry foods are very poorly tolerated.

Acid vomitings, worse DURING DENTITION. Diarrhea and vomiting during dentition. Vomiting worse AT NIGHT; the child vomits curdled milk after sucking the breast or bottle.



Abdomen:

Diarrhea worse during dentition; infantile, acid, watery. Hepato-biliary colics with profuse perspirations, has to double-up. Sensation of COLD IN THE ABDOMEN. Helminthiasis, tenia, ascarides. Anal abcess. Redness with peri-anal irritation in babies (even after correction of the diet).

Certain adults mention a GENERAL AMELIORATION of all symptoms WHEN CONSTIPATED. This is a rather rare and peculiar symptom which i have noticed occasionally; when regular stools recur, everything goes wrong. There are only three remedies expressing this symptom: CALCAREA, Mercurius and PSORINUM. Acute entero-colitis of children; infantile hernias, umbilical and inguinal.

OOZING OMPHALITIS. You meet rheumatic patients complaining that their umbilicus smells horribly. You find usually a deep umbilicus with a kind of intertrigo and very fetid suppuration. Careful local disinfection usually clears it up, but if the application of a Calendula ointment is not effective, think of Calcarea. Often such patients are acidified from eating too much sweets. Insist that they curb this habit.

Very light stools, MASTIC, WHITE, LIENTHERIC (ergo pancreatic insufficiency, and remember that Calcarea has a definite action on the pancreas). Enormous stools not only in children, but also in adults. Semi-liquid, hard and formed then fluid stools. Acid stools. Rectal prolapse worse during stool.



Urinary tract:

Nephretic colics with hematuria. Did I tell you about the patient I saw-in india, who received several doses of Belladonna 200 without much success. Against my advice, he got some morphine to be injected. My master who happened to be beside me said: "Say, why don't you give him Calcarea? Since calculi are usually made of calcium?" and so in a few hours, with Calcarea 200, the pains receded. . . Therefore Calcarea works also as an acute remedy in renal colics, often even spectacularly. Have no fear to repeat the dose even at the 10 M.



Male genitals:

HYDROCELE of the new-born, also in adults, particularly after a suppressed eruption. New-borns are apt to have a hydrocele which, normally will disappear in a few days. In adults, if a rash has been suppressed by an ointment followed by an hydrocele, consider CALCAREA as an important remedy.

Phimosis. I must say that I wouldn't think of giving Calcarea for a phimosis. Suffice it to take forceps and dilate the prepuce; I can't understand why gynecologists or pediatricians are neglecting the care of the gentitals of infants. Seems to me that is the first thing to do. When I see a new-born, I first ascertain whether he has 5 fingers, check the umbilicus, the ears, the eyes, and then the genitals. It often happens that you have to free the clitoris in little girls; or in boys the prepuce from adhesions. It might bleed a little, but use some Calendula ointment and you will have no trouble. I saw the other day a 14-year-old boy with preputial adhesions, very difficult to break and very painful; requiring even surgery.

Did I tell you the story of the parents who brought me their 4 month old son with a phimosis. I dilated and retracted it, all very well and told them to bring him back a week later. They did, I dilated again but not easily. The third time, the father said: "Doctor, it's rather inconvenient for me to bring the boy so often for such a little thing. Why not show me how to do it?" "With pleasure, I replied..." A week later, at 4 p.m., that was the day my chauffeur had his day off, and my car was being serviced, I was asked to come and see that child immediately. I ran out, stopped a car in the street and was conveyed graciously to my destination. Arriving at the foot of the stairs, I heard wild shrieks, at each story all doors open, the doorman all , excited. Landing on the 4th floor, I see blood all over the kitchen, the child convulsed on a cushion with bloody drapes all around, and the father battling with the child, the mother-in-law shouting: "Disgusting, he is a bandit..." All around people were screaming: Villain, Brute... what a commotion! Examining the child, I saw a paraphimosis completely strangling the glands, now enormously swollen and red. Papa had used vaseline which made it so slippery that it was impossible to retract the prepuce. At each try, blood was squiriting; the baby screaming, papa in a foul temper, mother-in-law crying... a horrible scene. I suggested a bath followed by a careful wiping of the ointment. Then griping at the very base of the penis I brought very gently the skin back up and suddenly everything snapped in place. I then told the father: "Listen, Sir, you are an electrician, so take care of such things; when you have medical problems, let your doctor attend to it." I checked the child twice after and everything got fine. No operation was needed.

Calcarea has genital and scrotal sweats. Vesicles on the penis or prepuce; herpes genitals. Inflammation of the frenulum, glands or prepuce. Frequent nocturnal pollutions. What do you call frequent pollutions? Once weekly is not abnormal; but if it occurs every night, think of Calcarea.



FEMALE GENITALS:

The least emotion or upset brings back the menses. Menopausal metrorrhagia, with leucorrhea, mostly after emotional upsets. Abortion threats in women with heavy menses. Scanty menses, lasting only one day is an important indication for not using Calcarea.

PUERPERAL FEVER with vaginal pains or head perspiration and stitching pains in the uterus. Too early, too copious and too long menses. It is the RULE OF THE THREE P's: PREMATURE, PROFUSE, PROLONGED and points to Calcarea.

The baby is a sort of "tumor" needing Calcium. Remember that Calcarea is a most important remedy for PREGNANCY. Vomitings at the onset, even more indicated when you find toothache at the same time. False pains rising from the pelvis to the stomach. Odontalgia during pregnancy. Cramps in the soles, also toes during pregnancy.



LARYNX:

Painless hoarseness, worse in the morning. Laryngitis. Aphonia.



THORAX:

Loose cough in the morning, dry at night. COUGH WHEN PLAYING THE PIANO. Irritating, persistant cough, particularly in apartment painted green (paints with arsenical basis. CLARKE).

Cough on entering a warm room. Whooping cough worse a.m., in children, during dentition. Itchy cough as with a feather in the throat. Cough with coryza. Hemoptysis during cough, mostly diurnal. Thoracic pains by touch, by percussion or pressure on the thorax.



BREASTS:

Calcarea has a special affinity for the breasts; LARGE breasts. Mammary hypertrophy. Swollen, warm breasts with little milk. Painful breasts during menses. AGALACTIA with big breasts. GALACTORREA too copious and bad milk which is refused by the baby. If accompanied with neurasthenia, give CHINA 10 M. If the baby sucks and does not grow, give Calcarea 10M, one dose, to the mother. The milk is too thin, watery, bluish, tasting bad, nauseating. The baby refuse to suck and cries much.



BACK:

Back pains after efforts: lifting, carrying, pushing heavy objects (GRAPH., LYC., RHUS TOX.). Cutting pains under the right scapula radiating to the epigastrium. LUMBAGO, can hardly get up in the morning.



UPPER EXTREMITIES:

CRAMPS in the hands, arms, during the night. Wrist sprain.



LOWER EXTREMITIES:

CRAMPS, in the popliteal space, legs, CALVES, mostly in bed at night, around 3 a.m., when stretching; of the feet, soles and toes especially during pregnancy.

All cramps and spasms depend on the kidneys. Eclampsia, you know the relationship of the kidneys on convulsions; therefore see to it that the patient urinates sufficiently. In May and June, suggest the famous cherry-soup. Providence always give you the necessary fruit at the right time. You prescribe 2 handfuls of fresh cherries in one litre of water, boil them for 10 minutes. Cherry stems are good diuretics; the kernel contains prussic acid acting on cardiac contraction, and the pulp acts on the intestine. Drink a glass every 2-3 hours of this cherry soup. Very effective for arthritic hepatic and renal cases. Sulfur has similar cramps.

Calcarea has sprains of the hands and wrists, and ankles. PHLEBITIS; phlegmasia alba dolens, better elevating the legs, worse going down. Cold knees. Cold feet. Clammy hands and feet. One thinks of SILICA for bad smelling feet when undressing. But Calcarea has bad smelling feet, with socks eroded by very acid sweats.



Sleep:

The Calcarea patient chews and swallows during sleep. Terrifying visions when closing eyes and falling asleep.



Fever:

FEVER with CHILLS and CHILLINESS. Too hot externally, yet chilly. Typhoid fevei. Chills at 2 p.m., FROM THE EPIGASTRIUM. Fever during menses. Summer fever.



Perspiration:

Many symptoms are aggravated by sweats (as Mercurius). Calcarea cries and becomes irritable when sweating. It is the main remedy for LOCAL sweats, mostly the anterior and superior parts of the body. Perspiration mostly of the head, the neck, the chest, the axillae, the hands, the knees, the feet and male sexual organs.

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CADMIUM SULPHURATUM:

We use four combinations of the metal CADMIUM:

1. Cadmium bromatum

2. Iodatum

3. Chloratum or muriaticum

4. Sulfuratum. This one is particularly useful in the homeopathic kit for acute manifestations.

Do not confuse Cadmium Sulfuratum Cd-S, with Cadmium Sulfuricum Cd-S04, which is the sulfate, which is a good homeo-psoric its primary action affects mostly the STOMACH, and its closest analogue is Zincum which acts primarily on the brain. Cadmium is found in nature as a metal always associated with ZINCUM, with similar action but stronger than Zinc. It is classified between BRYONIA and ARSENICUM. Like BRYONIA, it has the desire to be quiet, looking for peace, ease, but it has also the exhaustion, the irritable weakness of ARSENICUM.

Following the Hahnemannian scheme, we note that it is a CHILLY remedy, chilly even close to the fire. Works particularly well for alcoholics, for the sequellae of drafts suppressing sweats. Worse in cold air, but also worse in the sun.

Good remedy for BLENNORRAGIC OCULAR DISEASES. Deep rings under the eyes. Mydriasis. Often anisocoria. FACIAL PARALYSIS, mostly left sided after exposure to the North wind, cold wind, to the face. Its main sphere of action is gastro-intestinal. It has intense nausea even so-called fatal nausea which should be written in the 3d degree in Kent's Repertory, p.506. The black vomit of typhus amaril, i.e. Coffee ground hematemesis characteristic of yellow fever. That's why it is so useful in the advanced phase of cancer of the stomach with extreme prostration, fatal vomiting and nausea and all the symptoms of an impending death. You can bring considerable help in such cases and stop this vomiting when all other remedies fail. It has also intense burning and stomach clamps, cutting plains, craving for cold drinks which are vomited as soon as absorbed. CADMIUM is indicated after food intoxication better from eating; gastralgia with terrible and incessant efforts to vomit, bringing up a sticky mucus. It works very well in alvine evacuations and CHOLERA MORBUS.

Heart palpitations with thoracic constriction. Wakes up suffocating, dares not fall asleep again; suffocation when falling asleep. Prolonged insomnia.

Zymotic and septic fevers with nausea and vomiting. Chills and algidity even close to a fire. Trembling maxillary. Strong pruritus without particular localization, worse at night and in bed, worse touching, better from scratching, which causes a voluptuous sensation. Remedy for ailments following anxiety, grief, strong emotions, or exposure to cold wind - as, for example, in facial paralysis. It is aggravated by the sun, morning on waking, walking, going up stairs, and swallowing.



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CALCAREA ARSENICOSA:

Also called Calcium Arsenicosum. Formula: Ca3(As 03)2. Not to be confused with Calcarea Arsenicica which is the Arsenite of Calcium - Ca3 As 04. Arsenici albi subtilissime pulverate, is a white powder insoluble in water, a combination of Arsenic Acid with Lime. It is dangerous and toxic up to the 3d centesimal; it is used from the 4th Centesimal Hahnemannian.

Generally it fits the LYMPHATIC subjects, SCROFULOUS and TUBERCULOUS. It acts particularly well in subjects who have been intoxicated with quinine it has three main indications:

* Epilepsy

* Albuminuria

* Cancer

For the Epileptics: EPILEPSY RELATED TO CARDIOPATHIES:

Before the attack:

* Vasomotor symptoms: Congestive flushes to face and head.

* Aphonia: patient looses his voice before the attack.

* Pain in the left hand. Constrictive pain in the heart.

* Urge to defecate before the attack.

The aura of this remedy starts either from the HEART REGION with flushes to the head, or from the LEFT ARM.

Never forget to consider, in epileptics, the remedy FOR THE ATTACK, and the remedy for the general state to be given BETWEEN THE ATTACKS.

For the Albuminurics: Albuminuria in the nephretics, during pregnancy, in alcoholics, in all cardiopathies, in sequellae of scarlet fever and measles. Edematous face, mostly around the eyes, edema of the lower extremities, edema of the back of the hands. Chills creeping up the back, mostly nightly.

Albuminuria with GREAT SENSITIVITY OF THE KIDNEY REGION FROM PRESSURE. Pollakiuria. Even: hematuria and oliguria. Pulse rapid and compressible, going up to 120. Dropsy.

TROPHO - NEUROTIC REMEDY FOR CANCEROUS PATIENTS:

a) For the burning pains of cancer of the pancreas,

b) For the burning pains of cancer of the uterus;

c) For adenocarcinomas and malignant tumors of the mesentery.

These are the general indications of this remedy. Now let us consider other symptoms which could be useful:

GREAT MORAL DEPRESSION.

VERTIGO with sensation of gliding on air, as if the feet were not touching the ground when walking. Hot head. Face is pale with deep blue circles. Patient looks pale and suffering. Tongue and lips dry; great thirst; good remedy for gastric ulcer. Inguinal adenopathy, with tearing pains in the leg. Hypomenorrhea. Fear, with a sensation of oppression, of suffocating with palpitations. Tumultuous PALPITATIONS with pain in the heart from physical or mental exertion, from the least emotion. Rapid and depressed pulse. Regular extrasystoles every 4 beats. Sepsis with embolic focus, myocarditis. Tired painful back between shoulders and on sacral area, cannot rise. Vasomotor disturbances in obese females at the menopause. According to Majumbar, it is a very efficient remedy for liver and spleen hypertrophy in children. Infantile spleno- and hepatomegaly.





REMEDIES FOR THE EMERGENCY KIT
Dr. Pierre Schmidt Geneva, Switzerland.
Presented by Vladislav G.Ivantsov (See Russian version)

Translated from the Proceedings of the Groupement Hahnemannien De Lyon;
7th series, by Roger Schmidt, M.D., San Francisco, Calif. P.184-188.

Calcarea ostrearum, Calcarea arsenicosa, Cadmium sulphuratum.

CALCAREA OSTREARUM:

This remedy is never considered as an acute one, yet it has many interesting acute indications. CALCAREA is one of the great monuments of the Hahnemannian genius. His idea of preparing from insoluble substances with his process of trituration and dynamization, thus transforming completely inactive substances and developing a therapeutic power entirely unknown, constitutes one of the most splendid discoveries in medicine. Hahnemann experimented with it first on himself by dissolving oyster shells in vinegar, calling it: TERRA CALCAREA ACETICA. Later he abandoned this procedure and triturated the middle layer of the oyster shell representing pure CALCIUM CARBONATE, calling it CALCAREA OSTREARUM. Thus it is a living calcium produced by the animal with a much greater value than the ordinary lime carbonate.

Noticing the much more intense efficacy of dynamized insoluble substances (as compared with simply dissolved substances) then dissolved in water and alcohol, he abandoned the calcium acetate which had been proved on healthy humans. So the complete proving of calcarea is a MIXTURE OF THE SYMPTOMS OF CALCAREA ACETICA AND CALCAREA OSTREARUM.

Let us not forget that lime is a constituent of the body. It is part of our bones and teeth, but also a part of our muscles, nerves, blood, and other fluids of our body.

CALCAREA, with SULPHUR and LYCOPODIUM is one of the great triumvirate of Psora. It is Hahnemann's PSORA-SYCOTIC par excellence. Although indicated mostly in chronic disturbances, it has numerous indications in acute states, as in acute exacerbations of chronic diseases. They are listed below according to the Hahnemannian scheme:

First observe in these 3 remedies the required sequence: SULPHUR, CALCAREA, LYCOPODIUM. From long experience, one can say that 85% of patients are found in the big cycle of these 3 remedies; and always in this order, and sometimes along the line, a patient will need these 3 remedies. If you prescribe lycopodium AFTER sulfur, you run the risk of provoking a symptomatic imbroglio which will be very difficult to unravel later. So my advice to you is to follow the experience of the old masters and follow the prescribed order.

Everybody knows that Calcarea fits particularly both EXTREMES OF LIFE, mostly indicated in leuco-phlegmatic children, indolent, with a large head, a big tummy, a puffed and pale face, with a slow and imperfect bone development, with delayed closing of the fontanelles, delayed dentition, delayed growth and delayed walking. Strange enough, these children are not delayed in talking. (It is NATRUM MURIATICUM, who talks late.)

However it is also the remedy of girl growing too fast. It acts perfectly in many acute conditions where the constitutional characteristics are utterly absent. There is no need at all to be indolent and fat in order to need CALCAREA in an acute condition. At the beginning of life, the child is fed with milk containing lots of calcium needed for bone and teeth formation; yet at the end of life we get calcified, sclerosed, everything hardens and one becomes again a little lump of brittle calcium. . . .

If CALCAREA is the remedy of too fast growing girls, the remedy for boys who grow too fast is often PHOSPHORIC ACID.



MENTAL SYMPTOMS:

Mentally speaking, CALCAREA is a great worrier and very fearful. It is one of the most ANXIOUS remedy of the Materia Medica. It has practically all the types of anxiety and fears that are on the book and their sequellae as well. So it is first a great remedy for ailments FOLLOWING BAD NEWS, whether heard by telephone, wire, letter or directly: the police coming and telling you your wife had an automobile accident, or notice by telephone that some dear one passed away. In such cases, give the XM of CALCAREA at once in case GELSEMIUM, which is a vegetable drug, and which should be your first choice, fails usually give GELSEMIUM first, as CALCAREA is rather the remedy corresponding to recurring situations.

Did I tell you the case of a janitor of the Geneva Conservatory who was taking a stroll every morning with a friend, for years, regularly, and one day his friend failed to come; so he phoned and was told that his friend was dead. Our janitor then suddenly felt a terrible noise in his right ear, and so became deaf in that ear ever since. He went to see his doctor first, without relief he then consulted three different specialists who could find nothing in his ear, yet prescribed tranquilizer of various kinds which did nothing to improve his ear, yet they produced dyspesia, constipation and insomnia as iatrogenic symptoms. . . . Several months later, his brother who is professor at the Conservatory told me about his case, and asked if anything could bo done for this unfortunate man. I simply administered GELSEMIUM XM, one dose: ten minutes later the noise stopped and has not returned. I could have given CALCAREA, but when we hesitate between remedies, one of which is a vegetable the other a mineral, it is always better to start with the vegetable, keeping the mineral in reserve as acting deeper. Vegetables live from minerals and not vice-versa. Minerals act deeper than either vegetable or animal remedies. When in the study of a case you find mostly vegetable remedies, you can be sure that the case is never as serious as if minerals were rather indicated. Animal remedies, like minerals, are a bad sign. Of course, we know that mineral remedies have acute phases, for example a chronic type of Phosphorus might need Phosphorus in an acute condition, but then you better go no higher than the 200th potency. Likewise with vegetable remedies. Pulsatilla for example you deal with both acute and chronic situations. The safe rule is, in an acute case, to prefer a vegetable remedy and keep the mineral remedy in reserve, as William Tell did his second arrow. Although produced by an animal, CALCAREA OSTREARUM is a mineral substance nevertheless.

CALCAREA IS ANXIOUS. He is afraid to go to bed. You will be called to see children having this fear. It isn't the fear of the night nor that of obscurity. You also find: fear at night; fear to go to sleep; fear of death; of insanity, of possible mishap, OF THE FUTURE; of getting poor, of suffering; of going to the dentist and naturally of operations; for his health; thinks he is getting sick for his soul's salvation. It is the remedy for the type of children who are afraid to go to bed because they see all kinds of grimaces and strange figures on falling asleep. They can't bear to go to the movies or look at a scene of crime, cruelty, battle, a western. I have seen a 10 year old boy who could not sleep since he saw a western at the movies, and CALCAREA improved him almost at once. As I have often repeated, when a patient has more than three kinds of fears, think of CALCAREA.

Calcarea is particularly fearful DURING FEVER and DURING CHILLS. That is the child who wakes up between 2-3 a.m. Howling and cannot be quieted down. He has forgotten everything in the morning. So it is really one of the best remedies for nocturnal fears to remember. The aura of Calcarea fear is generally in the epigastric region. It is also for sad children and who think that they are unhappy. Calcarea is sad during FEVER mostly, before menses, and during SWEATS.

It is the King pin for children's diseases during dentition. After prescribing Chamomilla for troubles during dentition without success, or after it fails to act, then try Calcarea. It works beautifully for children filching money. Women are very agitated and nervous during menses. Calcarea cries at the least remark or scolding or reproach, and is no better from consolation. Weeping often alternates with laughter. Calcarea weeps DURING TRANSPIRATION and mostly during chills.

Children are very unstable during dentition, and startle from noise. The Calcarea child can bite, spit in people's face, or howl day and night. The other day, I was travelling by air between London and Bruxelles and could hardly contain myself: there was a Scandinavian mother holding a pretty baby in her arms but it never ceased howling during the whole trip. I would have abstained giving Chamomilla, because the mother was holding the baby in her arms, coddling it without getting anywhere. Maybe Cina was indicated or perhaps Calcarea. . . . Later on, it will be irritable during headaches and, in women before or during menses, but mostly during SWEATS and DURING CHILLS. It is a wonderful remedy for ailments following EMOTIONAL CONFLICTS. The imagination is exhalted at night, and in certain states like grippe, fever, etc., desires to go home though being at home. (However Bryonia is more typical For this symptom.)



GENERAL SYMPTOMS:

It is the classical remedy for any trouble developing during DENTITION, and the remedy for babies, par excellence. It is indicated for LOSS OF VITAL FLUIDS: Hemorrages; diarrheas, sweats, seminal emissions. It is useful for THOSE WHO CANNOT FAST and have ailments from lack of nutrition. The sun aggravates, producing headaches and sunstrokes. Remember that Calcarea has both lateralities. However, it acts mostly on the right side for the head, the eye, the face, the abdomen, the male genitalia, and the upper extremities; But on the left side for the neck, the chest and the lower limbs.

In the Repertory, Calcarea is indicated for the left testicle ectopy in small print at "Retractation" p.709. These ectopies are difficult to treat and one is thinking of Calcarea because it works well in congenital disturbances. Surgical operations often modifies the psyche of these children in an extraordinary way. Up to now, I have been lucky with a few remedies such as Calcarea, Tuberculinum, sometimes Psorinum or Syphilinum. But Calcarea comes first in such cases.

Remember that it is a remedy in the 3d degree for sprains, muscle strain after lifting heavy material; it has an elective action on sinews and ligaments (Ruta). Generally one thinks of Rhus Tox. For such things, but you well know that Calcarea is the chronic of Rhus, and it works well even in acute cases.

Calcarea can faint during severe headaches or after stool, or during menses, or in the street. The patient states that his illness starts from the stomach and rises into the throat.

You might be called to prescribe for an epileptic; think of Calcarea for convulsion epileptic and epileptoid. Epilepsy is a mysterious disease of unknown origin; be generous and when talking to the parents speak of "epitoid" state, not epilepsy. Epitoid is a very general term covering epilepsy. Also during OB deliveries, do not speak of "pains" but of contractions, and your lady will be quieted knowing she will get contractions and not pain during delivery of their child.

If epilepsy fits or convulsions occur or are worse during the full moon think of Calcarea. The aura starts from the solar plexus, as for the fears or the fainting spells, or he feels that a mouse is climbing up a limb before a convulsion. I had such a case which responded beautifully with Calcarea. The causes of convulsions vary a great deal and can be from fears, from vexation or mortification, in children during dentition, or from suppressed eruptions, i.e. So called "cured" by an ointment or other outer applications; Finally after masturbation.

These convulsions can be either tonic or clonic. Most of the time there is loss of consciousness. It is a great remedy for CHOREA, most often for hemi-chorea from fears, from worms or in onanism. It is specific for convulsions in Addison's disease. They occur mostly evening, but also night or morning, at 4 a.m. And last until 4 p.m.



Vertigo:

Acute vertigo. The homeopathic remedy will seldom fail to stop vertigo. The Calcarea vertigo is latero-pulsive, sometimes retro-pulsive. Worse turning the head, looking up, but mostly looking down a staircase or through a window. It is the best remedy for MOUNTAIN SICKNESS, with the Lily Of The Valley, Convallaria Maialis. Mountain sickness is to be found in the Repertory in Generalities: Ascending High Places, p.1345. What are the symptoms of mountain sickness (from 3500 feet up): precordial anxiety, dyspnea from exertion, nausea, intense fatigue, prostration cutting the legs, headaches, vertigo, cyanosis, epistaxis, blurred vision. All these symptoms lead to the following remedies: Arsenicum, Aurum, Belladonna, Calcarea, Carbo-veg; Causti-cum, Conium, Cuprum, Gelsemium, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Natrum mur; and Pulsatilla.

But the main remedies are LACHESIS and CALCAREA, next ARSENICUM. For cardiac symptoms, think of Convallaria, and for the prostration Oleander and Spigelia.

Vertigo ascending stairs rapidly. So much for the picture of Calcarea Ostrearum for you to remember.



Head:

Warm head during menses. Yet, Calcarea is notoriously characterized by everything COLD; it has icy INTERNAL feelings or external on head, mostly on the right side. Very useful in students' headaches, often with midriasis (school girls).

Headaches from sun stroke. Profuse sweat localized exclusively to the scalp, especially in children with late hardening of the fontanelles, leaving a large greasy spot on the pillow.



Eyes:

Calcarea is often indicated in TRAUMATIC OPHTALMIAS; in new-born CONJUNCTIVITIS. Infantile kerato-conjunctivitis with marked photophobia; morning agglutinated eyes and lachrymation, outside. Corneal ulcers. Children complain of having horrible visions at night when closing the eyes. They are afraid to go to bed because as soon as they close their eyes, they see hideous, frightful figures. Be careful never to tell tragic or terrible stories to the Calcarea type children, or to let them see violent movies because of their extreme sensitivity that makes them dream for several nights and they get night terrors for a long time.



Ears:

Indicated for those catching cold in their ears when the neck is exposed. Acute external otitis, but mostly INTERNAL. Pussy otitis, particularly when the drum is ulcerated.



Nose:

Sniffles, worse morning. Colds at each change of the weather. Colds with Frequent sneezes. Coryza with cough, dry nose, obstructed nose, violent attacks; epistaxis.

It is one of the remedies in the 3d degree for EUSTACHIAN TUBE CATARRH. Sneezing without coryza. For the sneezing morning on waking, think of Ammonium Carbonicum.



Face:

Crusta lactea. In the very beginning of my practice, I converted a colleague who went to all his classes with me, by curing one of his patients, a six months old child covered with crusta lactea over the entire body. I had prescribed SULPHUR XM which aggravated frightfully with enormous cervical glands. This ganglion association in a child having a rather big head and late fontanelles, indicated Calcarea XM, one dose, which, in 3 days improved all the symptoms. The glands faded away, the itching disappeared, and gradually the eruption cleared.

PAROTIDITIS: Calcarea fits all kinds of swellings. PAROTIDITIS DURING SCARLET FEVER: Calcarea is a specific. ADENITIS, mostly the acute submaxillary. PROSOPALGIA better from warm applications.



Mouth:

Calcarea sleeps with an open mouth. When, entering the room, if you see a child sleeping with an open mouth, think of Calcarea. Then putting your hand in front of it, you find a very warm breath: it is Calcarea. Chewing motions, and swallowing during sleep. Such things should be mentioned by the parents. Hahnemann described it. In order to find the remedy, we need the symptoms observed by the physician, by the patient and by the bystanders. It is a great remedy for EPULIS, this little tumor of the gum betwixt and between benignancy and malignancy. Before advising surgery, try Calcarea which quite often might take it away.



Teeth:

Odontalgias due mainly to cold wind exposure. The pains are always worse from cold air and cold food. Odontalgia during pregnancy. In such case you'll help both mother and child. Any disturbances during dentition.



Throat:

Aphthous angina.



Stomach:

Calcarea has strange and very marked DESIRES: for SALT, SWEETS (pastry, chocolate, etc.), SUGAR, ACIDS, WINE and EGGS, particularly SOFT BOILED, mostly when sick or convalescent. He is very fond of things STRANGE, INDIGESTIBLE and DIRTY; paper, pencils which he often chews, coal, flour and raw potatoes. (This desire for indigestible, unassimilable materials is called PICA.)

HE HATES COFFEE, MEAT, TOBACCO AND MILK. Peas, cabbage, saurkraut, milk and veal, give him indigestion. Warm food, warm milk and dry foods are very poorly tolerated.

Acid vomitings, worse DURING DENTITION. Diarrhea and vomiting during dentition. Vomiting worse AT NIGHT; the child vomits curdled milk after sucking the breast or bottle.



Abdomen:

Diarrhea worse during dentition; infantile, acid, watery. Hepato-biliary colics with profuse perspirations, has to double-up. Sensation of COLD IN THE ABDOMEN. Helminthiasis, tenia, ascarides. Anal abcess. Redness with peri-anal irritation in babies (even after correction of the diet).

Certain adults mention a GENERAL AMELIORATION of all symptoms WHEN CONSTIPATED. This is a rather rare and peculiar symptom which i have noticed occasionally; when regular stools recur, everything goes wrong. There are only three remedies expressing this symptom: CALCAREA, Mercurius and PSORINUM. Acute entero-colitis of children; infantile hernias, umbilical and inguinal.

OOZING OMPHALITIS. You meet rheumatic patients complaining that their umbilicus smells horribly. You find usually a deep umbilicus with a kind of intertrigo and very fetid suppuration. Careful local disinfection usually clears it up, but if the application of a Calendula ointment is not effective, think of Calcarea. Often such patients are acidified from eating too much sweets. Insist that they curb this habit.

Very light stools, MASTIC, WHITE, LIENTHERIC (ergo pancreatic insufficiency, and remember that Calcarea has a definite action on the pancreas). Enormous stools not only in children, but also in adults. Semi-liquid, hard and formed then fluid stools. Acid stools. Rectal prolapse worse during stool.



Urinary tract:

Nephretic colics with hematuria. Did I tell you about the patient I saw-in india, who received several doses of Belladonna 200 without much success. Against my advice, he got some morphine to be injected. My master who happened to be beside me said: "Say, why don't you give him Calcarea? Since calculi are usually made of calcium?" and so in a few hours, with Calcarea 200, the pains receded. . . Therefore Calcarea works also as an acute remedy in renal colics, often even spectacularly. Have no fear to repeat the dose even at the 10 M.



Male genitals:

HYDROCELE of the new-born, also in adults, particularly after a suppressed eruption. New-borns are apt to have a hydrocele which, normally will disappear in a few days. In adults, if a rash has been suppressed by an ointment followed by an hydrocele, consider CALCAREA as an important remedy.

Phimosis. I must say that I wouldn't think of giving Calcarea for a phimosis. Suffice it to take forceps and dilate the prepuce; I can't understand why gynecologists or pediatricians are neglecting the care of the gentitals of infants. Seems to me that is the first thing to do. When I see a new-born, I first ascertain whether he has 5 fingers, check the umbilicus, the ears, the eyes, and then the genitals. It often happens that you have to free the clitoris in little girls; or in boys the prepuce from adhesions. It might bleed a little, but use some Calendula ointment and you will have no trouble. I saw the other day a 14-year-old boy with preputial adhesions, very difficult to break and very painful; requiring even surgery.

Did I tell you the story of the parents who brought me their 4 month old son with a phimosis. I dilated and retracted it, all very well and told them to bring him back a week later. They did, I dilated again but not easily. The third time, the father said: "Doctor, it's rather inconvenient for me to bring the boy so often for such a little thing. Why not show me how to do it?" "With pleasure, I replied..." A week later, at 4 p.m., that was the day my chauffeur had his day off, and my car was being serviced, I was asked to come and see that child immediately. I ran out, stopped a car in the street and was conveyed graciously to my destination. Arriving at the foot of the stairs, I heard wild shrieks, at each story all doors open, the doorman all , excited. Landing on the 4th floor, I see blood all over the kitchen, the child convulsed on a cushion with bloody drapes all around, and the father battling with the child, the mother-in-law shouting: "Disgusting, he is a bandit..." All around people were screaming: Villain, Brute... what a commotion! Examining the child, I saw a paraphimosis completely strangling the glands, now enormously swollen and red. Papa had used vaseline which made it so slippery that it was impossible to retract the prepuce. At each try, blood was squiriting; the baby screaming, papa in a foul temper, mother-in-law crying... a horrible scene. I suggested a bath followed by a careful wiping of the ointment. Then griping at the very base of the penis I brought very gently the skin back up and suddenly everything snapped in place. I then told the father: "Listen, Sir, you are an electrician, so take care of such things; when you have medical problems, let your doctor attend to it." I checked the child twice after and everything got fine. No operation was needed.

Calcarea has genital and scrotal sweats. Vesicles on the penis or prepuce; herpes genitals. Inflammation of the frenulum, glands or prepuce. Frequent nocturnal pollutions. What do you call frequent pollutions? Once weekly is not abnormal; but if it occurs every night, think of Calcarea.



FEMALE GENITALS:

The least emotion or upset brings back the menses. Menopausal metrorrhagia, with leucorrhea, mostly after emotional upsets. Abortion threats in women with heavy menses. Scanty menses, lasting only one day is an important indication for not using Calcarea.

PUERPERAL FEVER with vaginal pains or head perspiration and stitching pains in the uterus. Too early, too copious and too long menses. It is the RULE OF THE THREE P's: PREMATURE, PROFUSE, PROLONGED and points to Calcarea.

The baby is a sort of "tumor" needing Calcium. Remember that Calcarea is a most important remedy for PREGNANCY. Vomitings at the onset, even more indicated when you find toothache at the same time. False pains rising from the pelvis to the stomach. Odontalgia during pregnancy. Cramps in the soles, also toes during pregnancy.



LARYNX:

Painless hoarseness, worse in the morning. Laryngitis. Aphonia.



THORAX:

Loose cough in the morning, dry at night. COUGH WHEN PLAYING THE PIANO. Irritating, persistant cough, particularly in apartment painted green (paints with arsenical basis. CLARKE).

Cough on entering a warm room. Whooping cough worse a.m., in children, during dentition. Itchy cough as with a feather in the throat. Cough with coryza. Hemoptysis during cough, mostly diurnal. Thoracic pains by touch, by percussion or pressure on the thorax.



BREASTS:

Calcarea has a special affinity for the breasts; LARGE breasts. Mammary hypertrophy. Swollen, warm breasts with little milk. Painful breasts during menses. AGALACTIA with big breasts. GALACTORREA too copious and bad milk which is refused by the baby. If accompanied with neurasthenia, give CHINA 10 M. If the baby sucks and does not grow, give Calcarea 10M, one dose, to the mother. The milk is too thin, watery, bluish, tasting bad, nauseating. The baby refuse to suck and cries much.



BACK:

Back pains after efforts: lifting, carrying, pushing heavy objects (GRAPH., LYC., RHUS TOX.). Cutting pains under the right scapula radiating to the epigastrium. LUMBAGO, can hardly get up in the morning.



UPPER EXTREMITIES:

CRAMPS in the hands, arms, during the night. Wrist sprain.



LOWER EXTREMITIES:

CRAMPS, in the popliteal space, legs, CALVES, mostly in bed at night, around 3 a.m., when stretching; of the feet, soles and toes especially during pregnancy.

All cramps and spasms depend on the kidneys. Eclampsia, you know the relationship of the kidneys on convulsions; therefore see to it that the patient urinates sufficiently. In May and June, suggest the famous cherry-soup. Providence always give you the necessary fruit at the right time. You prescribe 2 handfuls of fresh cherries in one litre of water, boil them for 10 minutes. Cherry stems are good diuretics; the kernel contains prussic acid acting on cardiac contraction, and the pulp acts on the intestine. Drink a glass every 2-3 hours of this cherry soup. Very effective for arthritic hepatic and renal cases. Sulfur has similar cramps.

Calcarea has sprains of the hands and wrists, and ankles. PHLEBITIS; phlegmasia alba dolens, better elevating the legs, worse going down. Cold knees. Cold feet. Clammy hands and feet. One thinks of SILICA for bad smelling feet when undressing. But Calcarea has bad smelling feet, with socks eroded by very acid sweats.



Sleep:

The Calcarea patient chews and swallows during sleep. Terrifying visions when closing eyes and falling asleep.



Fever:

FEVER with CHILLS and CHILLINESS. Too hot externally, yet chilly. Typhoid fevei. Chills at 2 p.m., FROM THE EPIGASTRIUM. Fever during menses. Summer fever.



Perspiration:

Many symptoms are aggravated by sweats (as Mercurius). Calcarea cries and becomes irritable when sweating. It is the main remedy for LOCAL sweats, mostly the anterior and superior parts of the body. Perspiration mostly of the head, the neck, the chest, the axillae, the hands, the knees, the feet and male sexual organs.

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CADMIUM SULPHURATUM:

We use four combinations of the metal CADMIUM:

1. Cadmium bromatum

2. Iodatum

3. Chloratum or muriaticum

4. Sulfuratum. This one is particularly useful in the homeopathic kit for acute manifestations.

Do not confuse Cadmium Sulfuratum Cd-S, with Cadmium Sulfuricum Cd-S04, which is the sulfate, which is a good homeo-psoric its primary action affects mostly the STOMACH, and its closest analogue is Zincum which acts primarily on the brain. Cadmium is found in nature as a metal always associated with ZINCUM, with similar action but stronger than Zinc. It is classified between BRYONIA and ARSENICUM. Like BRYONIA, it has the desire to be quiet, looking for peace, ease, but it has also the exhaustion, the irritable weakness of ARSENICUM.

Following the Hahnemannian scheme, we note that it is a CHILLY remedy, chilly even close to the fire. Works particularly well for alcoholics, for the sequellae of drafts suppressing sweats. Worse in cold air, but also worse in the sun.

Good remedy for BLENNORRAGIC OCULAR DISEASES. Deep rings under the eyes. Mydriasis. Often anisocoria. FACIAL PARALYSIS, mostly left sided after exposure to the North wind, cold wind, to the face. Its main sphere of action is gastro-intestinal. It has intense nausea even so-called fatal nausea which should be written in the 3d degree in Kent's Repertory, p.506. The black vomit of typhus amaril, i.e. Coffee ground hematemesis characteristic of yellow fever. That's why it is so useful in the advanced phase of cancer of the stomach with extreme prostration, fatal vomiting and nausea and all the symptoms of an impending death. You can bring considerable help in such cases and stop this vomiting when all other remedies fail. It has also intense burning and stomach clamps, cutting plains, craving for cold drinks which are vomited as soon as absorbed. CADMIUM is indicated after food intoxication better from eating; gastralgia with terrible and incessant efforts to vomit, bringing up a sticky mucus. It works very well in alvine evacuations and CHOLERA MORBUS.

Heart palpitations with thoracic constriction. Wakes up suffocating, dares not fall asleep again; suffocation when falling asleep. Prolonged insomnia.

Zymotic and septic fevers with nausea and vomiting. Chills and algidity even close to a fire. Trembling maxillary. Strong pruritus without particular localization, worse at night and in bed, worse touching, better from scratching, which causes a voluptuous sensation. Remedy for ailments following anxiety, grief, strong emotions, or exposure to cold wind - as, for example, in facial paralysis. It is aggravated by the sun, morning on waking, walking, going up stairs, and swallowing.



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CALCAREA ARSENICOSA:

Also called Calcium Arsenicosum. Formula: Ca3(As 03)2. Not to be confused with Calcarea Arsenicica which is the Arsenite of Calcium - Ca3 As 04. Arsenici albi subtilissime pulverate, is a white powder insoluble in water, a combination of Arsenic Acid with Lime. It is dangerous and toxic up to the 3d centesimal; it is used from the 4th Centesimal Hahnemannian.

Generally it fits the LYMPHATIC subjects, SCROFULOUS and TUBERCULOUS. It acts particularly well in subjects who have been intoxicated with quinine it has three main indications:

* Epilepsy

* Albuminuria

* Cancer

For the Epileptics: EPILEPSY RELATED TO CARDIOPATHIES:

Before the attack:

* Vasomotor symptoms: Congestive flushes to face and head.

* Aphonia: patient looses his voice before the attack.

* Pain in the left hand. Constrictive pain in the heart.

* Urge to defecate before the attack.

The aura of this remedy starts either from the HEART REGION with flushes to the head, or from the LEFT ARM.

Never forget to consider, in epileptics, the remedy FOR THE ATTACK, and the remedy for the general state to be given BETWEEN THE ATTACKS.

For the Albuminurics: Albuminuria in the nephretics, during pregnancy, in alcoholics, in all cardiopathies, in sequellae of scarlet fever and measles. Edematous face, mostly around the eyes, edema of the lower extremities, edema of the back of the hands. Chills creeping up the back, mostly nightly.

Albuminuria with GREAT SENSITIVITY OF THE KIDNEY REGION FROM PRESSURE. Pollakiuria. Even: hematuria and oliguria. Pulse rapid and compressible, going up to 120. Dropsy.

TROPHO - NEUROTIC REMEDY FOR CANCEROUS PATIENTS:

a) For the burning pains of cancer of the pancreas,

b) For the burning pains of cancer of the uterus;

c) For adenocarcinomas and malignant tumors of the mesentery.

These are the general indications of this remedy. Now let us consider other symptoms which could be useful:

GREAT MORAL DEPRESSION.

VERTIGO with sensation of gliding on air, as if the feet were not touching the ground when walking. Hot head. Face is pale with deep blue circles. Patient looks pale and suffering. Tongue and lips dry; great thirst; good remedy for gastric ulcer. Inguinal adenopathy, with tearing pains in the leg. Hypomenorrhea. Fear, with a sensation of oppression, of suffocating with palpitations. Tumultuous PALPITATIONS with pain in the heart from physical or mental exertion, from the least emotion. Rapid and depressed pulse. Regular extrasystoles every 4 beats. Sepsis with embolic focus, myocarditis. Tired painful back between shoulders and on sacral area, cannot rise. Vasomotor disturbances in obese females at the menopause. According to Majumbar, it is a very efficient remedy for liver and spleen hypertrophy in children. Infantile spleno- and hepatomegaly.



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