CALCAREA PHOS.
Worse : Exposure to damp cold weather. Change of weather, melting snow. Dentition. Puberty, Mental exertion. Loss of fluids. Lifting. Ascending. Getting wet. BETTER : Warm, dry weather.
Food & Drinks : Infant wants to nurse all the time. CRAVES : Salt, smoked meat, Bacon, Ham. INDIGESTIBLE things. Raw piquant food.
MIND : Agg. Overstudy; grief; unpleasant news. Unrequited affection. Feels complaints more when thinking of them.
CHILD : Slow learning to walk. Flabby sunken abdomen. Fontanelles remain open too long. Teething delayed. Child suffers from colic after every feed. Spine weak, disposed to curvature. Neck also weak, unable to hold the head. Thin brittle bones. Child loses breath on being lifted up from the cradle. Desire to travel; wants to go somewhere (Tub). Consolation aggravates.
Slow comprehension; stupidity. Memory weak. Retarded dentition. Depression of occipital bone. Oozing of BLOODY FLUID from Navel of infants. Persistent vomiting of milk. Hydrocephalus – acute or chronic. Acne of anaemic girls at puberty. Sleeps on abdomen (geuu-pectoral) with face forced into the pillow. Non-union of fractures. Osteoporosis. DIARRHOEA : Stools foul, lienteric, spluttering, watery.
CALCAREA SULPH.
When the abscess has broken, or has been lanced, and is discharging, then Calc-S. comes in. The presence of pus with a vent is the characterstic indication. Unhealthy skin; ulcers do not heal rapidly. Pus is thick, yellow, lumpy, bloody. Glandular swellings, cystic tumours, fibroids. Profuse suppuration (tonsils, abscess of cornea, lungs, even fibroid tumours, pus in urine, wounds). Dr. Nash cured a case of suppurating KIDNEY with it.
MIND : Discontented, jealous, easily angered. Lamenting that he is not appreciated. Hates or despises those who do not agree with him. Hurried. Broods over imaginary misfortune.
Craves : Sweet and salt. Fruit, tea, vegetables. Averse : milk, meat.
CHILD : Bloody coryza, diarrhoea or eczema. Diarrhoea of children with discharge of pus, or bloody pus. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Whitlow when suppuration begins.
Peculiar : Epistaxis from washing face. Smell wanting or lost. Cold offensive smell of feet. Pimples and pustules on face.
CALCAREA FLOUR
Useful in hard, stony glands, varicose and enlarged veins. Hard knots in female breast. Many cases of cataract have been influenced favourably by it. Used after operations, tendency to adhesions is reduced. Indurations of stony hardness.