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Calcarea fluorica

Keywords

- Stony hard indurations, nodosities.

- Fear of poverty.

Synopsis (identifying features)

- 1. Diseases of glands, bones, veins.

- 2. Enlarged glands with stony hardness.

- 3. Bony growths, osteosarcoma, exostosis - rice bodies in cartilages.

- 4. Induration threatening suppuration.

- 5. Fear of poverty.

- Miserly.

- 6. Lumbar pain agg. first motion, amel. by continued motion (after Rhus tox fails).

- 7. Tumours; encysted, of eyelids, ganglion on back of wrist.

Mind

- Fear of misfortune.

- Anxious, depressed, sad, miserly.

- Indecision.

- Groundless fear of financial loss.

- Fear of poverty.

- Vivid dreams with weeping.

- Jumps out of bed in a dream.

- Delusion he will come to want.

Objective

- Indurations; of stony hardness; glands, tonsils, tumours.

- Exostoses, periostitis.

- Varicose veins inflamed.

- Slow, sluggish processes.

- Discharges turn grass green.

- X-ray burns.

- Tonsils rough and ragged.

- Ulcers with hard edges.

- Encysted tumours at the back of wrist.

- Rice bodies in joints.

Causation (a.f. )

- Injury (exostosis).

Modalities

- Agg.

- Rest, beginning to move; change of weather, cold/wet (damp) weather.

- X-ray burns.

- Amel.

- Heat, warm applications, continued motion. Rubbing.

Food & drinks

- Cravings

- Sweets

- Aversion

- Fats and rich food.

Female

- Hard knots in breast.

- Flatulency of pregnancy.

- Favours parturition.

Male

- Hydrocele with induration of testes.

- Enlarged prostate.

Child

- Cephalhaematoma of newborn.

- Vomiting of undigested food in infants.

- Acute indigestion from fatigue and brain fag; or when overtaxed by studies.

Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics

- 1. Eyes

- CATARACT - disperses growths - corneal opacity.

- 2. Ear

- Calcareous deposits on tympanum.

- 3. Ear

- Chronic suppuration of middle ear.

- 4. Nose

- Ineffectual effort at sneezing.

- 5. Face

- Periosteitis of lower jaw, ribs etc.

- 6. Teeth

- Deficient enamel of teeth.

- 7. Teeth

- Dental fistula, with bloody discharge of salty taste.

- 8. Throat

- Large indurated stony hard tonsils (after Bar. c.), cervical glands, testes, uterine fibroid.

- 9. Rectum

- Bleeding piles with pain sacrum.

- 10. Rectum

- Fissures, fistula.

- Indolent, fistulous ulcers.

- 11. Extremities

- Indurations threatening suppuration.

- 12. Extremities

- Arteriosclerosis, aneurysm.

- 13. Extremities

- Encysted tumours on the wrist. Bursitis.

- 14. Extremities

- Gouty enlargement of joints of fingers.

- 15. Extremities

- Nails hypertrophied.

- 16. Extremities

- Recurrent fibroids in the hollow of the knee.

- 17. Extremities

- Knee

- Synovitis of knee joint and exostosis after injury.

- 18. Skin

- Ulcers with hard elevated edges; surrounding skin purple and swollen.

- 19. General

- Discharges turn grass green.

- 20. General

- Removes tendency to adhesions after surgery.

- Disperses bony growths.

- 21. General

- Varicose veins.

- Vascular tumours with dilated blood vessels.

- 22. General

- X-ray burns; ill effects of.

Cases

- 5. Calc Fluor.

- Fear of poverty (SR-I).

- Indurations, of stony hardness.

- Vascular dilatation; varicoses, inflamed.

- Agg. cold, damp and change of weather (BSK).

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