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).