Calcarea Carbonica – Overwork

Throbbing; cracking in ears; stitches; pulsating pain as if something would press out. Deafness from working in water. Polypi which bleed easily. Scrofulous inflammation WITH MUCOPURULENT OTORRHOEA, AND ENLARGED GLANDS. Perversions of hearing; hardness of hearing. Eruption on and behind ear (Petrol.). Cracking noises in ear. Sensitive to cold about ears and neck.

Dry, NOSTRILS SORE, ULCERATED. Stoppage of nose, also with fetid, yellow discharge. Offensive odor in nose. POLYPI; swelling at root of nose. Epistaxis. Coryza. TAKES COLD AT EVERY CHANGE OF WEATHER. Catarrhal symptoms with hunger; coryza alternates with colic.

Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with deep-seated eyes, surrounded by dark rings. Crusta lactea; itching, burning after washing. Submaxillary glands swollen. Goitre. Itching of pimples in whiskers Pain from right mental foramen along lower jaw to ear.

Persistent SOUR TASTE. Mouth fills with sour water. Dryness of tongue at night. Bleeding of gums. Difficult and delayed dentition. Teeth ache; excited by current of air, anything cold or hot. Offensive smell from mouth. Burning pain at tip of tongue; worse, anything warm taken into stomach.

SWELLING OF TONSILS and submaxillary glands; stitches on swallowing. Hawking-up of mucus. Difficult swallowing. Goitre. Parotid fistula.

Aversion to meat, boiled things; CRAVING FOR INDIGESTIBLE THINGS-CHALK, COAL, PENCILS; also for eggs, salt and sweets. Milk disagrees. FREQUENT SOUR ERUCTATIONS; SOUR VOMITING. DISLIKE OF FAT. LOSS OF APPETITE WHEN OVERWORKED. Heartburn and loud belching. Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water. Ravenous hunger. Swelling over pit of stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up. Repugnance to hot food. Pain in epigastric region to touch. Thirst; longing for COLD drinks. Aggravation while eating. Hyperchlorhydria (Phos.).

Sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver region painful when stooping. Cutting in abdomen; Swollen abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence. INGUINAL AND MESENTERIC GLANDS SWOLLEN and painful. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. DISTENTION with hardness. GALL-STONE COLIC. Increase of fat in abdomen. Umbilical hernia. Trembling; weakness, as if sprained. Children are late in learning to walk.

Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and hard (Bry.); whitish, watery, sour. Prolapse ani, and burning, stinging hemorrhoids. Diarrhoea of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite. CHILDREN’S DIARRHOEA. Constipation; stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid.

Dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody. Irritable bladder. Enuresis. (Use 30th, also Tuberculin, 1 m.)

Male – FREQUENT EMISSIONS. Increased desired. Semen emitted too soon. Coition followed by weakness and irritability.

Female – Before menses, headache, colic, chilliness and leucorrhoea. Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. Menses TOO EARLY, TOO PROFUSE, TOO LONG, with vertigo, toothache and COLD, DAMP FEET; the least excitement causes their return. Uterus easily displaced. Leucorrhoea, MILKY (Sepia). Burning and itching of parts before and after menstruation; in little girls. Increased sexual desire, easy conception. Hot swelling breasts. Breasts tender and swollen before menses. Milk too abundant; disagreeable to child. Deficient lactation, with distended breasts in lymphatic women. Much sweat about external genitals. Sterility with copious menses. Uterine polypi.

Tickling cough troublesome at night, dry and free expectoration in morning; cough when playing piano, or by eating. Persistent, irritating cough form arsenical wall paper. (Clarke.) Extreme dyspnoea. PAINLESS HOARSENESS; worse 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; WORSE GOING UPSTAIRS or slightest ascent, must sit down. Sharp pains in chest from before backwards. CHEST VERY SENSITIVE TO TOUCH, PERCUSSION, OR PRESSURE. Longing for fresh air. Scanty, salty expectoration. (Lyc.)

Palpitation at night and after eating. Palpitation with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after suppressed eruption.

Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from over-lifting. Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Rheumatism in lumbar region; weakness in small of back. Curvature of dorsal vertebrae. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. RENAL COLIC.

Rheumatoid pains, as after exposure to wet. Sharp sticking, as if parts were wrenched or sprained. COLD, DAMP feet; feel as if damp stockings were worn. Cold knees, cramps in calves. Sour foot-sweat. Weakness of extremities. Swelling of joints, especially knee. Burning of soles of feet. Sweat of hands. Arthritic nodosities. SOLES OF FEET RAW. Feet feel cold and dead at night. Old sprains. Tearing in muscles.

Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep. Horrid visions when opening eyes. Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy. Drowsy in early part of evening. Frequent waking at night. SAME DISAGREEABLE IDEA ALWAYS AROUSES FROM LIGHT SLUMBER. Night terrors (Kali-phos.) Dreams of the dead.

CHILL AT two PM BEGINS INTERNALLY IN STOMACH REGION. FEVER WITH SWEAT. Pulse full and frequent. Chilliness and heat. Partial sweats. NIGHT SWEATS, ESPECIALLY ON HEAD, neck and chest. Hectic fever. Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep. SWEAT OVER HEAD IN CHILDREN, SO THAT PILLOW BECOMES WET.

Unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid. Small wounds do not heal readily. Glands swollen. Nettle rash; better in cold air. Warts on face and hands. PETECHIAL ERUPTIONS. Chilblains. Boils.

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 (pain in head and nape).

Antidotes: Camph.; Ipec.; Nit-ac.; Nux.
Complementary: Bell.; Rhus; Lycop.; Silica.
Calcar. is useful after Sulphur where the pupils remain dilated. When Pulsatilla failed in school girls.
Incompatible: Bry.; Sulphur should not be given after Calc.
Compare: Aqua calcar. Lime-water – (1/2 teaspoonful in milk); (as injection for oxyuris vermicularis), and Calc. caust – slaked lime – (pain in back and heels, jaws and malar bones; also symptoms of influenza). Calc. brom. (removes inflammatory products from uterus; children of lax fiber, nervous and irritable, with gastric and cerebral irritation. TENDENCY TO BRAIN DISEASE. Insomnia and cerebral congestion. Give 1x trituration). Sulph. (differs in being worse by heat, hot feet, etc.).
Calcar. calcinata – Calcinated oyster-shell – a remedy for warts. Use 3d trituration. Calcarea ovorum. Ova tosta – Toasted egg-shells – (backache and leucorrhoea. Feeling as if back were broken in two; tired feeling. Also effective in controlling suffering from cancer).
Calc-lac. (anemias, hemophilia, urticaria, where the coagulability of the blood is diminished; nervous headache with oedema of eyelids, lips or hands; 15 grains three times a day, but low potencies often equally effective).
Calcar. lacto-phosph. (5 grains 3 times a day in cyclic vomiting and migraine).
Calc. mur. Calcium chloratum – Rademacher’s Liquor – (1 part to 2 of distilled water, of which take 15 drops in half a cup of water, five times daily. Boils. Porrigo capitis. Vomiting of all food and drink, with gastric pain. Impetigo, glandular swellings, angioneurotic oedema. Pleurisy with effusion. Eczema in infants).
Calc-pic., (perifollicular inflammation; a remedy of prime importance in recurring or chronic boils, particularly when located on parts thinly covered with muscle tissue, as on shin bones, coccyx, auditory canal, dry, scurfy accumulation and exfoliation of epithelial scales, etc., styes, phlyctenules. Use 3x trit.)
Compare also with Calcarea; Lycop.; Silica; Pulsat.; Chamomile.

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