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The patient is apathetic, capricious, indolent, apprehensive, forgetful,
obstinate and does not like either work or exercise. (Hypothyroid)
Anaemia, loss of the coagulability of the blood, periostitis, great
sensitiveness to cold, partial perspiration; children crave eggs;
spots and opacities of the cornea, chronic dilation of the pupils,
cataracts; nasal polyps; otitis, hypertrophy of the tonsils and
of the lymphatic ganglia. Goitre. Loss of appetite, milk intolerance,
hyperchlorhydria; hepatic colics, umbilical hernia, infantile diarrhoea,
constipation.
Menstrual disfunction with milky leucorrhoea, sterility, uterine
polyps.
Night coughing with spitting, hoarseness without pain, the chest
is very sensitive to touch and to pressure. Tachi-cardia. Renal
colic, knotty arthritis, chronic rheumatism. Worse by physical and
mental exercise, by cold and standing up. Improvement in a dry climate,
lying down on the painful side. (Calcarea carbonica)
The patient displays a very serious manifestation in the skin,
such as fissures, cracks, suppurations with callosities, fistulous
ulcers which secrete a yellowish pus. Hard edges even down to the
level of the joints. Stony indurations.
Hereditary syphilis, cogential syphilis. Goitre. Arteriosclerosis.
Apoplexy. Tuberculosis. Hematomas, gangrene. Sclerosis of tympanum,
otitis, hypertrophy of the tonsils, bloody piles, varicose veins.
Aneurism. (Calcarea fluorica.)
Hypertrophy of the thyroid gland particularly in puberty, hypertrophy
of ganglia, hypertrophy of the tonsils, adenoids. Uterine fibroids.
Croup. Hereditary syphilis. Pneumonia. Persistent catarrhal states;
polyps in the nose and in the ear. (Calcarea iodata.)
Membranous bronchitis, bronchorrhoea. Membranous dysmenorrhoea.
Cancer. (Calcarea acetica).
Epilepsy. Nephritis, albuminuria. Chronic malaria. Cancer of the
matrix. Pernicious anaemia (Calcarea arsenica)
Infantile dyspepsia with a craving for ham, bacon and smoked meats.
Flatulency. Enterocolitis during dentition. Hard stools, green and
with fetid gases. Fistulas of the anus. Menstrual disorders among
young girls with leucorrhoea like white of an egg. Prolapsus of
the matrix. (Calcarea phosphorica)
Fibroid, adenitis, Suppurated process of the long duration. Deafness
through chronic otorrhoea, purulent discharges from the ear and
from the nose. Mastoiditis. Dysenteri-form enteritis, chronic enteritis.
Abscesses and fistulas of the rectum and anus. Purulent exudations
of the skin. Eczema in children and adults. Pupus Herpes. (Calcarea
sulphurica)
Sclerosis of the ear; chronic otitis; Meniere's vertigo. Inguinal
and scrotal hernia. (Calcarea picrata)
An extensive volume can be written in reference to the clinical
use of the Calcareas of the Hahnemannian school, adding besides
that the best results are obtained, as the founder of homoeopathy
consels, with infinitesimal doses, giving cases of cures with the
potency from the 30x to the 1000 of Fincke.
The traditional school, which for twenty years up to the present
time has paid special attention to the employment of calcium, has
undoubtedly been able to enrich their therapeutics with more precise
hints about this substance, and the most noted authorities summarize
their indications for the following cases: Calcium carbonate (creta
preparata), as absorbent and as alkaline base to neutralize the
hyperacid dyspepsia. In gastrosuccorrhoea and in infantile diarrhoea.
As succedaneous of sodium carbonate. (Therapeutics and Pharmacology,
Arnaud, 1934)
As antiemetic in infantile dyspepsia. (Lessons in Therapeutics,
Dr Hernando.) As an agent for recalcification in tuberculosis of
the lungs. (Ferrier and A. Robin. Elemental Treatise of Therpeutics,
Manquat, 1919)
Calcium chlorate as an enternal hemostatic or in enemas. (Clinical
Therapeutics, Dr. Gaston Lyon, 1919)
Neuter phosphate of lime, glycerophosphate and chlorhydrophosphate
of calcium as antirachitic. (Diseases of Infancy, Suner and Ordonez,
1930)
The gluconate and lactate of calcium, in hypodermic form after parathyroidectomy,
in tetany, nephritis, oedema, eczema, bronchial asthma, urticaria,
angioneurotic oedema. Spasmophilia. Uremia. Epilepsy. Eclampsia.
Osteomalacia. Osteitis fibrosa. Decalcification. Lack of consolidation
of fractures. Tuberculous pleurisy. Enteritis. Night sweating in
tuberculosis. Ulcerative colitis. Dysmenorrhoea. As antidote in
lead, mercury and chloroform poisoning. (Pharmacology and Therapeutics,
Walter A Bastedo, 1938.)
From this brief comparison it follows that the calcium therapy of
today is nothing less than the Calcareum therapy of the Hahnemannian
school, with the particularity that the indications of the latter
are more precise as being in conformity with the Law of Similia
similibus curantur. MEXICO, D.F.
Courtesy---The Homoeopathic Recorder, July 1939.
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