- Source: Derived from the middle layer of oyster shells ( Ostrea edulis), primarily calcium🌿 CalciumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. carbonate.
- (CaCO₃), prepared for homeopathic use through potentization involving triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy., serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity.,.
- And succussionVigorous shaking of homeopathic dilutionThe process of vigorously shaking a liquid homeopathic solution against a firm surface during dilution to potentize it..
- Traditional Context : Historically employed in homeopathy for constitutional, metabolic, and psychological disorders , particularly those involving slow development, metabolic imbalances,.
- And anxiety.
- It is noted for symptoms such as delayed growth, obesity, bone weakness, and fearfulness, often aggravated by cold, damp weather, exertion, or mental strain, and ameliorated by warmth, rest, or dry weather.
- Modern Context : Indicated for metabolic disorders (e.g., obesity, hypothyroidism🩺 HypothyroidismClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.),.
- Musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., osteoporosis🩺 OsteoporosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., rickets), developmental issues (e.g., delayed milestones, learning disabilities), respiratory conditions (e.g., asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., chronic rhinitis),.
- Dermatological complaints (e.g., eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., warts), and psychological disorders (e.g., anxiety,.
- Depression).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by slow metabolism ,.
- Bone or joint weakness, respiratory sensitivity, skin eruptions, and anxiety, typically exacerbated by cold, damp conditions, overexertion, or emotional stress, and often seen in individuals with a history of developmental delays, metabolic dysfunction, or chronic infections.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a sluggish, chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like fatigue, joint pain, or recurrent colds alongside emotional traits like fearfulness, indecision, or sensitivity, commonly observed in children with growth issues, adults with metabolic disorders, or patients with chronic anxiety.
- COMMENTS-Calcium carbonate is the foundation of the structure of our body.
- One of the dominant constitutions today, it has a profound influence, particularly on growing children.
- There's a strong complementaryAssisting or completing remedyA remedy that naturally follows and completes the action of another remedy, helping it work better. relationship between Calc, and Bell.🌿 Bell.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. Calc, has a tendency to go toward Bell, acutes, especially tonsillitis🩺 TonsillitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and fevers.
- It's also closely related to Puls.🌿 Puls.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. Calc acutes can become Puls, cases, particularly in children.
- Adults have a tendency to become Rhus-t.🌿 Rhus-T.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., especially the elderly.
- Calc, can deal with residue from many of these complaints.
- Helpful for teething problems, bone prob lems, spinal problems, and flabby muscles.
- Children with slow development, a tendency to be sluggish.
- Tendency to sore throats, swollen glands, and earaches.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
- ConstipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. in babies (Alum.🌿 Alum.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- When constipated, the child cries, moans, does a lot of body movements, and then they pass a large stool.
- Babies sweat on the back of their head, and they smell sour.
- Their stool and sweat smell sour, their pillow smells sour.
- InsomniaPersistent inability to fall or stay asleepA sleep disorder marked by difficulty falling asleep, waking up too early, or unrefreshing sleep. in babies.
- Nightmares, espe cially about monsters.
- Fears, particularly vulnerable and susceptible to watching frightening movies or news (Phos.🌿 Phos.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Apprehensive state of mind.
- Fear of losing reason, that people will notice her mental confusion.
- Fears she has some fatal disease, especially heart disease.
- Great desire for order and structure, fear of losing control.
- Great sense of responsibility, happy when working.
- Shuddering and dread as evening draws near.
- Sees visions on closing eyes (useful in deliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations. tremens).
- Cries out, twitches, grasps at flocks, restless and anxious though unconscious (nervous and typhoid fever🩺 Typhoid FeverClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), beside herself with anguish, on the borders of acute mania.
- Evil foreboding, talks of mice, rats, murders.
- Forgetful.
- Abnormally sleepy or sleepless.
- Wakes at 3 a.m and cannot get to sleep again, tosses about Horrible phantasms.
- The child wakes in the night screaming and cannot be pacified, in the morning remembers nothing of it.
- Chews and swallows in sleep.
- Frightful dreams of sickness, death and smell of corpses.
- Insomnia, especially in the elderly.
- Aversion to darkness.
- Slow in movements (Sulph., quick and active).
- Exhaustion on exertion or excitement, though he may feel well before.
- Exhaustion in the morning.
- Cramp🌿 CrampMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. in legs at 3 a.m.
- Tendency toward arthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age..
- Disposition to strain a part by lifting heavy things.
- ScrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. of bones, spinal curvature, rickets.
- Swellings.
- Sciatica🩺 SciaticaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., after working in water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- RheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. and gouty conditions from wetting.
- Joints crack and crepitate as if dry.
- Inclination to stretch and put the shoulders back, but straightening aggravates the rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
- Neuralgias and paralyzes.
- Twitching.
- Internal trembling sensation on awaking.
- Fainting, coming on in the street with sensation of something rising from stomach to head.
- Talking causes a feeling of weakness that compels him to desist.
- Epilepsy🩺 EpilepsyClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. has an aura spreading up from the solar plexus in which case the convulsion comes on immediately.
- It may be like a mouse running on the arm, or it may run down from epigastrium into uterus or limbs.
- EpilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions. from fright, suppressed eruptions and discharges, sexual excesses.
- Charac teristic rush of blood to head, a sensation of something rising up from epigastrium to head.
- Sensations of heat and burning.
- Heat in and on the vertex.
- Head sweats profusely, wetting the pillow.
- Sweat chiefly on occiput and forehead (Sil sweats all over).
- Better uncovered during the he ats (Lyc.🌿 Lyc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., opp of Sil.🌿 Sil.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Hot breath with heat in mouth.
- Sweats relieve.
- Bloody sweats may be sour or odorless.
- Sour body smell.
- Burning in soles of feet at night, burning in back of hands.
- Sour or odorless foot sweat.
- Soft, cold and moist hands, a boneless hand, inclined to chap.
- All the symptoms are made worse by tak ing cold.
- Great sensitiveness to cold, damp air.
- Dread of open air.
- Cannot bear sun.
- The slightest change of weather aggravates.
- Dread of bathing and water.
- When a cold wind strikes the body it immediately runs to the teeth, causing them to ache.
- Rough, scaly skin, inclined to chap.
- Cracks.
- Chilblains from wetting.
- Eruptions, behind right ear.
- Pricking corns, polyps, cysts, in the leuco-phlegmatic constitutions.
- Scrofulous glands.
- Enlarged and hard lymphatic glands.
- Swelling of cervical and bronchial glands.
- Hypothyroidism (Sep.🌿 Sep.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Related to the pre-tubercular stage of tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., especially suited to disorders of the right apex.
- Stitching in chest and sides of chest when moving a nd when lying on affected side.
- Cough when going into a cold room, from chilliness.
- Tickling cough, sensation of feather in throat.
- Rattling in the chest, miller's and stone-cutter's tuberculosis, old suppurating cavities.
- Sinking sensation.
- Icy coldness in abdo men.🌿 Men.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Malnutrition.
- Ravenous hunger and feeling of emptiness immediately after a meal and in the early morning.
- Headache from hunger.
- Nausea after drinking water, even ever so little, but not if iced.
- Nausea when fasting.
- Craving for eggs, starchy grains, sweets.
- Craving for indigestible things like chalk, coal, etc.
- Children with pica.
- Milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. disagrees, sour vomiting of large curds.
- Inability to swallow solids.
- Chronic disease of left tonsil, feeling of lump in left side of throat, pain from left tonsil to ear.
- Semi-lateral swelling of tongue.
- Ranula.
- Sourbelchings.
- Sour diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
- Crawling in rectum as from worms.
- Burning in rectum.
- Weight in lower rectum.
- Ardor urine, offen sive urine.
- Stools hard and pasty, like chalk or clay, offensive, undigested.
- FlatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. or gurgling in right hypochondrium.
- Impotence, penis cold and relaxed.
- Good for weight gain after pregnancy and meno pause.
- Milk leg, better by elevating the limb, worse hanging it down.
- Sensation as if in a dream.
- Sensation of levitation.
- VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., especially in the elderly.
- Dr. Van den Neucker cured a baker of paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of both arms with Calc, and also a case of paralysis with many symptoms of locomotor ataxiaLoss of full control of bodily movementsA neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that can include gait abnormality. in a lymphatic blonde girl of nineteen.
- Cooper cured psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. of the palms with it.
- Guernsey said “this remedy is particularly adapted to the real leuco-phlegmatic constitution.
- Where we find a large head, large features, pale skin with a chalky look and (in infants) open fontanelles, we may think strongly of Calc.” According to Guernsey, Calc, is in general a right-side remedy, particularly the right external head, right eye, right face, right abdominal ring, sexual organs on the right side, right back, right upper limbs.
- Left side neck and nape of neck, left chest, left lower limbs.
- Alexander Villers cured with Calc. 200c a case combining many of the features of the remedy.
- The patient, a woman, age 20, was very despondent through long-continued depressing circumstances, became very nervous.
- She was companion to an exceedingly deaf lady, whose voice was high-pitched.
- This, with the strain on her voice to make herself heard, caused headache throughher temples, better from rapid motion of head.
- Outdoor exercise was accompanied by hard pressure on chest, which only belch ings seemed to relie ve.
- Constipated bowels.
- Menses every fortnight with backache and great prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness..
- Under the remedy, repeated at rare intervals, the menses came on monthly, headache and pressure on the chest disappeared.
- Temperature-Chill with thirst.
- Chill at 2 p.m., begins internally in stomach region.
- Coldness, icy in different parts of the body, of affected part.🌿 Part.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Internal heat with external coldness and sweat.
- Fever with sweat.
- Hectic fever.
- Sweat cold, partial.
- Night sweats, especially on head, neck and chest.
- Heat, at night during menses.
- Sweat over head in children, so that pillow becomes wet.
- Pulse full and frequent.
- Increase of fat in abdomen.
- Large and hard abdomen.
- Sensitive to slightest pressure, cannot bear tight clothing around the waist.
- Distention with hardness, better slightest pressure.
- Cutting pain in swollen abdomen.
- Colic with coldness of thighs after stopped coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. or with cold feeling in abdomen.
- Incarcerated flatulence.
- Peritonitis🩺 PeritonitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. when pain better by cold application.
- Twisting or cramps about umbilical region.
- Umbilical hernia.
- The navel is sore, excrescences like proud flesh in infants.
- Inguinal and mesenteric glands swollen and painful.
- Poor diet and nutrition.
- Loss of appetite, but when he begins to eat, he relishes it.
- Loss of appetite when overworked.
- Repugnance to hot food.
- Raven-oushunger.
- Cravings for eggs, ice-creams, salt and sweets.
- Craving for indigestible things, dirt, chalk, coal, pencils.
- Aversion to meat, milk, boiled things, fat.
- Worse after eating, smoked meats, milk, orwhen fasting.
- Thirst for cold drinks
