Calcarea Carbonica
 

Just as the earth consists of hard and soft material, such as rocks, water and air, so too does the human body consist of the liquid, racing, iron-filled blood, the sulphurous skin and hair and the hard, rock-like, calcareous skeleton. The legion correspondences that really exist between earth, minerals, remedies, body and disease-states are endlessly fascinating and profoundly enriching for the natural therapist to consider.

Anti-psoric remedy

vertigo on ascending stairs

vertigo on going up to any height, as the roof of a house,

habitual state in the head as if it were pressed in front by a board,

trembling before breakfast,

headach as if from repeated strokes of the hammer within the head,

after having walked in the open air so quick as to be obliged to lie down,

piercing pain in the forehead as if the head were splitting,

headach caused by reading and writing,

headach in lifting up in a wrong manner a heavy body,

icy-cold in the right side of the head, evening sweats in the head,

falling off of the hair,

flying of feathers apparently before the eyes and embarrassment of the sight, presbytia,

impossibility of reading without spectacles having convex glasses,

obscurity of the sight in reading, obscurity of the sight after having eaten,

pressure in the eyes, flow of pus from the eyes,

heat and tearing pains in the eyelids, shootings in the eyes, weeping of the eyes in the open air,

itching and eruption of the face,

beatings in the ears, buzzings in the ears, cracking in the ear in swallowing, hardness of hearing,

obstruction in the nose by yellow and fetid pus, distressing dryness of the nose,

pain in the submaxilliary glands,

voluminous goitre,

difficult dentition, swelling of the gums,

toothach after the use of any cold drink, shootings in the teeth, day and night, renewed by cold and heat,

dryness of the tongue on awaking in the morning, accumulation of mucus in the throat, risings after having eaten,

bitter risings, bitter taste in the mouth in the morning,

repugnance to smoking when one has acquired a habit for it,

loss of appetite, continual thirst with want of appetite,

hunger on leaving the table, or a little time afterwards,

devouring appetite in the morning when the patient cannot become satisfied,

stomach feeble, languishing digestion, pressure on the stomach,

heat after having eaten, hardness of the abdomen, swelling in the praecordial region with painful pressure, borborygmi,

colics in the superior portion of the abdomen,

aching of the belly as if proceeding from pressure there,

pinchings without diarrhoea, bowels often or always relaxed,

producing two stools a day, constipation,

ascarides in the rectum, projection of button-like haemorrhoids on going to stool, with burning pain;

after the stool, sensation of slackening and of bruising; heat in the ureter, too frequent discharge of urine,

bleeding from the ureter, passage of blood for urine,

hemorrhage from the uterus during menses, tearing pains in the abdomen and painful feeling at the sacrum,

whites previous to the periodical discharge, leucorrhoea like milk,

leucorrhoea accompanied by itching and heat, itching in the pudendum during the running of whites,

frequent sneezing, dry coryza, catarrhal discharge,

long in establishing itself in the nose, frequent coryza, roughness of the voice,

dry cough all the night while in bed, the same while sleeping, yellow and fetid expectoration,

disorder of respiration in bending the body, heat in the chest,

shootings in the side of the chest during motion, shootings in the left side on inclining the body to that side;

pain at night in the back and arms, pain in the back as if there were dislocation there,

stiffness in the nape of the neck, pluckings and tearings at night in the arms,

sudden lassitude in the arms which are paralysed,

the hands as if dead when grasping any object,

swelling of the hands, numbness and deadness in the fingers, also when in a warm place;

gouty knots in the articulations of the hand and fingers;

formication similar to that of "pins and needles" in the fingers,

frequent paralysis of the fingers, shootings in the thigh on ascending, heaviness in the legs, stiffness in thelegs,

cramps in thelegs, swelling of the knee, red spots on the legs,

ulcerations on the inferior extremities, swelling of the soles of the feet,

sweating of the feet, heat in the soles of the feet, painful sensibility in the great toes,

pains in corns, the feet as if dead at night,

a visible shivering in the skin from head to foot,

state after which the patient is as if shaken, numbness of the limbs,

the skin of the body rough as if covered with a miliary eruption,

great tendency to twist and strain the loins, which makes the neck stiff,

with headach, great sensibility to cold, great tendency to become cold,

abundant perspiration although only moderate movements are made,

great lassitude following a moderate walk in the open air,

tearings in the limbs, the arms and legs,

warts,

extreme fatness in young persons,

failure of strength, lassitudes,

great lassitude after the least walking, extreme fatigue caused by the action of talking,

sleeping in the day,

wish for sleep early in the evening,

frequent dreams at night, dreams distressing to the mind,

disordered imagination during the night, inquietude in the evening at twilight,

heat and anxiety in the night, asthma during the night,

nothing but turning about in bed throughout the night,

pressure during the night in the praecordial region which ascends to the larynx and thence to the head,

thirst through the night,

night sweats,

tertian fever appearing in the evening, at first heat in the face, followed by cold,

perspiration with anxiety, extreme nervous susceptibility,

great disposition to frighten onle’s self, disposition to weep,

uneasiness of the mind with heaviness in the legs, fits of despondency caused by loss of health.

Lime cures often, without the help of other medicines, a disease of the most formidable kind, and one till the present time regarded as incurable,  epilepsy.

This medicine is appropriate

chiefly in childhood, for athletic temperaments and scrofulous constitutions,

in chorea, diseases of the heart,

eruptions on the face,

suppurations of a bad character,

glandular disease in the chest and abdomen, dry chronic cough, amaurosis, amenorrhoea.