Calcarea carbonica Materia Medica
Nature of Calc carb
(Shell)
- Thick skinned + impenetrable like the oyster shell that is fixed to the rock
- Obstinate and dislikes change
- Passive and have a limited outlook
- Likes security of the family and likes to be close to home
- Withdraw into themselves to protect themselves from their environment
(Pearl)
- The pearly only develops if irritating sand is present
- Calc carb needs guidance, stimulation, prodding and are slow in their progress
- Mental symptoms are ameliorated by physical exertion
Typical Subject/Appearance
- Fair, fat, flabby. Gain weight easily and have difficulty losing it. Child or adult have little muscle tone
- Thin persons – lean face with fine wrinkles
- Enlarged head and abdomen (can look flat in am and look pregnant in pm) in both types
Calc Carb Child
- Fontanel’s slow to close.
- Big head
- Perspires in sleep on head
- Cradle Cap
- Sour smelling, sour vomiting
- Constipated >>>
- Slow to walk, learn/intelligent
- Abdomen distended as day goes on
- Tendency to colds, earaches, bronchitis,
- Spotted deformed nails
- Swollen glands
- Dilated pupils
- Hands short and square
- Late teething
- PQRS - child feels better for being constipated
Characteristics of Calc carb
- Sourness of discharge
- Perspiration of single parts i.e. feet or hands or head
- Relaxation of tissues, muscles and blood vessels -à flabbiness
- Congestion – arterial and venous à throbbing, anxiety with hot flushes and palpitations
- Swelling and indurations of glands i.e. hardening of glands
- Growths such as polyps in the nose, ears and vagina and exotose i.e. bony growths
- Sensation of heat and burning
Sleep position
- on Stomach
- better lying on painful side
Mentals
- Likes to be at home and protected
- Oversensitive to cruelty of animals or people
- Upset by injustice
- Sensitive to criticism + admonition
- Cannot be teased – they sit in a group and observe
- Timid and sense their own limitations
- Identify strongly with the victim
- Pities himself
- Very vulnerable
- Very upset by injustice to others and themselves
- Mental symptoms ameliorated by physical exertion
Fear
- That other people will observe their confusion
- Fear of death and the dark – can be obsessive
- Fear of insanity
- Fear that something bad will happen
- Fear of contamination D/D Lachesis
- Fear of heights
- Great anxiety about their own health
Indolence
- Start and continue slowly with mental and physical work
- Overexertion of the mind --> poor concentration + confusion
- Exertion of physical body --> feeling a lot better mentally
Pessimism/Optimism
- Feel depressed and want to go home
Obstinate
- Will not give in until they get what they want
- Resistant to change – can’t adapt
Religious Affections
- In childhood sees angels, devils, images of religious figures
- Psychic powers – clairvoyant
Causation
- Ailments – bad news, dentition
- Suppressed sweat, menses or eruptions
- Cold moist wind, dampness
- Injury to lower spin, over-lifting, straining and over exertion, childbirth in women
Desires, aversions, aggravations
- Worse for change of weather, don’t like hot to cold weather. Better for dry weather
- Likes soft boiled eggs
- Crave – indigestible, raw potato, dirt,
Eggs, chocolate, cheese, ice cream
- Aggravated milk and cheese
- Aversion to meat, milk and fats
PQRS
- child feels better for being constipated
- Head pain better for sneezing
Keynotes of Calc Carb
- Glandular enlargement is chronic
- Anxiety and apprehension – fear
- Poor co-ordination
- Dullness of the mind
- Deficient circulation with coldness of single parts
- Ailments from over exertion mentally and physically
- Dentition is difficult
- Sourness of discharges
- Cravings for soft boiled eggs, ice cream and milk
Complementary Remedies
Acute – Belladonna, Rhustox
Chronic – Silica, follows Sulphur well, Baryta carb, Lycopodium