Calcarea acetica

by Richard Hughes & Jabez P. Dake — A Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

Volume I — Main text

CALCIUM.

Calcarsa aCOtica. (Impure) acetate of limcj Ca(C2H30jj)5* L Prayings. — I* Hahnemann, v^/^r/, Af?^. Pwr^, vol. v of original, voh i of translation. Contains 270 symptoms from self and four others.

Calcarea acetica across the other classic books

Calcarea acetica appears in 5 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Calcium acetate, CaC2H3O2. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. Disinclined to talk without being morose (after six and a half hours), 3. He is lively and desirous to be with people and to talk with those about him (after ten hours), 3. Sadness, almost to weeping, with solicitous care for the present and future, 4.”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Acetate of Lime Has had brilliant clinical results in inflammation of mucous membranes characterized by a membranous exudation ; otherwise its action and application is like the carbonate. Cancer pains. Vertigo in open air. Senses obscure while reading. Megrim , with great coldness in head and sour taste. Membranous…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Impure Calcium Acetate. Ca (C 2 H 3 O 2 ) 2 . Tincture. Anus, itching of / Bronchitis membranosa / Cancer, pains of / Dysmenorrhœa membranosa / Headache / Vertigo The symptoms of Calc. acet. (the first of the lime preparations proved by Hahnemann) are in the main identical with those of Calc. carb. (both being…”
Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Acetate of Lime) From vol. v, 2nd edit., 1826. Experience, and experience alone, but not baseless conjecture, can and dare pronounce respecting the power of drugs to effect alterations in the health of human beings. From the earliest times it has been firmly accepted as a maxim in ordinary medicine, that calcareous…”

Calcarea acetica in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Calcarea acetica in 30 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (21), ABDOMEN (2), EYE (2), FACE (2), EAR (1).

EYE - INFLAMMATION - canthi - outer - with ulceration
FACE - DRYNESS - lips
ABDOMEN - GURGLING - stool - during
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - mental exertion - amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - extending to - occiput - left side
HEAD - PAIN, - stitching - motion,on - continued amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - tearing,rending - mental exertion , - amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - eminence,frontal - extending to - eyes
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - rising, - amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - touch agg. - amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - gnawing - Forehead - nose,above
HEAD - PAIN, - rising. - from stooping - amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - touch - amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - pressing - Forehead - morning - rising, - after
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - sitting, - amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - drawing - mental exertion,from
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - pulsating - reading,while
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - walking, - amel.
EYE - PAIN - sore,bruised,tender - canthi - outer
HEAD - PAIN, - Sides, - stooping agg.

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