- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Calcium carbonate (CaCO3 ). Preparation , For Hahnemann's provings, trituration of the middle layer of the oyster-shell. For Dr. Koch's provings, precipitated carbonate of lime from a solution of chalk in hydrochloric acid, is triturated with an equal quantity of sugar of milk; twenty parts of this are mixed with one…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Carbonate of Lime (CALCAREA CARBONICA - OSTREARUM) This great Hahnemannian anti-psoric is a constitutional remedy par excellence . Its chief action is centered in the vegetative sphere, impaired nutrition being the keynote of its action, the glands, skin, and bones, being instrumental in the changes wrought. Increased…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ADHESIVE, adherent, torn, loose, etc. (Comp. Sticky) ANGER, irritability fretfulness, bad temper, etc. (Comp. Emotions) APPETITE, Changed ASCENDING, AGG. BLOOD SEPSIS, etc. BONES. BORING, grinding, etc. BREAKING, broken, brittle, etc. BREATHING, DEEPLY, Agg. BURSTING, splitting, etc.(Comp. Shattered) CALCULI…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“NUTRITION: GLANDS (Cervical. Mesenteric.). BONES. SKIN. BLOOD. CHEST. R. Lung. HEART. CHILDREN. COLD: RAW AIR. Wet. BATHING. Cooling off. Change of weather. EXERTION: Mental. Physical. Ascending. Eyestrain. DENTITION. Puberty. PRESSURE OF CLOTHES. MILK. Awaking. Anxiety. Fat, flabby BLONDES, WHO SWEAT EASILY, dark…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Impure Calcium Carbonate. Ca CO 3 . Including symptoms of Calcarea acetica, and Calcarea ostrearum, a trituration of the middle layer of oyster shells, of both of which Hahnemann made provings. Koch's provings were made from carbonate of lime precipitated from a solution of chalk in hydrochloric acid. Trituration…”
- Dunham — The method — how symptoms are weighed before a remedy is differentiated.
“LIME is used in allopathic therapeutics: 1. As caustic lime in combination with caustic potash as an escharotic; it lessens the deliquescence of the potash and makes the causticity more controllable. 2. In the form of lime-water it is used externally in combination with oil as an application to burns; as a soothing…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“SALTS OF LIME.— CAL CARE A OSTREARUM. Calcarea ostrearum — Nutrition. Calcarea caustica — Blood: Anaemia; Leucocythaemia. Calcarea fluorica — Glands. Calcarea phosphorica — Bones. There are quite a number of the salts of lime which have been more or less proven. The first one on the list is Calcarea ostrearum, or the…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“We find this remedy particularly adapted to the real leucophlegmatic constitution--where we find a large head, large features, pale skin with a chalky look, and (in infants) open fontanelles. Right eye; face, right side; right abdominal ring; sexual organs, right side, forearm. Inguinal glands often become swollen…”
- Hahnemann (CD) — The antipsoric proving record — Hahnemann's later materia medica in its chronic-disease setting.
“LIME. Break in pieces a clean, somewhat thick oyster shell, take one grain of the softer, snow-white calcareous substance found between the outer and the inner harder shell. This is prepared in all the degrees of potencies up to X in the manner directed as to the preparation of dry medicinal substances for homœopathic…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Trituration of the middle layer of oyster-shells. Hahnemann proved first the Calc. acetica, and his provings were printed in his Materia Medica ; but after he had commenced to triturate insoluble substances with milk-sugar, he preferred to use in the preparation of Calcarea the whitest pieces from the middle of large…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“Calcarea carbonica. Carbonate of lime, Ca C03. L Provings, — Hahnemann, Chronic Diseases^ Part 2 of original, voL of translation. Contains 1361 symptoms from self and 4 others ; obtained from soft white substance found between external and internal hard layers of oyster-shell (C oitrearum^ Hg.). 2. A young man took 5…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“If you were about to produce a Calcarea subject to order you could do so by feeding him lime or lime water until the digestive organs were so debilitated that they could no longer digest lime; and then the tissues would be increasingly deprived of what they need, and give us the lime subject, the " bone salt inanition…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Apprehension of some future misfortune. She fears she will lose her understanding and that persons will observe her confusion of mind. Low-spirited and melancholy. Nervous excitement, with debility and loss of strength. Inclination to become fat (in children and young persons). Bloatedness of the body and face, with…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Easily frightened, or offended. Inclination to weep. Children are self-willed. Apprehensive anxiety about his health, or of some future misfortune. Anguish, with palpitation of the heart. She fears she will lose her understanding, or that people will observe her confusion of mind. Despairing mood, with fear of disease…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: carbonate of calcium. Often suitable during dentition of children (Bell., Merc., Podo., Sil.). Nervous excitement, with debility and loss of strength (Ars., Kali-P., Nux-V., Sep.). Sees objects on closing the eyes, which vanish when they are opened (Arg-N., Bell., Chin., Op., Sulph., Tarant.) (D.)…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Deficient or irregular bone development. (Fontanelles open, crooked spine, deformed extremities.) Leucophlegmatic temperament. Fair, fat, flabby, obesic. Coldness, general and local, subjective and objective, especially as if had on cold, damp stockings. Affections from working in cold water. Sweats general (night…”
- Nash (Respiratory) — The respiratory picture — the cough, the breathing, and the expectoration that separate one remedy from another.
“Sulphur and Calcarea ostrearum will never be forgotten in chronic diseases of any kind. Both have the chronic form of catarrh, with thick, fetid, purulent discharge of offensive smell, etc., Sulphur suiting the psoric constitution and temperament, and Calcarea the leucophlegmatic. Indeed the choice of such remedies…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“Metrorrhagia. (50) Case.—Mrs. E. G., æt. 36, had been given up to die by her family physician. She came of a consumptive family, her mother and her mother’s parents having died with the disease. She had always menstruated very profusely, and after having practiced upon herself, within the course of eight or nine…”
- Nash (Typhoid) — The course of the illness — which remedy fits which phase, and why.
“Calcarea ostrearum.—If at, or about, the beginning of the third week of the fever the exanthem, or miliary rash, has not made its appearance, and the other symptoms are not being controlled by other remedies, a few doses of Calcarea ost. may develop the rash and stop the diarrhœa, if present, and so modify the case…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“Calcarea carb. is a remedy of great value in chronic rheumatic conditions of joints; inflammation and swelling without the general symptoms of inflammation. In gouty constitutions with nodes on fingers. In all rheumatic conditions the aggravations are marked, particularly that from working in water and the change from…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“This remedy, impure calcium carbonate, is a trituration of the middle layer of the oyster shell. It was proved by Hahnemann; and Clarke calls it “one of the greatest monuments of Hahnemann’s genius. . . . His method of preparing insoluble substances” (by trituration) “brought to light, in this instance, a whole world…”
