Calcarea iodata

Iodide of Lime

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

It is in the treatment of scrofulous affections, especially enlarged glands, tonsils, etc, that this remedy has gained marked beneficial results. Thyroid enlargements about time of puberty. Flabby children subject to colds. Secretions inclined to be profuse and yellow. Adenoids. Uterine fibroids. Croup .

Head

Headache while riding against cold wind. Lightheaded. Catarrh; worse at root of nose; sneezing; very little sensation. Polypi of nose and ear.

Throat

Enlarged tonsils are filled with little crypts.

Respiratory

Chronic cough; Pain in chest, difficulty breathing after syphilis and mercurialization (Grauvogl). Hectic fever; green purulent expectoration. Croup. Pneumonia .

Skin

Indolent ulcers, accompanying varicose veins . Easy perspiration. Copper-colored and papulous eruptions, tinea, favus, crusta lactea, swelling of the glands, skin cracked, falling out of hair.

Relationship

Compare: Agraphis -Bluebell (adenoids with enlarged tonsils). Here Sulph iod follows both Agraphis and Calc iod. Acon lycotonum (swelling of glands, Hodgkin's disease).

Compare also: Calc fluor; Sil; Merc iod .

Dose

Second and third trituration.

Calcarea iodata across the other classic books

Calcarea iodata appears in 6 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 iodatum; Iodide of lime, CaI. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. Indifferent to anything which may happen (after three-quarters of an hour), 4. Lightheaded (after three-quarters of an hour), 4. Slight giddy headache (after eight and three-quarters hours), 4. Sensation as though my head wasn't, yet was…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“LUMPY EFFECTS, discharges, etc.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Iodide of Lime. Ca I 2 . Cancer / Consumption / Flatulence / Glandular swellings / Headache / Mollities ossium / Tumours of the breast Calc. iod. has had a short proving, but it has been used mostly on indications suggested by its two components in the diseases named above. It is similar to Baryt. iod. in its action…”
Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(Iodide of Calcium.) Description.— Prepared by heating Calcium and Iodine vapor, or dissolving lime or the Carbonate of calcium in Hydriodic acid, evaporating, and fusing the residue in a closed vessel. It resembles the chloride. It melts below a red heat, and if in contact with the air is decomposed with the…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“Calcarea iodata. Iodide of calcium, Calj. I. Provings. — i. W. J. Blakeley, M.D. Dec. 9th, 1866, at 9.30 p.m., took 3 gr. of ist cent. trit. of C. iod. In 10 m. dull heavv pain in forehead, sharp and piercing in r. temple ; followed by dull heavy lameness in r. arm ; persistent itchine on r. elbow^ afterwards same on…”

Calcarea iodata in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Calcarea iodata in 37 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in GENERALITIES (11), EXTREMITIES (10), HEAD (4), EAR (3), EXTERNAL THROAT (3).

EXTERNAL THROAT - INDURATION of glands - like knotted cords
EXTERNAL THROAT - INDURATION of glands
GENERALITIES - ABSCESSES
GENERALITIES - IRRITABILITY - lack of
GENERALITIES - AIR - open - desire for
GENERALITIES - EMACIATION
GENERALITIES - SWELLING in general - glands
GENERALITIES - NIGHT
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - boring - Knee - night
HEAD - PAIN, - wind, - cold - riding in
THROAT - ENLARGEMENT of tonsils
GENERALITIES - SYPHILIS
EXTERNAL THROAT - GOITRE
GENERALITIES - REACTION,lack of
GENERALITIES - HEAT - sensation of
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - wind,riding against the
HEAD - HEADLESS,sensation of being
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - riding in a carriage - in cold wind
NOSE - SNEEZING - air, - amel. - in the
EAR - NUMBNESS

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