Calcarea carbonica

by C.M. Boger — General Analysis

Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

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, atheroma, etc.
CALF
CHEST, backward in
CHEST, internal
CHILLED, cold becoming, while hot, by ices, uncovering a part, as head, hand-hands, etc. in cold water, etc.., Agg.
CHILLY, cold
CLOTHES, pressure of, Agg.
COITION, AGG.
COLD AND HEAT, Agg.
COLD TAKING
COLDNESS, Partial
COUGH, excited from Throat or Larynx
CRACKS, fissures, chaps, etc.
CRAMP, COLIC, ETC.
CRUSTS, SCABS
CUTTING
CYSTS
DAMPNESS, getting wet, wet weather, bathing, working in water, damp rooms, etc., Agg.
DESQUAMATION, hair falls, etc.
DIGESTION affected
DIRECTION of sensations, Ascending.
DIRECTION of sensations, Up and Down
DISCHARGES, eruption appearing etc., Amel.
DISCHARGES, Agg.; loos of vital fluids, etc.., Agg.
DREAMS
DUST, FEATHERS, ETC., AS OF
EARS
EATING, affected by.
EMACIATION
EPIGASTRIUM
ERUPTIONS
EXERTION, Agg.
EYES
FALLING
FEARSOME, anxious, etc.
FEMALE ORGANS
FIBROUS TISSUE
FINGERS OR HANDS, using, as in writing, sewing, piano playing, grasping, etc.
FISTULAE
FLATULENCE, RIGHT
FORMICATION, crawling, etc.
FROST, frosty air, hoar frost, etc., Agg.
GLANDS
GRAYISH, dirty, etc.
HARDNESS
HEAD
HEART, CIRCULATION AND PULSE
HEAT, partial, local, etc.
HEAVINESS, general
HEMORRHAGE, BLOODY DISCHARGES
HERE AND THERE (Comp. Wandering)
INACTIVE, apathetic, lies down, lethargic (Comp. Reaction, Relaxation)
INTERMITTENCY (Comp. Paroxysms, Periodicity)
ITCHING
JOINTS, arthritic complaints, etc.
LIGHT, Amel.
LIGHT, artificial, Agg.(Comp. Sensitive.)
LIMBS, upper.
LIMBS, lower.
LIVER AND GALL BLADDER
LUMPY EFFECTS, discharges, etc.
LYING, Amel.
LYING, bent or doubled up, Amel.
LYING, ON SIDE, AGG.
MEMORY
MENSES, before, Agg.
MENSES, after, Agg.
MENSES, during, Agg.
MENSTRUAL DISTURBANCES
MENTAL EXERTION, AGG.
MIGRAINE
MIND
MOISTNESS, fluidity, increased secretions in general, etc. (Comp. Dampness.)
MOON PHASES, Agg., during
MORNING AND EVENING, Agg.
MOTION, Agg.
MUCOUS SECRETIONS, altered.
MUSCLES
NASO-PHARYNX, posterior nares, discharge thru.
NEURASTHENIA
NOSE AND ACCESSORY CAVITIES
OBESITY
OCCIPUT, nape and NECK
OPENING AND SHUTTING or contracted then relaxed alternately or as of a valve (Comp. Alternating.)
PAROXYSMS, repeated (Comp. Spasmodic.)
PERCEPTION, changed (Mental or visual)
PREGNANCY
PRESSURE, Agg., lying on painful or affected side, etc., Agg.
PRESSURE, Amel.; Lying on painful or affected side, etc., Amel.
PUFFINESS
RATTLING
RAWNESS
READING, Agg., eyestrain, Agg.
RELAXATION (Comp. Inactive.)
RISING from sitting, Agg.
RUBBING, Amel.
SALTINESS, taste, smell, fishy odors, etc.
SEASON, Spring
SENSES, Special, Dulled (Comp. Numbness.)
SEXUAL DISTURBANCES
SHOULDER AND SCAPULAE, ETC.
SHOULDERS and scapulae, between
SIDE, lain on, pain goes to
SIDE, RIGHT
SIDE, left to right
SKIN
SKIN, folds, flexures of
SLEEPINESS
SLEEPLESSNESS
SMELL
SOUNDS, ILLUSORY
SOURNESS
SPASMODIC OR CONVULSIVE EFFECTS, twitchings, etc. (Comp. Paroxysms.)
SPINE AND CORD
SPRAINED, dislocated, lifting, etc. (Comp. Injuries, Exertion.)
STOMACH AND BOWELS
STOOPING, Agg.
STRETCHING, bending, backward, Amel.
SUPPURATION
SWEAT, PARTIAL
SWELLING (Comp. Puffiness.)
TEETH, DENTITION, ETC.
THICK, discharges, etc.
THROBBING, pulsating
TINNITUS, ear noises, etc.
TREMBLING
TWISTING, wrenching, etc.
TYPHOID STATES
ULCERATION (Comp. Suppuration)
UNCOVERING, Amel., cold applications, Amel., warm wraps, Agg.
VERTEX
VERTIGO
VESICLES, blisters, etc. (Comp. Eruption.)
WARTS, fungoid growths, condyloma, proud flesh, etc.
WAVES, flushes, orgasms, fluctuation, etc. (Comp. Alternating, Ascending and Floating.)
WHEALS, hives, etc.
WHITENESS
WIND, DRAFT OR AIR, Agg.
YELLOW
3 A.M.
11 P.M.
12 Night

Calcarea carbonica across the other classic books

Calcarea carbonica appears in 17 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 HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Middle layer of Oyster Shell. (Calcium Carbonate) Leucophlegmatic, blond hair, light complexion, blue eyes, fair skin; tendency to obesity in youth. Psoric constitutions; pale, weak, timid, easily tired when walking. Disposed to grow fat , corpulent, unwieldly. Children with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat easily…”
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 (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…”

Calcarea carbonica in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Calcarea carbonica in 6,335 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (1041), HEAD (629), GENERALITIES (476), MIND (461), SKIN (296).

ABDOMEN - PAIN - stitching (Sticking,etc.) - Hypochondria - stooping,on - after
ABDOMEN - PROUD flesh,Umbilicus
BACK - PAIN - pressing - Dorsal region - scapulae - between - obstructing respiration
CHEST - CONSTRICTION,tension,tightness - drawing shoulders back amel.
CHEST - OPPRESSION - drawing shoulders back amel.
CHEST - PAIN - ulcerative - Mammae
CHILL - EXPOSURE,after - working - in clay
EAR - NOISES in - squashing on swallowing
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Foot - sole - pregnancy,during
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Elbow - taking hold of something
EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Leg - coition,after
EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Lower Limbs - coition,after
EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Thigh - coition,after
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Lower Limbs - child late learning to walk
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - copious - excitement,after
GENERALITIES - LASSITUDE - coition,after
HEAD - PAIN, - bursting - Occiput - extending - to top of head,is so severe she thinks head will burst and she will go crazy
HEAD - PAIN, - stunning,stupefying - motion amel. - and rest,during
LARYNX TRACHEA - SENSITIVE - larynx - sound of the piano,to
MIND - DELUSIONS, - insane, - that people think her

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