by C.M. Boger — General Analysis
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Calcarea fluorica appears in 8 of the 13 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.
“Calcium fluoride, CaF2. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. Some depression of spirits through the day (fourth day). All day an entirely unusual tendency to look on the dark side of things, with much depression of spirits. Feeling of anxiety about money matters, or thought would come to want, or would soon be…”
“Fluoride of Lime (FLUOR SPAR) A powerful tissue remedy for hard, stony glands, varicose and enlarged veins, and malnutrition of bones. Hard knots in female breast. Goitre. Congenital hereditary syphilis. Induration threatening suppuration . Many cases of cataract have undoubtedly been influenced favorably by it…”
“Elastic fibre: Veins. Glands. Periosteum. Left side. Beginning motion. Cold; wet. Drafts. Changing weather. Sprains. Numbness. Weak in morning. Discharges turn grass green. Slow, processes. General stiffness. INDURATIONS; of stony hardness; glands, tonsils, neck; piles, tumors, edge of ulcers, etc. Nodes in breasts…”
“Calcium Fluoride. Fluor spar. Ca F 2 . Trituration. Adenoids / Aneurism / Bone affections / Breast, indurations of / Cataract / Catarrh / Cold sores / Corneal opacities / Cough / Exostosis / Flatulence / Glands, indurated / Hæmoptysis / Herpes / Hodgkin's disease / Joints, cracking of / Liver, affections of / Lumbago…”
“"1. By internal evidence ; the symptoms were mostly new to the provers and arose without any apparent cause. 2. By repetition of the same symptoms in the same provers. 3. By striking likeness of some of those symptoms to the symptoms of Calcarea ostrearum, particularly those of the mind and larynx. 4. By equally…”
“This chemical union of lime and fluoric acid gives us a remedy with a new nature and properties. However conversant one may be with either or both of these elements, he could not predict the curative powers held in this double remedy. I refer to its ability to cure indurated infiltrations of glands, cellular tissues…”
“Indurated swellings, of a stony hardness; in glands, or fasciæ, or ligaments.”
Kent's Repertory lists Calcarea fluorica in 223 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in ABDOMEN (29), COUGH (21), GENERALITIES (18), BACK (16), SLEEP (15).
