Calcarea Fluorica

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

Elastic fibre: Veins. Glands.
Periosteum.
Left side.

WORSE

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. Rough and ragged, tonsils, exostoses, periostitis, enamel, hypertrophied nails, etc. Vascular dilatation; varicoses, inflamed; aneurism. Arterio-sclerosis. After apoplexy. Struma. Fistula. Cataract. .................... Sluggish temperament. Gushing, watery stools or carrion odor. Expectorates tiny, tough, yellow lumps. Lumbago. Hip-joint disease. Bursitis. Chronic synovitis. Periostitis of lower jaw, ribs, etc. Skin cracked; dry, hard and of alabaster whiteness (Ars.). Stinking pus. Xray burns. Birth-marks. Cold wrists and ankles.

Complementary: Rhus-t.

Related: Grap. Hecla-lava.

Calcarea Fluorica across the other classic books

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.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“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…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“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…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BONES. CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE, weather, seasons, oncoming storms, etc. Agg. FIBROUS TISSUE FISTULAE HARDNESS MOTION, beginning, Agg., continued, Amel. SIDE, Left”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“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…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“"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…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“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…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Indurated swellings, of a stony hardness; in glands, or fasciæ, or ligaments.”

Calcarea Fluorica in Kent's Repertory

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).

FACE - EXOSTOSIS - lower jaw
GENERALITIES - TUMORS,cystic - fibroid
EXTREMITIES - EXOSTOSES
HEAD - EXOSTOSES
GENERALITIES - EXOSTOSES
BACK - CURVATURE of spine
FEMALE GENITALIA - TUMORS - Uterus - fibroid
NOSE - SNEEZING - ineffectual efforts
EXTREMITIES - ARTHRITICnodosities
EYE - CATARACT
URINE - COPIOUS - increased - night
GENERALITIES - INDURATIONS
GENERALITIES - INDURATIONS - glands
LARYNX TRACHEA - TICKLING in the air passages
GENERALITIES - COLD - in general agg.
COUGH - TICKLING - larynx,in,from
EXTREMITIES - EXOSTOSES - Fingers,on
EYE - PAIN - aching - writing,while
EAR - CALCAREOUS deposit on tympanum
FACE - ERUPTIONS - herpes - mouth,around - below

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