Calcarea Sulfurica appears in 9 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 sulphate, CaSO4. Preparation , Triturations. Authority. Dr. Clarence Conant, Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1873. Emotional. Good spirits, but inclined to solitude (twenty-first day), 2. Special good nature, late in afternoon (first day), 1. Excessive gayety of spirits, in the afternoon (twenty-seventh day), 1…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Sulphate of Lime-Plaster of Paris Eczema and torpid glandular swellings. Cystic tumors. Fibroids. Suppurative processes come within the range of this remedy, after pus has found a vent. Mucous discharges are yellow, thick and lumpy . Lupus vulgaris. Scald-head of children, if there be purulent discharge, or yellow…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“CUTTING MUCOUS SECRETIONS, altered. RATTLING SUPPURATION THICK, discharges, etc.”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Sulphate of Calcium. Gypsum. Plaster of Paris. Ca SO 4 . Trituration. Abscess / Anus, abscess near / Boils / Buboes / Burns / Carbuncles / Chilblains / Cornea, ulceration of / Cough / Crusta lactea / Cysts / Dropsy / Dysentery / Eczema / Fistula / Glandular swellings / Gonorrhœa / Hæmorrhages / Injuries, effects of /…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Calcium sulphate. Ca SO 4 . 1847. Extracts from provings of C. Hg., Withy, and that of a young lady. 1873. Extracts from provings with the 30th and 200th by C. M. Conant (Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom.). Cured symptoms by C. Hg., Koeck and Knerr. Symptoms from Schuessler and Old school authorities are marked with : (OBS :)…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Calcarea Sulphurica Many years ago Schüessler introduced this remedy, and it has been used extensively upon the biochemic theory. Many excellent cures have been made in this way that most of us are able to recognize as homoeopathic cures, though it is a sort of crude homoeopathy. By studying these cures many symptoms…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common names: sulphate of lime; plaster of paris; gypsum. It corresponds to the suppurative processes, abscesses, etc. (D.). Glandular swellings (Bad., Bell., Brom., Calc., Carb-An., Graph., Hep., Iod., Kali-M., Lyc., Merc., Nit-Ac., Phos., Rhus-T., Sil., Sulph.) (Bl.), When the abscess has broken or has been lanced…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“One of Schuessler’s so-called tissue remedies, not well understood as yet, but acting much along the line of Hepar sulphur. so far as we do know. I once had a case in which there was great pain in the region of the kidneys for a day and night. Then there was a great discharge of pus in the urine, which continued…”
