Calcarea Silicica

by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Silicate of Calcium. Ca Si 2 O 5 . Trituration.

Clinical

Atrophy / Cornea, ulcer of / Scrofula / Ulcers

Characteristics

This preparation has been used by Ussher (H. W., xxxiv. 491) in the 1x and 6x potencies in cases of atrophy of children. He has found it succeed where Silica has failed in these cases and in corneal affections. It causes absorption of corneal exudations. Ulcers with punched-out edges indicate it.

Relations

Compare: Salufer, Fluoric acid, Lapis alb.

Calcarea Silicica across the other classic books

Calcarea Silicica appears in 2 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.

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Silicate of Lime A deep, long acting medicine for complaints which come on slowly and reach their final development after long periods. Hydrogenoid constitution ( Nat sulph ). Very sensitive to cold . Patient is weak, emaciated, cold and chilly, but worse from being overheated ; sensitive generally. Atrophy of…”

Calcarea Silicica in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Calcarea Silicica in 17 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in MIND (6), FACE (2), LARYNX TRACHEA (2), SLEEP (2), EXPECTORATION (1).

MIND - TALKS - dead people,with
MALE GENITALIA - EMPYOCELE
FACE - ERUPTIONS - acne - rosacea
FACE - ERUPTIONS - acne
EXPECTORATION - GREENISH
GENERALITIES - COLD - in general agg.
MIND - DELUSIONS, - talking, - as with dead people
LARYNX TRACHEA - VOICE, - hoarseness - painless
SLEEP - DREAMS - dead - bodies
RECTUM - STRICTURE
LARYNX TRACHEA - VOICE, - husky
SLEEP - DREAMS - dead - of the
MIND - DELUSIONS, - women,fancies his mother's house is invaded by lewd - illusions of old and wrinkled
MIND - DELUSIONS, - faces,sees - hideous
MIND - UNCONSCIOUSNESS - conduct,automatic
EXTREMITIES - SUPPURATION - Hip
MIND - DELUSIONS, - faces,sees

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