- 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 (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“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…”
- 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 (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…”
