Calcarea arsenicosa

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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Mind

Anger, anxiety. Desire for company. Confusion, delusions, illusions. Great depression.

General

Arsenite of Lime Epilepsy with rush of blood to the head before attack; aura felt in region of heart; flying sensation. Complaints in fat women around climacteric. Chronic malaria. Infantile enlarged liver and spleen. Nephritis, with great sensitiveness in kidney region. Complaints of drunkards after abstaining (Carbon sulph). Fleshy women at climacteric, slightest emotion causing palpitation. Dyspnœa, with feeble heart. Chilliness. Albuminuria. Dropsy. Affections of spleen and mesenteric glands. Hemoglobin and red corpuscles are low.

Modalities

Worse from slight exertion.

Head

Violent rush of blood to head with vertigo. Pain in head better by lying on painful side. Weekly headache. Benumbling headache mostly around ears.

Stomach

Region of stomach distended. Enlarged liver and spleen in children. Pancreatic disease; relieves burning pain in cancer of pancreas. Belching with saliva and beating of heart.

Urinary

Kidney region sensitive to pressure. Albuminuria, passes urine every hour.

Female

Offensive, bloody leucorrhœa. Cancer of uterus; burning pain in uterus and vagina.

Heart

Constriction and pain in region of heart, suffocating feeling, palpitation, oppression and throbbing and pain in back extending to arms.

Back

Pain and stiffness near nape of neck. Violent backache, throbbing, drives out of bed.

Extremities

Removes inflammatory products in veins of lower extremities. Weariness and lameness of lower limbs.

Dose

Third trituration.

What the other books say about Calcarea arsenicosa

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Calcarea arsenicosa in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Calcarea arsenicosa in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Calcarea arsenicosa — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/calcarea-arsenicosa. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.