Calcarea sulphurica

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

Calcarea Sulfurica

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General

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.

Head

Scald-head of children, if there be purulent discharge, or yellow, purulent crusts.

Face

Pimples and pustules on the face. Herpes.

Eyes

Inflammation of the eyes, with discharge of thick, yellow matter. Sees only one-half an object. Cornea smoky. Ophthalmia neonatorum.

Ears

Deafness, with discharge of matter from the middle ear, sometimes mixed with blood. Pimples around ear.

Nose

Cold in the head, with thick, yellowish, purulent secretion, frequently tinged with blood. One-sided discharge from nose. Yellowish discharge from posterior nares. Edges of nostrils sore.

Mouth

Inside of lips sore. Tongue flabby, resembling a layer of dried clay. Sour, soapy, acrid taste. Yellow coating at base.

Throat

Last stage of ulcerated sore throat, with discharge of yellow matter. Suppurating stage of tonsillitis, when abscess is discharging.

Abdomen

Pain in region of liver, in right side of pelvis, followed by weakness,

nausea, and pain in stomach.

Stool

Purulent diarrhœa mixed with blood. Diarrhœa after maple sugar and from change of weather. Pus-like, slimy discharge from the bowels. Painful abscesses about the anus in cases of fistula.

Female

Menses late, long-lasting, with headache, twitching great weakness.

Respiratory

Cough, with purulent and sanious sputa and hectic fever. Empyæma, pus forming in the lungs or pleural cavities. Purulent, sanious expectoration. Catarrh, with thick, lumpy, white-yellow or pus-like secretion.

Extremities

Burning-itching of soles of feet.

Skin

Cuts, wounds, bruises, etc, unhealthy, discharging pus; they do not heal readily. Yellow, purulent crusts or discharge. Purulent exudations in or upon the skin. Skin affections with yellowish scabs. Many little matterless pimples under the hair, bleeding when scratched. Dry eczema in children.

Fever

Hectic fever, caused by formation of pus. With cough and burning in soles.

Relationships

Compare: Hepar; Silica.

Dose

Second and third trituration. The twelfth potency has been found effective in Lupus.

What the other books say about Calcarea sulphurica

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

Calcarea sulphurica in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Calcarea sulphurica in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Calcarea sulphurica — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/calcarea-sulphurica. 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.