Calcarea carbonica
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Calcarea carbonica Hahnemanni
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Keynotes
torpid, scrophulous habit. Numb parts lain on. Easily sprained. Grows fat, but not strong. Cold, moist air chills through and through. Takes cold easily; in chest. Malnutrition. Faulty bony development. OPEN FONTANELLES. Tardy teething and walking. Scrofula. Rickets. Curvatures. Calculous tendency. .................... Forgetful; learns poorly. Depressed melancholic or doubting mood; fears disease, misery, disaster, being observed, insanity, etc. (Lil-t. Nux-v. Sep. Ver-a.). Cautious. Confused; misplaces words. Sad. Apathetic. Indolent; suddenly. Vertigo. BIG HEAD, WITH LARGE, HARD ABDOMEN. Deep head pains-beating, shattering, etc., < wind, > dark; with eructations. Migraine. Scalp itches; on awaking. Thick, foul milk-crust (Sul.). DILATED PUPILS. Sees things on closing eyes; beside visual field. Coryza, with polyuria. Senile catarrh. Swelled nose and upper lip (Bar-c. Sul.). Face pallid, pasty and puffy. Swelled tonsils. Anorexia; from overwork. Craves eggs or coarse foods. Averse to meat. Sour, curdled vomit (Nat-p.). STOMACH LIKE AN INVERTED SAUCER. Thirst for cold water at night. Cramp at navel. Biliary colic. Chalky, gray (Pho-ac.) or green, watery stools. Lientery. Foul or strong urine. White urinary sediment. Hydrocele. Thick, milky, gushing leucorrhœa. Painless hoarseness. Everything makes him short of breath. Emphysema. Cough, as from dust. Purulent, loose, sweet expectoration. Weak heart. Palpitation. Sore chest; breasts before menses. Neck pains, < lifting. Chapped hands. Arthritic nodes. ENLARGED GLANDS; cervical, mesenteric, etc. Cysts. Psoriasis. Polypi; nasal, uterine, etc. Skin cold, like a snake. Nightmare. Sleepless; from rush of ideas. Coldness; icy, on vertex; spots on head, or head, hands, knees and feet; of affected part (Led.); objective. Chill with thirst. Internal heat, with externa coldness and sweat. Hot head from mental exertion. Clammy hands (Sul.). Sweat; cold; partial; head, < occiput; chest; on hands. COLD, DAMP FEET.
Worse
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, < ON HEAD OR CHEST; DURING SLEEP. PROFUSE, OFTEN SOUR DISCHARGES, stools, sweats, odor of body, saliva, etc. Soft,
Region
NUTRITION: GLANDS (Cervical. Mesenteric.). BONES. SKIN. BLOOD. CHEST. R. Lung. HEART. CHILDREN.
Relationships
Complementary: Bar-c. Lyc. Sil. Related: Bar-c. Sil. Follows: Nit-ac. Sul.
What the other books say about Calcarea carbonica
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Calcarea carbonica in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Calcarea carbonica in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Calcarea carbonica in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Calcarea carbonica in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Calcarea carbonica — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/calcarea-carbonica. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.