Calcarea fluorica
Alias: Calc-f., Calcarea fluorata, Fluor spar
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke
Fluoride of Lime (FLUOR SPAR)
A powerful tissue remedy for hard, stony glands, varicose and enlarged veins, and malnutrition of bones. Hard knots in female breast. Goitre. Congenital hereditary syphilis. Induration threatening suppuration. Many cases of cataract have undoubtedly been influenced favorably by it. Congenital syphilis manifesting itself in ulcerating of mouth and throat, caries and necrosis with boring pains and heat in parts. Arterio-sclerosis; threatened apoplexy. Tuberculosis. Used after operations, the tendency to adhesions is reduced.
Mind.--Great depression; groundless fears of financial ruin.
Head.--Creaking noise in head. Blood-tumors of new-born infants. Hard excrescences on the scalp. Ulcers on the scalp with callous, hard edges.
Eyes.--Flickering and sparks before the eyes, spots on the cornea; conjunctivitis; cataract. Strumous phlyctemular keratitis. Subcutaneous palpebral cysts.
Ears.--Calcareous deposits on tympanum; sclerosis of ossicula and petrous portion of temporal bone, with deafness, ringing and roaring. Chronic suppuration of middle ear.
Nose.--Cold in the head; stuffy cold; dry coryza; ozaena. Copious, offensive, thick, greenish, lumpy, yellow nasal catarrh. Atrophic rhinitis, especially if crusts are prominent.
Face.--Hard swelling on the cheek, with pain or toothache, hard swelling on jaw-bone.
Mouth.--Gum-boil, with hard swelling on the jaw. Cracked appearance of the tongue, with or without pain. Induration of the tongue, hardening after inflammation. Unnatural looseness of the teeth, with or without pain; teeth become loose in their sockets. Toothache, with pain if any food touches the tooth.
Throat.--Follicular sore throat; plugs of mucus are continually forming in the crypts of the tonsils. Pain and burning in throat; better by warm drinks; worse, cold drinks. Hypertrophy of Luschka's tonsil. Relaxed uvula, tickling referred to larynx.
Stomach.--Vomiting of infants. Vomiting of undigested food. Hiccough (Cajup; Sulph ac). Flatulency. Weakness and daintiness of appetite, nausea and distress after eating in young children who are overtaxed by studies. Acute indigestion from fatigue and brain-fag; much flatulence.
Stool and Anus.--Diarrhoea in gouty subjects. Itching of anus. Fissure of the anus, and intensely sore crack near the lower end of the bowel. Bleeding haemorrhoids. Itching of anus as from pin-worms. Internal or blind piles frequently, with pain in back, generally far down on the sacrum, and constipation. Much wind in lower bowels. Worse, pregnancy.
Male.--Hydrocele; indurations of the testicles.
Respiratory Organs.--Hoarseness. Croup. Cough with expectoration of tiny lumps of yellow mucus, with tickling sensation and irritation on lying down. Spasmodic cough. Calc. Fluor removes fibroid deposits about the endocardium and restores normal endocardial structure (Eli G. Jones, M. D).
Circulatory Organs.--Chief remedy for vascular tumors with dilated blood-vessels, and for varicose or enlarged veins. Aneurism. Valvular disease. When the tuberculous toxins attack the heart and blood-vessels.
Neck and Back.--Chronic lumbago; aggravated on beginning to move, and ameliorated on continued motion. Osseous tumors. Rachitic enlargement of femur in infants. Pain lower part of back, with burning.
Extremities.--Ganglia or encysted tumors at the back of the wrist. Gouty enlargements of the joints of the fingers. Exostoses on fingers. Chronic synovitis of knee-joint.
Sleep.--Vivid dreams, with sense of impending danger. Unrefreshing sleep.
Skin.--Marked whiteness of skin. Scar tissue; adhesions after operations. Chaps and cracks. Fissures or cracks in the palms of the hands, or hard skin. Fissure of the anus. Suppurations with callous, hard edges. Whitlow. Indolent, fistulous ulcers, secreting thick, yellow pus. Hard, elevated edges of ulcer, surrounding skin purple and swollen. Knots, kernels, hardened glands in the female breast. Swellings or indurated enlargements having their seat in the fasciae and capsular ligaments of joints, or in the tendons. Indurations of stony hardness.
Modalities.--Worse, during rest, changes of weather. Better, heat, warm applications.
Relationship.--Compare: Con; Lapis; Baryt mur; Hecla; Rhus; Cacodylate of Soda (Tumors).
Calcar sulph-stibiata (acts as an haemostatic and absorptive in uterine myoma).
Mangifera indica (varicose veins).
Dose.--Third to twelfth trituration. A "chronic" remedy. Needs some time before manifesting its effects. Should not be repeated too frequently.
Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, James Tyler Kent
This chemical union of lime and fluoric acid gives us a remedy with a new nature and properties. However conversant one may be with either or both of these elements, he could not predict the curative powers held in this double remedy.
I refer to its ability to cure indurated infiltrations of glands, cellular tissues and bony formations.
A nodule in the course of a tendon and exostosis, a stony bard gland, bony infiltration in the periosteum, rice bodies in cartilages have been cured by this remedy wonderful to tell, when there was a paucity of symptoms. It will cure of course when symptoms agree, but it needs proving in order that individualization may be oftener possible.
A recurrent fibroid in the hallow of the knee was removed once by the knife, but returned, and grew to the size of a fist. The leg was drawn up to forty-five degrees, and the knee became immovable.
This wonderful remedy was prescribed on the symptoms of the case and the hardness of the tumor.
The tumor gradually dwindled, the limb became normal and as good as ever; this patient has since born a healthy child is still perfectly free from the trouble. It is now ten years since she was cured.
The patient is sensitive to cold, to drafts, to changes in the weather, and to damp weather. The symptoms are ameliorated by heat and by warm applications. The symptoms are worse during rest.
This is a useful remedy in gout, with copious pale urine and diarrhea. The patient is sad and miserable. This remedy has cured a fluctuating tumor on the cranium of infants known as Cephalaematoma.
Blur before the eyes after exerting the vision. Cataract. It cures ulceration of the cornea if the edges are hard; also hard, small spots and conjunctivitis. It has cured adenoids and thick, yellowish green discharge from the nose.
Offensive catarrh of long standing. Scanty enamel of the teeth.
Pain, ulceration and granulation of the throat, worse from cold, and better from warm drinks. Pain worse at night. Large indurated tonsils will be cured after Baryta carb. has failed.
Pain in the liver at night, worse lying on the painful side, better from motion. Cutting pains in the liver, better walking.
Diarrhea in gouty subjects. Itching of anus and hemorrhoids, painful and hard bleeding. Fissure of anus. Constipation.
Copious watery urine. Strong smelling urine. Urine causes smarting when passing.
Indurated testes. Nodular testes.
Varicose veins of the vulva. Uterine fibroid.
Hard nodules in the mammae.
Dryness and tickling in the larynx. Desire to clear the vocal cords. Hoarseness after reading aloud. Hacking cough after eating, and in cold air, from tickling in the larynx. Spasmodic cough.
It cured an exostosis at the angle of the eighth rib.
It cured a lumbago, worse during rest, and better from heat, after Rhus had failed. Pain in back, extending to the sacrum. Indurated cervical glands.
Vivid dreams, and unrefreshing sleep. jumps out of bed in a dream. it is similar to Silica in suppuration.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke
Calcium Fluoride. Fluor spar. Ca F2. Trituration.
Clinical.─Adenoids. Aneurism. Bone affections. Breast, indurations of. Cataract. Catarrh. Cold sores. Corneal opacities. Cough. Exostosis. Flatulence. Glands, indurated. Haemoptysis. Herpes. Hodgkin's disease. Joints, cracking of. Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Nodes. Ozaena. Parturition. Postnasal catarrh. Spavin (horses). Strains. Syphilis.
Characteristics.─Calc. fluor. is Schüssler's "bone salt." It is found in the surface of bones, the enamel of teeth, in elastic fibres and in the cells of the epidermis. It has been principally used for dispersing bony growths; ulcerations of bone; and for fistula. A giant-celled sarcoma of upper maxilla causing the deformity known as "frog-face" was very greatly relieved by Calc. fluor. in a short space of time, after Silica had failed to make much impression. W. P. Wesselhoeft cured two cases of syphilitic periosteal swelling, one on right radius, one on left ulna, one sensitive, one not, one patient male dark, the other blonde female. Each case received a dose of Calc. fl. c.m. G. P. Hale, with the 3x, has removed induration after typhlitis, also encysted tumour of eyelids. He regards induration threatening suppuration as a marked indication. Induration in epigastric region after a kick from a horse was cured. Also indurated glands (of neck; of breast, etc.) of stony hardness. The mental condition is one of depression; anxiety; indecision. Cephalhaematoma. Spots on cornea. Senile cataract has been cured by it. Ozaena. Herpes (hard, small) on lips. Deficient enamel of teeth. Prickly, burning, suffocating sensation in throat. Bleeding piles. One prover, Dr. Sarah N. Smith, had among other symptoms this peculiar and constant one in the head: A sort of creaking, straining, and drawing, like the noise of a corn-stalk fiddle, greatly interfering with sleep. Dr. Sarah Hogan gave Calc. fluor. with complete success in a case of flatulency in a pregnant woman. The patient passed through the labour quite easily, whereas the previous labour had been very difficult. In many other cases Dr. Hogan found the remedy facilitate labour. She found flatulency a marked indication for the remedy independently of pregnancy. In haemoptysis it has been used with success, its effect being apparently to cause contraction of the blood-vessels. Lumbago from strains; < after rest, > after moving a little and from warmth. Vivid dreams of death. Warmth >; warm drinks >, cold drinks < throat pain. < From damp weather, but > from fomentations. > By rubbing.
Relations.─Compare: Calc. ph. (ozaena; suppuration of bones); Nat. m. (cold sores); Sil. (swellings on skulls of infants; suppuration of bones; spavin); Phos. ac. (spavin). It cured lumbago < by rest, > by motion, after failure of Rhus.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─Indecision.─Anxiety about money matters; fear of want.
2. Head.─Exostosis.─Cephalhaematoma.─A sort of creaking, straining, and drawing, like the noise of a corn-stalk fiddle, greatly interfering with sleep.
3. Eyes.─Flickering and sparks before eyes.─Spots on cornea.─Cataract.─Eye balls ache; > closing eyes and pressing tightly.
4. Ears.─Calcareous deposits on tympanic membrane.
5. Nose.─Copious, offensive, thick, greenish-yellow nasal catarrh; with bony growths.─Post-nasal catarrh.
6. Face.─Hard swelling on jaw; under jaw.─Cold sores, rather small, hard, on lips.
7, 8. Teeth and Mouth.─Deficient enamel of teeth.─Great dryness of mouth and throat, and dryness and harshness of skin.
9. Throat.─Prickling, burning, suffocative sensation in throat; < at night and from cold drinks; > from warm drinks.─Increased mucus in posterior nares.
11. Stomach.─Vomits undigested food.─Hiccough.
12. Abdomen.─Flatulence.─Paroxysm of lancinating pains in r. hypochondrium under 11th rib, awaking him about midnight; < lying on painful side, which causes a feeling of bursting outward; > lying on painless side, and by doubling up; with restlessness. At 8 a.m. frequent attacks of lancinating pain in hepatic region; < when sitting; > after lying down at night.─Dull weight and discomfort in r. hypochondrium.
13. Stool and Anus.─Slight diarrhoea with painful urging before stool.─Constipation with dizziness and dull headache.─Itching in anus awakening him at night.─Bleeding piles.─Fissure; fistula.
14. Urinary Organs.─Urine causes smarting along urethra, particularly at external orifice.─Urine diminished, high-coloured, offensive.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─Induration of testes.─Hydrocele.─Hunterian chancre.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─Excessive menses.─Prolapsus uteri.─Bearing-down; dragging pains in uterus and thighs.─Hard knots in breasts.─Flatulence in pregnant women.─Favours parturition.─After-pains from feeble contractions.
17. Respiratory Organs.─Hoarseness after laughing or reading aloud.─Soon after itching at anus, itching tickling in larynx, forcing a spasmodic cough, which was relieved after a few hours by hawking, a little mucus from larynx.─Hacking cough, from tickling in larynx as of a foreign body; not > by coughing.─Difficulty of breathing, as if epiglottis was nearly closed.
20. Neck and Back.─Goitre.─Indurated cervical glands of stony hardness.─Lumbago from strains; severe backache after a long ride; < after rest, > after moving a little and from warmth.─Tired aching, as from a long ride; with restlessness.
21. Limbs.─Cracking in joints.─Synovial swellings.─Easy dislocations.─Exostoses.─(Spavili).
25. Skin.─Skin harsh and dry.─Chaps; fissures.─Fistulae.
26. Sleep.─Vivid and distinct dreams, with weeping.─Jumped from bed in a dream and tried to get out of a window, which woke him.
Leaders In Homoeopathic Therapeutics, Eugene Beauharnais Nash
Indurated swellings, of a stony hardness; in glands, or fasciae or ligaments.