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CALCAREA CARBONICA
TYPE AND PRESENTATION
The typical Calcarea patient may be likened to an oyster in a shell.
They are flabby, inert and helpless organisms whose only defence is
to withdraw into themselves.
They have many fears and anxieties, suffer from night terrors and
grind their teeth at night.
They are fair, fat, flabby, lymphatic and indolent with an excess
of soft tissues but a deficit of muscular power.
They commonly have large, hot, sweaty heads with flushed cheeks,
large abdomens and cold, sweaty extremities.
Delayed milestones are frequently seen along with soft and weak bones,
swollen glands and recurrent infections.
They crave indigestibles, eggs and sweets and have sour smelling
sweat, eructations, stool and all discharges.
Symptoms are aggravated by the cold and damp and by the full moon.
This is mainly an anti-sycotic/tubercular remedy.
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KEY NOTES
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YOUR MNEMONIC
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S
low development, melancholy, weeps at trifles, anxious, full of fears,
reserved, insecure, lacks self confidence
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S
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D
isorders of thyroid, parathyroid gland, recurrent infections with enlarged
glands, generalised lymphatic congestion
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D
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S
our foot sweats, clammy hands, sour head sweats at night which wet the pillow
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D
isturbed calcium metabolism, slow metabolic rate
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D
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C
oldness and obesity
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C
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C
raves salt, sweets, eggs, indigestables
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P
ressure in the stomach and swelling as from an inverted saucer, cannot
wear tight clothing
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G
urgling flatulence, colic, cramps in abdomen at night, prolapsed rectum,
dislike of fat, diarrhea which is sour
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S
our discharges
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T
ickling cough, fleeting chest chest pains
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N
ight terrors, restless sleep
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C
ramping pains in calves at night which is worse for stretching out legs in bed
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C
old, damp feet with a sensation as if wearing damp stockings
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R
heumatism worse for cold, damp, pains for standing on cold concrete
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F
labby, unhealthy skin, cysts, polyps, warts, cysts and boils
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WORSE FOR
Cold in every form, dampness, change in temperature, physical or mental
exertion, ascending stairs, full moon, eating, milk, stretching the
affected part, dentition, pressure of clothes
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BETTER FOR
Dry weather, lying on affected side
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