Calcarea Caustica
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General
Calcarea Caustica.
Aqua Calcis. Ca H2 O2. Quicklime is slaked in distilled water. Afterwards alcohol is added and the clear liquid decanted.
Clinical
Back, pains in. Coccygodynia. Corns. Feet (pains in heels). Hoarseness. Jaw, affection of. Malar bones, pain in. Neuralgia. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Spleen, affections of. Stiff-neck. Tapeworm. Toothache.
Characteristics
Calc. Caust. has been extensively proved. The most marked symptoms are: Thought very difficult. Confusion in the head.
Vertigo; as if room turning in a circle. Sticking, tearing, throbbing pains in various parts. Pain in right eye as if a foreign body were in it. Burning and tearing in eyes.
Tearing in right cheekbone; and in right articulation of jaw. Toothache every night, 2 a.m., with feeling as if teeth were fuzzy and too large (a fuzzy sensation was noticed in other parts). Mucus in throat; burning; sensation as if a bone were sticking in it. Burning in stomach.
Tapeworm passes. Hoarseness, with pain in throat; rawness in trachea and cough. Stitches in chest. Stiffness and tearing in all regions of back and in coccyx.
Tearing in either shoulder down arms. Tearing in left tendo Achillis; left heel. Sticking in corns. As an external application in the form of compresses, Lime-water has an ancient repute in allaying inflammation of many kinds.
It has rapidly dispelled all inflammatory action in cases of appendicitis; and has removed all suffering in an aggravated case of phagedaenic piles. As with Calc. c., there is < of most symptoms in the evening. Toothache 2 a.m. > From motion.
< From hanging down limb. The Calc. < from working in water is paralleled by "pains in hands and feet after a foot-bath."
Relations
Compare: Besides the Calcareas, Rhus (pain in joint of jaw); Mez. and Mag. c. (pain in malar bones); Valer. (pain in heel); Pic. ac. and Sep. (loins); Hep. and Nit. ac. (bone sensation in throat).
Mind
Thought very difficult.—Weary and peevish on waking; as if he had been intoxicated.
Head
Confusion of the head; esp. l. side
Vertigo, as if room turning in a circle; thinks she will fall from chair
Throbbing in frontal sinus > by contracting skin of forehead.
Eyes
Burning in eyes, evening by candlelight.—Pain in r. eye as if foreign body under upper lid; in l. eye on rising in morning as if a thorn in it.
Face
Tearing in r. cheek-bone
Violent pain, swelling, stiffness of r. joint of Jaw
Lips unusually red.
Teeth
Severe toothache every night, 2 a.m., as if tooth was fuzzy and too large, with tensive pain in l. ear as if something was sticking in it.—Teeth feel too large; fuzzy.
Mouth
Mouth offensive; palate feels as if mucus were upon it, but none is expectorated.
Throat
Mucus in throat, difficult to raise, almost causing vomiting
Hawking of granular, glutinous material like cooked rice
Burning in fauces and oesophagus caused by water
Sensation as of a bone sticking in pharynx.
Stomach
Severe hunger three hours after eating.—Nausea followed by vomiting of some fluid.
Abdomen
Sticking in both hypochondria, esp. severe in l
Pain in l. side of region of spleen as if a ball were turning on its axis
Constrictive pain in abdomen; griping; stitches
Violent stitches in small intestines when bending forward.
Stool And Anus
Three thin stools before breakfast and one immediately after
Painful stool as if a nail were scratching in anus
Thin, pasty stool with much mucus immediately after breakfast
Passed many pieces of tapeworm
Haemorrhoids
Sticking, tearing motions in rectum extending towards anus
Crawling in rectum and anus.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses eight days too early.
Respiratory Organs
Stitches in larynx; l. half.—Hoarseness, with pain in throat; feeling of rawness in trachea;
Cough
Cough with stitches in chest, expectoration of mucus and blood
Sternum: oppression; pressive sticking under; stitches across
Stitches in l.
Neck And Back
Stiffness of neck; of back of neck; of all neck muscles
Tearing in nape
Violent pains in scapulae extending into small of back, when sitting;
< on inspiration
Tearing between shoulders
Tearing in both scapulae, between shoulders, then through neck and occiput as far as forehead
Sensation in both shoulder-blades as if they were fuzzy and had gone to sleep (8 p.m.)
Pain in small of back; on waking > by moving about
Pressive, drawing pains; sticking; tearing, in small of back
Tearing in coccyx.
Limbs
Trembling in limbs; could not continue work;
> by eating a piece of bread
Rheumatic pain alternating in all the joints
Wandering pains
Pains in hands and feet after a foot-bath.
Upper Limbs
Tearing in shoulders, arms and axillae
Paralysed condition of r. hand
Stitches and tearing in l. wrist.
Lower Limbs
Severe tension in lower extremities
Stitches in hip-joints
Tearing in knees; in r. side of r. tibia down to toes; in l. tendo Achillis; in l. heel
Sticking in a corn.
Skin
Rash-like eruption on forehead.—Biting, itching vesicles; on neck and back extending later to occiput and behind ears.
Sleep
Restless; many dreams; nightmare.
Fever
Violent chill with chattering teeth 7 to 7.30 p.m.