CALCAREA OSTREARUM

CALCAREA OSTREARUM. [Calc. ostr.] Calcium Carbonate. Hahnemann. CaCo3.

► Forgetfulness. ► Misplaces words, and tendency to express himself wrongly. ► Thinking is difficult. ► Mania-a-potu, with delirious talk about fire, rats, mice and murder. ► Disinclination for every kind of work. ► Depression and melancholy ; tearfulness. ► Apprehensive mood ; as if some misfortune were about to happen. ► Shuddering and dread as evening draws near. ► Fear seemingly starting from pit of stomach. ► Fears she will lose her reason ; or that people will observe her confusion of mind. ► Great anxiety and palpitation of heart. ► Irritable without cause ; peevishness and obstinacy. ► Restless mood, with gloominess and anxiety.

► Vertigo : when walking in open air, as if he would reel, especially when turning the head quickly ; on going up stairs ; worse in the morning, with nausea and vomiting ; abdominal congestion ; hypertrophy of left ventricle ; amenorrhoea gradually developed. ► Rush of blood to head, with heat, redness and puffiness of the face ; worse from alcoholic drink ; worse in the morning when awaking ; worse after mental exertion. ► Continued dulness of the head, as if too full. ► Feeling of fulness in head ; dulness and feeling of stupidity. ► Heaviness in forehead ; worse when reading or writing.

► Frequent one-sided headache, always with much empty eructation. ► Stupefying, pressing ache in the forehead, as in vertigo, during rest and motion. ► Stitching headache above the left temple. ► Headache begins in occiput and spreads to top of head, so severe she thinks the head will burst, and that she will go crazy. ► Throbbing headache in middle of brain every morning, lasts all day. ► Headache : worse going up stairs, talking, or walking, in hot sun or from taking cold ; chronic, from brainfag ; better from tight bandaging, closing the eyes, vomiting mucus and bile, lying down or pressure with the cold hand. ► Icy-coldness in and on the head ; also one-sided ; congestion alternating with icy-cold sensation. ► Headache from overlifting, or other muscular strain.

► Large open fontanelles, head large. ► Whitish-yellow scales of dandruff ; scalp sensitive ; hair dry, falls out, on sides of head ; head feels cold. ► Pimples on the forehead. ► Thick scabs, bleeding when picked, itching slightly. ► Thick scabs, with yellow pus ; spreading to the face. ► Icy-coldness on the head. ► Burning on top of head. ► Scratches the head impatiently on awaking or being aroused from sleep.

► Farsightedness. ► Sensitiveness to light ; photophobia. ► Like a shadow before the eyes, obscuring one side of the object ; much dilated. ► Dancing wavelets before the eyes which are very annoying. ► Ophthalmia : from taking cold ; entrance of foreign body ; in the newborn ; scrofulous. ► Opacity of cornea, maculae, ulcers and fungus haematodes ; transverse calcareous band of the cornea. ► Interstitial keratitis. ► Stitches in the inner canthus. ► Stinging pains ; worse from candle-light. ► Itching in the eyes and canthi. ► Sensation of coldness, heat, even burning in the eyes. ► Swelling and redness of the eyelids, with nightly agglutination ; during the day full of gum, with heat, smarting pain and lachrymation. ► Eyes become inflamed and injected at every exposure to cold. ► Quivering in the upper eyelid. ► Suppurating fistula lachrymalis.

► Hardness of hearing, also after suppression of intermittent by quinine. ► Singing and roaring or crackling in the ears. ► Cracking in the ears when chewing. ► Strange and peculiar noise in the ears when swallowing. ► Pulsating in the ears. ► Inflammation and swelling of outer and inner ear. ► Purulent, offensive discharge from the ears. ► Polypus of the ear. ► Swelling in front of left ear, painful to touch.

► Impaired smell. ► Very offensive smell in nose, as from dung, or rotten eggs. ► Severe fluent coryza, with headache. ► Frequent sneezing without coryza, or with dry coryza. ► Dryness of the nose, or stopped by fetid yellow pus. ► Catarrhal symptoms attended with great hunger, a sort of metastasis from the nose to the abdomen as when the coryza ceases colic sets in. ► Sore, ulcerated nostrils. ► Bleeding of the nose in the morning. ► At night the nose is dry and obstructed, while by day it is moist and free. θ Ozaena. ► Nasal polypi. ► Swelling of the nose ; also at the root.

► Face : pale, bloated, blue rings around the eyes ; yellow ; pale, thin ; old, wrinkled, with retarded dentition. ► Face feels as if it were swollen. ► Rending pains in facial bones. ► Moist, scurfy eruption on cheeks and forehead with burning pain ; itching and eruption in face, and in whiskers.

► Eruption on the lips and mouth. ► Swelling of the upper lip ; in the morning. ► Pain from right mental foramen along lower jaw to ear, worse cold air, better warmth. ► Cracked lips ; corners ulcerated. ► Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands.

► Toothache : after drinking cold liquids, or excited by draught or cold ; drawing, shooting or boring ; during and after menstruation ; during pregnancy ; worse from warm or cold drinks. ► Teeth particularly sensitive to cold air. ► Offensive smell from the teeth. ► Gums painfully tender ; swelling, bleeding. ► Difficult dentition. ► Fistula dentalis on lower jaw.

► Taste ; sour ; bitter ; offensive. ► Difficult, indistinct speech ; also in ranula. ► Tongue coated white. ► Dryness of tongue at night, and morning on awaking. ► Swelling of sublingual glands. ► Ranula ; burning in the mouth. ► Burning pain at the tip of tongue, as from soreness ; worse from warm food or drink. ► Soreness of the tongue, either on the tip, sides, or dorsum ; can scarcely talk or eat.

► Mouth slimy ; blisters on the inner surface of cheek and tongue. ► Canker sores, especially during teething.

► Inflammation swelling of the palate and uvula or tonsils, with sensation as if the throat were contracted when swallowing. ► Pain in the throat extending to the ears. ► Spasmodic contraction of the oesophagus.

► Great desire for eggs ; desire for wine, salt or sweet things. ► Ravenous hunger in the morning. ► Loss of appetite ; but when he began to eat, he relished it. ► Will not eat meat ; aversion to smoking tobacco. ► Great thirst.

► After milk, nausea and sour eructation, water-brash. ► After meals, heat or flatulency, with nausea ; pain in the stomach and abdomen.

► Eructations : tasting of the food eaten ; bitter ; sour ; of tasteless fluid ; of food ; burning. ► Burning extending to throat. θ Heart-burn. ► Nausea : mornings, with qualmishness and shuddering ; toward evening, during dentition. ► Vomit : sour ; of bitter slime ; of what has been eaten ; black ; bloody ; of milk in thick curds. θ Dentition.

► Pressing pain in stomach, as if a load or stone were in it, after moderate supper ; worse from motion, better lying quiet on back. ► Pit of stomach swollen like a saucer turned bottom up ; painful to pressure. ► Pressing, pinching, or spasmodically squeezing and contracting pains in stomach, particularly after meals, with vomiting of food. ► Some forms of gastralgia, with great anguish, with sensation of fixed weight in stomach. ► Cutting pain in the epigastrium.

► Tight clothes about the hypochondria are unbearable. ► Feeling as if laced below the hypochondria, with trembling and throbbing in the epigastric region. ► Tightness in both hypochondria. ► Pressure in hepatic region, with every step, when walking. ► Stitches in hepatic region during or after stooping.

► Abdomen much distended ; hard. ► Relieves pain attending passage of biliary calculi. ► Frequent severe cramp in the intestinal canal, especially in the evening and night, with coldness of the thighs. ► Sensation of pressure or pressing from the above downward, or from before backward, in the abdomen. ► Peritonitis when the pains are relieved by cold applications. ► Feeling of coldness in the abdomen. ► Mesenteric glands swollen and hard in children. ► Obstructed flatulence. ► Writhing, twisting pain in abdomen about umbilical region. ► Flatulency and gurgling in right side of abdomen. ► Swelling and painfulness of the inguinal glands. ► Bearing down in uterine region.

► Crawling in the rectum, like from worms. ► Cramp in rectum, the whole forenoon, griping and stitching, with great anxiety, was not able to sit, had to walk-about. ► Stools : frequent, first hard, then pasty, then liquid ; thin, offensive, like bad eggs ; yellowish, grey, or clay-like, fecal ; whitish, watery, worse in the after-part of the day, often of sour smell ; undigested, hard. ► Constipation, stools large and hard ; containing undigested food ; often with slime. ► Stools look like lumps of chalk, in children during dentition. ► Discharge of blood from the rectum. ► Oozing of fluid from rectum, smelling like herring brine. ► Hemorrhoids protruding, painful when walking, better when sitting, cause pain during stool ; bleed profusely. ► Intense aching and shooting in rectum, hours after stool. ► Feeling of heaviness in lower portion of rectum. ► Great irritability of the anus. ► Ascarides ; itching commencing toward bedtime, and proving very trouble some for hours. ► Burning : in the rectum ; in the anus. ► Hemorrhoids which make even a loose stool painful ; they are often painful when walking. ► Tendency to diarrhoea and acid stomach, and prolapsus recti ; precursory of tuberculosis of lungs.

► Frequent urination ; also at night. ► Urine : very dark-colored, without sediment ; offensive, dark brown with white sediment ; bloody. ► Urinary troubles, from getting the feet wet. ► Burning at tip of glans penis. ► Burning in urethra during urination.

► Sexual desire greatly increased at 3 A.M. ► Excessive sexual desire with retarded erection., and too early emission of semen, during coitus ; burning and stinging during discharge. ► Nocturnal pollutions, which debilitate body and mind. ► Inflammation of the prepuce, fraenum and orifice of urethra, with a little yellow pus between the fraenum and glans.

► Metrorrhagia, with leucorrhoea during the climacteric. ► Menses : too early ; last too long ; too profuse. ► Discharge of blood between the periods, induced by mental excitement or working. ► Membranous dysmenorrhoea. ► Suppressed menses : with full habit ; after working in water. ► Swelling and painfulness of the breasts before the menses. ► Stinging in the os uteri. ► Aching in the vagina. ► Leucorrhoea, like milk, with itching, burning. ► Burning soreness in the genitals. ► Violent itching and soreness of the vulva. ► Inflammation and swelling in the genitals. ► Uterus easily displaced by overexertion. ► Stinging, burning tubercles on the margin of the labia. ► Much sweat about the labia.

► Abortus. ► Sterility when the menses are too early and copious. ► During pregnancy, great fatigue from walking, from feeling of lameness in pelvis. ► Alopecia, particularly of lying-in women. ► Lochia lasts too long, or has a milky appearance. ► Mammae distended, but milk scanty. ► Healthy-looking women with deficient milk, whose children die early with diarrhoea and convulsions, or with hydrocephalus. ► Swelling of mammae, sore to touch ; knife-like pains. ► Ulcer on the nipple ; sore to touch. ► Moles and varicose protuberances on the hands of infants. ► Muscular weakness of infants.

► Whistling in larynx after lying down, evenings. ► Roughness or rawness in the larynx. ► Painless hoarseness, mornings ; hoarse, as if larynx was lined with mucus.

► Frequent need to breathe deeply. ► Shortness of breath on going up the slightest ascent. ► Asthma ; early in the morning ; muscles not rigid ; sensation of dust in throat and lungs.

► Dry, especially at night ; violent, first dry, afterwards with profuse salty expectoration, with pain as if something had been torn loose from the larynx ; with rattling in the chest ; in the morning, with yellowish expectoration. ► Cough after first sleep, dry at night, loose by day with copious sputum. ► Expectoration of a putrid odor ; or tastes like ink. ► Tickling cough, as from a feather in the throat. ► Cough caused by sensation of plug, which moved up and down in the throat. ► Cough excited by : inspiration ; playing on piano ; eating. ► Expectoration : of mucus, with sweetish taste ; of blood, when coughing and hawking, with rough and sore sensation in chest ; of muco-pus that sinks in water, leaving a trail behind.

► Oppression of the chest, as if too full. ► Stitches in the left chest on inspiration ; cutting through to back. ► Stitches in chest and sides of chest, when moving ; from deep inspiration, and when lying on the affected side. ► Sore pains in the chest, worse during inspiration. ► Much mucus in the chest. ► Middle of right lung most affected. ► Abscesses forming in lungs.

► Palpitation, with anxiety ; also at night, or after meals. ► Tremulous pulsation of heart, worse after eating ; at night, with anguish. ► Pulse full and accelerated, often tremulous. ► Much beating in the blood-vessels.

► Chest painfully sensitive to the touch and on inspiration. ► Itching on the chest. ► Mammary glands pain as if suppurating, especially when touched.

► Hard swelling of the cervical glands. ► Painless swelling of the glands, in the neck, at the margin of the hair. ► Stiff neck with extending down into the shoulders on moving it. ► Thick strumous tumefaction of the thyroid gland. ► Swelling and incurvation of vertebrae of neck and back. ► Crawling pain between the scapulae. ► Pain between or in the region of the scapulae, particularly worse by riding, sneezing, gaping or coughing, or other jarring. ► Pain in the sacral region, back and neck, after over-lifting, or feeling as if wrenched.

► Stitches in the left shoulder-joint. ► The arms feel bruised on moving them or taking hold of them. ► The arm goes to sleep if he lies upon it, with pains. ► Cramp in the whole of one or the other arm. ► Weakness and a kind of paralysis of left arm. ► Spasmodic tearing pain outer side of the forearm. ► Pain as from a sprain in right wrist, or as if something had been wrenched or dislocated. ► Darting through the wrist-joints. ► Trembling of the hands. ► Finger-joints much swollen. ► Fingers as if dead ; numbness of hand. ► Felons ; hang-nails. ► Large painful boil on the first phalanx of fourth finger.

► Painful weariness of the lower limbs, especially of the thighs and feet. ► Itching of the thighs. ► Sciatic pains caused by working in water. ► Swelling of the knees. ► Rheumatic gout of knee with effusion. ► Whitish swelling of leg and foot with sensation of coldness. ► Large, red and painful spots on the legs, like erysipelas bullosum. ► Legs go "to sleep" in the evening when sitting. ► Pain in the calf on walking and stepping. ► Cramp : in calves at night, about 3 A.M. ; also in hollow of knee when stretching out leg ; in sole (left) ; in toes. ► Burning in the soles. ► Bunions. ► Feet feel cold and damp. ► Foot-sweat makes the feet sore.

► Weakness and weariness of all limbs. ► Paralytic bruised pain in the long bones and in the joints of the limbs, also in the small of back on motion.

► Rest : 3. Motion : 3, 17, 32, 34. Ascending : 23, 26, 36. Walking : 3, 20, 24, 33. Must walk : 20. Every step : 18. Stepping : 33. Exercise : 40. Not able to walk : 36. Could scarcely rise : 31. Sitting : 20, 33. Stooping : 18. Lying : 3 ; on back ; on affected side : 28, 32.

► Twitching of the muscles. ► Trembling of the body. ► Talking produces a feeling of weakness, compelling the patient to desist. ► Great weariness, not able to walk. ► Children cannot walk ; they have no disposition to do so, and will not put their feet down. ► Great exhaustion in the morning, unable to go up stairs, or becomes much exhausted from it. ► Chorea, sometimes only one side, involuntary motions, sometimes falling down ; from fright, onanism, or worms. ► Epilepsy : before the attack, sense of something running in the arm, or from pit of stomach down through abdomen into feet. ► Causes : fright ; protracted intermittent ; suppression of chronic eruption. ► Worse during solstice and full moon.

► Inclination to stretch, mornings. ► Difficult to arouse on awaking, mornings. ► Sleepiness and weariness by day. ► Late falling asleep ; not until 2 or 3 A.M. ► Persistent sleeplessness ; so soon as he closes his eyes he sees figures. ► Wakes too early ; cannot sleep after 3 A.M. ► Aroused as often as he falls asleep, by same disagreeable idea. ► Dreams : anxious ; frightful ; of falling. ► Children scream after midnight and cannot be pacified.

► Morning : 2, 3, 7, 9, 11, 14, 25, 26, 27, 36, 37, 40. Forenoon : 20, 40. 2 P.M. : 40. Afternoon : 20. Evening : 1, 19, 25, 33. Night : 11, 19, 21, 22, 27, 29, 33, 37, 40. 2 or 3 A.M. : 37. 3 A.M. : 37. After 3 A.M. : 40. Day : 5, 37.

► Generally better in warmth, worse in cold air. ► Very great sensitiveness to the open air, takes cold easily. ► Hot sun : 3. Warm or cold liquids : 10. Warm food or drink : 11. Draught or cold : 10. Cold air : 40, 46. Open air : 2, 40. Cold applications : 19.

► Takes cold very easily ; easily chilled. ► Chill with shivering, mostly in the evening, yet sometimes in the forenoon. ► Chills commencing at 2 P.M. ► Thirst during the chill. ► Internal chilliness in the morning, after rising. ► Intermittent fever when the chill commences in the pit of the stomach, like a sort of fixed, cold, agonizing weight, increasing with the chill and disappearing with it. ► Frequent flushes of heat, with anxious palpitation of heart. ► Heat followed by chill and cold hands. ► Nightly internal heat, especially in the feet and hands, morning dry tongue. ► External heat, with internal chilliness in evening in bed. ► Sweat from slightest exercise, even in the cold open air. ► Sweat during first sleep. ► Clammy sweats at night on legs. ► Morning sweat. ► Night-sweats after 3 A.M. ► Sweat most profuse on head and chest, and upper part of body. ► Sweat : of the palms ; of the feet.

► Some symptoms worse toward and new moon. ► Worse solstice and full moon : 36.

► Right : 3, 32, 46. Left : 3, 6, 28, 32, 33. One-sided : 3, 5, 36. Below up : 3. Above downwards : 36.

► Great heaviness of the body. ► General sick feeling.

► Atrophy of the muscles. ► Crackling, or crepitation in the joints, as if they were dry. ► Cancer of the breast, very sensitive, and painful to touch.

► Touch : 6, 30, 44. Pressure : 3, 17. Rubbing : 46. ► Parts on which pressure is made get numb quickly.

► Dry and shriveled ; yellow. ► Nettle-rash which always disappears in cool air. ► White nettle-rash of children itching intolerably. ► Elevated red stripes on the tibia, with severe itching and burning after rubbing. ► Scurfy pimples on border of free edge of lower lip. ► Unhealthy, ulcerative skin ; even small wounds suppurate. ► Moist eruptions behind the right ear. ► Ringworms. ► Itching over various parts of body. ► Many very small warts appear here and there. ► Rhagades of hands and fingers of persons who work in lime or water.

► Fair, plump children. ► Leucophlegmatic temperament. ► Children ; open fontanelles and sutures. ► Excessive obesity of young people. ► Climacteric : 23.

► Calc. ostr. follows well after Cinchon., Cuprum, Nitr. ac., Sulphur. ► After Calc. ostr. may follow : Lycop., Nitr. ac., Phosphor., Silic. ► Complementary to Calc. ostr. : Bellad. ► Antidotes to Calc. ostr. : Camphor., Nitr-ac., Nit. spir. dulc., Nux vom., Sulphur. ► Calc. ostr. antidotes ; Acet. ac., Bismuth, Cinchon., Chin., Sulph., Nitr. ac.