CALCAREA CARBONICA

“With The Chalky Complexion Goes-

Fatness Without Fitness,
Sweating Without Heat.
Bones Without Strength,
Tissues Of Plus Quality And Minus Quality,
Mere Flabby, Bulky With Weakness And Weariness”
- DR. MRS. TYLER

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▪ Prepared from: middle layer of oyster shell
calcium carbonate( Ca Co3)
• For Dr. Koch's proving's, precipitated carbonate
of lime from a solution of chalk in hydrochloric
acid, is triturated with an equal quantity of sugar
of milk; twenty parts of this are mixed with one
hundred parts of alcohol, and this is termed the
tincture.

▪ Prover : Dr. S. Hahnemann

▪ Anti-psoric remedy
Calcarea Carbonica:

• Carbonate Of Lime,
• Calc carb,
• Calcarea,
• Calcarea Carbonicum,
• Calc c,
• Calcium carbonicum,
• Calcarea Carbonica Ostrearum
Calcium needed by the body for:
1. The formation and maintenance of bone and
teeth,
2. Coagulation of blood,
3. Regulation of neuromuscular irritability and
4. Muscular contractility
SOURCE :
• Milk and milk products are main source of
calcium.
• Fish, vegetable, fruits, cereals (ragi rich in
calcium) and drinking water are other sources.
• Green leafy vegetables are the cheapest
natural source of calcium but the bio
availability of calcium is poor.
• Recommended in take of calcium (adult) – 400
–500 mg / day.
 Constitution

Type 2 (have
Type 1 (most tipical
common) pathology of
calcarea)

Fair, Flat, Lean, Thin,

Flabby lean face

Lean face covered wiyh

Gain weight fine lines –horizontal and
No fitness
easily vertical produsing small
squares
❖ MIASM: ANTI-PSORIC & ANTI-SYCOTIC

❖ THERMAL: CHILLY

❖ DIATHESIS:SCROFULOUS, RACHITIC
&TUBERCULAR

❖ TEMPRAMENT:LEUCOPHLEGMATIC
 Bone

Lymp
blood
hatics

Spheres
of action
FGO skin

gland
Mind
s
ALIMENTS FROM :
• DEFECTIVE ASSIMILATION
• IMPERFECT OSSIFICATION
• SUPPRESSED SWEAT
• ALCOHOL
• COLD MOIST WIND
• SELF-ABUSE
• OVER-LIFTING
• STRAINS
• MENTAL STRAIN
• LOSS OF VITAL FLUID
• SUPPRESSED ERUPTION
• SUPPRESSED MENSES
• SUPPRESSED FOOT SWEAT
• FRIGHT etc
Pathology devlopes after prolong
stress and overexertion

1st physical

2nd emotional

3rd mental
General action :
• A general nutrition (tissue) remedy.
• It seems to produce a well-marked cachexia
which may develop tuberculosis, epilepsy or
other chronic disorders.
• The functions of various organs are disturbed,
but the lymphatics are most prominently
affected.
• Increases blood coagubility
Generalities :
• General loss of power, especially inability to
go upstairs.
• Weakness, particularly of the limbs, on
walking, with exhaustive sweat ; from talking ;
after coition ; general relief in the fresh, open
air.
• Patients are inclined to be too fat (especially
young people).
• General emaciation, with large abdomen, and
good appetite.
• Easy taking cold, and special sensitiveness to
cold, damp air.
• Easily sprained.
 Emotional plane :
• Lots of whining, moaning, discontent
• Doesn’t know what he wants
childhoo
• State of complaining and dissatisfaction
d

• Intense curiosity about supernatural things,

the unknown, the beyond
• Questions ?? God? Angels? Death? After
death?
6-12yrs
• Curiosity increases to pathological extreme –
eg: waiting for angle to come

• Fear of insanity- as fear of losing control

Adulthoo • Fear of unknown
d
 INERTIA:
• CONSERVATIVE TENDENCY
• NO ‘OUT OF BOX THINKING’
• WANT SECURITY ( FAMILIAR CIRCUMSTANCES)
LYCO- APPROVAL OF OTHERS
AURUM- WEALTH AND PRESTIGE
PULSATILLA-LOVED
• LOVE TO STAY AT HOME, ALWAYS GLAD TO
GET BACK HOME
• SAME JOB FOR MANY YEARS

CHANGE IS THREATENING
SIMPLICITY:
• UNCOMPLICATED PERSON
• WANT LITTIE LUXURIOUS LIFE- STAYS HOME
AND WATCH TV ALONG WITH FAST FOOD
• FOOD AND CLOTHES MOSTLY PLEASURES
HER
• SENORIOUS
• SEDENTORY LIFE HABITS
• LESS CONCIOUS OF OBESITY/APPEARANCE
( NATRUM FELLS UGLY AND UNLAVABLE DUE TO OBESITY)
Mental level :
• Tends to focus on little things
• Obsess with irrelevant details
• Makes silly jokes
• Talks about unimportant things
Here, the anxity about future
converts to

anxiety about health

fear of infectous disease

Fear of death

Hysterical state
Hysterical state of calcarea
carb-
• lose power of comprehension and concentratio
• Shouts and screams
Mind :
• Very nervous, anxious, lachrymose mood.
• Anxiety, particularly during twilight.
• Is frightened easily, Great apprehension
• Solicitude about the future, with dread.
• General anxiety, with palpitation.
• Fear that she will lose her reason, or that
some misfortune will overtake her or her
friends.
• Disinclined to make any mental effort.
• Intellect dull.
• Desire to be magnetized
Child
• Bright & intelligent(like sulphur) but do not
perform upto the capacity, either they
dislike teacher or mental effort or they balk
at the confinement of rules & regulations.
Sulph fights with the authority, but calc
balks.
(hesitate, disappoint).
• In the earlier life they oscillate between two,
later changed to lyco forming kent’s well
known constitutional triad
…………………………………….Catherine
coulter
PERSPIRATION :

• PROFUSE
• PROMINENT ON
CERVICAL REGION
• HEAD AND FACE
• CLAMMY SWEAT OF
THE PALMS AND
FEET
Desires :
Soft-boiled Eggs
Sugar & Pastry ; Also, For
Indigestible Things, Such As
Chalk, Coal, Etc

Aversion To Customary
Tobacco.
Avertion : Meat
Sleep :
• Sleeplessness at night
from nervous
excitement.
• Falls asleep very late
on going to bed.
• Very anxious, frightful
dreams.
• Heavy snoring during
sleep, can scarcely be
wakened.
Head :
• General confusion, as if a board were before
the head.
• Tendency to rush of blood to the head, with
heat, sometimes even with throbbing in the
middle of the brain.
• Vertigo on suddenly turning the head, or on
going upstairs ; also, in the morning before
breakfast.
• Icy coldness on the right side of the head.
• Sweat over the head
• Falling of the hair.
Eyes :
• A feeling of sand under the lids.
• Lachrymation.
• Eyes agglutinated in the morning.
• Itching of the margins of the lids.
• burning and cutting pains, especially in the
evening by the light.
• Tendency to ulcers and spots on the cornea.
• Photophobia, especially in the evening, or in the
morning.
• Dim vision when trying to look intently, like a
mist before the eyes.
(Obstruction of the lachrymal ducts.)
Ears :
• Throbbing in the ears.
• Heat within the ears.
• Cracking noises when chewing.
• Roaring.
Clinical :
• Deafness from working in water.
• Scrofulous inflammations of the
ear, with muco-purulent
otorrhœa, enlarged glands, etc.
• Chronic inflammation of the ear ;
thickening of the drum.
• Polyps, which bleed easily.
Nose :
• Offensive dryness Sore, ulcerated nostrils.
• Offensive smell in the nose.

Clinical :
• Coryza and ulceration.
• Nasal polypi.

• Inclination to nose-bleed
in fat children.
Face :
• Pale, puffy, wrinkled.
• Yellow.
• Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark
rings.
• Upper lip swollen, Tearing pains in
the bones of the face.
• Moist eruption on the forehead and
cheeks.
Mouth :
• Drawing, stinging toothache, < cold or
draft of air, especially by taking cold
water or air into the mouth.
• Toothache after menstruation.
• Pain beneath the tongue on swallowing.
• Burning pain at tip of tongue
< anything warm taken into the mouth.
• Tongue dry in the morning.
• Sour taste, not only of food, but also
when not eating.
Throat :
• Spasmodic contraction of pharynx.
• Stitches when swallowing.
• Pain as from internal swelling, extending to the
ears.
• A feeling as if food stuck in the throat, with
nausea.
• On swallowing, cracking noises in the ear.
• Externally, the submaxillary glands are swollen
and hard, with pain when chewing, and stinging
when touched.
• Clinical : goiter, parotid fistula
Stomach :
• Thirst great.
• Eructation's of food ; tasting of food ; of
tasteless fluid in the evening.
• Nausea in the morning ; after drinking milk ; in
the morning, fasting.
• Vomiting sour water at night ; of food which
has a sour taste.
• Pressing pain as from a lump.
• Burning, extending from the stomach to the
throat after eating.
Ravenous Appetite

• Frequent,
ravenous
hunger,
especially in
the morning.
Abdomen :
• Distention ; with hardness.
• Cutting colic in the upper abdomen.
• Distention about the hypochondria ; cannot
endure tight clothes.
• Swelling of the inguinal glands.
Clinical :
• Enlargement of liver, with jaundice.
• Gallstone colic,
• flatulent distention,
• enlarged mesenteric glands ;
• abdominal dropsy.
• Umbilical hernia.
 STOOL

CHILDHOOD ADULTHOOD

Constipation Diarrhoea

Feels better Diarrhoea

when make them Diarrhoe
constipated feel a relives
discontented
Rectum and Stool :
Protrusion.
Pressure and heaviness.
Crawling as from worms.
Hæmorrhoids protrude and become painful.
Burning in the anus during a stool.

Clinical :
Diarrhœa of undigested stools ; of sour odor,
large in quantity, sometimes fetid.
Ascarides and chronic diarrhœa,.
Cholera infantum
Urinary organs :
• Frequent micturition ; at night.

• Urine dark colored, offensive, with a white

sediment : sour smelling at night.
• Burning in the urethra during and after
micturition.
Sexual organs, Male :
• Increased sexual desire.
• Diminished sexual power.
• Emissions too quick, followed by weakness,
irritability, etc.
• Impotency.
• Hydrocele in children.
Sexual organs, Female :
• Unnatural sexual desire. Great prostration after
coition.
• Menstruation too early, and too long continued.
• Least mental excitement cause profuse return of
menstrual flow.
• Leucorrhea : milky white but acrid.
Clinical :
• Profuse menstruation
• Membranous dysmenorrhœa Endocervitis.
• Constant aching in vagina.
• Excessive flow of milk in nursing women ; it is
thin and does not satisfy the child
Respiratory organs :
• Whistling in the larynx in the evening after
lying down.
• Painless hoarseness <morning.
• Cough in the morning, with profuse, yellow
expectoration, which is sometimes purulent,
sometimes offensive, Expectoration of blood
• Extreme dyspnea on going up the slightest
ascent laryngitis especially in the upper part.
• Asthmatic attacks in children, from suppressed
eruptions.
• Upper third of right lung
is affected
Heart and Pulse :
• Palpitation after eating, or from the slightest
effort.
• Palpitation at night, with cough, with anxiety.
Neck and Back :
• Swelling of the glands of the neck ; painful.
• Stiffness and cracking in the nape of the
neck from straining the muscles.

• Pain in the back, so that he could

scarcely rise.
• Backache from strains.
Extremities, upper :
• Bruised, paralytic-like pains
in the long bones on motion,
and in various joints.
• muscles become sore to the
touch, bruised feeling.
• Rheumatic pains in the
shoulders, sometimes
shooting.
• Pain as from a sprain in the
wrist.
• Trembling of the hands.
• Nodes form on the fingers.
• Fingers feel numb and dead.
• Tips of the fingers thick,
Extremities, lower :
• Weariness of the legs, with trembling,
especially of the thighs.
• Swelling of the knees.
• Stitching pain.
• Cramps in the calves, sole at night on
stretching out the legs, and in the hollows of
the knees.
• Feet feel cold and dead at night.
Bones:
Rickets and Pathological
Fractures Of Long Bone
Skin :
• Nettle rash, with itching
and burning after
rubbing.
• Eruptions sometimes
moist.
• Development of warts.
• Skin unhealthy,
ulcerating easily.
• Itching pain in the cold
air.
 Fever :
• Chilliness, largely
internal ; at times
alternating with heat.
• dry tongue.

• Heat over the

head in
children, so
that the pillow
becomes wet.
 • Camph., Acetic Acid., Ipec.; Nit-
Antidoted By: ac., China

• Bismuth, Dig., Nitic Acid, Nux V.,

Antidotes : Sulphur

• Bell.; Rhus; Lycop.; Silica.

Complementary: • Calcar. Is Useful After Sulphur Where
The Pupils Remain Dilated. When
Pulsatilla Failed In School Girls.

• Bry.; Sulphur Should Not Be Given

Incompatible: After Calcarea Carbonica.
 Calcarea baby:

• Fair , flat, flabby

• Large head
• swollen abdomen
- as inverted saucer
Delayed mile-stones:

• Late learn to walk

• Fontanelles and sutures remains open for long tim

• Difficult and delayed dentition

• Constipation during dentition –
sour, offensive
• Sour vomiting
• Sweats profusely- back of
head , neck, chest and upper
body.
• Head sweat profusely while
sleeping-wetting pillow
• Takes cold easily

• Tubercular diathesis with

enlarge glands
Delayed in developing skills (Mental &Physical)
! Slowness in comprehension and acquiring
newskills.
! Child makes mistake in all language skills
reading, writing and speaking.
! Children need structure, need to incorporate and
classify each piece of information and as a result
may appear slow.
! They build their knowledge slowly but surely on a
strong foundation.
! The child may be the most intelligent in the class
but information must come in slowly and
systemically.
• Introversion To The Extent That Other
Children Taunt And Laugh At Them To Avoid
This Ridicule They May Become Quit
• Withdrawal Play By Themselves And Do Not
Seek Out Friendship With Others. This Kind
Of Introversion Seen
• Especially On Obese Child Whom Are
Chronic Lethargic And Feeling
SORRY FOR THEMSELVES
Inflexibility:
They need extra time to finish the
task, structure and scheduling are
very important for these children,
before finishing previous they
can’t start new one and it creat
impression like a obstinate child ,
inability to change their mind
quickly they are self willed and
desire to do things at their own
pace and at a time of their own
choosing or when ever the child is
interrupted, opposed /contradicted
as a result instances of irritability
• Cautiousness refuses anything new
for a length of time until he can assimilate
the new information and then structure &
categories in his mind.
• Natural curiosity Extremely curious
about supernatural phenomena they ask
the question about God, Hell, Death, and
Ghost about all the things which are
unknow.
• Fear of heights, dogs, thunderstorms, loud
voiced people, and apprehension about
future, new group of a calamity, alone in the
dark, ghost, of bed news, ghost, stories, and
movies.

• Observed when other looked at her she

assumed that she was doing something
wrong and consequently tried to escape
situation.
 Thank You..

By- Dr. Jyoti