Calcarea Carbonica

We find this remedy particularly adapted to the real leucophlegmatic constitution--where we find a large head, large features, pale skin with a chalky look, and (in infants) open fontanelles.

Right eye; face, right side; right abdominal ring; sexual organs, right side, forearm. Inguinal glands often become swollen; left side of the neck and nape of the neck; left chest; left lower extremity. Right side of the back; right upper extremity. General symptoms, right. Light haired people; pale face.

Mental.-- Peevishness; dizziness of mind; feels as if she will go crazy; melancholy; desire to weep. Fearful apprehensions--of death , of forthcoming sad events, misery, etc.

Affections of the internal ears; noises in the ears in general; when swallowing, noise in; cracking in when chewing; hard hearing; deafness.

Internal nose; bleeding of the nose; smelling is feeble; imaginary smells; polypus; nasal secretion with bad smell; purulent nasal secretion; stoppage of.

Uvula dark red and covered with blisters; saliva; hawking.

Gastric.-- The region over the stomach is swollen and looks like a saucer turned bottom up; hunger; extreme hunger; vomiting of sour matter; affections of inner region of the stomach; heartburn; milk disagrees. Sleepy after supper; nausea in morning.

Pains in heart and region of the heart; palpitation of the heart; palpitation of the heart with anguish; trembling pulsation of the heart.

Stool and Rectum.-- Obstructed evacuation; stool with ascarides; with tape-worm. Affections of the rectum, as fissures, which are very painful, bleeding after every stool, followed by extreme exhaustion; burning.

Cough in general; with expectoration; expectoration, mucous, purulent, yellow, sour taste, offensive smell.

Joints.-- Joints in general; hand; shoulder; wrist; finger; of the leg in general, especially hip-joint; cramp pain in; darting in; weakness of.

Shin-bones; darting in; pricking in. Bending of; softening, swelling.

Can't bear tight clothing around; stitches in liver during or after stooping. Flatulency or gurgling in the right hypochondrium.

Bloatedness of; paleness of; dryness of; exanthema in general, dry, in blotches, like milk crust, like nettle-rash, scurfy. Flaccidity of; chapping; chapping after washing; sensibility of in general; tetters in general; furfuraceous, scurfy; deep ulcers; fistulous ulcers; ulcers with too little pus.

As if the parts would burst; were pressed, or pushed asunder; as if cold, damp stockings were on the feet; of crepitation; cramp pain in the muscles; creeping on the limbs like a mouse; cutting pain, and pain as if sprained in outer, or inner parts; griping with sense of tearing away; jerking pain in outer parts; knocking in outer, or inner parts; pricking (darting) in outer parts; darting and drawing in the muscles; dartings with jerkings; puffiness; itching; better by scratching. Complaints prevailing in inner parts of coldness in; of dust in inner, as in the eyes, bronchial tubes, etc.; of heaviness, of pulsations and of jerks in; parching, pinching and pressing in; sensations of trembling of; dryness of inner parts that are usually moist.

Pulse tremulous; internal chilliness; sense of cold in inner parts; heat with thirst; perspiration in general, of single parts, of forepart of the body; want of perspiration with anxiety: chilliness with heat at the same time; internal chilliness with external heat; heat followed by chilliness. Chills coming at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Aversion to open air; attacks of sick feeling; bleeding from inner parts; erethism of blood (flush); chlorosis; epilepsy; epilepsy without consciousness; tendency to get fat; disposition to strain a part by lifting heavy things; secretion of mucus increased; laxness of muscles; sprains: inflammatory swelling; debility; pricking corns; cystic tumors: polypus (nose, ear, vagina, uterus). Tape worm; worms; ascarides.

These complaints occurring in a leucophlegmatic constitution particularly furnish us with the strongest characteristic.

Affections of the legs; calves; arthritic nodes; limbs drawn together crooked. Cramps in the legs coming on at three o'clock A.M.; bunions on the large toe joint, or on adjoining joint; hands chap from lime water; children can't learn to walk, they won't put their feet on the ground.

Worse.-- In the morning (frequently awakens at three or four o'clock in the morning, and can't get sleep afterwards); before falling asleep; on washing; on stooping down; from suppressed catarrh; worse in children; after coition; in cold, wet weather; after eating; from exertion of the mind (after reading, writing, thinking, etc.); fasting before breakfast; affecting females particularly; when giddy; on ascending (apt to produce giddiness); from loss of fluids; when letting the limbs hang down; from spraining the parts; from lights in general; from light of the sun; from lamp light; looking fixedly at one object; looking upwards; from masturbation; before menstruation; dry food; from milk; from wet poultices; from reading; after sexual excess; while suckling the child; on stretching the affected part; from washing, and water; from getting wet; when writing; when turning the head; from lying on the side; from suppressed perspiration; from lifting; for stone cutters; by pressure of the clothes; from talking.

Better.-- After breakfast; in the dark; from drawing up the limbs; while lying on the back; after lying down; from loosening the garments; from raising the limbs; on rising from rubbing; from scratching; in dry weather; wiping or soothing with the hands; from being touched.

Remedies following well:-- Agar., Bellad., Bismuth, Ipec., Lycop., Natr. carb., Nitr. ac., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sarsap., Sepia, Sulphur .

Bryon., Nitr. ac., Nux vom .