Calcarea Arsenica

Arseniate of Lime. . 2> Oa 0, As Ot

Prepared and proved by C. Hg, in 1848, in the 4th centesimal tritura- tion, and by five other well experienced provers, who did net know of each other, until 1851. Some cures were published to induce more prov- ings. The few given here contain elements of great promise. We want more cures, even reports of failures, but above all good provings of the higher potencies. '

^ Mind. Mind seems dull and unable to digest any subject.

Unable to attend to any business, on account of headache.

■ Delirium evenings in the dark. ^Typhoid with albuminuria.

1 1 Great depression of mind.

I Mind much depressed with great anxiety, about still greater evils in the future. ^Albuminuria.

With exertion of mind headache lessens but is much worse afterwards.

The slightest emotion causes palpitation of heart. Comp. Lith. ^ Sensorium. Vertigo when moving the head. See 11.

In sudden attacks he feels as if he was flying or swimming in the air, as if his feet did not touch the ground ; feels in- describably well, as if in heaven, the most wonderful visions pass before his eyes, it seems to be a great many different things but lasts only a second, it passes like lightning but is infinitely much.

A pressing heaviness first on top of head, then in occiput.

Head seems to get heavier and heavier.

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1 Congestion to the head before an epileptic attack. ^ Inner Head. Dull stupefying headache in different parts of head, but principally above and behind ears.

Head gets heavier and heavier, and quick movement makes him giddy.

I Rush of blood to head before an epileptic attack.

TiViolent pains over r. eye.

The headache was the worst in front and above 1. ear, most on a place where he had a headache before.

Between ear and r. forehead a burning, lasting some months.

Boring-jerking in front over r. ear and on lower border of acquisitiveness and in occiput in region of sociableness, with a chill, has to go to bed ; after getting cold outdoors in winter.

Stitches in 1. side of head, above neck towards region of tem- ples and across forehead from r. to 1.

Pressing heaviness ; first in vertex, afterwards in occiput.

I I Mornings, going outdoors, very peculiar headache ; boring- shooting in occiput in regular measure, and simultaneously a sensation, as if one was drawing on a thread in larynx from front backwards, and repeated once soon afterwards.

Violent headache, beginning at noon, increasing toward even- ing, worse after supper: a digging, pressing beating through left half of head, I I from front backwards ; lying on forehead it is < in occiput over nape of neck ; lying on back it is << in forepart of head, the same lying on either side, always ■< opposite side. It causes a feeling of lameness in whole body ; it was followed by a tearing pain in upper and lower jaw, as if jerking down from head; relieved by Puhat.

Headache commencing very slightly but gradually increasing to such violence, that he is unable to do any business ; it is most in forehead, as if it would split the head and tear it to pieces. The beating of pulse gradually has increased from 80 to 100 ; each beat of heart he felt in head as if every beat was striking against a wedge. Stooping and going outdoors <. He had to go home again, on the 7th day, could do nothing and felt exceedingly weak.

From the 4th day of the proving it had increased gradually up till noon of 7th day.

Burning in head, first left then right.

Headache >■ with mental exertion, but is <i after. See 1.

Headache •< after slightest error in diet.

Headache and palpitation of heart < and >■ together.

Headache with stiffness of neck wakens him toward 4 a.m. ; he had no sleep after it and could not lie.

Beating in head and back drive him out of bed.

Weekly headache ; stitches in r. forehead. ^ Outer Head. I Temples cedematous. ^Albuminuria.

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I Head is hot. ^Albuminuria. ° Sight and Eyes. Letters seem to run together.

■ Delirium in the dark.

I Eyes have little brilliancy. ^Albuminuria.

Violent pain in r. eye and above it.

Headache over 1. eye.

I Blue rings under eyes. ® Hearing and Ears. Headache and toothache extend into ears.

Benumbing headache is most above and behind ears. ^ Smell and Nose. Sneezing with fluent coryza in morning.

Sneezing with a jerking-shooting pain near 1. side of breast- bone, region of 4th and 5th ribs.

Before breakfast, catarrh in head, spitting of mucus, which falls down from choanse.

3 A. M., wakefulness, restlessness, sweat and running catarrh, next morning with frequent sneezing.

No phlegm through nose, only from choanse.

Crusts are formed in choanae. See 25. ^ Upper Pace. Tearing pain in upper and lower jaw; jerking down from head ; after Glonoine taken for headache, Pulsat. relieved.

Heat in face with palpitation.

I Pale face and blue rings under eyes with palpitation.

■ Looks pale and suffering. ^Albuminuria.

■ Face swollen, especially about eyes. ^Albuminuria.

' Lower Face. Tearing pain in upper and lower jaw from head down. Itching on upper lip.

■ Lips dry. ^Albuminuria.

^® Teeth and Gums. Toothache in decayed molars, extending

into ears, recurring weekly. ^^ Taste and Tongue. Flat unpleasant taste, sometimes metallic, sometimes alkaline. Sour taste with sore throat. Taste like garlic during swallowing.

■ Tongue dry. ^Albuminuria. Burning on tip of tongue.

^^ Inner Mouth. Saliva runs together in mouth like water, with a tasteless belching.

Sour taste. See 13. 13 Throat. Choanse. See 7.

Tickling in back of throat. See 25.

After belching a burning in oesophagus as from pepper, with garlicky taste when swallowing.

A roughness and scratching in throat as if he had eaten nuts.

A sensation as if a scab was in upper part of throat and oc- casioned tickling and cough, which shakes whole chest and feels as if bruised.

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Copious hawking of tough white phlegm. Dryness in pit of throat and roughness of voice. Pressing pain in throat, in clavicular region, with sour taste and water-brash.

^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. No craving for

food for body or mind.

No appetite during evening after fever, with thirst in after- noon. See 40.

■No appetite, with pain in loins and groins. See 19.

Thirst for cold water.

ONo appetite, can enjoy only soup, often eating which causes eructations, often also vomiting,

■ Great thirst, but when she drinks too much, pain in belly and

diarrhoea supervenes. ^Albuminuria. Desire for wine or other spirituous drinks. ^' Eating and Drinking. iCan bear turnips now and cornmeal,

even when costive ; had given him headache since 20 years

and pain in sternum ; after sweet potatoes, diarrhoea in

night. After drinking wine, pain in groins or in spermatic cords. After the least error in diet headache increases. Torpid condition of body and mind ; the food he eats seems to

lie in stomach without digesting.

^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Pressing as if to belch, ending with a sudden beat of heart. See 20.

Belching, followed by burning in pharynx ; with a running together of saliva.

Nausea when sitting down.

Water-brash with sour taste. " Scrobiculum and Stomach. Acidity of stomach.

Burning heat in stomach.

Anxiety in pit of stomach.

Dull pressing stitches below stomach, with cutting across ab- domen.

Digging in pit of stomach.

Painful stitches in pit of stomach, started by some movements of arm ; the pain is followed by a cutting in r. side.

Sensation as if stomach was expanded.

■ Region of stomach distended. ^Albuminuria.

I Gastric ulcer, in a girl with scanty menstruation. May be indicated in pancreatic diseases with albuminuria. Cancer of pancreas, when there is burning pain. ^^ Hypochondria. ■ Cirrhosis of the liver in typhus with al- buminuria. Sensation of fullness below short ribs, at 1 p. m. ; feels weary and drowsy. ^^ Abdomen. Sensation as if diarrhoea whould appear ; soon after colicky pain around navel with pressure downwards.

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Colic and looseness of bowels.

Sensation in both groins and loins as if a hernia would be

forced out, with loss of appetite after drinking some wine ;

lasting ten weeks. I Bowels very tense. ^Albuminuria. ■ Swelling of inguinal glands with tearing pain in legs. Very painful shooting, cutting jerk across abdomen going from

right to left. Sensation as if abdomen was expanded, with fever. See 40. ^" Stool and Rectum. Faintness; cold hands followed by a

stool without relief. Urging to stool with palpitation and oppression of chest. Burning with the passage. Stool with ascarides, and itching at anus from evening until

midnight. Diarrhoea at midnight after sweet potatoes. I I Looseness and colic ; also during pregnancy. Infantile diarrhoea. Stool tardy, but not hard. I 1 Hard and difficult stool for months. ^^ Urinary Organs. I Great sensitiveness to pressure in region

of kidneys. ^Albuminuria.

I Must pass urine every hour; urine containing very much

albumen. ^Albuminuria. Burning with scanty urine.

I I Albuminuria.

^^ Male Sexual Organs. Pain in spermatic cords after great exertion and drinking some wine; has to go home; hands turn cold ; faintness and stool without relief. 2* Female Sexual Organs. ■ Scanty menses. ^Gastric ulcer.

Bearing down and prolapsus. See 24. ^* Pregnancy. During pregnancy bearing down, prolapsus va- ginae and other complaints. See 20 and 31. Albuminuria during pregnancy.

2' Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. Drawing as

with a thread from larynx backwards, with headache. Dryness in pit of throat and roughness of voice, followed by a feeling as if a crust were in upper part of throat, which caused a tickling and a cough, shaking the whole chest; feeling all over chest as if beaten. I Loses voice and afterwards consciousness ; before an epileptic attack. ^® Respiration. I l Kind of asthma, awakens soon after midnight with difficulty in breathing as from fullness in chest ; gets uneasy, turns all night in bed from side to side, falls asleep and gets awake again.

Has such an attack every night, but each night somewhat later until it reaches the morning,

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after he rises. Breathing not free all day, but without pal- pitation.

■ Feeling as if he would suffocate, with palpitation.

^^ Cough, Cough shaking the whole chest, caused by a tickling from a crust in upper part of throat ; chest feels as if beaten. ^* Inner Chest and Lungs. In clavicular region pain in throat. Dull pressure on chest, with roughness of throat. Fullness in chest. See asthma, 26. Chill extends from back towards chest. See 40. Burning and heat in che^t. See 29.

■ Precursory symptoms, with violent pains on 1. side. ^Epi-

lepsy. ^' Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Immediately oppression and

increased soreness of heart, with palpitation. Rush of blood towards 1. chest. Jerking-shooting pain about 4th and 5th ribs, 1. side, near

breastbone. See sneezing, 7. The prover never took a medicine M'hich acted so strongly on the

vascular system ; two nights in succession, throbbing in head

and back drove him out of bed.

■ Pains in region of heart and fearful palpitation, with burning

and heat in chest, followed by shooting in back, extending to feet and arms.

■ Attacks of pains in heart, with violent attacks of palpitation

and fear of suffocating ; the face is pale and there are deep rings below eyes. ^After suppression of intermittent by opium.

■ Paing in heart; before the epileptic attack. See 36.

■ Constriction of heart. ^Before an epileptic attack. Constriction of heart like from a rush of blood to left chest,

with palpitation and urging to stool. ;rHis habitual palpitation, not caused by an organic disease, in- creases very much.

■ Beat of heart very strong. ^Albuminuria.

Frequent attacks of palpitation, with heat of face, lasting several days, after each, even slight emotion of mind ; before such an attack always heat of hands and tremu- lousness.

Violent palpitation, with an urging to belch and unable to get the wind up, as if something in heart prevented it ; suddenly follows a violent beat, like an explosion, com- mencing in pit of stomach and extending up into head, after which he feels every beat of pulse. Curb. veg. antidoted.

I 1 Palpitation and headache increase and decrease together.

--■Palpitation, with oppression of chest, disturbing sleep. See 37. ^Before epilepsy.

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I Every fourth beat of pulse omits "with great regularity.

See 36. Pulse increased in number continually from 80 to 100, is

quicker and harder ; he feels with it all beats of heart durr

ing 3 to 4 days ; somewhat > on 5th day. I Pulse 120, easily compressed. ^Albuminuria. ^" Outer Chest. Dull pressure on chest. ^^ Neck and Back. Pain very near nape of neck.

I i Stiffness of neck with headache, on waking in morning.

Shuddering over back ; extending into feet and arms.

Throbbing in back, drives out of bed at night.

■ Violent backache between shoulders and sacrum.

I Could not straighten back. ^Albuminuria.

Frequent shooting in small of back, after diarrhoea with colic ;

in 6th month of pregnancy after 30 cent. 32 Upper Limbs. Lame pain as if beaten, in 1. shoulder and arm,

morning in bed ; > after lying on it. Lame feeling of 1. arm, with a painful drawing about 3 inches

above wrist to the upper arm and into shoulder ; later the

same feeling in r. arm, but less marked. Backache extends into arm.

I Pains in 1. hand and arm before the epileptic attack. Cold hands and fainting after pain in spermatic cords. Chill from back to arms. Heat of hands before palpitation. iBack of hands oedematous. ^Albuminuria. ^^ Lower Limbs. ' ' Pain in his 1. knee of a neuralgic character.

Backache extends into lower limbs. Tearing pain in legs, with swelling in groin. I Lower extremities oedematous. ^Albuminuria. Weariness in lower limbs, most in knees.

I I Weariness amounting to lameness of lower limbs. Feet heavy. ^^ Rest. Position. Motion.

Stooping causes headache, like

pulse beating against a hedge. Sitting down : nausea. Lying down: throbbing in head and back; sleeplessness;

causes headache on opposite side lain on ; on 1. arm >

pain as if beaten ; epileptic attack ceased. Motion : of head causes vertigo ; giddy, from quick motion ;

of arms causes stitch in pit of stomach and cutting in r. side. After great exertion : fainting ; pain in spermatic cord. ^"Nerves, Weary, with fullness under ribs.

Lame sensation in whole body, with headache.

Great weariness and drowsiness.

Bodily and mental relaxation. •

Collapse, in heart and kidney aflfections.

Very weak, with headache.

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Restless in morning, with difficult breathing. Tremulousness before palpitation.

Lightness of whole body, as if swimming or flying in air. Fainting, after great exertions.

■ Epileptic attacks since 10 years, begin with a pain in 1. arm,

appear only at daytime.

■ Epileptic attacks, commence with a pain in heart or a con-

striction ; without any organic disease of heart. ■Epileptic attacks, most at night, appeared first after total abstinence, in a drunkard, commenced with strong palpita- tion, rush of blood to head, loss of speech and consciousness; every fourth beat of pulse omits regularly.

■ Epileptic attacks appeared earlier, more violent and at shorter

intervals, and then ceased on lying down.

■ Strength pretty well gone. ^Albuminuria.

■ ■Epilepsies proceeding from valvular diseases of heart.

^^ Sleep. Drowsy and weary, with a sensation of fullness under short ribs.

Desire to sleep in middle of day, with heavy legs.

Sleep at night very restless, disturbed by headache and palpi- tation ; he turns from one side to another.

Rolls about all night, sleeps and wakes, with asthma. See 26.

After 3 a.m., sleepless, restless and perspiring; followed next morning by a running coryza and frequent sneezing.

For weeks nearly without sleep ; he could not bear to lie down.

Every night an attack of difiicult breathing ; each night later.

Dreams of people he had not seen for twenty years and had not in his mind the day before ; often repeated.

Throbbing in head and back drives him out of bed for two nights. ^^ Time. Evening : delirium ; headache worse after supper ; no appetite after fever ; until midnight itching at anus.

Morning: headache; headache wakens him 4 a.m. ; sneezing, fluent coryza ; catarrh in head and choanse ; 3 a.m., wake- fulness, restlessness, sweat, catarrh ; pain in shoulder and arm in bed ; restless, difficult breathing.

Noon : headache towards evening ; chill, < towards evening and after supper.

1 P.M. : weary and drowsy ; fullness below short ribs.

Afternoon : thirst ; fever and distended abdomen.

Midnight: diarrhoea; asthma, after, later each night; throb- bing in back.

All day : breathing not free. ^^Temperature and Weather. Winter: chill after getting cold out-doors.

•Out of doors: headache. *" Fever, Chilly crawl over back towards arms and chest ; it

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originates always inwardly with a sensation as if skin and adjoining parts were hot.

Chill with headache from getting cold. See 39.

I She feels a shuddering or shivering running over the back; has sometimes gooseflesh, especially at night, and is sleep- less. ^Albuminuria.

Fever in afternoon, with sensation as if abdomen were puifed up ; much thirst for cold water and afterwards loss of ap- petite in evening. '

Heat in chest, with palpitation. See 29.

Night sweat after 3 a. m. See 37. *' Attacks, Periodicity. Every hour : must pass urine.

Commencing slightly, increasing to violent splitting : head- ache.

Weekly : headache ; toothache. '^ Locality and Direction. Left side is generally most af- fected.

From r. to 1. : stitches in forehead; cutting jerks in abdomen.

First 1. then r. : burning in head ; drawing in upper arms.

From front to back : headache.

Right : pain over eye ; burning between ear and forehead ; boring jerking front of ear ; stitches in forehead ; arm and shoulder, lame pain.

Left: above ear, headache; stitches in side of head; digging, pressing beating through half of head ; violent pain in chest before epilepsy ; shoulder and arm, lame pain ; hand and knee pain ; neuralgia. " Sensations. As if flying or swimming in air; as if feet did not touch ground.

As if a scab Avas in upper part of throat.

As if stomach was disturbed.

As if diarrhoea would appear.

As if a hernia would be forced out in groins and loins.

As if one was drawing on a thread ; in larynx, from front backward.

As if beaten, in 1. shoulder and arm.

As if skin and adjoining parts of back were hot.

Boring jerking: over r. ear and in occiput.

Boring shooting : in occiput.

Jerking shooting : over 1. side of breast bone.

Jerking: from head to jaw.

Tearing : in upper and lower jaw ; in head ; in legs.

Digging : through 1. half of head ; in pit of stomach.

Cutting: across abdomen.

Stitches : in 1. side of head ; across forehead ; in r. forehead ; in pit of stomach.

Shooting : across abdomen ; in small of back.

Shuddering : in back ; to feet and arms.

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Splitting : in head.

Dull pressing stitches: below stomach.

Neuralgia : in 1. knee.

Drawing : of arms.

Soreness : of heart.

Burning: between ear and r. forehead; in head, first 1. then r. ; on tip of tongue ; in oesophagus ; in pharynx ; in stomach ; in cancer of pancreas ; with passage ; with scanty urine ; in chest.

Bruised : in chest.

Pressing : through 1. half of head ; in throat ; in clavicular re- gion ; on chest.

Bearing down : with prolapsus and during pregnancy.

Undefined pain: over r. eye; in r. eye; over 1. eye; in groins or spermatic cords ; in 1. chest before epilepsy ; in region of heart ; in heart ; near nape of neck ; 1. hand and arm.

Stupefying : different parts of head ; behind ears.

Beating : through 1. half of head ; in head ; in back.

Throbbing : in head and back.

Pressing heaviness : on top of head, then in occiput.

Heaviness : of head ; feet.

Fullness : below short ribs ; in chest.

Scratching : in throat.

Roughness : in throat.

Weariness : in lower limbs.

Constriction : of head.

Tickling : in back of throat.

Benumbing : headache above, and behind ears.

Lameness : in whole body.

Itching : on upper lip.

Heat : in face ; in stomach ; in chest ; in hands.

Chilly crawl : over back towards arms and chest.

Dryness : in pit of throat. ** Tissues. I Emboli in albuminuria.

I Obesity; fatty degeneration.

Heart and kidney diseases. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Infantile diarrhoea.

Scrofulous, tuberculous diseases with albuminuria.

■ Complaints of drunkards after abstaining.

■ Complaints of fat women when approaching the climaxis.

In lymphatic, scrofulous and tuberculous persons after Conium. ** Relations. Antidotes : Carh. veg. (palpitation), Grlonoin (head- ache), Pulsat. (headache, tearing pains in face).

Compatible : Conium, Crlonoin, Opium, Pulsat.

Compare: in mental symptoms, palpitation, LitJi. carh.; in headache, Glonoin, Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur; in bad effects from drinking, Ai^sen. ; in desire for wine and alcoholic drinks, Nux vom. ; in gastric ulcer, Arsen., Kali jod.,

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Pliosplior. ; in asthma, Arsen., Tpec. ; in heart, beat inter- mittent, constriction, palpitation, spasms, Arsen., Carb. veg., Digit., Glonoin, Lith. carh.