Calc-c, Calcerea carbonica

Common Chief Complaints

• Skin, digestion, female genitalia, knee arthritis
• Anxiety
• Moderate metabolic syndromes (obesity, insulin resistance, slightly increased fat, sugar, liver enzymes)
• Sweating while moving
• Children remedies

Core theme: Insecurity

• Fear of insecurity . Desire for security.

• Anything that disturbs this stability scares them. (Bad news about their family)
• Delusion, that he is Weak / Small
• Calc tries to build a protective wall of defense around himself which will ensure that he is Safe / Secure (Protective, Reliable friends / Money

Magnetized, desire to be magnetized

Fear, poverty of

Sankaran view

• It is a mineral remedy belonging to the psoric miasm. It also has some sycotic traits.
• His main feeling is the need for Stability/ Security / Protection.
• But in order to get this protection, he does not need to make any effort. All he has to do is show a vital reaction.
• There is a feeling of being too weak to face the cruelty and roughness of the world.
• He tells you:
  • Doctor, tell me what to do, I will do exactly as you say.
  • I am happy when everybody is around me

Examples

• Children and young people who are usually accompanied by their parents for the consultation and never answer a question directly but whisper the answer to their parents.
• A woman, who is completely protected by her parents during childhood and now hesitate and fear to get married, unable to trust that they will find the same security elsewhere. They remain unmarried as long as is possible, till they suddenly realize that their parents are getting old too, and will not be always there to protect them

• He doesn’t want any adventure in life. He chooses Friends / Partners who are protective and on whom they can depend.

Children

• They can be very obstinate and can even get aggressive, but this behavior is confined only to within their home and is directed esp to their parents.
• Outside, they are quite timid and fearful, well-behaved, sensitive to rudeness and admonition.

Paradox

• He is afraid of events such as accidents, wounds, injuries, diseases (esp infectious diseases), metaphysical issues (Ghost, spirit, etc.). But he is curious about their news. An interesting example is those children who like to watch violent movies but are afraid of them.

• He keeps his peace with his family so tries to keep the house calm despite his inner turmoil.
• He is not worried about social affairs (unlike Caust) and is more concerned about his family insecurity
• He is really dependent to his family

Full of Fears

• Anything that disturbs the security and makes the atmosphere dumb makes them afraid such as
  • Darkness, predatory animal
  • Disturbed financial conditions
  • Worried about the family (100% of cases)
  • Bad news
  • Fear of losing Reason / Logic causes mental confusion (Act-r)
  • Talks of nothing but murder, fire and rats. This rubric represents his fear of human (murder), animal (rat) and natural (fire) elements.
  • Dreams as if watching a murder.
  • Watching or hearing about cruelty: On watching scenes of fighting or of horror on TV, the Calc child either leaves the room or closes his eyes.
  • Intense fear of pain and suffering,
  • Fear of the physician, esp dentists, fear of injections and of surgery which is even seen in adults.

Hypochondriasis

• The disease worries him a lot. He is afraid of getting sick because Illness = Insecurity.
• On the other hand, he has a lot of curiosity about diseases, which makes him learn about them.

Mildness

• He is mild and his disease are too
• Basically, they are peaceful people. Their disease progresses slowly and is not noisy.
• Their disease may not be diagnosed until advanced stages due to its slow and silent growth.
• The presence of multiple symptoms and malignant diseases reduces the possibility of Calc diagnosis.
• The word "very" is alien for Calc. He's not even "too" dependent or "too" big of a problem.
• Usually, there are healthy women with few problems who refer because of irregular periods or heavy uterine bleeding.

Generality

• Dilation of the Eye-pupils (Bell, Hyos, Stram)
• Body swelling (Apis, Ars, Bry, Merc, Phos, Sul)
  • Esp facial and abdominal swelling in children
• Feeling of dryness and internal shaking (Sul-ac)
• Painful lymphadenopathy (Bell, Carb-An, Hep, Kali-m, Lach, Lyc, Merc, Nit-ac, Rhus-t, Sil)

Modalities

• Worse by
  • Exertion, (Mental / Physical)
  • Ascending / standing
  • Cold (In every form such as Water, Washing, Moist air, Wet weather
• Amel in
  • Dry climate
  • Lying on painful side

Low energy

• Good choice for the negative effects of excessive Mental/ Physical activity (Worry, thinking, etc.).
• Tendency to inactivity (Phlegmatic field)
• He has problems with mobility.

Appearance

• He smiles, Overall he is a Positive / Calm /Mild
• His only sadness may be the sadness of those around him. Hence it may be confused with Nat-m. (Calc ₳ Nat-m)
• In 80% of cases, prescriptions are easy, unlike complicated remedies such as Kali-c and Chin.
• He did not have a strong internal parent and his internal-child is leaking out.
• He is a quiet (not noisy) child who has a history of digestive colic (Of course not as severe as Cham)
• Chlorosis (Anemia + Pale skin) with Scanty / Suppressed menses (Alum., Ferr, Graph, Puls, Sep)

Heat-cold

• Most of his body parts get cold quickly and heat bothers them quickly.
• He is often warm in childhood (Puls, Sul) but gradually becomes cold in youth and middle age and
• He feels cold inside his body. (Opposite to Ars, Sul) (Calc ₳ Sul) (Ars ₳ Calc)
• Most of his problems are aggravated by cold.
• Local cold feeling in small parts of the body (Kali-bi) such as head, stomach, stomach, foot and leg
• Sensitive to Cold /Humid weather, gets cold early (unlike Sul) , (Dulc, Nat-s, Rhod, Rhus-t)

Sour smell

• Sweat smells sour but mildly sour.(The sourest remedy is Rheum)
• Stool also smells sour (slightly more pungent than sweat).

Head sweat

• It is common but does not rule out (patients usually mention a localized perspiration.) (Sep)
• Sweating during sleep and breastfeeding in infants
• Excessive sweating during sleep (Sil, Sanic) (Calc ₳ Sanic)
• Excessive Local sweat on Back, Neck, Occuput, and Upper parts of body (Sil)
• Delayed and difficult teething with head sweat

Skin

• Desquamating, mild psoriasis with typical patch

  Acute Disease- Dermatological disorders - psoriasis

• Wart, mild eczema, burning sweat

• Eczema of the scalp + itching, esp in children, which scratching causes disturbed sleep
• Ichthyosis

  Acute Disease- Dermatological disorders - ichthyosis: PHOS (Calc ₳ Phos)

• Skin fungus

  Acute Disease- Pediatrics - tinea capitis and favus

Acute Disease- Dermatological disorders - superficial mycotic infections

• Infantile eczema which has severe itching that does not improve with scratching.

• Buzzing hair Hirsutism of women's face (Na-m, Sul, Psor) (Calc ₳ Sul)

Menstrual problems

• Calc is a female remedy
• Early, intense and long menses (Chin, Ferr, Ham, Phos, Sep, Sul)
• Secondary amenorrhea with anemia, scanty and suppressed menses
• The least mental excitement causes menses to come forward (Sul, Tub)
• Anemia with suppression or low volume menses (Alum, Ferr, Graph, Puls, Sep)

Feet

• Cold / Wet feet (As if wearing wet socks)
• Feet remain frozen even under cover
• Burning of the soles of the feet due to sweating (Graph, Sanic, Sil)
• Smelly feet

Respiration

• Dry coughs at night along with daily phlegm coughs (Hep, Puls)
• Dyspnea esp when stepping (Ars, Bry, Phos)
• Right chest pain
• Purulent sputum (Hep, Merc)
• Lung diseases in tall young people
• Right-apex Pneumonia (Right lung rales similar to Ars) (Ars ₳ Calc)
• Left-apex Pneumonia (Sul, Tub) (Calc ₳ Tub)
• • In pneumonia of tall people, Phos and Tub are the main differential diagnosis of Calc.
• Morning Voice-Hoarseness without pain (Carb-v, Caust)
• Nasal Polyp (All-c, Aur, Calc-s, Con, Hydr, Kali-b, Lem-m, Merc, Phos, Sang, Sil, Sul, Teucr, Thuj)

Stool

• He is better when he is constipated.
• Chronic constipation: He must remove his stool mechanically (Aloe, Alum, Plat, Sanic, Sel, Sep, Sil)
• Itching / Tickling of anus (Calc-s, Graph, Lyc, Nux-v, Phos)
• White stool like chalk (Aur-m-n, Chel, Podo)
• Chronic diarrhea, clay-like stools (Dig, Mag-c, Podo, Sil)

Rheumatism

• Rheumatism leading to nodosities (Am-m, Calc-f, Sil)
• Cramps and locking of limbs, esp Fingers / Toes (Cupr, Mag-p, Sec)
• Swelling / Softness of bones / Curvature of the bones/ Open fontanelles(Aur, Merc, Sil)
• Destruction of bones (Asaf, Calc-f, Calc-s, Hep, Merc, Nit-a., Phos, Sil).
• Bone formation disorders due to Malabsorption (Osteogenesis imperfecta)
• In Gout with structural change, give Sul. Without that changes Calc or Lyc are useful
• In weakness of tendons caused by trauma, Arn is not enough and Rhus-t can be used instead. But if after Rhus-t, the weakness still remains, give Calc. After Calc, Staph could complete the treatment

Genito -Urinary tract

• Offensive urine (Benz-ac, Canth, Nit-ac, Tereb, Viol-t)
• White sediment in urine (Cina, Nat-m, Ph-ac)
• Nocturia (Apis, Bell, Caust, Graph, Kreos, Mag-p, Nat-m, Puls)

• Resistant Milky Leukorrhea, esp in girls (Cann-s, Merc, Puls, Sep) which sometimes leads to Cauterization / Cryo therapy needs Calc, Ars, Sul.
• Thick and gushing leucorrhoea (Am-c, Borx, Calc-p, Cop, Ferr, Kali-m, Puls, Sep)
• Uterine polyps (Ars, Aur, Bell, Calc-p, Con, Lyc, Phos, Sang, Sep, Staph, Teucr, Thuj)
• Any effort and activity causes uterine bleeding (Nit-ac)
• vaginal orifice inflammation (Redness / Swelling) (Ars, Borx, Calc-s, Kreos, Merc, Sep)
• PCOD : (Calc ₳ Thuj)
• Her menses does not stop during breastfeeding. (Sil)

Ear

• Hearing impaired (Phos)

• Otorrhea and purulent secretions (Calc-s, Hep, Merc)
• Otitis media

Acute Disease- Pediatrics - otitis media

• Painful skin cracks behind the ears

Tooth

• Delay and defects in teething (Calc-p, Sil)
• Night Teeth-grinding (Tub, Ars, bell, Cann-I, Cina, Hyos, Ign)

• Chewing movements while sleeping (Podo, Sep, Zinc)

Nutrition / Development

• Malnutrition (Abrot, Calc-p, Nat-m, Sanic, Sul)
• She is thin but her appetite is good (Nat-m)
• Tendency to obesity in young people
• Egg lover: He tends to eat eggs when he is sick. (Hydr, Nat-p, Ol-an) (unlike Sul)
• Pica (Alum)
• Aversion to meat

• Developmental arrested which causes late talk and walk.
• Nat-m is only slow in learning to talk and Calc in walking, as if Calc's problem is more bone-joint oriented.
• Marasmus emaciation / General muscular atrophy + Large abdomen (Sul)
• Severe weakness / Loss of strength after nervous excitement (Ars, Kali-p, Nux-v, Sep).

Radar suggestions:

• OCD: ARS (Ars ₳ Calc)

• Petimal epilepsy: Sil.
• Laryngitis: Bell (Bell ₳ Calc)
• Milk intolerance: Sil (Calc ₳ Sil)
• Palpitation
• Rhinitis: Acute Disease- Ear / nose / throat disorders - coryza
• Sinusitis: Acute Disease- Ear / nose / throat disorders - sinusitis : KALI-BI
• Sarcoidosis
• Rectal polyp
• Polycythemia
• Infective endocarditis
• Anemia, esp hemolytic anemia and pernicious anemia

  Acute Disease- Hematological disorders - anemia - aplastic anemia : BENZOL

Acute Disease- Hematological disorders - anemia - hemolytic anemia - thalassemia minor : ARS

Acute Disease- Hematological disorders - anemia - pernicious anemia

Kent clinical experience

• Sore throat only during menses (Lac-c)
• Noise sensitivity (Epigastrium discomfort) (Kali-c, Phos)
• Abscess: Inflammation, pain and infection around a foreign body requires Hep, but if surrounding tissue is calcified, give Calc.
• Headache: If you force Calc to do things quickly, he will get a headache. Lyc baby gets headache from hunger
• Visaul Spark: Seeing sparks in front of his eyes is characteristic for Calc (Aur above visual field).

• Likes to be attracted by others (Phos)
• He is afraid of future misfortunes. (Anac, Chin-s, Graph, Psor)
• Heartburn, tremors starting in the evening (Acon, Kali-c, Phos)
• Depressed, despairing of recovery, with fear of death,
• Disturbing thoughts with time modality

Remedy relations

Acute Calc

Calc is not acute remedy and in acute stresses converts to other remedies:

• If the Calc woman marry a violent drunkard, she can develop a Rhus-t state, tense, nervous and threat of being killed inside her own house. (Calc ₳ Rhus-t) or When Calc has rheumatic problems, he goes to the Rhus-t phase.
• In infectious processes, Bell is the best complementary remedy in acute conditions of Calc (Bell ₳ Calc)
• When a Calc person comes to the doctor from an unprotected environment at home, she may weep and ask for his protection, seek support and reassurance – so you have: “Narrating her symptoms aggravates”. This might seem like Puls, especially if we were to only notice the weeping and the seeking of consolation, while ignoring the nervousness and edginess at home.
• Bry and Calc are Similar / Inimical remedies. Both have the aversion to movement and the need for security and stability, and the “Fear of poverty”

Calc -Stram - Hyos

Calc is very similar to Stram in 70% of cases and Hyos in the remaining 30%.

• Stram is starring with fear and desperation
• Hyos is worried and paranoid. (Calc ₳ Hyos)
• Calc goes to Stram in stress and worry phase.
• When all attempts to seek protection fail, they become indifferent: “Sits and breaks pins the whole day”, “Indifferent about recovery”.
• If he loses the security of his home, he feels as if left alone in the wilderness, thus going into a Stram state which is that of an unprotected person out in the dark night, wanting to come home (in contrast to Calc who is the one inside the house and not wanting to get out). (Calc ₳ Stram)

Follow wells

• After Calc you can give Lyc, Nux-v, Phos, Sil.
• Calc is a good remedy after Nit-ac, Puls, Sul.
• Give Calc after Sul, esp when the pupils are dilated.
• Calc is good choice after Kali-bi in catarrh of the nose
• According to Hahnemann you should not give Nit-ac after Calc
• It is better not to give Sul after Calc. If you have to give a Lyc and then Sul
• Calc in children may need to be repeated
• Calc should not be repeated in elderly people, esp when the first dose is useful.

Rubrics

MIND - RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS - too occupied with religion - metaphysical concerns