-M.L.Tyler.

Introduction:
ONE loops upon this powerful medicinal agent as one of Schuessler’s Tissue Remedies, having been “adopted by him”, as Clarke puts it: though previously potentized and proved by various homoeopathic doctors, among them Constantine Hering. Through we reproduced a short paper on Calc. Phos., by Dr. E. P. Cuthbert, U.S.A., at the end of our Drug Picture, Calcarea Carbonica, in 1934, yet we seem never to have ourselves attempted its portrayal, which we will now endeavour to do. When we are treating babies and little people in evident need of their vital stimulus to enable them to assimilate the lime they need for teeth, bones, etc., we have to ask ourselves, shall it be the Calcarea made famous by Hahnemann, or the Calcarea phosphorica ascribed to Schuessler, which, with many symptoms in common, yet, owing to its phosphorus element, presents in the provings and in its range of action many striking differences. Because we must remember that, when it comes to curative work, one remedy will not do for another, and we are always thrown back on the actual symptoms of the provings as our only sure guide. Let us contrast the two drugs in the effort to help ourselves as well as others; extracting from Nash, that accurate observer and distinguished and brilliant physician, and also from H.C.Allen’s Guiding Symptoms. Calc. carb. Deficient or irregular bone development. (Fontanelles open, crooked spine, deformed extremities. Fair, fat, flabby, obese.) Calc. Phos. Tardy closing or re-opening fontanelles, in slim, emaciated children, with sweaty heads (though he says later, that in Calc. phos. the sweaty head is not a prominent symptom, as in Calc. carb. and Silica). Instead of “fat, fair, flabby, obese”, the Calc. phos. is typically anaemic and dark-complexioned; dark hair and eyes; thin and spare, instead of fat. Children: emaciated, unable to stand, slow in learning to walk; sunken, flabby abdomen. Both are invaluable in rickets: and in delayed or complicated teething. In Calc. carb. the head sweats profusely during sleep, wetting the pillow far around (Silica). It is only Hahnemann who has taught us how to make a correct choice, and hit the mark every time. Both drugs affect the same organs and tissues, bones, glands, lungs, etc., but the individuals differ markedly.
BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS
She wishes to be at home, and when at home to go out; goes from place to place. (Compare Ars.) Headache of school girls with diarrhoea. Sensation in eye, as if something were in it; renewed if others talk about it. Slowness in teething; also in closing of fontanelles; complaints during teething. Chronic enlargement of tonsils. Relaxed sore throat. Craves bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much flatulence. Cholera infantum. At every attempt to eat, bellyache. Flabby, sunken abdomen. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms, or in persons who have pain in all the joints from any change of weather. Uterine displacements with rheumatic pains. After prolonged nursing. Chest difficulties associated with fistula in ano. Stiffness of neck after draught of air. Rheumatism of joints with cold or numb feeling. Weariness on going up stairs. Pains with sensations of crawling, numbness, coldness. Copious nightsweats in phthisis. Chronic gonorrhoea in anaemic subjects. Rheumatism pertaining particularly to cold weather, getting well in Spring and returning next Autumn. Cannot get awake in early morning. Anaemia and chlorosis. Non-union of fractured bones. Acute affections of the lungs. Large pedunculated nasal polypi; polypi of rectum and uterus. Rachitis; fontanelles wide open; diarrhoea, emaciation. Flabby, shrunken, emaciated children. Phosphatic diathesis. Child refuses the breast; milk has a saltish taste. Involuntary sighing. GUERNSEY. A subject for this remedy does not present so clear and white a complexion as is called for by Calc. carb. Patient more of dirty white or brownish colour. Worse cold; change of weather.
ITALIC AND NOTEWORTHY SYMPTOMS
Like to be alone. Children scream and grasp with hands; cold sweat, face; body cold; with open fontanelles. Anxiety of children, in pit of stomach; with bellyache, with chest complaints; with palpitation. Feels as if she had been frightened. Feels complaints more when thinking about them. Old people stagger when getting up from sitting. Heat in head, burning on top, running down to toes. Acute and chronic hydrocephalus. Sensation as if brain were pressed against skull. Sore pain, drawing, rending, tearing in bones of skull, mostly along sutures. Crawls over top of head; as ice lying on upper occiput. Head is hot, and with smarting of roots of hair. Skull soft and thin, crackling like paper when pressed upon. Fontanelles remain open too long, or close and re-open. Non-union of bones in fracture of skull, especially in the aged. Cannot hold head up; moves it from place to place; head totters. Eyes misty: shimmering, glittering; fiery circles; veil over eyes. Eyeballs, hurt, ache as if beaten. Cool feeling back of eyes. Squinting distortion of eyeballs, as if from pressure; they seem distended, and protrude somewhat. Sweat of brows and lids. Spasm of lids. Large pedunculated nasal polypi. Swollen nose with sore nostrils. Point of nose icy cold: itching. Face; pale, sallow, earthy; full of pimples. Coppery face, full of pimples. Flabby, sweetish taste. Disgusting taste: bitter taste in morning. Tongue swollen, numb, stiff, with pimples: little blisters, sore and burn, tip of tongue. Diarrhoea from juicy fruit or cider. Colic from eating ices. Nausea from smoking or coffee. Motion in belly as of something alive. (Compare Croc., Thuja.) Abdominal wall: tingling; numb; quivering or aching: Diarrhoea after vexation with headache; of schoolgirls; offensive pus with stools. Watery, very hot stools. Stools green, loose, sometimes slimy; soft, passed with difficulty; hot and watery; white and mushy. Morning, copious soft stool; renewed urgency directly on wiping. Very offensive diarrhoea. Two provers experienced, as small furuncle to right of anus with much pain; cannot sit; has to stand, or lie on left side. Discharge of bloody pus, leaving a small painless fistula. Fistula alternating with chest symptoms. Fistula ani with pains in joints every spell of cold, stormy weather. Fistula ani alternating with chest symptoms. Fissures of anus, in tall slim children, who form bone and teeth slowly. Violent pain kidney region when lifting or blowing nose. Large quantities of urine with sensation of weakness. Has been found useful in diabetes mellitus where lungs are implicated; of very great service not only to lungs, but in diminishing quantity of urine, and lowering its specific gravity. Difficulty in preventing escape of urine. Wetting bed, with general debility. Uterine polypus. Milk changeable, from alkaline to neutral or to acid; watery and thin. Mammae sore; feel large. Child refuses breast, milk a saltish taste. Constantine HERING tells us that buttermilk and koumiss are invaluable foods for the aged, because the lactic acid in them dissolves the phosphate of lime and prevents the ossification m in tendons, arteries and elsewhere. SCHUESSLER tells us how this drug was prepared by Dr. Hering. He says “It is absolutely essential to the proper growth and nutrition of the body. It is found in blood-plasma and corpuscles, in saliva, gastric juice, bones, connective tissue, teeth, etc.; has a special chemical affinity for albumen, which forms the organic basis for this salt in the tissue cells, and is required wherever albumin or albuminous substances are found in the secretions. It also supplies new blood cells, becoming the first remedy in anaemia and chlorosis. It is of the greatest importance to the soft and growing tissues, supplying the first basis for the new tissues, hence necessary to initiate growth. Is curative in diseases depending upon a disturbed action of the lime molecules in the body: such as occurs in the tardy formation of callus around the ends of fractured bones, the unnatural growth and defective nutrition of bone and other textures found in rickets, etc., it is an essential food to soft and growing tissues, in cases of malnutrition and defective cell growth: hence its use during dentition, in convulsions and spasms occurring in weak, scrofulous subjects, stimulating nutrition.” If not the most modern teachings, the above may be useful in suggesting the practical applications of the drug. “Schuessler has no use for Hahnemann’s greatest of polycrests, Calc. carb. He limits his “calcareas” to Calc. phos. and Calc. fluor. because it is only in these combinations that lime is found ultimately in the body. But life does not need, much less prefer, requirements ready-made. She has her own adequate biochemical laboratory, whose function is two-fold, to break down and to build up. She chooses her materials, however provided, tearing to pieces and extracting her requirements, and pushing out useless or harmful refuse. And when she falls on evil days, she has her own way of demanding the stimulus needed for regeneration, in the symptoms she puts up, and which the Law of Similars permits us to appropriately counter. As said, one remedy can never take the place of another. In the treatment of infancy and youth-and age ! one or other will be more specially indicated in different cases of unflourishing growth and development or nutrition, according to the actual, individual symptoms. No two drugs are alike: it is case here of the one or the other, if we are to do brilliant work. Later on, Schuessler threw out one of his original tissue remedies, Calc. Sulph., ” because”, as Clarke says, “it was not an actual constituent of the tissues, and he distributed its functions between Silicea and Natrum sulph. But homoeopaths having no Biochemic theory to support, may continue its use without scruple, especially as it has been proved by Hering and others.” NASH gives Calc. phos. in a nutshell: Tardy closing or re-open fontanelles in slim, emaciated children, with sweaty heads. But he says, further on, that in Calc. phos. the sweaty head is not a prominent symptom. Rheumatic troubles, which are worse in Fall or Spring, when the air is full of melting snow. Calcarea phos. has also a very peculiar desire; the little patient, instead of wanting eggs (Calc. carb.) wants “ham rind” , a very queer symptom, but a genuine one. (Mag. carb. craves meat, in such children.) Diarrhoea is very prominent, and the stool are green and spluttering. I have made some very fine cures in such cases where there seemed little hope for the child and hydrocephaloid seemed impending. An excellent remedy for broken bones, where the bones refuse to knit. Feels complaints more when thinking of them. A doctor friend, points out in regard to RICKETS: “The orthodox treatment is based on the fact that vitamin D is necessary for the absorption of calcium. Therefore cod liver oil and sunlight treatment are given to supply vitamin D. But why is it that of two children in the same environment, and having the same food, one will develop rickets and the other will not? “Of course the answer is, constitutional defect; which can be readily cured by the appropriate remedy, such as Calcarea carb., in high potency.” One remembers well the cure of perhaps one’s worst case of rickets, years ago, with a single dose of Calc. carb. cm. It was luckily not repeated, because the child, living far away, did not re-appear at out-patients for many months. Sometimes our best prescriptions have been saved by the non-reappearance of the patient. The safe rule is, where there is definite improvement and continuous, nature has got the matter in hand, so just put yours behind you till the reappearance of symptoms demands further attention.

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praveen G
10 years ago

nonunion fracture treatment in Mumbai
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Very informative blog… Thanks for sharing, Hope this helps many!

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10 years ago

Great article, thank you very much.