Epilepsy with rush of blood to the head before attack; aura felt in region of heart; flying sensation. Complaints in fat women around climacteric. Chronic malaria. Infantile enlarged liver and spleen. Nephritis, with great sensitiveness in kidney region. Complaints of drunkards after abstaining (Carbon sulph). Fleshy women at climacteric, slightest emotion causing palpitation. Dyspnœa, with feeble heart. Chilliness. Albuminuria. Dropsy. Affections of spleen and mesenteric glands. Hemoglobin and red corpuscles are low.
CALCAREA ARSENICOSA
HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Key Symptoms & Indications
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Epilepsy with rush of blood to the head before attack; aura felt in region of heart; flying sensation. Complaints in fat women around climacteric. Chronic malaria. Infantile enlarged liver and spleen. Nephritis, with great sensitiveness in kidney region. Complaints of drunkards after abstaining (Carbon sulph). Fleshy women at climacteric, slightest emotion causing palpitation. Dyspna, with feeble heart. Chilliness. Albuminuria. Dropsy. Affections of spleen and mesenteric glands. Hemoglobin and red corpuscles are low.
Mental & Emotional Symptoms
Anger, anxiety. Desire for company. Confusion, delusions, illusions. Great depression.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Violent rush of blood to head with vertigo. Pain in head better by lying on painful side . Weekly headache. Benumbling headache mostly around ears.
Stomach
Region of stomach distended. Enlarged liver and spleen in children. Pancreatic disease; relieves burning pain in cancer of pancreas. Belching with saliva and beating of heart.
Urinary
Kidney region sensitive to pressure . Albuminuria, passes urine every hour.
Heart
Constriction and pain in region of heart, suffocating feeling, palpitation , oppression and throbbing and pain in back extending to arms.
Female
Offensive, bloody leucorrha. Cancer of uterus; burning pain in uterus and vagina.
Back
Pain and stiffness near nape of neck. Violent backache, throbbing, drives out of bed.
Extremities
Removes inflammatory products in veins of lower extremities. Weariness and lameness of lower limbs.
Modalities (Better / Worse)
Worse (Aggravation)
from slight exertion
Better (Amelioration)
No specific amelioration factors listed.
Remedy Relationships
Follows Well
Con., Glon., Op., Puls.
Antidotes
Carb-v., Glon., Puls.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
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CALCAREA ARSENICOSA
Mind
Anger, anxiety. Desire for company. Confusion, delusions, illusions. Great depression.
Head
Violent rush of blood to head with vertigo. Pain in head better by lying on painful side. Weekly headache. Benumbling headache mostly around ears.
Stomach
Region of stomach distended. Enlarged liver and spleen in children. Pancreatic disease; relieves burning pain in cancer of pancreas. Belching with saliva and beating of heart.
Urinary
Kidney region sensitive to pressure. Albuminuria, passes urine every hour.
Heart
Constriction and pain in region of heart, suffocating feeling, palpitation, oppression and throbbing and pain in back extending to arms.
Female
Offensive, bloody leucorrhœa. Cancer of uterus; burning pain in uterus and vagina.
Back
Pain and stiffness near nape of neck. Violent backache, throbbing, drives out of bed.
Extremities
Removes inflammatory products in veins of lower extremities. Weariness and lameness of lower limbs.
Modalities
Worse from slight exertion.
Dose
Third trituration.
Calcarea Arsenicosa.
Clinical
Acidity. Albuminuria. Asthma. Cholera. Cirrhosis of liver. Constipation. Consumption. Corpulency. Dropsy. Embolus. Epilepsy. Gastric ulcer. Headache. Heart, disease of. Indigestion. Intermittent fever. Kidneys, affections of. Liver, affections of. Obesity. Palpitation. Pancreas, cancer of. Tumours. Typhoid.
Characteristics
Calc. ars. was prepared and proved by Hering in the 4th centesimal tincture in 1848. It has also been tested clinically. It has many head symptoms: Vertigo when moving the head. Flying or swimming sensation as if feet did not touch the ground indescribably well; most wonderful visions pass before the eyes, manifold but lasting only a second; passing like lightning, but is infinitely much." Rush of blood to head before an epileptic attack. Epilepsy with heart disease. Weight an vertex, later on occiput. The headaches go from before backward; < mornings going out of doors; < on aspect opposite to the one lain on, whether front or back, or either side. > By mental exertion but < after. < After slightest error in diet. Headache and palpitation are < and > together. Violent pains over right eye; stitches in right forehead, recurring weekly. Head is hot. Delirium in the dark. Blue rings under eyes. Swelling of inguinal glands, with tearing pains in legs. General dropsical swelling, temples, face, backs of hands, with albuminuria. Drawing as with a thread from larynx backwards. Burning and heat in chest; feeling as if he would suffocate with palpitation; pains in heart region followed by shooting in back extending to feet and arms. Every fourth beat of pulse omits with great regularity. The fever symptoms are well marked─intermittent, remittent, hectic, and masked malarious. Chilliness is marked, originates inwardly, with a sensation as if skin and adjoining parts were hot. Chilly cramps over back towards arms and chest. Night sweat after 3 a.m. Liver and spleen somewhat enlarged. It is the most efficient remedy, according to P. C. Majumdar, in the infantile enlarged liver and spleen of India. In albuminuria cases there is great sensitiveness of the kidney region. Cholera with impeded respiration from heart embolism. Suited to lymphatic, scrofulous, and tuberculous persons; fat women, approaching the climaxis; fat persons; complaints of drunkards after leaving off alcohol. It is a chilly medicine, the symptoms being < in cold weather; when out of doors.
Relations
Compare: Lith. c. (mental symptoms, palpitation); Graph. (obesity); Glo., Puls., Sep., Sul. (headache); Ars. (alcohol-drinking); Nux (desire for wine); Ars., K. iod., Pho. (gastric ulcer); Ars., Ip. (asthma); Ars., Carb. v., Dig., Glo. and Lith. c. (heart). Antidoted by: Carb. v. (palpitation); Glo. (headache); Puls. (headache, tearing pains in face). Compatible: Con., Glo., Op., Puls. Acts well in: Cases which have been heavily dosed with Quinine.
1. Mind
Depression and anxiety.─Delirium, evenings in the dark.─Slightest emotion causes palpitation of heart (Lith.).
2. Head
Vertigo on moving the head.─Rush of blood to head before an epileptic attack.─Digging, pressive beating through l. half of head, from before backwards.─Headache over r. eye.─Weekly headache.
8. Mouth
Lips dry.─Tongue dry; burning on tip.─Salivation with tasteless belching.─Sour taste.
11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen
No appetite.─Great thirst, but when she drinks too much, pain in belly and diarrhœa ensue.─Region of stomach distended.─Gastric ulcer with scanty menses.─Pancreatic disease (cancer); with burning pain and albuminuria.─Enlarged liver and spleen in children.─Swelling of inguinal glands with tearing pains in legs.
13. Stool
Diarrhœa at midnight after sweet potatoes.─Looseness and colic also during pregnancy.─Infantile diarrhœa.─Hard and difficult stool for months.─Faintness; cold hands followed by a stool without relief.
14. Urinary Organs
Sensitive to pressure in kidney regions.─Frequent micturition; burning with scanty urine; albuminuria.
15. Male Sexual Organs
Pain in spermatic cords after great exertion and drinking wine; hands cold; faintness and stool without relief.
16. Female Sexual Organs
During pregnancy, bearing-down, prolapsus vaginæ.
17. Respiratory Organs
A kind of asthma; awakens soon after midnight.─Drawing as with a thread from larynx backward, with headache; chest feels full.
19. Heart
Pains in heart region, burning and shooting, extending to arms and legs.─Constriction of heart.─Palpitation; with suffocation; synchronous with headache.─Palpitation and heart pains preceding epileptic attack.
20. Neck and Back
Stiffness of neck, with headache, on waking in morning.─Throbbing in back drives out of bed at night.─Violent backache between shoulders and sacrum; cannot straighten back.
22. Upper Limbs
Lame pain as if beaten in l. shoulder and arm.
23. Lower Limbs
Pain in l. knee of neuralgic character.─Weariness amounting to lameness in lower limbs.
26. Sleep
Sleepless, cannot bear to lie down.─After 3 a.m. sleepless, restless, and perspiring.
27. Fever
Chilly crawl over back towards arms and chest; it originates always inwardly with a sensation as if skin and adjoining parts were hot.─Shuddering or shivering running over back; has sometimes gooseflesh, esp. at night, and is sleepless.─Fever in afternoon with sensation as if abdomen were puffed up; much thirst for cold water and afterwards loss of appetite.─Heat in chest with palpitation.─Sweat after 3 a.m.
Calcarea arsenicosa
Calcarea arsenicosa
Generalities
• This remedy was found useful clinically, in complaints of fat women around climacteric; when slightest emotions cause palpitation.
• In children with enlarged liver and spleen; in complaints of drunkards after abstaining.
• Nephritis, albuminuria, and dropsy.
• In epilepsy with rush of blood to the head; aura felt in the region of heart.
• Epilepsy, with heart disease.
• Flying sensation or swimming sensation, as if feet did not touch the ground.
Worse
• Slight exertion.
• Errors in diet.
• Cold air.
Mind
• Depression and anxiety.
• Desire for company.
Head
• Rush of blood to the head, with vertigo.
• Weekly headache amel. lying on painful side.
• Headache, with palpitation, increase and decrease together.
Abdomen
• Enlarged liver and spleen in chronic malaria; in children.
• Pancreatic diseases.
• Relieves burning pain in cancer.
• Diarrhoea agg. sweet potato or yam.
• Swollen inguinal glands, with tearing pain in legs.
Urinary
• Kidney region sensitive to pressure.
• Passes urine every hour.
Female
• Offensive bloody leucorrhoea.
• Cancer of the uterus.
• Burning in uterus and vagina.
Respiratory
• Burning heat in chest.
• Feeling, as if he would suffocate, with palpitation.
• Drawing as with a thread from larynx backwards.
Heart
• Palpitation and heart pains before epileptic attack.
• Pulse intermittent-every 4th beat regularly.
Neck and back
• Pain and stiffness near nape of neck.
• Violent throbbing pain, drives out of bed.
Extremities
• Weariness and lameness of lower limbs.
• Removes inflammatory products in veins of lower limbs.
Fever
• Marked malaria.
• Chilly.
Calcarea Arsenicosa
As this remedy is a chemical union of two well proved deep acting remedies it would most likely appear at once to the mind as a long acting remedy, well suited to many chronic diseases.
In fact, it is deep acting enough to cure some of our most stubborn cases of epilepsy. It has made its record in this class of cases.
Great mental and physical weakness. Tremulous and paralytic weakness. Sense of lightness of the body as if floating in the air. Fainting spells. Epileptic convulsions where the aura is felt in the region of the heart. Marked lassitude. Pain and sinking in the region of the heart followed by spasms. Weakness, or vertigo, or momentary blindness.
Convulsions with valvular disease of the heart. Evening and night aggravations are common. The patient is sensitive to cold-a lack of vital heat. Aversion to the open air.
General physical anxiety. Many symptoms from ascending stairs. It has many burning pains like Arsenicum.. It has cured many cases of albuminuria in the early stages.
It is a useful remedy in chlorosis. Dropsy is a strong feature, as it is in Arsenicum and Calcarea. Complaints are worse from slight exertion; faintness, palpitation, dyspnea and weakness come on. The left side of the body is most affected.
Mind
: The following mental symptoms are often a guide to its use. Anger and complaints from anger and vexation.
Anxiety in evening, at night, in bed, and during a chill, and on waking. Apprehensiveness; about the future, about his salvation, at night. Inclined to criticize.
Desire for company. Confusion of mind on waking. Inability to concentrate the mind. Delusions. Sees dead people, phantoms, images. Illusions of fancy.
Sees visions of fire, worse at night, and on closing the eyes. Despair of recovery, of salvation. Discontented. Excitable. Fear of death at night, of solitude, of insanity.
Becomes indifferent to pleasure. Insanity. Irresolution. Irritable. Lamenting. Loathing of life; weary of life. Weakness of memory.
Mischievous. Obstinate. Sensitive, easily offended. Extreme restlessness, especially at night, tossing about in bed; during heat; and during menses. Extreme sadness in evening, and during fever. Easily startled. Timidity. Weeping, at night.
Head
: There is violent rush blood to the head with vertigo and general spasm. It has caused and cured many chronic headaches.
A very peculiar feature of the pain in the head is that it moves from the side lain on and goes to the side not lain on, and continues to change about by changing position.
Not all of its headaches do this way. It has many peculiar little symptoms. Pain in the head ameliorated during mental exertion, but much worse afterwards. Oedema of face, lids, temples and ears.
Eczema of face and scalp. Coldness of head. Pale, sickly, bloated face. Fluent coryza. Sneezing.
Loss of all desire for food, but thirst for cold water. Eructations and vomiting after food. Stomach easily disordered, especially after milk and cold food.
Pain in stomach after drinking cold water. Load in stomach after eating. Pain in groin after drinking wine. Waterbrash and spur stomach. Anxiety and burning in stomach. Stitching pain in stomach. Gnawing pain in stomach. Distension of stomach and abdomen. It has cured gastric ulcer.
Much soreness in region of kidneys. Scanty, burning urine, contains albumin and casts.
Pain in the spermatic cords, after exertion, and after drinking wine.
Excoriating, yellow leucorrhoea. Offensive, bloody leucorrhoea. For offensive leucorrhea, it compares with Kali ars. and Kali phos, it is useful in cancer of the uterus when there is burning and acrid offensive bloody flow.
It restores the menstrual flow, when the symptoms agree. Copious menstrual flow, or scanty flow, too frequent and protracted.
Pain at the approach of the menses. Metrorrhagia. Burning pain in uterus and vagina.
Drawing as with a thread from larynx backward. Dryness in larynx. Loses the voice before an epileptic convulsion. Suffocation and palpitation at night in bed.
Burning heat in chest and pain in region of heart before an epileptic convulsion.
Orgasm of blood in region of heart. Throbbing in the blood vessels, especially in head and back; it drives him out of bed. Pain in heart with palpitation. Angina pectoris.
Grasping pain in heart. Palpitation, with heat of face. Palpitation from least excitement or exertion; worse evening and night. Every fourth beat of pulse omits. Rapid pulse.
Violent headache between scapula and sacrum. Pain in back extends to arms. Pain in chest extends to arms. Oedema of the hands and feet. Weakness of lower limbs.
The sleep is disturbed by violent dreams. Palpitation and suffocation. Latter part of night wakeful, and much sweat.
If this wonderful remedy is studied with the mind on Arsenicumand Calcarea, a broader knowledge will be gained. It needs further proving in potencies.
Calcarea Arsenica.
Great mental depression. The slightest emotion causes palpitation of heart (Lith. c.). Rush of blood to head and left chest (Amyl., Glon.). Epilensies, from valvular diseases of the heart. Complaints of drunkards, after abstaining; craving for alcohol (Asar., Sul. ac.). Complaints of fleshy women when approaching the menopause.
Relations
. - Compare: Con., Glon., Lith. c., Puls., Nux. Follows well: after Conium, in lymphatic, psoric or tubercular persons.
Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights
"ARSENICUM seems especially adapted to loss of vision dependent upon the use of tobacco, and has proven clinically to be of the first value in retro-bulbar neuritis."
By Dr. Norton, M.D.
Retro-bulbar Neuritis
"ARSENIC ALB. is very efficacious in the 30th potency, given every half an hour, for 4 to 6 doses, for the usual colds due to change of temperature."
By Dr. Marjorie Blackie, M.D.
Common cold
"ARSENIC is one of the most valuable agents which we possess in the treatment of chlorosis and anaemia, especially adapted to those cases in which iron does not agree or fails to effect."
By Dr. Bartholow
Chlorosis & Anaemia
"Peptic ulcer: ARSENICUM deserves to be classed in foremost rank."
By Dr. Boehr
Peptic Ulcer
"For acute gastritis you cannot have a better drug than ARSENICUM."
By Dr. Hughes, L.R.C.P.
Acute Gastritis
"Use ARSENICUM ALBUM high to relieve the mental distress (fear) of the dying."
By Dr. R.A.F.Jack
Fear
"ARSENICUM ALBUM gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency."
By Dr. Boericke, M.D.
Collapse - Near death
"Our experience certainly is that ARSENICUM far excels all other drugs in the treatment of idiopathic neuralgia. Such a neuralgia you often meet as a consequence of malaria or influenza but more frequently as a symptom of pure debility."
By Dr. Hughes, L.R.C.P.
Idiopathic Neuralgia
"In simple, uncomplicated cases of chorea, ARSENICUM is only by far the best remedy."
By Dr. Ringer
Chorea
"ARSENICUM is our most important diuretic. It is suitable in all forms of dropsy, more particularly in dropsy depending upon heart disease and oedema of the lungs. After giving ARSENICUM, a copious diuresis will sometimes set in with astonishing rapidity, after which the dropsical swelling speedily disappears. The result is most doubtful if we have only ascites to contend against, and in as much as the medicine shows its good effects in a few days itself after a few doses have been taken, it is useless to continue it for a longer period in the vain hope of eliciting good effects from it by persisting in its use."
By Dr. Bahr
Dropsy
"When peptic ulcer is at pyloric end, ARSENICUM is the drug."
By Dr. Pope
Peptic Ulcer
"In various advanced septic cases with persistent vomiting (and possibly diarrhoea) ARSENICUM ALBUM possesses considerable virtue. I have known it to work almost miraculously in several desperate cases of this kind."
By Dr. H.L.Northrop, M.D..,F.A.C.S.,
Sepsis
"As a prophylactic, ARSENIC or CEPA may be given for sometime before the expected time for the hay fever."
By Dr. Custis, M.D.
Hay Fever
"In psoriasis, the first influence of ARSENIC is to make the eruption redder and more inflamed. This fact, if not known, would lead to the suspension of the medicine just when it commenced to do good; at the same time, it is unnecessary to give it in doses sufficiently large to do this."
By Dr. Ringer
Psoriasis
"ARSENIC ALB. is very valuable for the weak heart which is irritable; rapid action on slightest provocation."
By Dr. H.C.Allen, M.D.
Palpitation
"Angina pectoris better by standing"
By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines)
Angina Pectoris
"Aphthae under the lips"
By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines)
Aphthae
"AIDS"
By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines)
AIDS
"Aphthae, in measles"
By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines)
Aphthae, Measles
"Hair falling in patches"
By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines)
Alopecia
"Gangrene better by warmth"
By Dr. Sunirmal Sarkar
Gangrene
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Third trituration.
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