One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in common with Calcarea carb, there are some differences and characteristic features of its own. It is especially indicated in tardy dentition and troubles incident to that period, bone disease non-union of fractured bones, and the anæmias after acute diseases and chronic wasting diseases. Anæmic children who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and feeble digestion. It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphyses, and all its symptoms are worse from any change of weather. Numbness and crawling are characteristic sensations, and tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement are symptoms it shares with the carbonate. Scrofulosis, chlorosis and phthisis.
- Delayed closure or reopening of fontanelles.
- Retarded dentition, especially in second dentition.
- With every attempt to eat has aching in bowels.
- Heartburn and other gastric symptoms one or two hours after dinner.
- Sacro-iliac symphis is sore, as if separated or broken.
- Often a children's medicine, but oftener suitable for the young while growing, particularly girls at or near puberty.