CALCAREA OSTREARUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Allen's Keynotes

  • leucophlegmatic, blond hair, light complexion, blue eyes, fair skin
  • tendency to obesity in youth
  • psoric constitutions; pale, weak, timid, easily tired when walking
  • disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldly
  • children with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat easily and take cold readily in consequence
  • large heads and abdomens; fontanelles and sutures open; bones soft, develop very slowly
  • curvature of bones, especially spine and long bones; extremities crooked, deformed; bone irregularly developed
  • head sweats profusely while sleeping, wetting pillow far around
  • profuse perspiration, mostly on back of head and neck, or chest and upper part of body
  • difficult and delayed dentition with characteristic head sweats, and open fontanelles
  • during either sickness or convalescence, great longing for eggs
  • craves indigestible things; aversion to meat
  • acidity of digestive tract; sour eructations, sour vomiting, sour stool
  • sour odor of the whole body
  • girls who are fleshy, plethoric, and grow too rapidly
  • menstruation too early, too profuse, too long lasting
  • with subsequent amenorrhoea and chlorosis with menses scanty or suppressed
  • women: menses too early, too profuse; feet habitually cold and damp, as if they had on cold damp stockings; continually cold in bed
  • the least mental excitement causes profuse return of menstrual flow
  • fears she will lose her reason or that people will observe her mental confusion
  • lung diseases of tall, slender, rapidly growing youth; upper third of right lung
  • diseases: arising from defective assimilation; imperfect ossification; difficulty in learning to walk or stand
  • children have no disposition to walk and will not try
  • suppressed sweat
  • rawness of soles of feet from perspiration; blisters and offensive foot sweat
  • longing for fresh air (when in a room) which inspires, benefits, strengthens
  • coldness: general; of single parts; head, stomach, abdomen, feet and legs
  • aversion to cold open air, \"goes right through her:\" sensitive to cold, damp air; great liability ot take cold
  • sweat: of single parts; head, scalp wet, cold; nape of neck; chest; axillae, sexual organs; hands, knees; feet
  • pit of stomach swollen like an inverted saucer, and painful to pressure
  • uraemic or other diseases brought on by standing on cold, damp pavements, or working while standing in cold water; modelers or workers in cold clay
  • feels better in every way when constipated
  • stool has to be removed mechanically
  • painless hoarseness worse in the morning
  • desire to be magnetised
  • worse from cold air; wet weather; cold water; from washing; morning; during full moon
  • better from dry weather; lying on painful side

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