Calcarea Arsenicosum - The Sycotic Arsenicosum
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2005 Mar / Apr VOL VIII NO 2.
Late Dr P I Tarkas
Dr Ajit Kulkarni
'Calc-ars
Arsenite of Calcium
Monogram
Congestive. Chilly. Sensitive. Debilitated
Atrophic. Epileptic. Cancerous. Hearty. Renal
Make-Up: Chilly; lacking vital heart; sensitive to cold. A sycotic Ars. Averse to open air. Fat women around climacteric; slight emotions causing palpitation.
Lymphatic. Scrofulous, tuberculous persons (after Con). Abstaining alcoholics.
Debility: Physical and mental. Weary, exhausted; weariness amounting to lameness, especially in Lt shoulder and arm, in legs. Tremulous and paralytic weakness.
Collapse: In albuminuria, with heart also affected.
Emaciation, with progressive debility. Atrophy: gastric, epigastric, circulatory and
cardiac; atrophy and nervous flutter.
General physical anxiety. Restlessness. Faintness; at the sight of blood; with cold hands; from slightest exertion.
Congestions: head, heart, kidneys.
Pains: Burning (Ars). Digging.
Blood: Hemoglobin and RBCs too low. Leukemia. Anemia after pleurisy (Lili P293); anemia, debility and progressive emaciation of Bright's disease.
Dropsy: Of hands and feet, about eyes and ears;; cardiac; renal; anasarca.
Epileptic convulsions: Aura felt in heart. Reflex from kidney or heart.
Before: Vertigo. Congestion of head (pain and burning). Constriction or pain at heart and l. side, pain in l arm, burning heat in chest with pain, palpitation, sinking in heart as if dying (on least exertion). Worse daytime. Better lying, relaxing.
Collapse: in albuminuria, with heart also affected.
Prolapsus. Hernia.
Fatty degeneration. (Clarke advises 30 for general fattiness).
Cancer: Pancreas; uterus; burning pains.
Goitre. Injury (after Arn).
Mind: Anger, complaints from anger and vexation. Depressed; torpor and confusion;
melancholy. Discontented. Indifference to pleasure. Anxious, restless (like Ars); anguish;
apprehensive, < night. Fear of heights, of birds (Calc-s, Ign).Sensitive; to noise, music.
Excitable. Desires company (Calc). Critical (Ars). Illusions. Irresolute (Calc).
Select Particulars
Head: Flying or swimming sensation (levitation). Vertigo.
Congestion: Violent rush of blood to head, as if striking against a wedge. Splitting; bursting. Benumbing. With palpitation. Digging. Throbbing. Violent headache, beginning at noon < towards evenings, through one half of head, from front backwards.
Periodical: Weekly. Increases gradually. Migraine, pain goes to the side not lain on, > lying on painful side.
Worse: open air, stooping, supper, vexation, overeating.
Eyes: Momentary blindness. Involuntary movements of eyelids. Letters seem to run together. Eyes have little brilliancy.
Ears: Headache and toothache extend into ears.
Nose: Fluent coryza; from loss of sleep; < 3 am; wakefulness, restlessness, sweat and running catarrh, next morning frequent sneezing. Crusts are formed in choana. Craves for smell of naphthalene which produces a voluptuous sensation.
Face: Pale, sickly; bloated, especially about eyes. Bluish rings around eyes. Lips dry.
Mouth: Salivation, with belching. Or tongue dry (with thirst); burning on tip. Garlicky, metallic, alkaline or unpleasant taste in mouth.
Toothache: in decayed molars ext. into ears; recurring periodically.
Throat: Copious hawking of tough, white mucus (Calc).
Stomach: Anorexia. Desires only soup, or cold water (which hurts stomach and causes diarrhoea), milk, turnips, cornmeal, liquor. Averse to slimy food, milk. Anxiety in pit of stomach.
Painful stitches; burning; digging; wants to belch but cannot; as if something in heart prevented it (during palpitation); pain (6-9 am), after grief (gastritis).
Eructation: With salivation and palpitations.
Acidity. Ulcers; with scanty menses.
Cannot stand slightest error in diet.
Abdomen: (Infantile) enlarged liver and spleen; (burning) pains; after abuse of quinine or opium to suppress malaria; with palpitation. (cirrhosis of liver, in typhus with Bright's disease. Cancer of liver (followed by Cadm to avoid relapse).
Cancer of pancreas, for the burning pains; during Bright's disease. Pancreatic disease. Tabes mesenterica.
Inguinal glands. Pain in inguinal region as if hernia would appear, with loss of appetite.
Rectum: Diarrhoea after sweet potatoes, after excitement, at midnight, during pregnancy; crampy; infantile.
Cholera with (cardiac) dyspnoea and heart embolism.
Stools: undigested, dark, tardy, watery with ascarides and itching at anus.
Urinary: Nephritis: Hot head, temples edematous (also dorsum of one hand, ears, face, especially about eyes), lips and tongue dry with thirst, frequent urination (every hourly).
Kidney region sensitive to pressure (Solid). Tender kidney of alcoholics. Nephritis in a child sensitized to calcium. Strong beating of heart, chill with gooseflesh. Early congestive stage of nephritis before uremia develops.
Urine: scanty, burning, albuminous, bloody, casts.
Male: Pain in spermatic cord after urination, exertion, wine; with faintness and cold hands, and stool without relief.
Female: Leucorrhoea; yellow, offensive; excoriating, bloody.
Menses scanty (with gastric ulcer). Or too early, copious, prolonged cycles. Nervous during.
Burning pains in uterus and vagina; cancer of uterus with bloody, acrid, offensive discharge.
Climacteric: easy palpitation.
Prolapse vagini during pregnancy; in Bright's disease; bearing down pains.
Respiratory: Drawing as with a thread from larynx backward with headache.
Pain in chest or heart region, then shooting in back, extending to arms and legs.
Heat and burning in chest; with palpitation.
Dyspnoea: of feeble heart, of heart embolism; soon after midnight from slight exertion.
Heart: Cardiac disorder with renal disease.
Pain and sinking in heart on least exertion. Pain and palpitation: after suppression of ague by quinine; before epileptic attack. Constriction; with urging to stool and pain after suppressed ague by Opium. Angina pectoris. Dyspnoea from a feeble heart.
Palpitation: Easy; with heat or oppression of chest (suffocation) and backache; pari passu with headache; preceded by heat of hands and tremulousness; after mental exertion; after emotions. Palpitation and headache increases and decreases together.
Pulse: Misses every 4th beat.
Removes inflammatory products in the veins of legs.
Valvular heart disease, with epilepsy. High BP.
Back: Violent backache between scapulae and sacrum; throbbing; drives him out of bed; with palpitation; ext. to arms.
Pain and stiffness in neck and nape; with headache.
Pain in spinal cord followed by cold hands.
Extremities: Lame pain in l shoulder and arm. Phlebitis of legs; to absorb debris.
Sleep: Sleepless; after 3 am; with sweat and restlessness. Dreams: prophetic.
Skin: Eczema.
Addison's disease (no convulsions).
Pedunculated fibroids (Lili p1053).
Thermic: Shuddering, creeping chills running over back towards arms and chest; begin in heart; with much thirst for cold water. General chilliness.
Cold hands. High fever, in nephritis. Heat in chest, with palpitation.
Continued fever with slight rise once or twice in 24 hours.
Sweat (with sleeplessness and restlessness) after 3 am.
Malaria: chronic; masked (after quinine, opium); liver, spleen and mesenteric glands affected; after exanthema < p.m.
Remittent. Intermittent. Hectic. Slow.
Typhoid; in a Calc boy.
Relations: Antidoted by: Carb-v (palpitation), Glon (headache), Puls (headache, face ache).
Compare: Ars, Lith-c, Kali-bi, Phos, Nux-v, Sep, Sul.
Dig (Calc-a is a milder Dig minus uremia but with a malignant tendency).
Tereb (Liver, kidneys, heart, epilepsy minus tympani and uremia).
Compatible: Calc-sil, Con, Glon, Op, Puls.
A blend of Calc (obese, chilly, anxious, irresolute, epileptic, < ascending) and Ars (chilly, anxious, critical, restless, emaciation with progressive debility, burning pains).
