Calcarea Sulphurica calc-s.

CONNECTIVE TISSUE. Glands. Mucous membranes. Bones. Skin.

Drafts. Touch. Cold. Wet. Heat of room.

Bathing. Open air. Eating. Heat (local). Uncovering.

Cutting pains; (r) ovary. Tendency to suppuration. Pus thick, yellow, lumpy, bloody. Catarrh. ABSCESS, running; ears; teeth; recurrent (Pyro.). Ulcers, malignant; corneal; deep. Fistulæ. Poor reaction.

Hurried. Ears flow dark wax. Red, itching tarsi. Infants with bloody coryza, diarrhœa or eczema. Stool coated white. Pyelitis (Berb.). Thick, white leucorrhœa. Choking. Croup. Cold, foul footsweat. Skin won't heal. Averse to covers, when cold. Dry heat at night. Easy sweat, < coughing. Starts from sleep, as if wanting air.

Related: Hep.

Sulphate of Lime-Plaster of Paris

Eczema and torpid glandular swellings. Cystic tumors. Fibroids. Suppurative processes come within the range of this remedy, after pus has found a vent. Mucous discharges are yellow, thick and lumpy. Lupus vulgaris.

Scald-head of children, if there be purulent discharge, or yellow, purulent crusts.

Inflammation of the eyes, with discharge of thick, yellow matter. Sees only one-half an object. Cornea smoky. Ophthalmia neonatorum.

Deafness, with discharge of matter from the middle ear, sometimes mixed with blood. Pimples around ear.

Cold in the head, with thick, yellowish, purulent secretion, frequently tinged with blood. One-sided discharge from nose. Yellowish discharge from posterior nares. Edges of nostrils sore.

Pimples and pustules on the face. Herpes.

Inside of lips sore. Tongue flabby, resembling a layer of dried clay. Sour, soapy, acrid taste. Yellow coating at base.

Last stage of ulcerated sore throat, with discharge of yellow matter. Suppurating stage of tonsillitis, when abscess is discharging.

Pain in region of liver, in right side of pelvis, followed by weakness, nausea, and pain in stomach.

Purulent diarrhœa mixed with blood. Diarrhœa after maple sugar and from change of weather. Pus-like, slimy discharge from the bowels. Painful abscesses about the anus in cases of fistula.

Menses late, long-lasting, with headache, twitching great weakness.

Cough, with purulent and sanious sputa and hectic fever. Empyæma, pus forming in the lungs or pleural cavities. Purulent, sanious expectoration. Catarrh, with thick, lumpy, white-yellow or pus-like secretion.

Burning-itching of soles of feet.

Hectic fever, caused by formation of pus. With cough and burning in soles.

Cuts, wounds, bruises, etc, unhealthy, discharging pus; they do not heal readily. Yellow, purulent crusts or discharge. Purulent exudations in or upon the skin. Skin affections with yellowish scabs. Many little matterless pimples under the hair, bleeding when scratched. Dry eczema in children.

Compare: Hepar; Silica.

Second and third trituration. The twelfth potency has been found effective in Lupus.

One of Schuessler's so-called tissue remedies, not well understood as yet, but acting much along the line of Hepar sulphur, so far as we do know. I once had a case in which there was great pain in the region of the kidneys for a day and night. Then there was a great discharge of pus in the urine, which continued several days and weakened the patient very fast. A Chicago specialist had examined the urine a short time before, and had pronounced the case Bright's disease. I finally prescribed Calcarea sulphurica l2th and under its action she immediately improved and made a very rapid and permanent recovery. Since then I have found it a good remedy in profuse suppurations in different kinds of cases. This is all I know about the remedy.

Sulphate of Calcium. Gypsum. Plaster of Paris. Ca SO 4 . Trituration.

Abscess. Anus, abscess near. Boils. Buboes. Burns. Carbuncles. Chilblains. Cornea, ulceration of. Cough. Crusta lactea. Cysts. Dropsy. Dysentery. Eczema. Fistula. Glandular swellings. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhages. Injuries, effects of. Pneumonia. Polypi. Scarlatina. Spermatorrhœa. Syphilis. Tonsillitis. Tumours. Ulcers.

Calc. sulph . is closely related to Hepar sulph. calc ., which is an impure sulphide of calcium, but has a wider sphere and deeper action in suppurative processes. It is Schüssler's "Connective-tissue salt," and most of the indications for its use are derived from his clinical experience. In the last edition of his Biochemic Therapy Schüssler discards Calc. sul . because it is not an actual constituent of the tissues, and he distributes its functions between Silicea and Nat. Phos . Homœopaths, having no Biochemic theory to support, may continue its use without scruple, especially as it has been proved by Hering and others. It is indicated in all kinds of cases after pus has found a vent . Nash has cured a case of suppurating kidney with it. It differs from Hepar in sensitiveness to air: Hepar cannot bear the slightest exposure; Calc. sul . has > in open air; better walking in it; desire for it. Both have < from change of weather. Calc. sul . has not the excessive sensitiveness to touch found in Hepar . Hansen recommends it in dry eczema in children. Cystic tumours, fibromata and polypi have been cured with Calc. sul .

Compare: Calend., Hep., Kali mur., Nat. sul. (postscarlatinal dropsy); Sil. (hard, or suppurating glands, ulcers of cornea, tonsillitis, mastitis, frostbites). Follows well: Kali m., Nat. sul., Sil.

Sensation round head as if he had his hat on. — Painful pimples; hard swellings at edge of hair, bleeding when scratched. — Crusta lactea. — Cranio-tabes.

Sees only half an object. — Ophthalmia with purulent discharge. — Ulceration of cornea. — Eyes protrude.

Coryza, with thick, yellow, lumpy, mattery discharge. — Influenza and sneezing > in open air; coryza r. side after a bath, > out of doors. — Edges of nostrils sore, excoriated.

Swollen cheek with toothache. — Herpetic eruptions; pimples; pustules. — Exceedingly pale, sickly appearance (gypsum workers). — Blister-like sores on lower lip.

Rheumatic toothache; swollen, tender, easily-bleeding gums.

Taste soapy. — Tongue coated yellow at base. — Glossitis.

Diphtheria of soft palate; scarlatinal sore throat. — Tonsillitis with suppuration.

Diarrhœa with discharge of pus or bloody pus. — Dysentery with pus-like slime. — Painful abscesses about anus in cases of fistula. — Costiveness with hectic fever; with difficult breathing.

Chronic nephritis. — Red urine with hectic fever.

Spermatorrhœa with impotency. — Gonorrhœa in suppurative Stage. — Chronic syphilis.

Croup. — Catarrh with thick, lumpy, white-yellow or pus-like secretion. — Asthma or cough with hectic fever. — Pain in chest and headache. — Pneumonia third stage. — Emphysema.

Whitlow, when suppuration begins.

Itching and podagra. — Pain in knee from a blow. — Stitches in knee. — Legs tender to touch, feet slightly swollen. — Burning and itching in soles of feet.

Suppurating chilblains. — Burns and scalds when suppuration takes place. — Scarlet rash. — Skin affections with greenish, brownish or yellowish scabs. — Greyish lead-coloured skin. — (Dry eczema in children.)

Calcium sulphate. Ca SO 4 .
1847. Extracts from provings of C. Hg., Withy, and that of a young lady.
1873. Extracts from provings with the 30th and 200th by C. M. Conant (Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom.).
Cured symptoms by C. Hg., Koeck and Knerr.
Symptoms from Schuessler and Old school authorities are marked with : (OBS :).
t. stands for toxicological symptoms.

Loss of consciousness ; t.
Loses memory and power of thought suddenly, after lunch.
Sometimes a desire to walk, to attend to something ; as soon as she sets out to do it the desire is gone.
Awoke screaming.
Great depression at times.
Liveliness and good spirits change to grief and melancholy, afternoon and evening.

While walking, dizzy in head and weakness and oppression from head and across stomach.
Vertigo with deathly nausea.

Pain in left forehead and head.
Severe frontal headache, < after dinner and in evening.
Ache across forehead and in vertex.
Pain around head, several times before going to bed.
Tearing around whole head, with nausea, when rising from lying, > while lying.
Headache : from concussion ; with feeling as if eyes were sunken ; during catamenia ; with pain in chest.

Sensation around head as if he had his hat on, 4 p. m.
On region of anterior fontanelle two red pimples, and a burning sore feeling on a place as large as a dollar.
Painful pimples on scalp leave a yellow scab.
Hard tender swellings in scalp in edge of hair, bleeding when scratched.
(OBS :) Crusta lactea or "scald head" of children.
(OBS :) Cranio tabes.

Sees only half an object.
Looking at a piece of paper pains right eye.
Occasional blindness, with twitching of eyelids.
(OBS :) Deep ulcers on cornea.
(OBS :) Ophtalmia, pus thick and yellow.
Cornea smoky, pus in anterior chamber, sensation as from a foreign body ; has to tie up eye ; after injury to eye from a splinter.
Continued dull pain over right eye ; evening.
Twitching of muscles on a supraorbital foramen, near outer corner of left eye.
Pressing pains in left eyeball ; cutting in left eye with soreness in evening, as if eyes were sunken in head, with headache.
Protrusion of eyes ; t.
Inflammation of eyes, evening and night, with slow fever ; sensation of heat, eyes red.
Conjunctiva yellow.
(OBS :) Eyes bleared, red ; with colic.
Tears from left eye, with left-sided coryza.
Twitching of eyelids.
Smarting in inner canthi.
Severe inflammation in canthi.
Boil over left eye.

Singing in her ears Otitis after a slap on ear.
Dark brown earwax from right ear ; A. M.
Pimple on top of right ear.
Soreness of right parotid gland ; > walking in open air.

A quivering on root of nose, extending to cheek.
(OBS :) Nosebleed.
(OBS :) Coryza, with thick, yellow, lumpy, mattery discharge.
Yellowish mucus from left nostril and tears from left eye.
During day right nostril discharges watery mucus, left dry ; at night vice versa.
Yellowish-green phlegm from posterior nares.
Scanty phlegm, mostly from posterior nares, morning and evening.
Posterior nares closed, watery coryza from anterior.
Influenza and sneezing, > in open air ; coryza on right side after a bath, > out-doors.
Blood-streaked mucus from left nostril after a bath.
Excoriating watery coryza in open air, > in-doors and after washing with cold water.
Edges of nostrils slightly sore, excoriated.

(OBS :) Swollen cheek with toothache ; if suppuration threatens.
A small swelling on left inferior maxilla, about lower and middle part of buccinator.
Swollen hard pimple on left cheek.
Darting pains in right side of face.
Pain in right upper jaw.
Flushes of heat.
Exceedingly pale, sickly appearance (workers in plaster).
Herpetic eruptions on face.
Pimples and pustules on face.

Blister-like sores on right lower lip, ulcerate, ooze bloody matter, and extend to right corner of chin.
Many tender pimples under beard discharge blood or oily transparent matter.
On outer lower lip a raw sore, forming a scab.

(OBS :) Rheumatic toothache.
Pain in right upper jaw, with swollen and tender gums about a decayed molar.
Toothache :
(OBS :) with swollen cheek ; after dark, and in sleep ; first < by cold water, soon >.
Right lower molar decayed ; is tender and sensitive to cold air, water, etc.
(OBS :) Inside of gums swollen and sore.
Gums bleed while brushing his teeth.

Taste : (OBS :) flabby ; soapy ; sour acrid ; bitter.
At base of tongue slightly puckered sensation.
Tongue coated yellow at base ; (OBS :) resembling a layer of half-dried clay.
Tongue seamed with a deep red line.
Glossitis ; (OBS :) when suppuration begins.

Inside of upper lip sore.
Dryness of mouth ; t.

Soreness, left side of roof as if burned, while eating.
Pharynx red and sore, tonsils affected.
(OBS :) Diphtheritis of soft palate ; fauces are much swollen ; also in scarlatina.
(OBS :) Tonsillitis if a discharge of pus is anticipated.

Excessive appetite and thirst.
No appetite for meat.
Great desire for tea, claret, green sour vegetables and fruit.

While eating : roof of mouth sore.
After maple sugar, diarrhœa.
After eating : better ; lunch, loses memory ; dinner, headache.

Nausea : with vertigo ; with headache ; with pain in pelvis.

(OBS :) Pain in stomach ; motions and burnings ; pain extends into liver.

Severe pain in region of liver.

Sensation of weakness across stomach, as if from head.
Colic : with rumbling ; with diarrhœa ; with bleared eyes.
A feeling in lower part of abdomen as if skin was too tight, with pain.
Pain in right side of pelvis, followed by weakness, nausea and pain at stomach.
(OBS :) Intestinal ulcers, with typhus.
(OBS :) Buboes : to prevent suppuration.

Diarrhœa, with pain in abdomen, from change of weather or after eating maple sugar.
(OBS :) Diarrhœa : with discharge of pus, or bloody pus ; with typhus.
(OBS :) Dysentery, if passages consist of pus-like slime.
Painful abscesses about anus in cases of fistula.
(OBS :) Prolapsus ani.
(OBS :) Costiveness ; with hectic fever ; with difficult breathing.

Chronic nephritis.
(OBS :) Bright's disease, if symptoms correspond.
(OBS :) Red urine, with hectic fever.

(OBS :) Spermatorrhœa with impotency.
(OBS :) Gonorrhœa ; in suppurative stage.
(OBS :) Chronic syphilis.

Menses came later and continued longer ; usual symptoms, headache, twitchings, great weakness, etc., were aggravated.

(OBS :) Mastitis, when pus begins to form or to prevent suppuration.

(OBS :) Croup.
Catarrh, with thick, lumpy, white yellow or pus-like secretion.

Short-breathed, costive and cachectic (workers in plaster of paris).
(OBS :) Asthma, with hectic fever.
After great dryness of mouth, suffocative attacks with protrusion of eyes, loss of consciousness, an death ; t.

(OBS :) Cough, with hectic fever.
Chronic cough of the tuberculous.

Pain in sternum became so much <, she was obliged to double up.
At times a pain across chest.
(OBS :) Pain in chest, and headache.
(OBS :) Pneumonia, third stage.
(OBS :) Empyema ; after thoracocentesis.

Pain from anterior of heart down to lower part of thigh.

Pain across back of her neck.
Pain in lower part of back.
Chronic pain in os coccygis was greatly aggravated.

The third phalanx of index finger had been bruised ; had a misformed surface, suppurating, full of granulations, bone was bare, pains very violent.
Fingers are stiff in a dream ; stiff and painfully rigid, puffy and stiff, mainly on right hand, A. M.
Swelling of phalanges of fingers.
Inflammation and swelling of little finger.
(OBS :) Whitlow, when suppuration begins.

(OBS :) Inflammation of hip joint ; in suppurative stage of hip disease.
(OBS :) Ischias and podagra.
Pain from heart to lower thigh.
Painful rigidity of legs, A. M., especially right ; later, upper part < P. M. ; the worst in early evening.
A weakness in her legs.
Weariness in knees after walking.
(OBS :) Pain in knees from a blow.
(OBS :) Stitches in knee.
Lameness in inner part of left knee when in bath, A. M., when stooping or walking fast, later in posterior part.
Legs tender to touch ; feet slightly swollen and tender.
A great burning and itching of soles of her feet.
(OBS :) Burning on soles, with hectic fever.
The basis of fourth left toe suddenly tender while walking.

(OBS :) Pain in joints.

Better while lying ; headache.
Stooping : < lameness in eye.
Obliged to double up to > pain in stomach.
When rising from lying down : headache.
Better walking in open air ; improves soreness in parotid gland ; desire to walk.
While walking ; dizzy ; toe tender.
After walking ; weariness in knees ; walking fast, lameness in knees.

Twitchings during catamenia.
Great disposition to lie down and stretch out.
Weakness and oppression from head down to stomach.
Weakness during catamenia.
Much exhausted after a dream.
Great lassitude, 2 p. m. till evening.
Weak, languid, no pluck ; intolerable lassitude after siesta.
Weariness after pain in pelvis.

(OBS :) Sleepy during day, wakeful at night.
Before going to bed, pain in head.
She dreamed she had a convulsion from fright, awoke screaming and much exhausted.
Internal lassitude after siesta.

In morning : lameness of knee, in bath.
At 2 p. m. till evening : lassitude.
Afternoon and evening : liveliness alternates with melancholy.
At 4 p. m. : external headache.
Evening : toothache ; pain in legs.
Late p. m. : half-sightedness.
About 10 p. m. : pain in eye.
Before going to bed : headache.
At night : toothache.

(OBS :) Burns and scalds ; when suppuration begins.
(OBS :) Suppurating chilblains.
Open air : < walking in it ; desire to be in it.
Suffered unusually from cold, while taking his usual bath, A. M.
Knee pains in bath.
Sensitive to water, first < then >, toothache.
From change of weather : diarrhœa.
After washing with cold water : coryza.

(OBS :) Quotidian or tertian fever.
(OBS :) Intermittent fever ; back of tongue has a coating, resembling dry clay.
(OBS :) Typhus : when diarrhœa sets in ; intestinal ulcers.
(OBS :) Hectic fever : with costiveness and red urine ; with asthma, cough and burning in soles of feet.

Right : over eye dull pain ; in eye, pain ; soreness of parotid gland ; earwax dark ; pimple on top of ear ; watery mucus from nostril ; pain in upper jaw ; sores on lip ; toothache ; pain in pelvis ; fingers stiff ; rigid legs.
Left : pain in forehead ; twitching of muscles about eye ; pressing pain in eyeball ; cutting in eye ; tears from eye ; boil over eye ; coryza from nostril ; swelling on infra maxilla ; pimple on cheek ; soreness roof of mouth ; knee lame ; toe tender.
Direction of pain across : in head, stomach, liver, chest and neck.
Above downward : heart to leg.

As if he had his hat on ; as if eyes were sunken ; as of a foreign body in eye ; as if skin was too tight in lower abdomen.
Cutting : in eye Darting : in right side of face.
Stitches : in knee.
Burning : sore feeling on anterior fontanelle ; in stomach ; of soles of feet.
Rheumatic pain : in teeth.
Pressing pain : in left eyeball.
Tearing : around head.
Smarting : in inner canthi.
Soreness : of right parotid ; roof of mouth ; inside of upper lip.
Aching : across forehead ; in vertex.
Dull pain : over right eye.
Undefined pain : in left forehead and head ; in right upper jaw ; in stomach ; in region of liver ; in lower abdomen ; in r. side of pelvis ; in anal abscess ; across chest ; in chest ; from heart to thigh ; across back of neck ; in lower part of back ; in joints ; in sternum.
Puckered sensation : at base of tongue.
Weakness : across stomach.
Lameness : in knee.
Itching : of soles of feet.
Dryness : of mouth.

(OBS :) Its sphere of action is in the connective tissue ; inflammation with suppuration.
(OBS :) Arrests hemorrhage and blennorrhœa.
(OBS :) Abscesses which have their seat in the connective tissue, if they are the result of stasis in the connective tissue tubuli.
(OBS :) Serous swellings, post-scarlatinal dropsy, in rare cases.
(OBS :) Hard or suppurating glands.
(OBS :) In third stage of inflammation ; lumpy or bloody discharge.
(OBS :) Acute and chronic rheumatism.
(OBS :) Discharge in cough, leucorrhoea, gonorrhœa, etc., yellow, thick and lumpy, sometimes bloody.
After mechanical injuries, when in neglected cases suppuration has set in.
(OBS :) Greenish, brownish, yellow crusts.
(OBS :) Cystic tumors ; fibroma ; fibrous polypi.

Legs tender to touch ; toe tender while walking.
From a blow or concussion : headache ; pain in knee.
After a slap on ear : otitis.
After a bruise : suppuration of finger.
After a hurt by a splinter : sore eye.
Cuts and wounds, to control suppuration, thick yellow matter.
Burns and scalds, if suppurating.

Itching on soles.
(OBS :) Scarlet rash ; scarlatina, with excessive swelling of soft palate.
(OBS :) Suppurating pustules and nodules.
(OBS :) Skin affections, with greenish, brownish or yellowish scabs.
Yellow scab follows pimples on scalp.
(OBS :) Boils and furuncles.
(OBS :) Abscesses and carbuncles, to control the formation of pus. [Obs. Anthracin is much better. --C. Hg.]
(OBS :) Tetters.
Many little matterless pimples under hair, bleeding when scratched.
(OBS :) Ulcers discharging thick yellow matter.
Greyish, lead-colored skin (workers in gypsum).
(OBS :) Chilblains, when suppurating.

Compatible : after Kali mur., Natr. sulph., Silica .
Compare : Calend ., in suppurations ; Hepar , in suppurative processes, but has wider sphere and acts with more intensity ; Kali mur . in milk crust and other skin affections, swollen cheek, croup, dysentery ; Natr. sulph ., in post-scarlatinal dropsy ; Silica , in hard or suppurating glands, ulcers of cornea, tonsillitis, mastitis, frostbites.

Many years ago Schüessler introduced this remedy, and it has been used extensively upon the biochemic theory. Many excellent cures have been made in this way that most of us are able to recognize as homoeopathic cures, though it is a sort of crude homoeopathy.

By studying these cures many symptoms may be obtained not supposed to be of importance by these reporters. These symptoms often furnish a basis for further consideration or further clinical observation. Many fragmentary provings have also been made, furnishing many of the symptoms recorded in this article.

The author frequently made use of Schussler’s 12 th potency, later the 30 th and 200 th; at present much higher potencies. From all of these many valuable symptoms have been obtained.

Some of these symptoms have come out upon the sick while under the influence of this remedy, and have been since confirmed, so that the following symptoms must now furnish the best basis that we have to prescribe on. The best consideration that this remedy has ever received will be found in Boericke and Dewey's Materia Medica of the Tissue Remedies.

The tendency to the formation of abscesses in the body in any place is a strong feature of this remedy, and is quite similar to Pyrogen.

An abscess that has ruptured and is slow to heal with a continuous discharge of yellow pus, is a strong indication for this remedy. The patient desires the open air; is sensitive to drafts; takes cold easily. It is very useful in the management of malignant growths after ulceration has set in. It is under such circumstances an excellent palliative.

It is a deep acting constitutional remedy, and anti-psoric, and if given early enough will prevent a malignant growth terminating in its usual way.

It is useful in the affections of bone, caries of bone. While the patient is cold in general, he often requires to be uncovered because of particular conditions. For instance, in croup and in headaches he feels the heat too much, but the pains of the body are often relieved by heat.

He is sensitive to both cold and heat. After becoming cold, complaints come on. Tendency to take cold in drafts, or on slight occasions. He is sensitive to cold, wet weather. It cures the underlying basis of epilepsy, epileptiform and hysteric convulsions. The patient is aggravated from every motion. His muscles are flabby; he is disposed to hemorrhages.

When well selected remedies act only a short time, and the symptoms agree, this remedy is one that should be thought of along with Sulphur, Psorinum and Tuberculinum.

Complaints from straining muscles and tendons, from overlifting, etc. Lame back from such causes.

Throughout the chest and head, and sometimes extending into the limbs, there is a violent orgasm of blood, flushes of heat and pulsations. Onanism. and sexual excesses reduce the economy to a state whereby they feel their constitutional, disturbance, and this is one of the remedies that elevate the body to better state of order in such conditions.

Pain in the bones day and night. Pulsating all over the body. Standing aggravates many complaints, but especially the joints. Swollen and indurated glands. Twitching of the muscles all over the body. Many of the symptoms are aggravated on waking.

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