Calcarea acetica
Calcium acetate · Mineral
Calcarea Acetica suits patients with membranous inflammation of mucous membranes, particularly membranous dysmenorrhoea and bronchitis membranosa with cast-like expectoration. The remedy closely mirrors the Calcarea carbonica picture with additional marked tendency to membranous exudation.
Key symptoms
- Membranous exudation from mucous membranes
- Membranous dysmenorrhoea
- Cough loose with expectoration of large pieces like bronchial casts
- Rattling expiration; difficult breathing better bending shoulders backward
- Constrictive, anxious sensation in chest
- Vertigo in open air; senses obscure while reading
- Megrim with great coldness in head and sour taste
- Cancer pains
Better (amelioration)
- Bending shoulders backward (breathing)
Acetate of Lime
Has had brilliant clinical results in inflammation of mucous membranes characterized by a membranous exudation; otherwise its action and application is like the carbonate. Cancer pains.
Head
Vertigo in open air. Senses obscure while reading. Megrim, with great coldness in head and sour taste.
Female
Membranous dysmenorrhœa (Borax).
Respiratory
Rattling expiration. Cough loose, with expectoration of large pieces like casts of bronchial tubes. Breathing difficult; better bending shoulders backward. Constrictive anxious sensation in chest.
Relationship
Compare: Brom; Borax; also Calc oxal, in excruciating pains of open cancer.
Dose
Third trituration.
Impure Calcium Acetate. Ca (C2 H3 O2)2. Tincture.
Clinical
Anus, itching of. Bronchitis membranosa. Cancer, pains of. Dysmenorrhœa membranosa. Headache. Vertigo.
Characteristics
The symptoms of Calc. acet. (the first of the lime preparations proved by Hahnemann) are in the main identical with those of Calc. carb. (both being prepared from oyster shells), and are included in the pathogenesis of that medicine. Among its most marked symptoms may be named: Vertigo when walking in the open air. Stupefying, pressive pains in the forehead with compression of the whole head and obscuration of the senses whilst reading: he was obliged to stop while reading and did not know where he was. Clotar Muller cured many cases of megrim with Calc. acet. The indications he relied on were: "Sour taste in mouth, sour eructations, sensation of coldness in the head, and of emptiness. Pain one-sided, affecting right eye, which was red, causing lachrymation." Sour, offensive eructations. Profuse, painless, not exhausting …
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