Calcarea arsenicosa
Calcium arsenate / arsenite · Mineral
Calcarea Arsenicosa is suited to obese, phlegmatic women around the climacteric who suffer from palpitation on the slightest emotional excitement, with epileptic tendencies preceded by a cardiac aura. The remedy is also indicated in drunkards after abstaining and in children with chronic malarial enlargement of liver and spleen.
Key symptoms
- Epilepsy with rush of blood to head before attack; aura felt in region of heart
- Complaints of fat women around climacteric; slightest emotion causes palpitation
- Chronic malaria; infantile enlarged liver and spleen
- Nephritis with great sensitiveness in kidney region; albuminuria
- Constriction and pain in region of heart with suffocating feeling
- Violent rush of blood to head with vertigo
- Dyspnoea with feeble heart; chilliness; dropsy
- Anger, anxiety, desire for company, great depression
Worse (aggravation)
- Slight exertion
Better (amelioration)
- Lying on the painful side (headache)
Arsenite of Lime (CALCAREA ARSENICA)
Epilepsy with rush of blood to the head before attack; aura felt in region of heart; flying sensation. Complaints in fat women around climacteric. Chronic malaria. Infantile enlarged liver and spleen. Nephritis, with great sensitiveness in kidney region. Complaints of drunkards after abstaining (Carbon sulph). Fleshy women at climacteric, slightest emotion causing palpitation. Dyspnœa, with feeble heart. Chilliness. Albuminuria. Dropsy. Affections of spleen and mesenteric glands. Hemoglobin and red corpuscles are low.
Mind
Anger, anxiety. Desire for company. Confusion, delusions, illusions. Great depression.
Head
Violent rush of blood to head with vertigo. Pain in head better by lying on painful side. Weekly headache. Benumbling headache mostly around ears.
Stomach
Region of stomach distended. Enlarged liver and spleen in children. Pancreatic disease; relieves burning pain in cancer of pancreas. Belching with saliva and beating of heart.
Urinary
Kidney region sensitive to pressure. Albuminuria, passes urine every hour.
Heart
Constriction and pain in region of heart, suffocating feeling, palpitation, oppression and throbbing and pain in back extending to arms.
Female
Offensive, bloody leucorrhœa. Cancer of uterus; burning pain in uterus and vagina.
Back
Pain and stiffness near nape of neck. Violent backache, throbbing, drives out of bed.
Extremities
Removes inflammatory products in veins of lower extremities. Weariness and lameness of lower limbs.
Modalities
Worse from slight exertion.
Dose
Third trituration.
As this remedy is a chemical union of two well proved deep acting remedies it would most likely appear at once to the mind as a long acting remedy, well suited to many chronic diseases.
In fact, it is deep acting enough to cure some of our most stubborn cases of epilepsy. It has made its record in this class of cases.
Great mental and physical weakness. Tremulous and paralytic weakness. Sense of lightness of the body as if floating in the air. Fainting spells. Epileptic convulsions where the aura is felt in the region of the heart. Marked lassitude. Pain and sinking in the region of the heart followed by spasms. Weakness, or vertigo, or momentary blindness.
Arsenite of Lime. Tricalcic Diarsenite. Ca3 2AsO4. Trituration.
Clinical
Acidity. Albuminuria. Asthma. Cholera. Cirrhosis of liver. Constipation. Consumption. Corpulency. Dropsy. Embolus. Epilepsy. Gastric ulcer. Headache. Heart, disease of. Indigestion. Intermittent fever. Kidneys, affections of. Liver, affections of. Obesity. Palpitation. Pancreas, cancer of. Tumours. Typhoid.
Characteristics
Calc. ars. was prepared and proved by Hering in the 4th centesimal tincture in 1848. It has also been tested clinically. It has many head symptoms: Vertigo when moving the head. Flying or swimming sensation as if feet did not touch the ground indescribably well; most wonderful visions pass before the eyes, manifold but lasting only a second; passing like lightning, but is infinitely much." Rush of blood to head before an epileptic attack. Epilepsy with heart disease. Weight an vertex, later on occiput. The headaches go from before backward; < mornings going out of doors; < on aspect opposite to the one lain on, …
Arsenite of Lime
Great mental depression. The slightest emotion causes palpitation of heart (Lith. c.). Rush of blood to head and left chest (Amyl., Glon.). Epilensies, from valvular diseases of the heart. Complaints of drunkards, after abstaining; craving for alcohol (Asar., Sul. ac.). Complaints of fleshy women when approaching the menopause.
Relations
. - Compare: Con., Glon., Lith. c., Puls., Nux. Follows well: after Conium, in lymphatic, psoric or tubercular persons.
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