Calcarea caustica
Calcium hydroxide (lime water) · Mineral
Calcarea Caustica suits patients with tearing and sticking pains affecting multiple parts of the body, particularly the facial bones, jaw, back, and extremities. The characteristic nocturnal toothache at 2 am with a fuzzy sensation in the teeth and the fuzzy sensation noted in other body parts are keynotes of this remedy.
Key symptoms
- Thought very difficult; confusion of head; vertigo as if room turning
- Sticking, tearing, throbbing pains in various parts
- Tearing in right cheekbone and right articulation of jaw
- Toothache every night at 2 am with fuzzy, too-large feeling of teeth
- Burning and tearing in eyes; pain as if foreign body in right eye
- Burning in stomach; sensation as if a bone sticking in throat
- Stiffness and tearing in all regions of back and coccyx
- Tearing in left tendo Achillis and left heel; sticking in corns
Worse (aggravation)
- Evening (most symptoms worse in evening)
- Hanging down the limb
- Working in water or after a foot-bath
Better (amelioration)
- Motion (toothache better from motion)
Aqua Calcis. Ca H2 O2. Quicklime is slaked in distilled water. Afterwards alcohol is added and the clear liquid decanted.
Clinical
Back, pains in. Coccygodynia. Corns. Feet (pains in heels). Hoarseness. Jaw, affection of. Malar bones, pain in. Neuralgia. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Spleen, affections of. Stiff-neck. Tapeworm. Toothache.
Characteristics
Calc. Caust. has been extensively proved. The most marked symptoms are: Thought very difficult. Confusion in the head. Vertigo; as if room turning in a circle. Sticking, tearing, throbbing pains in various parts. Pain in right eye as if a foreign body were in it. Burning and tearing in eyes. Tearing in right cheekbone; and in right articulation of jaw. Toothache every night, 2 a.m., with feeling as if teeth were fuzzy and too large (a fuzzy sensation was noticed in other parts). Mucus in throat; burning; sensation as if a bone were sticking in it. Burning in stomach. Tapeworm passes. Hoarseness, with pain in throat; rawness in trachea and cough. Stitches in chest. …
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