Calcarea iodata
Calcium iodide · Calcium iodide. · Mineral
This remedy is most suitable for people who feel lightheaded, as if their head “isn’t there.” They may be indifferent to life and disinclined to work.
Key conditions linked with the Calc. iod. remedy are enlarged tonsils honeycombed with pits, glandular swellings, and fibroids. Adenoid complaints accompanied by frequent colds in children may respond to the remedy, as may thyroid enlargement during puberty. In certain cases, the glandular swellings, such as those in the breast, may become cancerous.
Key symptoms
- Scrofulous affections with markedly enlarged glands and tonsils
- Thyroid enlargements about time of puberty
- Flabby children subject to colds; adenoids; uterine fibroids
- Secretions inclined to be profuse and yellow
- Croup and pneumonia; chronic cough with green purulent expectoration
- Enlarged tonsils filled with little crypts
- Indolent ulcers accompanying varicose veins
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Iodide of Lime
It is in the treatment of scrofulous affections, especially enlarged glands, tonsils, etc, that this remedy has gained marked beneficial results. Thyroid enlargements about time of puberty. Flabby children subject to colds. Secretions inclined to be profuse and yellow. Adenoids. Uterine fibroids. Croup.
Head
Headache while riding against cold wind. Lightheaded. Catarrh; worse at root of nose; sneezing; very little sensation. Polypi of nose and ear.
Throat
Enlarged tonsils are filled with little crypts.
Respiratory
Chronic cough; Pain in chest, difficulty breathing after syphilis and mercurialization (Grauvogl). Hectic fever; green purulent expectoration. Croup. Pneumonia.
Skin
Indolent ulcers, accompanying varicose veins. Easy perspiration. Copper-colored and papulous eruptions, tinea, favus, crusta lactea, swelling of the glands, skin cracked, falling out of hair.
Relationship
Compare: Agraphis-Bluebell (adenoids with enlarged tonsils). Here Sulph iod follows both Agraphis and Calc iod. Acon lycotonum (swelling of glands, Hodgkin's disease).
Compare also: Calc fluor; Sil; Merc iod.
Dose
Second and third trituration.
Iodide of Lime. Ca I2.
Clinical
Cancer. Consumption. Flatulence. Glandular swellings. Headache. Mollities ossium. Tumours of the breast.
Characteristics
Calc. iod. has had a short proving, but it has been used mostly on indications suggested by its two components in the diseases named above. It is similar to Baryt. iod. in its action on enlarged glands, and is especially indicated for enlarged tonsils honey-combed with little crypts. Riding against a cold wind = headache. C. L. Nicholls has cured a number of cases of breast tumour with the 3x; nodular tumours, movable, tender to touch, painful on moving arm.
Relations
Compare: Calc., Baryt., Calc. ph., Carb. v.
Phatak's chapter on Calcarea iodata is available in the app.
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