Calcarea lactica
Calcium lactate · Mineral
Calcarea Lactica is indicated in a specific familial migraine type accompanied by painless oedema of the face and hands. It acts on calcium metabolism and is related to the Calcarea family, sharing their general properties while having a particular affinity for migraine with oedematous features and vasomotor nasal disturbances.
Key symptoms
- Migraine with slight oedema of eyelids, upper lip, or one hand
- Zigzag lines and balls of light before the left eye preceding headache
- Dizziness and violent headache in the right temple after visual phenomena
- Vasomotor rhinitis associated with migraine
- Sickness accompanying dull headache
- Sprue (tropical malabsorption)
Lactate of Lime. CA6H10O6, 5H2O. Trituration.
Clinical
Chilblains. Headache. Migraine. Rhinitis. Sprue.
Characteristics
With the introduction of colloidal preparations of the metals preparations of Calcium and its salts have come into much more general use in old-school practice of late, and valuable experiences have resulted which may be utilised by homœopaths, since they are all in agreement with the uses of the Calcareas of the Materia Medica. Remedies for sprue are not very numerous, and as Calc. lact. has been credited with cures of this troublesome complaint it should be kept in mind. It has been prescribed in the crude, but homœopaths may begin with eight-grain doses of the 3x trit. three or four times a day. Migraine is another sphere of its action. A Danish writer, C. I. Baastrup (quoted Homœopathic World, September 1923), described a type in which he found Calc. lact. "dramatically successful." It is accompanied by slight œdema affecting the eyelids, upper lip, or one hand. This is apt to run …
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