Calcarea silicata
Calcium silicate (wollastonite) · Calcium silicate. · Mineral
Those for whom Calc. sil. is most suited tend to feel weak and cold, although overheating makes them feel worse. They may seem obsessed with dead friends and relatives, and may talk to the dead in their imaginations. Thrift and a lack of confidence are also typical in these people.
The remedy is used primarily for this state of mind in conjunction with skin conditions, especially severe acne or acne rosacea, boils, warts, or abscesses.
Key symptoms
- Weak, emaciated, cold and chilly but worse from being overheated
- Deep long-acting remedy for complaints developing over long periods
- Very sensitive to cold; atrophy of children; hydrogenoid constitution
- Absent-minded, irritable, irresolute, lacks self-confidence
- Coughs with coldness, weakness, emaciation, worse from cold air
- Vertigo with coldness at vertex; thick yellow nasal discharge with hard crusts
- Itching burning skin cold and blue, very sensitive; psoric eruptions
- Leucorrhoea; painful and irregular menses; prolapsed heavy uterus
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Silicate of Lime
A deep, long acting medicine for complaints which come on slowly and reach their final development after long periods. Hydrogenoid constitution (Nat sulph). Very sensitive to cold. Patient is weak, emaciated, cold and chilly, but worse from being overheated; sensitive generally. Atrophy of children.
Mind
Absent-minded, irritable, irresolute, lacks self-confidence. Fearful.
Head
Vertigo, head cold, especially at vertex; catarrh of nose and posterior nares, discharge thick, yellow, hard crusts. Corneal exudation.
Stomach
Sensation of coldness, especially when empty. Sinking sensation at pit. Great thirst. Flatulence and distention after eating. Vomiting and eructations.
Female
Uterus heavy, prolapsed. Leucorrhœa, painful and irregular menses. Flow between periods.
Respiratory
Sensitive to cold air. Difficult respiration. Chronic irritation of air passages. Copious, yellow-green mucus. Coughs with coldness, weakness, emaciation, sensitiveness and peevishness, worse from cold air. Pain in chest walls.
Skin
Itching, burning, cold and blue, very sensitive. Pimples, comedones, wens. Psoric eruptions.
Relationship
Compare: Arsenic; Tubercul; Baryt carb; Iod.
Dose
All potencies from lowest to high.
Silicate of Calcium. Ca Si2 O5. Trituration.
Clinical
Atrophy. Cornea, ulcer of. Scrofula. Ulcers.
Characteristics
This preparation has been used by Ussher (H. W., xxxiv. 491) in the 1x and 6x potencies in cases of atrophy of children. He has found it succeed where Silica has failed in these cases and in corneal affections. It causes absorption of corneal exudations. Ulcers with punched-out edges indicate it.
Relations
Compare: Salufer, Fluoric acid, Lapis alb.
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