Lapis albus
Calcium silicofluoride (silico-fluoride of lime) · Mineral
Lapis Albus is suited to scrofulous constitutions, fat anaemic individuals, and cases of glandular disease with a pre-cancerous or cancerous tendency. The glands are elastic and pliable rather than stony hard, distinguishing it from Calcarea fluorica and Cistus. It is remarkably successful in scrofulous affections except in malarial cases.
Key symptoms
- Affections of glands including goitre and pre-ulcerative stage of carcinoma
- Burning, stinging pain in breast, stomach, and uterus
- Glands have elasticity and pliability rather than stony hardness
- Fibroid tumours with intense burning pains and profuse haemorrhage
- Uterine carcinoma
- Fat anaemic babies with iodine appetite and ravenous hunger
- Scrofulous abscesses and sores; enlargement and induration of cervical glands
- Otitis media suppurativa
- Persistent pains in mammary region with glandular hardening
Worse (aggravation)
- Before menstrual flow (severe dysmenorrhoea worse)
Better (amelioration)
- When menstrual flow is established
Silico-fluoride of Calcium
Affections of glands, goitre, pre-ulcerative stage of carcinoma. Burning, stinging pain in breast, stomach, and uterus. Connective tissue about glands specially affected. Fat anæmic babies with Iodine appetite. Ravenous appetite. Remarkably successful in scrofulous affections, except in malarial cases. Uterine carcinoma. Fibroid tumors with intense burning pains through the part with profuse hæmorrhage. Glands have a certain elasticity and pliability about them rather than the stony hardness of Calc fluor and Cistus.
Ears
Otitis media suppurativa. Where Silica is indicated progress is hastened by Lapis (Bellows).
Chest
Persistent pains in mammary region. Glandular hardening.
Skin
Scrofulous abscesses and sores. Enlargement and induration of glands, especially cervical. Lipoma, sarcoma, carcinoma. Pruritus.
Relationship
Compare: Silica; Badiaga; Ars iod; Calc iod; Con; Kal iod; Asterias.
Dose
First to sixth potency.
Silico-fluoride of calcium. Calcarea silico-fluorata. (A species of gneiss found by Grauvogl in the mineral springs of Gastein, and named by him Lapis albus, "White Stone." These waters flow over gneiss formations into the valley of the Achen, where goître and cretinism abound.) Trituration.
Clinical
Carcinoma. Cretinism. Dysmenorrhœa. Epithelioma. Fibroma. Glands, enlarged. Goître. Leucorrhœa. Pruritus. Scirrhus. Scrofula. Tuberculosis. Tumours.
Characteristics
Grauvogl, who introduced this remedy, cured with it a case of carcinoma; and he and others have cured cases of goître and scrofulous glands. The leading indications are: Burning, shooting, stinging pains: in cardia; in pylorus; in breasts and uterus. It has shown great power over new growths of many kinds. In two cases of cervical glands cured by L. alb. 6, Dewey relates that a ravenous appetite developed while the remedy was being taken. In two cases cured by Dewey the swelling of the glands was elastic rather than of stony hardness. In one of the …
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