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cannot digest lime! Is it not just as reasonable as anything else in allopathy? and yet our homeopathsuse allopathic medicines. They use the lowest potencies they can get and it would seem strange if thosesubstances cured any better in the hands of the homeopath than in the hands of the allopath. Now, it isastonishing that one single dose of the potency suitable to meet the state of disorder will make thatinfant commence to digest its food, and appropriate from its food the lime substance that it needs in itsbones, and wherever else it needs it. All at once the teeth begin to grow; the bones begin to grow, andthe legs get stiff enough for him to begin to walk, and they will hold him up. It is astonishing whatchanges will take place under the various medicines that are suitable for the disturbances of the hair,and the bones and nails. The remedy must be sufficiently potentized to correspond with the wrong. Itcertainly must not be crude because the child is already stunted by the crude material.You will see within a month or six weeks after giving a solitary dose of the sufficientlypotentized remedy the nails that were corrugated and uneven and spotted and irregular will form amargin and will grow out smooth. You will see the ugly little crowns upon the teeth, distorted, andblack things as they come up out of the gums; but when they have been under the suitable homeopathicremedy you will see them form a margin line, and from thereon the teeth look healthy, and fromthereon the little body of the tooth is smooth and round; just as if that child had had an impulse to growbetter teeth. That same thing probably takes place where the bones exist. The periosteum takes onhealthy work. This is the Calcarea state when the patient needs lime and he cannot get it because he hasbeen cloyed; or, because he has an indigestion, he is unable to assimilate the lime that is in his food,and it goes through him and does not affect him. So it is with much of the sickness we have, aninability to extract from the food and assimilate such things as the body needs. Would not anyone be asimpleton to suppose that he had been the cause of the building of a tooth? You do not build mole hillsout of our high potencies; they simply establish a state of order, so that digestion and assimilation goon, order is established and the tissues are improved. Health comes, beauty, a growth of hair, betterskin, better nails.The Calcarea constitution is what we want to know. We do not need to know that the individualhas been poisoned by lime; it is not worth much to know it, because that is not the index to the remedy.If indigestion of lime has been brought about by lime, it may need one of ten order remedies toovercome that indigestion for lime. It is not always Calcarea that covers the symptoms. The medicinethat covers the symptoms is the one that will change the economy from an abnormal to a normal state,and digestion will become orderly, and we will have growth and prosperity in the economy. TheCalcarea case is to be known by the symptoms, and not by the fact that the patient has been poisonedby lime; the chances are that those we have to treat have never had any lime. Many of them have neverbeen poisoned by lime but have been unable to assimilate lime from birth.Calcarea is full of congestions, determination of blood to the head; cold feet; hot head;congestion of the chest. Calcarea corresponds in a very high degree to the chlorotic and anemic, paleand waxy; and in spite of this plump. It has both fat, flabby and pale patients, and it has emaciatedstates, too.Muscles emaciate. Emaciated about the neck; emaciated about the neck and from theredownwards. Anemic conditions; pale, waxy; sickly; pale lips; pale ears; pale fingers; pale andyellowish.Chlorosis is a word especially relating to the anemia of girls. A large number of remedies isindicated in those conditions, but Calcarea produces the kind of anemia known as chlorosis. It producesmost pernicious anemia. Great relaxation in the tissues everywhere; relaxation of muscles; relaxation ofveins; relaxation of the walls of blood-vessels to such a great extent, especially in the lower limbs andanus, that there are marked hemorrhoidal manifestations or marked varicose veins in the legs.Distended veins, burning in these varicose veins. Burning and smarting. Bleeding and oozing.Inflammation and painful swelling of joints.Another marked feature running through the remedy is its tendency to attack glands, the glandsof the neck, all the glands of the body, especially the lymphatic glands. The lymphatic glands in theabdomen become hard, inflamed and sore, like great nodules, like hickory nuts; tubercular. Calcarea isuseful in tubercular formations. Calcareous degenerations, calcareous glands, induration of glands. It isuseful in indurations in ulcers, and the base of ulcers, and round about ulcers, hence its wonderful usein palliating and restraining the growth of malignant ulcers, as malignant ulcers always have anindurated base. Old cancerous ulcers are greatly restrained in their growth, that is, the constitutionalstate is much improved, the patient himself has more endurance and the ulcers will take on healing. Incancerous affections that would kill in sixteen months the patient will live five years with Calcarea, ifCalcarea is indicated. That is something, and many times that is all that can be expected in a cancerousgrowth. In glandular affections where the glands round about are infiltrated and hard, where there is