Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

endurance, and if such a patient undertakes a little exertion he is down sick with a fever, or a headache.Calcarea is full of complaints brought on from lifting, from exertion, from walking, from walkingenough to get into a sweat; and these come very suddenly, because he cannot stop that perspiration bykeeping still without getting sick. If he gets into a sweat, and stops long enough to be comfortable, theperspiration will stop so suddenly that he will have a chill, or he will have a headache. Weak, tired,anxious. Difficulties of breathing. Weak heart. Weak all over. No ability of the muscles to sustainprolonged effort, and it is the same way with the mind. No ability of the mind to sustain prolongedmental effort. Calcarea is a tired patient. He is suffering from want of lime. He has been unable todigest lime, and he goes into a state with enlarged glands, emaciation of the neck and of the limbs,while the fat and the glands of the belly increase, especially is this noticed in children. A big-belliedchild, with emaciated limbs and emaciated neck. Enlarged glands. Pale, and flabby, and sickly. Thosethat take on flesh without any increase of strength. They take on flesh and grow flabby. Remain feeble.Those that get up from sickness take on flabby flesh, and in a little while they become dropsical.The Calcarea patient can't go upstairs; he is so tired in his legs, and so tired in the chest; he pants andsuffocates from going upstairs. He has every evidence of muscular weakness and flabbiness. Nutritionis impaired everywhere. This is the kind of patient that used to be called scrofulous; now we call thecondition psora; and Calcarea is one of our deepest anti-psorics. It is a medicine that goes deep into thelife, and takes a deep hold of every part of the economy.Now we will take up the mental symptoms. All the mind symptoms represent Calcarea as in astate of great weakness; inability to prolong mental operation. Becomes very tired from mental work.Full of anxiety. He is tired mentally, and tired physically, from mental work and breaks down ina sweat, and becomes excited and irritable and disturbed. Great disturbance of the emotions; complaintslasting for days and weeks from excitement of the emotions; from worrying, from vexation, or ageneral emotional disturbance is prostrated. "Inability to apply himself".inability to do good thinking for some time after such excitement, disturbance or worry. It isvery useful in complaints from prolonged worry, from prolonged application to business, fromexcitement. It is full of a peculiar kind of mental feeling, differing quite considerably from mostremedies; he feels his exhaustion of mind, and it seems to him that this weakness, and this inability todo and to think connectedly, must be going towards insanity, he broods over it, he is convinced that heis insane, or about to become insane, that he is getting weak-minded, and he looks it, too, because whathe has in his mind is this: that he is becoming insane or weak-minded, and he thinks people willobserve it. He thinks people look at him suspiciously, and he looks at them suspiciously, and hewonders why they do not say something to him about it. He thinks that he is going insane, and thatother people are observing his state of mind, and he keeps that in his mind most of the time. He thinksof it day-times, and he gets greatly roused up over it; he thinks of it nights, and it keeps him awake. Helies awake late at night thinking. Calcarea leads to little ideas, that is, it compels the mind to littleness,to little ideas, or to dwell on little things, but his mind. as it were, is forced to dwell upon things that hecannot put aside. When the Calcarea patient begins to relate to his friends how he feels they allnaturally say to him, "Why don't you put that aside; that doesn't amount to anything", but to him it is abig thing, and he cannot put it aside; all these little things combine to convince him that he is goingcrazy. He cannot calculate, he cannot do deep thinking, he cannot dwell upon deep things; he may havebeen a philosopher, and he has lost his ability to think out things in philosophy. He has lost his mentaldepth. He forms conclusions out of his emotions rather than from his intelligence. He formsconclusions about things as he wants them to be. You would almost think he wants to grow crazy, hekeeps talking about it so much. He is unable to accept any sort of argument, and this grows worse andworse. He is unable to accept the assurance of his physician, in whom he has always had confidence. Itis no use, it seems, to try to reason with him; yet he is not so far gone but he can reason about otherthings except his own mental state. He imagines things; and the things he imagines you will reallywonder at his dwelling upon them so, because they are such little things. And so it is when he goes intoinsanity, or imbecility, or a general break down. It is a passive state, in which he sits and thinks abouthis little affairs, and his little things that amount to nothing at all, and he sits and sits---the text says,"Sits and breaks sticks, or bends pins all day long, with his fingers".Does little things, and in this way he keeps himself busy, wears himself out more and more.Any amount of thinking becomes impossible. It is almost impossible for him to come to a conclusion,for he never figures it twice alike. He cannot add and subtract even in the simplest forms. Now, hethinks about this matter so much and thinks everybody else is watching him, until finally the instant hecloses his eyes he has visions. Just as soon as he gets down quiet and thinks "Now I will go to sleep, Iwill get rid of all this", and he closes his eyes to sleep, then he must get them open as quick as possible,he is in a state of excitement, for he sees horrid little spooks; he cannot keep his mind clear. He cannot