Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

things, and I certainly lose respect for an individual who has a consumption cure. He must either becrazy or something worse. Generally he is after the money that may be in it. Hardly anyone who knowsanything about it can conscientiously present a consumption cure to the world. To prevent those thingsis what we want to do, and this is the great sphere of Calcarea.The expectoration is sweetish very often, like Phos. and Stannum.White, yellow, thick. We might go over all the general symptoms here, the soreness, thetenderness, the kind of pains, the lassitude, and a great many symptoms of that sort, they are toonumerous to mention, but they are not descriptive, for the reason that after you get these pains andstudy them carefully, you are not better off. You must study the constitution of Calcarea, the nature ofCalcarea, Its character.There are spine symptoms; plenty of them. Weak; all degrees of weakness. The Calcarea patientis so weak in the back that he slides down in the chair while sitting; cannot sit upright in his chair.Rests on the back of his head. The back of his chair and the back of his head come in contact. A weakspine, a sensitive spine, and the glands of the neck are swollen. Again, a marked condition of the spineis where the lime element is deficient, and we soon get deformity; curvature. It may be surprising toyou to hear that Calcarea is a great help, and has sometimes cured that without any brace or supportwhatever, when taken early. You take infants manifesting a weakness of the spine, let them lie flat ontheir back in bed, put them on the indicated remedy---it is sometimes Calcarea---and in a little whilethat knuckling will cease, and the little one will sit up straight. Such wonderful things occur under theuse of Calcarea, when the symptoms agree.In the extremities we have all the rheumatic conditions that it is possible to describe. Goutyaffections of the joints, with enlarged joints; gouty conditions, especially of the small joints, of the toeand finger. Rheumatic complaints of the joints from every exposure, from every change of the weatherto cold, especially if it is cold and damp. The feet are always cold, or cold and damp, except at night inbed after piling clothing upon the feet more than any other part of the body, then the feet begin to getwarm, and then they often go to the other extreme and burn; and so they burn at night in bed. But thefeet are so cold that the patient has to put more clothing on the feet than the body will endure. Cold,damp feet. Late waking. Clumsiness; awkwardness; stiffness. Rheumatic conditions. Stiffness belongsto Calcarea all over. Stiff on beginning to move; stiff at night on rising from a seat. Stiffness in alljoints on beginning to move; and if it turns cold or there is a cold rain, the Calcarea patient alwayssuffers; suffers from coldness, stiffness, rheumatism; has rheumatism in every cold change in theweather.The sleep is greatly disturbed. Late going to sleep, sometimes not till 2, 3 or 4 o'clock. Full ofideas; when closing the eyes horrible visions. Grinding the teeth. A child in sleep, chews and swallowsand grinds the teeth. Sleeplessness a good part of the night. Cold feet at night in bed.CALCAREA FLUORATA [calc-f] [Kent’s]This chemical union of lime and fluoric acid gives us a remedy with a new nature andproperties. However conversant one may be with either or both of these elements, he could not predictthe curative powers held in this double remedy. I refer to its ability to cure indurated infiltrations ofglands, cellular tissues and bony formations. A nodule in the course of a tendon, an exostoses, a stonyhard gland, bony infiltration in the periosteum, rice bodies in cartilages have been cured by this remedywonderful to tell, when there was a paucity of symptoms.It will cure of course when symptoms agree, but it needs proving in order that individualizationmay be oftener possible.A recurrent fibroid in the hollow of the knee was removed once by the knife, but returned, andgrew to the size of a fist.The leg was drawn up to forty-five degrees, and the knee became immovable. This wonderfulremedy was prescribed on the symptoms of the case and the hardness of the tumor. The tumorgradually dwindled, the limb became normal and as good as ever; this patient has given birth to ahealthy child is still perfectly free from the trouble. It is now ten years since she was cured.The patient is sensitive to cold, to drafts, to changes in the weather, and to damp weather. Thesymptoms are ameliorated by heat and by warm applications. The symptoms are worse during rest.This is a useful remedy in gout, with copious pale urine and diarrhea. The patient is sad andmiserable. This remedy has cured a fluctuating tumor on the cranium of infants known asCephalaematoma. Blur before the eyes after exerting the vision.Cataract. It cures ulceration of the cornea if the edges are hard; also hard, small spots andconjunctivitis. It has cured adenoids and thick, yellowish green discharge from the nose.Offensive catarrh of long standing. Scanty enamel of the teeth.