CALCAREA ACETICA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Calcium acetate, CaC2H3O2.
Preparation , Triturations.
Authorities.
1 , Hahnemann (Chr. Kr., 2); 2 , Fr., ibid.; 3 , Htn., ibid.; 4 , Lgh., ibid.; 5 , Stf., ibid.; 6 , Sol., ibid.; 7 , Gr., ibid.
MIND
- Disinclined to talk without being morose (after six and a half hours), 3.
- He is lively and desirous to be with people and to talk with those about him (after ten hours), 3.
- Sadness, almost to weeping, with solicitous care for the present and future, 4.
- Anxious disposition, as though something evil were impending or to be dreaded in the future, with constant inclination to work, 4.
- Anxious thoughts, which came and went, before going to sleep in the evening; with which the objects seemed like different objects; he dreaded the dark, and made an effort to look at the light; all of which was relieved after the passage of flatus, 1.
- Anxiety about the present and future, with deep thought, with indifference to objects about him, though not without inclination to work, 4.
- Apprehensive, sad mood, as though he were awaiting some depressing news, 4.
- As soon as he was quiet and thoughtful, he became fretful and sleepy, and averse to everything, 2.
- Very fretful and disinclined to talk; as soon as he went into the open air he felt better, but it returned in the room with increased headache, 2. [10.]
- Fretful, peevish, and very irritable, and completely indifferent to the most important objects; he performed all his work with aversion and as if compelled to do so, 4.
- Anxious the first part of the day; during the last part of the day lively and contented with himself, 4.
- Fretful and peevish the whole day; in the evening good-humored and talkative, 4.
- Loss of will power, although he feels strong (seventh day), 1.
HEAD
- Vertigo.
- Slight impending vertigo (after a quarter of an hour), 3.
- Vertigo as if his body did not stand firmly (after six hours), 6.
- Vertigo on walking in the open air (after twenty-six days), 4.
- Vertigo on walking in the open air, as if he would fall to the right side (after two hours), 4.
- An attack of stupefying vertigo; the head inclined forward to the left side, during rest and motion (after three-quarters of an hour), 4.
- Sensations.
- Shattering in the brain, on stepping, like an echo in the head, 1. [20.]
- Stupid feeling in the head, as if he had turned in a circle for a long time, 3 to 4 P.M., 4.
- Great heaviness in the head, with severe jerks in both temples, and painfulness in the whole head, which disappeared on rising up (after nine and a half hours), 3.
- Drawing pain in the right side of the forehead, above the eye, and in the occiput, on exerting the mind (second day), 2.
- Drawing and pressive headache in the left supraorbital region, or in the temporal bone, 2.
- Pressive pain in the whole head, especially in the temples (after nine hours), 3.
- Drawing, pressive, at times, also, tearing, headache, now in the forehead, now in the occiput, now in the temples, which disappears on pressing upon the parts or on exerting the mind (third day), 2.
- Forehead.
- Pressive headache, in the right frontal eminence, which extended to the right eye, and compelled him to involuntarily close it (after one and a half hours), 3.
- Pressive headache in the forehead, especially above the left eyebrow, on walking in the open air, 4.
- Stupefying pressive pain in the right side of the forehead, especially increased on stooping (after fifty hours), 4.
- Stupefying pressive pain in the whole forehead in the morning after rising from bed, as though he had not slept enough, or had been dissipating through the night (after twenty-four hours), 4. [30.]
- Stupefying pressive pain in the forehead , with confusion of the senses and obscuration of the whole head while reading; he was obliged to stop while reading and did not know where he was, .
EYE
- Violent inflammation of the eyes; the white of the eye is entirely red, with much matter in the eyes, especially in the external canthi the whole day; the external canthi are sore and ulcerated for fourteen days (second day), 1. [60.]
- Violent tearing-stitching in the right eye, as though it would become inflamed, 6.
- Severe itching of the eyes, 1.
- Orbit.
- Boring-stitching on the upper margin of the orbit (after five hours), 6.
- Fine twitching in the upper margin of the orbit, extending down to the nose, 1.
- Lids.
- Hardened matter in the canthi for two days (after ten hours), 4.
- Agglutination of the eyes in the morning, on waking from sleep (after twenty-four hours), 4.
- Stickiness of the lids on moving them, with pressure in the canthi, especially in the external one (after fifty-five hours), 4.
- Burning in the left upper lid, extending to the inner canthus (after six hours), 3.
- Sticking in the outer and inner canthi, 2.
- Itching-stitching in the inner canthi, which disappeared on rubbing (immediately), 6. [70.]
- Itching in both corners of the eyes, 1.
- Tickling-itching in the right external canthus, which compelled rubbing (after twenty-five hours), 4.
- Pupil.
- Pupils at first dilated, then contracted, 4.
- Vision.
- Farsightedness in one naturally nearsighted; he could distinguish all objects at a distance, the whole day, 4.
EAR
- Twitching in the cartilage of the ear (after forty-eight hours), 6.
- A feeling in the right ear as if something was put before the drum, without diminished hearing (after fifteen hours), 4.
- Cramplike feeling on the back of the concha (after nine hours), 3.
- Stitches in the ears, 1.
- Hearing.
- Sensitiveness to noise, in the evening on falling asleep, 1.
- Slight whizzing in both ears, with confusion of the whole head, immediately (after half an hour), 6.
NOSE
- Objective. [80.]
- Pimples in both nostrils, with scabs, 1.
- Frequent sneezing, without coryza, 4.
- Coryza, with painful sensitiveness of the nose, and internal heat in the head (after seventy-two hours), 6.
- Fluent coryza, with much sneezing (after twenty-seven hours), 1.
- Fluent coryza, with headache (immediately removed by camphor), (after five days), 1.
- Stopped coryza, with frequent sneezing (after seventy-two hours), 4.
- Subjective.
- Gnawing pain at the root of the nose (after one hour), 6.
FACE
- Yellow face, 1.
- Cheeks.
- A feeling of tension in the right cheek, as if it were swollen (after second day), 2.
- Dull pain in the muscles of the left cheek (after two hours), 4. [90.]
- Pulsating throbbing on the cheek-bones (after two hours), 6.
- Pressive pain in the right upper jaw, when chewing (after three hours), 3.
- Violent tearing in the right upper jaw (after nine hours), 3.
- Lips.
- Much moist scurf below the right angle of the mouth, 1.
- Roughness and dryness of the lips, especially of the upper, as if it would crack (after forty-nine hours), 4.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- Gnawing toothache in the upper back teeth, as though they would be hollow; in all positions (after six hours), 4.
- Stitches in the teeth, 1.
- Throbbing toothache, with sensitiveness of the teeth to touch, and swelling of the gum, which pained when touched (after seven days), 1.
- Gums.
- Boring in the gum of the right side of the upper jaw, followed by swelling, with pressive-drawing in the right temporal muscles, 2.
- Fine stitches in the gum of the whole upper jaw (after two hours), 4. [100.]
- Blisters on the tongue, with burning pain and heat in the mouth, 1.
- Tongue.
- Dry sensation on the tongue (after five days), 1.
- A feeling of rawness and soreness in the tongue, which is coated white, 4.
- Rawness and scraping on the back of the tongue, which provokes cough, but does not disappear after coughing (after twelve days), 6.
- Saliva.
- Dryness in the mouth, as from chalk, 2.
- Accumulation of much mucus in the mouth; he could not swallow it fast enough (after one and a half hours), 4.
- Taste.
- Food, especially meat, has little taste, 2.
THROAT
- Throat hoarse and rough, for three days (after twenty-four hours), 1.
- Sensation of much mucus in the fauces on swallowing, with dryness in the mouth (after one and a half hours), 4.
- Violent sticking on the right side of the upper part of the œsophagus, when not swallowing (after three-quarters of an hour), 3. [110.]
- Swelling of the submaxillary glands, with pressive sensation in them, 2.
STOMACH
- Thirst.
- Thirst, with dryness of the throat, 1.
- Thirst in the morning, 1.
- Severe thirst, with desire for cold drinks, especially for water; he was obliged to drink a great deal, for eight hours (eighth to fifty-fifth day), 4.
- Eructations and Hiccough.
- Frequent empty eructations, 4.
- Constant sour eructations, 3.
- Sour, offensive eructations, 4.
- Frequent hiccough, 4.
- Much hiccough, for a quarter of an hour (after five hours), 6.
- Nausea.
- Nausea, with eructations and accumulation of water in the mouth, with a kind of vertigo in the head (immediately), 3. [120.]
- After drinking milk in the morning, nausea arose from the stomach, as from a foul stomach, 1.
- Nausea, with cough and a kind of heartburn, awoke him at midnight, 1.
- Dull pinching-retching just below the pit of the stomach (immediately), 3.
- Stomach.
- Anxiety in the pit of the stomach (after six hours), 6.
- Anxiety, as if it arose from the pit of the stomach, when sitting, with immediate burning in the abdomen, which soon disappeared when walking or standing (after twenty-six hours), 4.
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Violent pinching in the hypochondriac region and chest, which here and there ends in small stitches (after half an hour), 3.
- Tensive pinching pain in the whole hypochondrium, and in the pit of the stomach (after ten hours), 3.
- Griping in the hypochondriac region below the pit of the stomach, with chilliness over the whole body, 1.
- Griping-twinging sensation in the whole hypochondriac region, extending to beneath the breast-bone, where it becomes sticking, and causes eructations (after three-quarters of an hour), 3.
- Umbilical.
- Griping in a small spot below the navel, which becomes a gurgling, on rubbing with the finger (after half an hour), 3.
- General Abdomen. [130.]
- Audible rumbling in the right side of the abdomen, as if diarrhœa would follow, 4.
- Frequent audible rumbling and crawling, extending outward in the right side of the abdomen, as from flatulence, which is passed, 2.
- Loud rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, as from emptiness, 4.
- Pinching, almost cramplike pain in the walls of the abdomen, in the right groin, in a small spot, only when speaking; also painful to pressure with the finger (after eight hours), 3.
- Cutting pain in the abdomen every morning, also in the evening and night; it ceased after eating, and left behind a gurgling in the abdomen, 1.
- Tearing in the abdominal muscles, increased by inspiration, 6.
- Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
- Griping deep in the lower abdomen, as if in the region of the bladder, frequently repeated, and always associated with passage of flatus, 3.
- Pressure in the lower portion of the abdomen, which causes confusion of the head, 1.
- Pressive tension in the left groin (after eight hours), 3.
- Sore pain in both groins, as if the glands would become swollen, especially felt when walking; on touch there seems to be slight enlargement of the glands (after ten hours), 4. [140.]
- Swelling of the glands of the left groin (after twenty-two days), 1.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Twinging in the end of the rectum when at stool, with loud rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, 6.
- Pressure in the anus, 6.
- Severe itching in the anus, 1.
STOOL
- Diarrhœa.
- Diarrhœa, not exhausting, two, three, or four times a day, for several days (after second day), 1.
- Frequent stools, the first is solid, afterwards pasty, then thin, with difficulty; constipation the two following days, 4.
- During the day three soft stools, 4.
- Constipation.
- Constipation for two days (seventh day), 1. [150.]
- No stool (second day), 2.
URINARY ORGANS
- Urethra.
- Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge (after twenty-six hours), 4.
- Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge, 4.
- Urine.
- The urine becomes turbid after standing, like gruel, 6.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Penis and Testicles.
- Tickling-itching on the prepuce, which caused rubbing (after nine hours), 4.
- Tickling-itching at the end of the glans, compelling rubbing (after ten hours), 4.
- The left testicle is drawn spasmodically up to the abdomen and is painful to touch, with painful pressure and pain in the left groin, 1.
- Emissions.
- Frequent emissions, 1.
- Emissions at night, 2.
- Two emissions the first night, with voluptuous dreams, 3. [160.]
- Two emissions in one night, without voluptuous dreams, 4.
- Female.
- Discharge of blood from the uterus of an old woman who had not menstruated for several years; in the last quarter of the moon (after seven days), 1.
- Itching of the pudenda, 1.
- The usual leucorrhœa was increased, 1.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Loud rattling in the air-passages on expiration, as from much mucus in the chest (after thirty-seven hours), 4.
- Tickling irritation in the air-passages, which provokes cough, 4.
- The cough became loose, and large pieces, like purulent matter, were expectorated, 7.
- Difficult breathing, which was relieved by bending the shoulders backward, 1.
CHEST
- Anxiety in the chest, as if it were too narrow, with short breath, especially when sitting, with pressive pain in the chest, especially on inspiration; the heart beat anxiously and trembling, 6.
- Constrictive, anxious sensation the whole day, as if there was not room enough in the chest to breathe, with stoppage of the nose (after thirteen days), 1. [170.]
- Very anxious constriction of the chest and difficult breathing, like a tension in the lower portion of the chest; the breathing was affected for almost an hour almost to suffocation, both on motion and when sitting (after thirty hours), 4.
- Cutting pain from within outward in the lowest ribs, aggravated by inspiration, 6.
- Broad stitches in the pectoral muscles on every beat of the heart, 6.
- Itching stitches in the chest, worse on expiration, disappearing on rubbing (after forty-eight hours), 6.
- Sides.
- Long stitches in the right side beneath the ribs (after thirteen hours), 3.
- Sharp stitches in the right side of the chest from within, outward, without affecting breathing (after seven hours), 6.
- Sharp stitches in the left side beneath the axilla, from within outward, worse on inspiration (after two hours), 6.
HEART
- Sticking-drawing pain in the præcordial region (after nine and a half hours), 2.
BACK
- Dorsal.
- Sharp pain on the inner side of the shoulder-blade, 6.
- Severe stitches from the thoracic cavity out through the spine, between the shoulder-blades, 6. [180.]
- Dull jerks from the posterior wall of the thorax to between the shoulder-blades, synchronous with the beat of the heart, with great anxiety (after eight hours), 6.
- Lumbar.
- Severe needle-like stitches in the middle of the spine, almost cause crying out, on walking in the open air, somewhat relieved when standing, 4.
- Cutting, pressing-out pain in the right lumbar region, which only transiently disappears on touch, 2.
- Sacral.
- Sticking in a place above the sacrum, on touch, 1.
- Sharp stitching in the sacrum, and at the same time in the leg above the ankle (after two hours), 6.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Shoulders.
- Pain in both shoulders, 1.
- Severe stitches in both axillæ (after four days), 6.
- Arm.
- Pinching pain (with tearing) in the muscles of the upper arm (on walking in the open air), 4.
- Tearing-sticking in the muscles of the left upper arm, when sitting, 4.
- Fine jerkings in the left upper arm, 6. [190.]
- Tearing-jerking in the upper arm (after seven hours), 6.
- Forearm.
- Cramplike tearing in the muscles of the left forearm (after forty hours), 4.
- Cramplike pain in the forearm, in front of the elbow-joint (after one hour), 6.
- Cramplike pain in the outer side of the left forearm near the wrist (after one, thirteen, and twenty-nine hours), 4.
- Tearing pressure in the muscles of the left forearm during rest and motion (after three hours), 4.
- Fine tearing and boring stitches in the muscles of the left forearm, 4.
- Wrist.
- Pain as if sprained just above the wrist, worse in rest than on motion, 4.
- Sharp stitches in the external condyle at the wrist, 6.
- Crawling and sticking in the wrist, 6.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Hip.
- Drawing, sprained-like pain in the hip-joint, when walking, 2. [200.]
- Cutting in the socket of the hip-joint, when sitting (after three hours), 6.
- Tearing in the hip-joint and about the anterior crest of the ilium, extending into the groin, on motion, 6.
- Pinching-jerking on the posterior side of the hip-joint, worse in rest than on motion, 6.
- Thigh.
- Pressive-sticking on the inner side of the left thigh, when sitting (after three hours), 2.
- Cramplike stitches in the muscles of the right thigh, when standing and walking, disappearing when sitting, 4.
- Sharp stitches on the outer side of the thigh above the left knee (after three hours), 6.
- Tearing stitches on the inner side of the thigh above the knee, when sitting (after twelve hours), 2.
- Tearing pain on the inner side of the thigh, on motion, 2.
- Bruised pain in the muscles of the thighs, when walking, 1.
- Soreness between the nates, when walking, 1.
- Knee. [210.]
- An inflamed swelling below the patella, 1.
- Pain in the left knee-joint, evening during rest, 1.
- Pain in the knees, when turning or touching them, 1.
- Drawing cramplike pain on the knee-cap (after second day), 2.
- Pain as if sprained in the left knee-cap, when sitting, disappearing when walking and standing (after twelve hours), 4.
- Sharp stitches in the right knee-joint (after four hours), 6.
- Bruised pain just below the patella, on walking in the open air (after thirteen hours), 4.
- Leg.
- Drawing in the legs, extending to the tips of the toes, 1.
- Bruised pain in the leg, especially in the lower leg, when lying, 2.
- Bruised pain in the leg, as if wearied; he was obliged to change frequently from one place to another, 6. [220.]
GENERALITIES
- Very weary from want of sleep, during the day; he is, however, unable to sleep, 1.
SKIN
- Eruptions, Dry.
- A pimple beneath the lobule of the ear, on account of which there is tensive pain in the joint of the jaw, on chewing, 1.
- Pimples in the middle of the cheek that became moist after scratching, and were followed by greenish crusts (after forty-eight hours).
- Pustular.
- A pustule above the left eyebrow, 4.
- An ulcer on the cheek, with sticking pain, 1.
- Sensations.
- Fine crawling in the face beneath the eye and on the side of the nose, 6.
- Itching-crawling on the upper lid, which after rubbing immediately appears on another spot, near by (after one hour), 6.
- Itching-tickling on the border of the left hand, with irritation to scratch, 4.
- Itching-sticking tickling, in the right palm, provoking scratching, 4. [240.]
- Itching returned in a spot where there had been a tetter, several years previous (after five days), 1.
- Itching below both calves, 1.
- Tickling-itching on the index finger, with irritation to scratch, 4.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Sleepiness.
- Frequent yawning, as if he had not slept enough (after fifty-six hours), 4.
- Great sleepiness and fretfulness, in the evening, 2.
- Great sleepiness in the morning with fretfulness and pressive headache in the whole forehead (after two days), 2.
- Sleeplessness.
- Restless sleep, with talking in it, and frequent waking, 3.
- He was unable to sleep nearly the whole night; tossed about, and sweated over the whole body (after ten hours), 4.
- Frequent waking from sleep, as though he had slept enough, 4.
- Frequent waking from sleep, as from some disturbance, 4. [250.]
- He frequently awoke from sleep, on account of tossing about, and thinking; he thought he was lying turned around in bed, 4.
- Dreams.
- Dreams vivid, confused, not recollected, 4.
- Very vivid dreams of previous transactions, with long deep morning sleep, 6.
- Dreams vivid, full of strife and anger, 4.
- Frightful, shuddering dreams, 4.
- Dreams of sick people, and dead people, with violent weeping in the sleep (in one who never dreamt), 5.
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Frequent chilliness with yellow color of the skin, 1.
- Shivering over the whole body, as though he had taken cold, with frequent yawning, 4.
- Shivering over the whole back (after twenty-four hours), 4.
- Shivering over the whole body, with warmth or heat of the forehead and face, and cold hands (after three, forty-eight hours), 4.
- Heat. [260.]
- External heat, with internal chilliness, even on lying down (after seventy-two hours), 1.
- Glowing heat and redness of the face, with hot forehead, cold hands, and great thirst, for several hours, 4.
- Sweat.
- Exhausting sweat, day and night, for three days, 1.
- Sweat every morning (after seven days), 1.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), After rising from bed, pain in forehead; thirst; after drinking milk, nausea; sleepiness, etc.
- ( Evening ), Before going to sleep, anxious thoughts, etc.; on falling asleep, sensitiveness to noise; during rest, pain in knee-joint; sleepiness, etc.
- ( Night ), Cramp in the soles, etc.
- ( Walking in open air ), Vertigo ; headache in forehead; stitches in spine; pain in muscles of arm; pain below patella; pain in left tibia.
- ( When drawing on the boots ), Cramp in the soles, etc.
- ( Eating ), Headache about temples.
- ( Expiration ), Stitches in the chest.
- ( Inspiration ), Pain in chest; pain in ribs.
- ( When lying ), Pain in leg.
- ( On exerting the mind ), Pain in side of forehead, etc.
- ( On motion ), Tearing in hip-joint; pain in inner side of thigh.
- ( While reading ), Pain in the forehead.
- ( Rest ), Pain above the wrist; jerking in side of hip-joint; jerking in leg; stitches in great toe.
- ( When sitting ), Pain in left forehead; anxiety; tearing in inguinal glands; anxiety in chest; stitches in muscles of upper arm; cutting in hip-joint; sticking on inner side of thigh; stitches on inner side of thigh; pain in knee-cap; pinching close to tibia; stitches in toes.
- ( When speaking ), Pain in walls of abdomen.
- ( When standing ), Stitches in muscles of thigh; stitches in toes.
- ( On stepping ), Shattering in the brain.
- ( During stool ), Pinching in rectum, etc.
- ( Stooping ), Pain in right forehead; feeling in head.
- ( On touch ), Sticking above the sacrum; pain in knees.