Materia Medica

Calcarea sulphurica – Boericke

Calcarea sulphurica
calc-s

(Sulphate of Lime-Plaster of Paris)
Eczema and torpid glandular swellings. Cystic tumors. Fibroids. Suppurative processes come within the range of this remedy, after pus has found a vent. MUCOUS DISCHARGES ARE YELLOW, THICK AND LUMPY. Lupus vulgaris.

 

 

Head

Scald-head of children, if there be purulent discharge, or yellow, purulent crusts.

 

 

Eyes

INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES, WITH DISCHARGE OF THICK, YELLOW MATTER. Sees only one-half an object. Cornea smoky. Ophthalmia neonatorum.

 

 

Ears

Deafness, with discharge of matter from the middle ear, sometimes mixed with blood. Pimples around ear.

 

 

Nose

Cold in the head, with thick, YELLOWISH, PURULENT SECRETION, frequently tinged with blood. One-sided discharge from nose. YELLOWISH DISCHARGE from posterior nares. Edges of nostrils sore.

 

 

Face

PIMPLES AND PUSTULES ON THE FACE. Herpes.

 

 

Mouth

Inside of lips sore. Tongue flabby, resembling a layer of dried clay. Sour, soapy, acrid taste. Yellow coating at base.

 

 

Throat

Last stage of ulcerated sore throat, with discharge of yellow matter. Suppurating stage of tonsillitis, when abscess is discharging.

 

 

Abdomen

Pain in region of liver, in right side of pelvis, followed by weakness, nausea, and pain in stomach.

 

 

Stool

Purulent diarrhoea mixed with blood. Diarrhoea after maple sugar and from change of weather. Pus-like, slimy discharge from the bowels. PAINFUL ABSCESSES ABOUT THE ANUS in cases of fistula.

 

Female

Menses late, long-lasting, with headache, twitching great weakness.

 

 

Respiratory

Cough, with purulent and sanious sputa and hectic fever. Empyema, pus forming in the lungs or pleural cavities. Purulent, sanious expectoration. Catarrh, with thick, lumpy, white-yellow or pus-like secretion.

 

 

Extremities

BURNING-ITCHING OF SOLES OF FEET.

 

 

Fever

Hectic fever, caused by formation of pus. With cough and burning in soles.

 

 

Skin

Cuts, wounds, bruises, etc., unhealthy, discharging pus; they do not heal readily. Yellow, purulent crusts or discharge. Purulent exudations in or upon the skin. Skin affections with yellowish scabs. Many little matterless pimples under the hair, bleeding when scratched. Dry eczema in children.

 

 

Relationship

Compare: HEPAR; SILICA.

 

 

Dose

Second and third trituration. The twelfth potency has been found effective in Lupus.