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CALCAREA OSTREARUM (CALCAREA CARBONICA)

Middle layer of oyster shell, Calcium carbonate

Clinical Picture:
Disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldy and phlegmatic.
Large head and abdomen, fontanelles and sutures open; bones soft; develops very slowly in infancy.
Curvatur.e of bones especially of the spine and long bones; extremities deformed; bones irregularly developed.
Head sweats profusely while wetting pillow (Silicea).
Profuse perspiration, mostly on back of head and neck, or chest and upper part of body (Silicea). Offensive foot-sweat (also Silicea).
Difficult and delayed dentition with characteristic head-sweats and open fontanelles.
During either sickness or convalescence, great longing for eggs, craves for indigestible materials (Alumina); aversion to meats.
Girls who are fleshy, plethoric and grow too rapidly.
Menstruation too early, too profuse, too long lasting, with subsequent amenorrhea and anemia, with menses scanty or suppressed.
Feels better in every way when constipated. Stools may have to be removed mechanically.
Coldness (general and local).

Modalities:
Worse:

Cold air.
Wet weather.
Cold weather.
Washing (also characteristic of Antimonium crudum).
Morning.
During the full moon⁴.

Better:

Dry weather.
Lying on painful side (Bryonia alba, Pulsatilla nigricans).
When constipated.

Relations:
Complementary to Belladonna atropa, which is the acute of Calcarea carbonica.
Nitricum acidum and Sulphur are inimical.

Summary of Indications:
Rickets - constipation - menstrual disorders.

Antidotes:
Camphora officinalis
Ipecacuanha
Nux vomica