CALCAREA CAUSTICA - The essential features ,CaH2O2.

-GEORGE VITHOULKAS
Calcarea caustica
Calcium Hydroxide CaH2O2.
Aqua Calcis.
Quicklime is slaked in distilled water; alcohol is added, and the clear liquid decanted.
The essential features
Calcarea caustica, though currently not often used, is a powerful remedy that will be needed in greater frequency to treat certain diseases that are a product of our modern society. These diseases include hypoglycaemia, rheumatic conditions and more importantly the illness known as chronic fatigue syndrome.
As we do not possess a full picture of this remedy, it is not yet possible to define the essence of Calcarea caustica. Our knowledge of the remedy is, therefore, primarily of physical symptomatology. Confirmation of the remedy may depend upon the identification of certain unique and peculiar symptoms that are listed at the end of this section.
Cases that require Calcarea caustica, for the above, may have the following presentation: a patient tells you that he has never fully recovered since his bout with the flu. He is exhausted, and his extremities remain weak. From time to time he feels really rotten, weary and without any drive. Getting up in the morning is an ordeal; he feels tired, peevish and confused, as though he had been drunk the day before. The confusion and stupefaction of the head is, strangely enough, often felt only on one side, mostly the left. Though he is tired in the daytime, he is restless at night. He either sleeps or suffers from unpleasant dreams and even nightmares.
It is not uncommon for Calcarea caustica patients to have a history of frequent common colds, many times with the localisation of an inflammation in the throat or with a chronic sub-inflammation of the throat with stitching pain. The patient suffers from hoarseness and feels a sticking, stinging pain in the throat, like that of a thorn, similar to Hepar sulphuris and Nitricum acidum. There is a feeling of rawness in the trachea, and coughing can ensue.
In addition to the symptoms of extreme weariness and confusion, Calcarea caustica has many rheumatic pains. It may be indicated in rheumatic conditions, polyarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, particularly if the jaws and their articulation are involved, and especially if Rhus toxicodendron or Thuja have failed. Calcarea caustica, however, is less sensitive to cold and wet than Rhus-t. or Calcarea carbonica.
The main quality of Calcarea caustica's rheumatic pains is most frequently one of tearing. In rheumatic conditions, a confirmation for the remedy may be a rheumatic tearing in the heels and the existence of callosities on the soles of the feet. Other related symptoms are stiffness, and tearing: in all regions of the neck and back, also in the coccyx; in the extremities, particularly in the left tendo Achillis and heel; tearing in either shoulder, down the arm; and tearing in the right cheekbone. A case of rheumatic pain in the head and teeth, seated mainly in the right articulation of the jaws, was greatly improved by this remedy.
Clarke mentions that Calcarea caustica has been able to rapidly dispel all inflammatory action in cases of appendicitis; and that it is known to have removed all suffering in an aggravated case of piles. Moreover, in the proving, passing of parts of a tape worm was observed.
Without a full picture of this remedy we must use and rely on certain strange and unique keynotes that were brought out in the proving to confirm the remedy. These characteristic symptoms include:
a peculiar confusion of the head, mentioned earlier, which is mostly left-sided, often with pain so severe that the person cannot attend to business, nor engage in any mental labour. The pain is oppressive and sometimes appears with periodic stitches. The patient may comment that he finds the suffering absolutely unbearable. It manifests in the morning, as though from alcoholic excesses of the night before, or else in the evening after drinking a small amount of beer.
a fleeting sensation, as if the hair on the forepart of the head is being pulled up.
a sensation as if a thorn were in the left eye, compelling him to rub it; he is unable to open the eye.
a feeling in the throat as if there were a bone sticking in it.
the palate feels as if there were mucus on it, but none is expectorated.
a thickly coated tongue which looks greenish-yellow.
an aching in the shoulder joint which is felt when the arm hangs down.
severe burning of the skin before falling asleep.
toothache every night at 2 a.m. , with the feeling that the affected teeth are too large and numb.
a numb feeling in both shoulder blades, in the evening.
Generally, Calcarea caustica should be thought of in cases where remedies like Thuja, Rhus toxicodendron, Nitricum acidum, or Hepar sulphuris do not bring about results though they may be thought to have been indicated.

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