CALCAREA SILICATA - GENERALITIES
-GEORGE VITHOULKAS
Generalities
The patient is weak, tired, emaciated, cold and chilly, and extremely sensitive to cold.
He has great weakness of the nervous system. He must lie down all the time and feels most comfortable when lying on the back in bed. This general state of weakness has been described very vividly: 'He is always so weary' (Kent); 'lack of vitality, says she never feels quite well, had a miserable life because always being dead beat' (Blackie). The patient feels weak from the least exertion, whether it be physical or mental, for example, from walking in the open air. Climbing stairs not only brings on weakness but, similar to Calcarea carbonica, causes the patient to be out of breath.
The patient is extremely sensitive to draughts and to cold in general - to cold air, to cold and wet weather, to uncovering. He is constantly catching a cold and seems hardly able to get through the winter; in summer, however, he is much improved. Chill induces much trembling all over his body. He develops ailments from sudden suppression of perspiration due to the exposure to a draft or cold air. Cold food, cold milk, cold drinks aggravate many complaints. Aversion to and aggravation from bathing, especially cold bathing is a keynote of this remedy. (Kent observed this in a prover who always used to enjoy cold bathing, prior to the aggravation from the remedy.)
Concurrent with the desire for warmth and general lack of vital heat, there is a definite aggravation from being overheated. The head tends to get congested and blood rushes from the body to the head, causing great flushes of heat.
Pahud's experience is that prolonged suppuration of rhinopharynx in chilly people with feet that sweat points to Calcarea silicata (Klassische Homöopathie, 1959)
The function of organs and glands is slow and often much impaired. There is swelling of the glands with hardness and a tendency to varicose veins.
Touch aggravates many parts of the body; the patient dreads being touched; his bones are sore to the touch. He is sensitive all over, sensitive to pain, and all the internal organs feel extremely sensitive when the body is jarred.
Much numbness is felt, especially in parts that are lain on or are painful.
Mucous membranes bleed easily - in the throat, nose, lungs.
There is a convulsive tendency, which is displayed through a contraction of body orifices. The muscles twitch and exhibit chronic jerking.
There is pulsation all over the body, both internal and external.
Additional modalities: many symptoms are worse before, during or after the menstrual flow; worse after breakfast; all symptoms are worse from motion. Periodicity is marked in many symptoms.
Generalities
The patient is weak, tired, emaciated, cold and chilly, and extremely sensitive to cold.
He has great weakness of the nervous system. He must lie down all the time and feels most comfortable when lying on the back in bed. This general state of weakness has been described very vividly: 'He is always so weary' (Kent); 'lack of vitality, says she never feels quite well, had a miserable life because always being dead beat' (Blackie). The patient feels weak from the least exertion, whether it be physical or mental, for example, from walking in the open air. Climbing stairs not only brings on weakness but, similar to Calcarea carbonica, causes the patient to be out of breath.
The patient is extremely sensitive to draughts and to cold in general - to cold air, to cold and wet weather, to uncovering. He is constantly catching a cold and seems hardly able to get through the winter; in summer, however, he is much improved. Chill induces much trembling all over his body. He develops ailments from sudden suppression of perspiration due to the exposure to a draft or cold air. Cold food, cold milk, cold drinks aggravate many complaints. Aversion to and aggravation from bathing, especially cold bathing is a keynote of this remedy. (Kent observed this in a prover who always used to enjoy cold bathing, prior to the aggravation from the remedy.)
Concurrent with the desire for warmth and general lack of vital heat, there is a definite aggravation from being overheated. The head tends to get congested and blood rushes from the body to the head, causing great flushes of heat.
Pahud's experience is that prolonged suppuration of rhinopharynx in chilly people with feet that sweat points to Calcarea silicata (Klassische Homöopathie, 1959)
The function of organs and glands is slow and often much impaired. There is swelling of the glands with hardness and a tendency to varicose veins.
Touch aggravates many parts of the body; the patient dreads being touched; his bones are sore to the touch. He is sensitive all over, sensitive to pain, and all the internal organs feel extremely sensitive when the body is jarred.
Much numbness is felt, especially in parts that are lain on or are painful.
Mucous membranes bleed easily - in the throat, nose, lungs.
There is a convulsive tendency, which is displayed through a contraction of body orifices. The muscles twitch and exhibit chronic jerking.
There is pulsation all over the body, both internal and external.
Additional modalities: many symptoms are worse before, during or after the menstrual flow; worse after breakfast; all symptoms are worse from motion. Periodicity is marked in many symptoms.
What potencies would you prescribe if the patient has Calcarea Silicata physical and mental constitution? Will 200 work or have to start wiht higher potency?
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