# Calcarea Carbonica (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
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Calcium Carbonate is a basic component of milk.  In the development
of bones, sclera and some other pa rts of the body Calcaria Carb is
needed.  In milk, a wholesome food , Calcium plays a very important
role.  The Imbalance of Calcium in the body results in various
diseases, especially those of the bone s.  Calcaria Carb has its role on
the glands, skin and the bones. The Calcarea Carbonica patient is very
sensitive to cold.  The feet sometim es feel very cold and sometimes
hot.  The chest feels tied up.  The cough is dry at  night but usually
phlegmatic during the day .  The sputum is yellowish, smelly and
difficult to expel. In children, the cough that develops during teething
and does not subside easily often responds to Calcarea Carb.  The
patients of Calcarea Carbonica constitution have listless faces.  The
skin is oily and yellowish.  Sometimes they feel exhausted while
talking and also suffer from lack of blood.  Mental exercise further
weakens them.  They sweat profusely and may experience difficulty in
breathing.  They dislike cold and hu midity.  They hate the fresh air
and chill.  On being wet, like Rhus Tox, their ailments appear
suddenly.

Calcarea Carb has a significant effect on anaemia.  This anaemia is
due to lack of the intrinsic factor from the lining of the stomach, as a
result of which vitamin B12 cannot be absorbed.  Vitamin B12 alone
cannot cure this kind of anaemia, although it n eeds to be constantly
administered to prevent against the associated bad effects.  Vitamin
B12 cannot be absorbed in the stomach so it needs to be given by
injection for life.  In such patients, if Calcarea Carb is given in
homoeopathic potency, this obviates the necessity for supplementation
with vitamin B12, and the body itself starts making blood.

In Calcarea Carb, the muscles feel flaccid .  The disarrayed body
associated with flail muscles and obesity will benefit from Calcarea
Carb if given over a period of time.  Calcium deficiency in the body
can be treated by homoeopathic pote ncies of Calcarea Carb.  In
Calcarea Carb patients, sometimes on standing up suddenly, their leg
muscles cannot bear the weight of the body and they fall down.  In the
case of low blood pressure also, it is  difficult for a person to stand up
suddenly. Calcarea Carb is useful for the treatment of weak muscles

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due to lack of calcium.  The prof oundly active constitutional remedies
which are necessary for the physica l development of human beings,
when given with suitable intervals on a long term basis, will
effectively treat these ailments resul ting in the cure of the patient as a
whole.  Undoubtedly it is time-consuming.

It must be remembered that if Sulphur needs to be given after Calcarea
Carb, Lycopodium should be institu ted first, and then Sulphur.
Hidden diseases made manifest by  the use of Sulphur, for example
piles, often respond to Nux Vomica.  But Calcarea Carb is also useful
in the treatment of piles.  There are other homoeopathic remedies
resembling Calcarea Carb, such as  Aesculus for the treatment of
bleeding piles and the infection thereof.

Calcarea Carbonica is very  valuable to prevent the tendency of
developing cancer  if it matches the constitution of the patient,
otherwise it will not be of use.  In  some conditions, an incision needs
to be made, but Calcarea Carb obvia tes such a need. Calcarea Carb is
a very effective treatment of deep-seated abscesses, even better than
Silicea.  The abscess either dissipates or produces only a small amount
of pus.  The abscess disappears without much discomfort and
throbbing.  It will be of timely use for such a condition.

The patient of Calcarea Carb can be  easily recognized.  He is rather
obese and of yellowish complexion.  The head is relatively big and
there is a tendency to sweat a lot.  The body is sometimes cold and
sometimes hot.  If all the systems of the body are slow, it becomes the
general description of a Calcarea Carb patient.  However, each and
every symptom does not have to be present to make the diagnosis.
Nor is there one unique symptom of Calcarea Carb.  Some children
have a large head from birth; th is does not necessarily make them
Calcarea Carb patients, although some may be. Sometimes the
symptoms of Calcarea Carb develop over the passage of time.

The Calcarea Carb patient has his nose stuffed with dried mucus and
may have difficulty in breathing th rough the nose.  With the use of
Calcarea Carb, this material become s easily expelled without the need
of any operation.  Due to the im balance of Calcium, sometimes bones
develop spurs at their ends  and bony prominences of Calcium
develop at the knee joints, which are very painful. Calcarea Carb can
cure this problem. Calcarea Carb is the right treatment for a child who,

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due to the weakness of the muscles, has delayed walking.  If there is
delay in speaking, then Baryta Carb is the best remedy.  Natrum Mur
will be useful when delays in both walking and speaking are present in
a child.

When there is a sodium imbalance in the body, it can adversely affect
the mental faculties.  The legs become weak and the patient becomes
rather wasted.  The special feature of Na trum Mur is the wasting of
the legs as well as the upper part of the body.  The tongue also is
affected.  Consequently the child starts walking and talking rather late.
In Calcarea Carb, the tongue is not affected and the child learns to talk
normally.  However, he is late  in learning to walk.  Being short-
statured is also a symptom of Calcarea Carb.  Physical weakness and
mental deficiency are symptoms of Baryta Carb. Calcarea Carb
gradually produces clear improvement of unsightly bending of the
bones if the patient is that of Calcarea Carb constitution.

The patient feels cold inside but sometimes his hands and feet may
feel burning.  The symptoms aggrav ate before the onset of a storm
such as a dust-storm.  An asthma patient will start exhibiting signs of
allergy to the dust many hours before the storm comes. Calcarea Carb
is one of the remedies indicated for such patients.  The patient who
gets mentally fatigued, and various  parts of his body shows signs of
weakness will respond to Calcaria  Carb.  Calcarea Carb gives him
relief and his restlessne ss does not last long.  When extremely
excited, a Calcarea Carb patient starts visualising pointed objects, and
the pictures and bodies will appear to be dancing.  Similarly, he
visualises inanimate objects, nails, wires, piercing and cutting
instruments. Calcarea Carb is a su re shot remedy, with rare exception,
whenever these symptoms are present in children.

Calcarea Carb is also indicated wh ena person feels ge nerally tired, is
chilly and experiences the burning of hands an d feet.  The Calcarea
patient afflicted mentally keeps on pinching with his hands and has
hallucinations about various faces be fore going to sleep but has no
fear of death.  The skin peels off at the nails  causing great
discomfort.  This symptom is also present in Petroleum.  The skin
becomes dry as in dry eczema and recedes from the nails.

In general, grief and dejection  are more amenable to treatment with
Sodium compounds.  These include Natrum Mur, Aurum Mur, and

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Gratiola.   Ambra Gresea and Arnica may be useful in the treatment of
a patient who is very sad and become s indifferent towards his life.  A
peculiar sign of Calcarea Carb, which does not exist in any other
remedy, is depression.  For example, a little girl who should normally
be playing around becomes sad and indifferent to everything.  The
depression developing in the girls before puberty, needs to be attended
promptly or the patient may commit suicide .  The patient is not
aggressive nor is there any evident cause of her sadness.  The patient
cannot seriously think much.  Rou tine normal worries can make the
patient feel mentally as well as physi cally fatigued.  Calcarea Carb in
homoeopathic potency, given along with allopathic Calcium tablets, is
very good for the treatment of this kind of fatigue.

The Calcarea Carb patient experiences scary dreams and is scared of
ghosts in the dark.  In the dream he  often finds himself hurt in an
accident or due to fire.  Any form  of headache may be present in a
Calcarea Carb patient.  For distinction, its headache becomes worse
with light and is worse during the day than at night.  A Graphites
headache also aggravates with light  because Calcarea Carb as well
as Graphites both contain an elemen t of carbon.  It is also found in
Carbo Veg.  Cold packs or cold sponging relieves the headache.

When the head of a child starts growing bigger , the reaction of the
pupils becomes sluggish, and the ch ild screams at night; generally
surgical treatment is required.  Yet the chances of cure are rare.  The
child becomes semi-insane.  Timely  use of Calcarea Carb, and more
so of Silicea, will be needed.  With these, the excessive fluid from the
brain discharges by way of the eyes or sometimes the ears.  Excessive
leakage of water from the eye or the ear on one side will make the
pillow wet and the head on that side will start getting smaller in size.
After a few days similar effects will  occur on the other side.  In this
condition, called Hydrocephalus, I ha ve often treated many children
with Silicea and Calcarea Carb.  Wh en the disease is far advanced
Calcarea Carb in high potency may be useful but not necessarily.

A white material may form on the cornea of the eye  which then
gradually starts to flow.  If the in fection is old, the discharge becomes
yellowish.  In this condition, Cal carea Carb can also be used in
addition to other appropriate remedies. If the discharge from the ear is
yellow, Calcarea Carb is more likel y to be the remedy.  The weakness
of the eardrums or slowly progressive deafness of the ears, need to be

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treated with Calcarea Carb.  Some  other remedies like Chenopodium
may also benefit.  Calcarea Carb is of benefit for the weakness of the
eyes due to  their being tired and the increased pressure  in them.
However, Onosmodium is more effective than Calcarea Carb in tired
eyes.  Along with the tiredness of th e eyes there is constant headache
which is not very severe.  A comb ination of Onosmodium along with
Gelsemium 200 will be extraordinarily more effective.  Sometimes the
change of weather brings in the sadness  and lethargy. Due to some
change in the atmosphere, the body temporarily feels weak.  Calcarea
Carb, being of long acting type, is useful in the treatment of prolonged
illnesses.  In these illnesses the recovery is slow and the medicine has
to be administered at intervals over a long period.

Calcarea Carb patients have an intense desire to eat eggs .  In
addition, the child would also eat certain indigestible things like clay
and paper .  Many of these children ha ppen to suffer from chronic
indigestion.  The patient feels heavin ess on the top of the head.  With
the headache, the hands and feet become cold.  Mental work
aggravates the headache.  There is  itching on the scalp, and the eyes
are very sensitive to light.

Calcarea Carb is also us eful in the treatment of chronic constipation.
Silicea and Veratrum Album are also  good remedies for constipation.
Generally, Veratrum Album is used for the treatment of severe
diarrhoea.  In fact, it is very  useful in the treatment of the obstinate
type of constipation, yet most homoe opaths do not use it for the this.
Silicea can relieve the chronic constipation of children.  If ineffective,
Veratrum Album must be used.  If other signs and symptoms of
Calcarea Carb are present, certainly Calcarea Carb would be the most
optimal treatment.  Within a few days the abdomen becomes soft and
the constipation is gradually relieved.  The effect of the medicine is
not immediate.

Calcarea Carb is also used for the treatment of deep-seated diseases of
men as well as women.  It prevents the tendency towards prolapse of
the uterus .  It corrects the menstrual dysfunctions  and excessive
bleeding (menorrhagia).  It not onl y controls the bleeding but also
cures the enlarged glands.  In ca se one cannot reach one particular
diagnosis, the following three thi ngs should be used to prevent
excessive bleeding during the mens trual period:  Calcarea Carb,
Murex, and Sabina in potency 30.  These should be continued for a

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few months.  In the beginning thre e times a day and then once a day,
after it has started showing beneficial effects.

Calcarea Carb is an effective remedy for the treatment of fibroids in
the uterus . Women of Calcarea constitution suffer constantly from
thick leucorrhoea.  Calcarea Carb will be very valuable for the
treatment of such women who also have tendency to  abort
repeatedly.  I had prescribed this remedy to one such lady who
responded very well.  In fact, she had already conceived before the
next menstrual cycle and did not mi scarry, though in the past she had
lost many pregnancies.  For any a ppropriate treatment, it is very
important to exactly diagnose the cause of abortion.  Ferrum Phos,
Calcarea Phos, and Kali Phos ar e well known for the treatment of
generalized weakness and lack of blood (anaemia) .  They work very
well during pregnancy and prevent a bortion.  The other useful remedy
for the treatment of abortion is Ca ulophyllum.  If the patient has the
constitution of Calcarea Carb, then only Calcarea Carb should be
administered without any hesitation and without the possible need of
any other homoeopathic remedy.

Because Calcarea Carb has to be co ntinued over a long period of time
so it should be repeated at interval s instead of continuously.  It should
be continued for six months after the patient has apparently been
cured.

A cough which lingers on  and is associated with blood in the
sputum is also the sign of Calcarea Carb.  As in Kali Carb, the feet
become cold.  If the generalised weakness advances too far, such a
patient will not be able to sit for long periods of time and tends to slip
off the chair, and when a patient is in a moribund state and his head
constantly sags down from the pillow,  the proper remedy is Muriatic
Acid which will work immediately.  If it happens frequently, then
Calcarea Carb is the better remedy.  In Calcarea Carb the lower back
hurts.  The back also feels weak and it is difficult to stand up after
sitting for some time.

Adjuvants:  Sulphur to be us ed before Calcarea Carb and
followed by Lycopodium.
Belladonna, Rhus Tox and Silicea

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Antidotes:      Camphor, Ipecac, Nux Vomica, Nitric Acid
Potency:     30 to CM.

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