# Calcarea Caustica

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

## Keynote Indications
Lime-water has an ancient repute in allaying inflammation of many kinds. Extensively 
proved, it rapidly dispelled all inflammatory action in cases of appendicitis and removed all suffering in an 
aggravated case of hemorrhoids. 
Marked difficult thinking. Confusion in the head. Vertigo, as if room turning in a circ le. Sticking, tearing, 
throbbing pains in various parts. Pain in right eye as if a foreign body were in it. Burning and tearing in eyes. 
Tearing in right cheekbone and in right articulation of jaw. 
Mucus in throat, burning, sensation as if a bone were stic king in it. Burning in stomach. Tapeworm passes. 
Hoarseness with pain in throat, rawness in trachea and cough. Stitches in chest. Stiffness and tearing in all 
regions of back and in coccyx. Tearing in either shoulder down arms. Tearing in left Achilles ten don, left heel. 
Sticking in corns. 
Worse from working in water, “pains in hands and feet after a foot -bath.” Worse from hanging down limb. 
Toothache every night, 2 a.m. Fuzzy sensation in the teeth and other parts.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Very difficult thought.
- Weary and peevish on waking, as if he had been intoxicated.
- Very difficult thought.
- Weary and peevish on waking, as if he had been intoxicated.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, as if room turning in a circle, thinks she will fall from chair.

### Head
- Confusion of the head, especially left side.
- Throbbing in frontal sinus, better by contracting skin of 
forehead.
- Confusion of the head, especially left side.
- Throbbing in frontal sinus, better by contracting skin of 
forehead.

### Eyes
- Burning in eyes, in evening by candlelight.
- Pain in right eye as if foreign body under upper lid in eye, 
on rising in morning.

### Face
- Tearing in right cheekbone.
- Violent pain, swelling, stiffness of right joint of jaw.
- Lips unusually red.

### Mouth
- Mouth offensive, palate feels as if mucus was upon it, but none is expectorated.
- Neck - Tearing in nape.
- Stiffness of neck of back of neck of all neck muscles.

### Throat
- Stitches in larynx, left half.
- Hoarseness with pain in throat.

### Chest
- Sternum feels oppressed, pressive sticking under, stitches across.
- Stitches in left chest.
- Feeling of rawness in trachea, cough.
- Cough with stitches in chest, expectoration of mucus and blood.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Sticking in both hypochondria, especially severe in left.
- Pain in left side of region of spleen, as if 
a ball were turning on its axis.
- Constrictive pain in abdomen, griping, stitches.
- Violent stitches in small intestines 
when bending forward.

### Urinary & Genital
- Menses eight days too early.

### Extremities
- Trembling in  limbs, could not continue work, better by eating a piece of bread.
- Rheumatic pain 
alternating in all the joints.
- Wandering pains.
- Tearing in shoulders, arms and axilla.
- Paralyzed condition of right 
hand.
- Stitches and tear ing in left wrist.
- Severe tension  in lower limbs.
- Stitches in hip joints.
- Tearing in knees 
in right side of right tibia down to toes in left Achilles tendon in left heel.
- Sticking in a corn.
- Pains in hands and 
feet after a foot bath.

### Neck & Back
- Violent pains in scapulae, extending into small of back when sitting, worse on inspiration.
- Tearing 
between the shoulders.
- Tearing in both scapulae, between shoulders, then through neck and occiput as far as 
forehead.
- Sensation in both shoulder blades as if they were fuzzy and had gone to sleep (8 p.m.).
- Pain in small 
of back, on waking better by moving about.
- Pressive, drawing pains, sticking, tearing in small of back.
- Tearing 
in coccyx.

### Skin
- Rash-like eruption on forehead.
- Biting, itching vesicles, on neck and back extending later to occiput and 
behind ears.

### Sleep
- Restless, many dreams, nightmare.
- Stomach - Severe hunger three hours after eating.
- Nausea 
followed by vomiting of some fluid.
- Teeth - Severe toothache every night, 2 a.m., as if tooth was fuzzy and too large with tensive pain in left ear 
as if something was sticking in it.
- Teeth feel too large, fuzzy.
- Temperature - A violent chill with chattering teeth 7 to 7.
- 30 p.m.