# Calcarea Iodata

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

## Keynote Indications
Calcarea iodata has a short proving, it has been used on the indications suggested by its 
two components in the diseases named. It is similar to Bar-i. in its action on enlarged glands. 
Indicated for enlarged tonsils  honeycombed with little crypts. Induration of glands. Thyroid tumors and 
cysts. Thyroid gland enlargements about time of puberty. For the treatment of scrofulous disorders. 
Weariness of the whole body. Secretions inclined to be profuse and yellow. Croup. Adenoids. Uterine fibroids. 
Polyps of nose and ear. Indolent ulcers accompanying vari cose veins. Headache while riding against a col d 
wind. Profuse sweat.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Indifference and indolence.
- Indifference and indolence.

### Vertigo
- Light-headed.
- Sensation as if the head wasn 't there.
- Giddy headache.
- COMMENTARY - The main use for this is tonsil and thyroid problems.
- Thyroid cysts (Thuj.), goiters, and 
thyroid tumors, especially since a treatment of radioactive iodine.
- Hyperthyroidism.
- Large tonsils and adenoids.
- Thyroids enlarge at puberty.
- Indurated glands.
- Generally warm-blooded.
- Kent named Calc -i.
- and Calc -sil.
- as the remedies for delusions of seeing dead people or dreaming of dead 
people.
- C.
- L.
- Nicholls cured a number of cases of breast tumors with the 3x, nodular tumors, movable, tender to touch, 
painful on moving arm.

### Head
- Headache while riding against cold wind.
- Light-headed.
- Catarrh, worse at root of nose, sneezing, very 
little sensation.
- Constant, severe and dull headache, forehead and temples, worse stooping.
- Sharp, piercing 
pain in right temple.
- Falling out of hair.
- Headache while riding against cold wind.
- Light-headed.
- Catarrh, worse at root of nose, sneezing, very 
little sensation.
- Constant, severe and dull headache, forehead and temples, worse stooping.
- Sharp, piercing 
pain in right temple.
- Falling out of hair.

### Eyes
- Pain over the eyes.

### Ears
- Numbness and ringing in the ears.

### Mouth
- Dry, furred feeling on lips and tongue.
- Mouth and gums burn like fire.
- Bitter taste in the mouth, but not 
disagreeable, like myrrh.
- Astringent taste in mouth, like alum.
- Taste at first sweetish, afterwards 
slightly astringent and metallic.
- Neck - Stiffness of the back of the neck.

### Throat
- Enlarged tonsils filled with little crypts.
- Thyroid enlargement about the time of puberty.
- Adenoids.

### Chest
- Chronic cough.
- Pneumonia.
- Pain in chest, difficulty breathing afte r syphilis and mercury.
- Croup.
- Hectic fever with green, purulent expectoration.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Inclined to belch wind.
- Slight hiccough.
- Slight nausea.
- Rumbling in the bowels with discharge of wind.
- Constant evacuation of large quantities of wind 
downward.
- Slight pain in the abdomen.
- Breasts - Indurated growth in breasts, movable, painful on pressure and on movement on arm.
- Constitutions - Flabby children subject to colds.

### Extremities
- Dull, heavy lameness in the external portion of the right arm, with numbness of the hands and fingers.
- Tired feeling in the lower limbs, especially in the calves of the legs.
- Pain across the anterior surface of the 
upper third of both thighs, as if he had been beaten.

### Skin
- Indolentulcers, with varicose veins.
- Easy perspiration.
- Copper colored and papular eruption.
- Tinea, favus, crusta lactea.
- Swelling of  the glands.
- Skin is cracked.