# Calcarea Sulphurica

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from calcium sulfate dihydrate (CaSO₄·2H₂O), commonly known as gypsum,. prepared  for  homeopathic  use  through  trituration,  serial  dilution,  and  succussion  to  eliminate. toxicity and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for  suppurative, skin, and mucous. membrane disorders, particularly those involving chronic infections, abscesses, and discharges. It. is noted for symptoms such as purulent skin eruptions, chronic sinusitis, and irritability, often. aggravated by heat, warmth, or getting wet, and ameliorated by cold air, dry weather, or uncovering. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  dermatological  conditions (e.g.,  acne,  eczema),  infectious. disorders (e.g., chronic sinusitis, otitis media),  mucous membrane issues  (e.g., conjunctivitis,. vaginitis),  musculoskeletal complaints  (e.g., arthritis, tendinitis), and  psychological conditions. (e.g., irritability, mild depression). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by. purulent  discharges,  chronic  infections,  skin  eruptions,  or  emotional  irritability,  typically. exacerbated by heat, warm environments, or moisture, and often seen in individuals with a history. of recurrent infections, allergic tendencies, or chronic inflammatory conditions. The remedy is. particularly relevant for those with a warm, sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical. symptoms  like  oozing  sores  or  thick  discharges  alongside  emotional  traits  like  impatience  or. discontent,  commonly  observed  in  adolescents  with  acne,  adults  with  chronic  sinus  issues,  or. patients with stress-related irritability.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Heat (air, weather, rooms), warm baths, getting wet, moisture, humidity,. exertion, night, warm drinks, scratching, pressure, stress, confinement, menses, allergens.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Confusion from mental exertion.
- Forgetful after eating.
- Loses memory and power of thought suddenly, 
after lunch.
- Sits and meditates over imaginary misfortune.
- Changeable moods.
- Liveliness and good 
spirits change to grief and melancholy, afternoon and evening.
- Sad in morning, but mirthful in evening.
- Inclination to weep during perspiration.
- Hurnedfeeling.Anxréíy in evening.
- Anxiety in bed, at night, better open air.
- Timidity.
- Fear of birds.
- Sometimes 
a desire to walk, to attend to something, as soon as she sets out to do it the desire is gone.
- Easily angered, followed by weakness.
- Jealousy.
- Despises those who do not agree with him.
- Irritability in 
evening.
- Lamenting because he feels he is not appreciated.
- Grumbles that others do not understand him.
- Confusion from mental exertion.
- Forgetful after eating.
- Loses memory and power of thought suddenly, 
after lunch.
- Sits and meditates over imaginary misfortune.
- Changeable moods.
- Liveliness and good 
spirits change to grief and melancholy, afternoon and evening.
- Sad in morning, but mirthful in evening.
- Inclination to weep during perspiration.
- Hurnedfeeling.Anxréíy in evening.
- Anxiety in bed, at night, better open air.
- Timidity.
- Fear of birds.
- Sometimes 
a desire to walk, to attend to something, as soon as she sets out to do it the desire is gone.
- Easily angered, followed by weakness.
- Jealousy.
- Despises those who do not agree with him.
- Irritability in 
evening.
- Lamenting because he feels he is not appreciated.
- Grumbles that others do not understand him.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo better open air but worse walking fast.
- Vertigo while walking.
- Dizzy in head and weakness.
- Vertigo with deathly nausea.
- COMMENTARY - Calc-s.
- is a synthetic remedy, useful for a Sulph.
- and Calc, states.
- Similar to Hep., which is 
calcium sulphide (this is calcium sulphate), it's useful for following Hep., or dealing with residue.
- Better in open air, better walking in it, desire for it (Hep.
- cannot bear the slightest exposure).
- Worse from 
change of weather (Hep.).
- Calc-s.
- has not the excessive sensitiveness to touch found in Hep.
- Nash cured a case of suppurating kidney with it.
- Hansen recommended it in dry eczema in children.
- Has cured 
cystic tumors, fibroids and polyps.

### Head
- Chronic and periodic headache, worse looking up.
- Severe frontal head ache, worse after dinner.
- Ache 
across forehead and in vertex.
- Headache from concussion.
- Tearing pain around whole head, with nausea.
- Pulsating headache from becoming cold, better cold air.
- Painful pimples on scalp leave a yellow scab.
- Hard 
tender swellings in scalp in edge of hair, bleeding when scratched.
- Boil over left eye.
- Scald head of children, 
with purulent, yellow discharge or crusts.
- Chronic and periodic headache, worse looking up.
- Severe frontal head ache, worse after dinner.
- Ache 
across forehead and in vertex.
- Headache from concussion.
- Tearing pain around whole head, with nausea.
- Pulsating headache from becoming cold, better cold air.
- Painful pimples on scalp leave a yellow scab.
- Hard 
tender swellings in scalp in edge of hair, bleeding when scratched.
- Boil over left eye.
- Scald head of children, 
with purulent, yellow discharge or crusts.

### Eyes
- Inflammation of eyes, evening and night.
- Conjunctivitis with discharge of thick, yellow matter.
- Conjunctiva yellow.
- Eyes red like raw beef.
- Red, itching tarsi.
- Inflammation of the eyes with discharge of 
thick, yellow matter.
- Sensation as if eyes were sunken, during menses, during headache.
- Cornea smoky.
- Deep ulcers on cornea.
- Ophthalmia neonatorum.
- Severe inflammation in canthi.
- Smarting pain in inner canthi.
- Injury to eye from a splinter with pus formation.
- Twitching of eye muscles.
- Sees only one -half of an object.
- Diplopia.
- Occasional blindness, with twitching of 
eyelids.

### Ears
- Deafness with discharge of matter from the middle ear, sometimes mixed with blood.
- Chronic otorrhea.
- Otorrhea after scarlet fever, pus thick, bloody and offensive.
- Otorrhea with sore and enlarged parotids.
- Flow 
of dark wax from right ear.
- Otitis after a slap on ear.
- Pimple on top of right ear.
- Pimples around ear.

### Face
- Exceedingly pale, sic kly appearance.
- Flushes with heat.
- Pimples and pustules on the face.
- Many 
tender pimples under beard discharge blood or oily transparent matter.
- Herpes.
- Boils.
- Darting pain in right side 
of face.
- Soreness of right parotid gland, better walking in open air.
- Swollen hard pimple on left cheek.

### Mouth
- Inside of lips sore.
- Gumboils.
- Gums bleed while brushing teeth.
- Soreness, left side of roof as if 
burned, while eating.
- Sour, soapy, acrid taste.
- Taste bitter.
- Sour, soapy, acrid taste.
- Blister -like sores on right 
lower lip.
- ulcerate, ooze bloody matter.
- On outer lower lip a raw sore, forming a scab.
- Cracked lips.
- Swollen 
cheek with toothache, if suppuration threa tens.
- Pains in right upper jaw, with swollen and tender gums 
about a decayed molar.
- Toothache, molar sensitive to cold air, water.
- Toothache with swollen cheek.
- Toothache after dark and in sleep.
- Toothache first worse cold water, soon better.
- Nose - Influenza and sneezing, better open air.
- Cold in the head with thick, yellowish, purulent secretion,  
frequently tinged with 
Perspiration - Profuse, with an offensive smell.
- Sweat during sleep.

### Throat
- Last stage of ulcerated sore throat with discharge of yellow matter.
- Tonsil litis.
- Suppurating stage of 
tonsillitis, when abscess is discharging.
- Discharge of pus is anticipated.
- Pharynx red and sore, tonsils affected.
- Tongue - Slightly puckered sensation at base of tongue.
- Tongue seamed with a deep red line.
- Glossitis, when 
suppuration begins.
- Tongue flabby, resembling a layer of dried clay.
- Yellow coating at base.

### Chest
- Pain in sternum, becoming so much worse that she was obliged to double up.
- Pains across chest.
- Pains in chest with headache.
- Abscess in axilla.
- Constitutions - Psoric and allergic constitutions.
- Pains from anterior of heart down extending to lower part of thigh.
- Kidneys - Pyelitis.
- Chronic nephritis.
- Pain in kidneys.
- Severe pain, followed by pus in urine, which weakens 
one rapidly.
- Catarrh of bladder.
- Copious, yellow pus in urine.
- Red urine with hectic fever.
- Asthma with hectic fever.
- Difficult breathing, worse evening and night.
- Dif ficult breathing, worse 
ascending, cough and lying, better cool air.
- Short-breathed, constipated and cachectic.
- Pneumonia, late stage.
- Empyema, pus forming in lungs or pleural cavities.
- Rattling of mucus in lungs.
- Choking croup.
- Cough with 
purulent and bloody sputum and hectic fever.
- Chronic cough with tuberculosis.
- Purulent, bloody expectoration.
- Catarrh with thick, lumpy, white-yellow or pus-like secretions.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Indigestion on least provocation.
- Pains in stomach and burnings.
- Nausea during vertigo.
- Nausea 
during headache.
- Nausea during pain in pelvis.
- Sensations of weakness in stomach.
- Temperature - Chills beginning in feet.
- Hectic fever, caused by formation of pus.
- Averse to covers when cold.
- Dry heat at night.
- Easy sweating, worse coughing.
- Hectic fever with cough and burning in soles.
- Colic with rumbling.
- Colic with diarrhea.
- Coldness and distension of abdomen after eating.
- Pain 
in right side of pelvis, followed by weakness, nausea and pain in stomach.
- Sensations in lower part of abdomen 
as if skin was too tight, with pain.
- Pains in liver region, in right side of pelvis, followed by weakness, nausea 
and pain in stomach.
- Buboes, to prevent suppuration.
- Excessive appetite and thirst.
- No appetite for meat.
- Craves stimulants to overcome the weakness.
- Desires for both sour and salt.
- Desires sweets, acid fruit, green fruit.
- Desires tea, claret, green sour vegetables 
and fruit.
- Diarrhea after maple sugar.

### Urinary & Genital
- Gonorrhea in suppurative stage.
- Chronic syphilis.
- Spermatorrhea with impotence.
- Menses late, long -lasting, with headache, twitching, and great weakness.
- Vagintis.
- Thick, white 
leucorrhea.
- Itching high up in vagina.
- Mastitis, when pus begins to form or to prevent suppuration.
- Twitching 
during menses.
- Cutting pain in right ovary.

### Extremities
- Joint pain or stiffness, often aching or burning, resembling osteoarthritis or tendinitis,.
- worse with heat, exertion, or damp weather.
- Tendency to sprains or tendon injuries, with slow recovery, resembling tenosynovitis,.
- aggravated by warmth or overuse.
- Bone pain or sensitivity, particularly in areas of old injuries, resembling periostitis,.
- worse with heat or pressure.
- Muscle soreness or fatigue, with a sensation of heaviness, worse after exertion or.
- warm conditions.
- Psychological:.
- Irritability or impatience, often with a sense of frustration or discontent, resembling.
- adjustment disorder, worse with heat, confinement, or stress.
- Calcarea sulphurica (Calcium Sulfate, Gypsum) 434.
- Mild  depression  or  apathy,  with  a  lack  of  motivation,  resembling  dysthymia,.
- aggravated by warm weather, routine, or emotional stress.
- Anxiety or restlessness, particularly about health or delays in healing, resembling.
- generalized anxiety disorder, worse in warm, crowded environments.
- Sensitivity to criticism or slowness, with a desire for change, worse in monotonous.
- or heated conditions.
- Systemic:.
- Chronic  fatigue  or  weakness,  with  a  sensation  of  sluggishness  or  exhaustion,.
- resembling chronic fatigue syndrome or post-infectious fatigue, worse after exertion,.
- heat, or infections.
- Heat intolerance, with aggravation in warm, humid weather and a strong desire for.
- cool air or open spaces.
- Profuse, hot, or offensive sweating, particularly during infections, skin eruptions, or.
- anxiety episodes, worse at night or in warm conditions.
- Tendency to recurrent fevers or low-grade inflammation, with a sensation of internal.
- heat, worse in warmth or after exertion.

### Neck & Back
- Curvature of lumba r spine, difficult to sit up.
- Pains across back of neck.
- Pains in lower part of back.
- Chronic pain in os coccygis was greatly aggravated.

### Skin
- Chronic  fatigue  or  weakness,  with  a  sensation  of  sluggishness  or  exhaustion,.
- resembling chronic fatigue syndrome or post-infectious fatigue, worse after exertion,.
- heat, or infections.
- Heat intolerance, with aggravation in warm, humid weather and a strong desire for.
- cool air or open spaces.
- Profuse, hot, or offensive sweating, particularly during infections, skin eruptions, or.
- anxiety episodes, worse at night or in warm conditions.
- Tendency to recurrent fevers or low-grade inflammation, with a sensation of internal.
- heat, worse in warmth or after exertion.

### Sleep
- Starts from sleep, as if wanting air.
- Sleepy during day, wakeful at night.
- Before going to bed, pain in 
head.
- Internal lassitude after siesta.
- Dreamed she had a 
 
 
convulsion from fright, awoke screaming and much exhausted.