Calcarea fluorica is one of the twelve tissue remedies introduced by Schussler.
Homeopathic proving was done by Dr. J. Bell, on himself & others in 1874.
Calcarea fluoricum is a great poly-crest remedy & has got a powerful hold on the human economy.
Calcarea fluor is a long and deep-acting constitutional remedy for hard story glands, varicose & enlarged veins & malnutrition of bones, etc.
Calcarea flour, also known as Calcium Fluoride, is a homeopathic remedy made from the mineral compound calcium fluoride. It is used in homeopathy to treat a variety of health conditions, particularly those affecting the connective tissues, joints, and skin.
The main sphere of action of Calcarea flour is on bones, the enamel of teeth, skin, connective tissues, and vessels. It also acts on lymph nodes, glands, fibrous tissue, etc.
This remedy acts favorably on hard, stony glands and varicose veins.
This is one of the most powerful remedies for tumors in females especially breast when it is hard and knotty.
In osseous growths and suppuration of bones, it acts favorably after silicea and calc phos have failed.
This remedy has got marked action on the lower jaw producing necrosis and suppuration. This remedy is useful in wisdom teeth complications.
It is good medicine for immature cataracts and corneal opacity.
It is a wonderful remedy for periosteal swelling due to congenital hereditary syphilis, for carries and necrosis of bones with boring pain and heat in parts resulting from congenital syphilis.
Calcarea floricum is used in clinical complaints like adenoids, aneurism, affections of bones, glands, cataracts, catarrh, constipation, corneal opacities, exostosis, fissure, fistula, fibroadenoma of breast, ganglion, gum-boils, lumbago, rheumatism, sprains, syphilis, tonsillitis and varicose veins.
Calcarea fluorica Personality/Constitution
A Calcarea fluorica patient is a money-minded person. These individuals give higher value to money than themselves.
Calcarea fluorica Uses
This article will cover from head to toe all the organs of the body. And wherever symptoms are matched, this medicine can be used-
Mind Complaints
In homeopathy, the “mind” of a remedy refers to the emotional and mental symptoms that a person may experience when in need of a particular remedy.
The Calcarea fluorica patient usually has great depression.
The patient constantly fears financial ruin. Calcarea fluor is a money-minded person, these people give higher value to money than anything else in their life.
The patient is very cautious regarding spending money and investing because he is very much afraid that he will be at a loss.
Indecision is a marked mental symptom of Calcarea flour, the individual finds it difficult to decide the simple things in their life.
Head Complaints
Calcarea fluorica is useful in the treatment of hard excrescences on the scalp.
It is also used as a specific remedy for cephalohaematoma.
This remedy has shown wonderful results in ulcers of the scalp with callous and hard edges.
Indicated where a cracking noise is heard in the head.
Useful for the treatment of blood tumors of newborn Infants on a rough bony base.
Eyes Complaints
This remedy is indicated for complaints where the individuals experience Dimness of vision on overstraining the eyes.
Calcarea flour is used in the treatment of many eye complaints like conjunctivitis, styes, enlarged meibomian glands, and tumors on the eyelids.
Also used for conditions when the patient experiences flickering and sparks before the eyes.
Calcarea flour is also indicated for cataracts where the eyeballs ache especially on closing the eyes and pressing tightly.
Ears Complaints
Calcarea fluorica can be indicated for calcareous deposits on the tympanum, for sclerosis of the ossicula and petrous portion of the temporal bone, with deafness, ringing, and roaring.
There is chronic suppuration of the middle ear.
Nose Complaints
This remedy is indicated when there is cold in the head, or stuffy cold with dry coryza, and ozaena.
There is copious, offensive, thick, greenish, lumpy, yellow nasal catarrh.
This remedy is also indicated for atrophic rhinitis, especially if crusts are prominent.
Cal flour is useful in the treatment of adenoid growths in the postnasal space and pharynx hypertrophy of luchka’s tonsils.
Mouth Complaints
Calcarea fluorica is indicated for gum boil, with stony hard swelling on the jaw bone. Also for ulceration of mouth and throat manifesting congenital hereditary syphilis.
There is a cracked appearance of the tongue, with or without pain. Induration of the tongue, hardening after inflammation.
The Calcarea flour individual experiences unnatural looseness of the teeth, with or without pain; teeth become loose in their sockets. There is a toothache, with pain if any food touches the tooth.
This remedy is indicated for delayed dentition in children. The enamel of teeth becomes rough and deficient.
Face Complaints
The Calcarea fluorica individual has a hard swelling on the cheek, with pain or toothache, and hard swelling on the jaw-bone.
Indicated for carries of malar bones with oozing of dark, offensive bloody fluid and swelling of bone on the outer surface.
Throat Complaints
This remedy is indicated for follicular sore throat, plugs of mucus are continually forming in the crypts of the tonsils.
Pain and burning in the throat are better with warm drinks and worse with cold drinks.
Calc flour is an indicated remedy for hypertrophy of Luschka’s tonsil. Uvula is relaxed causing irritation, tickling, and cough referred to the larynx.
Chest Complaints
Calcarea florica is indicated in cases of hoarseness, and croup.
Indicated in cases where the individual experiences cough with expectoration of tiny lumps of yellow mucus, with tickling sensation and irritation on lying down. Spasmodic cough.
Heart Complaints
Calcarea fluorica is a chief remedy for vascular tumors with dilated blood vessels, and for varicose or enlarged veins.
Aneurism at an early stage may be reduced or kept in check by this remedy.
Also indicated in valvular disease when the tuberculous toxins attack the heart and blood vessels.
Stomach Complaints
This remedy is indicated for vomiting in infants. Vomiting of undigested food.
Calcarea flour is useful in treating flatulency, Weakness, the daintiness of appetite, nausea, and distress after eating in young children who are overtaxed by studies.
For acute indigestion from fatigue and brain-fag with much flatulence.
Abdomen Complaints
This remedy is indicated for flatulence. The individual experiences paroxysm of lancinating pains in the right hypochondrium under the 11th rib which wakes him at about midnight.
This pain is increased by lying on the painful side, which causes a feeling of bursting outward and is reduced by lying on the painless side, and by doubling up motion.
Cal flour is useful in cases where there are frequent attacks of lancinating pain in a hepatic region which is worsened by sitting and relieved after lying down at night.
There is dull weight and discomfort in the right hypochondrium.
Rectum Complaints
Calcarea fluorica is a well-indicated remedy for diarrhea in gouty subjects.
Useful in complaints like itching of the anus, fissure of the anus, and intensely sore crack near the lower end of the bowel and for bleeding hemorrhoids.
Itching of the anus as from pin-worms.
This remedy is used in treating internal or blind piles which occur frequently, with pain in the back, generally far down on the sacrum, and constipation. The piles worsen during pregnancy.
Urinary Complaints
Calcarea fluorica is indicated in urinary complaints when the urine causes smarting along the urethra, particularly at the external orifice.
The quantity of urine is diminished, high-colored and offensive.
Male Complaints
This remedy is indicated in male complaints like induration of testes, hydrocele, and Hunterian chancre.
In cases where there is constant dribbling of seminal and prostatic fluid with dwindling of the testes.
Female Symptoms
This remedy is effective for female complaints like excessive menses, prolapse of the uterus with bearing-down sensation and dragging pains in the uterus and thighs, for varicose veins of the vulva and uterine fibroid.
Also indicated in cases of hard knots in breasts.
Hand Symptoms
The Calcarea fluorica individuals have constant cracking in joints.
This remedy is useful in treating cases of synovial swellings, easy dislocations, and exostoses.
Indicated for ganglia or encysted tumors at the back of the wrist, for gouty enlargements of the joints of the fingers, and exostoses on fingers.
Legs Symptoms
Calcarea fluorica is useful in cases of chronic synovitis of the knee joint, for osseous growths and enlargement of bones with or without carriers, particularly of traumatic origin.
Back Symptoms
Calcarea flour is indicated for lumbago from strains, there is severe backache after a long ride which gets worse after rest and better after moving a little and from warmth.
Useful in conditions where the patient experiences tired feeling and pain in the lower part of the back, with the sensation of fullness and burning with constipation.
Skin Symptoms
This remedy is useful for complaints of marked whiteness of skin, for scar tissue with adhesions after operations, for chaps and cracks, for fissures or cracks in the palms of the hands, or for hard skin.
Calcarea flour is indicated for fissure of the anus, for suppurations with callous, hard edges, for whitlow, for indolent, fistulous ulcers, secreting thick, yellow pus, and for hard, elevated edges of ulcer where the surrounding skin becomes purple and swollen.
This remedy is useful in treating knots, kernels, hardened glands in the female breast, and treatment of swellings or indurated enlargements having their seat in the fasciae and capsular ligaments of joints, or in the tendons.
Sleep symptoms
The individual experiences vivid dreams with a sense of impending danger. The patient jumps out of their bed in a dream weeping and tries to get out of the window which wakes them up.
They usually have unrefreshing sleep, even after sleeping for an appropriate duration they never feel refreshed on waking up.
Modalities
Modalities are the factors that, increase or decrease the complaints in a patient.
They are categorized as aggravating factors and amelioration factors.
Aggravating factors make the condition of the illness worst, while the amelioration factor makes the condition of the disease better.
It can be time, any part of the day, season, position, or any applications, etc.
Aggravated By-
All the symptoms in Calcarea fluorica patients are worsened
In damp weather, during rest.
Amelioration By-
All the complaints are better by heat, warm application, and continuous motion.
Relationship with Other Medicine
Complementary Medicines-
These remedies complete the curing process that is started by the first medicine given.
The medicine complementary to Calcarea fluorica is Rhus Tox.
Antidoted by-
When there is the appearance of new symptoms, the new symptoms combined with the old ones should be studied, and a second remedy covering more of these new symptoms than the old one is to be given; this second remedy is the antidote.
Calcarea fluorica is antidoted by Nux Vomica.
Follows well-
This remedy can be given in lumbago which is aggravated by rest and ameliorated by motion, after the failure of rhus tox.
Followed well by-
Calcarea fluorica Dosage & Potencies
The dosage and Potency of the medicine depend on the individual case.
Homeopathic medicines are prescribed based on symptom similarity, where the symptoms narrated by the patient are somewhat similar to the guiding symptoms of the treatment.
Your homeopathic doctor forms the totality of symptoms, and medicine identical to the disease condition is given; the more exact similarity, the earlier the curing process.
Calcarea fluorica 30 Uses-
Lower potency is given when very few symptoms match the medicine to that of the patient.
These symptoms help doctors diagnose the disease condition only; there is a minor symptom of Calcarea fluorica.
Lower potencies require frequent repetition. You should give them 3-4 times a day till the expected result is seen.
Calcarea fluorica 200 Uses-
This is considered as higher Potency; they are given when the majority of mind symptoms of Calcarea fluorica and the physical symptoms of Calcarea fluorica which are narrated by the patient get the perfect match.
Higher potencies are advisable to be not repeated very often; they act for a longer duration, so the second dose is repeated every 7 days or every 15 days once.
On giving 200C Potency, it’s advisable to wait for the symptoms to subside, which can be repeated until all signs in totality disappear.
Calcarea fluorica 1M Uses-
Calcarea fluorica 1 M should not be repeated; it is given once a month and waiting for symptoms to disappear.
This is very high Potency. It would help if you gave it only after careful case analysis, where all medicinal symptoms of Calcarea fluorica and those provided by the patient match with each other ideally.
Calcarea fluorica Q (Mother Tincture) Uses-
Calcarea fluorica in tincture form is not used commonly.
Calcarea fluorica 3X/6X Uses-
This lower potency of Calcarea fluorica works well as a therapeutic dose to treat a wide range of symptoms including joint disorders, benign tumors, bony outgrowths, fissures, and cracks of the rectum.
It can be given for ganglions and cysts occurring on hands and wrists.
Calcarea fluorica Side Effects
The process of potentization prepares homeopathic medications. In this method, the raw form of the medicine is taken and worked upon, and diluted to such an extent that all the harmful effects of the raw material are gone. All that remains is the medicinal or curative powers.
Homeopathic medicines are gentle and safe. They can be taken in the correct dose and potency by people of all age groups without fear.
Side effects of homeopathic medicines are an infrequent phenomenon.
It may so happen that the symptoms may subside temporarily and then come back with a renewed strength and severity. This occurs when the medicine has been repeated more than what was required.
It may also happen that the person may come back saying that he has developed an entirely new set of symptoms while all his old symptoms are still present. This means that the remedy prescribed was the wrong one.
In both cases, it is advisable to give a suitable antidote to Calcarea fluorica.
You may have to re-work the case as a new totality has emerged. Based upon this new totality, you may have to prescribe Calcarea fluorica in a different potency or a new remedy altogether that matches the newly formed total.
Keep a lookout for these symptoms; they are the red flags on your path to recovery
- Worsening of any symptoms that you had before taking the dose.
- Appearance or worsening of mental complaints like melancholy, despair, depression, irritability, and emotional sensitivity.
It is important to keep in mind that along with selecting an appropriate remedy, the remedy must be in appropriate potency which requires the guidance of a licensed practitioner, as every person’s symptoms and health conditions are unique.
Homeopathic medicines should only be taken when prescribed by a homeopathic physician. Self medications can aggravate the original conditions.