Materia Medica de A a Z

CALCAREA IODATA (calc-i)

It is in the treatment of scrofulous affections, especially enlarged glands, tonsils, etc., that this remedy has gained marked beneficial results. Thyroid enlargements about time of puberty. Flabby children subject to colds. Secretions inclined to be profuse and yellow. Adenoids. Uterine fibroids. CROUP.

Head

Headache while riding against cold wind. Light-headed. Catarrh; worse at root of nose; sneezing; very little sensation. Polypi of nose and ear.

Throat

Enlarged tonsils are filled with little crypts.

Respiratory

Chronic cough; Pain in chest, difficulty breathing after syphilis and mercurialization (Grauvogl). Hectic fever; green, purulent expectoration. Croup. PNEUMONIA.

Skin

INDOLENT ULCERS, ACCOMPANYING VARICOSE VEINS. Easy perspiration. Copper- colored and papulous eruption, tinea, favus, crusta lactea, swelling of the glands, skin cracked, falling out of hair.

Relationship

Compare: Agraphis (Agra) - Bluebell (adenoids with enlarged tonsils). Here Sulph iod (Sul-i) follows both Agraphis (Agra) and Calc iod. Acon lycotonum (Acon-l) (swelling of glands, Hodgkin's disease).

Compare also: Calc fluor (Calc-f); Sil; Iod.

Dose

Second and third trituration.