Materia Medica de A a Z

LAPIS ALBUS = CALCAREA SILICO-FLUORICA (lap-a)

Affections of glands, GOITRE, pre-ulcerative stage of carcinoma. Burning, stinging pain in breast, stomach, and uterus. Connective tissue about glands specially affected. Fat anæmic babies with Iodine appetite. Ravenous appetite. Remarkably successful in scrofulous affections, except in malarial cases. UTERINE CARCINOMA. Fibroid tumors with INTENSE BURNING pains through the part with PROFUSE HAEMORRHAGE. Glands have a certain elasticity and pliability about them rather than the stony hardness of Calc fluor (Calc-f) and cistus (Cist).

Ears

Otitis media suppurativa. Where Silica (Sil) is indicated progress is hastened by Lapis (Bellows).

Chest

Persistent pains in mammary region. Glandular hardening.

Skin

Scrofulous abscesses and sores. Enlargement and induration of glands, ESPECIALLY CERVICAL. Lipoma, sarcoma, carcinoma. Pruritus.

Relationship

Compare: Sil; Badiaga (Bad); Ars iod (Ars-i); Calc iod (Calc-i); Conium; Kal iod (Kali-i); Asterias (Aster).

Dose

First to sixth potency.