• Calcarea Silicata is a deep, long-acting medicine.

• For complaints that come on slowly and reach their final development after long periods.

• Hydrogenoid constitution (like Natrum Sulphuricum).

• Very sensitive to cold.

• For the weak, emaciated, cold, and chilly.

• Worse from being overheated.

• Generally sensitive.

• Used for atrophy in children.

• Marked weakness and fatigue.

• Sluggishness and torpidity in all functions.

• Defective assimilation and nutrition, leading to emaciation despite a good appetite.

• A tendency to glandular swellings and indurations.

• Used for delayed dentition and walking in children.

• Scrofulous diathesis.

• Used for anemia and chlorosis.

• Great sensitiveness to atmospheric changes.

• Symptoms often develop after exposure to damp, cold conditions.

• A state of imperfect development and assimilation.

• It affects nutrition and growth, especially in children.

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• Anxiety and apprehension, especially in the evening.

• Irritable and easily offended.

• Great fearfulness; fears everything, especially about health.

• Despondent, hopeless, and discouraged.

• Aversion to mental work; difficulty in concentration.

• Its memory is weak; forgetful.

• Obstinate and headstrong, especially in children.

• Restless and fidgety.

• Sensitive to noise and contradiction.

• It feels forsaken.

• Timid, bashful.

• Melancholy, sad.

• Easily discouraged; gives up easily.

• Difficulty making decisions; indecisive.

• Irritable, especially when contradicted.

• Overwhelmed by trifles.

• A sense of insecurity.

• Headache is aggravated by mental exertion and warmth.

• Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting.

• Its scalp is sensitive to touch.

• Eruptions on the scalp.

• Photophobia, with profuse lachrymation.

• Inflammation of the eyes and eyelids, with burning and itching.

• Styes and chalazia.

• Dimness of vision.

• Deafness, especially after colds.

• Noises in the ears, such as ringing, buzzing, or roaring.

• Chronic nasal catarrh, with thick, yellow discharge.

• Obstruction of the nose.

• Frequent sneezing.

• Loss of smell.

• Pale, sickly complexion.

• Eruptions on the face, especially around the mouth and nose.

• Swelling of the upper lip.

• Enlarged tonsils.

• Difficult swallowing.

• Chronic cough, with expectoration of thick, yellow mucus.

• Asthma, worse in the morning and from cold air.

• Shortness of breath on exertion.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Wheezing.

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• Weakness of the heart.

• Irregular heartbeat.

• Its pulse is weak and rapid.

• Loss of appetite or craving for indigestible things.

• Nausea and vomiting after eating.

• Heartburn and acidity.

• Pain in the stomach after eating.

• Belching with a sour taste.

• Craving for eggs.

• Colic.

• Pain in the liver region.

• Rumbling in the abdomen.

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• Ineffectual urging to stool.

• Diarrhea, especially after eating.

• Hemorrhoids.

• Burning sensation in the anus.

• Its stools may be offensive.

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• Frequent urination, especially at night.

• Involuntary urination.

• Burning sensation during urination.

• Scanty urine.

• Diminished sexual desire.

• Impotence.

• Swelling of the prostate.

• Leucorrhea, profuse, thick, and offensive.

• Delayed or irregular menses.

• Painful menses.

• Sterility.

• Its breasts feel heavy and painful.

• Its vagina feels dry.

• Pain in the back, especially in the lumbar region.

• Stiffness of the neck.

• Weakness and heaviness of the limbs.

• Coldness of the hands and feet.

• Numbness and tingling in the fingers and toes.

• Joint pains.

• Swelling of the joints.

• Suppuration of finger tips.

• Deformity of the joints.

• Pain in the bones.

• Cracking in the joints.

• Its gait unsteady and staggering.

• Eruptions, especially on the scalp and face.

• Itching skin.

• Slow-healing wounds.

• Boils.

• Ulcers.

• Insomnia.

• Its dreams are vivid and disturbing.

• It sleeps on the back with hands over the head.

• Nightmares.

• Grinding teeth during sleep.

• Worse (<): Cold, damp weather.

• Worse (<): Change of weather.

• Worse (<): Drafts of air.

• Worse (<): Mental exertion.

• Worse (<): Overheating.

• Worse (<): Morning.

• Worse (<): Evening.

• Worse (<): Lying down.

• Worse (<): Motion.

• Worse (<): Before menses.

• Worse (<): Full moon.

• Better (>): Warmth.

• Better (>): Dry weather.

• Better (>): Rest.

• Better (>): Open air.

• Better (>): Lying on the affected side.

• Better (>): Gentle motion.

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• Complementary remedies: Calcarea Carbonica, Silica.

• Antidotes: Camphor, Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum.

• Comparisons: Baryta Carbonica, Calcarea Phosphorica, Iodium, Natrum Muriaticum, Phosphorus, Sulphur.

• Consider also: Arsenicum Album, Lycopodium, Pulsatilla.