“A Deep-Acting Anti-Syphilitic & Anti-Tubercular Remedy”
Basic Information:
- Synonym: Calcarea Arsenicosa, Calcium Arseniate
- Group: Combination of a Calcium salt (nutritive) and Arsenic (deep-acting, destructive)
- Miasm: Syphilitic & Tubercular
- Source: Chemically prepared salt of lime and arsenic acid
- Thermal: Chilly, oversensitive to cold
- Action Sphere: Blood, glands, bones, heart, nervous system, skin
Keynote Symptoms:
- Chilly, weak, and exhausted patients with enlarged glands and emaciation
- Acts deeply on heart, especially in cardiac dropsy, palpitations & mitral lesions
- Used in scrofulous & tubercular constitutions with glandular enlargements
Clinical Indications:
Cardiac Complaints:
- Weak heart with palpitations from least exertion
- Cardiac dropsy, mitral valve disease, dilated heart
- Heart affections with cold extremities, dyspnea, faintness
- Pulse: Irregular, weak, intermitting
Tubercular Diathesis:
- Emaciated children with enlarged cervical glands, sweaty head
- Tendency to chronic chest affections, e.g., asthma, phthisis
- Night sweats, repeated colds, and poor vitality
Nervous System:
- Epilepsy, petit mal, grand mal — especially when suppressed eruptions precede
- Complaints < during sleep, or after suppressed eruptions
- Jerking of limbs, spasmodic twitchings
Glands and Bones:
- Chronic glandular swellings (especially cervical or mesenteric)
- Rickets, bone caries in scrofulous children
- Enlarged spleen, especially in malarial patients
Skin & Scrofulous Affections:
- Ulcers with burning pain, foul discharge
- Pustular eruptions, indolent skin lesions
- Skin complaints with thick yellow crusts and itching
Mental Symptoms:
- Fear of death
- Anxiety and restlessness
- Sad, low-spirited, irritable
- Children appear dull, unresponsive
Modalities:
|
Worse From |
Better From |
|
Cold air and weather |
Warmth |
|
After suppression of eruptions |
Lying quietly |
|
During sleep |
Motion (sometimes) |
|
Exertion |
Rest |
Potency & Dosage:
- Commonly used in 3X, 6C, 30C
- Chronic conditions may benefit from 6X to 30C in repeated doses
- Caution in high potencies in sensitive/tubercular patients
Compare With:
|
Remedy |
Key Difference |
|
Calcarea carb |
Obesity, sluggish, chilly, sweat on head, constipation |
|
Arsenicum album |
Intense restlessness, burning pains, fastidious |
|
Baryta carb |
Glandular affections with mental backwardness |
|
Tuberculinum |
Tubercular diathesis with erratic symptoms and craving for change |
Mnemonic – “CALC-ARS
= Cold, Anxious, Lymphatic Child – Asthmatic, Rachitic, Sweaty”
- C – Cold patient
- A – Anxiety, Arsenic-like restlessness
- L – Lymphatic glands swollen
- C – Cardiac complaints
- A – Asthma in tubercular diathesis
- R – Rickets / caries in bones
- S – Sweaty head, scrofulous
One-Line Summary:
“Calcarea Arsenicosa is suited to scrofulous, chilly, emaciated patients with heart weakness and enlarged glands.”
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MATERIA MEDICA