• Rice bodies in joints
• 7 Acute indigestion from fatigue or brain fag
• Unnatural looseness of teeth, with or without pain; teeth become loose in their sockets

Source: Mineral kingdom
Synonyms: Calcium, Flour spar, Fluoride of lime
Formula: CaF2
Prover: Dr J.B. Bell and W.H. Schussler in 1874
Duration of Action: Not Definite
Miasmatic Background: Tubercular at general, syphilitic at a particular level
Temperament: Nervous
Diathesis: Scrofulous and rickety
Thermal Relationship: Hot patient

Introduction and History: Calcarea fluorica is a long and deep acting, constitutional remedy for hard stony glands, varicose and enlarged veins, malnutrition of bones, etc. This is one of the twelve tissue remedies introduced by Schussler. Homeopathic proving was done by Dr J.B. Bell on himself and others in 1874. It is a great polychrest and has a powerful hold on the human economy.

Description: Calcarea fluorica is an inactive, insoluble compound. It is deposited in old age. It forms hydrofluoric acid and di-sodium silicate. Calcarea fluoride is found on the surface of bones, in the enamel of teeth, in elastic fibres, in cells of epidermis, thyroid, aorta, kidneys, skeletal muscles, skin, hair, nails, etc. and to a lesser amount in the blood and brain. It occurs in nature in mineral Fluorspar.

Preparation: Pure fluoride of lime is triturated with sugar of milk according to instructions given in the homeopathic pharmacopoeias.

Constitution and Physiognomy: It is best suited to tall, stout, frog faced people with a deformed bony structure.

Ailments From: Delayed labour, eating canned food preserved with sodium fluoride, fractures, injury, overgrowth, overstudy, post-operative, sexual abuses, etc.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): Elastic fibres, nerves, glands, periosteum, left side, blood vessels, bones, ligaments, tendons, skin, teeth, connective tissues, etc.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

• It acts on elastic fibres of any portion of the vessels causing relaxation and dilatation.
• It acts on vessels of connective tissues or of the lymphatic system leading to haemorrhoidal tumours, varicose veins, vascular tumours, indurated glands, uterine displacements, weakening of abdominal walls and hard, knotty tumours on the surface of the bones.
• Calcarea fluorica is an inhibitor of several enzymes in the body.
• It diminishes tissue respiration and anaerobic glycolysis by promoting esterification of phosphoric acid with carbohydrates in the muscles by depressing lactic acid formation, that is, it favours aerobic pathways.
• Calcarea fluorica acts chiefly on bones where it prevents the thickening of the cortex of bones, exostoses, calcification of ligaments, tendons and muscle attachments; and thus prevents disabling diseases.
• It increases the elasticity and contractile power of ligaments and tendons thus preventing stiffness of joints.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

• Anxious about money matters, thinks he is poor.
• Fear of poverty, misfortune, indecision.
• Great depression. Groundless fear of financial ruin.
• Increased sexual desire but poor performance.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Discharge: Thick, yellowish, lumpy and offensive.

Tongue: Cracked, fissured and indurated. Bleeding ulcers, canula formation and dilatation of sublingual vessels.

Relaxation: Relaxed uvula, prolapse of uterus with bearing down.

Cracks: Cracks and fissures into deep furrows, scars, cicatrices, keloid formations, unhealthy and indolent ulcers.

Induration: Glands and ducts are swollen, hypertrophied and indurated. They may be ulcerated with indurated margins. Focal fatty degeneration of glands, especially of the liver, heart and kidneys.

Lumbago: Lumbago due to strain; aggravation from rest; amelioration after moving a little and from warmth.

Pain: Pain in the liver at night; worse lying on the painful side, better from motion.

Piles: Haemorrhoides, bleeding, painful and hard.

Bones: Caries and necrosis of bones with boring pain and heat in the parts resulting from congential syphilis.

Offensive discharges: Discharges from the suppurative proceses are offensive, thick and greenish-yellow.

Blood vessels: Its deficiency causes dilatation and varicosities of blood vessels, hard nodular piles and atherosclerosis.

Stool: Stool is hard, dry, difficult to pass, requires great straining, causing fissures and fistulas which are indurated with hard margins.

Eyes: Blurring of vision, corneal and vitreous humour opacities, styes, chalazions, meibomian cysts, glaucoma.

Menses: Profuse, painful and clotted. Excessive menses with bearing down pains.

Abortion: Threatened and repeated abortions.

Leucorrhoea: Profuse, corroding due to cervical erosion, malignancy.

Caries: Caries of nasal bones, ozaena with bleeding nasal discharges.

Nails: Nails seem to grow rapidly but show uneveness, furrows, are easily splintered. Whitlow.

Important Characteristic Features

Skin: Fissures or cracks on the palms of hands or hard skin with formation of crusts. Fissure of anus. Whitlow. Indolent, fistulous ulcers, secreting a thick, yellow pus. Swellings or indurated enlargements having their seats in the fascia and capsular ligaments of joints or in the tendons. Induration of stony hardness. Hard elevated edge of ulcers surrounding the skin, purple and swollen. Knots, kernels, hardened glands in female breasts.

Induration: Indurations and stony hardness of glands. Large indurated tonsils, after failure of Baryta carbonica. Hard knots in breasts. Induration of tongue after inflammation. Exudation from the surface of bones which quickly hardens and assumes a nodular or jagged form. Ulcers and swelling also show the tendency to hardness. Indurated cervical glands of stony hardness. Induration of testes. Nodular testes. Uterine fibroids.

General Modalities

Aggravation: After rest, first motion, warmth, change of weather, lifting, lying on the painful side.

Amelioration: Continuous motion, rubbing, cold, heat and warm applications.

Remedy Relationships

Follows well: Ph-ac, Calc-p, Nat-m, Sil.

Compare: Calc-i, Sil, Iod, Hep, Syph, Merc, Thuj, Puls.

Potency: 3x, 6x, 12x, 30, 200, 1000.

Calcarea Fluorica Dosage: Schussler recommends the twelve decimal triturations, but 3x and 6x have been found to be very efficient.

Repetition: Bears repetition well

Therapeutic Value: Adenoids, Affections of bone and glands, Aneurysm, Cataract, Catarrh, Constipation, Corneal opacities, Exostosis, Fibraodenoma of breasts, Fissure, Fistula, Gumboils, Lumbago, Rheumatism, Sprains, Syphilis, Tonsillitis, Varicose veins.

Note

1. Its action is slow; it is a “chronic” remedy.
2. Needs sometime before manifesting its effects. Should not be repeated too frequently.