Calcarea fluorica
(Calcarea fluorica · Calcium fluoride (fluorspar))
The tissue salt of hardness and elasticity. In the materia medica, Calcarea fluorica is associated with stony-hard lumps and swellings, enlarged veins, cracked skin, and a stiff lower back that eases with continued movement.
Source
Calcium fluoride, the mineral known as fluorite or fluorspar
Kingdom
Mineral
Abbreviation
Calc-f.
Home acute kit
Usually prescribed by a homeopath
The classic picture
(a remedy is chosen when the whole picture fits the person, not from a single symptom)
Hard, stony swellings and knots in glands, tendons and around joints
Enlarged, varicose veins
Cracks and fissures in the skin, especially of the palms
Chronic low backache, worse on first moving and better with continued motion
Tends to feel better
Heat and warm applications
Continued motion
Tends to feel worse
Rest
Beginning to move
Changes of weather
How it compares
(remedies that are often confused with Calcarea fluorica)
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Rhus toxicodendron
(Rhus toxicodendron)
Shares the stiffness that loosens with motion, but in acute strains and damp weather; Calcarea fluorica's picture is slower, with hard swellings.
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Conium
(Conium maculatum)
Both have stony-hard glands; Conium adds marked weakness and dizziness, especially in older people.
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Silica
(Silicea terra)
Silica leans toward slow festering and chilliness; Calcarea fluorica toward hardening and lax veins.
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From the classic texts
“Swellings or indurated enlargements having their seat in the fasciae and capsular ligaments of joints, or in the tendons. Indurations of stony hardness.”
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