Calcarea sulphurica
(Calcarea sulphurica · Calcium sulphate (plaster of Paris))
A remedy of the draining stage. In the materia medica, Calcarea sulphurica is associated with thick, yellow, lumpy discharges once a boil or abscess has already opened, and with slow-healing cuts and pimply skin.
Source
Calcium sulphate, the mineral gypsum, known as plaster of Paris
Kingdom
Mineral
Abbreviation
Calc-s.
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)
Thick, yellow, lumpy discharges from the nose, ears, eyes or skin
Boils, abscesses or sore throats that have already burst and keep draining
Cuts and grazes that are slow to heal and keep weeping
Burning, itching soles; yellow-crusted eruptions on the scalp in children
Tends to feel better
Open air
Tends to feel worse
Warm rooms
Changes of weather
How it compares
(remedies that are often confused with Calcarea sulphurica)
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Hepar sulphuris
(Hepar sulphuris calcareum)
Hepar fits the stage before the abscess opens, painful and chilly; Calcarea sulphurica follows once pus has found a way out.
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Silica
(Silicea terra)
Silica is slower and chilly, for lingering suppuration; Calcarea sulphurica runs warmer, with freely draining yellow pus.
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From the classic texts
“Suppurative processes come within the range of this remedy, after pus has found a vent. Mucous discharges are yellow, thick and lumpy.”
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