Calcarea Iodata calc-i.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Iodide of Lime

General

It is in the treatment of scrofulous affections, especially enlarged glands, tonsils, etc, that this remedy has gained marked beneficial results. Thyroid enlargements about time of puberty. Flabby children subject to colds. Secretions inclined to be profuse and yellow. Adenoids. Uterine fibroids. Croup.

Head

Headache while riding against cold wind. Lightheaded. Catarrh; worse at root of nose; sneezing; very little sensation. Polypi of nose and ear.

Throat

Enlarged tonsils are filled with little crypts.

Respiratory

Chronic cough; Pain in chest, difficulty breathing after syphilis and mercurialization (Grauvogl). Hectic fever; green purulent expectoration. Croup. Pneumonia.

Skin

Indolent ulcers, accompanying varicose veins. Easy perspiration. Copper-colored and papulous eruptions, tinea, favus, crusta lactea, swelling of the glands, skin cracked, falling out of hair.

Relationship

Compare: Agraphis-Bluebell (adenoids with enlarged tonsils). Here Sulph iod follows both Agraphis and Calc iod. Acon lycotonum (swelling of glands, Hodgkin's disease).

Compare also: Calc fluor; Sil; Merc iod.

Dose

Second and third trituration.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Iodide of Lime. Ca I 2 .

Clinical

Cancer. Consumption. Flatulence. Glandular swellings . Headache. Mollities ossium . Tumours of the breast.

Characteristics

Calc. iod . has had a short proving, but it has been used mostly on indications suggested by its two components in the diseases named above. It is similar to Baryt. iod . in its action on enlarged glands, and is especially indicated for enlarged tonsils honey-combed with little crypts. Riding against a cold wind = headache. C. L. Nicholls has cured a number of cases of breast tumour with the 3x; nodular tumours, movable, tender to touch, painful on moving arm.

Relations

Compare: Calc., Baryt., Calc. ph., Carb. v.

Mind

Indifference. ─ Indolence.

Head

Light-headed. ─ Giddy headache. ─ "Sensation as if the head wasn't, yet was.". ─ Headache whilst riding against a cold wind. ─ Constant, severe, dull headache, forehead and temples; < stooping. ─ Sharp, piercing pain in r. temple.

Mouth

Dry, furred feeling on lips and tongue. ─ Bitter taste > by tobacco. ─ Astringent taste.

Stomach

Eructations; hiccough; nausea.

Abdomen

Rumbling in bowels. ─ Constant evacuation of large quantities of wind downwards.

Skin

Itching in various parts, disappearing and reappearing in other parts, only > after much scratching.