Author: Urenus

The attenuations are prepared from D-camphor, C₁₀H₁₆O, MW: 152.2, which is ob- tained from Cinnamomum camphora T. Nees et Eberm. N.O. Lauraceae.

The essential indications are:

Initially abortive cure in influenza. Main remedy for cholera. Violent fever with subsequent prostration. Irritation of the bladder. Cramps and neuralgias.

Camphor serves as an antidote for a wide variety of remedy-aggravations.

Typical Camphora symptoms are burning pains in the gullet and stomach, retching and vomiting, and effects on the circulation. These are seen first of all in slowing of the pulse, pallor of the skin and lowering of the body temperature; later there is a re- action, with quickening of the heart-beat and raising of the body temperature. With this there are heat and flushing of the face and palpitation in the carotid arteries.

Camphora is also indicated at the beginning of colds, e.g. in acute fluent coryza with increased discharge of watery mucus from the nose, with or without sneezing. However, it is also indicated in congestive coryza and catarrhal irritations of the la- ryngeal and tracheal mucosa, with short dry coughs and constriction of the chest.

Camphora is always indicated when death threatens through rapid depression of neural activity or of pulmonary or cardiac activity, e.g. in drowning. In such situa- tions of collapse it is on a par with Carbo Vegetabilis.

Camphora also has a reputation in bladder problems arising from the abuse of Spanish-fly blisters. Such bladder symptoms would otherwise indicate prostate dis- ease. There is frequent urging to pass urine, the urination being painful and difficult, the urine passing drop by drop with burning pains. There is also urging from holding the urine, and tenesmus of the sphincter vesicae.

A rare symptom may be mentioned: that the bladder is pressed out over the pubic bone, rather as if a rupture had occurred.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Camphora, published the fol- lowing indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for camphora: common cold; syncopal attacks.

The attenuations are prepared from Adenosine cyclic-3’,5’-(hydrophosphate) C₁₀H₁₂N₅O₆P, MW: 329.2.

cAMP has become known as a significant intracellular regulating factor, which is produced in the cell-membrane as the result of stimuli which proceed in part from the surrounding connective tissue. During this production, cell-differentiation takes place and other hormonal stimuli are transmitted. cAMP is antagonistic towards cGMP (cyclic guanosine monophosphate), through which undifferentiated cell growth is promoted, i.e. cancerous tumours. The cancer cell is distinguished – apart from disturbance in respiration and mutation – by unlimited growth of undifferenti- ated cells (without the usual inhibiting factors).

cAMP is used principally for stimulative reactivation in enzyme-blocks (cell- membrane enzymes such as adenylate cyclase), in cellular phases, iatrogenic dam-

age, and may be tried experimentally in virus diseases and as a supportive treatment in cancer.

For expediency, it is given in the form of injections, and the further to the right of the Biological Section the phase is orientated, the higher the potencies. e.g. in tu- mours 30X and 20X, in inflammations (reaction phases) 6X or 8X, whilst the 12X represents a medium potency which may also be indicated in tumours.

The drug picture of cAMP was composed in June 1996 by David Riley, M.D., Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA.

The most important symptoms from David Riley’s drug proving were:

Essential Characteristic

This remedy affected sleep and the mucus membranes in the head i.e. mouth and nose.

Improvement of the normal prover symptoms of: snoring, difficulty in falling asleep and poor sleep, and sneezing in cold air. Vivid dreams. Fatigue. Desires burnt meat or milk. Dull headaches. Pain like a band. Head pain that extends to other areas. Aphthae on the gums. Sensitive teeth. Throat pain on waking. Gurgling or cramping pain in the abdomen. Diarrhea. Cramping pain with stool. Constipation with straining. Frequent stools that are hard or watery and soft. Pain during urina- tion. Leucorrhea. Menstrual pain. Menstrual bleeding too short. Rash on chest. Pre- menstrual breast tenderness. Back pain before menses. Difficult to fall asleep or waking from sleep.

Mind

Anguish. Nail biting. Self confidence improves. DREAMS vivid, remembered, nu- merous, scorpions, or of work. Time passes too slowly. Sadness before menses.

Generalities

Energy increased. Weariness in afternoon or before menses. Many food desires and cravings: cereal, eggs, ice cream, burnt meat, milk, oranges, potatoes and gravy, sausages, and sweets. Aversion to meat before menses. Aggravated by tobacco.

Head

Hair falling out or sore and tenderness of scalp during washing. Heaviness of head. Constricting head pain like a band. Pain extending to jaws or neck. Pain in small spots. Pain on waking. Pain in forehead, occiput, or vertex. Varied pains that are dull, pressing outward, or throbbing. Left sided headache behind eye. Sore scalp. Improvement of headaches that are behind the eyes.

Eye

Sticky eye discharges in the morning on waking.

Ear

Flashes of stitching pain in right ear. Tickle in left ear while lying.

Nose

Coryza. Watery discharge in morning. Dryness inside nose and compelled to blow. Sneezing in cold air is diminished.

Face

Chapped and cracked lips. Pimples on nose and rash on the chin. Stitching pain in the cheek bones and around the left eye.

Mouth

Aphthae on gums or tongue.

Taste

Water tastes bitter or metallic.

Teeth

Sensitive to air or coldness of front teeth or right sided teeth.

Throat

Pain that is burning or sore on waking. Tingling up towards my ears.

Stomach

Gurgling, rumbling, and churning as if turning over. Movement of flatus. Nausea after eating or stool improves. Thirst in evening.

Abdomen

Sensitive to clothing due to distension. Flatulence. Distention from flatus. Gur- gling while lying, or rumbling. Cramping pain before menses or after midnight. Cutting or stitching pain in epigastric region or lower quadrants.

Rectum

CONSTIPATION with STRAINING or difficult stool. Diarrhea with cramping. FLATUS before or during stool. Pain that is cramping or during stool.

Stool

Oblong pellet stool. Blood in streaks or spots. Dark. FREQUENT stool or improve- ment from that symptom. Hard stool. Soft, or watery stool or improvement of this. Small, long, or fishy smelling.

Bladder

Heaviness in pelvis during urination. Pain stitching or burning during urination.

Frequent urging with little urinary output. Involuntary urination while laughing.

Urethra

Pain during urination.

Urine

Dark color. Strong odor.

Genitalia, Female

Menses frequent. Vaginal itching during menses. LEUCORRHEA that is offensive, bloody, copious, or mucousy. Dark menstrual blood or pale. Pain during menses. Menses scanty and too short. Dysmenorrhea.

Respiration

No snoring for several weeks.

Chest

Cracking in whole of sternum. Rash on chest and face. Acrid odor in axilla. Im- provement of pre-menstrual breasts and soreness and swelling.

Back

PAIN is aching in sacrum or lower back or before menses. Neck tension better rub- bing.

Extremities

Dryness of skin that causes cracking in fingers. Cramps in right or left calf. Aching on the back of right hand.

Sleep

DIFFICULTY FALLIN ASLEEP or improvement of this. Waking from dreams or from warmth. Sleepiness in afternoon. Sleeping on abdomen.

Skin

Dryness of skin that causes cracking in fingers.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts of the flowering plant, Caltha palustris L., which grows in ditches and water-meadows in Europe, Asia and North America. N.O. Ranunculaceae.

Caltha Palustris has done good work in gastric symptoms with abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea, especially when headache and singing in the ears are pres- ent, with possible urinary tenesmus also. We may also see favourable action in cel- lulitis, and in pemphigus vulgaris with bullae surrounded by a ring with much itch- ing. Caltha Palustris (in tincture or low potencies) may also be tried in great swelling of the face, especially around the eyes, and in itching eruptions on the thighs with pustules. Good action is said to have been observed in uterine cancer.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Caltha palustris, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for caltha palustris: rashes.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts of the flowering plant, Calendula officinalis L. N.O. Compositae.

The main indications are:

Badly-healing wounds (with lacerated and crushed edges).

Additionally, Calendula is characterised by great irritability, with a tendency to choke and rheumatoid pains everywhere with light shivering, aggravated while at rest.

Calendula also has a beneficial effect on vesicular eruptions and on inflammatory swelling of the submaxillary gland, the tonsils, the parotid glands and various lymph glands (could also be used in mononucleosis – glandular fever – along with Vince- toxicum or Engystol).

Calendula is especially suited to wounds whose state is deteriorating, which cause considerable pain and whose edges are red from inflammation with a tendency to fester, especially in contusions. (External application also.)

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Calendula officinalis, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for calendula: dermal suppuration and poorly healing wounds; compres- sion wounds; lacerations; defect wounds; frostbite and burns to the skin.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from surgically removed kidney stones (mixture of: oxalate phosphate, cerate).

The main indications are:

Nephrolithiasis. Pyelonephritis. Prostate problems. Especially effective combined with Berberis, Calculi Bili and Ureter, in injection.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from triturated gall-stones (Calculi fellei).

The essential indications are:

Cholelithiasis. Cholecystitis. Cholangitis, especially effective in combination with Calculi Renales, Bacterium Coli and with Vesica Fellea.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Calculi biliarii-Nosode, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for calculi bili: gallstone affections.

The attenuations are prepared from Calcium sulphate, Ca SO₄ · 2 H₂O, MW: 172.2.

The main indications are:

Purulent conditions of connective tissue. Cystic acne. Chronic sinuses. Chronic tonsillitis. Keratitis and conjunctivitis with discharge. (Specific).

Calcium Sulphuricum is close to Hepar Sulphuris, but has a deeper action on fes- tering processes, especially after these have discharged.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Calcium sulphuricum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for calcium sulphuricum: suppuration of cutaneous and subcutaneous tis- sue, accompanied by a tendency to develop fistulas; chronic mucosal suppuration.

The attenuations are prepared from Calcium Hydrogen phosphate, CaHPO₄ · 2 H₂O, MW: 172.1.

The main characteristics are as follows:

It is a weakness-remedy for underdeveloped children and in puberty. Rickets. Headaches (hat unbearable). The head wobbles around. Protracted  dentition.  Teeth decay prematurely. Desires smoked foods. Pains in the limbs and joints when

the weather changes. Headache after school. Pulmonary tuberculosis, sensitivity to the least draught (causes pain). Stimulates formation of callus in fractures.

Whilst Calcium Carbonicum works better in flabby patients, Calcium Phospho- ricum is indicated for thin patients. There are umbilical colics, constant desire for food, with easy vomiting of food after eating.

Diarrhoea and colicky pains, especially after fruit; loose green stools, sometimes mucous and lienteric with foul-smelling flatulence. Anal fistula.

Menses too early with bright red or dark blood and with violent pains in the back.

Hoarseness, continually clearing the throat; tickling cough with dryness in the throat.

Calcium Phosphoricum is one of the main remedies in rickets and difficult denti- tion, also in cholera infantum and digestive weakness, and assists rapid healing of fractures. The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Calcium phosphoricum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for calcium phosphoricum: constitutional remedy for status lymphaticus; conditions of exhaustion; appetite disorders; calcium deficiency; spinal affections.

The attenuations are prepared from Calcium iodide, CaI₂ · 4 H₂O, MW: 366.0.

The main indications are:

Chronic glandular indurations, goitre. Hypertrophy of the tonsils.

The iodine component of this remedy is responsible for activating metabolic processes and connective tissue function. Thus Calcium Iodatum is to be preferred to Calcium Carbonicum in many cases.

Its use is recommended in hypertrophy of the parotid glands, congestive coryza, polypi, bronchitis, pleural effusion, knee-joint effusions, chronic infection of the bones, adenoma of the mammary glands, chronic hydrocephalus, facial paralysis, phlyctenular conjunctivitis, corneal ulcers in scrofulous children – who also exhibit swollen tonsils and cervical glands, and in blepharitis, chronic otitis with hardness of hearing and involvement of the bones, and galactorrhoea of women who are not nursing (if Pulsatilla fails).

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Calcium iodatum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for calcium iodatum: enlargement of the lymph nodes; tonsillar swelling; chronic pu- rulent otitis media; tendency to common colds; goiterous disorders; ulcerous vari- cose veins.

The attenuations are prepared from Calcium fluoride, CaF₂, MW: 78.1.

The main indications are:

Swelling of the bones. Dental caries. Fistulae of the bones. Glandular swellings, stony-hard and suggestive of carcinoma. Vascular naevus. Lumbago with aggrava- tion on first movement. Meibomian cysts and styes, both indurated. Indurations are characteristic of Calcium Fluoratum.

The main action is equally on connective structures generally including elastic tissue, and on the periosteum. It also promotes the resorption of indurated exudates and is likewise effective in treating varices, haemorrhoids, exostoses, spots on the cornea and in mammary tumours. (In the last-mentioned the Mastitis Cystica nosode would be better or could be used concurrently.) Also in lumbago (affections of the spine), post-nasal catarrh and ozaena.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Calcium fluoratum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for calcium fluoratum: inflammations of the upper respiratory passages and of the gastrointestinal tract; degenerative alterations of the supporting and con- nective tissues; thyroid disorders.