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Hahnemann's Calcareum Therapy and Modern Calcium Treatment -- Hilario Luna Castro, M.D. |
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Since the most ancient times, lime has been used in therapeutics and was considered as simple element of very restricted use, being preferently employed for cauterizing warts, fungosities, carcinomatous ulcers, tinea, burns, etc. It was not until Davy's discovery, in 1808, that the element calcium was known, and from this date on its applications became more interesting, notwithstanding that its use remained relegated to the most complete empiricism. Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy and pioneer of the calcium therapy of today, an expert in the therapeutic value of this substance, went on to the preparation by trituration of his first calcium remedy, Calcarea acetica (Calcium acetate, acetate of lime,( Ca, C2 H3 O2) in 1826, and afterwards continued with the Calcareas his experimental labors upon the healthy man. Calcarea carbonica, Calcarea arsenicosa, Calcarea Phosphorica, Calcarea iodata, Calcarea silicica, Calcarea fluorica, Sulphurica and Picrica have been the subject of studies and provings by such homoeopathic physicians as Hering, Allen, Koch, Robinson, James, Macfarlan, Schussler, Zeil, Guernsey, Knorre, Franz, Gross, Stapf, Lille, Hartmann, Bell, Blakely, Conant, Morgan, Burnett and others, which have determenied the characteristics and indications for the use of these remedies in therapeutics, enriching at the same time the homoeopathic material medica. Calcium is found in the skeleton, in the teeth, in the soft tissues of the organism, being an essential element in all the plasma of the tissues and cells. The normal organism contains 9.0 and 11.0 mg. of calcium per 100 c.c. of serum, and this quantity varies in children, the proportion increasing or decreasing in them or in the adult according to their diverse troubles. The calcium level of the bloody plasma is in reciprocal relation to the phosphorus of the blood. The metabolic functions of calcium depend upon a complex phenomenon in the acidification, solubility and transportation of the calcium salts. The calcium metabolism can be affected by numerous causes, among which we can mention the action of the parathyroid hormone, the B, C, and D vitamins, the acid-base equilibrium, the renal, thyroid and parathyroid functions, which supply the absorption degree of calcium and phosphorus salts in the organism. The amount of calcium contained in the organism and that required for it, its deficiency and the variations contained in the blood in which ionized and nonionized compounds form, so that the verification of this indispensable element in the daily consumption of food in man and the animals have been the subject of multiple investigations during these last twenty years (Collip, Sherman, Rowntree, Stewart, Bernheim, Booher, Brown, Hunter, etc) hence their numerous applications in therapeutics due to the important role that calcium performs in the healthy and sick organism. Pure experimentation in the preparations of lime, which is the
inexhaustible source of knowledge of the homoeopathic material medica
and its application to the clinic, has given us numerous and various
symptoms from among them as follows: From more than one hundred years of continued success in the use of Calcareas in homoeopathy, it has been proved that the best and most efficient results come from the strictest and closest prescription of them according to the law of Similitude, embracing the most different applications, therefore it is not a surprise for us to find them indicated for the most varied troubles. Every author agrees to this and practice justifies it, that the Calcareas are indicated in that constitutional and morbid state characterized by different affections which are settling in the tegumentary, lymphatic and osseous systems (scrofula), which is far Escherich tuberculosis added to lymphatism and causing scrofula, that is, the evolution of the tuberculosis in a special field. The Calcarea patient is stout, corpulent, fatty, whether it be a child or an adult, with an excessive paleness of the skin and coolness of the extremities. In children the frontanelles remain open, the dentition is delayed and irregular, the abdomen is voluminous and the lower extremities short and thin, a backwardness existing in the general developing of the organism. |
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