Impure Calcium Acetate. Ca (C2 H3 O2) 2. Tincture.
Clinical
Anus, itching of. Bronchitis membranosa. Cancer, pains of. Dysmenorrhoea membranosa. Headache. Vertigo.
Characteristics
The symptoms of *Calc-ac. (the first of the lime preparations proved by Hahnemann) are in the main identical with those of *Calcarea carb. (both being prepared from oyster shells), and are included in the pathogenesis of that medicine. Among its most marked symptoms may be named: Vertigo when walking in the open air. Stupefying, pressive pains in the forehead with compression of the whole head and obscuration of the senses *whilst reading: he was obliged to stop while reading and did not know where he was Clotar Muller cured many cases of megrim with *Calc-acet. The indications he relied on were: “Sour taste in mouth, sour eructations, sensation of coldness in the head, and of emptiness. Pain one-sided, affecting right eye, which was red, causing lachrymation.” Sour, offensive eructations. Profuse, painless, not exhausting diarrhoea. Severe itching of anus. Allen (*Handbook) mentions that it has cured some marked cases of membranous dysmenorrhoea and also of violent spasmodic cough ending in the expulsion of casts of bronchial tubes. For *comparisons see *Calcarea c. It has been used in the excruciating pains of open cancer (compare *Calc-ox.).
