Homoeopathy — Page 178
Calcarea Fluorica 178 hard and inflamed , the teeth become loose and hurt when eating food. The pain in the throat eases after swallowing hot liquids and becomes worse with cold drinks. Calcarea Fluor is also related to the functioning of the reproductive organs in the males as well as females. Sometimes, varicose veins with a tendency to bleed can develop in the external genitalia. Calcarea Fluor and Baryta Carb both can be useful in the treatment of this condition. Calcarea Fluor is useful in the treatment of haemorrhoids that are not only heavily swollen but also hardened. Similarly, if the thyroid gland is enlarged and hardened like a stone it can also be treated with Calcarea Fluor. Once I saw a patient whose haemorrhoids had become hard like a stone. I gave him Calcarea Fluor 1000. Incidentally, he had also an enlargement of the thyroid , which he used to keep covered under a scarf. I had no knowledge of the enlargement of his thyroid gland. After the treatment with Calcarea Fluor, the patient contracted high fever. Being a brave person he did not mind it. He understood that the high fever was due to the medicine and did not go for any other kind of treatment. Within a week, the fever subsided completely, the haemorrhoids became soft and regressed, and the goitre (enlargement of the thyroid gland) also disappeared as well. Only the skin covering the thyroid became baggy due to the decrease of the size of the thyroid underneath it. Later on, this also adjusted to its normal configuration. Similarly I treated a 90- year-old man suffering from cataract with Calcarea Fluor and Zincum Sulph in CM potency. By God’s grace, his cataract cleared completely and it never recurred for the rest of his life. Apparently, surgery on the eye was contra-indicated in view of his old age. It must be remembered that Calcarea Fluor is useful in the treatment of cataract but not useful in the treatment of glaucoma. Cataract and glaucoma are different diseases with different aetiology. In Calcarea Fluor, the patient has the tendency to be nauseated and vomits , and children in particular vomit undigested food. Overwhelmed with studies children can become mentally exhausted and then tend to feel nauseous and vomit. The patient may suffer from rheumatism along with diarrhoea. The haemorrhoids are associated with pain in the back and the lower part of the abdomen. The backache becomes worse in the early part of