Calcarea carbonica

Characteristic symptoms

Corrector of mal-nutrition ; cachexia with deficiency of blood in consequence of material losses ; tendency to fat ; debility and atrophy ; large head in children, difficulty of children in learning to walk ; contraction of the fingers and toes ; tearing and stitches in the extremities, especially nights, or in summer, or at every change of weather ; numbness and deadness of various parts : nervousness ; apprehensive despairing mood ; sensitiveness to cold and damp air ; great emaciation or excessive obesity ; he is easily tired by bodily exertions ; rough and dry skin ; pale complexion ; nettlerash ; many warts; scurfy eruptions and herpes; rhagades ; fetid ulcers; lymphatic tumors; carious ulcers. Difficulty of falling asleep on account of many thoughts involuntarily thronging his mind ; chilliness ; hot flashes ; perspires freely at night or when walking ; melancholy mood ; anxiety and fear, especially at twilight; rush of blood to the head; chronic morning headaches, aggravated by fresh air ; profuse perspiration of the head ; scurf on the hairy scalp alopecia ; sore nose, red on the points ; polypus of the nose ; very dilated pupils ; bloody exudation from the eyes; pale and thin-wrinkled face; eruptions of a humid character on the face ; swelling of the submaxillary and cervical glands ; great thirst with little appetite ; large abdomen with swelling of the mesenteric glands ; enlargement in the region of the stomach, like an inverted saucer / ravenous appetite ; aversion to meat ; desire for wine and dainties ; sour taste of the food, or in the mouth ; sour vomiting, especially in children ; sour diarrhœa, smelling like putrid eggs ; involuntary diarrhœa ; constipation or several stools daily; haemorrhoids ; great debility after coitus ; profuse and premature menses ; cough with fetid, purulent expectoration ; chronic hoarseness ; rheumatism contracted by working in water; cold feet; young persons grow too fat / anxiousness and shuddering as soon as evening comes.