Veratrum album (verat.) The Veratrum influence is constant activity. This is not s much violence or aggressiveness, except in the most extreme state. It is rather a driven, ceaseless energy compelling the patient to be busy all the time. It…
Carcinosinum Cancerinum A nosode from Carcinoma Historical background The first to mention and use Carcinosin, the cancer nosode, was James Tyler Kent. He called it ‘Carcinoma’, and this is how he prepared the remedy: ‘The preparation of Carcinoma…
Carbo Vegetabilis Vegetable Charcoal C (impure). Trituration. The essential features If there is a one word that characterizes the pathology of this remedy, the word is emptiness. It is a feeling as if life has gone and left an…
Carbo Animalis Animal Charcoal. Made from charred ox-hide. C (impure). Contains Calc. phos. Trituration. The essential features The Carbo animalis patient is a burnt-out individual lacking self-confidence, without stamina, and with a lot of fears, anxieties and delusions. He…
Capsicum Annuum Cayenne Pepper (South America and West Indies) O. Solanaceae Tincture of the dried pods. The essential features The constitutional Capsicum individual is usually obese, flabby with a red face (especially a red nose) and has varicose vein…
Cantharis Vesicatoria Cantharis vesicator, Lytta vesicatory. Blister-beetle, ‘Spanish fly’. N.O. Insecta, Coleoptera. Tincture or trituration of live insects. The essential features As is well known from our materia medica, remedies generally prefer a specific system, organ or area of…
Camphora Officinalis Camphor. C10H16O. A gum obtained from Laurus camphora. N.O. Lauraceae. Solution in rectified spirit. The essential features Camphora is so powerful that it antidotes most of our remedies. It should not be kept in the home…
Calendula Officinalis The essential features Calendula is to lacerated wounds what Arnica is to bruises. Both are considered specifics for injuries (as are Ledum, Bellis perennis and some other remedies). When the skin or an organ is not torn…
Calcarea Sulphurica Calcium Sulphate, CaSO4. Gypsum. Plaster of Paris. Trituration. The essential features The general idea that runs through this remedy is of an organism which tends to produce tumours and abscesses that not only do not…
Calcarea Carbonica Impure Calcium Carbonate. CaCO3. Includes symptoms of Calcarea acetica and Calcarea ostrearum, for which Hahnemann also made provings. Koch’s provings were made from carbonate of lime precipitated from a solution of chalk in hydrochloric acid. Trituration of the…