Homeopathic remedy combining lime (calcium) and fluoric acid (hydrofluoric acid). In homeopathy, this is called Calcarea Fluorica (or Calc Fluor for short).
Even though lime and fluoric acid are common chemicals, when combined and prepared in the homeopathic way, they create a totally new kind of medicine with special healing powers — especially for hard, bony, or tough growths in the body.
What Does Calc Fluor Cure?
It’s especially good for
- Hard lumps or swellings that feel like stone — in glands, tendons, bones, or skin.
- Things like:
- Bone spurs (exostosis)
- Hard swollen glands
- Rice-like bits in joints or cartilage
- Fibroids (like in the knee or uterus)
- Hard lumps in breasts
- Varicose veins in private areas
- Even hard spots on babies’ heads (called cephalohematoma)
Who Needs This Remedy?
This remedy fits for :
- Hate cold, damp weather or drafts — they feel worse in it.
- Feel better with heat — warm baths, heating pads, warm drinks help.
- Feel worse when resting — movement actually makes them feel better (unusual!).
- Are often sad, gloomy, or feel miserable emotionally.
- Might have gout, with lots of pale urine and diarrhea.
Eye Problems It Helps
- Blurry vision after straining eyes (like reading or screen time)
- Cataracts
- Corneal ulcers (if the edges are hard)
- Small hard spots on the eye or pink eye (conjunctivitis)
Nose & Throat
- Thick, yellow-green, smelly mucus from nose (long-term colds or sinus issues)
- Adenoids (swollen tissue behind nose — common in kids)
- Sore throat with ulcers or swollen tonsils (even if another remedy, Baryta carb, didn’t work)
- Worse from cold, better from warm drinks
- Pain worse at night
Digestion & Liver
- Liver pain at night — worse lying on the sore side, better walking around
- Diarrhea in people with gout
- Itchy, painful, bleeding hemorrhoids
- Anal fissures (painful tears near anus)
- Constipation
Urinary System
- Lots of watery pee
- Pee smells strong
- Burning or stinging while peeing
Reproductive System
- Hard, lumpy testicles in men
- Fibroids or varicose veins in the vulva in women
- Hard lumps in breasts
Voice & Cough
- Dry tickle in throat — makes you want to clear your voice
- Hoarse after reading aloud or talking a lot
- Cough after eating or in cold air — dry, hacking, or even spasmodic (comes in bursts)
Cured symptoms like
- Cured a bone spur on the 8th rib
- Fixed lumbago (back pain) that didn’t respond to Rhus tox — worse at rest, better with heat
- Helped hard neck glands
- Even helped with weird dreams and unrefreshing sleep — sometimes people even jump out of bed in their sleep!
Note
Calc Fluor is similar to Silica when it comes to helping the body deal with pus or infections that need to drain or heal slowly — but Calc Fluor is more for hard, bony, structural issues, while Silica is more for “ripening” abscesses.
Calc Fluor is the “Hard Tissue Healer”
Best for: Hard lumps, bone spurs, tough glands, fibroids, varicose veins, dental enamel issues — especially in people who are chilly, worse at rest, better with warmth, and feel emotionally down.
helping rebuild or dissolve things that have become too rigid or overgrown.
NOTE
When studying Calc Fluor, think:
“Hard + Cold + Better with Heat + Worse Resting = Think Calc Fluor!”