My brother (age 40, with a history of sinusitis) took high potencies of Calc Carb (10M, about two doses) for his cold and sinus allergies over four months ago as suggested by his homeopath. It was only effective to some extent but he has since been having symptoms like proving. The air that he exhales while breathing is very allergic to others nearby and they catch cold. Please suggest
antidote as he wants to cleanse his body of all the problems due to overdose.

Thanks much for help.

Dear GCSIND,

I'm not at all clear about what the proving symptoms are. It sounds bizarre. Are you saying that his exhalations are making other people sick?

Here's a general rule for antidoting a remedy:
Take a dose of the same remedy in a lower potency.
For instance, he might try a single dose of Calc-carb 30C.

Snoopy

Snoopy,

Excuse me for not being clear in my description. I dont know if it is proving but yes his exhalations are causing other people sick. If anyone comes near him and breathes the air for a while, they start sneezing and catch cold and become sick. He did try taking lower dose od Calc carb 15C to antidote but it did n't help. Also he tried taking camphora mother tincture in water but that also did nt seem to have much effect.

Thanks

This is the strangest case... If people are getting sick from being in the same room with him,
maybe hs should be diagnosed for the presence
of some communicable infectious agent. If we had a diagnosis, we'd have a starting point.

Snoopy

Snoopy - that's exactly what I was thinking. In the meantime I am not sure if this could be considered a proving as I certainly don't know of calc having this symptom? does it?

Your friend needs to have his new case taken by someone in person or someone here could help, but we need to see the case as it is now. With a new case it can be determined if a remedy that antidotes calc carb is indicated with his new symptom.

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This is NOT a proving symptom. Your brother may have an illness that is infectious - he needs to be tested by a doctor. The Calc carb cannot have done this - it is impossible. There is nothing in the remedy that could be communicated to other people.

Do not take a lower dose of the same remedy. At best it will do nothing, at worst it will make him sicker.

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.

Thanks to all for the suggestions.
Let me give details of his case if it interests all- He had a long history of sinusitis (for over 15 years), allergies to cold, fog, chill weather, ice creams,citrus fruits like lemon etc. The sinus pains used to be severe with thick nasal discharges, pharyngitis, inflammation of tonsils(left side), headaches etc. He took lot of anti-biotics, anti-histamines etc those years. Later tried homeopathy only since last five years or so (on and off), taking whenever the symptoms became too much to bear, as advised by a homeopath.
His homeopath tried many remedies to strengthen his sinus membranes and to improve his resistance to cold, allergies etc. Lastly he settled for Kali Bich 30X asking my brother to take whenever symptoms worsened. He took it on and off for a duration of few weeks whenever required and then stopped it.. continued for few years. To a large extent, he was better and his sneezings etc were much reduced since.
He also tells me that he took Kali Bich 30C recently for a week (three weeks ago) after trying the antidoting doses for Cal carb.(But the problems of others getting sick were present earlier to taking Kali Bich) As he now moved his residence and does not have access to his old homeopath, he does not know how to go about. Ofcourse I too advised him to do a thorough check up, but thought others in the BB could throw up some useful suggestions if these were due to his taking of above remedies (over so long a period).

Thanks for help.

He took Kali Bich on and off for longtime and though it was effective, many of his problems did not vanish. Another homeopath who looked at his case said that his problems were due to acidity (allergies to citrus fruits etc?) and to correct it he advised him to take calc carb (initially he tried one dose of 1M and later 10M). Still we are not sure if his diagnosis was correct but there was some improvement in his allergy sensitivity as he did not have so much of problems with allergies.

His present symptoms :

As mentioned earlier, his exhalations cause others sick but his condition is fine except for bad breadth, occasional headaches and fever. Has constipation and improper bowel movements. Pharyngitis and tonsilitis(left) still there,causing problems such as uneasy feeling at throat and nose. His left turbinates are slightly swollen and he feels uneasy there. Thick mucus secretions not present now and not much of sneezings due to cold.

Kali Bich sounded like a good choice for the sinus trouble. How did he happen to leave
Kali Bich 30X and take a Calc Carb 10M? Did this remedy do any good at all?

What are the present symptoms?

Snoopy