====== CALCAREA CARBONICA ======

^ Standard name | Calcarea carbonica |
^ Other names | Calcarea ostrearum |
^ Standard abbr. | Calc. |
^ Other abbr. | Calc. carb. |
^ Scientific name | calcium carbonate (impure) |
^ Other scientific names | |
^ Common names | |
^ Substance description | Triturations of the pure white middle layer of the oyster-shell. Precipitated carbonate of lime from a solution of chalk in hydrochloric acid, is triturated with an equal quantity of sugar of milk; twenty parts of this are mixed with one hundred parts of alcohol, and this is termed the tincture. Neither of these preparations consists of pure calcium carbonate. |
^ Distinctness | VARIANTS (1. Oyster shell; 2. Carbonate of lime.) |
^ Classification | Chemical substance -- Mixture |
^ Provings mixed with | [[en:rem:r415|Calcarea acetica]] |

===== Provings =====

===== Materia medica =====
[[en:mm:hering:calcarea-carbonica-r6|Hering, C: The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] \\

===== Notes =====
All standard homeopathic remedy names are listed in the [[en:rem:start|Official Remedy Name List]]. 
[[en:rem:extended|Extended Remedy Name List]] includes all known naming variations (homeopathic names only).
The [[en:rem:complete|Complete Remedy Name List]] includes all homeopathic names and all common names. This page is a part of ongoing [[en:homeorem|Project Remedies]].

Also see Calcarea ostrearum calcinata, which is also made of oyster shell, but calcined at red heat and slaked (forming mostly calcium hydroxide  Ca(OH)<sub>2</sub>).