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  • proper noun A taxonomic class within the phylum Porifera — the calcareous sponges.

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  • Calcarea phos is another cell salt remedy that is particularly useful when there is general weakness, bone weakness, calcium deficiency, coldness, and a general sense of nutritional deficiency.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • Calcarea carbonic 6th to 30th is used when the individual is weak both physically and mentally, tires easily, and has a tendency to sweat upon the slightest exertion; such individuals may tend toward plumpness, with poor muscle tone, and have an extreme aversion to cold, the open air, or damp environments.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • Other homeopathic remedies to consider are Calcarea sulphurica 6X when there is general toxicity.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • The European varieties of the milkwort, except the chamæbuxus, are all minute, -- and, their ordinary epithets being at least inoffensive, I give them for reference till we find prettier ones; altering only the Calcarea, because we could not have a 'Chalk Juliet,' and two varieties of the

    Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • Its present name, 'Calcarea,' is meant, in botanic Latin, to express its growth on limestone or chalk mountains.

    Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

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