Minutus

Can someone help me with these questions....
What is the difference between Saccharum Officianarum and Saccharum Album? Are they one and the same?
What is the difference between Calcarea Muriatica and Natrum Carbonicum? I don't mean MM wise - I mean substance wise.
What is CalcPhos - is it Calc + Phos or Calc + Phos Acid? I have seen references to both.
I'm confused! Thanks!
Truly,
Erica

This is basic chemistry and found in many homoeopathic books!
Calcium phosphate Ca3(PO4)2 Phosphate of Lime is a white, amorphous powder, obtained by dropping dilute Phosphoric acid into lime water.
From Murphy’s Mat med:

Pharmacy

Sacch. Saccharum officinale. Saccharum album. Cane sugar. Sucrose. Trituration. Solution. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies, thirtieth potency and higher.
Calcarea muriatica

(chloride of lime) CaCl2,

Pharmacy

Calc-m. Calcarea muriatica. Calcium Chloride. Chloride of Lime. Rademacher's liquor is 1 part to 2 of distilled water of which take 15 drops in half a cup of water, five times daily. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.
Natrium carbonicum

(carbonate of sodium)

Na 2CO 3

Pharmacy

Nat-c. Natrum carbonicum. Sodium carbonate. The common "Soda" of the shops, purified, not the Bicarbonate of Soda. Trituration. Solution. Historical dose: Trituration and all potencies, sixth potency.
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Subject: [Minutus] Help with distinction of remedies...
Can someone help me with these questions....
What is the difference between Saccharum Officianarum and Saccharum Album? Are they one and the same?
What is the difference between Calcarea Muriatica and Natrum Carbonicum? I don't mean MM wise - I mean substance wise.
What is CalcPhos - is it Calc + Phos or Calc + Phos Acid? I have seen references to both.
I'm confused! Thanks!

Truly,

Erica

---Saccharum album
Saccharum album
Cane sugar. White sugar. Tinct.
Allen : Cyclopaedia, V. 8.
Lippe : Hahn. Mo., V. 3, p. 141.
Swan : Hahn. Saccharum officinale
White sugar.
AUTHORITIES.
[_a1]: Ad. Lippe, M.D. , Hahn. Month., 3, 141. "The fragmentary provings and clinical observations now presented have been obtained principally from the late Dr. S. Boenninghausen, and Dr. S.G. Bute, who proved the 30th potency on himself";
[_a2]: Samuel Swan, M.D. , Hahn. Month., 7, 495, "Mr. A. states that the following symptoms appeared about twenty-five years since, and after fourteen years he discovered that they were caused by sugar; he had passed through the hands of sixteen physicians. Occasionally, by way of experiment, he now takes sugar, and always with the same train of symptoms, from two to four days after eating it";
[_a3]: ` 2a same, "Called January 4th, with symptoms which seemed the result of the same morbid condition that was excited by sugar".
Mind
In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "McPhee Family" wrote:

---sacchrum album and sacchrum off are same both cane sugar or white sugar.calc mur is calcium chloride and natrum carb is sodium cabonate
calc phos is calciun phosphate.
In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "McPhee Family" wrote:

Dear Erica,

Can someone help me with these questions....

I think they are the same

Calc Mur is Calcium chloride
Natrium Mur is Sodium chloride
Calcium and sodium are 2 different elements in the Periodic Table. See Scholten.

Calc Phos is a compound which has has completely different properties than either Calcium or Phosphorus which are both elements. Phos acid is an acid which is a compound made from Phosphorus, Hydrogen and Oxygen and has the chemical formula of HPO3
ATB
Rochelle (in my other life I taught chemistry!!)
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

Hi Rochelle and erica,

Nat CARB is sodium carbonicum or sodium carbonate. Washing soda in old
parlance. Originally prepared from glasswort which grows near the sea.

Regards,
Paul

According to Tinus Smits' descriptions, Saccharum album is plain ol' refined white sugar, but Saccharum officinale is (if I remember and understood right) sugar cane juice, with all of its included minerals and etc. I wasn't able to find Saccharum officinale anywhere, tho.
Shannon

Thank you for these helpful responses.
Robyn, unfortunately I did not take basic chemistry so reading the descriptions in the books is like reading latin ... it means nothing to me. I was hoping someone could explain the difference between them, not just give me the chemical description which I can, and have, read in many books.
As for the CalcPhos, Ernest Farrington's MM refers to it as Calc and Phos, not Phos Acid so I was looking for a confirmation.
In none of the references could I find that SacOff and SacAlb were one in the same so thank you, usrardr, for clarifying.
I appreciate the responses.
Truly,
Erica

Thank you Rochelle,
This is very helpful!
The Ernest Farrington MM misled me as the first paragraph talks about the symptoms of both Calc and Phos and that it is a combination of lime and phosphorous.
Thanks for explaining.
Truly,
Erica