Substances & Homeopatic Remedies      Calcarea carbonica
Hahnemannii       Calcarea ostrearum / Ostrea edulis
Ostreon (greco), ostrea (latino)     Dal latino "calx": calcare.
Dal latino "carbo": carbone.       Traditional name
Italian: Guscio di Ostrica     English: Oyster shells, Carbonate
of lime;     French: Carbonate de chaux;      German:
Calciumkarbonat.      Used parts      The shell of the animal.
Trituration 1x.       Animalia; Mollusca - Molluscs; Gastropoda
- Snails; Bivalvia - Mussels; Eulamellibranchiata ; Anisomyaria
; Ostreidae - Oysters       Original proving      Hahnemann
prepared and proved this salt of calcium. Allen's Encyclop. Mat.
Med. Vol. II, 351.      Description of the substance
Aragonite is a carbonate mineral. It and the mineral calcite are
the two common, naturally occurring polymorphs of calcium
carbonate, CaCO3. The crystal lattice of aragonite differs from
that of calcite, resulting in a different crystal shape, an
orthorhombic system with acicular cry