Cerium oxalicum
Made from cerium oxalate — the rare-earth salt that genuinely calmed the vomiting of pregnancy in the old dispensary, and the classical remedy of the intractable sickness.
The whole picture, in one breath
Think of a stomach that will not keep anything down: intractable vomiting of pregnancy of the old books, the vomiting of children, the nausea that nothing touches, and the rare-earth salt the old dispensary genuinely reached for. The intractable-vomiting remedy: that is Cerium oxalicum.
The substance, in plain words
Cerium oxalate is the salt of cerium — a rare-earth element, its compounds genuinely settled in the old dispensary as an antiemetic for the vomiting of pregnancy and of children, a real if forgotten corner of pharmaceutical history. The proving gave the salt the vomiting portrait.
The traditional picture Classical sources
The inner state
- Anxiety and despair. The dread of the vomiting, the sinking spirits of the unrelenting sickness, worse at night.
- Irritability. Cross from the constant nausea and weakness.
- Despondency. Gloomy in the chronic, exhausting states.
The body
- Vomiting of pregnancy. The keynote: the intractable sickness of pregnancy of the old books — the salt's genuine historical use.
- Vomiting of children. The books' second great use — the persistent vomiting of the young.
- Nausea nothing touches. The unrelenting queasiness between the vomits.
- Prostration with the sickness. The sinking weakness of the relentless state.
- Worse food and night. The least nourishment and the night aggravate.
- Better for rest and quiet. Rest, quiet and stillness support the exhausted stomach.
Modalities (worse and better factors)
| Worse from ⬇ | Better from ⬇ |
|---|---|
| food and drink; motion; night; smells. | rest; quiet; stillness. |
Where it acts (organ affinities)
Stomach and vomiting, general vitality, nervous system.
Where the classical picture comes from
The rare-earth salt's proving gave the vomiting portrait; Cerium oxalicum became the classical remedy of the intractable sickness — the forgotten antiemetic of the old dispensary recorded as a remedy.
The substance in real medicine Pharmacology
What this section is: the pharmacology and toxicology of the source substance. It is not clinical evidence that a homeopathic preparation of it treats any condition. What controlled trials do and do not show is set out on the Evidence page.
Cerium oxalate is genuinely a forgotten corner of pharmaceutical history: it was used as an antiemetic — for the vomiting of pregnancy and of children — and sits in the old pharmacopeias as such, the rare earth's brief, real medical career. The sickness it treated is now met by real, safe antiemetics that transformed pregnancy nausea from a danger to a discomfort.
Look-alikes (how the classical authors told it apart)
| Remedy | Looks similar because… | Tells it apart because… |
|---|---|---|
| Ipecacuanha | Constant nausea | Ipecac's is unremitting with the clean tongue; Cerium oxalicum the vomiting of pregnancy and the young. |
| Symphoricarpus racemosus | Vomiting of pregnancy | Symphoricarpus is the later classic of the same complaint. |
| Tabacum | Deathly nausea | Tabacum is the deathly pale motion-sickness; Cerium the relentless vomiting of the books. |
| Cadmium sulphuratum | Persistent vomiting | Cadmium's is the yellow, sinking vomiting; Cerium's the pregnancy and the children's chapter. |