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Strontium carbonicum is a homeopathic single remedy made from strontium carbonate, a white mineral salt. In homeopathy it has been used for sprains and weak ankles that keep giving way, for hot flushing of the face, and for slow healing after a bone injury. It is sold as pills, pellets, drops and creams.
Like all homeopathic remedies, it is made by serial dilution. A small amount of the mineral is mixed into water or alcohol, shaken, and then diluted again and again. At 30C, the most common strength, the dilution has gone so far that essentially none of the original strontium carbonate is left in the pill.
Here is the honest verdict. Homeopaths have written about this remedy for well over a century, but that long use is not proof that it works, and this is the only place in this page we will say so. No published human trial has tested Strontium carbonicum for any condition, and trials of homeopathy in general do not separate it from placebo (a dummy treatment).
There is no accepted explanation for how this remedy could work in the body.
Homeopathy rests on two old ideas. The first is "like cures like": a substance that causes symptoms in a well person is said to treat similar symptoms in a sick one. The second is that shaking at each dilution step leaves some kind of imprint behind.
Neither idea matches what chemistry and physics tell us. At 30C there are no molecules of the source mineral left to act on your cells. So any benefit people notice is best explained by placebo (feeling better because you expect to), by normal healing over time, or by the care and attention of the consultation itself.
Common forms include:
Sugar pellets or small round pills, usually placed under the tongue.
Liquid drops in a water and alcohol base.
Tablets that dissolve in the mouth.
Creams and gels that list it alongside other remedies.
Strengths are written as 6C, 30C, 200C or as 3X, 6X, 12X. The higher the number, the more times it has been diluted, and the less source material it can possibly contain.
Strontium carbonicum was introduced into homeopathic practice in the 1800s and appears in the classic materia medica texts, including the writings of Constantine Hering and James Tyler Kent.
Those texts describe it as a remedy for chronic sprains, ankles that turn easily, flushes of heat in the face, and a sense of faintness after injury or blood loss. It has always been a minor remedy rather than a first-line one.
It is used today mainly by classical homeopaths who prescribe on the full picture of a person's symptoms.
See a doctor if your symptoms get worse, or if they do not settle within a week or two.
Get seen the same day if you have severe pain, a limb you cannot put weight on, a fever, or any swelling and redness spreading around a joint.
Go to hospital straight away if you have chest pain, trouble breathing, a swollen and painful calf, sudden weakness on one side, or a swollen face, lips or throat.
Always tell your doctor and pharmacist that you are taking a homeopathic remedy, especially before surgery or when starting a new medicine.
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