SILICEA TERRA
Silica. Pure Flint (SILICEA)
Imperfect assimilation and consequent faulty nutrition. It goes in addition and produces neurasthenic states in consequence, and expanded susceptibility to apprehensive stimuli and exaggerated reflexes. Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis. Silica can stimulate the organism to re-absorb fibrotic prerequisites and scar-tissue. In phthisis have to be used with care, for right here it may additionally motive the absorption of scar-tissue, liberate the disease, walled in, to new things to do (J. Weir). Organic changes; it is deep and sluggish in action. Periodical states; abscesses, quinsy, headaches, spasms, epilepsy, feeling of coldness earlier than an attack. Keloid growth. Scrofulous, rachitic children, with massive head open fontanelles and sutures, distended abdomen, sluggish in walking. Ill consequences of vaccination. Suppurative processes. It is associated to all fistulous burrowings. Ripens abscesses because it promotes suppuration. Silica affected person is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, desires masses heat clothing, hates drafts, palms and toes cold, worse in winter. Lack of crucial heat. Prostration of idea and body. Great sensitiveness to taking cold. Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants. Ailments attended with pus formation. Epilepsy. Want of grit, ethical or physical.
Mind.–Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious. Nervous and excitable. Sensitive to all impressions. Brain-fag. Obstinate, headstrong children. Abstracted. Fixed ideas; thinks solely of pins, fears them, searches and counts them.
Head.–Aches from fasting. Vertigo from searching up; better, wrapping up warmly; when mendacity on left facet (Magnes mur; Strontia). Profuse sweat of head, offensive, and extends to neck. Pain starts at occiput, and spreads over head and settles over eyes. Swelling in the glabella.
Eyes.–Angles of eyes affected. Swelling of lachrymal duct. Aversion to light, mainly daylight; it produces dazzling, sharp ache via eyes; eyes smooth to touch; worse when closed. Vision confused; letters run collectively on reading. Styes. Iritis and irido-choroiditis, with pus in anterior chamber. Perforating or sloughing ulcer of cornea. Abscess in cornea after hectic injury. Cataract in workplace workers. After-effects of keratitis and ulcus cornae, clearing the opacity. Use thirtieth efficiency for months.
Ears.–Fetid discharge. Caries of mastoid. Loud pistol-like report. Sensitive to noise. Roaring in ears.
Nose.–Itching at factor of nose. Dry, challenging crusts form, bleeding when loosened. Nasal bones sensitive. Sneezing in morning. Obstructed and loss of smell. Perforation of septum.
Face.–Skin cracked on margin of lips. Eruption on chin. Facial neuralgia, throbbing, tearing, face red; worse, bloodless damp.
Mouth.–Sensation of a hair on tongue. Gums touchy to bloodless air. Boils on gums. Abscess at root of teeth. Pyorrhea (Merc cor). Sensitive to bloodless water.
Throat.–Periodical quinsy. Pricking as of a pin in tonsil. Colds settle in throat. Parotid glands swollen (Bell; Rhus; Calc). Stinging ache on swallowing. Hard, bloodless swelling of cervical glands.
Stomach.–Disgust for meat and warm food. On swallowing food, it without difficulty receives into posterior nares. Want of appetite; thirst excessive. Sour eructations after consuming (Sepia; Calc). Pit of belly painful to pressure. Vomiting after ingesting (Ars; Verat).
Abdomen.–Pain or painful bloodless feeling in abdomen, higher exterior heat. Hard, bloated. Colic; reducing pain, with constipation; yellow fingers and blue nails. Much rumbling in bowels. Inguinal glands swollen and painful. Hepatic abscess.
Rectum.–Feels paralyzed. Fistula in ano (Berb; Lach). Fissures and haemorrhoids, painful, with spasm of sphincter. Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again. Great straining; rectum stings; closes upon stool. Feces continue to be a lengthy time in rectum. Constipation continually earlier than and throughout menses; with irritable sphincter ani. Diarrhoea of cadaverous odor.
Urinary.–Bloody, involuntary, with crimson or yellow sediment. Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stool. Nocturnal enuresis in teenagers with worms.
Male.–Burning and affliction of genitals, with eruption on internal floor of thighs. Chronic gonorrhoea, with thick, fetid discharge. Elephantiasis of scrotum. Sexual erethism; nocturnal emissions. Hydrocele.
Female.–A milky (Calc; Puls; Sep), acrid leucorrhoea, throughout urination. Itching of vulva and vagina; very sensitive. Discharge of blood between menstrual periods. Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over complete body. Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily; drawn in. Fistulous ulcers of breast (Phos). Abscess of labia. Discharge of blood from vagina each time baby is nursed. Vaginal cysts (Lyc; Puls; Rhod) challenging lumps in breast (conium).
Respiratory.–Colds fail to yield; sputum consistently muco-purulent and profuse. Slow recuperation after pneumonia. Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules like shot, which, when broken, scent very offensive. Cough with expectoration in day, bloody or purulent. Stitches in chest via to back. Violent cough when mendacity down, with thick, yellow lumpy expectoration; suppurative stage of expectoration (Bals. Peru).
Back.–Weak spine; very prone to draughts on back. Pain in coccyx. Spinal infection after accidents to spine; ailments of bones of spine. Potts’ disease.
Sleep.–Night-walking; receives up whilst asleep. Sleeplessness, with super orgasm of blood and warmth in head. Frequent begins in sleep. Anxious dreams. Excessive gaping.
Extremities.–Sciatica, pains via hips, legs and feet. Cramp in calves and soles. Loss of electricity in legs. Tremulous palms when the usage of them. Paralytic weak spot of forearm. Affections of finger nails, particularly if white spots on nails. Ingrowing toe-nails. Icy bloodless and sweaty feet. The components lain on go to sleep. Offensive sweat on feet, hands, and axillae. Sensation in recommendations of fingers, as if suppurating. Panaritium. Pain in knee, as if tightly bound. Calves annoying and contracted. Pain below toes. Soles sore (Ruta). Soreness in toes from instep via to the sole. Suppurates.
Skin.–Felons, abscesses, boils, historic fistulous ulcers. Delicate, pale, waxy. Cracks at stop of fingers. Painless swelling of glands. Rose-colored blotches. Scars all at once emerge as painful. Pus offensive. Promotes expulsion of overseas our bodies from tissues. Every little harm suppurates. Long lasting suppuration and fistulous tracts. Dry finger tips. Eruptions itch solely in sunlight hours and evening. Crippled nails. Indurated tumors. Abscesses of joints. After impure vaccination. Bursa. Lepra, nodes, and coppery spots. Keloid growths.
Fever.–Chilliness; very touchy to bloodless air. Creeping, shivering over the complete body. Cold extremities, even in a heat room. Sweat at night; worse in the direction of morning. Suffering components sense cold.
Modalities.–Worse, new moon, in morning, from washing, at some point of menses, uncovering, mendacity down, damp, mendacity on, left side, cold. Better, warmth, wrapping up head, summer; in moist or humid weather.
Relationship.–Complementary: Thuja; Sanic; Puls; Fluor ac. Mercurius and Silica do now not comply with every different well
Compare: Black Gunpowder 3x (Abscesses, boils, carbuncles, limb purple. Wounds that refuse to heal; accident from horrific meals or water.–Clarke). Hep; Kali phos; Pic ac; Calc; Phos; Tabasheer; Natrum silicum (tumors, haemophilia, arthritis; dose, three drops three instances daily, in milk); Ferrum cyanatum (epilepsy; neuroses, with irritable weak spot and hyper-sensitiveness, in particular of a periodical character). Silica marina-Sea sand–(Silica and Natrum mur symptoms. Inflamed glands and lead-off suppuration. Constipation. Use for some time 3x trit). Vitrum-Crown glass–(Pott’s disease, after Silica, necrosis, discharge thin, watery, fetid. Much pain, exceptional grinding and grating like grit). Arundo donax (acts on excretory and generative organs; suppuration, in particular chronic, and the place the ulceration is fistulous, in particular in lengthy bones. Itching eruption on chest, higher extremities and in the back of ears).
Dose.–Sixth to thirtieth potency. The 2 hundredth and greater of unquestioned activity. In malignant affections, the lowest potencies wished at times.
