Silicea terra
Silica. pure flint
Main symptoms
- Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition.
- It goes further and produces neurasthenic states in consequence, and increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes.
- Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis.
- Silica can stimulate the organism to re-absorb fibrotic conditions and scar-tissue.
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- Organic changes; it is deep and slow in action.
- Keloid growth.
- Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head open fontanelles and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking.
- Ill effects of vaccination. Suppurative processes.
- It is related to all fistulous burrowings.
- Ripens abscesses since it promotes pus formation.
- Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter.
- Lack of vital heat.
- Extreme weakness of mind and body.
- Great sensitiveness to taking cold.
- Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants.
- Ailments attended with pus formation.
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- Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious.
- Nervous and excitable.
- Sensitive to all impressions.
- Brain-fag.
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- Obstinate, headstrong children.
- Abstracted.
- Fixed ideas; thinks only of pins, fears them, searches and counts them.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Aches from fasting. Dizziness from looking up; better, wrapping up warmly; when lying on left side. Profuse sweat of head, offensive, and extends to neck. Pain begins 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, especially daylight; it produces dazzling, sharp pain through eyes; eyes tender to touch; worse when closed. Vision confused; letters run together on reading. Styes. Iritis and irido-choroiditis, with pus in anterior chamber. Perforating or sloughing ulcer of cornea. Abscess in cornea after traumatic injury. After-effects of keratitis and ulcus cornae, clearing the opacity. Use 30th potency for months.
Ears
Fetid discharge. Caries of mastoid. Loud pistol-like report. Sensitive to noise. Roaring in ears.
Nose
Itching at point of nose. Dry, hard 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. Rash on chin. Facial neuralgia, throbbing, tearing, face red; worse, cold damp.
Mouth
Sensation of a hair on tongue. Gums sensitive to cold air. Boils on gums. Abscess at root of teeth. Pyorrhoea. Sensitive to cold water.
Throat
Periodical quinsy. Pricking as of a pin in tonsil. Colds settle in throat. Parotid glands swollen. Stinging pain on swallowing. Hard, cold swelling of cervical glands.
Stomach
Disgust for meat and warm food. On swallowing food, it easily gets into posterior nares. Want of appetite; thirst excessive. Sour belching after eating. Pit of stomach painful to pressure. Vomiting after drinking.
Abdomen
Pain or painful cold feeling in abdomen, better external heat. Hard, bloated. Colic; cutting pain, with constipation; yellow hands and blue nails. Much rumbling in bowels. Inguinal glands swollen and painful. Hepatic abscess.
Rectum
Feels paralyzed. Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again. Great straining; rectum stings; closes upon stool. Faeces remain a long time in rectum. Constipation always before and during menses; with irritable sphincter ani. Diarrhoea of cadaverous odor.
Urinary
Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediment. Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stool. Nocturnal bed-wetting in children with worms.
Male
Burning and soreness of genitals, with rash on inner surface of thighs. Elephantiasis of scrotum. Sexual erethism; nocturnal emissions.
Female
A milky, acrid white vaginal discharge, during urination. Itching of vulva and vagina; very sensitive. Discharge of blood between menstrual periods. Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body. Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily; drawn in. Fistulous ulcers of breast. Abscess of labia. Discharge of blood from vagina every time child is nursed. Vaginal cysts. Hard lumps in breast.
Respiratory
Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently muco-purulent and profuse. Slow recovery after pneumonia. Cough and sore throat, with phlegm coughed up of little granules like shot, which, when broken, smell very offensive. Cough with phlegm coughed up in day, bloody or purulent. Stitches in chest through to back. Violent cough when lying down, with thick, yellow lumpy phlegm coughed up; suppurative stage of phlegm coughed up.
Back
Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on back. Pain in coccyx. Spinal irritation after injuries to spine; diseases of bones of spine. Pott's' disease.
Sleep
Night-walking; gets up while asleep. Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head. Frequent starts in sleep. Anxious dreams. Excessive gaping.
Extremities
Nerve pain down the leg, pains through hips, legs and feet. Cramp in calves and soles. Loss of power in legs. Tremulous hands when using them. Paralytic weakness of forearm. Affections of finger nails, especially if white spots on nails. Ingrowing toe-nails. Icy cold and sweaty feet. The parts lain on go to sleep. Offensive sweat on feet, hands, and axillae. Sensation in tips of fingers, as if suppurating. Panaritium. Pain in knee, as if tightly bound. Calves tense and contracted. Pain beneath toes. Soles sore. Soreness in feet from instep through to the sole. Suppurates.
Skin
Felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers. Delicate, pale, waxy. Cracks at end of fingers. Painless swelling of glands. Rose-colored blotches. Scars suddenly become painful. Pus offensive. Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from tissues. Every little injury suppurates. Long lasting pus formation and fistulous tracts. Dry finger tips. Rashes itch only in daytime and evening. Crippled nails. Abscesses of joints. After impure vaccination. Bursa. Lepra, nodes, and coppery spots. Keloid growths.
Fever
Feeling cold; very sensitive to cold air. Creeping, shivering over the whole body. Cold extremities, even in a warm room. Sweat at night; worse towards morning. Suffering parts feel cold.
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