Mineral
Silicea
Silica. Pure Flint
Repertory abbreviation: Sil.
Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nu- trition. Scrofulous. rachitic children, with large head, open fontanelles and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking. Ill effects of vaccination. Suppurative pro- cssrs. Lack of vital heat. Prostration of mind and body. Great sensitiveness to taking cold. Intoleronce of alcoholic stimulants. Ailments attended with pus formation. Epilepsy IVant of grit, moral or physical.
Mind
Yielding. faint-hearted, anxious. Nervous and excitable. Sensitive to all impressions. Brain-fag. Obstinate, headstrong children. Abstracted. Fixed ideas; thinks only of pins, fears them, searches and counts them.
Head
Aches from fasting. Vertigo from looking up; better, wrapping up warmly; when lying on left side.. [Magnes. mur.; Strontia.] Profuse sweat of kcad, 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 lach- rymal duct. Aversion to light, especially daylight; it produces dazzling, sharp pain through eyes; eyes ten- der to touch; worse when closed. Vision confused; letters run together on reading. Styes. Iritis and irido-choroiditis, with pus in anterior chamber. Per- forating or sloughing ulcer of cornea. Abscess in cor- nea after traumatic injury. Cataract in offce workers. After-effects of keratitis and ulcus coma, 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. 1 Eruption on chin. Facial neuralgia, throbbing, tearing, face red; worse, cold damp.
Mouth
Sensation of u huir on tongue. Gums sen- sitive to cold air. Boils on gums. Abscess at root of teeth. Pyorrhcea. [Merc. cor.] Sensitive to cold water.
Throat
Periodical quinsy. l Pricking as of a pin in tonsil. Colds settle in throat. Parotid glands swollen. [Bell.: Rhus; Calc.] 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 eructations after eating. [Sepia; Calc.] Pit of stomach painful to pressure. Vomiting after drinking. [Ars.; V'erat.]
Abdomen
Hard, bloated. Colic; cutting pain, with constipation; yellow hands and blue nails. Much rumbling in bowels. Inguinal glands swollen and pain- ful. Hepatic abscess.
Rectum
Feels paralyzed. Fistula in ano. [Berb.; Lach.] Fissures and haemorrhoids. painful, with spasm 683 of sphincter. Stool comes dorwn writh difficulty; ruhen partly expelled, recedes again. Great straining; rectum stings. Fceces remain a long time in rectum. Consti- pation always before and during menses; with irritable sphincter ani. Diarrhoea of cadaverous odor.
Urinary
Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediment. Prostatic fiuid discharged when straining at stool. Nocturnal enuresis in children with worms.
Male
Burning and soreness of genitals, with eruption on inner surface of thighs. Chronic gonor- rhoe, with thick, fetid discharge. Eiephantiasis of scro- tum. Sexual erethism; nocturnal emissions. Hydrocele.
Female
A milky [Calc.; Puls.; Sep.], acrid leu- corrhcea, during urination. Itching of vulva and va- gina; very sensitive. Discharge of blood between men- strual periods. Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body. Nipples very sore; ul- cerate easily; drawn in. Fistulous ulcers of breast. [Phos.] ]Abscess of labia. Discharge of blood from vagina every time child is nurse. Vaginal cysts. [ Lyc.; Puls.; Rhod.] Hard lumps in breast. [Conium.]
Respiratory
Colds fail to yield; sputum persist- ently muco-purulent and profuse. ( Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules like shot, which, when broken, smell very offensive. Cough with expectoration in Gay, bloody or purulent. Stitches in chest through to back. Violent cough when lying down, ith thick, yellow lumpy expectoration; suppurative stage of expectoration. [Als. Per.]
Chest
upper extremities and behind ears.)
Back
Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on back. Pain in coccyx. Spinal irritation after injuries to spine; diseases of bones of spine. Potts' disease.
Extremities
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 9o to sleep.( Offensive sweat on hands, feet, and axillze. Sensation in tips of fingers, as if suppurating. Panari- tium. Pain in knee, as if tightly bound. Calves tense and contracted. Pain beneath toes. Soles sore. [Ruta.] Soreness in feet from instep through to the sole.
Skin
Delicate, pale. waxy. Cracks at end of fin- gers. [Sars.; Petr.] Felons. abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers. Painless swelling of glands. Rose- colored blotches. Scars suddenly become painful. Every little injury suppurates. [Hep.; Grap.] Crippled nails. Indurated tumors. Abscesses of joints. After impure vaccination. Durs. Lepra, nodes, and coppery spots.
Sleep
Night-walking; gets up while asleep. Sleep- lessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head. Frequent starts in sleep. Anxious dreams. Excessive gaping.
Fever
Chilliness; very sensitive to cold Fair. Creeping, shivering over the whole body. Cold ex- t:emittes, even in a warm room. Sweat at night; worse towards morning. Suffering parts feel cold.
Modalities
Worse, new moon, in morning, from washing, during menses, uncovering, lying down, damp, cold. Better, warmth, wrapping up head, summer; in wet or humid weather.
Relationships
Complementary: Thuja; Sanic.: P'uls.: Fluor. uc. Mercurius and Silica do not follow each other well. Compare: Black Gunpowwder 3x. Abscesses, boils, carbuncles, limb pui pie. (Wounds that refuse to heal; accident from bad food or water.- Clark.) Hep.; Kali phos.; Pic. ac.; (aloe.: Phos.; Tabasheer; Na- rum siiicum ( (tumors, haemophilia, arthritis; dose, three drops three times daily, in milk); Ferrum cyanatum 685 (epilepsy; neuroses, with irritable weakness and hyper- sensitiveness, especially of a periodical character). Silica marina -- Sea-sand - Silica and Natrum mur. symptoms. (Infamcd glands and commencing suppura- tion. Constipation. Use for some time 3x trit.) l'itrum -Crozm 9 glass— (Potts' disease, after Silica, necrosis, discharge thin, watery, fetid. Much pain. fine grinding ani grating like grit.) Arundo donax (acts on excretory and gencrative organs; suppuration, es- pecially chronic, and where the ulceration is fistulous, cspeciaily in long bones). .Arundo (itching eruption on
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency. The 200th and higher of unquestioned activity. In malignant affections, the lowest potencies needed at times.