SILICEA TERRA

SILICEA TERRA

(Silica, Pure Flint)

Sil.

Imperfect assimilation leads to poor nutrition, which can result in neurasthenic states with heightened sensitivity to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes. Diseases affecting bones, such as caries and necrosis, can benefit from Sil., which can help reabsorb fibrotic conditions and scar tissue. In phthisis, it should be used cautiously, as it might trigger renewed disease activity. Sil. acts slowly and deeply, affecting periodic states like abscesses, quinsy, headaches, spasms, epilepsy, and cold sensations before an attack. It influences keloid growth and is useful for scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads, open fontanelles, distended abdomens, and delayed walking. It can address vaccine-related issues and suppurative processes, ripening abscesses to promote suppuration. Sil. patients feel cold, need warmth, and dislike drafts. They experience a lack of vital heat, mental and physical exhaustion, high sensitivity to cold, and intolerance to alcohol. They suffer from ailments with pus formation and epilepsy, exhibiting a lack of grit, both moral and physical.

Mind: Yielding, anxious, nervous, and excitable. Sensitive to impressions, experiencing brain fatigue. Obstinate children with fixed fears, especially of pins.

Head: Pain from fasting, vertigo from looking up, relieved by warmth or lying on the left side. Profuse, offensive sweat on the head extending to the neck. Pain starts in the occiput, spreads across the head, and settles over the eyes. Swelling in the glabella.

Eyes: Issues at the corners, swelling of the lachrymal duct, light aversion, and photophobia. Tender eyes, confusion in vision, styes, and corneal issues. Use the 30th potency for cataracts and opacity clearing.

Ears: Fetid discharge, mastoid caries, sensitive to noise, and tinnitus.

Nose: Itching tip, dry crusts that bleed, sensitive nasal bones, morning sneezing, nasal obstruction, and septum perforation.

Face: Cracked skin on lips, chin eruptions, facial neuralgia, redness, and worsened by cold damp.

Mouth: Sensation of hair on the tongue, sensitive gums, boils, abscesses, and pyorrhea. Sensitivity to cold water.

Throat: Periodical quinsy, pin-prick sensations in the tonsils, throat colds, swollen parotid glands, and painful swallowing. Hard cervical gland swelling.

Stomach: Aversion to meat and warm food, excessive thirst, sour eructations, painful pit of stomach, and vomiting after drinking.

Abdomen: Pain or cold feeling relieved by heat, bloated, colic with constipation, jaundice, rumbling, swollen inguinal glands, and hepatic abscess.

Rectum: Feels paralyzed, with fistula, fissures, hemorrhoids, and difficult stools. Constipation before and during menses, irritable sphincter, and cadaverous diarrhea.

Urinary: Hematuria, enuresis with red or yellow sediment, prostatic fluid discharge, and nocturnal enuresis in children with worms.

Male: Burning and soreness of genitals, chronic gonorrhea with fetid discharge, scrotal elephantiasis, sexual erethism, nocturnal emissions, and hydrocele.

Female: Milky, acrid leucorrhea, itching vulva and vagina, intermenstrual bleeding, profuse menses with icy coldness, sore nipples, breast fistulas, labial abscesses, and vaginal cysts. Hard breast lumps.

Respiratory: Persistent colds with mucopurulent sputum, slow pneumonia recovery, cough with offensive granules, bloody or purulent expectoration, chest stitches, and violent cough when lying down.

Back: Weak spine, susceptible to draughts, coccyx pain, spinal irritation, and Potts’ disease.

Extremities: Sciatica, cramps, loss of leg power, tremulous hands, forearm weakness, nail issues, cold and sweaty feet, pain in knees, and soreness in soles.

Sleep: Night walking, sleeplessness with head heat, frequent starts, anxious dreams, and excessive gaping.

Fever: Chilliness, cold extremities, night sweats, and cold feeling in suffering parts.

Skin: Felons, abscesses, boils, old ulcers, pale skin, cracked fingertips, painless gland swelling, rose-colored blotches, painful scars, offensive pus, expulsion of foreign bodies, and dry fingertips. Eruptions itch during the day and evening.

Modalities: Worse during the new moon, morning, from washing, menses, uncovering, lying down, dampness, and cold. Better with warmth, head wrapping, summer, and wet weather.

Relationship: Complementary with Thuj., Sanic., Puls., Fl-ac. Merc. and Sil. do not follow each other well. Compare with Black Gunpowder, Hep., Kali-p., Pic-ac., Calc., Phos., Tabasheer, Ferr-cy., Silica marina, Vitrum, and Arund-d.