Silicea
Mind
- YIELDING, mild, refined, sensitive temperament.
- Want of self-confidence. Irresolution. Timid.
- Conscientious about trifles. Fixed ideas.
- Fears: public speaking, examinations, pointed objects and pins.
- Complaints from long mental exertion. Brain fag.
- Clairvoyance from mental weakness.
- Children: Sensitive, delicate, well-behaved, refined with fits of obstinacy. Sometimes because of fixed opinions.
Timid, answers only to the mother.
Irritable when don't feel well.
Anxiety from noise.
Generalities
- REFINED, DELICATE people.
- Children: Thin body with big head and enlarged abdomen.
SLOW DEVELOPMENT. Slow learning to walk and talk.
Aversion to and agg. mothers' milk.
BAD ASSIMILATION, defective nutrition.
- CHILLY (can be agg. heat in acutes).
- agg. COLD, DRAFT, UNCOVERING.
- agg. Suppression of perspiration.
- agg. Changes of moon, full moon.
- agg. Coition.
- STITCHING PAINS, splinter-like (Hep, Nit-ac).
- Frequent colds and infections with enlarged glands, that may suppurate.
- CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE PROCESSES. Abscesses. Fistulas.
- Ailments after vaccination ( Thuj).
- WEAKNESS, lack of energy.
- Caries of bone.
Food and drinks
- Desire: Eggs, fat, ice, ice-cream, cold food and drinks.
- Aversion: FAT, (MOTHERS') MILK, salt, meat, warm food.
- agg. MILK.
Head
- PAIN: FROM OCCIPUT TO FOREHEAD or right side.
agg. COLD, DRAFT, uncovering of head, fasting, mental exertion, light.
amel. Wrapping up, warmth, pressure.
- PERSPIRATION of scalp and neck, agg. during sleep (Calc).
- SENSITIVE TO COLD (Chin, Hep, Nux-v, Psor).
- Falling of hair in intellectual types. Premature balding.
- Open fontanelles (Calc, Calc-p).
Eye
- Inflammation and obstruction of lachrymal duct.
- Styes. Ulcer and absces of cornea.
Ear
- Acute and chronic ear infections. Purulent discharge.
- Impaired hearing, stoppage, amel. yawning, relieved after loud report.
- Meniere associated with sinus problems.
- Caries of mastoid.
Nose
- SINUSITIS (Kali-bi, Lyc, Merc).
- Chronic coryza with dry obstruction.
Mouth
- Sensation of a hair on the tongue.
- Abscess at root of teeth. Fistulas. Inflammations of gums.
Teeth
- Difficult, slow dentition. Caries.
Face
- ACNE, that leaves scars.
- Neuralgia agg. cold, draft, dampness; amel. warmth.
Throat
- Recurrent inflammation. Tonsillitis.
- Splinter-like pains.
- Swelling of glands, induration and suppuration.
Stomach
- Vomiting from milk (babies).
Abdomen
- Swelling, suppuration of inguinal glands.
Rectum
- CONSTIPATION, agg. menses. RECEDING STOOL.
- Fistulas. Fissures and hemorrhoids, with spasms of sphincter.
- Diarrhea from milk.
Male genitalia
- Elephantiasis of scrotum. Hydrocele.
- Burning and soreness with eruption extending to inner surface of thighs.
- Prostatitis.
Female genitalia
- Menorrhagia and after-pains while nursing.
- Fistulas, abscesses. Bartholin's cysts.
- Leucorrhea offensive.
- Eruptions.
Respiration
- Asthmatic, agg. exertion, cold.
Cough
- Cough agg. cold, cold food and drinks, amel. warmth.
Expectoration
- Purulent. Offensive.
Chest
- Abscess or tumor mammae. Induration. Nodules. Fistulas.
- Mastititis of nursing women.
Sensation of a stone pressing in breast (Phyt).
- Nipples sore, ulcerated, drawn in.
- Colds fail to yield. Pneumonia.
Back
- DISEASES OF BONE OF SPINE. Scoliosis. Curvatures. Caries.
- Weakness. Lumbago. Sciatica.
- Coldness. Sensitive to draft.
- Ailments from injury to the spine (Hyper, Nat-s).
Extremities
- Coldness.
- NAILS: Break easily. Crippled. WHITE SPOTS.
- INGROWN TOENAILS (Calc, Graph).
- Bunions. Felon, panaritium.
- PROFUSE, OFFENSIVE, CORROSIVE FOOTSWEAT.
Excoriates skin and destroys socks.
- Arthritis agg. cold, cold wet weather.
Perspiration
- OFFENSIVE. SOUR. ACRID.
- Draft drying up the perspiration may cause headache or arthritic pains.
Skin
- UNHEALTHY. TENDENCY TO SUPPURATION.
- FISTULAS. ABSCESSES.
- Delicate, pale skin.
- Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies through skin (Anag).
- Keloid. Scars become painful, stinging and red.
- Eruptions, itching amel. night.
- Vitiligo. Ringworm. Impetigo.
- Tumors and warts.
Compl.
Calc, Fl-ac, Hep, Lyc, Phos, Puls, Sanic, Thuj.
Dd
Calc, Calc-p, Gels, Hep, Lyc, Merc, Psor, Puls, Sanic, Staph, Thuj.