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SILICEA TERRA (Sil.)

KEY
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  • CAPITALS = Frequent or intense symptoms * LACK OF STAMINA.
    MIND
  • YIELDING, mild, refined, sensitive temperament. Homesick.
  • Want of self-confidence. Anxious. Irresolute. Timid.
  • Conscientious about trifles. Fixed ideas.
  • Intolerant of contradiction.
  • Confusion < for conversation. Mental exhaustion after writing.
  • Fears: public speaking, examinations, pointed objects and pins.
  • Complaints from long mental exertion. Brain fag.
  • < Being comforted.
  • Anxiety during menstrual period.
  • 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 < mothers' milk. BAD ASSIMILATION, defective nutrition.
  • CHILLY. Constant internal chilliness. (can be < heat in acutes).
  • < COLD, DRAFT, UNCOVERING. > WARMTH AND WARM COVERINGS.
  • Catches cold easil
  • < uncovering head.
  • < Suppression of perspiration.
  • < Changes of moon, full moon.
  • < 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.
  • Decay of bone.
    FOOD AND DRINKS
  • Desire: Eggs, fat, ice, ice-cream, cold food and drinks.
  • Aversion: FAT, (MOTHERS') MILK, salt, meat, warm food.
  • < MILK.
    HEAD
  • PAIN: FROM OCCIPUT TO FOREHEAD or right side. Pain in top of head
  • as if going to explode, > pressure and binding head. < COLD, DRAFT, uncovering of head, fasting, mental exertion, light. > Wrapping up, warmth, pressure.
  • PERSPIRATION of scalp and neck, < during sleep (Calc).
  • SENSITIVE TO COLD (Chin, Hep, Nux-v, Psor).
  • Falling of hair in intellectual types. Premature balding.
  • Open fontanelles (Calc, Calc-p).
  • Dizziness < lying on left side, looking up.
    EYE
  • Inflammation, obstruction, and infection of lachrymal duct.
  • Styes. Ulcer and absces of cornea.
    EAR
  • Acute and chronic ear infections. Purulent discharge.
  • Impaired hearing, blockage, > yawning, relieved after loud report.
  • Meniere disease associated with sinus problems.
  • Decay of mastoid bone.
  • Itching of eustachian tube.
    NOSE
  • SINUSITIS (Kali-bi, Lyc, Merc)
  • with pounding in forehead.
  • Chronic coryza with dry obstruction.
  • Bleeding when nasal crusts loosen.
  • Gnawing ulcers high in nose
  • sensitive to touch.
    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 < cold, draft, dampness; > warmth.
  • Swelling of submaxillary glands.
  • Pale, thin face.
    THROAT
  • Recurrent inflammation. Tonsillitis.
  • Splinter-like pains. Pains like the pricking of a pin.
  • Swelling of glands, induration and suppuration.
    STOMACH:
  • Vomiting from milk (babies).
    ABDOMEN
  • Swelling, suppuration of inguinal glands.
  • Large belly with thin legs, especially in children.
    RECTUM
  • CONSTIPATION, < menses. RECEDING STOOL AFTER BEING PARTIALLY EXPELLED.
  • 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, < exertion, cold.
    COUGH
  • Cough < cold, cold food and drinks, > warmth.
  • Violent cough on lying down
  • thick yellow, lumpy expectorant.
    EXPECTORATION
  • Purulent. Offensive.
    CHEST
  • Abscess or tumor of breast. 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).
  • Slow healing carbuncles on nape of neck.
    EXTREMITIES
  • Coldness.
  • NAILS: Break easily. Crippled. WHITE SPOTS.
  • INGROWN TOENAILS (Calc, Graph).
  • Bunions.
  • Inflammations and infections around nails.
  • PROFUSE, OFFENSIVE, CORROSIVE FOOT SWEAT. Excoriates skin and destroys socks.
  • Profuse sweat on palms.
  • Arthritis < cold, cold wet weather.
  • Side lain on go to sleep.
  • Numbness of hands at night.
  • Soreness in instep and sole of foot.
  • Decay of tibia and fibula.
    SLEEP
  • Sleep walking.
  • Sleepiness after eating and in the evening.
  • Dreams of his or her youth.
    PERSPIRATION
  • OFFENSIVE. SOUR. ACRID.
  • Draft drying the perspiraton may cause headache or arthritic pains.
  • On upper part of body. On head or affected parts.
    SKIN
  • UNHEALTHY. TENDENCY TO SUPPURATION.
  • FISTULAS. ABSCESSES. BOILS.
  • Delicate, pale skin.
  • Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies through skin (Anag).
  • Keloid scars. Scars become painful, stinging and red.
  • Eruptions, itching > night.
  • Vitiligo. Ringworm. Impetigo.
  • Tumors and warts.
    REMEDIES WITH SIMILAR SYMPTOMS
    Calc., Calc.-p., Gels., Hep., Lyc., Merc., Psor., Puls., Sanic., Staph., Thuj. -->

     

     

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