Silicea terra

silicea terra
It is one of the tissue salt
One of the 12 tissue remedy of Schuesslar.
Great polycrest remedy.
It is deep acting remedy but acts slowly.
It can reach to that sphere of man where surgeon’s knife cannot reach so, it is also called as “SURGEON’S KNIFE”.
Silicea is said to be useful for individuals who are nervous, irritable or have a sanguine temperament.
silica is often used to treat symptoms of chronic diseases where there is general weakness and a lack of either physical or emotional strength.

PATHOGENESIS
Pus-forming remedy.
Should not be give to patient whom there is a deposit of tubercular focus in lungs.
Inflammation and suppuration of tissues.
Every little injury suppurates.�

1. Silicea Terra

2. Silicea Terra Common Name :- pure flint; silica KINGDOM :- Mineral Kingdom  PROVER :- Dr. Hahnemann CHEMICAL FORMULA :- Silicic oxide

3. INTRODUCTION One of the 12 tissue remedy of Schuesslar. Great polycrest remedy. It is deep acting remedy but acts slowly. It can reach to that sphere of man where surgeon’s knife cannot reach so, it is also called as “SURGEON’S KNIFE”. Silicea is said to be useful for individuals who are nervous, irritable or have a sanguine temperament. silica is often used to treat symptoms of chronic diseases where there is general weakness and a lack of either physical or emotional strength.

4. SPHERE OF ACTION Bones Cartilages Mucous membrane Glands Lachrymal duct nerves

5. BEING A POLYCREST REMEDY IS ACTS ON ALL THE SYSTEMS. Abscess Constipation Acne ill effects of vaccinations Glandular swelling Headache Boils Fistula Enuresis CLINICALS

6. PATHOGENESIS Pus-forming remedy. Should not be give to patient whom there is a deposit of tubercular focus in lungs. Inflammation and suppuration of tissues. Every little injury suppurates .

7. Constitutions Physical makeup Person with light complexion. Pale face with lean and thin body. Sickly appearance with dry skin. Weak and lax musculature Temperament Irritable and Sanguine temperament.  Thermals Extremely chilly.  Miasm Trimiasmatic. Predominantly psoric Diathesis Scrofulous diathesis.

8. Guiding symptoms Highly chilly ( Psoronium , Hepar sulp) Bad effects from vaccinations (Thuja)  

9. Every little injury suppurates. (Merc. Sol, Hepar) Desire for cold drinks, cold food, ice- cream. 

10. Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition. Silica can stimulate the organism to re-absorb fibrotic conditions and scar-tissue Pain begins at occiput, and spreads over head and settles over eyes Constipates before and during menses.  Distaste to milk.

11. Very sensitive to all impression especially Noise and Anxiousness,and sensations of roaring in ears

12. PerticuLEr symptoms 1.MIND -> Fixed ideas -> thinks only of  pins , fears them, searches and counts them. -> Obstinate, headstrong children -> Sensitive  to all impressions -> Brain-fag.  -> When forced he goes with full of self- confidence, promptness and accuracy FEARS THAT HE COULD MAKE FAILURE OF IT, YET HE DOES WELL.    -> Religious melancholy, sadness and irritable despondency .

13. 2. HEAD -> Aches from fasting. -> Vertigo from looking up;  better, wrapping up warmly; when lying on left side  ( Magnes mur; Strontia ).  -> 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.

14. 3. EYES -> Angles of eyes effected -> Swelling of lachrymal duct. -> Aversion to light, esp. Daylight; produces sharp dazzling pain through eyes; eyes tender to touch; worse when closed.  -> Confused vision.  -> Styes  -> Iritis and irido-choroiditis with pus in anterior chamber. 

15. 4. EARS -> Fetid discharge. -> Caries of mastoid. -> Loud pistol-like report. -> Sensitive to noise. -> Roaring in ears .

16. 5. 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.

17. 6. FACE -> Skin cracked on margin of lips. -> Eruption on chin. -> Facial neuralgia, throbbing, tearing, face red; worse, cold damp

18. 7. MOUTH -> Sensation of a hair on tongue . -> Gums sensitive to cold air. -> Boils on gums. -> Abscess at root of teeth. -> Pyorrhea ( Merc cor ). -> Sensitive to cold water.

19. 8. THROAT -> Periodical quinsy.  -> 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.

20. 9. 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; Verat ).

21. 10. 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.

22. 11.RECTUM -> Feels paralyzed.  -> Fistula in ano  ( Berb; Lach ). -> Fissures and hæmorrhoids,  painful, with spasm of sphincter. -> Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again . -> Great straining; rectum stings; closes upon stool. -> Feces remain a long time in rectum.  -> Constipation always before and during menses ; with irritable sphincter ani. -> Diarrhœa of cadaverous odor.

23. 12.URINARY -> Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediment. -> Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stool. -> Nocturnal enuresis in children with worms.

24. 13. MALE -> Burning and soreness of genitals, with eruption on inner surface of thighs. -> Chronic gonorrhœa, with thick, fetid discharge. -> Elephantiasis of scrotum. Sexual erethism; nocturnal emissions. -> Hydrocele.

25. 14.FEMALE -> A milky ( Calc; Puls; Sep ), acrid leucorrhœa, 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 ( Phos ). -> Abscess of labia. -> Discharge of blood from vagina every time child is nursed. -> Vaginal cysts ( Lyc; Puls; Rhod ) hard lumps in breast ( conium ).

26. 15.RESPIRATORY -> Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently muco-purulent and profuse. -> Slow recovery after pneumonia. -> Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules like shot, which, when broken, smell very offensive. -> Cough with expectoration in day, bloody or purulent. -> Stitches in chest through to back.  -> Violent cough when lying down, with thick, yellow lumpy expectoration ; suppurative stage of expectoration ( Bals. Peru ).

27. 16.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.

28. 17.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.

29. 18.EXTREMITIS -> Sciatica, 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.

30. -> Offensive sweat on feet , hands, and axillæ. -> 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 ( Ruta ). 

31. 19.SKIN -> Felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers . -> Delicate, pale, waxy. -> Cracks at end of fingers. -> Painless swelling of glands. -> Scars suddenly become painful. -> Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from tissues . -> Every little injury suppurates. -> Eruptions itch only in daytime and evening. 

32. 20.FEVER -> Chilliness; 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 .

33. 21.SILICEA BABY -> Children who suffer from malnutrition due to lack of assimilation of food. -> head with open fontanelles and sutures. -> Pot bellied abdomen. -> Ailments from: bad effects of vaccinations.

34. MODALITIES AGGRAVATION   -> In new moon and full moon, cold, during menses, from washing and uncovering. -> lying down, damp, lying o n left side, AMELIORATION -> By warmth, wrapping up the head and in summer. -> in wet or humid weather.

35. RELATIONSHIP COMPLEMENTARY to : Thuja ; Sanicula ;

36. DOSE -> Sixth to thirtieth potency. -> The 200th and higher of unquestioned activity. -> In malignant affections, the lowest potencies needed at times.

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