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Silicea Terra
SIL
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Origin Simple
Sources 14 entries across 12 books: Boericke, Kent, Allen, Nash, Hering …

Dose Boericke
6X–30X
Sixth to thirtieth potency. The 200th and higher of unquestioned activity. In malignant affections, the lowest potencies needed at times

By regionHering
Mind ► Confusion of mind. ► Difficult in fixing attention. ► Wishes to drown herself. ► Screaming violently. ► Over-anxious about herself ; low-spirited ; weeps every evening. ► Gloomy, feels as if she would die. ► Desponding, melancholy, tired of life. ► Also melancholic with weak arms, aching sacrum, burning of feet, with sweat ; all better after a seminal emission. ► Compunctions of conscience about trifles. ► Indifferent, apathetic. ► Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious mood. ► When crossed has to restrain himself, to keep from doing violence. ► Child obstinate, headstrong ; cries when kindly spoken to. ► Restless, fidgety, start at least noise. ► Reading and writing fatigue ; cannot bear to think.
Inner Head ► Cold feeling from nape of neck to vertex, extreme heaviness of head. ► Congestion of head ; cheeks hot ; slight burning in soles of feet. ► Burning in head, with pulsation and sweat of head : worse at night, from mental exertion, talking ; better by wrapping the head up warmly. ► Shooting from nape to vertex. ► Violent periodic headache, vertex, occiput or forehead ; one side as if beaten ; throbbing in forehead ; coming in night, with nausea, vomiting. ► Violent headache, with loss of reason. ► Loud cries, nausea to fainting ; subsequent obscuration of sight ; megrim. ► Obstinate morning headaches, with chilliness and nausea. ► Headaches, with, or followed by, severe pain in small of back ; heaviness and uncomfortable feeling in all the limbs. ► Tearing, frequently one-sided, with stitches through eyes and in cheek-bones. ► Pulsating, beating, most violent in forehead and vertex, with chilliness. ► Headache from occiput through to right supraorbital region. ► Headache worse : from mental exertion ; excessive study ; noise ; motion, even jarring of room by foot-step ; light ; stooping ; talking ; cold air ; touch. …
Eyes ► Long-lasting photophobia ; daylight dazzles eyes. ► Letters run together, appear pale ; dim vision after suppressed foot-sweat. ► Occasional lightning-like flashes in eyes and a feeling as if something obscured the vision ; nervous sensation in head. ► Black spots before eyes ; a persistent speck before right eye. ► Momentary loss of sight, with uterine affections ; pregnancy, etc. ► Cataract ; also after suppressed foot-sweat, or preceding ringworms. ► Day blindness, with sudden appearance of furuncles. ► Amblyopia from abuse of stimulants ; nervous, sensitive persons. ► Tearing, shooting, or, at times, throbbing, stinging pains in eyes in paroxysms ; worse in draught or before a storm. ► Ulceration of cornea ; sloughing ulcer ; non-vascular, with photophobia. ► Pustular keratitis after psoriasis. ► Opaque cornea after small pox. ► Spots and cicatrices on cornea. ► Corneal fistula. ► Eye inflamed from traumatic causes ; abscesses. ► Hypopion. ► Lachrymation in the open air. ► Fistula lachrymalis ; bone affected. ► Swelling of right lachrymal sac, skin over it inflamed ; glistening ; throbbing pain ; tears hot ; worse evening. ► Big styes ; also to prevent their recurrence. ► Blepharitis, with agglutination in morning.
Stomach ► Burning or throbbing in pit of stomach. ► Sensitiveness of pit of stomach to pressure. ► Pressure as after eating too much. ► Induration of pylorus. ► Anguish in pit of stomach, attack of melancholy. ► Cutting feeling ; or at other times weight, crampy sensation, tightness at pit of stomach.
Female Sexual Organs ► Increased desire, with spinal affection. ► Nymphomania, with plethora. ► Nausea during an embrace. ► Menses : too early and scanty ; too late and too profuse ; irregular, every two or three months. ► Menstrual flow strong-smelling, acrid. ► Amenorrhoea, with suppressed foot-sweat ; pain in abdomen. ► Metrorrhagia, offensive foot-sweat ; icy-cold body ; painful hemorrhoids. ► Bloody discharge between periods. ► Leucorrhoea : profuse, acrid, corroding ; milky, preceded by cutting around the navel. ► Prolapsus uteri from myelitis. ► Pressing-down feeling in vagina ; parts tender to touch. ► Serous cysts of the vagina. ► Itching at the pudendum ; of the genitals.
Lungs ► Lungs feel sore. ► Stitches in chest and sides through to back. ► Excruciating deep-seated pains in chest. ► Pain under sternum. ► Inflammation of lungs resulting in suppuration. ► Dropsy of chest ; also in stone-cutters. ► Empyema after pleurisy. ► Congestion to chest ; chilly body.
Neck And Back ► Cervical glands and parotids swollen, indurated. ► Stiff back after sitting. ► Rheumatism of lower cervical vertebrae. ► Violent tearing between scapulae. ► Constant aching in centre of spine. ► Spinal irritation, paralytic symptoms ; cold feet ; constipation. ► Aching in loins, shooting down the legs. ► Spinal curvature to right, painful to touch and motion. ► Spina bifida. ► Psoas abscess. ► Spasmodic pain in small of back ; does not allow him to rise. ► Lame feeling in region of sacrum. ► Pain across small of back on getting out of bed in the morning. ► Aching, beating, throbbing in lumbo-sacral region. ► Coccyx hurts after riding ; coccygodynia.
Limbs In General ► Twitching of limbs day and night. ► Limbs : go to sleep easily ; sore and lame ; evenings. ► Stinging in limbs at night. ► Limbs cold ; transient local sweats of feet and arm-pits. ► Sweat on hands and feet after fever.
Sleep ► Sleepy but cannot sleep. ► Sleepless ; from ebullitions. ► During sleep starts, jerkings of the limbs, snoring. ► Somnambulism. ► Dreams : lascivious, pleasant ; anxious, of murders, horrid things. ► Night-sweats ; obstinate morning headache ; chilly, nauseated. ► Erections and urging to urinate awake him. ► Feels unrefreshed, wishes to remain in bed.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Want of animal heat ; always chilly, even when exercising. ► Suffering parts feel cold. ► Left side suddenly cold, before epilepsy. ► Chill in bed in evening. ► Frequent chilliness, with occasional feverishness. ► Fever during dentition. ► Frequently during day, short flushes of heat, principally in face. ► Violent general heat, violent thirst in afternoon, evening and all night. ► Fever worse at night. ► Periodically returning, heat during day, no previous chill ; followed by slight sweat. ► Sweat only on head and face ; sweat from least exertion. ► Warm sweat from epilepsy. ► Profuse sweat. θ Typhus. ► Sweats periodically : 11 P.M., 6 A.M., or 3 to 5 P.M. ► Night-sweats ; sour or offensive ; debilitating ; mostly after midnight. ► Typhoid forms of fever, great debility, profuse sweat ; desire to be magnetized. ► Spotted fever ; also in slow convalescence.
Skin ► Skin wax-like. θ Tuberculosis. θ Caries. ► Yellow, earthy skin ; sometimes covered with pityriasis. ► Itching exanthema ; small pustules filled with lymph, dying quickly. ► Eruption burns only by day. θ Acne. ► Small wounds suppurate profusely. ► Eczematous, impetiginous, or herpetic eruptions. ► Rhagades around eyelids, lips, etc. ► Rose-colored blotches. ► Small blisters. ► Pemphigus. ► Zona. ► Erysipelas, with suppuration ; deep-seated, phlegmonous erysipelas. ► Boils come in crops ; tendency to boils ; leave indurations. ► Abscesses speedily "point", but secretion of pus is too scanty. ► Malignant pustule. ► Ulcers : from suppuration of membranous parts ; phagedenic ; extend in depth ; after abuse of mercury ; offensive, with ichor, proud flesh, stinging, burning, itching ; edges hard, high or spongy. ► Carbuncles : 29, 31, 46. ► Large fleshy warts, suppurating. ► Variola ; suppuration exhausts the patients, and desiccation delays ; bone diseases as sequelae.

Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 2, Hepar 2, Angustura Vera +8
Complementary Thuja Occidentalis, Pulsatilla Pratensis, Sanicula Aqua +4
Follows well Hepar Sulphur, Lycopodium Clavatum, Calcarea Carbonica +7
Compare Conium Maculatum, Gettysburg Water, Graphites +31

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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