Silicea Terra

General

SILICEA. [Silic.] Hahnemann.

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.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : as if one would fall forward ; ascending from dorsal region, through nape of neck, into head ; worse from motion, or looking upward ; accompanied by nausea ; with rachitis ; from excessive use of the eyes ; when riding with sleepiness. ► Fainting, when taking cold from suppressed foot-sweat.

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. Better : from wrapping head up warmly ; hot compresses ; in warm room ; lying down in dark. ► Headache every seventh day. ► Vibratory shaking sensation in head when stepping hard, with tension in forehead and eyes.

Outer Head

► Open fontanelles ; head too large and rest of body emaciated, with pale face ; abdomen swollen, hot. ► Cephalhaematoma neonatorum. ► Tearing in scalp, worse from pressure and at a night. ► Lumps rise on the head, hair falls out, scalp sensitive to touch, even to the hat ; tearing pains. ► Profuse head-sweat ; body dry ; likes wrapping up ; sweat sour ; face pale ; emaciated ; large abdomen ; weak ankles. ► Patches of eruption on scalp, exfoliating thin, dry furfuraceous scales. ► Eruption on back of head, moist or dry, offensive, scabby, burning itching, discharging pus. ► Itching pustules on scalp and neck very sensitive ; better wrapping up warmly. ► Phagedenic ulcer on forehead painful and discharging offensive pus.

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.

Ears

► Oversensitiveness to noises. ► Ringing or roaring in the ears. ► Hissing in the perforated ear. ► Stoppage of ears, which open at times with a loud report. ► Difficult hearing, especially of human voice and during full moon ; also with chronic suppuration. ► Otalgia, with stitches from in out. ► Otitis interna. ► Itching in the eustachian tube ; chronic coryza. ► Itching in both ears. ► Increased secretion of thing cerumen. ► Otorrhoea : scabs cover the purulent secretion in the ear ; discharge offensive, watery, curdy ; with soreness of inner worse and crusts on upper lip ; after abuse of mercury ; with caries. ► Caries of mastoid process. ► Scabs behind ears. ► Hard swelling of parotid ; suppuration, especially if slow, painless.

Nose

► Loss of smell. ► Much sneezing, with acrid coryza. ► Dryness and stoppage after checked foot-sweat. ► Nosebleed. ► Coryza long-lasting, oft-returning. ► Nose stuffed up : or, alternately dry and fluent ; obstructed mornings, fluent during day. ► With every fresh cold, stoppage, and acrid discharge ; makes inner nose sore and bloody. ► Gnawing and ulcers high up in nose, with great sensitiveness of place to contact. ► Nose inwardly dry, excoriated, covered with crusts. ► Swelling of nasal mucous membrane ; chronic coryza. ► Intolerable itching of tip of nose. ► Cold nose.

Face

► Face : pale, cachectic ; body cool and sweaty ; earthy ; yellow ; distorted. ► Pains, worse after being a short time in bed. ► Skin of face cracks. ► Acne on forehead and backs of hands. ► Induration of cellular tissue of face ; also following parulis or gum-boils. ► Lupus ; serrated ulcers with greenish, purulent surfaces ; corroding, threatening to perforate the cheek. ► Blood-boils on cheeks. ► Sycosis menti.

Lower Face

► Articulation of jaw spasmodically closed. ► Pains more in jaw-bones than teeth ; jaw swollen ; toothache. ► Caries of lower jaw ; necrosis. ► Dry and parched feeling of lips. ► Scabby eruption on lips, which smarts. ► Ulcers of vermilion border of lower lip. ► Cancer of lower lip ; ulcer greyish, superficial, excruciatingly painful. ► Painful of painless swelling or submaxillary glands.

Teeth

► Difficult dentition ; gums sensitive, blistered ; frequently grasping at gums. ► All her teeth feel long and loose. ► Carious teeth, pains worse at night and on inhaling cold air. ► Throbbing toothache, swelling periosteum. ► Stinging toothache, preventing sleep. ► Gums very sore ; inflamed ; gum-boils. ► Discharge of offensive matter from openings near root of teeth or from gums. ► Erysipelatous swelling on gums and roof of mouth after teeth were extracted.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : of blood, morning ; of soap-suds ; bitter, morning, with thick mucus in throat ; of rotten eggs. ► Loss of taste and appetite. ► Sensation of a hair on forepart of tongue. ► Tongue coated with brownish mucus. ► One-sided swelling of tongue. ► Ulcer on right border of tongue, eating into it, and discharging much pus. θ Carcinoma.

Mouth

► Saliva runs out. ► Suppuration of salivary glands. ► Stomacace ; mouth gangrenous, with perforating ulcer of palate.

Throat

► Tough slime in the fauces. ► Tonsils swollen, each effort to swallow distorts face. ► Tonsillitis when the suppurating gland will not heal. ► Pricking in throat, as from a pin, causing cough. ► Throat feels as if filled up, as if he could not swallow ; frequent cough bringing up white, frothy, saltish mucus ; worse toward evening. ► Paralysis of the velum palati ; food is ejected through the nose. ► Painful swallowing, no inflammation ; hysteria. ► Swallowing difficult, as from paralysis. ► Food gets easily into the choanae.

Desires And Aversions

► Canine hunger, with nervous, irritable persons. ► Want of appetite ; excessive thirst. ► Wants only small quantity of preserves. ► Averse to warm, cooked food ; desires only cold things, disgust for meat.

Eating And Drinking

► Small quantities of wine cause ebullitions and thirst.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations : sour ; tasting of food ; loud uncontrollable. ► Nausea ; with violent palpitation of the heart ; after every exercise, which raises bodily temperature ; after eating a little ; vomiting of tenacious mucus, hiccough. ► Vomits : whenever he drinks ; ingesta, at night. ► Morning vomiting, with nausea, much exhaustion. ► Intense heart-burn, sensation of a load in epigastrium. ► Water-brash, with chilliness.

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.

Hypochondria

► Beating soreness in liver ; worse on motion, when walking, when lying on right side. ► Throbbing, ulcerative pain in region of liver, worse from touch or walking. ► Hardness, distention of liver ; abscess of liver.

Abdomen

► Pressure, clothing across abdomen feels too tight, after eating. ► Colicky pains in lower abdomen, with straining and increased pain during stool. ► Colic ; from worms ; with constipation or difficult stool ; with yellow hands, blue nails ; with reddish, bloody stools. ► Abdominal pains relieved by warmth. ► Flatulence, much rumbling. ► Distended, hard, hot abdomen, especially in children. ► Inguinal glands inflamed. ► Inguinal hernia.

Stool, Etc

► Sharp stitches in rectum when walking. ► Stools ; pap-like, offensive ; contain undigested food, with great exhaustion, but painless ; child has sweaty hands and feet ; watery, mucous or bloody. ► Constipation, stool large or composed of hard lumps, light-colored ; expulsion difficult, as from inactivity of rectum ; when partly expelled it slips back again. ► Hemorrhoids intensely painful, boring-cramping from anus to rectum or testicles ; protrude during stool, become incarcerated ; suppuration. ► Fistula in ano ; also with chest symptoms ; fissura ani ; costive, or sticking pains at coccyx.

Urine

► Suppuration of the kidneys ; abscesses. ► Continuous urging, with scanty discharge ; also at night. ► Frequent micturition with distress from irritable sphincter. ► Weakness in urinary organs ; constant desire to urinate. ► Profuse urination relieves headache. ► Involuntary micturition at night ; also in children, with worms and in chorea. ► Urine : light-colored ; suppressed ; turbid, sediment of red or yellow sand.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual desire increased or decreased, weak power but increased desire, ejaculation premature. ► Painful coition, sensation on right side of head as if paralyzed ; soreness of limbs. (But see 1.). ► Thick, fetid pus from urethra. θ Gonorrhoea. ► Red spots and itching on corona glandis. ► Slight swelling of penis and testicles. ► Squeezing pain in testicles. ► Itching humid spots on genitals, mostly on scrotum ; sweat on scrotum. ► Hydrocele ; scrofulous children.

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.

Pregnancy

► Threatened abortion ; hemorrhage after the abortion. ► Promotes expulsion of moles ; shooting pains. ► While nursing : sharp pains in breast or uterus ; pain in back, increase of lochia ; pure blood flows every time child nurses ; complains every time she puts child to breast. ► Aversion of child to mother's milk ; refuses to nurse, or, if it does nurse, it vomits. ► Milk suppressed. ► Mammae swollen, dark red, sensitive, burning pains prevent rest at night ; also suppuration of mammae. ► Induration, burning pains ; limbs go to sleep. ► Hard lumps in mammae. ► Great itching of swollen mammae ; scirrhus. ► Darting, burning in left nipple. ► Nipple is drawn in, like a funnel. ► Scirrhus near right nipple, hard as gristle, uneven surface. ► Nipple ulcerate ; is very tender.

Larynx

► Hoarseness, roughness of larynx. ► Husky voice ; worse morning ; chronic coryza. ► Fibrous, painless swelling on larynx, connected with thyroid cartilage.

Breathing

► Shortness of breath and panting from walking fast, or from manual labor. ► Arrest of breathing when lying on back ; when stooping ; when running, also after running ; when coughing. ► Oppression of chest, she cannot take a long breath. ► Asthma, worse when lying down ; spasmodic cough ; spasm of larynx ; pulsations in the chest ; often with profuse sputa.

Cough

► Dry with hoarseness ; with soreness in chest ; excited by tickling in throat-pit ; hollow, spasmodic ; loose, day and night ; with profuse expectoration ; vomiting of tenacious mucus in the morning ; with purulent sputa ; awakens him at night ; worse from motion ; scanty mucous expectoration. ► Expectoration : profuse, fetid, purulent, green ; only during day ; of viscid, milky, acrid mucus ; at times pale, frothy blood ; often tastes greasy. ► Colds fail to yield ; sputum persistently muco-purulent and profuse.

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.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation of heart while sitting, so that he had to hold on to something. ► Violent hammering palpitation, after every quick or violent motion. ► Pulse : small, hard, rapid ; frequently irregular and then slow.

Outer Chest

► Painless throbbing in sternum. ► Tightness across chest ; after suppressed foot-sweat. ► Eruption like varicella, covering the breast ; itching violently.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Offensive axillary sweat. ► Bones of arms feel bruised. ► Shaking of left arm ; before epilepsy. ► Right arm and wrist weak ; cannot raise anything. ► Arms go to sleep when resting on them. ► Limbs tremble ; forearms jerks so, could not feel the pulse ; after bleeding. ► Wen on tendons of extensors of fingers. ► Paralysis of hands ; also in leprosy. ► Enchondroma, right hand. ► Moist tetter on hands. ► Profuse sweat on hands. ► Bone felons ; deep-seated pains ; worse from warm bed ; burning, stinging, aching in superficial parts. ► Run-arounds ; ulceration about nails ; hang-nails. ► Contraction of flexor tendons ; very painful when moving fingers. ► Finger-tips burn. ► Nails : yellow, crippled, brittle or crumpled ; blue in fever.

Lower Limbs

► Suppuration and caries of hip-joint. ► Trembling of legs, with extreme nervousness. ► Sensation of loss of power of legs. ► Gonocace, pains stinging, lancinating ; swelling, doughy ; fistulous openings, with hard edges, discharging greenish-yellow pus. ► Cramps : in the calves ; in soles. ► Cold legs and feet, after suppressed foot-sweat. ► Feet give way under her, when walking. ► Offensive foot-sweat, with rawness between toes. ► Ingrowing toe-nails, offensive discharge. ► Itching on soles, driving to despair.

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.

Position, Etc

► Rest : 32. Wants to lie down : 36, 37. Can't stand : 36. Lying down : 3, 26 ; on back : 26 ; on right side : 18. Sitting : 29, 31. Can't rise : 31. Motion : 2, 3, 18, 27, 29, 31, 32. Exertion : 16, 40. Walking : 18, 20, 26, 33, 36. Running : 26. Jarring : 3. Stooping : 3. Descending : 3. Rising : 31, 36. Stepping : 3. Writing : 2. Looking up : 1. Closing eyes : 1. Moving eyes : 3, 5.

Nerves

► Restless : fidgety ; starts at least noise. ► Trembling in all the limbs, hands in particular ; at times she was quite unable to lift a cup of tea. ► Hysteria, paralysis and obstinate neuralgia, caused by dissipation, or hard work with close confinement. ► Spasms spread from solar plexus to brain ; come at night or during new moon ; attacks preceded by coldness of left side, shaking and twisting of left arm. θ Epilepsy. ► Convulsions after vaccination. ► Child slow in learning to walk. ► Sense of great debility wants to lie down. ► Paralysis from tubes dorsalis. ► Progressive locomotor ataxia.

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.

Time

► Morning : 3, 7, 11, 22, 25, 37. 6 A.M. : 40. Afternoon : 40. 3-5 P.M. : 40. Evening : 1, 5, 13, 15, 34, 40. 11 P.M. : 40. Night : 3, 4, 10, 21, 22, 24, 27, 34, 36, 40, 46. Day : 27, 40, 46. Day and night : 27, 34.

Temperature And Weather

► Warmth : 10, 19. Warmth of bed : 4, 8, 32, 40. Warm room : 3. Warm wrappings : 3, 4, 40. Hot compresses : 3. Cold : 10. Cold or open air : 3, 5, 10. Debility during thunder-storm. Draught : 3. Undressing : 4.

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.

Attacks

► New moon : 36. Increase of moon : 1. Full moon : 6. Every seventh day : 3.

Sides

► Right : 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 18, 22, 24, 31, 32. Left : 6, 24, 29, 32, 36, 40, 43. Below upward : 2, 3, 31. Above downward : 31. Front to back : 19, 28. Within outward : 3, 6.

Sensations

► Feels as if she was divided into halves and that the left side did not belong to her. ► Susceptible to nervous stimuli, to magnetism ; exhaustion from suppuration. ► Wandering pains ; sudden pains passing quickly over body. ► Prickling-tingling in various parts.

Tissues

► Fungi easily bleeding. ► Discharges and excretions offensive ; pus, stools, sweat of feet, etc. ► Hemorrhages : from nose, stomach, bowels, or lungs. ► Swelling inflammation, also, suppuration of glands. ► Inflammation, swelling, ulceration and necrosis of bones. ► Dropsy. ► Emaciation. ► Rachitis. ► Fibrous parts of joints, especially of the knee, inflamed. ► Children, while growing, suffer with violent pains, swelling of limbs and congestion. ► Cellular inflammation ; boils, abscesses, etc., stage of suppuration ; tardy recovery ; subsequent induration. ► Malignant and gangrenous inflammations. ► Cancer. ► Fistulous openings, discharge offensive ; parts around hard, swollen, bluish-red : 48.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 3, 4, 5, 7, 18, 23, 27, 31. Pressure : 4, 17, 19, 31. Scratching : 30. Riding : 2, 31. ► Erysipelas of scalp after injury to bones. ► Ailments from vaccination. ► Small foreign bodies under skin ; promotes expulsion.

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.

Stages And States

► Especially suitable for children, large heads, open sutures ; much sweat about head ; large bellies. ► Nervous, irritable persons, with dry skin, profuse saliva, diarrhoea, night-sweats. ► Weakly persons, fine skin, pale face ; light complexion ; lax muscles. ► Hereditary rheumatism. ► Scrofulous diathesis. ► Rachitic, anaemic conditions ; caries. ► Oversensitive, imperfectly nourished, not from want of food but from imperfect assimilation. ► Stone-cutters ; chest affections and total loss of strength.

Relationship

► Silic. is frequently indicated after ; Bellad., Bryon., Calc. ostr., Cina, Graphit., Hepar, Ignat., Nitr. ac., Phosphor. ► After Silic. ; Fluor. ac, which also antidotes its abuse ; Hepar, if pimples appear around the ulcer. ► Laches., Lycop., Sepia, also follow well. ► Silic. antidotes ; the abuse of mercury, but does not follow the potentized Mercur. well ; Sulphur. ► Antidotes to Silic. : Fluor. ac., Hepar. ► Complementary to Thuja. ► Compare Gettysburg water (soreness between vertebrae worse on motion, pus from joints, as in caries of vertebrae, hip-joint disease, etc.).