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SILICEA
Silica, Pure flint, Silicic oxide, Sand of healing
Clinical Picture:Constitutions which suffer from deficient nutrition, not because food is lacking in quality or quantity, but from an imperfect assimilation.
Great weariness and debility; wishes to constantly lie down.
Has a good effect on the suppurative process - soft tissue, periosteum or bone (chronic osteomyelitis), abscesses, excessive suppuration, affecting chiefly the soft tissues (Calendula officinalis, Hepar sulphuris calcareum); carbuncles; ulcers of all kinds; fistulae, painful, offensive, spongy high edges, fissure in ano; severe pain after stools.
Chronic sick headaches, since some severe disease of youth (Psorinum); ascending from nape of neck to the vertex, as if coming up from the spine and located in one eye, especially the right (left: Spigelia anthelmia). Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from the tissues; fish bones, needles, bone splinters, ingrowing toe-nails (Magnesium phosphoricum, Teucrium marum verum). Keloids, abscesses, ulcers, fistulae.
Modalities:
Worse:
Cold.Better:
Washing.
During menstruation.
During new moon.
Uncovering, especially the head.
Lying down.
Warmth, especially from wrapping up the head.
All the symptoms (except gastric) are decreased by cold food (Ly-copodium clavatum).
Relations:
Complementary to Thuja occidentalis, Sanicula aqua, Pulsatilla nigricans. Silicea is the chronic complement of Pulsatilla nigricans.
Summary of Indications:
Gastrointestinal disorders (digestive disorders, anal fissures, fistula) -chronic infections - expulsion of foreign bodies - paronychia - osteomyelitis - silicosis - emphysema - skin disorders.
Antidotes:
Calcarea carbonica
Hepar sulphuris calcareum