CASES

# SILICEA TERRA (sil.)

* LACK OF STAMINA.

Mind

- YIELDING, mild, refined, sensitive temperament.

- Want of self-confidence. Irresolution. Timid.

- Conscientious about trifles. Fixed ideas.

- Fears: public speaking, examinations, pointed objects and pins.

- Complaints from long mental exertion. Brain fag.

- 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 agg. mothers' milk.

BAD ASSIMILATION, defective nutrition.

- CHILLY (can be agg. heat in acutes).

- agg. COLD, DRAFT, UNCOVERING.

- agg. Suppression of perspiration.

- agg. Changes of moon, full moon.

- agg. 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.

- Caries of bone.

Food and drinks

- Desire: Eggs, fat, ice, ice-cream, cold food and drinks.

- Aversion: FAT, (MOTHERS') MILK, salt, meat, warm food.

- agg. MILK.

Head

- PAIN: FROM OCCIPUT TO FOREHEAD or right side.

agg. COLD, DRAFT, uncovering of head, fasting, mental exertion, light.

amel. Wrapping up, warmth, pressure.

- PERSPIRATION of scalp and neck, agg. during sleep (Calc).

- SENSITIVE TO COLD (Chin, Hep, Nux-v, Psor).

- Falling of hair in intellectual types. Premature balding.

- Open fontanelles (Calc, Calc-p).

Eye

- Inflammation and obstruction of lachrymal duct.

- Styes. Ulcer and absces of cornea.

Ear

- Acute and chronic ear infections. Purulent discharge.

- Impaired hearing, stoppage, amel. yawning, relieved after loud report.

- Meniere associated with sinus problems.

- Caries of mastoid.

Nose

- SINUSITIS (Kali-bi, Lyc, Merc).

- Chronic coryza with dry obstruction.

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 agg. cold, draft, dampness; amel. warmth.

Throat

- Recurrent inflammation. Tonsillitis.

- Splinter-like pains.

- Swelling of glands, induration and suppuration.

Stomach

- Vomiting from milk (babies).

Abdomen

- Swelling, suppuration of inguinal glands.

Rectum

- CONSTIPATION, agg. menses. RECEDING STOOL.

- 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, agg. exertion, cold.

Cough

- Cough agg. cold, cold food and drinks, amel. warmth.

Expectoration

- Purulent. Offensive.

Chest

- Abscess or tumor mammae. 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).

Extremities

- Coldness.

- NAILS: Break easily. Crippled. WHITE SPOTS.

- INGROWN TOENAILS (Calc, Graph).

- Bunions. Felon, panaritium.

- PROFUSE, OFFENSIVE, CORROSIVE FOOTSWEAT. Excoriates skin and destroys socks.

- Arthritis agg. cold, cold wet weather.

Perspiration

- OFFENSIVE. SOUR. ACRID.

- Draft drying up the perspiration may cause headache or arthritic pains.

Skin

- UNHEALTHY. TENDENCY TO SUPPURATION.

- FISTULAS. ABSCESSES.

- Delicate, pale skin.

- Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies through skin (Anag).

- Keloid. Scars become painful, stinging and red.

- Eruptions, itching amel. night.

- Vitiligo. Ringworm. Impetigo.

- Tumors and warts.

Compl.

Calc, Fl-ac, Hep, Lyc, Phos, Puls, Sanic, Thuj.

Dd

Calc, Calc-p, Gels, Hep, Lyc, Merc, Psor, Puls, Sanic, Staph, Thuj.

CASES