Silicea terra
Keywords
- Extremes of timidity, diffidence, non-thriving, chilliness
to the bone, and a home for suppuration.
Synopsis (identifying features)
- 1. Timidity appearing in public.
- 2. Want of self-confidence - want of grit, moral and
physical.
- 3. Noise, very sensitive to - starts at least noise.
- 4. Anxious, yielding, faint-hearted.
- Shrinks from the least responsibility; utterly lacking in
self-confidence and self-assertion, seems to have no "go", no grit,
in him.
- 5. Dreads failure in examination; or the
lawyer appearing before the judge, although he knows his ubject
well, and does well once he is "in harness".
- 6. Great weakness, debility; wants to
lie down.
- 7. Always chilly, even if working hard (Led.,
Sep.); too sensitive to cold; hugs the fire, wants plenty of warm clothing.
- 8. Hands and feet cold, esp. in winter.
- Takes cold from exposure of feet and head, which must be
kept warm by covering.
- 9. Fetid, horribly offensive sweat of
feet and soles, even with no bodily sweat; every evening.
- The feet become sore with the sweat.
- Sore between the toes too.
- 10. Stool also horribly offensive; often it is hard and
difficult and when it is half out, it slips back again; "bashful
stool".
- 11. All his PAINS are like splinters; or stitching pains;
or pain like a gathering.
- 12. Sweat profuse on the head; at night; running down the
face (Calc.).
- Bar.c. though
similar to Sil. in many other
respects does not have his sweat on the head.
- Also Sil. is
self-willed, and contrary.
- 13. Desire to be magnetised or
rubbed which amel. (Phos.).
Mind
- Mild, yielding and timid, yet obstinate and conscientious
about trifles.
- Mental acuteness with physical weakness and torpidity.
- Unwarranted loss of self-confidence and fear of failure.
- Anxiety when appearing in public.
- Complaints from anticipation.
- Brain fag; cannot stand mental exertion.
- Very sensitive to noise.
- Weeping, tearful mood.
Objective
- Open fontenelles with distended
abdomen (in children).
- Malnutrition; emaciation.
- Keenly sensitive to noise, pain or cold.
- Large head with wasted body (child).
- Stubborn suppuration of every hurt.
- FOOTSWEAT FOUL, acrid, itching.
- Sweat profuse, head or affected parts, at night.
- Want of vital warmth even while taking exercise.
- Ailments from foreign body embedded in the tissues.
Causation (a.f.
)
- Suppression of sweat, esp. foot-sweat.
- Vaccination.
- Loss of vital fluids.
- Injuries, sprains or splinters.
- Exposing the head to any slight draft of air.
- Stone cutters (or those working in textile mills and have
to breathe fine particles of cotton) with chest complaints and total loss of
strength.
Modalities
- Aggr.
- Cold air; draft; warm, wet weather.
- Checked sweat of feet.
- Nervous excitement; jarring of spine; new and full moon
(epilepsy, insanity); mental exertion.
- Alcohol.
- Amel.
- Warmth; wrapping up head; profuse urine.
- Rubbing.
Food & drinks
- Appetite, Thirst etc.
- Want of appetite; excessive thirst.
- Desires
- Ice-cream and ice-water; feels comfortable when it is in
the stomach.
- Aversion
- Disgust for meat and warm food.
- Aversion to mother's milk, child vomits.
Female
- Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over
whole body.
- Discharge of blood from vagina every time child is nursed.
- Constipation always before and during menses.
- Discharge of blood between menstrual periods.
- Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily; drawn in.
- Fistulous ulcer of breast.
Male
- Elephantiasis of scrotum; hydrocele.
- Nocturnal emissions.
- Extreme exhaustion after coition; takes a week to overcome
weakness.
- Prostatorrhoea while straining
at stool.
Child
- Rachitis, marasmatic,
with disproportionately large, sweaty head (Calc., Sanic).
- Open fontanelles and sutures;
big abdomen and emaciated limbs; poorly developed bones and muscles; sunken
eyes, old-looking pinched face.
- Weak ankles.
- Slow in learning to walk; all due to defective
assimilation of whatever nutrition is given.
- Aversion to mother's milk, which is vomited or causes diarrhoea.
- Tabes mesenterica.
- Child doesn't thrive, doesn't learn; doesn't even play;
utterly lacking in self-assertiveness.
- Always tired, lies down.
- Cries when kindly spoken to.
Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics
- 1. Head
- Headache, chronic, since some severe illness, ascending
from nape of neck to the vertex, as if coming from the spine, on uncovering the
head.
- Amel. by pressure and wrapping up
warmly.
- Amel. by profuse urination.
- 2. Eyes
- Lodging of foreign bodies in eyes (after Acon.).
- 3. Mouth
- Sensation of a hair on forepart of tongue.
- 4. Rectum
- Fistula-in-ano alternates with
chest symptoms, esp. asthma.
- 5. Rectum
- The coccyx is painful, as after a long carriage ride;
painful to pressure.
- 6. Urine
- Nocturnal enuresis in children, from worms.
- 7. Gen. Male
- Nausea during coitus.
- 8. Ears
- Caries of mastoid (Aur.).
- 9. Expectoration
- Purulent, when coughing.
- 10. Extremities
- Crippled nails fingers and toes.
- 11. Sleep
- Night-walking, gets up while asleep, walks about and lies
down again.
- 12. Sleep
- Hands fall asleep at night.
- 13. Nose
- Itching at the tip of the nose; dry, hard crusts form,
bleeding when loosened; perforated septum.
- 14. Sleep
- Dreams of animals, battles, cruelty, large dogs following
him; of earthquake; of epilepsy, ghosts, wild beasts, vertigo.
- 15. Ears
- Foetid discharge; sensitive to
noise; roaring in ears.
- 16. Skin
- Unhealthy, every little injury suppurates.
- (After Hep.s. or Calc. s. has
expedited discharge of pus, Sil. comes in for
healing; promotes granulation and cicatrisation).
- 17. Bones
- Caries or curvature.
- Swelling and distortion of spine.
- 18. Sweats
- All over only after a good deal of exertion.
- But he sweats as soon as he falls asleep.
- 19. Suppression- of footsweat : convulsions, dullness of sight, cataract, paralysis, locomotor ataxia, etc.
- Asthma from suppressed gonorrhoea.
- 20. Generals
- Epilepsy, noturnal, esp.
appearing about the time of the new moon.
- 21. General
- Expels foreign bodies (when surgically not possible), such
as fish-bone, thorn or a needle, by setting up
suppuration of the affected part.
- 22. General
- Upward and outward direction of symptoms.
- In epilepsy aura begins in solar plexus and moves upwards.
- Headache ascends from nape to vertex.
- Pains shoot out through eyes.