CASES

SILICA

Common Name: Silica

 

Mental:

SENSITIVE, TIMID and REFINED (When a person's refined, they have good manners and good taste.).

LACK OF MENTAL STAMINA.

Clairvoyant when the mind is tired.

Fear of failure or to undertake new things.

Fear of ANTICIPATION, examination.

Fear of PINS or POINTED OBJECTS.

Fixed idea that their body consists of two different halves, that body is divided.

Children do not want to be spoken to.

Physical:

PERSPIRATION – COPIOUS, OFFENSIVE & ACRID, especially feet.

HARD TUMOURS like fibromas, nodules of the breast , swollen glands, warts.

Unhealthy tendency for suppuration.

ENLARGEMENT OF GLANDS.

Diseases of bone and spine like Scoliosis, Curvatures, Caries.

Silica promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from tissue, especially pointed ones, e.g. splinters, needles, fish bones.

Headaches from occiput to forehead < right side < COLD draft > warm wrapping.

Pains are violent and sticking.

Falling or thinning of hair – also in children (Bar-c, Ph-ac).

Sensation of hair on the tongue.

Induration in the mammae < left side.

Weakness after coition.

Nails are BRITTLE with WHITE SPOTS.

CONSTIPATION, stool is hard, rectal muscles inactive, when stool is partly expelled - Recedes again = “Bashful Stool.”

Children: With large heads, open fontanelles, catarrhs of eyes and ears, white skin, Emaciated - especially legs, slow in walking.

Modalities:

AGG: Cold; Air drafts; Pressure; Nervous excitement; Moon changes; Alcohol;

Mental exertion; Coition; Uncovering, especially of the head; Heat (in the acute

state); warm food.

AMEL: Warm room; Warm wraps to head; profuse urination.

Desires: Eggs, ice, ice-cream, cold food and drinks; to be magnetized.

Aversions: FAT ( also desire), Mother's Milk, meat, warm food.

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