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.