(Pure Flint)
Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective
nutrition. It goes further and produces neurasthenic states in consequence,
and increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes.
Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis. Silica can stimulate the organism
to reabsorb fibrotic conditions and scar tissue. In phthisis must be used
with care, for here it may cause the absorption of scar tissue, liberate
the disease, walled in, to new activities. (J. Weir.) Organic changes; it
is deep and slow in action. Periodical states; abscesses, quinsy,
headaches, spasms, epilepsy, feeling of coldness before an attack. Keloid
growth. Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head, open fontanelles
and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking. Ill effects of
vaccination. Suppurative processes. It is related to all fistulous
burrowings. Ripens abscesses since it promotes suppuration. Silica patient
is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts,
hands and feet cold, worse in winter. Lack of vital heat. Prostration of
mind and body. Great sensitiveness to taking cold. Intolerance of
alcoholic stimulants. Ailments attended with pus formation.
Epilepsy. Want of grit, moral or physical. | ||
| Mind. Yielding,
faint hearted, anxious. Nervous and excitable. Sensitive to
all impressions. Brain-fag. Obstinate, headstrong children. Abstracted.
Fixed ideas; thinks only of pins, fears them, searches and counts
them. | ||
| Head. Aches
from fasting. Vertigo from looking up; better, wrapping up warmly; when
lying on left side. [Mag-m.] Profuse sweat of
head, offensive, and extends to neck. Pain begins at occiput, and
spreads over head and settles over eyes. Swelling in the
glabella. | ||
| Eyes. Angles of
eyes affected. Swelling of lachrymal duct. Aversion to light,
especially daylight; it produces dazzling, sharp pain through eyes; eyes
tender to touch; worse when closed. Vision confused; letters run together
on reading. Styes. Iritis and iridochoroiditis, with pus in anterior
chamber. Perforating or sloughing ulcer of cornea. Abscess in cornea
after traumatic injury. Cataract in office workers. Aftereffects of
keratitis and ulcus cornae, clearing the opacity. Use 30th potency for
months. | ||
| Ears. Fetid
discharge. Caries of mastoid. Loud pistol-like report. Sensitive to noise.
Roaring in ears. | ||
| Nose. Itching
at point of nose. Dry, hard crusts form, bleeding when loosened.
Nasal bones sensitive. Sneezing in morning. Obstructed and loss of smell.
Perforation of septum. | ||
| Face. Skin
cracked on margin of lips. Eruption on chin. Facial neuralgia, throbbing,
tearing, face red; worse, cold damp. | ||
| Mouth.
Sensation of a hair on tongue. Gums sensitive to cold air. Boils on
gums. Abscess at root of teeth. Pyorrhea. Sensitive to cold
water. | ||
| Throat.
Periodical quinsy. Pricking as of a pin in tonsil. Colds settle in
throat. Parotid glands swollen. [Bell.; Rhus-t.; Calc.] Stinging pain on
swallowing. Hard, cold swelling of cervical glands. | ||
| Stomach.
Disgust for meat and warm food. On swallowing food, it easily gets
into posterior nares. Want of appetite; thirst excessive. Sour eructations
after eating. [Sep.; Calc.] Pit
of stomach painful to pressure. Vomiting after drinking. [Ars.; Verat.] | ||
| Abdomen. Pain
or painful cold feeling in abdomen, better external heat. Hard, bloated.
Colic; cutting pain, with constipation; yellow hands and blue nails. Much
rumbling in bowels. Inguinal glands swollen and painful. Hepatic
abscess. | ||
| Rectum. Feels
paralyzed. Fistula in ano. [Berb.; Lach.] Fissures and hemorrhoids, painful, with spasm
of sphincter. Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled,
recedes again. Great straining; rectum stings; closes upon stool. Feces
remain a long time in rectum. Constipation always before and during
menses; with irritable sphincter ani. Diarrhea of cadaverous
odor. | ||
| Urine.
Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediment. Prostatic fluid
discharged when straining at stool. Nocturnal enuresis in children with
worms. | ||
| Male. Burning
and soreness of genitals, with eruption on inner surface of thighs. Chronic
gonorrhea, with thick, fetid discharge. Elephantiasis of scrotum. Sexual
erethism; nocturnal emissions. Hydrocele. | ||
| Female. A milky
[Calc.; Puls.; Sep.], acrid leucorrhea, during urination. Itching of
vulva and vagina; very sensitive. Discharge of blood between menstrual
periods. Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole
body. Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily; drawn in. Fistulous ulcers
of breast. [Phos.] Abscess of labia. Discharge of
blood from vagina every time child is nursed. Vaginal cysts. [Lyc.; Puls.; Rhod.] Hard lumps in breast. [Con.] | ||
| Respiratory.
Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently mucopurulent and profuse. Slow
recovery after pneumonia. Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of
little granules like shot, which, when broken, smell very offensive. Cough
with expectoration in day, bloody or purulent. Stitches in chest through to
back. Violent cough when lying down, with thick, yellow lumpy
expectoration; suppurative stage of expectoration. | ||
| Back. Weak
spine; very susceptible to drafts on back. Pain in coccyx. Spinal
irritation after injuries to spine; diseases of bones of spine. Potts'
disease. | ||
| Sleep.
Night walking; gets up while asleep. Sleeplessness, with great
orgasm of blood and heat in head. Frequent starts in sleep. Anxious dreams.
Excessive gaping. | ||
| Extremities.
Sciatica, pains through hips, legs and feet. Cramp in calves and soles.
Loss of power in legs. Tremulous hands when using them. Paralytic weakness
of forearm. Affections of fingernails, especially if white spots on
nails. Ingrowing toenails. Icy cold and sweaty feet. The parts lain on
go to sleep. Offensive sweat on feet, hands, and axillae. Sensation in
tips of fingers, as if suppurating. Panaritium. Pain in knee, as if tightly
bound. Calves tense and contacted. Pain beneath toes. Soles sore. [Ruta] Soreness in feet from instep through to the
sole. Suppurates. | ||
| Skin.
Felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers. Delicate, pale,
waxy. Cracks at end of fingers. Painless swelling of glands. Rose colored
blotches. Scars suddenly become painful. Pus offensive. Promotes
expulsion of foreign bodies from tissues. Every little injury
suppurates. Long lasting suppuration and fistulous tracts. Dry finger tips.
Eruptions itch only in daytime and evening. Crippled nails.
Indurated tumors. Abscesses of joints. After impure vaccination. Bursa.
Lepra, nodes, and coppery spots. Keloid growths. | ||
| Fever.
Chilliness; very sensitive to cold air. Creeping, shivering over the whole
body. Cold extremities, even in a warm room. Sweat at night; worse towards
morning. Suffering parts feel cold. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, new moon, in morning, from washing, during menses,
uncovering, lying down, damp, lying on left side, cold. Better,
warmth, wrapping up head, summer; in wet or humid weather. | ||
| Relationship.
Complementary: Thuj.; Puls. Mercurius and Silica do not follow each other well. Compare: Hep.; Kali-p.; Calc.; Phos. | ||
| Dose. Sixth to
thirtieth potency. The two hundredth and higher of unquestioned activity.
In malignant affections, the lowest potencies needed at times. |