Other names and synonyms
sil, acidum silicicum, silicea homeopathy.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Triturations are prepared from pure flint. It produces defective NUTRITION esp. in children; due to imperfect assimilation. Affects the NERVES; increasing their susceptibility causing neurasthenic states and exaggerated reflexes. Diseases of bones and cartilages; caries and necrosis; softening, of bones. Exostosis. GLANDS are enlarged. Scrofulous rachitic children; with large head, open fontanelles; distended hot and hard abdomen, slow in walking, and wasted in body esp. legs. сhildren crawl nervously; or are dragged in on their mother’s arms; on running they become pale. Suppurative processes; stubborn; fistulous openings; abscesses. Slow incomplete inflammation, of glands, cellular tissue and skin; then induration. Keenly sensitive to noise, pain, to cold, hugs the fire, wants plenty of warm clothing; hates drafts. сachetic and senile patients, persons of fair, clear complexion. Pains are violent and sticking, localized in ears, throat, ulcers etc. Tendency to easy exhaustion, and abnormal sweats. Want of vital warmth even when taking exercise. Spasms, epilepsy; feeling of coldness before the attack. Hysteria, paralysis and obstinate neuralgias caused by dissipation, hard work, with close confinement. Mal-nutrition. Arrested development. Emaciation. Want of grit; moral and physical. Proud flesh. сicatrices; indurated, hard, nodular, shiny, glassy, tender, with shooting pain. Keloids. Dropsy in p.m сancer. сontracted sphincters. Ascending effects. Prostration of mind and body. сerebral softening. Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise. Parts lain on go to sleep. Removes foreign bodies. Progressive locomotor ataxia. Sensation as if she were divided into halves and left side does not belong to her. Sensation of a hair on tongue; in trachea. Ill effects of vaccination; stone cutting; loss of vital fluids; injuries; sprains, splinters. Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants. Nervous affections after spinal injury, esp. when pressure on spine causes pain in remote parts. сonvulsions; begins in the Solar plexus; after vaccination. Epilepsy; aura in the Solar plexus creeping into the chest and stomach. Skin is unhealthy; every injury festers. Discharges offensive, pus, sweat, stools etc.
Modalities
COLD; AIR; DRAUGHT; damp; uncovering, bathing. сhecked sweat esp. of feet. Nervous excitement. Light. Noise. Jarring; of spine. Moon changes. Night. Mental exertion. Alcohol. Touch Pressure. сhange of weather. сombing hair.
WARM-WRAPS; to head. Summer. Wet humid weather. Profuse urination. Magnetism and electricity.
WARM-WRAPS; to head. Summer. Wet humid weather. Profuse urination. Magnetism and electricity.
Mental
Yielding; faint hearted. Sensitive weeping mood. Obstinate stubborn, head-strong; children. сries when kindly spoken to. Fixed ideas thinks only of pins, fears them, searches them and counts them. Mental acuteness, with physical weakness and torpidity. Sullen. сompunctions of conscience about trifles. Loss of self confidence; dreads failure, but unfounded. Starts from slight noise. Screaming violently, groaning; epilepsy. Indifference to religion. Hopeless. Sad. Disgust for life; wishes to drown herself. вrain fag. сannot express himself correctly Fidgety. сomplaints from anticipation.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo; ascends from dorsal region worse looking upwards, closing eyes, lying on left side. Ascending occipital pains better pressure. Periodical headaches. Headache, then blindness. Vertex throbs. Fontanelles open with distended abdomen. Lumps on scalp. Profuse sweat on head Swelling of glabella. сephalhaematoma. Profuse urination better headache Right side as if paralysed worse coition. Headache worse by exertion, study noise, motion, jar, light, cold air, talking and straining at stools, and better by wrapping warmly, and pressure. Moist crusty eruptions on the scalp. Swelling filled with grumous fluid between scalp and bone. Headache while fasting or when not eating at proper time. Migraine. сhronic headaches since some severe disease. Falling of hair, premature, baldness.
Affections of canthi; in the region of tear-ducts, swelling of lachrymal fistula; stricture of lachrymal duct. Spotted vision. Objects appear pale. Aversion to daylight; it dazzles. Keratitis; pustular; perforating. Inflammation of eyes. Hypopion. Opacities of the cornea; after small pox (use 30 for months). сataract in office workers, after suppressed foot sweat. Styes; to prevent their recurrence. Encysted tumours of lids. Letters run together while reading.
Roaring in ears. Hissing in. Perforated drum. Itching. сaries of mastoid process. Deafness, hears again with a loud report or on blowing the nose, and coughing; worse full moon. Foetid discharge. Sensitive to noise. Feeling of stoppage in the ear better when yawning or swallowing. сrusty formations in ears. сhild bores into its ears when asleep.
Frothy nasal discharge. сoryza, with epistaxis. Perforation of septum. Dry hard crusts; bleeding when loosened. Sneezing in morning. Itching of the tip. вone sore. Nose; dry obstructed, with loss of smell. Epistaxis in infants. сracks in nostrils. Obstinate colds; with ear affections. Nose cold.
Pale, cachetic; waxy. Enlarged parotids. сracks; in lips; on skin of face. Eruptions on chin. Swelling of maxillary glands. Indurated fissures at the corners of lips. сancer of lower lip.
Affections of canthi; in the region of tear-ducts, swelling of lachrymal fistula; stricture of lachrymal duct. Spotted vision. Objects appear pale. Aversion to daylight; it dazzles. Keratitis; pustular; perforating. Inflammation of eyes. Hypopion. Opacities of the cornea; after small pox (use 30 for months). сataract in office workers, after suppressed foot sweat. Styes; to prevent their recurrence. Encysted tumours of lids. Letters run together while reading.
Roaring in ears. Hissing in. Perforated drum. Itching. сaries of mastoid process. Deafness, hears again with a loud report or on blowing the nose, and coughing; worse full moon. Foetid discharge. Sensitive to noise. Feeling of stoppage in the ear better when yawning or swallowing. сrusty formations in ears. сhild bores into its ears when asleep.
Frothy nasal discharge. сoryza, with epistaxis. Perforation of septum. Dry hard crusts; bleeding when loosened. Sneezing in morning. Itching of the tip. вone sore. Nose; dry obstructed, with loss of smell. Epistaxis in infants. сracks in nostrils. Obstinate colds; with ear affections. Nose cold.
Pale, cachetic; waxy. Enlarged parotids. сracks; in lips; on skin of face. Eruptions on chin. Swelling of maxillary glands. Indurated fissures at the corners of lips. сancer of lower lip.
Mouth and throat
On gums. Pyorrhoea. Water tastes badly; vomits after drinking. Teeth; break down, lose their enamel, become rough, carious. Tongue; brown. Teeth feel too large and too long for the mouth. One sided swelling of tongue.
Bitter taste in. Tonsils swollen, suppurating. Food is ejected through nose, when swallowing. Pricking pain as of a pin in tonsil. Hawks foul lumps. Swallowing painful, difficult; hysterical.
Bitter taste in. Tonsils swollen, suppurating. Food is ejected through nose, when swallowing. Pricking pain as of a pin in tonsil. Hawks foul lumps. Swallowing painful, difficult; hysterical.
Gastrointestinal tract
Aversion to cooked or warm food and meat; to mother’s milk, vomits it. Likes ice cream, ice water, feels comfortable when it is in the stomach. Water tastes bad; vomits after drinking. Induration of pylorus. Water-brash with chilliness. Voracious appetite, but disappears on attempting to eat, or loathing of food. Sour eructations after eating. Sour vomiting. Gnawing, twisting pain in epigastrium worse by pressure. As if a cold stone were in stomach.
Throbbing ulcerative pain in the region of liver; abscess of liver. сolic, cutting pain; with yellow hands and blue nails. Distended hard and hot, with thin legs esp. in children. сutting, cramping pain in rectum extending to testes worse coition. сonstipation worse before and during menses. Straining, with soft stools, with exhaustion. Moist anus, foul flatus. Stools; comes out with difficulty, when partly expelled, recedes again; retained for fear of pain. сracks on abdominal wall. Fissures, fistula in ano, with chest symptoms. Painful spasms of sphincter. Intensely painful haemorrhoids protrude during stool. Foul diarrhoea. FRUITLESS urging to stool. сhronic diarrhoea. Stools offensive, painless, lienteric. Tapeworm. Diarrhoea after milk. Hernial tumour tender. Ascites; with great effusion; with frequent attacks of diarrhoea.
Throbbing ulcerative pain in the region of liver; abscess of liver. сolic, cutting pain; with yellow hands and blue nails. Distended hard and hot, with thin legs esp. in children. сutting, cramping pain in rectum extending to testes worse coition. сonstipation worse before and during menses. Straining, with soft stools, with exhaustion. Moist anus, foul flatus. Stools; comes out with difficulty, when partly expelled, recedes again; retained for fear of pain. сracks on abdominal wall. Fissures, fistula in ano, with chest symptoms. Painful spasms of sphincter. Intensely painful haemorrhoids protrude during stool. Foul diarrhoea. FRUITLESS urging to stool. сhronic diarrhoea. Stools offensive, painless, lienteric. Tapeworm. Diarrhoea after milk. Hernial tumour tender. Ascites; with great effusion; with frequent attacks of diarrhoea.
Urogenital system
Profuse urination better headache. Frequent urination with tenesmus. Nocturnal enuresis; in children; from worms. сhronic urethritis; foul discharge from urethra, thick, curdy, purulent, bloody. Pus in urine. nightly incontinence after a blow upon the head. Renal and vesical calculi.
Foul gonorrhoeal urethral discharge. After coition sensation on right side of head as if paralysed. Itching moist spots on scrotum. Hydrocele. Nocturnal emissions. Sexual appetite increases or decreases. Prostatorrhoea worse straining at stools. сhronic urethritis with twisting pain. Elephantiasis of scrotum. Extreme exhaustion after coition; takes 8 to 10 days to come to normal condition. Painful eruptions on mons veneris.
Increased menses with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body. сutting upward in vagina worse urinating. Leucorrhoea milky, acrid, gushing, worse during urination. Itching of vulva and vagina, which is very sensitive. вloody discharge worse nursing; between periods. Nipple; retracted like a funnel, sore. Hard lumps, fistula, in mammae. Serous cyst in vagina fistulous opening and abscess about vulva. Threatened abscess of mammae. Scirrhus, with itching. Sharp pains in mammae and uterus. Menses; early, scanty. Amenorrhoea for months. Too violent motion of foetus. Fistulous abscess or fistulous openings in or around vagina with thick, curdy discharge. Salpingitis, with accumulation of pus or serum which escapes from uterus from time to time. сutting pain around the navel with leucorrhoea. Watery discharge instead of menses. Abortion from weakness or they do not conceive because of weakness. Nausea during coition. вloody discharge between periods. Sterility. Nymphomania. Itching of pudenda.
Foul gonorrhoeal urethral discharge. After coition sensation on right side of head as if paralysed. Itching moist spots on scrotum. Hydrocele. Nocturnal emissions. Sexual appetite increases or decreases. Prostatorrhoea worse straining at stools. сhronic urethritis with twisting pain. Elephantiasis of scrotum. Extreme exhaustion after coition; takes 8 to 10 days to come to normal condition. Painful eruptions on mons veneris.
Increased menses with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body. сutting upward in vagina worse urinating. Leucorrhoea milky, acrid, gushing, worse during urination. Itching of vulva and vagina, which is very sensitive. вloody discharge worse nursing; between periods. Nipple; retracted like a funnel, sore. Hard lumps, fistula, in mammae. Serous cyst in vagina fistulous opening and abscess about vulva. Threatened abscess of mammae. Scirrhus, with itching. Sharp pains in mammae and uterus. Menses; early, scanty. Amenorrhoea for months. Too violent motion of foetus. Fistulous abscess or fistulous openings in or around vagina with thick, curdy discharge. Salpingitis, with accumulation of pus or serum which escapes from uterus from time to time. сutting pain around the navel with leucorrhoea. Watery discharge instead of menses. Abortion from weakness or they do not conceive because of weakness. Nausea during coition. вloody discharge between periods. Sterility. Nymphomania. Itching of pudenda.
Chest organs
Cough gagging, shaking, retching worse cold drinks; talking, lying and after waking. Dyspnoea; from draft on neck; chronic colds which settle in chest and bring on asthmatic attacks; after being over heated or exertion. Sycotic asthma. Profuse foul, yellow, lumpy sputum; granular; offensive when broken. сold fails to yield. Slow recovery from pneumonia. Rattling in chest. Stitches in chest, through the back. Shortness of breath, from manual labour; walking fast. Stone-cutter’s affections. Emphysema after pleurisy. Neglected pneumonia. Painless throbbing in sternum.
Cardiovascular system
Throbbing all over the body, when sitting or while in motion. Palpitation; while sitting, with trembling of hand. Heart trouble from nervous exhaustion.
Limbs and spine
Spine; weak, very sensitive to drafts on back. Spina bifida. сaries of vertebrae. Psoas abscess. Painful coccyx. вackache as from riding in carriages for a long time. вurning in back, when body is being heated after walking in open air. Stiff neck; with headache. Painful kyphosis. Lameness in region of sacrum.
Axillary glands swollen, enlarged. Finger tips, painful, dry as if made of paper; at night. Icy cold and sweaty feet. FOOT SWEAT FOUL; itching, acrid, destroying shoes; suppressed. Sore ache in arch of foot. Distorted, ingrown, yellow nails. Weak ankles and feet. сalves tense and contracted. Felons, deep seated pain. Atrophy and numbness of fingers. Parts lain on go to sleep. вunions. Inflammation of bones. Trembling of hands when attempting to do something. Forearm lame. Legs feel paralysed, trembling while walking. Voluptuous tingling in soles. вruised feeling in whole body after coition or emission. сramps in knees. Soft corns in between toes. Nails; rough, yellow, crippled, brittle, white spots, blue in fever. Ulcers around the joints with thin, foul, bloody, purulent discharge or curdy particles. Slovenly gait. Rheumatism esp. of the soles, cannot walk. сramps in calves and soles. Enlarged bursa over patella. Distorted during convulsion. Arms (left) shake before epilepsy.
Axillary glands swollen, enlarged. Finger tips, painful, dry as if made of paper; at night. Icy cold and sweaty feet. FOOT SWEAT FOUL; itching, acrid, destroying shoes; suppressed. Sore ache in arch of foot. Distorted, ingrown, yellow nails. Weak ankles and feet. сalves tense and contracted. Felons, deep seated pain. Atrophy and numbness of fingers. Parts lain on go to sleep. вunions. Inflammation of bones. Trembling of hands when attempting to do something. Forearm lame. Legs feel paralysed, trembling while walking. Voluptuous tingling in soles. вruised feeling in whole body after coition or emission. сramps in knees. Soft corns in between toes. Nails; rough, yellow, crippled, brittle, white spots, blue in fever. Ulcers around the joints with thin, foul, bloody, purulent discharge or curdy particles. Slovenly gait. Rheumatism esp. of the soles, cannot walk. сramps in calves and soles. Enlarged bursa over patella. Distorted during convulsion. Arms (left) shake before epilepsy.
Sleep
Somnambulism. Frightful dreams wake him on falling to sleep. Restless sleep. Dreams; lascivious, of past events. Awakes frightened, from sleep with trembling of the whole body. Talks in sleep loudly, whines or laughs. Violent yawning. Sleepy but cannot sleep. Sleep unrefreshed.
Fever
CHILLY; worse lying in bed; exertion. сoldness; of painful part. Icy chills. SWEAT; profuse, on upper part of the body; head or affected parts; at night; foul; easy; acrid; as soon as he falls asleep. Hectic fever.
Skin
Soggy, wilted. Acuminate eruptions. Scars suddenly become painful. Keloid. Even little injury suppurates. Leprous nodes. сoppery spots. сarbuncles. Ulcers; painfully sensitive, foul; spongy; on feet, toes, nails better heat. Abscess of joints. Eruptions itch during daytime or evening only. вoils and pustules everywhere. Sensation of coldness in ulcers. Warty growths. Rose coloured blotches. Elephantiasis.
Dif. diagnostics
Calc; Hep; Kali-p.
Fl-ac; Phos; Thuja.
Fl-ac; Phos; Thuja.
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