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Silicea Terra

30C / 200C / 1MSilica
Pure Flint · Silicon Dioxide · "The Yielding Pushout Remedy"
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🎯 It acts deeply on the connective tissues, bones, and lymphatic system to promote the maturation of abscesses and the absorption of scar tissue.
📖 Boericke writes:
Silica. Pure Flint
(SILICEA)
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 re-absorb 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 withpus formation. Epilepsy. Want of grit, moral or physical.
👤 Constitution
•Typically scrofulous or rachitic children with large heads, open fontanelles, distended abdomens, and a slow development in walking; adults are often chilly, sensitive to drafts, and prone to exhaustion.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Keloid growth.
introduction
Ill effects of vaccination.
introduction
Suppurative processes.
introduction
Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants.
introduction
Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious.
mind
Vertigo from looking up; better, wrapping up warmly; when lying on left side (Magnes mur; Strontia).
head
Profuse sweat of head, offensive, and extends to neck.
head
Swelling of lachrymal duct.
eyes
Roaring in ears.
ears
Dry, hard crusts form, bleeding when loosened.
nose
Sensation of a hair on tongue.
mouth
Pricking as of a pin in tonsil.
throat
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for anxious, sensitive individuals who suffer from mental exhaustion and fixed, obsessive thoughts.
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.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
6th to 30th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
200th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝of unquestioned activity
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Thuja Occidentalis →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Sanicula Aqua →Fluoricum Acidum →
🔄 Compare With
Phosphorus →Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum →Calcarea Carbonica →Picricum Acidum →Kalium Phosphoricum →Arundo Donax →
⚠️ Inimical
Mercurius Solubilis →
📚 Sources & References

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