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SILICEA TERRA

SILICEA TERRA
silPolychrestMineralCommonPsoric
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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.
About: Silicea is a deep-acting remedy for individuals who are physically and mentally delicate, chilly, and prone to chronic infections or slow-healing wounds. It is particularly useful for those who lack 'grit' or stamina and suffer from poor assimilation of nutrients. It is famous for its ability to help the body expel foreign objects and resolve long-standing suppurative processes.
👤 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
Promotes suppuration and the maturation of abscesses.
Boericke
Offensive, icy cold, sweaty feet.
Boericke
Expels foreign bodies from tissues.
Boericke
Stool recedes after being partially expelled.
Boericke
Extreme chilliness and sensitivity to drafts.
Boericke
Fistulous tracts and chronic bone disease.
Boericke
Profuse, offensive sweat on the head.
Boericke
Yielding, faint-hearted, and anxious temperament.
Boericke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for anxious, sensitive individuals who suffer from mental exhaustion and fixed, obsessive thoughts.
Yielding, faint-hearted, and anxious personality.
Highly sensitive to all external impressions.
Fixed ideas, specifically a fear of pins, often searching for or counting them.
Mental exhaustion and brain-fag.
Obstinate or headstrong behavior in children.
🔑 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 OCCIDENTALISPULSATILLA PRATENSIS
🔄 Compare With
PHOSPHORUSHEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM
⚠️ Inimical
MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's KeynotesPhatak's Concise MM

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