SILICA
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Chilly
- Symptoms develop in cold, damp weather
- Symptoms better in cold, dry weather
- Symptoms come out after a bath
- Lacks stamina
- Weakness
- Embarrassment
- Dread
- Yielding
- Dread of appearing in public
- Fears failure
- Irritable and irascible when aroused
- Timid, retiring, wants to shirk everything
- Mild, gentle, tearful women
- Cross and cries when spoken to
- Religious melancholy
- Sadness
- Despondency
- Inflammation about any fibrinous nidus
- Suppurates
- Sluggish constitutions
- Inflames fibrous deposits about old imbedded missiles
- Slow nutrition
- Slight injury suppurates
- Cicatrix indurates, is hard and nodular
- Fibrinous deposit along knife-cut track
- Old ulcer heals with induration
- Cicatricial tissue indurated, shiny, glassy
- Abscesses in cicatrices
- Opens up old ulcers
- Splinter lodges in tissues
- Plastic deposit about splinter
- Hastens formation of abscesses and boils
- Suppurates out old wens and indurated tumors
- Cured recurrent fibroids
- Cured old indurated tumors
- Deposit of tubercle in the lungs
- Establishes inflammation and throws out tubercle
- Warty growths on the skin
- Moist eruptions
- Pimples
- Pustules
- Abscesses
- Suppurating cavities
- Healing in old fistulous openings with indurated margins
- Catarrhal suppurations
- Copious muco-purulent discharge from eyes, nose, ears, chest, vagina, etc.
- Complaints from suppression of discharges
- Suppressed sweat
- Offensive foot-sweat ceases after getting feet wet
- Chills and violent complaints after foot-sweat suppression
- Long lasting foot-sweat
- Thick, yellow catarrhal discharges
- Catarrhal discharges from nose and other places
- Indurations
- Tumors
- Chronic gastritis
- Brain-fag
- Chronic sick-headache with nausea and vomiting
- Headache commencing in back of head, going to forehead
- Headache worse towards night, from noise
- Headache better from heat
- Supra-orbital neuralgias
- Profuse head-sweat with headache
- Cold, clammy, offensive sweat on forehead
- Sweat on face with exertion, lower body dry
- Sweat about upper parts of body and head
- Headache once a week
- Headache up through back of neck, especially to right side
- Weight in occiput as if it would be drawn back
- Rush of blood to the head
- Headache worse from cold air
- Vertigo to fainting
- Vertigo with nausea
- Vertigo creeping up spine into head
- Avoids cold air, needs head wrapped up
- Headache worse from mental exertion, excessive study, noise, motion, jarring, light, stooping, pressing at stool, talking, cold air, touch
- Moist, scaly eruption on scalp
- Eczema capitis
- Phagedenic ulcers of syphilis
- Eating and spreading ulcers on scalp
- Inflammatory conditions between scalp and skull
- Tumors filled with grumous fluid
- Cephalatoma neonatorum
- Enchondroses
- Affections of the cartilages
- Growths about the joints, fingers and toes
- Hardened glands, especially cervical, salivary, parotid
- Large, hard parotids
- Parotids enlarge from every cold and get hard
- Ulcers on the cornea
- Pustules on the lids
- Falling of the lashes
- Suppuration of the margins of the lids with burning, stinging and redness
- Intense photophobia in all eye complaints
- Scrofulous cases with sore eyes
- Thin, watery, copious discharge from eyes
- Bloody, thick and yellow discharge from eyes
- Ulceration of eyes
- Syphilitic iritis
- Perforating or sloughing ulcer on the cornea
- Spots and cicatrices on the cornea
- Fungus nematodes
- Eyes inflamed from traumatic causes
- Foreign particles lodged in the eyes
- Abscesses around the eyes and lids
- Boils around the eyes and lids
- Tarsal tumors
- Styes
- Affections appearing in the angles of the eyes
- Fistula lachrymalis
- Stricture of lachrymal duct
- Tubercular tendency
- Catarrh of the ear
- Old offensive, thick, yellow otorrhoea
- Otorrhoea following scarlet fever
- Abnormalities in hearing
- Deafness
- Roaring in the ears
- Hissing in the ears
- Roaring like steam in the ears
- Roaring like a train of cars in the ears