HMM SURGON KNIEF

2. GROUP NUMBER : C1
NAME ROLLNO
TANZILAH RIYAZ PATHAN 47
ERAM AVESH SHAIKH 62
RUSHIKESH VIJAY SHIMPI 66

3. SILICEA TERRA

4. SILICEA TERRA
COMMON NAME: Pure silica
KINGDOM: Mineral Kingdom
PROVER: Dr. Hahnemann
CHEMICAL FORMULA: Silicic oxide

5. INTRODUCTION
One of the 12 tissue remedy of Schuesslar.
 Great polycrest remedy .
 Long and deep acting remedy but acts
slowly.
 Also called as “SURGEON’S KNIFE”.
Can reach to that sphere of man where
surgeon’s knife cannot reach.

6. SPHERE OF ACTION
Bones
Cartilages
Mucous membrane
Elastic & cellular tissue
Nerves
Glands
Lachrymal duct
Eustachian tube

7. PATHOGENESIS
Pus-forming remedy.
Should not be give to patient whom
there is a deposit of tubercular focus in
lungs.

8.  Inflammation and suppuration of tissues.
 Every little injury suppurates.

9. CLINICALS
Abscess.
Acne.

10.  Glandular swelling.
 Boils.

11.  Enuresis
 Somnambulism.

12.  After effects of vaccinations.
 Headache.

13. Fistula.
Constipation.
BEING A POLYCREST REMEDY IS
ACTS ON ALL THE SYSTEMS.

14. CONSTITUTION
PHYSICAL MAKEUP:
Person with light complexion.
 Pale face with lean and thin body.
 Sickly appearance with dry skin.
 Weak and lax musculature.

15. Temperament:
Irritable and Sanguine temperament.
Thermals:
Extremely chilly.
Miasm:
Trimiasmatic.
Predominantly psoric.
Diathesis:
Scrofulous diathesis.

16. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS
1. Highly chilly ( Psoronium , Hepar
sulp)
2. Bad effects from vaccinations
(Thuja)

17. 3. Every little injury suppurates. (Merc. Sol,
Hepar)
4. WANT OF GRIT ,mental and physical.

18. 5. Headache starting from occiput vertex
right eye which is > profuse urination and
warm wrapping.
6. Desire for cold drinks, cold food, ice-
cream.

19. 7. Want to be magnetised (phos).
8. Offensive sweat from hands, toes, free
axillae.

20. 9. Very sensitive to all impression especially
Noise and Anxiousness.
10. Constipates before and during menses.
11. Somnambulism.

21. 12.Intolerance to sour, corron like odour
of feet with perspiration.
13. Distaste to milk.

22. 14. Aliments from: Vaccination, suppressed
menses, exposure to drought of air, chest
complains of stone cutters.
15. Great weariness and debility; wants to lie
down.

23. MENTALS
Has a very peculiar mentals .
Patient lacks stamina.

24.  When mind needs silicea it is in state of
weakness, embrassment , dread state of
yeilding .
 Mostly found in clergyman, lawyers or
person who have have the habit of public
appearance .

25. Fears that he may fail.
His mind won’t work out by prolonged
efforts at mental level.
When forced he goes with full of self-
confidence, promptness and accuracy.

26.  FEARS THAT HE COULD MAKE FAILURE OF IT,
YET HE DOES WELL.
 Religious melancholy, sadness and irritable
despondency .

27. Fixed ideas.
Pin mania.

28. PARTICULARS
HEAD:
Head aches from fasting.
Vertigo from looking up.
Profuse offensive sweat of head up till the neck.
 Pain begins at occiput and spreads over head and
settles over the eyes.
Swelling in glabella.
< draft of air and uncovering of head.
>pressure and wrapping up warmly and
profuse urination.

29. Eyes:
Angles of eyes effected.
Swelling of lachrymal duct.
Aversion to light, esp. Daylight; produces sharp
dazzling pain through eyes; eyes tender to touch;
worse when closed.
Confused vision.
Styes
Iritis and irido-choroiditis with pus in anterior
chamber.
Abscess in cornea after traumatic injury.

30. Nose:
Itching at the point of nose.
Dry, hard crust form, bleeding when loosened.
Nasal bone sensitive.
Sneezing in morning.
Obstructed and loss of smell.
Perforation of septum.

31. Face:
Skin cracked at the margin of lips.
 Eruptions on chin.
Facial neuralgia..
Worse in cold, damp weather.

32. Mouth:
Sensation of hair on tongue.
Gums sensitive to cold air.
Boils on gums.
Abscess at root to teeth.
Pyorrhea (merc cor).
Sensitive to cold water.

33. Stomach:
Disgust for meat and warm food.
Want of appetite; thirst excessive.
Sour eructations after eating (sep ; clac).
Pit of stomach painful to pressure.
Vomiting after drinking (ars; verat)

34. Abdomen:
Pain or painful feeling in abdomen.
Hard bloated.
colic; cutting pain with constipation.
Much rumbling in bowels.

35. Rectum:
Fissures and haemorrhoids, painful, with spasm of
sphincter.
Stools comes out with difficulty ; when partly
expelled, recedes again.
Great straining.
Faeces remains for long time in rectum.
Constipation before and during menses.
Diarrhoea of cadaverous odour.

36. Urinary:
Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediments.
Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stools.
Nocturnal enuresis in children with worms.

37. Male :
Burning and soreness of genitals, with eruptions on
inner surfaces of thighs.
Chronic gonorrhoea, with thick, fetid discharge.
Elephantitis of scrotum.
Nocturnal emissions.
Hydrocele.

38. Female:
A milky, acrid leucorrrhoea during urination.
Itching of vulva and vagina; very sensitive.
Increased menses, with paroxyms of ice coldness
over whole body.
Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily ; which iss drawn
in.
Abscess of labia.
Vaginal cysts.(lyco, puls).
Hard lumps in breast.

39. Sleep:
Night walking.
Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat
in head.
Anxious dreams.
Excessive gaping.

40. Extremities:
Pains through hips, legs and feets.
Cramps in calves and soles.
Loss of power in legs.
Tremulous hands while using them.
Paralytic weakness of forearm.
Affections of finger nails esp. in white spots on nails.
Icy cold and sweaty feet.
OFFENSIVE SWEAT ON FEET, HANDS AND
AXILLAE.
Calves tensed and contracted.
Sore toes. ( Ruta)

41. Skin:
Felons.
Abscesses.
Boils old fistulous ulcers.
Scars becomes suddenly painful.
Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from
tissues.
EVERY LITTLE INJURY SUPPURATES.
Long lasting suppurations and fistulous tracts
Eruptions itch only in day time.
Crippled nails.

42. SILICEA BABY.
 SUITED TO : Children who suffer from malnutrition
due to lack of assimilation of food.
 MIASM : Psoric
 THERMALS : Chilly
 DIATHESIS: Scrofulous and Tubercular.
 Constitution:
Large head with open fontanelles and sutures.
Pot bellied abdomen.
Ailments from: bad effects of vaccinations.

43. MENTALS:
 Head strong and obstinate .
 Cries when kindly spoken to.
 Has pin mania.
 Desire to be magnetised.

44. General modalities:
Aggravation:
In new moon and full moon, cold, during
menses, from washing and uncovering.
Amelioration :
By warmth, wrapping up the head and in
summer.

45. Relations:
Complementary to: Thuja and Sanicula.
It is both complementary and chronic of pusatilla.
Incompatible : Mercurius.
Followed well by : Hepar sulph and Flouric acid.
Follows well : After calc, graph, phos.

46. CASE
Preliminary Data.
PATIENT’S NAME : Miss xyz.
GENDER : Female.
AGE: 6.
ADDRESS: Dhruva nagar.
RELIGION: Hindu.
MARITAL STATUS: Unmarried.

47. PERSONAL HISTORY
DESIRE: SOUR FOOD .
SLEEP : SOUND SLEEP.
PERSPIRATION: MOSTLY ON FOLDS i.e NECK AND
ARMS.

48. PRESENTING COMPLAINTS:
MAIN COMPLAINT
PAPULAR ERUPATION ON THE NECK
Duration : 2 monthes
Location: Front and right side of neck.

49. HISTORY OF PRESENTING
COMPLAINT:
A six years old girl was having the
problem of papular eruptions on right
side of neck which had severe itching
with fetid discharges since last 2
months.

50. MENTAL STATE
 OBSTINATE. (STUBBORN)
 QUIET.
 BAHAIR SHANT AAHE GHARA MAdHE NAHI.
 RAAGH AATA KI EKTACH RAHT BASTE.

51. TREATMENT
Rx,
SILICEA 200 ONE DOSE
SILICEA 30 1/2 DRAM FOR TDS
FOLLOW UP AFTER 7 DAYS.

52. FOLLOW UP
 NO PAPULAR ERUPTION OVER RIGHT SIDE OF
NECK.
 NO ITCHING, NO PUS, NO DISCHARGES.
PATIENT CURED AFTER 7 DAYS.

53. GUIDED BY:
DR. SHWETA PATIL.
DR. REHANA MA’AM.

54. BIBLOGRAPHY:
 LECTURES ON HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA
MEDICA BY J. T KENT.
 BOERICKE’S MATERIA MEDICA
 ALLEN’S KEYNOTES.
 TEXTBOOK OF MATERIA MEDICA BY S.K DUBEY.
 GOGGLE.COM
 WIKIPEDIA.IN

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