silicea terra It is one of the tissue salt One of the 12 tissue remedy of Schuesslar. Great polycrest remedy. It is deep acting remedy but acts slowly. It can reach to that sphere of man where surgeon’s knife cannot reach so, it is also called as “SURGEON’S KNIFE”. Silicea is said to be useful for individuals who are nervous, irritable or have a sanguine temperament. silica is often used to treat symptoms of chronic diseases where there is general weakness and a lack of either physical or emotional strength. PATHOGENESIS Pus-forming remedy. Should not be give to patient whom there is a deposit of tubercular focus in lungs. Inflammation and suppuration of tissues. Every little injury suppurates.

1. Silicea Terra

2. Silicea Terra
Common Name:- pure flint; silica
KINGDOM:- Mineral Kingdom
PROVER:- Dr. Hahnemann
CHEMICAL FORMULA:- Silicic oxide

3. INTRODUCTION
 One of the 12 tissue remedy of Schuesslar.
 Great polycrest remedy.
 It is deep acting remedy but acts slowly.
 It can reach to that sphere of man where surgeon’s knife cannot reach so, it is
also called as “SURGEON’S KNIFE”.
 Silicea is said to be useful for individuals who are nervous, irritable or have a
sanguine temperament.
 silica is often used to treat symptoms of chronic diseases where there is
general weakness and a lack of either physical or emotional strength.

4. SPHEREOF ACTION
Bones
Cartilages
Mucous membrane
Glands
Lachrymal duct
nerves

5. BEING A POLYCREST REMEDY IS ACTS ON ALL THE SYSTEMS.
Abscess
Constipation Acne
ill effects of
vaccinations
Glandular swelling
Headache Boils
Fistula Enuresis
CLINICALS

6. PATHOGENESIS
 Pus-forming remedy.
 Should not be give to patient whom there is a deposit of tubercular focus in
lungs.
 Inflammation and suppuration of tissues.
 Every little injury suppurates.

7. Constitutions
Physical makeup
 Person with light
complexion.
 Pale face with lean and
thin body.
 Sickly appearance with
dry skin.
 Weak and lax musculature
Temperament
 Irritable and Sanguine
temperament.
Thermals
 Extremely chilly.
Miasm
 Trimiasmatic.
 Predominantly psoric
Diathesis
 Scrofulous diathesis.

8. Guiding symptoms
 Highly chilly ( Psoronium , Hepar sulp)
 Bad effects from vaccinations (Thuja)

9. • Every little injury suppurates. (Merc. Sol, Hepar)
Desire for cold drinks, cold food, ice- cream.

10. • Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition.
Silica can stimulate the organism to re-absorb fibrotic
conditions and scar-tissue
 Pain begins at occiput,
and spreads over head and
settles over eyes
• Constipates before and
during menses.
• Distaste to milk.

11.  Very sensitive to all impression especially Noise and Anxiousness,and sensations
of roaring in ears

12. PerticuLEr symptoms
1.MIND
-> Fixed ideas
-> thinks only of pins, fears them, searches and counts them.
-> Obstinate, headstrong children
-> Sensitive to all impressions
-> Brain-fag.
-> When forced he goes with full of self- confidence, promptness and accuracy
FEARS THAT HE COULD MAKE FAILURE OF IT, YET HE DOES WELL.
-> Religious melancholy, sadness and irritable despondency .

13. 2. HEAD
->Aches from fasting.
->Vertigo from looking up; better,
wrapping up warmly; when lying on
left side (Magnes mur; Strontia).
->Profuse sweat of head, offensive,
and extends to neck.
->Pain begins at occiput, and spreads
over head and settles over eyes.
Swelling in the glabella.

14. 3. 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.

15. 4. EARS
-> Fetid discharge.
-> Caries of mastoid.
->Loud pistol-like report.
->Sensitive to noise.
->Roaring in ears.

16. 5. NOSE
-> Itching at point of nose.
-> Dry, hard crusts form, bleeding when loosened.
-> Nasal bones sensitive.
-> Sneezing in morning.
-> Obstructed and loss of smell.
-> Perforation of septum.

17. 6. FACE
-> Skin cracked on margin of lips.
-> Eruption on chin.
-> Facial neuralgia, throbbing, tearing, face red; worse, cold
damp

18. 7. MOUTH
->Sensation of a hair on tongue.
-> Gums sensitive to cold air.
-> Boils on gums.
-> Abscess at root of teeth.
-> Pyorrhea (Merc cor).
->Sensitive to cold water.

19. 8. THROAT
->Periodical quinsy.
-> Pricking as of a pin in tonsil.
-> Colds settle in throat.
-> Parotid glands swollen (Bell; Rhus; Calc).
-> Stinging pain on swallowing.
-> Hard, cold swelling of cervical glands.

20. 9. STOMACH:-
->Disgust for meat and warm food.
->On swallowing food, it easily gets into posterior nares.
->Want of appetite; thirst excessive.
->Sour eructations after eating (Sepia; Calc).
->Pit of stomach painful to pressure.
->Vomiting after drinking (Ars; Verat).

21. 10. ABDOMEN
->Pain or painful cold feeling in abdomen, better external
heat.
-> Hard, bloated. Colic; cutting pain, with constipation;
-> yellow hands and blue nails.
-> Much rumbling in bowels.
-> Inguinal glands swollen and painful.
-> Hepatic abscess.

22. 11.RECTUM
->Feels paralyzed.
-> Fistula in ano (Berb; Lach).
-> Fissures and hæmorrhoids, painful, with spasm of
sphincter.
-> Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled,
recedes again.
-> Great straining; rectum stings; closes upon stool.
-> Feces remain a long time in rectum.
-> Constipation always before and during menses; with
irritable sphincter ani.
-> Diarrhœa of cadaverous odor.

23. 12.URINARY
-> Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediment.
-> Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stool.
-> Nocturnal enuresis in children with worms.

24. 13. MALE
-> Burning and soreness of genitals, with eruption on inner
surface of thighs.
-> Chronic gonorrhœa, with thick, fetid discharge.
-> Elephantiasis of scrotum. Sexual erethism; nocturnal
emissions.
-> Hydrocele.

25. 14.FEMALE
-> A milky (Calc; Puls; Sep), acrid leucorrhœa, during
urination.
-> Itching of vulva and vagina; very sensitive.
-> Discharge of blood between menstrual periods.
-> Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over
whole body.
-> Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily; drawn in.
-> Fistulous ulcers of breast (Phos).
-> Abscess of labia.
-> Discharge of blood from vagina every time child is nursed.
-> Vaginal cysts (Lyc; Puls; Rhod) hard lumps in breast
(conium).

26. 15.RESPIRATORY
-> Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently muco-purulent and
profuse.
-> Slow recovery after pneumonia.
-> Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little
granules like shot, which, when broken, smell very
offensive.
-> Cough with expectoration in day, bloody or purulent.
-> Stitches in chest through to back.
-> Violent cough when lying down, with thick, yellow lumpy
expectoration; suppurative stage of expectoration (Bals.
Peru).

27. 16.BACK
-> Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on back.
-> Pain in coccyx.
-> Spinal irritation after injuries to spine; diseases of bones
of spine.
-> Potts' disease.

28. 17.SLEEP
-> Night-walking; gets up while asleep.
-> Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in
head.
-> Frequent starts in sleep.
-> Anxious dreams.
-> Excessive gaping.

29. 18.EXTREMITIS
-> Sciatica, pains through hips, legs and feet.
-> Cramp in calves and soles.
-> Loss of power in legs.
-> Tremulous hands when using them.
-> Paralytic weakness of forearm.
-> Affections of finger nails, especially if white spots on nails.
-> Ingrowing toe-nails. Icy cold and sweaty feet. The parts lain on go to
sleep.

30. -> Offensive sweat on feet, hands, and axillæ.
-> Sensation in tips of fingers, as if suppurating. Panaritium.
-> Pain in knee, as if tightly bound.
-> Calves tense and contracted.
-> Pain beneath toes.
-> Soles sore (Ruta).

31. 19.SKIN
-> Felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers.
-> Delicate, pale, waxy.
-> Cracks at end of fingers.
-> Painless swelling of glands.
-> Scars suddenly become painful.
-> Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from tissues.
-> Every little injury suppurates.
-> Eruptions itch only in daytime and evening.

32. 20.FEVER
-> Chilliness; very sensitive to cold air. Creeping, shivering
over the whole body.
-> Cold extremities, even in a warm room.
-> Sweat at night; worse towards morning.
-> Suffering parts feel cold.

33. 21.SILICEA BABY
-> Children who suffer from malnutrition due to lack of
assimilation of food.
-> head with open fontanelles and sutures.
-> Pot bellied abdomen.
-> Ailments from: bad effects of vaccinations.

34. MODALITIES
AGGRAVATION
-> In new moon and full moon, cold,
during menses, from washing and
uncovering.
-> lying down, damp, lying on left side,
AMELIORATION
-> By warmth, wrapping up the head and
in summer.
-> in wet or humid weather.

35. RELATIONSHIP
COMPLEMENTARY to : Thuja; Sanicula;

36. DOSE
-> Sixth to thirtieth potency.
-> The 200th and higher of unquestioned activity.
-> In malignant affections, the lowest potencies needed at times.

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