Silicea
Pure flint · Abbrev.: SIL
Abdomen
William Boericke 1922
Hard, bloated. Colic; cutting pain, with constipation; yellow hands and blue nails. Much rumbling in bowels. Inguinal glands swollen and painful. Hepatic abscess.
Back
William Boericke 1922
Pain begins at occiput, and spreads over head and settles over
William Boericke 1922
Pain in coccyx. Spinal irritation after injuries to
William Boericke 1922
Violent cough when lying down, ivith thick, yellow lumpy expectoration; suppurative stage of expectoration. [Bals, Peru.]
Dose
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High potencies traditionally push stalled suppuration outward; 200C single for constitution.
Ears
William Boericke 1922
Fetid discharge. Caries of mastoid. Loud pistol-like report. Sensitive to noise. Roaring in
Eyes
William Boericke 1922
eyes tender to touch; worse when closed. Vision confused; letters run together on reading. Styes. Iritis and irido-choroiditis, with pus in anterior chamber. Per^ f orating or sloughing ulcer of cornea. Abscess in cornea after traumatic injury. Cataract in office workers. After-effects of keratitis and ulcus comae, clearing the opacity. Use 30th potency for months.
William Boericke 1922
Swelling in the glabella.
William Boericke 1922
Angles of eyes affected. Swelling of lachrymal duct. Aversion to light, especially daylight; it 682
Face
William Boericke 1922
Skin cracked on margin of lips. Eruption on chin. Facial neuralgia, throbbing, tearing, face red; worse, cold damp.
Female
William Boericke 1922
A milky [Calc.; Puls.; Sep.], acrid leucorrhoea, 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. [P/105.] Abscess of labia. Discharge of blood from vagina every time child is nursed. Vaginal cysts, [Lyc.; Puls.; Rhod.] Hard lumps in breast. [Conium.]
Guiding symptoms
William Boericke 1922
Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition. Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head, open fontaiielles and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking. Ill effects of vaccination. Suppurative proc^ esses. Lack of vital heat. Prostration of mind and body. Great sensitiveness to taking cold. Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants. Ailments attended with pus formation. Epilepsy IVant of grit, moral or physical.
William Boericke 1922
of sphincter. Stool comes doivn with difficulty; udien partly expelled, recedes again. Great straining; rectum stings. Faeces remain a long time in
Head
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Profuse sweat of head, offensive, worse evening; headaches from eye-strain rising from nape over vertex; open fontanelles in infants; catarrhal deafness with roaring.
William Boericke 1922
Aclies from fasting. Vertigo from looking up; better, wrapping up warmly; when lying on left side. [Magnes. mur.; Strontia.] Profuse sweat of head, oflFensive, and extends to
Introduction
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The imperfectly nourished, chilly, refined absorber who yields to everything — abscesses form and stall, confidence collapses.
Male
William Boericke 1922
Burning and soreness of genitals, with eruption on inner surface of thighs. Chronic gonorrhoe, with thick, fetid discharge. F.lephantiasis of scrotum. Sexual erethism ; nocturnal emissions. Hydrocele.
Mind
William Boericke 1922
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.
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Want of grit — moral and physical; yielding, faint-hearted, anxious over trifles; obstinate about trifles paradoxically; dreads failures and examinations.
Modalities
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Worse: new moon, cold drafts, uncovering, lying on left side, milk. Better: warmth, wrapping the head, summer.
Mouth
William Boericke 1922
6 of a halt on
Nails
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Brittle, crippled nails with white spots; painful panaritium deep at roots.
Nose
William Boericke 1922
Dry, hard crusts form, bleeding when loosened. Nasal bones sensitive. Sneezing in morning. Obstructed and loss of smell. Perforation of .septum.
William Boericke 1922
Itching at point of
Rectum
William Boericke 1922
Constipation always before and during menses; with irritable sphincter ani. Diarrhoea of cadaverous odor.
William Boericke 1922
Feels paralyzed. Fistula in ano. [Serb.; Lack.] Fissures and haemorrhoids, painful, with spasm
Relationships
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Complementary Thuja, Pulsatilla, Calcarea; compare Heparsulph (suppuration further advanced); follows well after Hepar.
Respiratory
William Boericke 1922
Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently muco-purulent and profuse. 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
Skin
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Unhealthy skin promoting pus formation; every injury festers; fistulae and keloid tendencies; whitlows with throbbing.
Sleep
William Boericke 1922
Night-walking ; gets up while asleep. Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in
Spine
William Boericke 1922
diseases of bones of
William Boericke 1922
very susceptible to draughts on
William Boericke 1922
Potts' disease.
Stomach
William Boericke 1922
Disgust for meat and warm food. On swallowing food, it easily gets into posterior nares. Want of appetite; thirst excessive. Sour eructations aftei eating. [Sepia; Calc.] Pit of stomach painful to pressure. Vomiting after drinking. [Ars.; Verat.]
Teeth
William Boericke 1922
Pyorrhoea. [Merc, cor.] Sensitive to cold water.
Throat
William Boericke 1922
Periodical quinsy. Pricking as of a pin in tonsil. Colds settle in
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Pricking as from pins on swallowing; tonsillitis where pus forms but points poorly; chronic hoarseness.
William Boericke 1922
Parotid glands swollen. [Bell; Rhus; Calc.] Stinging pain on swallowing. Hard, cold swelling of cervical glands.
Tongue
William Boericke 1922
Gums sensitive to cold air. Boils on gums. Abscess at root of
Urinary
William Boericke 1922
Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediment. Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stool. Nocturnal enuresis in children with worms.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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