SILICA

REMEDY OF THE DAY: SILICA

The idea of a Silica patient is that they are YIELDING (flexible). easy to get along with, agreeable, it is a kind of shyness or timidity but not cowardice. is submissiveness that arises out of lack of energy. Very intelligent, sensitive to impressions, brain fag, obstinate, ...abstracted, fixed ideas, thinks only of pins, fears them, searches and counts them. They are delicate, refined as the essence, the coarse element, thin pale, delicate and highly refined, perceptive, but not assertive nor aggressive. Defective nutrition does to imperfect assimilation, bone diseases with caries and necrosis, Silica can stimulate the organism to reabsorb fibrotic conditions and scar tissues. In PHTHISIS, must be used with care, for there it may cause the absorption of scar tissue, liberate the disease walled in into new activity. It is a very deep remedy, for chronic disease and slow in action. Scrofulous, rachitic children with a large head, open fontanelles and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking. Ill effects of vaccination, suppurative processes, fistulous burrowings. Ripen abscesses since it promotes suppuration, silica is cold and chilly hugs the fire, wants warm clothing, hates drafts, hand and feet cold<winter, lack of vital heat. Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants, sour formations, prostration, mind and body. Epilepsy, want of grip, moral or physical. Swelling of lachrymal duct. Eye affections, caries of mastoid, roaring ears. A sensation of hair on tongue, pricking as of a pin in tonsils, parotid glands swollen. Fistula in ano, fissures and haemorrhoids. painful with spasm of sphincter. Constipation always before and during menses. NIGHT walking promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from tissues. Crippled nails, indurated tumours, abscesses of joints after impure vaccination, bursa, lepra nodes, and keloid growth. Warmth, wrapping up head, summer, in wet or humid weather. AND MANY MANY OTHER CHRONIC DISEASES. Beatriz H Hill