Silica



Urinary Organs

Urinary tenesmus. -Continued want to urinate, with scanty emission (also at night).-Strangury.-Frequent (involuntary) emission of urine, also at night (with distress from irritable sphincter).- Wetting the bed (at night).- Reddish sand, or yellow, gritty sediment in the urine.- Stricture of urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Itching, and red spots on glans.- Excoriation, itching, and redness of prepuce.- Swelling of prepuce, which is covered with itching and moist pimples.- Dropsical swelling of scrotum.- Perspiration and itching in scrotum.- Itching, and moist spots on scrotum. – Absence of sexual desire, with weakness in genital functions, or else immoderate excitement of sexual desire, with numerous wanton ideas, and strong and frequent erections.- Flow of prostatic fluid during urination, and passing of (hard) stool.- After coition, pain in limbs, as from fatigue, or sensation of paralysis on one side of head.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses too early and too feeble, or else too profuse.-Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body.- Suppression of the menses.- Discharge of blood before proper period, menses too late, protracted, blood acrid.-Metrorrhagia. – Diarrhoea, before the menses.- During the menses, pains in the abdomen, pale appearance of objects, or burning sensation and excoriation in vulva.- Itching in the vulva.- Pressing-down feeling in vagina. -Itching, burning, and soreness in pudenda, during menses.- Discharge of blood from the uterus, while suckling. – Abortion.-Leucorrhoea, which flows when urinating, or after the menses.- Leucorrhoea, like milk, flowing at intervals,

and preceded by gripings in umbilical region.- Acrid, corrosive leucorrhoea.- Inflammation of nipples.- Darting burning pain in left nipple.- Sticking pain in left breast.-Painful stitches behind left breast, with chilliness, all night.- Suppuration of the mammae.- Abscess in breast, also with fistulous ulcers, nipple ulcerates.- Indurations in breast.- Right breast hard, painful, and swollen at nipple, feeling as if “gathering.”.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with roughness and excoriation in larynx.- Cough, from cold drinks, or from speaking even for a moment.- Shaking cough, excited by a suffocating tickling in pit of throat.- Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules like shot, which, when broken open, smell offensively (like *Phosphor., excepting the latter remedy has a hot feeling in throat. -H. N. G.). -Fatiguing cough, day and night, worse by movement, with scanty expectoration of mucus.- Nocturnal, suffocating cough.- Spasmodic cough.-Hollow, spasmodic, suffocative cough from tickling in throat-pit, with expectoration only during day of profuse yellowish-green pus, or of tough, milky, acrid mucus, at times of pale, frothy blood, generally tasting greasy and offensive-smelling.- Bruised pain in chest when coughing.-Dry cough, with pain in chest, as from excoriation. -Cough, with vomiting of mucus.- Profuse expectoration of transparent mucus when coughing. -Cough with expectoration in the day, without expectoration at night. – Expectoration of pus, when coughing.- Expectoration of (pale, frothy) blood, with deep, hollow cough.- Obstructed respiration, when lying on the back, or else when stooping, running, or coughing.- Deep, sighing respiration. – Shortness of breath, during light manual labour, or else when walking quickly, sometimes with dyspnoea during repose.-Panting, respiration, on walking quickly.

Chest

Oppression of chest, as from constriction of throat.-Aching in chest, sometimes only when coughing or sneezing.-Shooting and pricking in chest and side, sometimes across back.- Throbbing in sternum.-Phthisis pulmonalis. -Contusive pain in chest, when drawing breath, or coughing.

Heart and Pulse

Palpitation and throbbing over whole body while sitting.- Violent palpitation on every movement.- Imperceptible pulse.

Neck and Back

Purulent ulcer in nape.- Stiffness of nape, with headache.- Swelling of glands of nape, in the neck, and under the axillae (with suppuration), sometimes with induration.-Pimples and furunculi in nape.- Suppuration of axillary glands. -Caries of clavicle.-Stitches between the hips.- Coccyx painful, as after a long carriage ride.- Stinging in os coccyges on rising, painful to pressure. -Scabby elevation on coccyx, above fissure of nates.- Pain in the loins, which prevents rising up, and forces patient to remain lying down.- Inflammatory abscess in lumbar region (on the psoas muscle).- Weakness and paralytic stiffness in back, loins, and nape.- Tearings and shootings in the back.- Shootings in the loins, when seated or lying down.-Burning in

back when walking in open air and becoming warm.- Aching, shooting, burning, and throbbing in lumbo-sacral region.- Swelling and distortion of spine (curvature of the vertebrae).- Contusive pain between the shoulder-blades.

Limbs

Drawing, tearing, and shooting in limbs (arms and legs).- Nocturnal shooting in all joints.- Liability of limbs to become numbed (to go to sleep easily).- Pain in limbs, as though they had been broken, and paralytic weakness, especially in evening. Cramps in arms and legs.- Icy-cold legs and feet.- Jerks in limbs, day and night.- Weakness of joints (they give way when walking).- Lassitude and trembling in limbs, especially in morning.- Soreness and lameness in limbs.- Nails dirty yellow, crippled and brittle.- Ulcers about nails.

Upper Limbs

Drawings and tearings in arms, hands and fingers.- Heaviness and paralytic weakness of arms, which tremble on least exertion.- Numbness of the (fore-) arms when patient is lying upon them or leaning the elbows on a table.- Throbbing and jerking of muscles of arm.- Restlessness and trembling in right arm.- Skin cracked, on arms and hands.- Furunculi and warts on arms.- Paralytic weakness of the forearm, everything is dropped from the hands.- Induration of the cellular tissue of the forearm.- Nocturnal shootings in wrist, extending to the top of arm.- Tearing pain in wrists and ball of hand.- Spasmodic pain in the hands and fingers.-Numbness of hands at night.- Paralytic weakness of hands.- Tonic spasm of hand when writing.- Cramp-like pain and lameness of hand after slight exertion.- Profuse sweat of the hands.- Ganglion on back of hand.- Ulcer on back of hand. – Tingling in fingers.- Burning sensation in ends of fingers.- Pain in joint of fingers, when pressed.- Weakness, rigidity, and want of flexibility in fingers.- Contraction of flexor tendons, very painful when moving fingers.- Ganglion.-(Ganglion on wrist.- ***R. T. C.).- Gnawing, purulent vesicles, with burning in fingers.- Tearing, drawing, sticking pain and numbness in fingers, as if suppurating, or as if a panaritium would form.- Numb feelings of a finger, as though it were enlarged and the bone swollen.- Pain as from a splinter in flexor surface of one finger.-Panaritium, especially with vegetations, cries and insupportable pains day and night.- Finger-nails rough and yellow.- Nails dirty grey as if decayed, powder when cut and split into layers.- White spots on nails.- Dryness in tips of fingers, afternoon.

Lower Limbs

Tearing, stitching pains in hips and thighs.- Suppurating pains in hip-joint.- Drawing, tearing, and tension in the legs (extending from the hips to the feet).- Easy numbing of the limbs, especially when seated.- Paralytic weakness of legs. – Pressure, tearing, and shootings in muscles of thighs.- Itching ulcers in thighs and ankles.- Furunculi on thighs and calves of legs. Softening and ulceration of femur.-Tearings in knee (when sitting, better from motion).- Knee is painful, as if too tightly bound. -Inflammatory swelling of knee.- Fungus in knee. -Drawing pain in legs.- Coldness of legs.- Swelling of legs as far as the feet. -Ulcer on leg, with sticking, burning pains.- Ulcers in the legs, often with sickly complexion.- Red, smarting spot on the tibia.-Caries of the tibia.- Ulcers on lower leg, on tibia.- Tension of calves of legs, as from contraction.- Cramps in calves, especially in evening, after corporeal labour.- Torpor of calves of legs.-Itching miliary eruption on calves.- Tearing and shootings in calves, heels, and toes.- Lancination in ankle, when treading, or resting on foot.- Numbness of feet in evening.- Coldness of feet, sometimes after suppressed perspiration of feet.-Burning sensation in feet and soles, especially in evening and at night.- Swelling of feet, generally in morning.- Offensive smell from feet (intolerable carrion-like, without sweat, every evening).- Profuse, offensive perspiration on feet, with excoriation (and blisters) between the toes.- Suppressed perspiration on feet.- Hard and painful callosities on soles.- Voluptuous tickling in soles, which, when the part has been scratched a little, is almost maddening.- Cramp in the soles of feet.- Gnawing vesicles in heel. Corrosive ulcer on heel, with itching. – Stiffness of toes.- Constant, violent boring or tearing in great toes.- Ulceration of great toe, with shooting pain.- Bunion.- Itching, suppurating scabs on toes. -Ingrowing toenail, offensive discharge.- Corns in the feet, with shooting pains, also under toenails.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica