Silicea



Menses three days too early (after five days). Menses two days too early (after seven days). Menses five days late. The menses continued only five days, were very scanty and without pain (they usually last ten to fourteen days). Menses delayed three or four days (after eighteen days). Menses delayed five days, without other symptoms. Very strong odor to the menstrual blood.

Diminished discharge of blood during the menses. Silicea taken during the menses seems to suppress them for four days.

afterwards they flow for four or five days and then remain away for six weeks. Menses suppressed,.

Respiratory organs

Sensation of soreness like rawness in the larynx, when breathing.

Pain in the region of the larynx, when lifting a heavy weight.

Tickling in the larynx with slight cough and hoarseness. Voice.

Hoarseness (first day); (sixth day); (about six hours after tincture). Hoarseness while talking. Constant hoarseness, with a painful sensation as if the throat were internally swollen.

Hoarseness, especially in the morning, so that she could scarcely speak aloud (after six days). Hoarseness, with frequent, dry, hacking cough (after three days). Cough and Expectoration. Cough at night (after fifteen days). Cough in the morning and after going to bed. Cough, for five weeks. Cough, with hoarseness (nineteenth day). Hoarse cough (after six days). Frequent irritation to cough (twentieth day). Spasmodic cough (after twelve days). Cough at first caused by tickling in the throat, gradually seeming to come from lower down in the throat, till on the thirty-first day it came from the chest and shook the abdomen, during the day consisting of sudden explosive coughs without expectoration, in the evening the cough became worse (thirty-first day). Cough especially troublesome, after lying down in the evening and after waking in the morning, for eleven days. Slight cough and hoarseness, with tickling in the larynx.

Cough very violent, with lachrymation (twelfth and thirteenth days); the cough continued during the succeeding days, after two days it was very violent, especially after laughter, with sticking pain below the angle of the scapula and in the middle of the sternum on coughing; the cough was worse in the morning, with stitches in the chest, more in the middle of the sternum than at the sides, with stitches in the middle of the sternum on inspiration; with the morning cough there was a thick yellow expectoration; during the day the expectoration was insignificant; the morning cough occurred on rising from bed; in the evening it occurred at 9 P.M., on going to bed, lasting from one-half to three-quarters of an hour, without expectoration and without pain; nose very much stopped; could not breathe through the nose; this influenza continued several days, and after two days was associated with difficulty of hearing, at times with ringing in the ears, with profuse white slimy discharge from the nose, cough diminished, thick yellow expectoration, cough and expectoration worse after rising, seldom in the evening and through the day (on account of this attack the proving was suspended). Frequent cough towards evening, without expectoration (thirty-second day). Distressing cough at night, till 4 A.M.

(after five days). Violent cough without expectoration, in the morning (thirty-third day). Cough caused by tickling in the throat (twenty-sixth day); becoming worse day by day; on the twenty-eighth day there was a greenish lumpy expectoration, and afterwards always on coughing in the morning the same expectoration; but throughout the day frequent cough without expectoration. Cough from morning till evening, with tickling and expectoration of mucus, also mucous expectoration without cough (twenty-second day). For two evenings, cough lasting all night, with fever, disappearing after warming the abdomen. Cough, with shattering in the abdomen (twenty-ninth day). Cough with scraping in the throat, leaving a rawness (twenty-first day). Fatiguing cough, with rattling of mucus, in the evening in bed. Cough with vomiting, when expectorating. Talking always causes cough. Cough caused by tickling and irritation in the throat. Cough only on lying down at night and in the morning. Cough that causes vomiting of mucus. Hacking cough caused by nightly tickling in the pharynx. Hacking cough, caused by irritability in the throat (twenty-second day). Fatiguing cough, without expectoration (thirty-five days). Frequent dry cough (twenty-sixth day).

Frequent dry hacking cough (after three days). Dry cough, that frequently wakes her at night, and also returns several times during the day (after four days). Dry cough, with painfulness in the upper part of the sternum, in the morning after waking (sixth day). Dry cough, caused by cold drinks. Frequent dry cough, only in short paroxysms. Dry spasmodic cough, at intervals of a quarter of an hour, with great rawness in the chest and throat.

Much dry hacking cough, causing soreness in the chest. Dry cough without pain (fifth night). Short, dry, hacking cough. Dry and hacking cough. Hoarse, dry cough. Dry cough, even to vomiting, with anxious sweat at night; obliged to rise from bed. Violent persistent cough, with expectoration of much transparent mucus.

Violent cough with expectoration, on lying down in bed; the expectoration, thick, yellow, lumpy (seventh day). Cough, especially after eating, with expectoration of white mucus. Cough and expectoration for sixteen days, with painful scraping in the chest, disinclination to work, fretfulness and weariness of the whole body. Constant cough for several months; expectoration of much thick purulent mucus, in the morning and forenoon; large lumps of yellow mucus expectorated with painfulness in the trachea and chest, as if sore. Cough and expectoration, with scraping in the pit of the throat (ninth day). Cough, especially between 8 and 9 A.M., with expectoration of mucus and scraping in the throat (eighteenth day). Hacking cough with easy expectoration, in the morning (eighth day). Cough, with yellowish green expectoration, from 7 to 10 A.M. (twenty-fourth day). Much expectoration in the morning and during the day, at times offensive and brownish. Expectoration of bright blood, with deep hollow cough, towards noon; soon followed by attacks of faintness (fourth day). Expectoration of bloody mucus. Bloody expectoration with violent cough, in the morning (after seven days).

Expectoration of mucus from the trachea, immediately after eating. Much mucous expectoration without cough, in the morning.

Purulent expectoration when coughing. Purulent expectoration of large masses of vomiting, which is provoked by the cough. Thick purulent expectoration of mucus from the trachea. Greenish- yellow expectoration of offensive balls of mucus raised by hawking. The expectoration makes the water turbid; that which sinks to the bottom has an offensive odor. Respiration. Frequent deep sighing respiration. Dyspnoea, in the morning on waking (after seventeen days).

Chest

Rush of blood to the chest (after ten days). Oppression of the chest (fourth day). Oppression of the chest; she cannot take a long breath. Oppression of the chest as if the throat were constricted, especially after eating. Great oppression of the chest when walking so that he was obliged to stop every four or five steps, without pain; on account of this oppression of the chest he was frequently obliged to take a deep breath, which he could only do with great effort. Great oppression of the chest, though without pain, inability to take a deep breath. Violent oppression of the chest after a stool. Tension in the chest (fifth day). Tension in the short ribs (fifth day). Tensive pain across the chest, lasting several hours. Tightness of the chest (after third day). Tightness of the chest, alternating with pain in the back (after taking cold?), (after nineteenth day). Tight feel around the chest, as if she were tied in with a tape.

Contraction in the chest (thirty-eighth day). Pressure on the chest towards evening. Pressure upon the chest several times in the morning in bed. Great pressure upon the chest whenever she wishes to cough; she cannot cough out on account of the pain.

Weakness of the chest; when talking he is obliged to make use of the whole chest in order to articulate his words. Pains in the chest at night (fifth day). Pains in various places in the chest (twenty-first day). On coughing the chest is painful as if bruised. The chest pains as if it would burst when sneezing. The chest is painful as if beaten, even on breathing. Violent pain in the chest, and a paralyzed feeling in the lower extremities on rising after sitting a long time (after forty-eight hours).

Scraping in the chest on breathing. Burning pain in the chest.

Sticking pains in the chest (first day). Sticking pain in the chest on inspiration (thirty-seventh day). Stitches in the chest, first in the left, then in the right side, only on deep inspiration (fourth day) Painful stitches in the chest, shooting from the sternum round to the back. Stitches in the chest, especially on deep breathing. Front and Sides. Pressive pain in the sternum, towards the pit of the stomach. Oppression at lower sternum. Pressure at lower sternum as from a stone. Sticking in the sternum, especially on inspiration, after dinner (fifth day).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.