SILICEA


SILICEA symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy SILICEA…


INTRODUCTION

SIL – Silica. See Hahnemann’s “Chronic Diseases,” V.

COMPARE WITH

Alumina, Ambr., Am., Belladonna, Bovista, Calcarea, Carb-a., Causticum, Cyclamen, Cicuta, Cin., Drosera, Graphites, Ignatia, Hepar, Kali., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Magn., Mercurius, Natr., Petroleum, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Rhododendron, Rhus-tox., Ranun., Scel., Sabina, Sarsaparilla, Sepia, Spigelia, Sulphur, Veratrum Silicea is sometimes particularly suitable after: Calcarea, Hepar, Lycopodium, Sulphur After Silicea are frequently suitable: Hepar, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Sepia

ANTIDOTE

Camph., Hepar, Sil antidotes : Mercurius, Sulphur

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Chronic ailments from abuse of Mercury. Hysteric affections. Muscular weakness of children, and difficulty of learning to walk. Chronic rheumatism and arthritis. Phlegmonous inflammation. Scrofula and rachitis, also with enlarged head and slowly closing fontanelles. Severe bone-pain, now here, now there, particularly early on rising, before moving about. Drawing in the limbs, also with lacerating and sticking, or cramp-like drawing, or particularly in the ears, jaws, hands and tibiae. Nightly sticking in all the joints. All the muscles are painful during motion. Painfulness of the whole body. Bruised pain in the limbs. Ulcerative pain in the whole side of the body on which he is resting, with constant chilliness when uncovering himself ever so little, insufferable thirst, and frequent flushes of heat in the head.

CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES

Most of the symptoms of Silicea seem to make their appearance about new moon. The pains are increased by motion.

SKIN

Great irritability and painful sensitiveness of the skin when touching it. Itching of the back, scapulae, and thighs. Itching and biting of the whole body. Eruption over the whole body, resembling varicella, accompanied, preceded, and followed by violent itching. Rose-colored blotches in leprous patients. Pain in the ulcer, as if subcutaneous. Aching pain in the ulcer on the leg. Paralytic pain. Paroxysms. Spasms of the arms and lower limbs lacerating in the joints and soles, with jerks in the feet like St. Vitus’ dance. Shocks through the whole body. Jerking of the limbs day and night. Epileptic fit, at night. Trembling of all the limbs in the morning, especially of the arms, which feel paralyzed. Great stiffness of the limbs. Stiffness of the black, and small of the back, after sitting. Deadness of the hands and feet. Pinching in the abdomen. Heaviness of the lower limbs. Great liability to cold. Heaviness of the upper and lower limbs, as if filled with lead. Weakness of the back, and paralytic feeling in the lower limbs.

SLEEP.

Much yawning. Great drowsiness. Uneasy sleep, with out pain. Frequent waking, with chilliness. Congestion of blood to the head at night. Seething of the blood at night; throbbing in all the arteries. Heat in the head, also with sleepiness, or with vertigo during sleep. He wakes after midnight, with burning in the stomach and inclination to vomit. Dry night-cough occasioning, even, vomiting and a sweat as from anguish. Pain in the small of

the back, as if bruised, at night. Oppressive headache at night. Vertigo with nausea, at night, when dreaming. Exhausting nightly diarrhoea. Great weakness at night, unto fainting. Nightly pain in the small of the back and in the shoulder. He wakes with anguish and a stupefying vertigo. He wakes with a quicker pulse, palpitation of the heart, feeling of heat, eructations, and pressure in the pit of the stomach; afterwards retching; with discharge of bitter mucus. Uneasy sleep and frequent waking with chilliness. Frightful fancies before her eyes at night. Restless sleep, with frequent waking and many dreams. Frequent dreams and exclamations during sleep. Bad dreams with violent weeping.

FEVER.

Violent chilliness in the evening. Chilliness at every motion. Dry heat and thirst. Feverish heat, the whole night, with violent thirst and panting breathing. Violent heat and redness of the face, with cold hands and feet. Hectic fever, particularly during a long suppuration. Worm-fever of scrofulous individuals. Fever of dentition. Sweat during moderate walking. Morning-sweat. Night-sweat, especially on the trunk. Profuse general night- sweat. Exhausting sweat.

MORAL SYMPTOMS.

Desponding and melancholy. Discouragement. Want of cheerfulness. Weeping mood. Anxiousness and ill-humor. Great tendency to start. Obstinate. Dissatisfied. Yielding. Note disposed to work. Indifferent and apathetic.

SENSORIUM.

Forgetfulness, want of memory. Great absence of mind. Difficulty of thinking. Fixed ideas. Dullness of the head and bruised feeling of the body. Feels as if intoxicated. Painless dullness of the head, as if it contained too much blood. Vertigo with retching. Constant violent vertigo. Stupefying vertigo in the morning, or vertigo with inclination to vomit. Violent vertigo in the morning with nausea. Gloominess and vertigo in the head.

HEAD.

Headache at night. headache from hunger. Headache every morning. Headache from being heated. Headache from the nape of the neck to the vertex. Violent headache, with loss of sense. Weariness of the head. Heaviness of the head. Painful heaviness in the head. Heat in the head with anxiety. Groaning shaking of the brain. Headache, with heaviness and uncomfortableness in all the limbs. Sensation as of a heavy load pressing in the forehead, above the eyes. Aching pain in the forehead and eyes, as if a catarrh were approaching. In the morning, violent aching pain extending down to the eyes; accompanied with violent chilliness, and nausea, and faintness in the afternoon. Compressive sensation in the brain. Tension in the eyes and forehead, with faintness of the body. Headache, as if the brain and eyes would be pushed forward. Violent headache, as if the skull were pierced by violent stitches. Disagreeable feeling, as if the head were teeming with living things. Lacerating pain, as if the head would burst. Lacerating-beating headache, with eructations. Stitches in the temples. Congestion of blood to the head. Rush of blood to the head, beating in the sinciput and forehead, with heaviness in the head. Obscuration of the sight after the headache. Painful sensitiveness of the head, as after violent headache, pain of the scalp when touching it. Bruised sort of a pain in the top of the head. Sweat in the hair in the evening. Itching in the hairy scalp. Itching pimples on the hairy scalp. Itching humid porrigo. Tumor-like elevations. Itching blotches on the head and nape of the head. Great falling off of the hair when combing the head.

EYES.

Pain in the eyes, in the morning, as if too dry and full of sand. Pressure and smarting in the orbits. Pressure in the eye- lids. Lacerating and burning in the eyes when closing them and pressing on the lids. Burning itching of the eye-lids. Smarting or heat in the eyes. Redness of the whites, with aching pain. Redness of the eyes with biting in the canthi. Lachrymation and a sort of darkness of the eyes. Agglutination at night, with smarting of the lids. Fungus-haematodes. Ulcers on the cornea. Spots and cicatrices. Twitching of the eye-lids. Flying motes. Sparks or black spots before the eyes. The eyes are dazzled by the light. Attacks of photophobia, alternating with inflammation of the whites and lachrymation. Gauze before the eyes. Things look blurred, letters,. Obscuration of sight, as if looking through a gray coat paroxysms of sudden blindness. Far- sightedness. Paleness of sight in reading. Cataract and amaurosis.

EAR.

Drawing pain, a sort of otalgia, in the meatus-auditorius. Beating in the ear, also with concussion of the eyes. Boring in the ears. Shooting through the ears. Lacerating in the inner and outer parts of the ear. Scurf behind the ears. Inflamed humid margins of the ears. Quantity of moist wax in the ear. Feeling as if the ear were obstructed, sometimes going off with a report. The hearing is very sensitive. Exceedingly sensitive to noise, even unto starting. Diminution of hearing, from whizzing in the head. Thundering, roaring, and grumbling in the ear. Swelling of the parotid gland, with stitching pain.

NOSE.

Gnawing in the upper part of the nose, with heaviness on stooping and great sensitiveness to pressure. Itching of the nose, with red tip. Itching and small vesicles around the nasal wings. Smarting painful scurf deep in the right side of the nose. Ulcers in the nose. Loss of smell. Frequent sneezing. Chronic obstruction. Plugs of mucus in the nose. Troublesome dryness of the nose. Fluent coryza. Violent catarrh. Coryza and cough, with swelling of the submaxillary glands, pain in the throat during deglutition, great chilliness.

FACE.

Pale face. Swelling of the face, and the glands of the lips and glands of the neck, with chilliness and icy-cold feet. Drawing pain in the malar bone and behind the ear. Eruption in the face. Chapped skin. Scirrhous induration in the face and on the upper lips. Eruption on the lips. Ulcer on the vermilion border of the lower lip. Cancer of the lip. Sponge-like ulcer on the inner side of the lower lip. Burning itching around the mouth, without eruption. Swelling of the upper lip and the gums, very painful to the touch.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.