SILICA


Clarke gives the toxic effects of homeopathy drug Silica and its therapeutic uses in non-toxic doses in his book The ABC Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, published in 1901….


      Quartz-crystal.

CHARACTERISTICS.

      Periostitis, caries of the joints, whitlows, boils. Offensive perspirations due to defective nutrition.

DOSE.

      This drug is usually prescribed in doses ranging from the first to the twelfth decimal trituration.

THERAPEUTIC USES.

      Chronic inflammation and caries of the joints in rachitic children.

Periostitis dependent upon nutritive changes.

Whitlow.

Rickets.

Chronic headache accompanied by nutritive changes in the nervous and osseous tissues.

Caries.

Pains of cancer. (First or second decimal trituration).

Perspiration of the feet causing tenderness and offensive odor. (The higher triturations are recommended).

Boils with prolonged suppuration.

George Hardy Clark
Clark, George H. (George Hardy) 1860-1941 was the author of: Homeopathic Treatment of Asthenopia; Lee and Clark's Cough and expectoration : a repertorial index of their symptoms; The A B C Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; A system for the care and training of children; The Black Plague and Its Control.