Sanicula is a far more efficient remedy than Silica with the stool which will almost come out and strain,and strain,and almost slip back. The stools of Sanicula are bashful stools and dont want to come out.
DR.EUGENE UNDERHILL, JR. (closing discussion): There is not question but that there is much more tendency to suppuration under Silicea than there is under Calcarea carb.
Silicea has an emotional state the same as Pulsatilla. Pulsatilla is a warmer remedy and when it has done its work, you will see that modality change to a colder tendency,and that is where Silicea comes in. Sometimes it happens the first patient needs Pulsatilla, if the symptoms agree, and then may go back to Kali Sulph. which is — to Pulsatilla. You would almost say one would do the work of the other, Some body bring soul the fact that Pulsatilla contains Silicea, and in that way it works like Pulsatilla and will supplement it, if the symptoms agree. We have several rotating remedies. One is Sulphur,and one is Lycopodium, in the order named, but that should not be followed by rule of thumb. the symptoms must change.
Kent says: Sulphur,Calcarea, Lycopodium, but that Lycopodium does not follow Sulphur. Well, I dont believe that is the case. It may be true, but I think the symptoms should also be out guide. Sometimes if you have a stained condition you need Rhus tox., and then you will see Calcarea symptoms.
Differentiation between acute and chronic remedies I think is carried too far. Belladonna we count as acute, but in certain nervous and mental states it can be a chronic remedy. Sulphur and Arsenic,and Sulphur and Nux vomica-it is claimed that Nux vomica is an acute remedy many times and Sulphur the chronic of Nux,also that Sulphur is often indicated after Arsenicum. Sulphur is a much warmer remedy.