Silicea

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

Silica

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Keynotes

Cachectic or senile patients. Large head, with wasted body. Fair, clear complexion. KEENLY SENSITIVE; to noise, pain or cold; hugs the stove. Violent sticking pains; localized; in ears, throat, ulcers, etc. Exaggerated reflexes. Contracted sphincters. Spasms. Tendency to easy exhaustion, abnormal sweats and suppuration. Cerebral softening (Phos.). Slow, incomplete processes, then induration. EVERY HURT FESTERS; stubborn suppuration; fistulæ; abscess; proud flesh; induration; cicatrices, etc. Torpid cellular tissue. Mal-nutrition. Arrested development. Late learning to walk. Swelled, diseased glands. Emaciation. Scrophulo-rachitic diathesis. Parts lain on go to sleep. Œdema in A.M. Extrudes foreign bodies. .................... Mental acuteness, with physical weakness or torpidity. Fidgety. Lacks grit. Slouchy gait. Sullen and stubborn. ASCENDING EFFECTS; violent vertigo; OCCIPITAL PAINS, etc.; > pressure. Headache, then blindness. Migraine. Vertex throbs. Open fontanels, with distended abdomen. Lumps on scalp. Inflamed eyes. Spotted vision. Cataract. Deafness; hears again with a snap. Frothy nasal discharge. Coryza; with epistaxis. Waxy pallor. Enlarged parotids. As of a hair on tongue, in throat, etc. Bitter taste in throat. Abscess at roots of teeth. Hawks down foul lumps. Averse to hot food. Averse to mother's milk; vomits it. Big, hard or hot belly; with thin legs. Rectum; cutting; cramping; paining into testes; < coition. Stools; receding; < menses; retained, for fear of pain. Fissure ani. Foul urethral discharge. Itching, moist spots on scrotum. Hydrocele. Cutting upward in vagina, < urinating. Nursing < utering flow. Biting, gushing leucorrhœa. Itching vulva. Retching, shaking, gagging cough; < cold drinks. Respiration difficult from draft on neck. Profuse, foul, lumpy sputum. Rattling in chest. Sore, retracted nipples. Nodes or fistulæ in mammæ. Sharp pains in breasts and uterus. Axillary glands swelled. Fingertips painful; dry. Panaris. Weak ankles. FOOT-SWEAT; FOUL; itching; acrid, destroying shoes; suppressed. Sore ache in arch of foot. Distorted, ingrown nails. Bunions. Soggy, wilted skin. Acuminate eruptions. Carbuncle. Ulcers; painfully sensitive; foul; spongy; on feet, toes; at nails; > heat. Osteitis. Somnambulism. Frightful dreams, wake him on falling to sleep. CHILLY; < lying in bed, exertion, etc. Coldness of painful part. Icy chills. Hectic. SWEAT; profuse; on upper parts; head, or affected parts; at night; foul; easy; acrid. Follows: Calc-c. or Hepar.

Worse

COLD CHANGES: AIR. DRAFTS. Damp. Uncovering. Bathing. Checked sweat, < feet. Sensitive to: Nervous excitement. Light. Noise. Jarring spine. Change of moon. Night. Mental exertion. Alcohol.

Better

WARM: WRAPS; to head. Becoming. Profuse urination.

Region

NUTRITION. Children. Tissues: Elastic. Cellular. NERVES. GLANDS. Tubes: Eustachian. Tear ducts, etc. Fistulæ. Bones. Cartilage. Mucous membranes. Skin.

Relationships

Complementary: Flu-ac. Pho. Thu. Related: Calc-c. Hep. Kali-p.

What the other books say about Silicea

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Silicea in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Silicea in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Silicea in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Silicea in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Silicea — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/silicea. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.