Silicea

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Silica

Common name: Pure SilicaKingdom: Mineral(Allen, Keynotes (1910), p. 263)

Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition. It goes further and produces neurasthenic states in consequence, and increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes. Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis. Silica can stimulate the organism to re-absorb fibrotic conditions and scar-tissue. In phthisis must be used with care, for here it may cause the absorption of scar- tissue, liberate the disease, walled in, to new activities (J. Weir). Read on in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, General →

These texts come from 5 classic Materia Medicas dating from 1908 to 1931, now in the public domain. They record what their authors observed and taught, as historical reference for students and practitioners of homeopathy — not current clinical evidence. Nothing on this page is medical advice: for any health problem, see a qualified doctor.

Where each author writes about Silicea

A map of the books. Each number counts the sections, or the paragraphs the author labelled himself, that one book gives a topic, and opens the first of them in that book. Kent and Farrington wrote lectures, so only what they labelled is counted.

Topic	Boger	Allen	Boericke	Kent
Keynotes	1	1	none	none
Mind	none	none	1	1
General	none	none	1	1
Modalities	2	none	1	none
Head	none	1	1	1
Face	none	none	1	1
Eyes	none	none	1	1
Ears	none	none	1	1
Nose	none	none	1	1
Mouth	none	none	1	none
Throat	none	none	1	1
Stomach	none	none	1	1
Abdomen	none	none	1	1
Rectum	none	1	1	none
Urinary	none	none	1	1
Male	none	none	1	1
Female	none	none	1	1
Respiratory	none	none	1	1
Back	none	none	1	none
Extremities	none	none	1	none
Skin	none	none	1	1
Sleep	none	none	1	none
Fever	none	none	1	none

Relationships

Complementary:: Baryta carbonica (Boericke),; Calcarea carbonica (Boericke, Boger),; Equisetum hyemale (Boger),; Fluoricum acidum (Boericke, Boger),; Hepar sulphuris (Boger),; Iodum (Boger),; Mercurius solubilis (Boger),; Phosphorus (Boericke, Boger),; Phytolacca decandra (Boger),; Pulsatilla (Boericke, Boger),; Sanicula aqua (Boericke),; Thuja occidentalis (Boericke, Boger)
Follows well after:: Borax veneta (Allen),; Calcarea carbonica (Allen),; Graphites (Allen),; Hepar sulphuris (Allen),; Nitricum acidum (Allen),; Phosphorus (Allen),; Stannum metallicum (Allen)
Followed well by:: Fluoricum acidum (Allen),; Hepar sulphuris (Allen),; Lycopodium clavatum (Allen),; Pulsatilla (Allen),; Sepia (Allen)
Antidotes:: Hepar sulphuris (Boericke, Boger),; Sulphur (Boger)
Compatible:: Allium cepa (Allen)
Related:: Baryta carbonica (Boger),; Calcarea carbonica (Boger),; Hepar sulphuris (Boger),; Kalium phosphoricum (Boger),; Lycopodium clavatum (Boger),; Phosphorus (Boger),; Sabal serrulata (Boger),; Sanicula aqua (Allen),; Teucrium marum (Boger),; Theridion curassavicum (Boger)
Similar:: Baryta carbonica (Allen),; Calcarea phosphorica (Allen)

As each book states it.

Silicea in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Cyrus Maxwell Boger · 1931

KeynotesCachectic 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.

Words in capitals are Boger's highest grade.

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Silicea in Allen's Keynotes

H.C. Allen · 3rd edition (1910) · Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel

KeynotesSilicea Pure Silica, Silicic Oxide. Adapted to the nervous, irritable, sanguine temperament; persons of a psoric diathesis. Persons of light complexion; fine, dry, skin; pale face; weakly, with lax muscles. Constitutions which suffer from deficient nutrition, not because food is lacking in quality or in quantity, but from imperfect assimilation (Bar. c.. Calc.) ; oversensitive, physically and mentally.

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Silicea in Clinical Materia Medica

Ernest Albert Farrington · 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Harvey Farrington (1908) · Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel

LectureLecture LII — Silicea ( Asaf. , Phosphorus, Conium, Graphites. Silicea. < Sulphur, Calcarea ostr., Lycopodium. ( Gettysburg water. <Mercurius. Silicea in its crude state is inert. It is insoluble, and hence has very little effect on the system. When potentized according to the formula of Hahnemann it becomes one of the most valuable drugs in our materia medica.

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Silicea in Homoeopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927)

MindYielding, faint-hearted, anxious. Nervous and excitable. Sensitive to all impressions. Brain-fag. Obstinate, headstrong children. Abstracted. Fixed ideas; thinks only of pins, fears them, searches and counts them.

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Silicea in Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · 2nd edition (preface dated 1 September 1911)

LectureSilicea The action of Silica is slow. In the proving, it takes a long time to develop the symptoms. It is, therefore, suited to complaints that develop slowly. Generalities: At certain times of the year and under certain circumstances peculiar symptoms will come out. They may stay with the prover the balance of his life. Such are the long-acting, deep-acting remedies.

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Rubrics in which Silicea has the top grade (Kent’s 3, Bönninghausen’s 4). Each page lists every remedy in the rubric with its grade.

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