Silica
Silicon dioxide · Mineral
The Silica patient is nervous, irritable, and of sanguine temperament with a psoric diathesis; typically light complexioned with fine dry skin, pale face, and weak lax muscles. Constitutionally they suffer from imperfect assimilation leading to defective nutrition, scrofula, and rachitis. Children are obstinate and headstrong, while adults are yielding, fainthearted, and find mental labor very difficult.
Key symptoms
- Imperfect assimilation with defective nutrition despite adequate food intake
- Scrofulous rachitic children with large heads, open fontanelles, distended abdomen, and slow in learning to walk
- Great weariness and debility; wants to lie down
- Profuse sweating about the head which must be kept warm
- Inflammation, swelling, and suppuration of glands
- Chronic sick headaches ascending from nape of neck to vertex, especially in right eye
- Ailments from suppressed foot-sweat or bad effects of vaccination
- Want of vital heat; always chilly even during active exercise
- Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise; anxious and fainthearted
Worse (aggravation)
- Draught of air
- Uncovering the head
- Cold and damp
Better (amelioration)
- Warmth
- Wrapping up
- Pressure
Pure Silica. (Silicic Oxide)
Adapted to the nervous, irritable, sanguine temperament; persons of a psoric diathesis. Persons of light complexion; find, 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. Scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads; open fontanelles and sutures; much sweating about the head (lower than Cal.) which must be kept warm by external covering (Sanic.); distended abdomen; weak ankles; slow in learning to walk. Great weariness and debility; wants to lie down. Nervous debility; exhaustion with erythism; from hard work and close confinement; may be overcome by force of will. Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise. Anxious, yielding, fainthearted. Mental labor very difficult; reading and writing fatigue, cannot bear to think. Ailments: caused by suppressed foot-sweat (Cup., Graph., Psor.); …
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