Silica marina
Mineral
Silica marina suits scrofulous patients with glandular swellings, especially on the right side of the neck, and is used where Nat. mur. symptoms overlap with a Silica case. It has cured gonorrhea with stricture in patients with many previous attacks. A curious curative symptom was seen in a child who persisted in eating beach sand and was cured by continuing to do so.
Key symptoms
- Scrofulous glands on right side of neck softening and healing without leaving a perceptible scar
- Gonorrhea with sharp initial aggravation then profuse discharge worse at night with painful erections
- Constipation
- Enlargement and suppuration of glands
- Tartar on teeth
Worse (aggravation)
- Night (discharge worse at night in gonorrhea)
- First days of treatment (sharp initial aggravation)
Silica maritima. Sea sand. Trituration. [My preparation was taken from the beach, just as it was left by the tide, on a part of the coast many miles distant from a river estuary or a drained town.]
Clinical
Constipation. Glands, enlargement of; suppuration of. Gonorrhœa. Tartar.
Characteristics
Having seen a statement that Sil. mar. had a pronounced action on inflamed glands, I had a specimen triturated and run up to the 30th attenuation. I had not long to wait for an opportunity of testing it. A tall, fair young man of 24, a violinist, presented himself with a mass of scrofulous glands on the right side of the neck softening at one point. I gave him Sil. mar. 3, gr. v., three or four times a day, and warned him not to poultice. The mass of glands soon began to diminish. The abscess matured and discharged itself through a minute opening, and eventually healed without leaving a perceptible scar. The rest of the glands in the meantime disappeared. Sil. mar. 3, gr. v., three times a day, rapidly cured a case …
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