Indication: Skin eruptions and cough.
Cell Salt Indication: This salt is found abundantly in the
vegetable kingdom but in much smaller amounts in animals, especially the higher
vertebrates. However, it is essential to the body, involving bones, joints,
glands, skin, and mucous surfaces.
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.)
Organic changes; it is deep and slow in action. Periodical states; abscesses,
quinsy, headaches, spasms, epilepsy, feeling of coldness before an attack. Keloid
growth. Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head, open fontanelles and
sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking. ILL EFFECTS OF VACCINATION. SUPPURATIVE
PROCESSES. It is related to all pustulous burrowings. Ripens abscesses since
it promotes suppuration.
Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty
warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter. Lack of vital
heat. Prostration of mind and body. Great sensitiveness to taking cold. INTOLERANCE
OF ALCOHOLIC STIMULANTS. Ailments attended with PUS FORMATION. Epilepsy. WANT
OF GRIT, moral or physical.
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