Silicea sil.

Confusion of mind.
Difficult in fixing attention.
Wishes to drown herself.
Screaming violently.
Over-anxious about herself; low-spirited; weeps every evening.
Gloomy, feels as if she would die.
Desponding, melancholy, tired of life.
Also melancholic with weak arms, aching sacrum, burning of feet, with sweat; all better after a seminal emission.
Compunctions of conscience about trifles.
Indifferent, apathetic.
Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious mood.
When crossed has to restrain himself, to keep from doing violence.
Child obstinate, headstrong; cries when kindly spoken to.
Restless, fidgety, start at least noise.
Reading and writing fatigue; cannot bear to think.

Vertigo: as if one would fall forward; ascending from dorsal region, through nape of neck, into head; worse from motion, or looking upward; accompanied by nausea; with rachitis; from excessive use of the eyes; when riding with sleepiness.
Fainting, when taking cold from suppressed foot-sweat.

Cold feeling from nape of neck to vertex, extreme heaviness of head.
Congestion of head; cheeks hot; slight burning in soles of feet.
Burning in head, with pulsation and sweat of head: worse at night, from mental exertion, talking; better by wrapping the head up warmly.
Shooting from nape to vertex.
Violent periodic headache, vertex, occiput or forehead; one side as if beaten; throbbing in forehead; coming in night, with nausea, vomiting.
Violent headache, with loss of reason.
Loud cries, nausea to fainting; subsequent obscuration of sight; megrim.
Obstinate morning headaches, with chilliness and nausea.
Headaches, with, or followed by, severe pain in small of back; heaviness and uncomfortable feeling in all the limbs.
Tearing, frequently one-sided, with stitches through eyes and in cheek-bones.
Pulsating, beating, most violent in forehead and vertex, with chilliness.
Headache from occiput through to right supraorbital region.
Headache worse: from mental exertion; excessive study; noise; motion, even jarring of room by foot-step; light; stooping; talking; cold air; touch. Better: from wrapping head up warmly; hot compresses; in warm room; lying down in dark.
Headache every seventh day.
Vibratory shaking sensation in head when stepping hard, with tension in forehead and eyes.

Open fontanelles; head too large and rest of body emaciated, with pale face; abdomen swollen, hot.
Cephalhæmatoma neonatorum.
Tearing in scalp, worse from pressure and at a night.
Lumps rise on the head, hair falls out, scalp sensitive to touch, even to the hat; tearing pains.
Profuse head-sweat; body dry; likes wrapping up; sweat sour; face pale; emaciated; large abdomen; weak ankles.
Patches of eruption on scalp, exfoliating thin, dry furfuraceous scales.
Eruption on back of head, moist or dry, offensive, scabby, burning itching, discharging pus.
Itching pustules on scalp and neck very sensitive; better wrapping up warmly.
Phagedenic ulcer on forehead painful and discharging offensive pus.

Long-lasting photophobia; daylight dazzles eyes.
Letters run together, appear pale; dim vision after suppressed foot-sweat.
Occasional lightning-like flashes in eyes and a feeling as if something obscured the vision; nervous sensation in head.
Black spots before eyes; a persistent speck before right eye.
Momentary loss of sight, with uterine affections; pregnancy, etc.
Cataract; also after suppressed foot-sweat, or preceding ringworms.
Day blindness, with sudden appearance of furuncles.
Amblyopia from abuse of stimulants; nervous, sensitive persons.
Tearing, shooting, or, at times, throbbing, stinging pains in eyes in paroxysms; worse in draught or before a storm.
Ulceration of cornea; sloughing ulcer; non-vascular, with photophobia.
Pustular keratitis after psoriasis.
Opaque cornea after small pox.
Spots and cicatrices on cornea.
Corneal fistula.
Eye inflamed from traumatic causes; abscesses.
Hypopion.
Lachrymation in the open air.
Fistula lachrymalis; bone affected.
Swelling of right lachrymal sac, skin over it inflamed; glistening; throbbing pain; tears hot; worse evening.
Big styes; also to prevent their recurrence.
Blepharitis, with agglutination in morning.

Oversensitiveness to noises.
Ringing or roaring in the ears.
Hissing in the perforated ear.
Stoppage of ears, which open at times with a loud report.
Difficult hearing, especially of human voice and during full moon; also with chronic suppuration.
Otalgia, with stitches from in out.
Otitis interna.
Itching in the eustachian tube; chronic coryza.
Itching in both ears.
Increased secretion of thing cerumen.
Otorrhœa: scabs cover the purulent secretion in the ear; discharge offensive, watery, curdy; with soreness of inner worse and crusts on upper lip; after abuse of mercury; with caries.
Caries of mastoid process.
Scabs behind ears.
Hard swelling of parotid; suppuration, especially if slow, painless.

Loss of smell.
Much sneezing, with acrid coryza.
Dryness and stoppage after checked foot-sweat.
Nosebleed.
Coryza long-lasting, oft-returning.
Nose stuffed up: or, alternately dry and fluent; obstructed mornings, fluent during day.
With every fresh cold, stoppage, and acrid discharge; makes inner nose sore and bloody.
Gnawing and ulcers high up in nose, with great sensitiveness of place to contact.
Nose inwardly dry, excoriated, covered with crusts.
Swelling of nasal mucous membrane; chronic coryza.
Intolerable itching of tip of nose.
Cold nose.

Face: pale, cachectic; body cool and sweaty; earthy; yellow; distorted.
Pains, worse after being a short time in bed.
Skin of face cracks.
Acne on forehead and backs of hands.
Induration of cellular tissue of face; also following parulis or gum-boils.
Lupus; serrated ulcers with greenish, purulent surfaces; corroding, threatening to perforate the cheek.
Blood-boils on cheeks.
Sycosis menti.

Articulation of jaw spasmodically closed.
Pains more in jaw-bones than teeth; jaw swollen; toothache.
Caries of lower jaw; necrosis.
Dry and parched feeling of lips.
Scabby eruption on lips, which smarts.
Ulcers of vermilion border of lower lip.
Cancer of lower lip; ulcer greyish, superficial, excruciatingly painful.
Painful of painless swelling or submaxillary glands.

Difficult dentition; gums sensitive, blistered; frequently grasping at gums.
All her teeth feel long and loose.
Carious teeth, pains worse at night and on inhaling cold air.
Throbbing toothache, swelling periosteum.
Stinging toothache, preventing sleep.
Gums very sore; inflamed; gum-boils.
Discharge of offensive matter from openings near root of teeth or from gums.
Erysipelatous swelling on gums and roof of mouth after teeth were extracted.

Taste: of blood, morning; of soap-suds; bitter, morning, with thick mucus in throat; of rotten eggs.
Loss of taste and appetite.
Sensation of a hair on forepart of tongue.
Tongue coated with brownish mucus.
One-sided swelling of tongue.
Ulcer on right border of tongue, eating into it, and discharging much pus. θ Carcinoma.

Saliva runs out.
Suppuration of salivary glands.
Stomacace; mouth gangrenous, with perforating ulcer of palate.

Tough slime in the fauces.
Tonsils swollen, each effort to swallow distorts face.
Tonsillitis when the suppurating gland will not heal.
Pricking in throat, as from a pin, causing cough.
Throat feels as if filled up, as if he could not swallow; frequent cough bringing up white, frothy, saltish mucus; worse toward evening.
Paralysis of the velum palati; food is ejected through the nose.
Painful swallowing, no inflammation; hysteria.
Swallowing difficult, as from paralysis.
Food gets easily into the choanæ.

Canine hunger, with nervous, irritable persons.
Want of appetite; excessive thirst.
Wants only small quantity of preserves.
Averse to warm, cooked food; desires only cold things, disgust for meat.

Small quantities of wine cause ebullitions and thirst.

Eructations: sour; tasting of food; loud uncontrollable.
Nausea; with violent palpitation of the heart; after every exercise, which raises bodily temperature; after eating a little; vomiting of tenacious mucus, hiccough.
Vomits: whenever he drinks; ingesta, at night.
Morning vomiting, with nausea, much exhaustion.
Intense heart-burn, sensation of a load in epigastrium.
Water-brash, with chilliness.

Burning or throbbing in pit of stomach.
Sensitiveness of pit of stomach to pressure.
Pressure as after eating too much.
Induration of pylorus.
Anguish in pit of stomach, attack of melancholy.
Cutting feeling; or at other times weight, crampy sensation, tightness at pit of stomach.

Beating soreness in liver; worse on motion, when walking, when lying on right side.
Throbbing, ulcerative pain in region of liver, worse from touch or walking.
Hardness, distention of liver; abscess of liver.

Pressure, clothing across abdomen feels too tight, after eating.
Colicky pains in lower abdomen, with straining and increased pain during stool.
Colic; from worms; with constipation or difficult stool; with yellow hands, blue nails; with reddish, bloody stools.
Abdominal pains relieved by warmth.
Flatulence, much rumbling.
Distended, hard, hot abdomen, especially in children.
Inguinal glands inflamed.
Inguinal hernia.

Sharp stitches in rectum when walking.
Stools; pap-like, offensive; contain undigested food, with great exhaustion, but painless; child has sweaty hands and feet; watery, mucous or bloody.
Constipation, stool large or composed of hard lumps, light-colored; expulsion difficult, as from inactivity of rectum; when partly expelled it slips back again.
Hemorrhoids intensely painful, boring-cramping from anus to rectum or testicles; protrude during stool, become incarcerated; suppuration.
Fistula in ano; also with chest symptoms; fissura ani; costive, or sticking pains at coccyx.

Suppuration of the kidneys; abscesses.
Continuous urging, with scanty discharge; also at night.
Frequent micturition with distress from irritable sphincter.
Weakness in urinary organs; constant desire to urinate.
Profuse urination relieves headache.
Involuntary micturition at night; also in children, with worms and in chorea.
Urine: light-colored; suppressed; turbid, sediment of red or yellow sand.

Sexual desire increased or decreased, weak power but increased desire, ejaculation premature.
Painful coition, sensation on right side of head as if paralyzed; soreness of limbs. (But see 1.).
Thick, fetid pus from urethra. θ Gonorrhœa.
Red spots and itching on corona glandis.
Slight swelling of penis and testicles.
Squeezing pain in testicles.
Itching humid spots on genitals, mostly on scrotum; sweat on scrotum.
Hydrocele; scrofulous children.

Increased desire, with spinal affection.
Nymphomania, with plethora.
Nausea during an embrace.
Menses: too early and scanty; too late and too profuse; irregular, every two or three months.
Menstrual flow strong-smelling, acrid.
Amenorrhœa, with suppressed foot-sweat; pain in abdomen.
Metrorrhagia, offensive foot-sweat; icy-cold body; painful hemorrhoids.
Bloody discharge between periods.
Leucorrhœa: profuse, acrid, corroding; milky, preceded by cutting around the navel.
Prolapsus uteri from myelitis.
Pressing-down feeling in vagina; parts tender to touch.
Serous cysts of the vagina.
Itching at the pudendum; of the genitals.

Threatened abortion; hemorrhage after the abortion.
Promotes expulsion of moles; shooting pains.
While nursing: sharp pains in breast or uterus; pain in back, increase of lochia; pure blood flows every time child nurses; complains every time she puts child to breast.
Aversion of child to mother's milk; refuses to nurse, or, if it does nurse, it vomits.
Milk suppressed.
Mammæ swollen, dark red, sensitive, burning pains prevent rest at night; also suppuration of mammæ.
Induration, burning pains; limbs go to sleep.
Hard lumps in mammæ.
Great itching of swollen mammæ; scirrhus.
Darting, burning in left nipple.
Nipple is drawn in, like a funnel.
Scirrhus near right nipple, hard as gristle, uneven surface.
Nipple ulcerate; is very tender.

Hoarseness, roughness of larynx.
Husky voice; worse morning; chronic coryza.
Fibrous, painless swelling on larynx, connected with thyroid cartilage.

Shortness of breath and panting from walking fast, or from manual labor.
Arrest of breathing when lying on back; when stooping; when running, also after running; when coughing.
Oppression of chest, she cannot take a long breath.
Asthma, worse when lying down; spasmodic cough; spasm of larynx; pulsations in the chest; often with profuse sputa.

Dry with hoarseness; with soreness in chest; excited by tickling in throat-pit; hollow, spasmodic; loose, day and night; with profuse expectoration; vomiting of tenacious mucus in the morning; with purulent sputa; awakens him at night; worse from motion; scanty mucous expectoration.
Expectoration: profuse, fetid, purulent, green; only during day; of viscid, milky, acrid mucus; at times pale, frothy blood; often tastes greasy.
Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently muco-purulent and profuse.

Lungs feel sore.
Stitches in chest and sides through to back.
Excruciating deep-seated pains in chest.
Pain under sternum.
Inflammation of lungs resulting in suppuration.
Dropsy of chest; also in stone-cutters.
Empyema after pleurisy.
Congestion to chest; chilly body.

Palpitation of heart while sitting, so that he had to hold on to something.
Violent hammering palpitation, after every quick or violent motion.
Pulse: small, hard, rapid; frequently irregular and then slow.

Painless throbbing in sternum.
Tightness across chest; after suppressed foot-sweat.
Eruption like varicella, covering the breast; itching violently.

Cervical glands and parotids swollen, indurated.
Stiff back after sitting.
Rheumatism of lower cervical vertebræ.
Violent tearing between scapulæ.
Constant aching in centre of spine.
Spinal irritation, paralytic symptoms; cold feet; constipation.
Aching in loins, shooting down the legs.
Spinal curvature to right, painful to touch and motion.
Spina bifida.
Psoas abscess.
Spasmodic pain in small of back; does not allow him to rise.
Lame feeling in region of sacrum.
Pain across small of back on getting out of bed in the morning.
Aching, beating, throbbing in lumbo-sacral region.
Coccyx hurts after riding; coccygodynia.

Offensive axillary sweat.
Bones of arms feel bruised.
Shaking of left arm; before epilepsy.
Right arm and wrist weak; cannot raise anything.
Arms go to sleep when resting on them.
Limbs tremble; forearms jerks so, could not feel the pulse; after bleeding.
Wen on tendons of extensors of fingers.
Paralysis of hands; also in leprosy.
Enchondroma, right hand.
Moist tetter on hands.
Profuse sweat on hands.
Bone felons; deep-seated pains; worse from warm bed; burning, stinging, aching in superficial parts.
Run-arounds; ulceration about nails; hang-nails.
Contraction of flexor tendons; very painful when moving fingers.
Finger-tips burn.
Nails: yellow, crippled, brittle or crumpled; blue in fever.

Suppuration and caries of hip-joint.
Trembling of legs, with extreme nervousness.
Sensation of loss of power of legs.
Gonocace, pains stinging, lancinating; swelling, doughy; fistulous openings, with hard edges, discharging greenish-yellow pus.
Cramps: in the calves; in soles.
Cold legs and feet, after suppressed foot-sweat.
Feet give way under her, when walking.
Offensive foot-sweat, with rawness between toes.
Ingrowing toe-nails, offensive discharge.
Itching on soles, driving to despair.

Twitching of limbs day and night.
Limbs: go to sleep easily; sore and lame; evenings.
Stinging in limbs at night.
Limbs cold; transient local sweats of feet and arm-pits.
Sweat on hands and feet after fever.

Rest: 32. Wants to lie down: 36, 37. Can't stand: 36. Lying down: 3, 26; on back: 26; on right side: 18. Sitting: 29, 31. Can't rise: 31. Motion: 2, 3, 18, 27, 29, 31, 32. Exertion: 16, 40. Walking: 18, 20, 26, 33, 36. Running: 26. Jarring: 3. Stooping: 3. Descending: 3. Rising: 31, 36. Stepping: 3. Writing: 2. Looking up: 1. Closing eyes: 1. Moving eyes: 3, 5.

Restless: fidgety; starts at least noise.
Trembling in all the limbs, hands in particular; at times she was quite unable to lift a cup of tea.
Hysteria, paralysis and obstinate neuralgia, caused by dissipation, or hard work with close confinement.
Spasms spread from solar plexus to brain; come at night or during new moon; attacks preceded by coldness of left side, shaking and twisting of left arm. θ Epilepsy.
Convulsions after vaccination.
Child slow in learning to walk.
Sense of great debility wants to lie down.
Paralysis from tubes dorsalis.
Progressive locomotor ataxia.

Sleepy but cannot sleep.
Sleepless; from ebullitions.
During sleep starts, jerkings of the limbs, snoring.
Somnambulism.
Dreams: lascivious, pleasant; anxious, of murders, horrid things.
Night-sweats; obstinate morning headache; chilly, nauseated.
Erections and urging to urinate awake him.
Feels unrefreshed, wishes to remain in bed.

Morning: 3, 7, 11, 22, 25, 37. 6 A.M.: 40. Afternoon: 40. 3-5 P.M.: 40. Evening: 1, 5, 13, 15, 34, 40. 11 P.M.: 40. Night: 3, 4, 10, 21, 22, 24, 27, 34, 36, 40, 46. Day: 27, 40, 46. Day and night: 27, 34.

Warmth: 10, 19. Warmth of bed: 4, 8, 32, 40. Warm room: 3. Warm wrappings: 3, 4, 40. Hot compresses: 3. Cold: 10. Cold or open air: 3, 5, 10. Debility during thunder-storm. Draught: 3. Undressing: 4.

Want of animal heat; always chilly, even when exercising.
Suffering parts feel cold.
Left side suddenly cold, before epilepsy.
Chill in bed in evening.
Frequent chilliness, with occasional feverishness.
Fever during dentition.
Frequently during day, short flushes of heat, principally in face.
Violent general heat, violent thirst in afternoon, evening and all night.
Fever worse at night.
Periodically returning, heat during day, no previous chill; followed by slight sweat.
Sweat only on head and face; sweat from least exertion.
Warm sweat from epilepsy.
Profuse sweat. θ Typhus.
Sweats periodically: 11 P.M., 6 A.M., or 3 to 5 P.M.
Night-sweats; sour or offensive; debilitating; mostly after midnight.
Typhoid forms of fever, great debility, profuse sweat; desire to be magnetized.
Spotted fever; also in slow convalescence.

New moon: 36. Increase of moon: 1. Full moon: 6. Every seventh day: 3.

Right: 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 18, 22, 24, 31, 32. Left: 6, 24, 29, 32, 36, 40, 43. Below upward: 2, 3, 31. Above downward: 31. Front to back: 19, 28. Within outward: 3, 6.

Feels as if she was divided into halves and that the left side did not belong to her.
Susceptible to nervous stimuli, to magnetism; exhaustion from suppuration.
Wandering pains; sudden pains passing quickly over body.
Prickling-tingling in various parts.

Fungi easily bleeding.
Discharges and excretions offensive; pus, stools, sweat of feet, etc.
Hemorrhages: from nose, stomach, bowels, or lungs.
Swelling inflammation, also, suppuration of glands.
Inflammation, swelling, ulceration and necrosis of bones.
Dropsy.
Emaciation.
Rachitis.
Fibrous parts of joints, especially of the knee, inflamed.
Children, while growing, suffer with violent pains, swelling of limbs and congestion.
Cellular inflammation; boils, abscesses, etc., stage of suppuration; tardy recovery; subsequent induration.
Malignant and gangrenous inflammations.
Cancer.
Fistulous openings, discharge offensive; parts around hard, swollen, bluish-red: 48.

Touch: 3, 4, 5, 7, 18, 23, 27, 31. Pressure: 4, 17, 19, 31. Scratching: 30. Riding: 2, 31.
Erysipelas of scalp after injury to bones.
Ailments from vaccination.
Small foreign bodies under skin; promotes expulsion.

Skin wax-like. θ Tuberculosis. θ Caries.
Yellow, earthy skin; sometimes covered with pityriasis.
Itching exanthema; small pustules filled with lymph, dying quickly.
Eruption burns only by day. θ Acne.
Small wounds suppurate profusely.
Eczematous, impetiginous, or herpetic eruptions.
Rhagades around eyelids, lips, etc.
Rose-colored blotches.
Small blisters.
Pemphigus.
Zona.
Erysipelas, with suppuration; deep-seated, phlegmonous erysipelas.
Boils come in crops; tendency to boils; leave indurations.
Abscesses speedily "point", but secretion of pus is too scanty.
Malignant pustule.
Ulcers: from suppuration of membranous parts; phagedenic; extend in depth; after abuse of mercury; offensive, with ichor, proud flesh, stinging, burning, itching; edges hard, high or spongy.
Carbuncles: 29, 31, 46.
Large fleshy warts, suppurating.
Variola; suppuration exhausts the patients, and desiccation delays; bone diseases as sequelæ.

Especially suitable for children, large heads, open sutures; much sweat about head; large bellies.
Nervous, irritable persons, with dry skin, profuse saliva, diarrhœa, night-sweats.
Weakly persons, fine skin, pale face; light complexion; lax muscles.
Hereditary rheumatism.
Scrofulous diathesis.
Rachitic, anæmic conditions; caries.
Oversensitive, imperfectly nourished, not from want of food but from imperfect assimilation.
Stone-cutters; chest affections and total loss of strength.

Silic. is frequently indicated after; Bellad., Bryon., Calc. ostr., Cina, Graphit., Hepar, Ignat., Nitr. ac., Phosphor.
After Silic.; Fluor. ac, which also antidotes its abuse; Hepar, if pimples appear around the ulcer.
Laches., Lycop., Sepia, also follow well.
Silic. antidotes; the abuse of mercury, but does not follow the potentized Mercur. well; Sulphur.
Antidotes to Silic.: Fluor. ac., Hepar.
Complementary to Thuja.
Compare Gettysburg water (soreness between vertebræ worse on motion, pus from joints, as in caries of vertebræ, hip-joint disease, etc.).