SOMETHING ABOUT SILICEA TERRA – PART 1

Scars suddenly become painful. Silica can stimulate the organism to re-absorb fibrotic conditions and scar-tissue.

It is related to all fistulous burrowings.

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants.

Swelling in the glabella.(like Fluoric acid......Note : Some objective pointers like Linea nasalis of Aethusa,swollen upper lip of Calc carb,moth patches of Sepia and Caulo etc .need to be studied and analysed in light of modern medical knowledge...but nevertheless they are prominently mentioned in our Materia medica)

Exostosis;Ascending effects, Indifference to religion (Dr.Phatak)

PULS is a hot blooded patient but after using that remedy for a while you notice that the patient goes to the other extreme and becomes chilly and wants much clothing, the heat is taken out of the case. SIL is the natural follower of PULS and you would be astonished how often a patient leaving PULS runs toward SIL. SIL goes deeper into the case, it does more curing, and it is the natural chronic of PULS. Other remedies of course follow PULS, but SIL more frequently than any other medicine. When SIL has been administered for a while it cures the cold state and removes the chilliness of the patient (remember, however, that SIL at times has something of PULS in it; in some of its complaints it is aggravated from overheating) and the patient under SIL goes back to the warm state again, becomes warm blooded, wants the warm covers thrown off, wants to be lightly covered. Then it is that FL-AC comes in the series. FL-AC follows SIL as naturally as SIL follows PULS. They exist in threes. It is true that PULS, SIL and FL-AC are similar all along the line as to the nature of their symptoms.(Dr.Kent and Dr.Gaskin)
Silica feels the cold strongly, but one must also remember that, during acute ailments, Silica can also be intolerant to warm stuffy rooms - like Pulsatilla. Conversely, Silica can be aggravated by drafts, even though he or she may not feel the draft particularly. (Dr.Vithoulkas)

Why is Silicea called as Surgeon’s knife? : It forms Sodium silicate, a thin watery, transparent fluid around foreign bodies and provokes the opening or the tract by applying pressure and thus facilitates the expulsion of foreign bodies.

Silicea is probably the most refined of all constitutional types. Almost everything about Silicea is refined; intellect, Aesthtic look, moral sensitivity etc.Only Ignatia and Arsenicum come close to its refinement.

CLINICAL TIP : KALI CARB

Recurrent attacks of colic relieves by Colocynth require Kali c for complete cure (Dr.Kent)

SOMETHING ABOUT VERATRUM ALBUM

Verat album is very well known.......hyperactivity(destructibility on in the later stage),show off ,liar,haughty ,manias(violent,religuous ,lascivious...each trying to SUPERCEDE OTHER two);fancies of pregnancy etc ......

Here is some excerpt from Talcott which explains how these manias interchange.....

Tendency to tear and cut clothing.

When the rage of mania subsides, there is a tendency to converse about religious matters.

The religious natures of the Veratrum patients become chameleon hued in their manifestations.

They pray and curse in alternation for many hours in succession.

Finally these patients despair of salvation, and of their position in society.

When disengaged from religious contemplation, the Veratrum patients are inclined to gossip, to find fault with others, to scold their friends, and to call their neighbors hard names.

The Veratrum patients sometimes fancies herself pregnant, even when eighty or ninety years of age.

MIASMS IN DIFFERENT EYES

Hahnemann's miasm theory,as it has become known,has been a difficulty for homoeopathic practioners ever since.Some have responded like  Stapf and Gross,with embarrasment;others have seen it as the most brilliant contribution to Homoeopathy.Early English writers such as Dudgeon and Hughes were outright in their condemnation of it,while early Americans such as Allen and Kent seized upon it as the missing element in an otherwise perfect science.To this day many practioners ignore it while others make it the foundation of their practice.

(Rima Handley)

SOMETHING ABOUT PHOSPHORUS

1)Vertigo of the aged,it accompanies many complaints agg rising amel stool

2)Lipoma(bar c crocus,phyto d,lapis alba),exostosis,haemorrhagic polyps

3) Amenorrhoea with vicarious menstruation

4) Affability :  It implies easy approachability and readiness to respond pleasantly to conversation or requests or proposals(It is a very small rubric ,Phos being a very important remedy)

5)Clairvoyance due to concern for others

Note:Compare Hecla lava in lower jaw affinity and exostosis

It got very good result in a old lady of 65 vertigo agg walking,rising and agg in presence of crowd

If you take Nash book 'Leaders'. I like Nash, because he is reliable. There is nothing in Nash that I have read, especially his materia medica, that you can remove, that you can say he is wrong for it, or is not confirmed. It is like each thing that he says about his materia medica is something that is confirmed it is like a brick of a building. You cannot change, you can only build on it, but you cannot remove. There are other materia medica, you read it and you cannot associate with it at all.

(Dr. Andre Saine)

SILICEA IS CHILLY IN CHRONIC CONDITIONS BUT MAY BE HOT IN ACUTE AND SUB-ACUTE CONDITIONS

(Dr.Bellokossy)