Silex Anhang = Kies
[W. Boericke]
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 (may cause the absorption
of scar-tissue, liberate the disease, walled in, to new activities).
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.
Ripens abscesses since it promotes suppuration. Silica patient is cold,
chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet
cold, < 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.
Mind: Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious. Nervous and
excitable. Sensitive to all impressions. Brain-fag. Obstinate, headstrong
children. Abstracted. Fixed ideas; thinks only of pins, fears them,
searches and counts them.
Head: Aches from fasting. Vertigo from looking up;
> wrapping up warmly/lying on left side. Profuse sweat of head, offensive,
and extends to neck. Pain begins at occiput, and
spreads over
head and settles over eyes. Swelling in the glabella.
Eyes: Angles of eyes affected. Swelling of
lachrymal duct. Aversion to (day)light; it produces dazzling, sharp pain through
eyes; eyes tender to touch; < closed. Vision confused;
letters run together on reading. Styes. Iritis and irido-choroiditis,
with pus in anterior chamber. Perforating or sloughing ulcer of cornea. Abscess
in cornea after traumatic injury.
Cataract in office workers. After-effects of keratitis
and ulcus cornæ, clearing
the opacity.
Ears: Fetid discharge. Caries of mastoid. Loud
pistol-like report. Sensitive to noise. Roaring in ears.
Nose: Itching at point of nose. Dry, hard crusts
form, bleeding when loosened. Nasal bones sensitive. Sneezing in morning.
Obstructed and loss of smell. Perforation of septum.
Face: Skin cracked on margin of lips. Eruption on
chin. Facial neuralgia, throbbing, tearing, face red; < cold damp.
Mouth: “As if a hair on tongue”. Gums sensitive to
cold air. Boils on gums. Abscess at root of teeth. Sensitive to cold water.
Throat: Periodical quinsy. Pricking as of a pin in
tonsil. Colds settle in throat. Parotid glands swollen. Stinging pain on
swallowing. Hard, cold swelling of cervical glands.
Stomach: Disgust for meat and warm food. On swallowing
food, it easily gets into posterior nares. Want of
appetite; thirst excessive. Sour eructations after
eating.
Pit of stomach painful to pressure. Vomiting after drinking.
Abdomen: Pain or painful cold feeling in abdomen, >
external heat. Hard, bloated. Colic; cutting pain, with constipation; yellow
hands and blue nails. Much rumbling in bowels. Inguinal glands swollen and
painful.
Hepatic abscess.
Rectum: Feels paralyzed. Fistula in ano. Fissures and hæmorrhoids,
painful, with spasm of sphincter. Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly
expelled, recedes again. Great straining;
rectum stings; closes upon stool. Feces remain
a long time in rectum. Constipation always before and during menses; with
irritable sphincter ani. Diarrhœa
of cadaverous odor.
Urinary Organs: Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow
sediment. Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stool. Nocturnal
enuresis in children with worms.
Male Organs: Burning and soreness of genitals, with
eruption on inner surface of thighs. Chronic gonorrhœa,
with thick, fetid discharge. Elephantiasis of scrotum. Sexual erethism; nocturnal emissions.
Hydrocele.
Female Organs: A milky, acrid leucorrhœa,
during urination. Itching of vulva and vagina; very sensitive. Discharge of
blood between menstrual periods. Increased menses, with paroxysms
of icy coldness over whole body. Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily;
drawn in. Fistulous ulcers of breast. Abscess of labia. Discharge of blood from
vagina every time child is nursed.
Vaginal cysts hard lumps in breast (conium).
Respiratory Organs: Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently muco-purulent and profuse. Slow recovery after pneumonia.
Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules like shot,
which, when broken, smell very offensive. Cough with expectoration in
day, bloody or purulent. Stitches in chest through to back. Violent cough when
lying down, with thick, yellow lumpy expectoration; suppurative
stage of expectoration.
Back: Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on
back. Pain in coccyx. Spinal irritation after injuries to spine; diseases of
bones of spine. Potts' disease.
Extremities: Sciatica, pains through hips, legs and feet.
Cramp in calves and soles. Loss of power in legs. Tremulous hands when using
them. Paralytic weakness of forearm. Affections of finger nails
(white spots on nails). Ingrowing toe-nails.
Icy cold and sweaty feet. The parts lain on go to sleep. Offensive sweat on
feet, hands, and axillæ. Sensation in tips of
fingers, “As if suppurating”. Panaritium.
Pain in knee, “As if tightly bound”. Calves tense and contracted. Pain
beneath toes. Soles sore. Soreness in feet from instep through to the sole.
Suppurates.
Sleep: Night-walking; gets up while asleep.
Sleepless with great orgasm of blood and heat in head. Frequent starts in
sleep. Anxious dreams. Excessive gaping.
Skin: Felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous
ulcers. Delicate, pale, waxy. Cracks at end of fingers. Painless swelling of
glands. Rose-colored blotches. Scars suddenly become painful. Pus offensive.
Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from tissues. Every little injury
suppurates. Long lasting suppuration and fistulous tracts. Dry finger tips. Eruptions
itch only in daytime and evening. Crippled nails. Indurated
tumors. Abscesses of joints.
After impure vaccination.
Fever: Chilliness; very sensitive to cold air.
Creeping, shivering over the whole body. Cold extremities, even in a warm room.
Sweat at night; worse towards morning. Suffering parts feel cold.
<: new moon/in morning/from washing/during menses/uncovering/lying
down/lying on l. side/damp/cold. >: summer/warmth/wrapping up head/wet or
humid weather.
DD.: Thuj. Sanic. Puls. Fl-ac.;
Mercurius and Silica do not follow each other
well.
How to Make Silica/Silicea
By: girilal
Make Silica at a dry day (No rain and low humidity)
1. Find some natural rock pebbles (in sands to make cement concrete mix,
not sand).
2. Try to identify the rock pebble (small piece of rock) which is semi
transparent/if you can’t find it then any other natural rock will do the job.
3. Heat up the stones to expel the moisture.
4. Stones should be about 20 grams.
5. Now put the stones on a clean metal surface and beat the stone with a
hammer. In other way you beat up the rock real fine.
6. When you think you can’t beat up the rock any more you stop.
7. Put the powder in a one litter mineral water bottle.
8. Shake it and let it settle for 10 minutes.
9. After 10 minutes heavier rock will settle down at the bottom but
water will be still murky because of the micro silica particles.
10. Remove top 1/3 of the liquid without shaking the bottle.
That is the medicine. Use 2 drops 3x daily just like any homeopathy
medicine. You may see the results in just two days.
[David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post]
Of all the strange worlds, few are as strange as the sands in beaches.
There, between the grains, is a microscopic ecosystem populated by
sand-lickers, sticky-toed worms and four-legged "water bears".
A world that remains largely unexplored, despite being near enough to
touch.
The animals living in the sand are often less than a millimetre long and
sometimes as small as one-twentieth of a millimetre. They make up for size with
numbers: Scientists estimate that a bucket of
sand might hold thousands of these tiny creatures; in a few square
metres of beach, there might be millions.
This world plays by rules different from ours, researchers say. And the
first rule is: Grab hold of something. For such creatures, even the smallest
wave breaks with tsunami force.
The animals live either on or between the grains. The sand is a buffet,
as well as a shelter. Scientists say the grains are often covered in bacteria
or tiny plants called diatoms. Enough sunlight
penetrates the sand that these plants can survive even an inch under the
surface.
This food is licked off by worms that crawl over the surface of a grain
or is munched on by tiny shrimp-like creatures with waving legs called
copepods. An animal called Tetranchyroderma
looks like a flying carpet with a mouth, propelling itself with a
bellyful of hairs and vacuuming up bacteria in a giant maw. Some worms called polychaetes simply eat the sand whole and let
their digestive systems clean it off. Out the back end, eventually,
comes a trail of clean sand
"It really is a different kind of existence, the interstitial
environment," said Douglas Miller, a professor at the
live in the interstices, or empty spaces, between grains.
Life in this world is short: Most creatures live only a few weeks. That means
they need to be ready for reproduction quickly, often a few days after birth.
Some creatures have both male and
female organs, although they don't usually fertilise themselves. Some
can actually switch back and forth between being male and female.
Because these creatures are so hard to see, they've been studied for
only 100 years or so. Because these creatures are so little understood,
scientists are just beginning to explore what they can
tell us about pollution or climate change. In other places around the
world. and creatures have been shown to be sensitive to contamination. But
there have been few case studies in the
mid-Atlantic.
Even though they have just begun to map the world of the sand dwellers,
scientists are sure of one thing: We should be glad these creatures are there.
They don't seem to cause any human diseases.
In fact, they seem to act as the beach's unseen cleaning crew, eating
the bacteria left behind by our discarded fries and uncurbed dogs.
And these creatures sit at the bottom of several important food chains:
They feed baby fish and small crabs and clams, which become food for a
succession of larger creatures. Some important animals eat beach life directly,
such as the piping plover, a threatened bird species.
"If the people appreciate the shorebirds," said Don Boesch, president of the
of "all of these little organisms that are living between the sand
grains“.
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