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. Bursa. Lepra, nodes, and coppery spots. Keloid growths.

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 New Jersey USA

 

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 University of Delaware. Scientists call these creatures "interstitial" because they

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 University of Maryland Centre for Environmental Science, they should understand that the birds are alive because

of "all of these little organisms that are living between the sand grains“.

 

 

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