Silex
Anhang = Kies
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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