Silicea

Characteristic symptoms

Muscular weakness of children and difficulty of learning to walk ; large head and slow closing of the fontanelles in children ; it will cure the interior consequences of external causes, but not those of an external injury ■ drawing in the limbs, with lacerating and stitching ; nightly stitching in all the joints ; bruised pains in the limbs ; ulcerative ]>ain of the whole side of the body on which he is resting, with chilliness when uncovering himself ever so little ; insufferable thirst and frequent flushes of heat in the face ; aggravation by motion and about new moon ; twitchings of the limbs night and day ; epileptic fits ; negligent heavy gait ; aversion to mental labor ; every change of weather is felt in the head and in the limbs; great liability to cold ; sensitive to thunder-storms ; debility and faintishness ; rose-colored blotches ; lymphatic swellings and suppurating boils ; scirrhous induration ; glandular swellings, with suppuration and induration ; scirrhous indurations ; benignant or malignant suppm-actions, especially in membranous parts; unhealthy skin, every little injury produces suppuration; furuncles; malignant carbuncles ; many different ulcers ; ulcers on the nails ; felons ; affections of the bones ; drowsiness in day time and uneasy sleep, full of fanciful dreams, at night ; fre quent dreams and exclamations at night ; bad dreams, with violent weeping ; seething of blood and heat ; sweat during moderate walking ; night sweats ; desponding and melancholy ; weeping mood ; yielding; indifferent and apathetic; homesickness ; somnambulism ; sort of double consciousness, appearing to be in two places at the same time ; want of memory ; difficulty of thinking ; vertigo ; groaning shaking of the brain; obstinate morning headache, with chilliness and nausea ; headache, as if the brain and the eyes would be pushed forward ; beating in the head from congestion ; painful sensitiveness of the head ; sweat in the hair in the evening ; itching pimples on the scalp ; itching humid porrigo ; alopecia ; fungus haematodes and ulcers on the cornea ; spots and scars ; photophobia ; the eyes are dazzled by the light ; gauze before the eyes ; all things look blurred ; paroxysms of sudden blindness ; feeling as if the ears were obstructed, sometimes going off with a report ; scurfs in the nose ; plugs and ulcers in the nose ; constant coryza ; chapped skin in the face ; ulcers on the lips ; painful inflammatory swelling of the gums ; the gums bleed easily ; aversion to warm, cooked food, with disgust for meat ; bitter oily taste in the morning ; stinging sore throat, only when swallowing ; pressure in the stomach ; heartburn ; frequent, empty, loud or sour eructations ; waterbrash, with shuddering ; vomiting after every drink; griping, pinching, crampy sensation over the stomach and hypochondria in frequent paroxysms ; hot distended abdomen, also in children / pot-belliedness ; constipation, with frequent desire for stool, which is composed of hard lumps ; red mucus with the stool ; micturition almost every night; excited sexual desire, with erections and lascivious thoughts ; milky appearing leucorrhœa ; painful smarting leucorrhœa, especially after the use of sour things ; soreness of the chest from dry and hacking cough ; cough, with purulent expectoration ; an;est of breathing when lying on the back, when stooping, running and coughing ; panaritia ; fetid or cadaverous smell from the sweat of the feet ; itching, suppurating scurf on the frozen toes; cold feet from suppressed perspiration of the feet.