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SILICEA. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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SILICEA.


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Diarrhœa.
► Diarrhœa
without colic, day and night, for several days (after seven days), [1]. [880.]
► *Exhausting diarrhœa, at
night (twentieth day), [1]. ► Obliged to go to stool on waking, at
night (after five days), [1]. ► Stool watery (first day), [18a]. ► Six
watery stools with flatulence (second day), [18a]. ► Two
watery stools with tenesmus (fifteenth day), [12]. ► Stool
thinner than usual (first day), [18a].
► Stool almost thin, slimy, frothy
and followed by burning and biting in the anus (seventh day), [1]. ►
Profuse thin stool, with great urging but without pain, after which the
sleep was better (fiftieth day), [23].
► Copious stool and urine, [3]. ►
Two soft stools (third day), [14].
[890.] ►
Very frequent soft stools for two days, without diarrhœa (after
thirteen days), [1]. ► *Several soft stools, preceded by
movements in the abdomen (after one hour and a half), [8]. ► *Pasty
stool
(eighth day), [19].
► Two pasty stools (fourteenth day), [12]. ►
Pasty stool, with slimy membranous portions, followed by biting burning
in the anus (sixth day), [1]. ► Pasty stools, at 4 and 6 P.M., [19a]. ►►
*Horribly offensive stools
, [10].
► Stool lighter colored than usual, [4]. ►
Stool mixed with bloody mucus, followed by biting in the anus, [1]. ►
Discharge of blood and mucus from the anus, in which there was a violent
burning (eleventh and twentieth days), [1].
[900.] ► *Stool, with mucus, followed by
itching in the anus (nineteenth day), [1].
► Reddish mucus with the stool, [1]. ►
*Frequent scanty discharge of liquid as offensive as carrion
,
[1]. ►
Evacuation of round worms with the stool, [1].
► Constipation. ► Stool hard, then again natural (the first
days), [1]. ►
Stool partly hard, partly thin, with some urging, [21]. ►►
*Stool consisting of hard lumps, evacuated only with great effort
,
at 6 P.M., [8]. ► Stool always hard, even after ten days, [8]. ►
Stool as hard as stone (thirty-eighth day), [26]. ►►
*Stool scanty, difficult
(after twenty-four hours), [4]; after
great urging and straining until the abdominal walls are sore, the stool
that has already protruded slips back again
, [1]. [910.] ► *Dry, hard, and light-colored stools,
[29]. ►
*Hard stools
, [33]. ►► *Very hard stool, followed by burning in
the anus
, in the afternoon (fifth day), [8]. ►►
*Very hard nodular stool, like clay-stones, evacuated only with great
effort
(third day), [6].
► *Natural stool, evacuated with much
pressure and straining
, [1].
► *Constipation, [19a]; (first day), [1]. ►
Constipation (first days), followed by very hard stools, [1]. ► Absence
of stool (first day), [1]. ► Great constipation just before and during
the menses, [1]. ► *Constipation the first three days in spite of
frequent straining; the following days
, very hard unsatisfactory stools, with very great effort,
[6]. [920.]
► Constipation, for two days, [4]. ►
*Constipation for three days
(after fourteen days); followed by stool, consisting of small hard nodules,
[1]. ►
Constipation for three days (after three days), [8]. ► During
the first part of the proving the constipation continued according to
habit, afterwards the stools were freer, [27].
   

URINARY ORGANS.

►
He feels a weakness in the urinary organs, constant desire to urinate, [35]. ►
Pressure upon the bladder while urinating, followed by burning, [3]. ►
Constant fine stitches in the forepart of the urethra, [1]. ► Cutting
pain in urinating, [39]. ► Cutting during micturition (sixteenth
day), [1]. ►
Burning in the urethra while urinating, [1].
[930.] ►
Burning pain during micturition, for several days (after ten days), [18a]. ►
Smarting in the urethra while urinating, [1].
► Constant desire to urinate, the
urine was passed guttatim, with violent burning pain in the urethra, for
three days (after fourteen days), [8].
[Smelling of the spirits of Camphor and even a dose of a few drops had
no effect, neither had olfaction of Hepar sulph.; but a drop of the 12th
dilution of Cantharides gradually removed the intolerable pains.] ► Desire to urinate, with copious
discharge, [4]. ► Desire to urinate, with scanty discharge,
[4]. ►
Urging to urinate, with smarting in the urethra, [1]. ►
Frequent desire to urinate, [1]. ► Desire to urinate, with erections, at
night, [4]. ►
Frequent ineffectual efforts to urinate, [1].
► Involuntary micturition while
sitting, after urinating, [1]. [940.] ►
Awoke at night to urinate (sixth night), [27].
► He woke at night in sweat, with
desire to urinate, [1]. ► He was obliged to urinate every quarter
of an hour, about 7 A.M., for several days, [1]. ► Obliged to
rise nearly every night to urinate
, [4]. ►
Frequent scanty emission of urine without pain (fifth day), [8]. ►
Did not rise to urinate at night as usual (first day), [9]. ► Urine
scanty, with burning during the evacuation, in the afternoon (fifth
day), [8]. ►
Urine red (tenth day), [18a]. ► Urine hot, burning, pale yellow, [3]. ►
The urine is very sedimentous, [39].
[950.] ►
Urine very turbid, [29]. ► The urine speedily becomes turbid, [1]. ►
Red sandy sediment in the urine, [1].
► Profuse red sandy sediment in the
urine (twenty-first day), [25]. ► The urine deposits a yellow sand, [1]. ►
Yellow gritty sediment in the urine (first days), [1].
   

SEXUAL ORGANS.

►
Frequent stitches through the genitals (thirty-third day), [25]. ►
Distressing itching in the genitals while urinating, [1]. ►
Frequent violent erections during the day, without apparent cause (first
days), [1]. ► *Violent erections at night, without
sexual desire, [1]. [960.] ►
Violent erections, with relaxed scrotum (after five days), [1]. ►
Violent erections, with drawing pain in the testicles, [1]. ►
Erections follow slowly (after twenty-three days), [1]. ► No
erections, even no trace of them (after several days), [1]. ► Redness
about the corona glandis, as if denuded of skin, with frequent itching, [1]. ►
Swelling of the prepuce, with itching moist pimples externally, [1]. ►
Itching and red spots on the glans penis, [1].
► Sharp pricking pains in the penis,
for ten minutes, [29]. ► Burning pain in the prepuce after a
stool, [1]. ►
Itching beneath the prepuce, [1]. [970.] ►
*Hydrocele
, [7]. ► *Itching and a moist spot on the scrotum,
[1]. ►
Crawling on the scrotum, [1]. ► The testicles are painful, worse at
night, but only when lying down, [1].
► Pain in the right testicle as if it
were indurated, [1]. ► Distending or compressing pain in the
left testicle, as from great swelling, [1].
► Jerking pains in the left testicle,
[13]. ►
Pressure in the spermatic cords, with the testicles hanging down relaxed
(first days), [1]. ► Dragging from the prostate gland forward,
[3]. ►
Sexual desire increased with erections (after twenty-one days), [1]. [980.]
► Sexual desire greatly excited the
first eight days, erections every half hour, day and night, with
retracted testicles, [1]. ► *Lascivious thoughts (first and
second days), [1]. ► Lascivious thoughts, in the morning in
bed, with erections (first to fourteenth day), [1]. ► Sexual
desire very weak, almost lost (first five weeks), [1]. ► *Sexual
desire very weak
(the first three weeks), [1]. ►
Diminished sexual desire and fewer erections, [29]. ► *Emissions
first night
, and frequently afterwards, [1]. ►
Frequent and profuse emissions, [1].
► Emissions with heavy dreams, in a
married man (first night), [1]. ► Several emissions, [29]. [990.] ► *Nocturnal emission, with sweat on
the back, and waking about 2 A.M., [1].
► Discharge of prostatic fluid with
every stool, [1]. ► *Discharge of prostatic fluid while straining at
stool
, [1]. ► Female. ►
Painful eruption of pimples on the mons veneris, [1]. ► The
child of a pregnant woman moves very much, [1]. ►
Discharge of much white water from the uterus, with violent itching of
the pudenda, [1]. ► Profuse watery leucorrhœa after
urinating, preceded by pain in the abdomen (ninth day), [8]. ► Profuse
leucorrhœa, [30]. ► Profuse leucorrhœal discharge, [33]. ►
*The leucorrhœa causes biting pain
, especially after acid
food, [1]. [1000.] ► Discharge of a quantity of white watery
fluid from the vagina, quite unlike ordinary leucorrhœa, [41]. ►
Leucorrhœa, in the evening (sixth day), [8].
► Some discharge of blood at the time
of the new moon, for several days, eleven days before the right time for
the menses, [1]. ► Discharge of bloody mucus from the
vagina, almost immediately after the menses, [1]. ►
*Bearing-down pains in the vagina
, [1]. ► *Itching of
the pudenda
, [3]. ► *Violent burning and soreness of the pudenda,
with eruption on the inner sides of the thighs, during the menses

(after twenty-three days), [1]. ► Reappearance of the menses, that had been
absent for three months, [1]. ► *Menses increased (after thirteenth
and twentieth days), [1]. ► Menses increased, with repeated attacks
of icy coldness over the whole body on their appearance, [1]. [1010.] ► Menses three days too early (after five
days), [1]. ►
Menses two days too early (after seven days), [1]. ► Menses
five days late, [1]. ► The menses continued only five days, were
very scanty and without pain (they usually last ten to fourteen days), [8]. ►
Menses delayed three or four days (after eighteen days), [1]. ► Menses
delayed five days, without other symptoms, [8]. ► Very
strong odor to the menstrual blood, [1].
► Diminished discharge of blood
during the menses, [1]. ► Silicea taken during the menses seems to
suppress them for four days, afterwards they flow for four or five days
and then remain away for six weeks, [1].
► *Menses suppressed, [8].
   

RESPIRATORY ORGANS.

[1020.] ►
Sensation of soreness like rawness in the larynx, when breathing, [1]. ►
Pain in the region of the larynx, when lifting a heavy weight, [1]. ►
Tickling in the larynx with slight cough and hoarseness, [29]. ► Voice.
► *Hoarseness (first day), [2]; (sixth day), [14]; (about six hours after tincture), [15c]. ►
Hoarseness while talking, [15b]. ► Constant hoarseness, with a painful
sensation as if the throat were internally swollen, [13c]. ►
Hoarseness, especially in the morning, so that she could scarcely speak
aloud (after six days), [15a]. ► Hoarseness, with frequent, dry, hacking
cough (after three days), [1]. ► Cough and Expectoration. ► Cough at night (after fifteen days), [1]. ►
Cough in the morning and after going to bed, [1]. [1030.] ► Cough, for five weeks, [1]. ► *Cough,
with hoarseness
(nineteenth day), [1]. ► Hoarse
cough (after six days), [15a]. ► Frequent irritation to cough (twentieth
day), [25]. ►
Spasmodic cough (after twelve days), [1].
► *Cough at first caused by tickling in
the throat, gradually seeming to come from lower down in the throat,
till on the thirty-first day it came from the chest and shook the
abdomen, during the day consisting of sudden explosive coughs without
expectoration, in the evening the cough became worse

(thirty-first day), [25]. ► *Cough especially troublesome, after lying down
in the evening and after waking in the morning for eleven days
,
[1]. ►
*Slight cough and hoarseness, with tickling in the larynx
, [29]. ►
Cough very violent, with lachrymation (twelfth and thirteenth days); the
cough continued during the succeeding days, after two days it was very
violent, especially after laughter, with sticking pain below the angle
of the scapula and in the middle of the sternum on coughing; the cough
was worse in the morning, with stitches in the chest, more in the middle
of the sternum than at the sides, with stitches in the middle of the
sternum on inspiration; *with the morning cough
there was a thick yellow expectoration
; during the day the
expectoration was insignificant; the morning cough occurred on rising
from bed; in the evening it occurred at 9 P.M., on going to bed, lasting
from one-half to three-quarters of an hour, without expectoration and
without pain; nose very much stopped; could not breathe through the
nose; this influenza continued several days, and after two days was
associated *with difficulty of hearing, at
times with ringing in the ears
, with profuse white slimy
discharge from the nose, cough diminished, thick yellow expectoration,
cough and expectoration worse after rising, seldom in the evening and
through the day (on account of this attack the proving was suspended), [19]. ►
Frequent cough towards evening, without expectoration (thirty-second
day), [25]. [1040.] ►
Distressing cough at night, till 4 A.M. (after five days), [1]. ►
Violent cough without expectoration, in the morning (thirty-third day), [25]. ►
Cough caused by tickling in the throat (twenty-sixth day); becoming
worse day by day; on the twenty-eighth day there was a greenish lumpy
expectoration, and afterwards always on coughing in the morning the same
expectoration; but throughout the day frequent cough without
expectoration, [25]. ► Cough from morning till evening, with
tickling and expectoration of mucus, also mucous expectoration without
cough (twenty-second day), [24]. ► For two evenings, cough lasting all
night, with fever, disappearing after warming the abdomen, [1]. ►
Cough, with shattering in the abdomen (twenty-ninth day), [25]. ► Cough,
with scraping in the throat, leaving a rawness (twenty-first day), [24]. ►
*Fatiguing cough, with rattling of mucus, in the evening in bed
,
[1]. ►
Cough, with vomiting, when expectorating, [1].
► Talking always causes cough, [1]. [1050.]
► *Cough caused by tickling and
irritation in the throat
, [1].
► Cough only on lying down at night
and in the morning, [1]. ► Cough that causes vomiting of mucus, [1]. ►
*Hacking cough caused by nightly tickling in the pharynx
, [1]. ►
*Hacking cough, caused by irritability in the throat

(twenty-second day), [25]. ► Fatiguing cough, without expectoration
(thirty-first day), [25]. ► Frequent dry cough (twenty-sixth day), [25]. ►
*Frequent dry hacking cough
(after three days), [1]. ►
*Dry cough, that frequently wakes her at night, and also returns several
times during the day
(after four days), [8]. ► Dry
cough, with painfulness in the upper part of the sternum, in the morning
after waking (sixth day), [8]. [1060.] ►
Dry cough, caused by cold drinks, [1].
► Frequent dry cough, only in short
paroxysms, [1]. ► Dry spasmodic cough, at intervals of a
quarter of an hour, with great rawness in the chest and throat, [1]. ►
*Much dry hacking cough, causing soreness in the chest
, [1]. ►
Dry cough without pain (fifth night), [19].
► Short, dry, hacking cough, [30]. ►
Dry and hacking cough, [32]. ► Hoarse, dry cough, [36]. ► *Dry
cough, even to vomiting, with anxious sweat at night; obliged to rise
from bed
, [1]. ► Violent persistent cough, with
expectoration of much transparent mucus, [1].
[1070.] ►
*Violent cough with expectoration, on lying down in bed
; the expectoration, thick, yellow, lumpy
(seventh day), [18a]. ► Cough, especially after eating, with
expectoration of white mucus, [1].
► Cough and expectoration for sixteen
days, with painful scraping in the chest, disinclination to work,
fretfulness and weariness of the whole body, [1]. ► *Constant
cough for several months; expectoration of much thick purulent mucus, in
the morning and forenoon; large lumps of yellow mucus expectorated with
painfulness in the trachea and chest, as if sore
, [11]. ►
Cough and expectoration, with scraping in the pit of the throat (ninth
day), [18a]. ►
Cough, especially between 8 and 9 A.M., with expectoration of mucus and
scraping in the throat (eighteenth day), [24].
► Hacking cough with easy
expectoration, in the morning (eighth day), [18a]. ►
Cough, with yellowish green expectoration, from 7 to 10 A.M.
(twenty-fourth day), [24]. ► Much expectoration in the morning and
during the day, at times salt, at times offensive and brownish, [1]. ►
Expectoration of bright blood, with deep hollow cough, towards noon;
soon followed by attacks of faintness (fourth day), [1]. [1080.] ► Expectoration of bloody mucus, [1]. ►
Bloody expectoration with violent cough, in the morning (after seven
days), [1]. ►
Expectoration of mucus from the trachea, immediately after eating, [3]. ►
Much mucous expectoration without cough, in the morning, [4]. ►►
*Purulent expectoration when coughing
, [7]. ► *Purulent
expectoration of large masses by vomiting, which is provoked by the
cough
, [7]. ► *Thick purulent expectoration of mucus from the
trachea
, [3]. ► *Greenish-yellow expectoration of offensive
balls of mucus raised by hawking
, [1]. ► *The
expectoration makes the water turbid; that which sinks to the bottom has
an offensive odor
, [1].
► Respiration. ► Frequent deep sighing respiration, [1]. [1090.]
► Dyspnœa, in the morning on waking
(after seventeen days), [1].
   

CHEST.

►
Rush of blood to the chest (after ten days), [1]. ►
Oppression of the chest (fourth day), [19].
► Oppression of the chest; she cannot
take a long breath, [32]. ► Oppression of the chest as if the throat
were constricted, especially after eating, [1]. ► Great
oppression of the chest when walking, so that he was obliged to stop
every four or five steps, without pain; on account of this oppression of
the chest he was frequently obliged to take a deep breath, which he
could only do with great effort, [11].
► Great oppression of the chest,
though without pain, inability to take a deep breath, [1]. ► Violent
oppression of the chest after a stool, [1].
► Tension in the chest (fifth day), [19]. ►
Tension in the short ribs (fifth day), [19].
[1100.] ► Tensive pain across the chest, lasting
several hours, [29]. ► Tightness of the chest (after third day),
[1]. ►
Tightness of the chest, alternating with pain in the back (after taking
cold?), (after nineteenth day), [1].
► Tight feel around the chest, as if
she were tied in with a tape, [33].
► Contraction in the chest
(thirty-eighth day), [15]. ► Pressure on the chest towards evening, [13]. ►
Pressure upon the chest several times in the morning in bed, [1]. ►
Great pressure upon the chest whenever she wishes to cough; she cannot
cough out on account of the pain, [1].
► Weakness of the chest; when talking
he is obliged to make use of the whole chest in order to articulate his
words, [4]. ►
Pains in the chest at night (fifth day), [15].
[1110.] ►
Pains in various places in the chest (twenty-first day), [14]. ► *On
coughing the chest is painful as if bruised
, [1]. ► The
chest pains as if it would burst when sneezing, [1]. ► The
chest is painful as if beaten, even on breathing, [1]. ► Violent
pain in the chest, and a paralyzed feeling in the lower extremities on
rising after sitting a long time (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ►
Scraping in the chest on breathing, [1].
► Burning pain in the chest, [1]. ►
*Sticking pains in the chest
(first day), [17]. ► *Sticking
pain in the chest on inspiration
(thirty-seventh day), [26]. ►
Stitches in the chest, first in the left, then in the right side, only
on deep inspiration (fourth day), [19].
[1120.] ►
Painful stitches in the chest, shooting from the sternum round to the
back, [40]. ►
Stitches in the chest, especially on deep breathing, [3]. ► Front and
Sides.
► Pressive pain in the
sternum
, towards the pit of the stomach, [3]. ►
Oppression at lower sternum, [36].
► Pressure at lower sternum as from a
stone, [33]. ►
Sticking in the sternum, especially on inspiration, after dinner (fifth
day), [8]. ►
Violent contractive pain in the fore part of the chest coming from the
back on walking, the chest was oppressed, the breathing short, and the
pain worse the more he moved; on standing quietly and leaning against
something it entirely disappeared, and did not return on moving again
(fifth day), [1]. ► Violent pressure on both sides of the
chest lasting an hour, [1]. ► Pressure and drawing in the right side of
the chest extending towards the axilla, [1].
► Pain beneath the right arm, as from
pressure of the clothes, although nothing unusual could be seen, [1]. [1130.]
► Heat in the chest, with coldness
and chilliness over the whole body (second day), [1]. ► *Sticking
in the right side
(after twelve hours), [1]. ►
Stitches beneath the right ribs on respiration, [1]. ► Severe
stitches through the right side of the chest (after nine days), [1]. ►
Transient stitches within the right chest (forty-sixth day), [23]. ►
Pressive pain in the left side of the chest, on the false ribs (after
ten days), [1]. ► Pressure in the left side of the chest in
the morning on rising, [3]. ► Sharp pressure on the left chest, [1]. ►
Pressure and sticking in the left side of the chest, [3]. ►
Pressive tension, especially in the left side of the chest, [3]. [1140.]
► Pain beneath the left ribs as if
something would be torn away, [1].
► A pinching jerking in the left
intercostal muscles frequently during the day, not affected by
respiration or touch, [1]. ► Tearing pain in the left side of the
chest, [1]. ►
Constant sticking pain beneath the left ribs, worse on taking a deep
breath; the ribs even are painful to touch, [1]. ►
Sticking pain in the left chest (first day), [17]. ► Sharp
stitches in the left side of the chest (nineteenth day), [12]. ► Sharp
stitches in the left side of the chest; whence they extended to the
elbow, then to the wrist (nineteenth day), [12]. ►
Stitches in the left chest, [3]. ► Stitches in the left side of the chest
extending down to the last ribs, on every inspiration at night, [1]. ►
Mammæ.
► Induration of
the left breast, [7a]. [1150.] ►►
*The right breast is hard, painful, and swollen at the nipple–it feels
as if it were “gathering,”
[32]. ►►
*Darting and burning pain in the left nipple
, [32]. ►
Sticking pain in the left breast (thirty-eighth day), [24]. ►
Painful stitches behind the left breast, with chilliness all night from
evening on, and also next day (after third day), [8]. ► Sharp
stitches behind and beneath the left breast during dinner (first day), [8]. ►
A painful stitch beneath the left breast on expiration at 2 P.M. (eighth
day), [8].
   

HEART.

►
Transient orgasm at the heart for eight days, [1]. ► Heavy
pressure in the region of the heart (third day), [2]. ►
*Palpitation and throbbing over the whole body while sitting
,
[1]. ►
Palpitation, with trembling of the hand in which he was holding
something, while sitting quietly, [1].
[1160.] ►
Palpitation, with anxiety for half an hour after the midday meal, [1]. ►
*Violent palpitation on every movement
(forty-second and
forty-sixth day), [23]. ► Palpitation causing great anxiety and
orgasm of blood in the whole body, in the evening when going to bed
(fiftieth day), [23]. ► Violent palpitation for two hours in the
afternoon and evening (fifty-first day); worse on standing; he was
frequently obliged to sit down because standing caused anxiety
(fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth days), [23].
► Palpitation worse while standing
than while sitting (fifty-sixth day), [23].
► Violent palpitation in the evening,
[13].

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