Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

it is a deeper, more profound remedy. Religiousmelancholy, sadness, irritability, despondency. is stupid, the dread of undertaking anything is from ageneral knowledge of inability. In Silica it is imaginary.Silica is not suitable for the irritability and nervousexhaustion coming on from business brain-fag, butmore for such brain-fag as belongs to professionalmen. students. lawyers, clergymen. A lawyer says, "Ihave never been myself since that John Doe case". Hewent through a prolonged effort and sleepless nightsfollowed. Silica restores the brain.The remedy produces inflammation about anyfibrinous nidus and suppurates it out. It acts uponconstitutions that are sluggish and inflames fibrousdeposits about old imbedded missiles. Slow nutrition;if the individual receives a slight injury it suppuratesand the cicatrix indurates, is hard and nodular. Alongthe track of a knife-cut, is a fibrinous deposit due toinferior and slow nutrition. An old ulcer heals withinduration. Where cicatrical tissue forms, it isindurated, shiny, glassy. If Silica is given in suchcases, it will throw out abscesses in these cicatricesand open them out. It will open up old ulcers and healthem with a normal cicatrix.In ordinary people if a splinter lodges in the tissues, asuppuration will slough it out, but in these feebleconstitutions a plastic deposit takes place about it andit remains. This is not the highest state of order.Suppuration takes place about a bullet and pushes itout, that is the best state that can be asked for.Silica, therefore, hastens the formation of abscessesand boils. It suppurates out old wens and induratedtumors. It has cured recurrent fibroids and oldinduratedtumors.If there is a deposit of tubercle in the lungs, Silicaestablishes an inflammation and throws it out, and ifthe whole lung be tubercular a general suppurativepneumonia will be the result; hence, the danger ofgiving such remedies and the danger of repeatingthem in advanced stage of phthisis. Not only Silica butmany other remedies have the power to suppurate outdeposits, the result of poor nutrition.