{"id":12579,"remedy_name":"Silicea Terra","remedy_type":"Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"W. B. Clarke of India napolis told of the use of Sil-mar. as a remedy for constipation. He \nused it in patients of all ages with excellent results, giving it in crude doses.  \nW. B. Clarke\u2019 s preparation was taken from the beach, just as it was left by the tide, on a pan of the coast many \nmiles distant from  a river estuary or a drained town. He preferred the rather coarse sand taken from a river \nsand-bar. He thought a finer variety may be better for younger patients. \nThis was thoroughly washed and baked in an oven. The sand is taken plain or enclosed in caps ules or made \ninto pills. In either case it is washed down with water and water is to be drunk freely during the treatment.  \nSil-mar. has Sil. and Nat-m. symptoms. Inflamed glands and suppuration. Constipation. \nW. B. Clarke mentioned this case as the hardest he had encountered: a man, 60, had suffered for thirty years \nwith severe constipation often sitting at stool for an hour and nearly fainting. He took a teaspoonful after dinner \ndaily for a week without particular effect. \nThen he took it three times a da y for a week. After this he was able to return to the one dose a day and soon \nrequired it but once a week. \u201cThe peculiarity of this treatment is the ease with which evacuation is accomplished \nafter the first impression is made, the dis charges being soft, mushy and yellow and the regular habit then \nseems established, for the treatment can then be discontinued.\u201d \nIf there is any return of the trouble, a dose or two more will be sufficient to put it right. This experience is of \ngreat value and interest as Sil. in the potencies (as well as Nat-m.) is a great constipation remedy. W. B. Clarke \nnever observed any ill effects of the treatment. \nIn the case of a child, age 4 to whom Cooper gave Sil -mar. 6x \u201ca thick mass of tartar which had accumulated \nbehind the front teeth came away in flakes. \nCOMMENTS - Clarke had a specimen triturated and run up to the 30c potency. He had not long to wait for an \nopportunity of testing it. A tall, fair young man of 24, a violinist, presented himself with a mass of scrofulous \nglands on the right side of the neck softening at one point., \nClarke gave him Sil -mar. 3c, three or four times a day and warned him not to poultice. The mass of glands \nsoon began to diminish. The abscess matured and discharged itself through a minute opening and eventually \nhealed without leaving a perceptible scar. The rest of the glands, in the meantime, disappeared.  \nSil-mar. 3c, three times a day, rapidly cured a case of gonorrhea in a patient who had many previous attacks, \nas well as stricture which had been treated with cauterizations and strong silver nitrate. \nIt was this history which partly led Clarke to give the remedy on account of the Nai rn. element contained in it. \nThe discharge was creamy and there was tenderness in the middle of the urethra.  \nFor three days after commencing the Sil -mar. there was a sharp aggravation, the discharge became very \nprofuse, was worse at night and accompanied by painful erections. \nBurnett told an interesting experience of his in which he was consulted about a boy who persiste d in spite of \npunishment in eating sand when playing on the beach. Burnett \nSilica marina advised the parents to let the boy eat as much as he liked. He kept it up for a fortnight, at the \nend of which time he was vastly improved in health and he neither wa nted nor ate any more sand from that \nday.","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":[],"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}