# Silicea Terra

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **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 
used it in patients of all ages with excellent results, giving it in crude doses.  
W. B. Clarke’ s preparation was taken from the beach, just as it was left by the tide, on a pan of the coast many 
miles distant from  a river estuary or a drained town. He preferred the rather coarse sand taken from a river 
sand-bar. He thought a finer variety may be better for younger patients. 
This was thoroughly washed and baked in an oven. The sand is taken plain or enclosed in caps ules or made 
into pills. In either case it is washed down with water and water is to be drunk freely during the treatment.  
Sil-mar. has Sil. and Nat-m. symptoms. Inflamed glands and suppuration. Constipation. 
W. B. Clarke mentioned this case as the hardest he had encountered: a man, 60, had suffered for thirty years 
with severe constipation often sitting at stool for an hour and nearly fainting. He took a teaspoonful after dinner 
daily for a week without particular effect. 
Then 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 
required it but once a week. “The peculiarity of this treatment is the ease with which evacuation is accomplished 
after the first impression is made, the dis charges being soft, mushy and yellow and the regular habit then 
seems established, for the treatment can then be discontinued.” 
If there is any return of the trouble, a dose or two more will be sufficient to put it right. This experience is of 
great value and interest as Sil. in the potencies (as well as Nat-m.) is a great constipation remedy. W. B. Clarke 
never observed any ill effects of the treatment. 
In the case of a child, age 4 to whom Cooper gave Sil -mar. 6x “a thick mass of tartar which had accumulated 
behind the front teeth came away in flakes. 
COMMENTS - Clarke had a specimen triturated and run up to the 30c potency. He had not long to wait for an 
opportunity of testing it. A tall, fair young man of 24, a violinist, presented himself with a mass of scrofulous 
glands on the right side of the neck softening at one point., 
Clarke gave him Sil -mar. 3c, three or four times a day and warned him not to poultice. The mass of glands 
soon began to diminish. The abscess matured and discharged itself through a minute opening and eventually 
healed without leaving a perceptible scar. The rest of the glands, in the meantime, disappeared.  
Sil-mar. 3c, three times a day, rapidly cured a case of gonorrhea in a patient who had many previous attacks, 
as well as stricture which had been treated with cauterizations and strong silver nitrate. 
It was this history which partly led Clarke to give the remedy on account of the Nai rn. element contained in it. 
The discharge was creamy and there was tenderness in the middle of the urethra.  
For three days after commencing the Sil -mar. there was a sharp aggravation, the discharge became very 
profuse, was worse at night and accompanied by painful erections. 
Burnett told an interesting experience of his in which he was consulted about a boy who persiste d in spite of 
punishment in eating sand when playing on the beach. Burnett 
Silica marina advised the parents to let the boy eat as much as he liked. He kept it up for a fortnight, at the 
end of which time he was vastly improved in health and he neither wa nted nor ate any more sand from that 
day.

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