Silicea
Silica
Key Characteristics
Chilly, lacking grit; suppurations; promotes expulsion of foreign bodies; worse cold, damp; better warmth; abscesses; fistulas; feet sweat; headaches.
Commonly used in these styles
Prescribing approaches where this remedy is frequently selected.
Not yet associated with specific prescribing styles.
Typical Potencies & Dosing
Common potency scales and dosing guidance for acute and chronic use.
30c to 1m
Potency Scale
30c to 1m
Acute Dosing
30C every few hours for acute suppurations, abscesses, or splinter-like foreign bodies; 200C in deep, chronic suppurations.
Chronic Dosing
200C to 1M as a single constitutional dose at long intervals for chronic suppurations, fistulas, or constitutional weakness; repeat only after a clear return of symptoms.
Notes
Chilly, lacking grit, and worse from cold confirm. Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies. Wait between doses — Silicea acts deeply on the constitution.
Dosing Guidance
Potency scale and acute / chronic dosing notes drawn from the primary literature.
Potency Scale
30C, 200C, 1M
Acute
30C 2-3x daily for acute suppuration, boils, or fistulae with slow healing; reduce as healing progresses.
Chronic
200C weekly for chronic suppuration tendency, weak nails, or low vitality in chilly, refined patients; 1M under supervision.
Notes
Constitutional remedy for the chilly, refined, intellectual, anxious type with low vitality, sweaty feet, offensive sweat, and tendency to suppuration. Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies. Worse from cold, damp, suppression of sweat; better from warmth, wrapping up.
Miasmatic Affinity
The chronic miasm — inherited disease pattern — most associated with this remedy.
Constitutional Type
The constitutional profile — physical and emotional temperament — this remedy is most suited to.
Nervous
Materia Medica
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Yielding, mild, timid; lacks grit; anxious, fears pointed objects; conscientious, fastidious; irritable from noise; confused thinking; fears failure; obstinate with their things; sensitive; hypochondriasis; child slow to walk.
Headache from cold, worse noise, better wrapping; one-sided; bursting; from mental exertion; scalp sensitive; falling hair; head sweats; offensive scalp; rickets.
Eyes red, inflamed; photophobia; lachrymation; styes; conjunctivitis; ulcers on cornea; better from warmth; dim sight; worse cold; fistulas.
Remedy Relationships
Complementary, follow-up, inimical, and antidotal remedies linked to Silicea.
- Complementary
- Follows well
- Compare
- Inimical
- Antidote
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