Dr. Reckeweg Silicea 6X (20 gm)

It produces defective NUTRITION esp. in children; due to imperfect assimilation. Affects the NERVES; increasing their susceptibility causing neurasthenic states and exaggerated reflexes. Diseases of bones and cartilages; caries and necrosis; softening, of bones. Exostosis. GLANDS are enlarged. Scrofulous rachitic children; with large head, open fontanelles; distended hot and hard abdomen, slow in walking, and wasted in body esp. legs. Children crawl nervously; or are dragged in on their mother’s arms; on running they become pale. Suppurative processes; stubborn; fistulous openings; abscesses. Slow incomplete inflammation, of glands, cellular tissue and skin; then induration. Keenly sensitive to noise, pain, to cold, hugs the fire, wants plenty of warm clothing; hates drafts. Cachetic and senile patients, persons of fair, clear complexion. Pains are violent and sticking, localized in ears, throat, ulcers etc. Tendency to easy exhaustion, and abnormal sweats. Want of vital warmth even when taking exercise. Spasms, epilepsy; feeling of coldness before the attack. Hysteria, paralysis and obstinate neuralgias caused by dissipation, hard work, with close confinement. Mal-nutrition. Arrested development. Emaciation. Want of grit; moral and physical. Proud flesh. Cicatrices; indurated, hard, nodular, shiny, glassy, tender, with shooting pain. Keloids. Dropsy in A.M. Cancer. Contracted sphincters. Ascending effects. Prostration of mind and body. Cerebral softening. Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise. Parts lain on go to sleep. Removes foreign bodies. Progressive locomotor ataxia. Sensation as if she were divided into halves and left side does not belong to her. Sensation of a hair on tongue; in trachea. Ill effects of vaccination; stone cutting; loss of vital fluids; injuries; sprains, splinters. Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants. Nervous affections after spinal injury, esp. when pressure on spine causes pain in remote parts. Convulsions; begins in the Solar plexus; after vaccination. Epilepsy; aura in the Solar plexus creeping into the chest and stomach. Skin is unhealthy; every injury festers. Discharges offensive, pus, sweat, stools etc.

Abdomen, distended. Abscess. Acne. Anaemia. Ankles, weak. Anus, fissure of; fistula of. Appetite, depraved. Back, weakness of. Boils. Bones, necrosis of. Brain, concussion of. Brain-fag. Breast, sinuses in. Bunion. Cancer. Carbuncle. Cataract. Cellulitis. Cheloid. Chin, eruptions on. Cicatrix. Circulation, feeble. Coccygodynia. Conjunctivitis, phlyctenular. Constipation. Coryza. Cough. Debility. Dentition. Diabetes. Ear, affections of. Elephantiasis. Enchrodroma. Enuresis. Epilepsy. Eruptions. Excrescences. Eyes, affections of. Feet, burning; perspiring. Fester. Fibroma. Fistula. Foot-sweat; suppressed. Foreign bodies, expulsion of. Fractures. Ganglion. Gastric catarrh. Glandular swellings. Headache. Hernia. Hip-joint disease. Homesickness. Housemaid's knee. Hydrocele. Hypopion. Irritation. Jaw, caries of. Joints, sinovitis of. Lachrymal fistula. Lactation. Locomotor ataxy. Mania. Meningitis. Metrorrhagia. Miscarriage. Molluscum contagiosum. Molluscum fibrosum. Morphoea. Morvan's disease. Nails, diseased. Necrosis. Neuralgia. Nodes. Nose, tip, redness of. Panaritium. Parametritis. Perspiration, offensive. Phimosis. Pleurisy. Prepuce, eruption on. Psoas abscess. Pylorus, suppuration of. Rheumatism; chronic; hereditary. Rickets. Sinuses. Somnambulism. Spermatorrhoea. Spinal irritation. Strains. Strangury. Suppuration. Teeth, caries of. Tenesmus. Trachea. Tumours. Ulcers. Urethra, stricture of. Urine, incontinence of. Vaccination. Vagina, spasms of. Vertigo. Walking, delay in. Whitlow. Worms. Writer's cramp.

• Adapted to the nervous, irritable, sanguine temperament; persons of a psoric diathesis.
• Persons of light complexion; find, dry, skin; pale face; weakly, with lax muscles.
• Constitutions which suffer from deficient nutrition, not because food is lacking in quality or in quantity, but from imperfect assimilation; oversensitive, physically and mentally.
• Scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads; open fontanelles and sutures; much sweating about the head which must be kept warm by external covering; distended abdomen; weak ankles; slow in learning to walk.
• Great weariness and debility; wants to lie down.
• Nervous debility; exhaustion with erythism; from hard work and close confinement; may be overcome by force of will.
• Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise.
• Anxious, yielding, fainthearted.
• Mental labor very difficult; reading and writing fatigue, cannot bear to think.
• Ailments: caused by suppressed foot-sweat; exposing the head or back to any slight draught of air; bad effects of vaccination, especially abscesses and convulsions; chest complaints of stonecutters with total loss of strength.
• Want of vital heat, always chilly, even when taking active exercise
• Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of glands, cervical, axillary, parotid, mammary, inguinal, sebaceous; malignant, gangrenous.
• Has a wonderful control over the suppurative process - soft tissue, periosteum or bone - maturing abscesses when desired or reducing excessive suppuration (affecting chiefly the soft tissues,
• Children are obstinate, headstrong, cry when spoken kindly to
• Vertigo: spinal, ascending form back of neck to head; as if one would fall forward, from looking up
• Chronic sick headaches, since some severe disease of youth; ascending from nape of neck to the vertex, as if coming from the spine and locating in one eye, especially the right; worse draught of air or uncovering the head; better pressure and wrapping up warmly; better profuse urination.
• Constipation: always before and during menses; difficult, as from inactivity of rectum; with great straining, as if rectum was paralyzed; when partly expelled, recedes again
• Faeces in ano alternates with chest symptoms
• Discharge of blood from vagina every time the child takes the breast
• Nipple is drawn in like a funnel.
• Night walking; gets up while asleep, walks about and lies down again
• Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates
• Crippled nails on fingers and toes
• Takes cold from exposure of feet
• Sweat of hands, toes, feet and axillae; offensive. Intolerable, sour, carrion-like odor of the feet, without perspiration, every evening. Fistula lachymalis; ingrowing toe-nails; panaritium; blood boils; carbuncles; ulcers of all kinds; fistulae, painful, offensive, high spongy edges, proud flesh in them; fissura ani; great pain after stool.
• Desire to be magnetized, which ameliorate. 
• Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from the tissues; fish bones, needles, bone splinters.
• Burning sensation accompanied with all the complaints 
• Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers. 
• Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. 
• Passage of excess and frequent stool after eating food, which was infected or bad food or acidity troubles that cause diarrhoea.
• Burning pains while passing stools with hemorrhoids that burn, surrounding anal skin is red and itchy.

MODALITIES:

• Worse: wet weather, after midnight; from cold, cold drinks, or food. Seashore. Right side. 
• Better:  from heat; from head elevated; warm drinks.