Sil, Silicea
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Sil is a Sehgal remedy in Sehgal Method
Sil in brief
- Prevalence: In every 100 patients, it is normal to prescribe one Sil.
- Constitutions that suffer from deficient nutrition due to lack of assimilating power.
- Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition.
- Oversensitive physically and mentally.
- Nervous, irritable with dry skin.
- Want of grit, moral or physical.
- Tendency to easy exhaustion.
- Faint hearted, anxious.
- Fear of needles, pins and sharp objects.
- Patient is cold, wants plenty of warm clothing.
- Her menses does not stop during breastfeeding.
Complementary remedies
- If tuberculosis ends in thick, yellow/green sputum, it needs Sil, Calc or Tub
- Sil 's body is colder than Calc.
- Sil has sweat in head + Stitching pain in lungs.
- If the patient become Cold / Chilly after Kali-s, Sil is the appropriate remedy.
- If the patient develops heat after Sil, Kali-s is also suitable.
- Puls----Sil-----Fl-ac is an useful cycle.
- When the patient becomes cold after Puls, give Sil.
- Give Fl-ac when patient becomes heat after Sil. (Fl-ac ₳ Sil)
- Incompatible remedies: Merc
Sil's Mind
Sensitive to his persona
- Under the pressure of his parents, he decides that I should be like this, and then he is fixated on this image and does not allow himself and others to change this image (persona).
- Sil is very sensitive to his persona.
- He worries about what people think about him.
- Obstinate, head strong.
- Fixed ideas.
- Conscientious about trifles.
Bashful Timidity
- He is a subordinate child and his parents are controller.
- Performance anxiety, timidity and want of confidence about appearing in public.
- So he is routine like Kali-c and fanatical like Carc and Ars.
- Loss of self confidence. Bashful. Yielding disposition
- Excessive and smelly sweat, esp in armpits, soles of the feet and hands, which usually increases with excitement.
Sil obsession
- Accompanying "perfectionism" and "obsession" is the key point of Sil.
- There are two opposite senses from him. On one hand, he is "hard" and "inflexible" and on the other hand, he is "flexible" in order to maintain "that image" in any way.
- He tells you yes but enters the yes-but game with you. Because his inside is used to that image and fixated on it.
- Complications of Controlling parents and Adapted child are
- Obsession
- Nervous tic
- Enuresis in children
ADHD
- Decreased mental performance (Kali-p), headache due to mental work
- Mental work and concentration is very difficult for him (ADHD)
Constipation
- Constipation with spinal problems
- Feces remain in the rectum for a long time without causing a feeling of expulsion
Abscess
- His abscess grows slowly and is mild.
- There is no inflammation and it is not very painful.
- On the contrary, Lach's abscess grows rapidly and painfully with bloody secretions. (Lach ₳ Sil)
- Vaginal serous cysts that are not raised and remain flat (Sil, Rhod) These cysts are often grouped.
Sinusitis
- Chronic sinusitis, esp frontal (Lyc ₳ Sil) (esp dry and painful)
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - Middle - Frontal sinuses - coryza; from chronic
- The only remedy for simultaneous involvement of all sinuses is Sil
GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - Sinuses; of - Polysinusitis
- First catarrhal nasal involvement and then frontal sinusitis (Pain above the eyes)
NOSE - CATARRH - extending to - Frontal sinuses
- Foamy nasal discharge
- Nasal congestion + inflammation of the gabella
- Itchy nose tip
- Perforated nasal septum
- Morning sneezing
FACE - COMPLAINTS of face - Maxillary sinuses
FACE - PAIN - Sinuses - Frontal
GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - Sinuses; of - chronic
GENERALS - HISTORY; personal - sinusitis; of recurrent
Tic
- Involuntary movements and emoticons like a child putting his finger in his mouth
- Involuntary movements of the hands
- Twitching of limbs, face and head
- He grabs his mouth
- Nervous tics are often in the hands and often at bedtime
- Nervous tics are often mixed and not fixed (they change shape)
Indications
Miasms
Clinical points
- Menses with choleraic symptoms like Am-c
- Chilly and weak like Gels
- Complementary remedy of Bar-c, Calc, Equisetum, Fl-ac, Hep, Iod, Puls, Teucr, Thuj
- Related remedies: Ther, Lyc
- Like Alum, his bladder is weak and he feels that urine remains (Hep)
Rubrics
- Weeping, Carried when, Piteously, if taken hold or carried, child cries: Cina