Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter

Lack of vital heat. Prostration of mind and body

Great sensitiveness to taking cold

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants

Want of grit, moral or physical

Fixed ideas; thinks only of pins, fears them, searches and counts them

Disgust for meat and warm food.

Want of appetite; thirst excessive

Sour eructations after eating

A milky, acrid leucorrhœa, during urination.

Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body

Night-walking; gets up while asleep

Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head

Frequent starts in sleep

Anxious dreams

In morning

From washing

During menses

Uncovering

Lying down

Damp

Lying on left side

Cold

Wrapping up head

Summer

In wet or humid weather

Parts feel chilly; send shudder through frame

Afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc

Foul odor from mouth

Offensive taste

Especially adapted to anĉmic, debilitated, rheumatic, and scrofulous subjects

Motion

Noise

Turning

Washing

Concussion

Inspiring