Common name: Silicea. Silicon dioxide. Quartz.
Chemical formula: SiO2
Silicon is the second most abundant element on earth and is found in sand, quartz, sandstone, mica, granite, flint, opal, agate, amethyst, chalcedony, and other crystals. Silica adds strength to the stalks of plants which prevents them from breaking in heavy winds or rain. In petrified wood, silicon dioxide has replaced the original organic material. Silica is a primary material in glass, ceramics, stoneware, and porcelain. It is used in fiber optics and semiconductors for telecommunication. In the food industry, silica is used as an anti-caking ingredient in powered foods and pharmaceutical tablets. From personal care products such as cosmetics, antiperspirants, and toothpaste to its use in silicon breast implants, caulking compounds, cooking utensils and bakeware, silicon is ubiquitous. Did you know that the little packets placed in new products from shoes, purses, and bottles of supplements to absorb moisture are filled with silica gel pellets?
Silica is a polycrest remedy that is useful when there are immune deficiencies. Failure to assimilate minerals from food, defects in hair, nails, teeth, and bone, poor stamina, frequent infections of the ears, nose, gums, and throat are weaknesses that Silica can strengthen. People who would benefit from this remedy are cold, sensitive to drafts, easily tired, and sweaty. They tend to lack stamina but are so conscientious about completing tasks that they push through with endurance before collapsing when the job is finished. Silica types are timid, shy, and unassertive, but they have fixed ideas about things and can be quietly stubborn. Adults are usually tall, thin, and small boned. Children tend to be serious, well-behaved, and prone to repeated infections.
Keynotes:
- Number one remedy for forcing out splinters
- Failure to thrive in infants, delayed development in children
- Shy, timid, yielding but obstinate, lack of self confidence, mildness
- Performance anxiety, stage fright, nervousness
- Startle easily, anxiety from noise
- Conscientious about small details, orderly, precision, neatness
- Chilly and worse for cold, for wind, for drafts
- Perspiration of head and hands, profuse offensive foot sweat
- Frequent infections, low stamina, weakness and fatigue
- Dental abscesses, gum boils, sore throat, tonsillitis, mumps
- Otitis media, fluid in Eustachian tubes
- Chronic dry nasal obstruction, sinusitis, sinus headache
- Lingering coughs, bronchitis, asthma
- Constipation with no urging, ineffectual straining, “bashful stool”
- Scoliosis, injury to coccyx
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