Name: Silicea
Brand: Schwabe India
Price: 96.00 INR
Availability: InStock

Question 1

What is Silicea?

Accepted Answer

Silicea also known as Silicea terra is prepared from silicon oxides. It is a component of skin, hair, nails, muscles, nerves, and other connective tissues. Its sphere of action includes the skin, hair, glands, bones, digestive system, endocrine, and reproductive system. It helps in removing foreign objects and foreign irritants from the body.

Question 2

Is Silicea suitable for children?

Accepted Answer

Yes, it is suitable for children.

Question 3

How long should I take Silicea?

Accepted Answer

It has to be taken as long as the symptoms persist or improvement sets in or otherwise as prescribed by the physician.

Question 4

Is it safe to take Silicea?

Accepted Answer

Yes, it is safe to take Silicea.

Question 5

Can the use of Silicea cause dry mouth?

Accepted Answer

No, it will not cause any dryness in the mouth.

Question 6

What are the uses/benefits of Silicea?

Accepted Answer

Silicea is a component of skin, hair, nails, muscles, nerves, and other connective tissues. It is often employed in cases of chronic diseases where the person has suffered from a lack of mental, physical, and emotional strength. In children, it helps in improving bone and teething troubles and helps develop vitality and immunity. It is indicated in children who are poorly nourished and suffer from improper absorption and assimilation. The children are weak with large heads and frail bodies, very chilly, and often affected with frequent attacks of cold, cough, and ear infections. The immunity is enhanced with the use of Silicea. It is often indicated in digestive troubles, chronic constipation, headaches, unhealthy skin where every little injury suppurates, abscesses, pustules, cracks on the palms and soles, hangnails, bunions, hair fall, dandruff, and expulsion of foreign bodies. Hormonal imbalances are effectively treated by Silicea. It is also indicated in acne, menstrual abnormalities, deranged metabolism, thyroid dysfunction, bone troubles, osteoporosis, fractures, and dislocations. It is also called a “Homoeopathic surgeon”.

Question 7

How to use Silicea?

Accepted Answer

It is to be taken as 3-4 tablets 2-3 times a day or as prescribed by the physician.

Question 8

How Silicea works?

Accepted Answer

Silicea is indicated in imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition. It produces neurasthenic states and increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes. It covers the diseases of bones, caries, and necrosis. It stimulates the organism to re-absorb fibrotic conditions and scar tissue. It is an excellent remedy for quinsy, abscesses, headaches, spasms, epilepsy, keloid, rickets, ill effects of vaccination, suppurative processes, and ripening abscess. It is indicated in ailments attended with pus formation, intolerance of alcoholic stimulants, and great sensitivity to cold. It is suitable for nervous, excitable, faint-hearted, sensitive to all impressions, and obstinate, headstrong children. The headache is from fasting, vertigo from looking up, profuse sweat of the head, eyes sensitivity to light, swelling of lachrymal glands, abscess in the cornea, cataracts, and keratitis. It is indicated in caries of mastoid, bleeding of the nose, perforation of the nasal septum, facial neuralgia, abscess at the root of teeth, boils on gums, quinsy, parotid glands swollen, bloating of the abdomen, fistulas, fissure in the anus, diarrhoea, nocturnal enuresis, chronic gonorrhoea, leucorrhoea, menstrual abnormalities, abscess of labia, hard lumps in the breast and vaginal cysts. It is indicated in respiratory complaints like pneumonia, cough, sore throat, frequent attacks of the cold, suppurative stage of expectoration, and stitches in the chest. The spine is weak, the coccyx painful, spinal irritation after injuries to the spine, Pott’s disease, and night walking. It is a remedy for sciatica, cramps in calves and soles, paralytic weakness, affections of fingernails, ingrowing toenails, panaritium, pain in knees, and icy cold feet and soles. The skin affections such as felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers, cracks at end of fingers, rose-coloured patches, scars, every little injury which suppurates, crippled nails, indurated tumours, after effects of vaccination, lepra, nodes, keloid growths, and dry fingertips, all come under the action of this remedy.

Question 9

What are the side effects of Silicea?

Accepted Answer

No side effects have been reported so far.

Question 10

What precautions to take before taking Silicea?

Accepted Answer

No precautions are necessary.

Question 11

What if you forget to take Silicea?

Accepted Answer

It is not a problem if you skip a few doses, but avoid taking double doses.

Question 12

What are the substitutes for Silicea?

Accepted Answer

Kali phosphoricum, Bio combination No.08, Bio combination No.07, and Bio combination No.05.

Question 13

Composition of Silicea

Accepted Answer

It contains Silicea in varied potencies 3X, 6X, 12X, 30X and 200X according to the packaging.