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[Roger]

From A Practical Homeotherapeutics by Dewey:
Silicea terra
Silicea is one of our most valuable remedies in epilepsy. It suits
especially scrofulous and rickety subjects. The aura starts from the solar
plexus, as in Bufo and Nux vomica. Certain phases of the moon are said to
affect the attacks, which are brought on by an overstrain of the mind or
emotions. Nocturnal epilepsy, feeling of coldness before an attack is also
characteristic of the drug, and the fit is followed by warm perspiration.
Cuprum is also a remedy for nocturnal epilepsy and must be thought of when
attacks invariably occur in the night. When Silicea is required there is an
exalted susceptibility of the upper spinal cord and the medulla and an
exhausted condition of the nerves. The attacks occur about the time of the
new moon. It comes in after Calcarea in inveterate chronic cases, and
coldness of the left side of the body preceding the attack is very
characteristic.
There are a lot of epilepsy rubrics in Synth 9 containing Sil
GENERALS - WEAKNESS - convulsions; after - epileptic
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - worms; from
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - sleep; during
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - moon - new
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - fright; from
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - during epileptic convulsions;
complaints - Tongue - biting of
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - during epileptic convulsions;
complaints - Face - pale
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - during epileptic convulsions;
complaints - vertigo
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - during epileptic convulsions;
complaints - mouse running up a limb; sensation of
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - during epileptic convulsions;
complaints - froth, foam from mouth
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - aura - Stomach, in
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - children; in
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - aura - Solar plexus, from - Head; to
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - aura - Solar plexus, from
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - aura - Arms, in - left arm, in
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - aura - vertigo
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - aura - mouse running; sensation of a
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - aura - coldness; with - running down
spine - left side; on
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - aura - coldness; with
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - night
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS - epileptic
SKIN - COLDNESS - left - epilepsy, before
PERSPIRATION - WARM - convulsions - after - epileptic
CHILL - CONVULSIONS; after epileptic
CHILL - LEFT - convulsions; before epileptic
DREAMS - EPILEPSY
EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Upper limbs - convulsions - before - epileptic
STOMACH - EPILEPTIC aura
EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Upper limbs - left - convulsions; before epileptic
VERTIGO - EPILEPTIC
VERTIGO - CONVULSIONS; BEFORE EPILEPTIC
MIND - SHRIEKING - convulsions - epileptic
MIND - DEMENTIA - epileptics, of
MIND - CONFUSION of mind - epileptic convulsions - before
MIND - CONFUSION of mind - epileptic convulsions - after
Roger Barr
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