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can anyone shed some light on a problem that suddenly arose.
about 2 weeks ago a split in the skin of the left heel occurred.
no accident to cause it. it was sharp and burning when touched.
kept me awake at night from the pain on contact with the bed. it
healed in about 3 days and i forgot about it until 2 days ago when
it happened again. the cut/split is somewhat deep and sore to walk
on or pressure from bed. calendula seemed to worsen it yesterday
making it more sore to walk on.
i can think of nothing that changed except that i started to take
a silica cell salt to try and deal with a fingernail problem. the c
cell salt dosage is about 1/3 what's recommended.
any insight will be appreciated. am wondering if there is a nutritional
issue?
tanya

Hia Tanya
OUCH! I do not know what could cause it. Some useful info on http://www.epodiatry.com/cracked_heels.htm and a bit of product promotion on http://www.drfoot.co.uk/cracked.htm
Homœopathically EXTREMITIES - CRACKED skin - Foot - heels - Ars, Arund, Coc-c, Kali-p, Lyc - may give you some more ideas
Dusty dry environment can cause this - also as the skin become thick it may crack.
The best way may be a long soak in a foot bath with water as hot as can be tolerated and then use a pumice stone to gently take off the dry brittle skin and then regular oiling while you deal with the main causes.

Regards

Soroush

thanks soroush. these sites have given me some
causative elements. too much pressure on the feet
from 2-3 causes for too long a time. this getting
old stuff is for the birds!
i will read up on these rx and apply some kind of
emollient.
tanya

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Speaking of cell salts, I think calc-fl is the one that's supposed to
relate to cracks in the skin?? (Tanya, that sounds like what I used to
get from--speaking of ouch--eating too much chocolate. But the once I
stopped, it would still take days to go away!)
Shannon

i was doing the silica for my fingernails which have begun to curve
downward.

but i could try the calc-fl for the skin issue

thanks

tanya
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hi.....i think you should have more imfotmation before you actually take any medicines.have you ever given any thought what are the reasons ?have you got your blood test done?is this is due to any deficiency?here knowledge of disease is essential which in turn helps in deciding medicine also potency,repetitions.calc flour can definately helps so as calc phos ,calc carb,calc iod all have remarkable affinity on nails.but you should have more information supporting in favour any of these medicines.silicea too have nails in its sphere of action.all these have medicines have remarkable actions on correcting deficiency in either blood,vitamins n metabolisms.

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tanya

Hi Tanya,

Sorry the gremlins wiped the first reply to post. Now I have to see if I can remember what I wrote. It went something like....
Maybe your heels are a susceptible area at the moment and you're proving the silica.
I looked up my nail health information and found:
Very dry or brittle Nails may occur as a result of Calcium deficiency.
Iodine may improve the health of the Nails.
Brittle Nails that split easily, vertical ridges on the Nails and/or “spoon” Nails (Nails that have a concave-shaped appearance) may occur as a result of Iron deficiency.
Silicon (applied topically to the Nails or administered orally) may improve the health and strength of the Nails and may alleviate brittle Nails.
Sulfur concentrates in the Nails.
Brittle Nails that split easily and/or white flecks or lines in the Nails may occur as a result of Zinc deficiency.
Biotin may alleviate Brittle Nails
Excessively dry or brittle Nails may occur as a result of Vitamin A deficiency.
Excessively dry, overly-rounded and overly-curved Nail ends and/or darkened Nails may occur as a result of Vitamin B12 deficiency.
Also important are the omegas, oils, Bs, especially B2, Folic acid, and proteins
You can check your B12 levels by looking for prominant moons on all your fingernails. Good levels mean you should have moons even on the little fingernail. The thumb moons are the last to go and first to return.
And these are from that recent article on fingernails and miasms:
Dry, harsh nails are Psoric. They look rough. They are not the eaten up appearance. They
are not glossy. They are dry. Psora has dryness.

"Wavy nails are Sycotic. The key word for Sycotic is in-coordination. They should have waves or ridges
or corrugated either vertical or horizontal. These are not the concave nails. These are the long ridges or ribs on the nails. The ridges are a proliferation - a hypertrophy, Hyper is Sycosis."

"Thickness of the nails is also Sycotic."

Spoon-shaped or concave nails are Syphilitic."

"Convex nails are Sycotic."

"Brittle nails which split easily are Syphilitic."

"Glossy nails are Tubercular."

With curving nails and cracking heels it sounds like there are uneven growth and repair issues. For the nail to curve some cells are working more than others - I guess the top layer is growing faster than the bottom layer. With the heel cracks, maybe the silica is stimulating a repair process - but some areas are stronger than others - like putting a patch of new material onto old cloth - the old cloth will tear just because of the uneven tension created. Could also have something to do with peripheral blood supply issues.
Gail.
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