As soon as our children are big enough to climb trees, they will ignore our warnings and climb as high as they can. That's what the youngest daughter of one of my clients did, and unfortunately it went wrong.

She lost her footing, slipped and fell through the branches of the tree. Of course she tried to hold on. But when she came back down to earth, she had a lot of very large splinters in her hands – not just a few, but many. It was awful.

Her mother knew this was not a trivial injury and took her daughter straight to hospital, where the splinters had to be surgically removed. According to the doctor the operation was successful and the subsequent X-ray gave the all-clear.

But was that really the case?

About a year later the mother asked my advice because her daughter still had pain at the sites where the splinters had pierced her. I recommended taking Silicea D6 twice daily. Within a very short time (I don't know exactly how long, as the incident was several years ago) tiny fragments of bark came away from the skin that had not previously been visible on the X-ray after the accident.

Silicea, the next Schuessler salt in our series, is no great secret. It is silica, quartz – basically sand. There is an abundance of this raw material on our planet, and it is industrially processed on a large scale for everything from glass to electronic products. Silicea is virtually everywhere, but above all it should not be missing from your homoeopathic medicine cabinet.

Silicea is a great remedy for skin, hair and nails. It is often also called the cleansing Schuessler salt because it stimulates sweat production and thereby detoxification through the skin.

The best thing about Silicea, however, is that it supports pus-forming processes and helps the body to expel foreign bodies such as wood and glass splinters on its own.

And how did Silicea help in the case described above? Of course by supporting the body's self-healing powers. The pus produced carried the unwanted splinters out of the hands.

I have also observed the beneficial effect of this Schuessler salt with glass splinters. It is a very effective remedy for things that should not be in the body and need to come out.

I know what many of you are thinking now, because I hear these questions at least five times a week:

“Can I take Silicea if I have a mesh implant, e.g. for a hernia? Wouldn’t Silicea remove that too?”

“I can't take Silicea because I have a screw in my leg from a broken bone.”

“Joette, what about my artificial hip?”

“I have implants. Will Silicea loosen them?”

“What about my artificial lens for cataract? Will my eyes reject it if I take Silicea?”

I have now been working with homoeopathy for 32 years, have a lot of practical experience and have read extensively, and I can say that Silicea is completely harmless. Silicea works differently.

It stimulates the body's self-healing powers in cases where something needs to be expelled but the body does not have the necessary strength to do so. Silicea removes sharp foreign bodies that have lodged in the body, such as glass splinters or wood. It does not act on medical devices that have been carefully fitted and intentionally placed in the body for therapeutic purposes.

Moreover, Silicea is a slow and deep-acting remedy. In my experience there is absolutely no reason to believe that you would take Silicea and your artificial hip would immediately fall apart.

No, Silicea slowly pushes a foreign body out of the tissue. If you experience pain or discomfort related to an implant after taking Silicea, simply stop taking the Schuessler salt!

(That somehow reminds me of the old joke "Doctor, my arm hurts when I move it!" The doctor: "Then don't move it!" Do you know it?)

Silicea belongs in every homoeopathic medicine cabinet. I always carry it so I can treat my family immediately, even if the splinter is very small.

So next time you climb a tree, be prepared and be sure to pass this on!

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