Aloe Socotrina
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General EN
Aloe.
Aloe socotrina. Common Aloes. N. O. Liliaceae. Trituration or solution in spirit of the gum.
Clinical EN
Abdomen, plethora of. Anus, affections of. Bronchitis. Colic. Constipation. Cough. Diarrhoea. Dysentery. Gleet. Gonorrhoea. Haemorrhoids. Hysteria. Lumbago. Onanism, effects of. Phthisis. Proctitis. Prolapsus uteri. Prostate, affections of. Sacrum, pain in. Tenesmus.
Characteristics EN
Aloe is one of the oldest and most famous drugs. It is in worldwide use as a purgative at the present day, and forms a leading ingredient in a large number of patent medicines for regulating the bowels and menstrual functions. The habitual use of these medicines leads to all kinds of pelvic ailments, and the fact that Sulphur antidotes Aloe accounts for the success of Sul. as a medicine to commence with in many chronic cases where purgatives have been used. Aloe resembles All. s. somewhat closely.
It causes congestion of various parts, especially abdomen, pelvic organs, and head. A periodicity enters into many of its complaints. There is a periodic headache which alternates with lumbago. As winter approaches each year itch manifests itself.
Aloe has the antipsoric property of throwing out internal complaints to the skin. Among the leading mental symptoms are: Bad humour, especially in cloudy weather. Dissatisfied and angry with himself < when constipated. Aversion to labour.
Lassitude alternating with great mental activity. Among the other head symptoms are: Darting pains in left temple < every step. Carroll Dunham cured a heavy frontal incapacitating headache in an old man occurring in winter and alternating with a diarrhoea which occurred in summer when he was free from headache. A peculiar dull, heavy, pressing pain in forehead, but which indisposes to, or incapacitates for, all exertion, especially intellectual.
Heaviness in the eyes as with All. s. Pressure in vertex and forehead as from a weight. Compelled to make the eyes small during pain in forehead. There are yellow rings moving before eyes.
As there are illusions of sight, so there are cracklings in the ears. One symptom is very peculiar: just after getting into bed, sudden explosion and clashing in left ear, as from breaking of glass; the clink of the glass was heard at the bottom of the head and extended thence toward the right ear. Aloe exerts its most marked influence on the abdominal and pelvic organs. It causes uneasiness and pains in liver region.
Fulness, heaviness, heat and inflammation. The whole abdomen is painfully sensitive to touch. Rumbling. Feeling as of a plug wedged in between pelvis and coccyx.
Sudden and continued desire to go to stool. Desire for stool after each meal (Ars., Chin., Lyc., Pod., Trombid.; while eating, Fer.). Rumbling and cramp in abdomen before and during stool. The hard stool falls out without being noticed, urging to stool whilst passing water; every time on passing water feeling as if stool would pass.
A hard stool may be passed involuntarily. A child, constipated from birth, screams all the time he is being held to stool, cannot pass it, even after enema; yet when not trying passes solid pieces in bed without knowing. Cured with Alo. 200 (Nash). Involuntary soft stool while passing wind.
With the diarrhoea, flatulency, pinching in abdomen, pain in back and rectum and chilliness. Flatus offensive, burning, copious; much flatus with small stool. Burning in anus with passing of flatus. Stools like mush, bright yellow, grey, hot, undigested.
Mucus and blood in faeces. Profuse with jelly-like lumps. Watery stools < standing or walking. Watery stool containing lumps "like frog-spawn." Bilious yellow faecal, bright yellow diarrhoea, great rumbling in bowels and escape of much wind, < morning; evening; in damp weather; from overheating; after cold taken in damp room; after chagrin.
Diarrhoea driving one out of bed very early in morning (Sul). Diarrhoea with sense of insecurity (Phos.) Faintness after stool; with cold sweat. Griping may (Nux v.) or may not (Merc.) cease after stool. Heaviness, heat, pressing, burning in rectum.
Itching, burning in rectum. Itching, burning, pulsating as from fissures at anus. After stool: cutting feeling as if more would come protruding piles. Haemorrhoids: protrude like a bunch of grapes constant bearing-down in rectum bleeding; sore; tender, hot;
> by cold water. Carroll Dunham has cured incontinence of urine in an old man with enlarged prostate with the Aloe diarrhoea. Increased sexual desire in males, with erections. Penis shrunk and testicles cold.
In females pain in hypogastrium as if menses coming on. Labour-like pains drawing into legs. Menses too early and too profuse. During menstruation: headache > by application of cold water; earache; pain in small of back; pressing down in rectum.
Fulness in pelvis. Leucorrhoea of bloody mucus preceded by colic. Pain in small of back, < sitting or awaking at night, > moving about. Lumbago alternating with headache.
There is < in afternoon, especially of symptoms of mucous membranes. Many symptoms, again, appear in the evening < yawning, or masticating. There is a diarrhoea < in the early morning (like Sulph). Diarrhoea < immediately after eating;
< walking (Aesc., Thuj.), or standing (Sul.). Like Phos., it has feeling of insecurity on passing wind or before stool. Symptoms are < from heat; in hot, damp weather; > from cold applications; in cold weather.
> From passing flatus. It is suited to: old people; to women of relaxed phlegmatic habit; to persons of lymphatic or hypochondriac temperament.
Relations EN
Aloe is related to: All. cep., All. s., Agave, Scilla, Colch. It is antidoted by: Sul., Mustard, Camph. relieves for a while, Lyc., and Nux v. relieve the earache. It resembles: Sul. in many symptoms, and is of equal importance with Sul. in chronic diseases with abdominal plethora; Ailanth.
(dull, frontal headache); Gambog. (diarrhoea); Ammon. mur.
(abdominal and diarrhoeic symptoms); Nux v. (gastric, abdominal and uterine troubles: bad effects of sedentary habits); Aesc.
(haemorrhoids); Merc. (dysentery); Pod.
(alternations between head symptoms and abdominal symptoms).
Causation EN
Sedentary habits.
Mind EN
Anxiety and ebullition of the blood
Restlessness, fear, fear of man
Bad humour, esp. in cloudy weather
He is dissatisfied and angry about himself; more so when he is constipated or when he suffers from pain; better in the open air
Suffering makes her frantic, often loses consciousness
Seems to have a presentiment of approaching death
Angry, revengeful, wishes to destroy the object of her wrath
Aversion to labour
Great disinclination to mental labour; it fatigues him
Disinclined to move
Exhaustion, alternating with activity
Children much enlivened, chat and laugh
Annoying amorous thoughts present themselves.
Head EN
Giddiness and starting
Giddiness, with anxiety when moving; he feels as if he were sitting too high (after dinner)
Dulness in the forehead with chilliness
Dull headache across the forehead, with heaviness in the eyes, and nausea
Pressure in the forehead and vertex, as from a weight (and in occiput)
Pressing pain above the eyes
Congestions to the head, compelling one to sit up
Headaches are worse from heat and better from cold applications
Stitches above the eyebrows
Pressing out of the temples, with flickering before the eyes and heat in the face
Stitches in the temples at every step
Headache after pain in the abdomen; after (an insufficient) stool; worse from heat, better from cold
Sensitiveness of the scalp (in small spots)
With the pain in the forehead the eyes become small; patient compelled to close them.
Eyes EN
Congestion to the eyes; pressure in the orbits
Lachrymation
Pain deep in the orbits, as if in the muscles; worse r. side
Occasional attacks of twitching of l. eyelids during the day, spasmodic jerk of whole body on failing asleep at night
Flickering before eyes, with heat of the face
Yellow rings moving before the eyes
Compelled to make the eyes small, with pain in forehead; heaviness of eyes, and nausea.
Ears EN
Hates musical sounds and noises, they set her all in a tremor
Earache
Stitches in the ears; first in the l. ear, afterwards in the r
Internal and external heat of the ears
Cracking in the ears when reading aloud or moving jaws
Just after getting into bed, sudden explosion and clashing in l. ear, as from breaking of glass; the clink of the glass was heard at the bottom of the head and extended thence towards r. ear.
Nose EN
Redness of the nose in the open, cold air
Coldness of the point of the nose
Bleeding of the nose in bed after awaking
Dryness of the nose in the morning in bed.
Face EN
Heat of the face when excited, or during headache
Face pale during cloudy weather
Lips dry; cracked; swollen; pustular; sore at corners.
Teeth EN
Great sensitiveness of a decayed molar tooth (lower) r. side.—Teeth yellow.
Mouth EN
Concave edges of teeth seem sharp, and hurt the tongue
Metallic taste, with dry, irritative hacking
Lips dry, peeling off, cracked, bleeding
Yellow spots in mouth; yellow ulcers on the tongue
Tongue painful
When moving the tongue, stitches from below to the tip
Dry tongue and mouth; with increased thirst and greater redness of the lips
Tongue red and dry
Accumulation of saliva in mouth.
Throat EN
Throat rough, scraped, hot, as if burnt
Pain, when yawning, masticating solid food; worse in the evening and in the morning, when awaking
Thick lumps of tough jelly-like mucus in the throat and posterior nares.
Appetite And Taste EN
Taste bitter, sour, like ink
Aversion to meat; desire for juicy things (fruits); for salt food
Hunger unusually keen in the evening
Thirst while eating, after eating, and during the night
After eating, flatulency, pulsations in the rectum, and sexual irritation
As soon as he eats anything, must hurry to stool
Sweats after drinking.
Stomach EN
Pain in the stomach after drinking water
Sour things disagree with him
Vomiting of blood
Eructations; tasteless, bitter, sour
Pain in the pit of the stomach from a mis-step
Painful pressure under the sternum.
Abdomen EN
Tension in the region of the liver
Uneasiness, heat, pressure, and tension in the region of the liver
Pain in the liver, < on standing, so that he bends forward
Stitches in the liver, when drawing a long breath
Congestion to the abdomen
Sensation of fulness, heaviness, heat and inflammation
The whole abdomen is painfully sensitive to the touch
Abdominal muscles pain when touched, when pressing at stool, or on rising from a recumbent position
Bloated abdomen, more on the left side, or along the colon, worse after eating
Distension of the abdomen, esp. the epigastrium; with flatus moving about
Pulsation in the region of the navel
Pain around the navel, worse from pressure
Rumbling in the abdomen
Discharge of much flatulency, burning, smelling offensive, relieving the pain in the abdomen; after each meal, in the evening and morning, before stools
Much soreness in the whole abdominal cavity, so that a false step hurts clear to the pit of the stomach
Cutting in the abdomen with disinclination to go into the open air, which relieves the pain
Heaviness, fulness, and pressing down in the pelvis
Sensation of a plug wedged in between symphysis pubis and coccyx; with urging.
Stool And Anus EN
Sudden or continued urging to stool;
< immediately after eating; feeling of fulness and weight in pelvis; only flatus passes
Desire for a stool after each meal
Rumbling and cramp in the abdomen, before and during stool
The hard stool falls without being noticed
Involuntary soft stool, while passing wind
With the diarrhoea, flatulency, pinching in the abdomen, pain in the back and rectum, and chilliness
Diarrhoea very early in morning, driving him out of bed
Stools like mush; thin, bright, yellow, grey, hot, undigested
Frequent stools of bloody water: violent tenesmus; fainting; passing of mucus in jelly-like lumps, much flatus
During the stool, congestion to the head and red face, or hunger
Heaviness, heat, pressing, burning in the rectum
Want of confidence in sphincter ani; rectum seems full of fluid which feels heavy, as if it would fall out
When passing wind, feeling as if stool would escape with it
Itching, burning, pulsations, pain as from fissures, at the anus; preventing sleep
Haemorrhoidal tumours, protrude like bunches of grapes, very painful, sore, tender, hot, relieved by cold water
Fulness and pressing out in anus.
Urinary Organs EN
Increased secretion of urine, esp. at night
Frequent urging; burning when urinating
Every time on passing urine feeling as if some thin stool would escape with it.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Sexual desire increased;
< after awaking; after eating; in the evening
Erections in the morning, and after passing water
Involuntary emissions during the siesta; towards morning; followed by sexual excitement, micturition, and stool, and restless sleep
Penis shrunk, and testicles cold.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Pain in the hypogastrium, as if menses were coming on
Fulness and heaviness in the uterine region, with labour-like pains in the loins and groins; worse standing
Labour-like pains drawing into the legs
Catamenia too early, and too profuse
During menstruation, headache, which is relieved by the application of cold water; earache; pain in the small of the back; dragging down in the rectum; fulness in the pelvis
Fluor albus
Leucorrhoea of bloody mucus, preceded by colic
Prolapsus uteri with the above symptoms
Uterine haemorrhage about the change of life.
Chest EN
Congestion to the chest
Breathing impeded by stitches in the 1. side of the chest
Expectoration of blood.
Neck And Back EN
Lumbago, alternating with headache
Pain in the small of the back, < sitting, or when awaking at night;
> moving about.
Limbs EN
Cold hands with warm feet
Lameness in all the limbs
Pricking, dull twitching, drawing pain in the joints (fingers, knees, elbows)
Sensation of weakness in the joints of the hands and feet
Pains of short duration, as if bruised or dislocated (l. forearm, r. shoulder-blade, l. ribs).
Generalities EN
Great weakness, and weak pulse after vomiting.—Bad effects from sedentary habits.—Esp. suitable for persons of a lymphatic or hypochondriac temperament.
Skin EN
Itching, esp. of legs.—Spots which, when scratched, pain and become sensitive.
Sleep EN
Cannot get to sleep for a long time, thoughts crowd upon him and keep him awake.
Fever EN
Chills, with coryza, in the cold open air; at stool, shivering.
Heat in spots, on scalp or face.
Sweat: smells strong; offensive on genitals; at night, after drinking.