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Alumina

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Όλα τα βιβλία για Alumina → Αντιδοτείται απόBryonia AlbaCamphoraChamomillaCopaiva OfficinalisIpecacuanhaParaffinumPulsatilla PratensisSepia OfficinalisSilicea TerraTheridion Curassavicum
General EN

Alumina.

Argilla. Oxide of Aluminium. Pure Clay. AL2 O3 3H2O. Trituration.

Clinical EN

Anus, affections of. Boils. Bubo. Catarrh. Chlorosis. Constipation. Constipation of nursing infants. Cough. Disappointments, effects of. Dysentery. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Eyes, affections of. Fissures. Fistula. Headache. Hernia. Irritation. Leucorrhoea. Locomotor ataxy. Nails, affections of. Otorrhoea. Ozaena. Paralysis. Pregnancy, constipation of. Pregnancy, toothache of. Prostatorrhoea. Rhagades. Scrofula. Strabismus. Taste, disordered. Tetters, moist and itching. Throat, affections of. Trismus. Typhus.

Characteristics EN

Like its relative Alumen, Alumina produces irritation of mucous membranes with dryness or extreme secretion and paralysis of involuntary muscles, as those of the rectum and of the nervous and muscular systems generally. Alumina paralyses the bowels in the same way as lead, to which it is an antidote. Even small and soft stools are passed with great difficulty. Pregnant women and children are liable to this kind of constipation.

A very prominent characteristic is that a person must strain at stool in order to urinate. Teste groups Alumina with Sepia and Copaiva. He considers it the chronic of Sepia as Silic. is of Puls. Paralysis of the internal rectus muscle of the eye, causing squint.

Also ptosis. Drawing, pains appear in the limbs; a sensation of constriction in several organs. Several painful symptoms show themselves after the midday meal, and continue till evening, when they disappear or are replaced by others which begin only then. On the other hand the pains which appear in the morning or in the evening are abated after eating.

Trembling, convulsive movements of the limbs and head; spasms, with tears and laughter alternately. There is exaltation of the whole nervous system. Trembling of the whole body with desire to lie down, which, however, < the fatigue. Great general fatigue, even after a short walk, but chiefly after speaking.

Frequent stretching while sitting. The nates go to sleep while sitting. Drags legs (especially left). Many of the symptoms of locomotor ataxy are reproduced by Alumina, and it is one of the most useful remedies in that disease.

Boenninghausen cured a case with Aluminium. Sluggishness of action is characteristic of this medicine; urine is slow in passing; great straining to pass even a soft stool; can only evacuate bowels when standing; has to strain as if abdomen and rectum were paralysed. (Caust. has defecation only when standing; but the straining is less.) Sensations are slow in being transmitted to the centres. In the mental sphere there is confusion.

"When he says anything he feels as if another person had said it, and when he sees anything, as if another person had seen it, or as if he could transfer himself into another, and only then could see." A feeling of hurry follows, things do not move fast enough. Impulses. Suicidal tendency, a sudden impulse from seeing blood on a knife. Sad; apprehensive; wants to getaway; fears going crazy.

Mental symptoms mostly come on in the morning on waking. Vertigo on closing eyes. Catarrh is a very general feature. Catarrh with dryness of mucous membranes.

The throat looks parched and glazed. The nose is stopped, feels dry, and the point of it is cracked. Alm. has the fish-bone sensation in the throat on swallowing. There is profuse leucorrhoea running down to the heels, sometimes excoriating.

As with the mucous membrane so with the skin: itching eruptions < from warmth of bed. Eruptions of all kinds, indurations, ulcers. Granular eyelids. Hairs fall out all over body.

The skin of the face feels as if covered with dried white of egg, or as if a cobweb was on it. Fissures. Alumina has some curious symptoms in the digestive sphere. There is a craving for dry rice and dry food.

It has < from starch, especially the starch of potatoes. < From salt, wine, vinegar, spirits. Burning pains in the back are very characteristic, and especially a sensation as if a hot iron were forced through the lower vertebrae.

There are pulsations in various parts. The pains go upward. Upper left; lower right affected (opposite of Lyc.).

The symptoms are < on alternate days; periodically. Guernsey describes a characteristic periodicity thus: "Patient gets along nicely for a time, then, from no apparent cause, gets worse for a time, then better, and soon a relapse may be worse than the original illness, another relapse not so bad, and so on with longer intervals between." In afternoons; at new or full moon; < in the morning on waking. < After coitus.

< In cold air, out of doors; in dry weather. They are > by cold washing; by moistening the part; by warm food or drink; by warmth generally.

Alumina is suited to persons of sedentary habits who suffer from chronic ailments; to constitutions with diminished animal heat. Psoric persons. The action of Alumina is slow in developing, and the remedy must not be changed quickly.

Relations EN

Compare: Aluminium (which has been used on indications taken from the proving of Alumina). Antidote to: Lead. Antidoted by: Bry., Camph., Cham., Ipec. Complementary: Bry.

Follows well: Bry., Lach., Sul. Similar to: Alumen; Arg. nit. (clergyman's sore throat, paralysis);

Bar. c. (hypochondriasis of aged; constipation); Bry., Calc.; Cham.

(useful as an intermediate remedy); Con. (old people; squint) Ferrum (chlorosis; relaxed abdomen; disgust for meat, &c.) Fer. iod. (profuse transparent leucorrhoea);

Graphit. (chlorosis, skin rough, chapped, itching nails; blepharitis, &c.); Ipec.; Kali bi.

(clergyman's sore throat) Lach. (sad on waking; climaxis); Lyc. (clergyman's sore throat) Pic. ac., Plumb.

(colic, constipation) Puls. (tearful, peevish; head, &c., > in open air; ozaena; taste lost averse to meat; scanty menses complaints at puberty; lack of animal heat; soles of feet sore, < walking; toes red, itching, &c.); Ruta (loss of power of internal recti); Sepia (irritable, tearful; ozaena; scanty menses; puberty prolapsus uteri; inactive rectum weakness in urinary organs, &c.);

Sil., Sul., Zinc. (inner canthus granular lids; < from wine).

Causation EN

Anger. Disappointments. Lifting. Bodily exertion.

Mind EN

Humour morose, sad, with despair of cure

Involuntary tears

Anguish and anxiety as if one were threatened with some fatal accident, or had committed some crime

Time passes too slowly; intolerable ennui; an hour seems half a day

Seeing blood on a knife she has horrid ideas of killing herself, though she abhors the idea

Apprehensions

Disposition to be frightened

Air sorrowful and morose

Ill-humour, with unfitness for labour

Disposition to be angry

Obstinate, and contradictory humour

Taking everything in bad part

Humour changeable; at one time bold, at another timid

Weakness of memory

Distraction, inadvertence, and incapability of following up an idea

Absence of ideas

Blunders in speaking

Great vivacity of apprehension, alternately with inadvertence, and deprivation of sight and hearing

Sensation, as if self-consciousness were outside the body.

Head EN

Dizziness, whirling sensation, everything turns in a circle, most frequently so as to cause falling; sometimes with nausea, or tension in the nape of the neck;

< before breakfast; on opening eyes; when closing eyes

Easily made drunk

Vertigo, with white stars before the eyes

State of intoxication after smoking tobacco, or after having taken the weakest spirituous drink, and principally in the morning

Headache, as if one were dragged by the hair; or smart shootings in the brain, with inclination to vomit

Stitches in the brain with nausea

Heaviness of the head, with paleness of face, and fatigue

Compressive cephalalgia

Headache with constipation

Headache from chronic catarrhs in the head

Beatings and pulsations in the head

Congestion of blood towards the eyes and nose, with pressure in the forehead and epistaxis, with a chill when walking in the open air; better after lying or eating

Headache < while walking in the open air;

> lying down, the head being softly supported

Itching in the forehead

Pain, as from excoriation, in the scalp.—(Moist crusts on the temples.)

Dryness of the hair

Itching in the scalp, with profuse desquamation.

Eyes EN

Pressure on the eyes, which renders it impossible to open them

Pressure, as from a grain of sand, in the corner of the eye, in the evening

Sensation of burning in the eyes, with nocturnal agglutination of the lids, and diurnal lachrymation

Sensation of coldness in the eyes and eyelids on walking in open air

Swelling of the eyelids

Paralysis of the upper lid

Hordeolum

Eyelashes fall out

Inclination to stare

Spasmodic drawing of the lids at night, with pain in the eyes on opening them

Stitches in the eyes

Photophobia

Confusion of sight, as from a mist, and sparkling before the eyes

Yellow aspect of all objects

Coloured reflection round the candle in the evening

Strabismus of both eyes; esp. loss of power of internal rectus

Glittering before the eyes on shutting them

Far sight.

Ears EN

Shooting pains in the ears, principally in the evening, or at night

Stitches in the (l.) ear (evening)

Itching and sensation of burning in the ears

Frequently, in the evening, heat and redness of one ear

Purulent discharge from the ears

Crackling noise and buzzing in the ears, chiefly when chewing, but also on swallowing.

Nose EN

Pain in the root of the nose and in the forehead

Pain, swelling, and redness of the nose

Soreness and scabs in the nose, with discharge of thick yellow mucus

Discharge of solid, yellow, greenish substances from the nose

Accumulation and flow of a thick and yellowish matter from the nose

Nostrils ulcerated

Furunculus in the nose

Ozaena

Blood from the nose when blown

Epistaxis

Sour smell in the nose

Smell either exceedingly delicate or weak

Coryza, with defluxion from one nostril, with stoppage of the other

Coryza, alternately dry and flowing

Stoppage of the nose.

Face EN

Aspect gloomy, morose

Rapid alternation of redness and paleness of countenance

Copper-like redness of the cheeks, as in drunkards

Tingling on the face, and tension of the skin, as if it were covered with white of egg dried

Sensation of swelling, and of heaviness of countenance

Bulbous swellings and blood-boils on the face and nose

Red painful spot on the cheek

Roughness of the skin of the face, esp. over the forehead

Heat and redness

Itching and eruption of small pimples over the face

Moist scabs on the temples

Shooting and drawing sensation in the cheek-bones

Transient heat of face

Furunculus in the cheeks

Leprous tubercles in the face

Lips dry, and cracked, with exfoliation of the skin

Swelling of the lips

Pimples and scabby eruptions on the lips

Swelling of the jaws, with tensive pain on opening the mouth, and on chewing

Shortening of the lower jaw

Involuntary spasmodic twitching of lower jaw

Trismus.

Teeth EN

Pains in the teeth on chewing, or in the evening, in bed

Tearing in the teeth, extending to other parts, as far as the zygomatic bone, and in the forehead and temples

Piercing pain in the carious teeth

Ulceration of the roots of the teeth

Ulcer on the gums

Swelling of the gums, which have a tendency to bleed

Sensation as though the teeth were elongated

Odontalgia, with nervous irritation, as after a chill, or after the use of Chamomilla.

Mouth EN

Pain as of excoriation in the mouth, palate, tongue, and gums, which almost prevents eating

Small ulcers in the mouth

Dryness of the mouth, chiefly on waking

Accumulation of a sweetish or sour saliva in the mouth, like actual salivation

Musty or putrid smell from the mouth

Tongue loaded with a black or yellowish coating

Expectoration of bloody mucus.

Throat EN

Sore throat, which is aggravated in the evening and at night, but which is ameliorated on taking anything warm, and which is less painful in the morning

Contractive, or shooting pains in the throat, chiefly on swallowing

Difficult deglutition, as if the gullet were contracted

Cramp-like pressure and squeezing in the oesophagus

Sensation, as if the oesophagus were contracted when swallowing a small morsel of food; it is felt until it enters into the stomach

Pains in throat < evening and night

Swelling of the tonsils

Great dryness in the throat

Accumulation of a thick and viscous mucus in the throat, with difficult expectoration

Painful ulcers in the fauces, secreting a brown, badly-smelling pus

Sensation of a splinter in the throat.

Appetite EN

Sweetish taste, or a taste of blood in the mouth

Rough taste, astringent, or bitter and insipid

Bulimy

Irregular appetite; at one time too strong, at another too weak

Food appears insipid, esp. in the evening, and principally bread and meat

Distaste for animal food

Craving, with want of appetite

Appetite for dry foods; for starch; chalk; clean white rags; charcoal; cloves; acids; coffee or tea grounds; dry rice

Desire for hot drinks

Desire for vegetables, for fruits, and spoon meats

After having eaten, and chiefly in the evening, hiccough, pressure in the stomach and abdomen, distaste, nausea, and lassitude

Potatoes excite nausea and bitter eructations

All irritating things immediately start cough.

Stomach EN

Eructations, sour and acrid, and pyrosis

Chronic tendency to eructation

Frequent eructations

Nausea, with faintness

Frequent nausea and inclination to vomit, chiefly when speaking, when re-entering the room after walking, and in the morning

Pressure in the stomach, chiefly in the evening and after eating

Contraction and constriction in the region of the stomach, often as far as the throat and breast, and sometimes with difficult respiration

Pain, as from excoriation, in the pit of the stomach and in the hypochondria, principally on turning the body in bed, or on stooping.

Abdomen EN

Painful sensibility of the liver on stooping, followed sometimes by shooting pains

Colic whenever the body is exposed to a chill

Colic with drawing pains, principally in the evening, or at night, or after dinner

Cutting pains, chiefly in the morning

Flatulent colic

The colic is ameliorated by heat applied externally

Painter's colic

Protrusion and incarceration of inguinal hernia.

Stool And Anus EN

Stools hard, unfrequent, and scanty, sometimes with pain in the anus

Constipation and obstruction of the abdomen

Difficult stool, from inactivity of the intestines

Difficult evacuations from want of peristaltic motion of the intestines; even the soft stool can only be passed by great pressing

Constipation of pregnant women, children, and painters

No desire for, and no ability to pass stool, until there is a large accumulation

Hard, knotty stools, covered with mucus

Small stools, sometimes like pipe stems (also Phosphor.)

Voiding of much slimy matter with the stool, during the continuance of colic

Loose stools with pain in the belly and tenesmus

Green stools in summer complaints

Loss of blood during and after the stools

Burning and itching in the anus

Blind piles protrude, become moist, with lancinating pain; are hard and itch

Pressure and shooting pain in the perinaeum.

Urinary Organs EN

Pain in the kidneys, principally when walking or stooping

Sensation of weakness in the bladder and in the genital parts

Eager desire to make water, with increased aqueous evacuation, accompanied sometimes by a sensation of burning

Frequent ineffectual desire to urinate: the urine can only be passed during a stool

Urine less copious, with red and sandy sediment

Nocturnal urination

Urine turbid, white, as if chalk had been put into it

Thick whitish sediment in the urine.

Male Sexual Organs EN

Sexual desire increased; or suppressed

Frequent pollutions and nocturnal erections

Copious secretion behind the glans

Excoriation of the prepuce

Contractive pain in the spermatic cord, with contraction of the testicle

Hardness and painful sensibility in one of the testes

Flowing of prostate fluid during difficult stools

Pains in the perinaeum, during coition, and while the erection continues

Increase of suffering after pollution

Sweat on perinaeum at beginning of erection or during coition.

Female Sexual Organs EN

Menstruation scanty, too early, and of short duration; blood pale

Menses too copious, with inflation of the abdomen

During the period of menstruation, sleep agitated, with many dreams, great activity in the circulation, heat in the face, headache, and palpitation of the heart

Before and during menstruation, colics, headaches, and other painful affections

After the menses great fatigue

Corrosive leucorrhoea, with smarting in the genital parts

Leucorrhoea before or after the menses, and often with trembling, fatigue, and colic

Leucorrhoea flesh-coloured, or aqueous, and causing stiffness of the linen; transparent mucus before and after menstruation.

Respiratory Organs EN

Dry cough, principally in the morning, sometimes, at a later period, followed by expectoration

Short, dry cough

Dry, short cough, esp. in the morning, with dyspnoea

All irritating foods immediately start cough

Cough with impeded respiration, or with pains in the head and at the nape of the neck

Catarrh of the larynx and of the bronchi, with scraping sensation in the throat

Sudden taking cold, with loss of voice, morning and evening.

Chest EN

Oppression at the chest

Dyspnoea when seated

Nocturnal pressure in the chest

Sensation of constriction in the chest, chiefly when seated in a bending attitude, or while stooping

Pain, as of excoriation, in the chest and in the pit of the stomach, sometimes with cough

Pain in the sternum on touching it.

Heart EN

Palpitation and shocks at the heart

Palpitation every morning on waking; irregular beats

Wakes 4 to 5 a.m. with anxiety at heart, > immediately after rising.

Neck And Back EN

Itching of nape of neck and throat

Stitches in nape

Pain in the loins during repose

Pain like that of a bruise in the loins and in the back

Shooting pains in the back

Sensation in the back as if it were pierced with a hot iron; through the lower vertebrae.

Upper Limbs EN

Pains in the arms while kept hanging down or extended on the bed

Tearing in the arms from the shoulder to the fingers

Pain, as if burned by a hot iron, in the elbows and the fingers

Paralytic weight in the arms

Swelling of the arm and the fingers

Tetters and moist scabs on the forearms

Mealy desquamation of the hands

Fissures in the hands, which readily bleed

Gnawing pain under the nails, sometimes with tingling in the arm

The nails have a tendency to break when they are cut

Panaris.

Lower Limbs EN

Stiffness, numbness, and insensibility of the legs at night

Sensation of tearing in almost all parts of the lower limbs

Great heaviness and weakness of the legs, chiefly in the hips

When sitting, the nates go to sleep

Drawing pain in the knees when going upstairs

Tension in the calves when walking, and cramps on crossing the legs and on resting the toes on the ground

Pain as from fatigue in the joints of the feet when seated

Pains in the soles of the feet when walking

Cold in the feet

Itching and redness in the toes, as if from chilblains

Sensation of burning under the toes.

Generalities EN

Pulling pains in the limbs Sensation of constriction in internal organs (oesophagus, stomach, rectum, bladder) Aggravation of suffering from potatoes, and often on alternate days Several painful symptoms show themselves after dinner, and continue till evening, when they disappear, or are replaced by others, which begin only then

The pains which appear in the morning, or in the evening, are abated after eating Suffering in consequence of disappointments Trembling and convulsive movements of the limbs, and even of the head Great heaviness in the legs and arms

Spasms, with tears and laughter alternately Exaltation of the whole nervous system Illusive sensations; some parts of the body feel as if they had become larger Trembling of the whole body, with desire to lie down, which, however, increases the fatigue

Great general fatigue, even after a short walk, but principally after speaking Frequent stretching while sitting Want of vital heat.

Skin EN

Miliary eruption in the arms and legs, with much itching and serous bleeding after having scratched

Chapped skin and bulbous eruptions

Boils or itching exanthemata on perinaeum

The slightest injuries of the skin smart, and become inflamed

Leprous pimples

Scurf and tetters, which itch or become moist chiefly in the evening

Renewal of cutaneous symptoms at every new or full moon

Rhagades

Brittle nails.

Sleep EN

Sleep tardy, and wakefulness before midnight

Restless sleep, always awakening with palpitation of the heart

Nocturnal sleep too light, agitated, with frequent starts

Deep sleep, not refreshing, with a desire in the morning to sleep more

Frequent waking in the night

Dreams frequent, anxious, with talking, laughter, tears, lamentations, groans, and somnambulism

Dreams of horses, of quarrels, and of vexations, of fire, of marriages, of spectres, of death, of robbers

Dreams, with fear of death after waking

Nightmare

During the night, anxiety, agitation, and tossing about; or heat, toothache, headache, spasms, and oppression of the chest, or diarrhoea, with pains in the stomach, and shiverings

After sleep, on waking in the morning, mind weighed down by vexatious ideas, or nausea, with insipidity in the stomach, and feverish movements.

Fever EN

Pulse full and accelerated

Shivering, even when near a fire, and at night, in bed, not able to warm oneself

Fever towards the evening, with predominant chilliness

Sensation of cold immediately after taking soup at midday

During the day chill; during the night, fever

Heat in the evening which spreads from the face; at times only over the r. side of the body

Perspiration at night, or more towards morning, in bed; mostly in the face, or on one side of the face

Inability to perspire.