ALOE SOCOTRINA

ALOE SOCOTRINA. [Aloe soc.] Socotrine Aloes. Helbig. Liliaceae.

► Lassitude, alternating with great mental activity. ► Great disinclination to mental labor ; it fatigues him ; general languor. ► Anxiety. ► Ill-humored ; hypochondriacal, worse in cloudy weather. ► Hates people, repels everyone. ► Restlessness, with ebullitions of blood. ► After a nocturnal emission, fright at slight noises.

► Vertigo : as if everything whirled with her, worse on going up stairs or turning quickly ; with anxiety when moving ; everything seems insecure ; better after nasal catarrh sets in.

► Congestion to head, compelling one to sit up. ► Headache across forehead, with heaviness of eyes and nausea ; must make the eyes small. ► Obtuse frontal headache, incapacity for all mental work. ► Weight on the vertex ; pressure in the forehead and occiput. ► Dull, pressive pain : in supraorbital region ; in sinciput. ► Pressing outwards to the temples, with periodic heat of the face and flickering before the eyes. ► Stitches in the temples aggravated by every footstep. ► Headache after insufficient stool ; with abdominal pains. ► Headaches with gastro-intestinal irritation and with coldness of lower limbs from afflux of blood to the cerebral centres ; headaches better from cold applications.

► Sensitiveness of the scalp in spots. ► Alopecia with chronic headaches.

► Eyes glittering, somewhat red, prominent ; unsteady anxious look. ► Flickering before the eyes, with heat of face ; scotoma. Yellow rings move before the eyes. (See 48.) ► Dimness before the eyes while writing. ► Pain deep in orbits as if in muscles, worse on right side.

► Cracking in the ears when moving in jaw. ► Sticking pain in the left ear, later in the right.

► Nosebleed in bed after awaking. ► Coryza, with burning and pain in the nose ; on sneezing, stitches in the umbilical region.

► Heat of the face with the headache or when excited. ► Face : pale during cloudy weather, sickly, sunken.

► Lips : redder than usual ; dry cracked ; moist, soreness of the borders ; white scaly.

► Sensitiveness in a hollow molar ; worse when eating ; later a pustule appears on the gum near the diseased tooth.

► Taste : bitter, sour, like ink or iron ; metallic. ► Tongue : coated yellowish-white ; stiff ; dry, red. ► Severe fine stitches, from behind forward, in the under part of the tongue when moving it. ► Yellow ulcers on tongue.

► Inflamed sore spots in the mouth, on the tongue, inside of cheeks. ► Sickening smell from the mouth. ► Increase of saliva.

► Fauces raw, hot, as if burned. ► Palate swollen ; arches of the velum palati pain on chewing hard food, or on yawning, worse in the evening, and in the morning on awaking ; worse on empty swallowing. ► Hawking of thick, jelly-like mucus, in lumps, from fauces and posterior nares ; rawness and swollen feeling in pharynx.

► Aversion to meat. ► Longing for juicy articles ; fruits, especially apples. ► Thirst : with dryness of mouth ; awakens at night.

► Hungry during the diarrhoea ; hungry after the morning stool. ► Sour food does not agree. ► Beer relieves pains in anus ; drinking vinegar the colic. ► Water causes pains in the stomach. ► Has to hurry to the closet immediately after eating or drinking.

► Eructations : bitter ; acrid ; or sour. ► Rising of flatulence toward the throat, with sensation as if vomiting were coming on. ► Nausea : with frontal headache ; with empty feeling in the stomach ; with pain at the umbilicus. ► Vomiting of blood.

► Pain in the scrobiculum on making a false step. ► Fullness in stomach, followed by distension of epigastrium.

► Painfulness in the hypochondria, with chilliness and diarrhoea ; painful weakness of the legs. ► Stitches from spleen into chest, or drawing into the loins. ► Hepatic region : burning ; uneasiness, heat, pressure and tension ; dull pain ; worse on standing, bends forward. ► Stitches from the liver into the chest, obstructing respiration.

► Pulsation in the region of the navel. ► Distension of the abdomen, especially the epigastrium, with flatus moving about ; worse after meals ; during menstruation ; on motion. ► Gurgling of flatus in descending colon ; worse after eating. ► Abdomen painful, especially about the navel ; twisting, griping about the navel, must sit bent forward ; urging to stool, with passage only of offensive flatus. ► The abdominal muscles pain when rising from a recumbent posture, or when touched, when standing erect, or when pressing to stool. ► Heaviness : in the hypogastrium ; in the rectum ; dragging down in the abdomen.

► Heat, soreness and heaviness in the rectum. ► Urging wakens him at night, drives out of bed at 6 A.M. ► Urging to stool, with passage of urine. ► Urgency as with diarrhoea, only hot flatus passes, with great relief ; it soon returns, with sensation of a plug wedged between the symphysis-pubis and os-coccygis. ► Feces escape almost without being noticed. ► Stools : small, brownish, slimy, half fluid ; yellow pappy ; bloody, jelly-like, mucous, and feces with much sputtering flatus ; stool and urine escape together. ► Lumpy, watery stool. ► Diarrhoea : in hot, damp weather ; evening, night and morning ; from vinegar ; from cold, damp room ; when walking or standing ; when passing urine. ► Hemorrhoids protrude like grapes, with constant bearing down in rectum. ► Itching and burning in anus ; preventing sleep. ► Weakness or loss of power of sphincter ani.

► Burning when urinating. ► Frequent urging to urinate ; worse at night ; or in afternoon : urging so quick he can scarcely retain urine. ► Urine : copious, pale, especially after stool ; saffron-yellow, becoming cloudy ; or scanty, or bloody. ► Sediment yellowish, like bran, or slimy.

► Sexual desire increased. ► Seminal emissions ; strong desire afterward. ► Testicles cold ; penis small ; scrotum relaxed ; epididymis sensitive, especially to touch or while walking. ► Itching of the prepuce.

► Fulness, heaviness in uterine region, with labor-like pains in loins and groin ; worse standing. ► Menses too early and too profuse. ► Leucorrhoea of bloody mucus.

► Lameness, which seems to arise from a sense of weight and pressure into the pelvis ; during pregnancy.

► Scraping in the larynx. ► Voice husky ; hawking.

► Whistling in the throat, as if something had fallen into the trachea. ► Difficult respiration. ► Respiration impeded by stitches through left side of chest.

► With stitches in the right side of the larynx ; sputa of yellow, tenacious mucus ; cough with scratching in the throat.

► Congestion to chest ; dry cough ; bloody expectoration ; even in incipient tuberculosis in the young. ► Front of chest feels on deep inspiration. ► Weakness of the chest.

► Strong beat of the heart occasionally ; pain through to the left scapula. ► Pulse : accelerated ; weak, suppressed after vomiting ; slow in the afternoon.

► Lumbago, alternating with headache ; also with piles. ► Stitches through the sacrum to the loins. ► Pressure and heaviness in the sacral region while sitting ; better from motion.

► Heaviness of right arm ; weakness of wrist-joints.

► Weariness of the calves. ► Weakness of the ankle-joint. ► Soles of the feet pain when walking on the pavement. ► Great toe feels as if sprained.

► Lameness, weariness in limbs ; weakness in joints ; often with the abdominal disturbances. ► Pains, of short duration, as if bruised or dislocated (left forearm, right scapula, left ribs). ► Pricking, dull twitching, drawing pains in the joints (fingers, knees, elbows).

► Lying : 6. Sitting : 31. Standing : 18, 19. Must sit up : 3. Bending forwards : 18, 19. Rising : 19. Walking : 20, 22, 23. Every step : 3. False step : 17. Ascending stairs : 2. Turning quickly : 2. Motion : 2, 6, 11, 19, 28, 31.

► Paralytic drawing in the muscles. ► General weakness, weariness, extreme prostration.

► Drowsy, dozing in the morning. ► Awakened : by thirst ; urgency to urinate ; pollutions and sexual desire ; pains in the back ; chill. ► Cannot sleep, heat and a crowd of thoughts busy him. ► Oppressive dreams of danger, could not cry out ; dreams of soiling himself.

► Morning : 13, 15, 20, 22, 37. Afternoon : 21, 29. Evening : 13, 20. Night : 15, 20, 21, 37, 40.

► Cloudy weather : 1, 8. Damp weather : 20. Cold, damp room : 20. Cold : 3, 23, 40. Warmth : 3. Open air : 19, 40.

► Chilly : with coryza, in the cold open air ; at stool, shivering. ► Cold hands and feel in bed, preventing sleep. ► Cold hands, warm feet. ► Heat in spots, on the scalp or in the face. ► Ebullitions, with anxiety and restlessness. ► Sweat : smells strong ; offensive on the genitals ; at night, after drinking.

► Sudden, quickly passing, urging to stool. ► Pains of short duration.

► Right : 5, 6, 27, 32, 34. Left : 6, 9, 26, 29, 34. Left to right : 6.

► Congestion to head and chest, especially to portal system. ► Mucous membranes ; especially causes the production of mucus in jelly-like lumps or "cakes". ► Acts mainly on the rectal mucous lining.

► Touch : 14, 19, 22. Pressure : 33.

► Itching, especially of the legs. ► Pimples on the abdomen. ► Spots which, when scratched, pain and become sensitive.

► Old people. θ Colic and diarrhoea. ► Phlegmatic, indolent persons.

► Aloe soc. has many symptoms like Sulphur, and is equally important in chronic diseases, with abdominal plethora, etc. ► Similar to Ailanth. (dull, frontal headache) ; Gum gutt. (diarrhoea) ; Amm. mur. (abdominal and diarrhoeic symptoms) ; Nux vom. (gastric, abdominal and uterine troubles ; bad effects of sedentary habits) ; Canthar. (bladder). ► Antidotes to Aloe soc. : Sulphur, Mustard. ► Camphor relieves for a while. ► Nux vom., and Lycop. relieve the earache. ► Bellad. suits in congestion of eyes of local origin ; Aloe soc. of reflex ; the characteristic for the latter is : redness of eyes with yellow vision.