ALUMINA (OR ARGILLA)

ALUMINA (OR ARGILLA). [Alum.] Pure Clay. Hahnemann. Al2 O3.

► Mistakes in speaking, using words not intended. ► Must be changed into some one else before he can see or speak. ► Consciousness of his personal identity confused. ► Time passes too slowly. ► Seeing blood on a knife, she has horrid ideas of killing herself, though she abhors the idea. ► Crying, against his will. ► Low-spirited, trifling things appeared insurmountable. ► Apprehensive of losing his reason. ► Dread of death, without thought of suicide. ► Variable mood, at one time confident, at another timid. ► Peevish and whining, with heat of the ear-lobes. ► Sufferings follow anger. ► Mental symptoms worse in the morning on awaking.

► Vertigo : everything turns with him in a circle with nausea, worse before breakfast, on opening the eyes, on stooping ; better after breakfast, from wiping the eyes. ► Great dullness, dread of falling forward. ► Heaviness of the head, with pale, languid face. ► Inability to walk, except with eyes open, and in daytime. ► Cloudiness and drunken feeling, alternating with pain in the kidneys.

► Throbbing frontal pains, worse going up stairs, or stepping. ► Burning, pressive pain, with heat in the forehead, while standing or sitting, better in the open air. ► Severe stitches in the brain, with nausea. ► Headache, with constipation. ► Headache relieved by lying quiet in bed.

► Itching of scalp, with dry, white scales. ► Humid scurf, worse about the temples, bleeding when scratched, worse in the evening, or at new and full moon. ► Scalp feels numb. ► Pressure on forehead, as from a tight hat. ► Pain if the hair were pulled, with nausea. ► Falling off and excessive dryness of the hair, scalp sore when the hair is touched.

► White stars before the eyes, with vertigo. ► Dim-sightedness, like looking through a fog. ► Objects appear yellow. ► Burning and pressure in the eyes. ► Eyes inflamed, itching at inner canthus, agglutination at night, and lachrymation by day, yellow halo around candle ; hot or acrid tears. ► Spasmodic closure of the lids at night, and burning in the eyes in the morning and evening. ► Eyelids thickened, dry, burning, smarting. ► Nictitation from large papillae of conjunctiva. ► Inclination to share. ► Strabismus of either eye ; loss of power of internal recti. ► Sensation of coldness in the eyes, in the open air.

► Humming ; roaring ; whistling ; sound as of large bells. ► Redness and heat of one ear, evenings. ► Sensation as if something lay before the ear : on blowing the nose it is felt, on swallowing it is removed ; snapping in the ears when chewing or swallowing ; dull hearing ; eustachian tubes plugged. ► Stitches in the ears, evening or night.

► Sense of smell weak. ► Disposition to colds in head. ► Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, free from one nostril, the other obstructed ; lachrymation. ► Chronic nasal catarrh, with scurfy, sore nostrils, and discharge of thick, yellow mucus. ► Discharge of dry, hard, yellow-green mucus from nose ; nose swollen, red and sore to touch, worse in the evening. ► Violent pain in root of nose. ► Copious, yellow, sour-smelling mucus, with sore nostrils. ► Septum narium swollen, red and painful to touch. ► Redness of the nose. ► Point of nose cracked.

► Gloomy, pale, or alternately red and pale. ► Itching of various parts of the face. ► Tension of the skin of the face, as though white of egg had dried on it. ► Bloated places, like bulbous excrescences. ► Blood-boils on face and nose.

► Tensive pain in articulation of jaw, when chewing or opening the mouth. ► Involuntary spasmodic twitching of lower jaw. θ Hemorrhage of bowels. ► Upper lip covered with little blisters.

► Toothache, teeth feel loose and elongated, worse from chewing ; in open air ; evening. ► Drawing toothache, extending to other parts, as down the larynx, neck, or shoulders. ► Teeth covered with sordes. ► Swelling of gums, they bled and ulcerate.

► Taste : sweetish, or fatty ; almost lost. ► Tingling, itching on the tongue, must scratch it.

► Musty, bad odor from mouth. ► Small ulcers in mouth. ► Saliva increased, although mouth may feel dry. ► Sensation of soreness in mouth.

► Pressure in throat as from a plug, with soreness and dryness. ► Sensation of swelling in the sides of the throat. ► Tightness from pharynx down to stomach, as if food could not pass. ► Pharynx looks dry, glazed and red. ► Great dryness of throat, especially on awaking, voice husky ; sneezing, hawking, and sensation of lump in throat. ► Feeling of splinter in throat. ► Copious, thick, tenacious mucus in throat, evening and morning. ► Thick, mucus, dropping from posterior nares. See 25. ► Ulcers in fauces, spongy ; secreting a yellowish-brown, badly-smelling pus ; with boring pains from fauces to right temple and head.

► Longing for fruit and vegetables, potatoes disagree. ► Aversion to meat ; to beer. ► Thirst all day. ► Appetite for starch, chalk ; clean white rags ; charcoal, cloves, acids, coffee or tea-grounds, dry rice, and other indigestible things.

► Worse from eating potatoes. See 16. ► Worse from tobacco smoke. ► All irritating things, like salt, wine, vinegar, pepper, etc., immediately start cough. ► Throat sore after using onions in food. ► Easily drunken from the weakest spirituous drinks. ► Mucus in throat, tasting sweet, after dinner.

► Eructations : sour ; bitter, after potatoes ; worse evenings. ► Heartburn. ► Nausea, with chilliness, pale face, desire to lie down, faintness ; better after breakfast. ► Mucus vomit.

► Constriction and twisting in the stomach, extending up the oesophagus to the throat. ► Stitches in pit of stomach, extending upwards to chest. ► Drawing or oppressive pain going upward to chest and throat.

► Liver pains as if bruised, when stooping ; stitches when rising again. ► Tearing from the liver to hip. ► Shooting pain in the region of the spleen.

► Abdomen seems to hang down heavily, like a load, when walking afternoons. ► Reaching too high strains the abdominal muscles. ► Pains worse sitting bent. ► Pressing in both groins, toward sexual organs, evenings. ► Stitching, pressing pain in region of abdominal ring, like from hernia. ► Flatulent colic ; painter's colic. ► Colic in the morning.

► Inactivity of the rectum ; even the soft stool requires great straining. ► No desire for and no ability to pass stool, until there is a large accumulation. ► Stools : hard, dry and knotty like sheep's dung, with cutting in anus, followed by blood. ► Constipation of sucklings. ► Diarrhoea ; with urging in rectum ; when she urinates. ► Clots of blood pass from the anus. ► Hemorrhoids worse in evening, better after night's rest. ► Itching and burning at the anus ; fistula ani. ► Perineum : pressure when blowing the nose ; sweats and is tender to touch.

► Pains in the kidneys, in alteration with a cloudiness, as if drunken. ► Tenesmus vesicae. ► Urine voided while straining at stool, or cannot pass urine without such straining. ► Urine : scanty with red sediment, in arthritic affections ; copious and pale, in nervous diseases ; with thick, white sediment ; more frequent, copious and dark. ► Feeling of weakness in bladder and genitals in the evening, with fear that he will wet the bed.

► Excessive sexual desire. ► Involuntary emissions, followed by all his old symptoms. ► Left testicle hard and very painful. ► Tickling on the genitals and thighs.

► Menses : too early, short, scanty and of pale blood ; too early, preceded by headache ; delay, finally appear, being pale and scanty. ► Leucorrhoea : acrid, corrosive ; acrid, profuse, relieved by cold washing ; transparent, profuse during the day. ► Painful throbbing in left side of vagina. ► Stitches in left side of vulva, extending up to chest.

► Gastric and abdominal symptoms during pregnancy.

► Sensation of tightly adhering phlegm in larynx, removed by hawking or cough ; wheezing on inspiration. ► Tickling in larynx, with irritation to cough. ► Rawness in larynx, awaking. ► Sudden complete aphonia. ► Hoarseness evening and night, especially toward morning. ► Voice : has a nasal twang ; husky and thick.

► Rattling, asthmatic breathing, worse coughing. ► Oppression worse when sitting stooped ; better straightening up or walking in open air. ► Talking or singing makes him cough. ► Breathing arrested by copious, thick, tenacious, saltish mucus.

► Cough : dry, hacking, with frequent sneezing ; from sensation as of loose skin hanging in throat ; from elongated uvula ; from talking or singing ; short ; causes pains in right temple and top of head, sometimes also difficult breathing ; soon after waking in the morning ; every morning a long attack of dry cough, ending in difficult raising of a little white mucus ; with tearing pain and involuntary emission of urine, in old or withered looking people.

► Violent, oppressive pain in chest, worse at night. ► Chest feels constricted, worse from sitting bent or stooping, better on straightening up or on walking. ► Congestion of blood to chest and head, with redness of face and one ear, caused by suppressed hemorrhoidal flux. ► Shooting stitches right to left in the afternoon, worse on going down stairs. ► Talking increases soreness of chest ; lifting aggravates or produces soreness in left chest. ► Riding in a carriage gives pain in chest.

► Awakes with palpitation. ► Palpitation irregular, large and small beats intermit. ► Pulse either unchanged or full and accelerated.

► Shooting in right side of neck, posterior portion. ► Pain in the back and small of back as if beaten. ► Pain in back as if a hot iron were thirst through lower vertebrae. ► Violent stitch in the middle of the back. ► Gnawing pain in the back.

► Pain, as from a sprain, in shoulder-joint, especially on raising the arm. ► Sense of tightness in the arm, like from cold. ► Burning on the arms and fingers, and in the left elbow, like from a glowing iron. ► Arms feel heavy, as if paralyzed ; go to sleep. ► Rhagades worse in winter and from washing. ► Nails brittle or thick. ► Panaritium, with brittle nails, lancinating pains and tendency to ulceration of the finger tips.

► Nates go to sleep when sitting. ► Great heaviness in the lower limbs, can scarcely drag them ; when walking he staggers, and must sit down evenings. ► Burning and smarting-itching on the thighs, better from scratching. ► Tearing in the knees and patellae, or from knee to toes. ► Numbness of the heel when stepping. ► Pain in the sole of the foot on stepping, as though it were too soft and swollen. ► Itching and redness of the toes.

► Arms and legs feel heavy. ► Frequent stretching of limbs when sitting. ► Trembling of the limbs. ► Jerking and twitching of the limbs.

► Better from moderate exercise in the open air. ► Feels moderately well at night, but cannot lie on right side, on account of cough. ► Motion of jaw : 3, 33. Raising arms : 32. Reaching : 19. Stepping : 3, 33. Walking : 19, 26, 28, 33. Going up stairs : 3. Going down stairs : 28. Sitting : 3, 19, 21, 34. Must sit down : 36. Sitting stooped : 26, 28. Standing : 3. Stooping : 2, 28. Straightening body up : 28.

► Much fatigued by talking. ► Faint and tired, must sit or lie down. ► Involuntary movements of single parts. Impaired co-ordination. ► Spasms with attacks of laughing and weeping ; sudden jerks, starts from sleep ; paralytic weakness ; obstinate spastic anaemia. ► Paralysis from spinal disease. ► Rheumatic and traumatic paralysis in gouty persons.

► Sleepiness, with inclination to lie down. ► Restless sleep, turns frequently, feels too warm, lies uncovered in unrefreshing slumber, with many dreams and frequent awaking. ► Restless sleep, always awaking with palpitation of heart. ► Dreams : anxious of boat foundering ; of ghosts ; of thieves ; confused.

► Morning : 1, 5, 13, 16, 19, 20, 27. Afternoon : 19, 28. Evening : 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 20, 21, 25, 33, 40. Night : 5, 6, 24, 25, 28, 40. Toward morning : 25. Day : 5, 23, 40. ► New and full moon.

► Generally better in warmth, worse in cold air, out-doors. ► Worse in-doors, while sitting. ► Better walking, out-doors, in mild weather. ► Warmth in bed : 46. Open air : 3, 5, 10, 26. Winter : 32, 41. Cold washing : 23, 32.

► Chill, with great thirst. ► Internal chill and shivering, with desire for warmth of stove with stretching and bending of limbs, worse after warm drink. ► Chill during the day, heat at night. ► Heat at night, with anxiety and sweat. ► Heat in the evening, commencing in and spreading from the face, sometimes of only the right side. ► Sweat at night, toward morning most profuse in face, frequently only on right side of face. ► Entire inability to sweat.

► At intervals sudden sharp pains, like a stab. ► Worse new and full moon, skin symptoms. ► Worse in winter, skin symptoms.

► Right : 18, 27, 31, 40. Left : 18, 22, 23, 28, 32. Right to left : 28. Below-upwards : 13, 17, 23. ► Upper left and lower right side most affected.

► Sensation of constriction of internal organs. ► Some parts of body feel larger. ► Some parts -lower jaw and arms- feel shorter.

► Emaciation ; spare habit, and old people.

► Touch : 7, 20. Pressure of foot on ground : 33. Scratching : 11, 33. Riding in carriage : 28.

► Intolerable itching of whole body, especially when getting warm and in bed : scratches until the skin bleeds, which is then painful ; itching and formication with flatulence, dry stools or diarrhoea. ► Eruptions humid, scabby, sore, gnawing. ► Ulcerated surface secretes yellow-brown, badly-smelling pus. ► Blood-boils : 8. Rhagades : 32. Bulbous excrescences : 8.

► Infancy : constipation, especially when artificial food is used. ► Cholera infantum, stools green, acidity of primae viae. ► Constipation of sucklings. ► Strabismus. ► Puberty : chlorosis, with longing for indigestible substances. ► Dark complexion, excitable. ► Mild disposition. ► Lack of animal heat. ► Spare habit. ► Old people, hypochondriacal.

► Similar to : Bar. carb. (hypochondriasis of aged ; constipation) ; Bryon. (peevish, irritable ; gastric and abdominal symptoms ; constipation ; throbbing headache ; dry cough with vomiting ; stitches in chest ; dryness of mucous surfaces ; fever ; etc.) ; Calc. ostr. ; Chamom. (useful as an intermediate remedy) ; Conium (old people ; loss of power of internal recti of eyes) ; Ferrum (chlorosis ; relaxed abdomen ; disgust for meat, etc.) ; Ferr. iod. (profuse, transparent leucorrhoea) ; Graphit. (chlorosis ; skin rough, chapped, itching ; nails, blepharitis, etc.) ; Ipec. Laches. (sad on waking ; climaxis) ; Pulsat. (tearful, peevish ; heat, etc. ; better in open air ; ozaena : taste lost ; averse to meat ; chlorosis ; scanty menses ; complaints at puberty ; lack of animal heat ; soles of feet sore, worse walking ; toes red, itching, etc.) ; Plumbum (colic ; constipation, etc.) ; Ruta (loss of power of internal recti of eyes) ; Sepia (irritable, tearful ; ozaena ; scanty menses ; puberty, prolapsus uteri ; inactive rectum ; weakness in urinary organs, etc. Silic., Sulphur, Zincum (inner canthus ; granular lids). ► Compare with the following in clergyman's sore throat : Arg. nitr., Kali bich., Lycop., etc. ► Alum. follows Bryon., Laches., Sulphur ; and is followed by Bryon. ► Alum. and Bryon. are complementary. ► Chamom. is useful as an intermediate remedy. ► Antidotes to Alum. : Bryon., Camphor., Chamom., Ipec. ► Alum. antidotes : lead poisoning, as in painter's colic ; ailments from lead.