ALOE SOCOTRINA
Socotrine Aloes
(ALOE)
HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological equilibrium
after much dosing, where disease and drug symptoms are much mixed. There
is no remedy richer in symptoms of portal congestion and none that has
given better clinical results, both for the primary pathological condition
and secondary phenomena. Bad effects from sedentary life or habits. Especially
suitable to lymphatic and hypochondriacal patients. The rectal symptoms
usually determine the choice. Adapted to weary people, the aged, and phlegmatic,
old beer-drinkers. Dissatisfied and angry about himself, alternating with
lumbago. Heat internally and externally. Has been used successfully in
the treatment of consumption by giving the pure juice.
Head.--Headache alternates with
lumbago, with intestinal and uterine affections. Disinclination to mental
labor. Aches above forehead, with heaviness in
eyes, must partially close them. Headache after stool. Dull,
pressive pain; worse from heat.
Eyes.--Compelled to make small during
pain in forehead. Flickering before eyes. Redness of eyes with yellow
vision. Pain deep in orbits.
Face.--Marked redness of lips.
Ears.--Cracking when chewing. Sudden
explosion and clashing in left ear. Tinkling as of some thin, shivered,
metallic globe in head.
Nose.--Coldness of tip. Bleeding
in morning on awakening. Full of crusts.
Mouth.--Taste bitter and sour. Tasteless
eructations. Lips cracked and dry.
Throat.--Thick lumps of tough mucus.
Varicose condition of veins in pharynx. Dry, scrapy feeling.
Stomach.--Aversion to meat. Longing
for juicy things. After eating, flatulence, pulsation
in rectum and sexual irritation. Nausea, with headache. Pain
in pit when making false step. |
Abdomen.--Pain around navel, worse
pressure. Fullness in region of liver, pain under right ribs. Abdomen
feels full, heavy, hot, bloated. Pulsating pain around navel.
Weak feeling, as if diarrhœa would come on. Great accumulation of flatus,
pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels. Sensation
of plug between symphysis pubis and os coccygis, with urging
to stool. Colic before and during stool. Burning, copious flatus.
Rectum.--Constant bearing down
in rectum; bleeding, sore, and hot; relieved by cold water. Feeling of
weakness and loss of power of sphincter ani. Sense
of insecurity in rectum, when passing flatus. Uncertain whether
gas or stool will come. Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed.
Lumpy, watery stool. Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool.
A lot of mucus, with pain in rectum after stool.
Hæmorrhoids protrude like grapes; very sore and tender; better cold
water application. Burning in anus and rectum. Constipation, with heavy
pressure in lower part of abdomen. Diarrhœa from beer.
Urinary.--Incontinence in aged,
bearing-down sensation and enlarged prostate. Scanty and high colored.
Female.--Bearing down in rectum,
worse standing and during menses. Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much
on that account. Labor-like pains in loins; extend down legs. Climacteric
hæmorrhage. Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory.--Winter coughs, with
itching. Difficult respiration, with stitches from liver to chest.
Back.--Pain in small of back; worse
moving. Stitches through sacrum. Lumbago alternating
with headache and piles.
Extremities.--Lameness in all limbs.
Drawing pains in joints. Soles pain
when walking.
Modalities.--Worse
early morning; summer; heat; in hot, dry weather; after eating or drinking.
Better from cold, open air.
Relationship.--Complementary: Sulphur;
compare: Kali bich; Lycop; Allium sat.
Antidotes: Opium; Sulph.
Dose.--Sixth potency and higher.
In rectal conditions, a few doses of the third, then wait. |