HOMOEOPATHIC ALL MEDICINE

Oxide et Aluminum-Argilla
A very general condition corresponding to this drug is dryness of mucous membranes and skin, and tendency to paretic muscular states. Old people, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility. Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering, and the characteristic constipation find an excellent remedy in
Alumina. Disposition to colds in the head, and eructations in spare, dry, thin subjects. Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods.

Mind.--Low-spirited; fears loss of reason. Confused as to personal identity. Hasty, hurried. Time passes slowly. Variable mood. Better as day advances. Suicidal tendency when seeing knife or blood.

Head.--Stitching, burning pain in head, with vertigo, worse in morning, but relieved by food. Pressure in forehead as from a tight hat. Inability to walk except with eyes open. Throbbing headache, with constipation. Vertigo, with nausea; better after breakfast. Falling out of hair; scalp itches and is numb.

Eyes.--Objects look yellow. Eyes feel cold. Lids dry, burn, smart, thickened, aggravated in morning; chronic conjunctivitis. Ptosis. Strabismus.

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Ears.--Humming; roaring. Eustachian tube feels plugged.

Nose.--Pain at root of nose. Sense of smell diminished. Fluent coryza. Point of nose cracked, nostrils sore, red; worse touch. Scabs with thick yellow mucus. Tettery redness. Ozśna atrophica sicca. Membranes distended and boggy.

Face.--Feels as if albuminous substance had dried on it. Blood-boils and pimples. Twitching of lower jaw. Rush of blood to face after eating.

Mouth.--Sore. Bad odor from it. Teeth covered with sordes. Gums sore, bleeding. Tensive pain in articulation of jaw when opening mouth or chewing.

Throat.--Dry, sore; food cannot pass, śsophagus contracted. Feels as if splinter or plug were in throat. Irritable, and relaxed throat. Looks parched and glazed. Clergyman's sore throat in thin subjects. Thick, tenacious mucus drops from posterior nares. Constant inclination to clear the throat.

Stomach.--Abnormal cravings-chalk, charcoal, dry food, tea-grounds. Heartburn; feels constricted. Aversion to meat (Graph; Arn; Puls). Potatoes disagree. No desire to eat. Can swallow but small morsels at a time. Constriction of śsophagus.

Abdomen.--Colic, like painter's colic. Pressing in both groins toward sexual organs. Left-sided abdominal complaints.

Stool.--Hard dry, knotty; no desire. Rectum sore, dry, inflamed, bleeding. Itching and burning at anus. Even a soft stool is passed with difficulty. Great straining. Constipation of infants (Collins; Psor; Paraf) and old people from inactive rectum, and in women of very sedentary habit. Diarrhśa on urinating. Evacuation preceded by painful urging long before stool, and then straining at stool.

Urine.--Muscles of bladder paretic, must strain at stool in order to urinate. Pain in kidneys, with mental confusion. Frequent desire to urinate in old people. Difficult starting.

Male.--Excessive desire. Involuntary emissions when straining at stool. Prostatic discharge.

Female.--Menses too early, short, scanty, pale, followed by great exhaustion (Carb an; Coccul). Leucorrhśa acrid, profuse transparent, ropy, with burning; worse during daytime, and after menses. Relieved by washing with cold water.

Respiratory.--Cough soon after waking in the morning. Hoarse, aphonia, tickling in larynx; wheezing, rattling respiration. Cough on talking or singing, in the morning. Chest feels constricted. Condiments produce cough. Talking aggravates soreness of chest.

Back.--Stitches. Gnawing pain, as if from hot iron. Pain along cord, with paralytic weakness.

Extremities.--Pain in arm and fingers, as if hot iron penetrated. Arms feel paralyzed. Legs feel asleep, especially when sitting with legs crossed. Staggers on walking. Heels feel numb. Soles tender; on stepping, feel soft and swollen. Pain in shoulder and upper arm. Gnawing beneath finger nails. Brittle nails. Inability to walk,
except when eyes are open or in daytime. Spinal degenerations and paralysis of lower limbs.

Sleep.--Restless; anxious and confused dreams. Sleepy in morning.

Skin.--Chapped and dry tettery. Brittle nails. Intolerable itching when getting warm in bed. Must scratch until it bleeds; then becomes painful. Brittle skin on fingers.
Modalities.--Worse, periodically; in afternoon; from potatoes. Worse, in morning on awaking; warm room. Better, in open air; from cold washing; in evening and on alternate days. Better damp weather.

Relationship.--Compare: Aluminum chloridum (Pains of loco-motor ataxia. Lower trits in water). Slag Silico-Sulphocalcite of Alumina 3x (anal itching, piles, constipation, flatulent distention); Secale; Lathyr; Plumb. Aluminum acetate solution. Externally a lotion for putrid wounds and skin infections. Arrests hćmorrhage from inertia of uterus. Parenchymatous hćmorrhage from various organs-23 % solution. Hćmorrhage following tonsillectomy is controlled by rinsing out nasopharynx with a 10 % sol.

Complementary: Bryonia.

Antidotes: Ipecac; Chamom.


Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth and higher. Action slow in developing.


##culled from: Materia Medica by William Boericke

Weakness: This medicine, like Alumina, seems to produce a peculiar kind of Paralytic weakness of the muscles in all parts of the body, a sort of lack of tone.

The extremities are weak. This weakness is felt especially in the rectum and bladder. The stool becomes impacted from want of ability of the rectum and colon to expel their contents.


The bladder is also slowed down in its action, and it is with great difficulty that the urine is voided. After urinating, the bladder often remains half full. The urine is very slow to start, and when the patient stands to urinate the urine falls down perpendicularly, as in Hepar. From this we see the sluggish action. The paralytic condition extends also to the veins producing a vaso-motor paralysis.

Induration: Another peculiar condition running through the remedy is the tendency to induration wherever there is an inflamed surface.

All remedies that have this in their nature relate more or less to cancerous affections, because in cancer we have as the most natural feature a tendency to induration.

Ulcers are common in Alumen, and this induration underlies the ulcer; ulcers with indurated base. Or little scales may appear upon the skin where the circulation is feeble, over cartilaginous portions for instance and a great thick indurated mass forms.

Infiltration takes place under this crust, the crust keeps coming off, and a lack of healing follows because of the weakness of the tissues from a vaso-motor paralysis.

Epithelioma is scarcely more than that, and so we have in this remedy features like epithelioma and other cancerous affections. What is the scirrhus but a peculiar form of induration?

When the economy takes on a low type of life, a low form of tissue making, and the tissues inflame and upon the slightest provocation indurate we can see that this is a kind of constitution that is predisposed to deep-seated troubles, to phthisis, Bright’s disease, diabetes, cancer, etc.

We are on the border line of ultimates and something Is going to happen. This remedy leads the economy into such a state of disorder, a low type of tissue making is found, and many of these indurations will have cancer as an ultimate. This is a long acting antipsoric remedy.

Glands: There is also in this medicine a tendency to induration of the neck of the uterus and the mammary glands.

Glands become slowly inflamed, and do not stop with ordinary congestion and hardness, but become as hard as bullets.

This induration extends to the various glands of the body, but is especially noticeable in the tonsils.

For those who have a tendency to colds which settle in the throat, especially singling out the tonsils and indurating these; those who keep on taking cold and the tonsils keep on growing, and indurating, we have in Alumen a medicine that fits the whole process, the hardening and infiltration, and it cures these cases according to the law of similars, when the symptoms agree.

It cures young children growing up with enormously enlarged and very hard tonsils in whom every cold settles in the throat.

Alumen is one of Baryta carb., which has the same tendency. In one patient there will be one kind of constitution, and, after thoroughly examining it, looks like Baryta carb.

You may have a different constitution in another patient, and, after carefully examining it, see that it looks like Alumen; another you will see is Sulphur; another, if you look into it carefully, you find is Calcarea carb., and another, Calcarea iod., and so on among those remedies capable of bringing about the conditions described.

If we can find symptoms which picture the constitutional state we have no trouble. When the symptoms have been well gathered the case is as good as cured; it is easy then to find a remedy.

Partially proved: This remedy is imperfect from the fact that it is only partially proved. I do not care to dwell upon partially proved remedies, but when they have a number of striking features that fit into everyday life it is important to know them. The mental symptoms of this remedy are very few.

The remedy should be proved in the higher potencies upon sensitive persons in order that the mental state may be brought out.

Head: Some of the symptoms of the head are very striking and valuable. Pain on the top of the head with burning. The pain is a

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sensation as if a weight were pressing down into the skull. You will see a woman in bed with her hand on top of the head and she will say:

"Doctor, it burns right there like fire, and it presses as if my skull would be crushed in, and the only relief I get from pressing hard upon it an from an ice cold cloth pressed upon it."

She wants the cloth changed and made cold every few minutes. It is a queer thing that a pressing pain is made better from pressing upon the part. This is like Cactus, pressing pain on vertex relieved from pressure.

The rubric of remedies with that symptom is very small, and hence this remedy fills a place.

There are some strange, rare and peculiar symptoms for which paucity of remedies, and we have to work in other channels and along sidetracks in getting the constitutional state of the patient.

Alumen cured the pressing pain on the vertex in one patient in whom it alternated with the most troublesome chronic, irritable bladder.

" Vertigo: lying on his back, with weakness in pit of stomach; > opening eyes; > turning on right side."

Heart: There is another feature, however, in this remedy, the palpitation is brought on from lying on the right side.

It would strike anyone as something very singular, because palpitation is generally worse lying on the left side.

A heart that is fluttering, enlarged or disordered is generally worse while lying on the left, as the heart has less room then, but it is strange, rare and unique when these symptoms are worse lying on the right side.

When this condition is present in a patient it is necessary to find a remedy having just exactly that symptom, and very often it will be seen that the rest of the symptoms of the case fit into the remedy that has produced this peculiar state.

There is one more feature that you must add to these things, viz.: slowness and sluggishness of the muscles throughout the body, a slowing down of all the muscles, a sense of weakness in the arms and legs.

Stools and rectum: In the constipation there may be some urging to stool without result or he may go several days without desire. There is no ability to expel the stool. He will strain a long time with no success, and finally after many days the stool is passed and is an agglomeration of hard balls, large masses of little bard balls like marbles all fastened together.

This is a very strong feature in an Alumen constitution.

"Stool: less frequent, dryer and harder; large black, hard or in small pieces like sheep's dung; no relief afterwards."

After stool there is a sensation as if the rectum were yet full. This peculiar feature comes with the weakness or paresis of the rectum, i. e., the rectum is not strong enough to expel all of its contents, and hence the sensation of unfinished stool.

In the rectum there is ulceration with bleeding from the ulcers. The hemorrhoids ulcerate and they are very painful, so that after every stool he has prolonged suffering, a dull aching pain in the rectum.

Catarrhal conditions prevail throughout the remedy.

In old scrofulous, psoric patients, who are subject to chronic yellow bland discharges from the eyes, with enlarged veins; chronic yellow discharges from the vagina and from the urethra in the male; chronic painless gonorrhoea.

In addition to the catarrhal discharges there is a tendency to ulceration, so that there are little ulcerative patches in the vagina, little aphthous patches in the vagina and on the cervix of the uterus.

When a patient is suffering from a chronic gonorrhoea, instead of the discharge becoming white as in a gleet if remains yellow, and there are little indurations along the urethra, which the patient will call the physician’s attention to as "lumps".

Discharge with "little bunches" along the urethra. These are little ulcers, and beneath the ulcers are indurations.

When this state is present you have an Alumen gonorrhoea. In a little while the patient will have two or three strictures unless he gets this remedy, because these little ulcers will each end in stricture narrowing the canal. Another strange feature in the catarrhal states and in the ulcers is its tendency to affect the vessels.

The veins become varicose and bleed, so that there may be bleeding from any of the inflamed or catarrhal areas and bleeding from the ulcers.

There are many neuralgic pains about the head of a non descript character. These head pains come on in the morning on awaking.

Eyes: The eye symptoms are of an inflammatory or congestive character, with tendency to ulceration. Purulent ophthalmia; chronic sore eyes.
"Sees things double by candle light."

"Nasal polypus left side. Lupus or cancer on the nose. Face pale as a corpse, lips blue. Scirrhus of the tongue."

Mouth: See what a tendency it has to produce minute growths, little indurations and infiltrations. Bleeding from the teeth; the teeth decay and the gums recede from the teeth; the teeth become loose; scorbutic appearance of the gums.

"Mouth burning, ulcerated; grey, dirty, spongy skin about a tooth, which is surrounded with proud flesh; offensive saliva."

In the mouth we have the same general feature of ulceration, with dryness of the mouth, dry tongue and throat, and great thirst for ice cold water.

"Uvula inflamed and enlarged. Predisposed to tonsillitis."

"Vomits everything he eats."

After that you can put the word "ulcer," because it especially refers to that state of congestion, where there is easy ulceration.

Abdomen: Under abdomen we find flatulence.

The intestines do not perform their work, they take on spasmodic action, and consequently the patient suffers from cramps and colicky pains; boring, rending, tearing pains.

Retraction of the abdomen and drawing in of the navel. If you will compare Lead in its poisonous effects upon those who work in white lead you will see quite a counterpart of this remedy, and you will not be surprised to observe that Plumbum and this remedy antidote each other.

They do so because they are so similar, they cannot live in the same house. Alumen is a great remedy to overcome lead colic in those who work in lead; it removes the susceptibility.

There are many painters who have to give up their occupation on account of this susceptibility.

Alumen will often overcome this tendency and enable them to go back to their business. Etc,

Female: In the female we note

"weight of uterus presses down collum; granulations of vagina; leucorrhoea copious; emaciation; yellow complexion; indurations of uterus, even scirrhus; ulcers of uterus."

Sometimes you get evidence of this vaginal state by the woman saying that coition is so painful that it becomes impossible; it is not to be wondered at that the natural act cannot be performed when so much trouble is present.

Larynx and Chest

"Voice entirely lost."

Chronic loss of the voice from a low state of the economy and from always taking fresh colds. Expectoration of much yellow mucus; scraping of the throat all the time to get rid of a little accumulation of yellow mucus.

"Dry cough in evening after lying down."

"Chronic morning cough."

Cough is not a very important thing in this remedy; it is the general state of the economy that is to be looked at. The cough will not interpret the nature of the disease to the physician, because when these little ulcers are present they must cause some kind of a cough. This patient may go into phthisis or be affected with any of the ultimates of disease.

Alumen has been very useful in the treatment of old people who morning expectoration, catarrh of the chest, suffer from copious, ropy, haemoptysis and great weakness of the chest, so that it is difficult to expel the mucus. In this it is similar to Antimonium tartaricum.

Alumen and Alumina: Because of its relation to Alumina further provings; will undoubtedly develop the fact that it has many spinal symptoms. It is well known that it has a weak spine, with coldness of the spine, a feeling as if cold water were poured own the back.

Pain in the dorsal spine on a line with the inferior angle of the scapulae; weakness in this region and in the shoulders.

Like Alumina it has the sensation of constriction, as of a cord or band around the limbs. Feeling as if a cord were drawn tightly around the upper arm.

The clumsiness of the fingers, as seen in dropping things, the pain in the lower limbs at night, the lassitude and numbness, are other manifestations of spinal symptoms.

Sensation as of a cord around the leg under the knee; soles sensitive to pressure on walking; feet numb and cold, although warmly covered; legs cold to knees.

These are all further evidences of the action of the remedy on the spinal cord. Bruised pain in all the limbs. Crawling, tingling paralysis of all the limbs.

He is kept awake at night by a sensation as if the blood rushed through the body. Many complaints come on during sleep. Night mare. He is sensitive to weather changes and very sensitive to cold.

##culled from:Materia medica by JamesTayalera Kent

Alstonia Scholaris

Abdomen.--Violent purging and cramp in bowels. Heat and irritation in lower bowels. Camp diarrhśa, bloody stool, dysentery; diarrhśa from bad water and malaria. Painless watery stools (Phosph ac). Diarrhśa immediately after eating.

Relationship.--Compare: Similar in action to Alstonia constricta,
the bitter bark or native quinine of Australia. Ditain (active principle, is anti-periodic, like quinine, but without unpleasant effects). Cinchona (similar in diarrhśa, chronic dyspepsia and debility). Hydrastis; Fer cit et chin.


Dose.--Tincture to third potency. Locally, for ulcers and rheumatic pains.


##culled from: Materia medica by William Boericke M.D.

Natural History.
      Bitter Bark. Native Quinine Bark. (New South Wales and Queensland. A. scholaris, growing in India and Malabar, is probably identical in effects.) N. O. Apocynaceæ.

Alstonia Constricta

      Tincture of the bark.

Clinical.
      Debility.
      Diarrhoea.
      Dysentery.
      Fevers.
      Lactation, excessive, effects of.
      Leucorrhea.
      Lienteria.
      Palpitation.
      Pregnancy, vomiting of Uterus, debility of.

Characteristics.
      Alstonia was proved by Dr. Cathcart, of Australia, who found it produce great debility and prostration, or low fever, often with diarrhoea.
      It is exceedingly bitter.
      Dr. Dietz. who has tested it clinically, gives the following as leading indications: Debility from lack of digestive power in the stomach or general assimilative power.
      Tongue generally has a dirty white coat, especially at base, though it may be clean.
      It has no relation to purely nervous debility.
      The nausea is worse morning, before breakfast, or at irregular times, especially when depending on reflex irritation from disturbance of pelvic organs.
      An empty, gone feeling in stomach or whole abdomen at irregular times, generally with tearing, dragging-down sensation in hypogastrium, as if everything would escape from the vulva.
      Pale face, flushing on least excitement.
      Food seems to remain in stomach a long time undigested.
      Diarrhoea of undigested food immediately after eating, has to leave table before finishing a meal.

      (This symptom was cured by Alst. c. 1X in a patient who had taken much iron, after the failure of Puls., Sep., Sulph., Sil., Nat-m.) Leucorrhea and bearing-down worse by walking.
      Swollen feeling in right ovarian region.
      Sharp shooting pain from left side of stomach through to back (spleen).
      At the moment she falls asleep, wakes up suddenly, becoming wide awake, with violent palpitation of the heart and throbbing in blood-vessels, accompanied by a numb sensation of the tongue.
      Worse By exertion. Better Lying down.

Relations.
      Compare: Alet., Lil-t., Helon., Cedr., Cean., China, Ferr.


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Socotrine Aloes. Liliacea.

One of the oldest and most famous drugs, largely cultivated, and in use as a horse-medicine, hence rarely to be obtained pure from the shops. From the collection of the College of Pharmacy some of the genuine socrotine aloes was obtained. It was brought from the Sultan of Muscat, by a physician, in the service of the U. S. Navy, who made the Sultan’s acquaintance while on an expedition from the United States. This was made the basis of all of Boericke & Tafel’s preparations.

Aloe Socotrina

     under his lead. The first publication of provings was made by Buchner, 1821. A complete monography, adding to all the former the provings made in this country with the genuine Socotrina, was given by C. Hg. in his American provings, 1856, pp. 764 to 862.

MIND.

Lassitude, alternating with great mental activity.
She knew she would die in a week. θ Hysteria.
Life is a burden. θ Colic.
Great disposition for desultory thinking.
Children chat and laugh.
Aversion to labor ; disinclination to mental labor ; it fatigues him ; general languor.
Disinclined to move.
Anxiety and ebullitions.
Restlessness and fear ; fear of men.
Ill-humored ; hypochondriacal, < in cloudy weather.
Dissatisfied and angry about himself, more so when he is constipated or suffers from pain.
An easily excited, angry, revengeful state of mind, could not brook opposition, wanted to destroy object of wrath, relief from tea or mild stimulants ; < in middle of day.
Attacks make her frantic, often loses consciousness. θ Colic.
Hates people, repels everyone.
When sitting in a chair or lying in bed, complains of persons stepping hard or quickly. θ Hysteria.
Restlessness with ebullitions of blood.
Fright at slight noises, after a nocturnal emission.

SENSORIUM.

Giddiness and starts.
Giddiness, with anxiety when moving ; he feels as if he was sitting too high (after dinner).
Dulness in forehead, with chilliness.
Vertigo : as if everything whirled with her, < on going upstairs or turning quickly ; everything seems insecure ; > after nasal catarrh sets in.
Loses consciousness, with frantic spells.
  
INNER HEAD.

Congestion to head, compelling one to sit up.
Headache across forehead, with heaviness of eyes and nausea.
Weight on vertex ; pressure in forehead and occiput.
Dull pressive pain : in supraorbital region ; in sinciput.
Pressing outward to temples, with periodic heat of face and flickering before eyes.
Stitches in temples aggravated by every footstep.
Headache after insufficient stool ; with abdominal pains.
Headaches < from heat, > from cold applications.
A pain in forehead which compels patient to close eyes, or, if he wishes to look at anything, he must make aperture of lids very small.
Headache alternating with lumbago.
OUTER HEAD.

Sensitiveness of scalp in spots.
Dryness of hair.
  
SIGHT AND EYES.

Yellow rings moving before eyes.
Unsteady, anxious look.
Dimness before eyes while writing.
Flickering.
Pain deep in orbits, as if in muscles, < on right side.
Congestion to eyes ; pressure in orbits.
Lachrymation.
Occasional attacks of twitching of left eyelids during day, and a spasmodic jerk of whole body just when falling asleep at night.
Heaviness of eyes, with frontal headache.
Has to close eyes, with pain in forehead.
  
HEARING AND EARS.

Hates musical sounds and noises, they set her all in a tremor. θ Hysteria.
Cracking in ears when moving jaw.
Sticking pain in left ear, later in right Internal and external heat of ears.
  
SMELL AND NOSE.

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

Redness of nose in open cold air.
Coldness of point of nose.
Dryness of nose in morning, in bed.
  
FACE.

Heat of face with headache or when excited.
Face pale, during cloudy weather.
Face sickly, sunken.
  
LOWER FACE.

Lips : redder than usual ; dry, cracked ; moist, soreness of borders ; white, scaly.
Pain when yawning or masticating solid food ; < in evening and in morning, when waking.

TEETH AND GUMS.

Sensitiveness in a hollow molar ; < when eating ; later a pustule appears on gum, near diseased tooth.
Concave edges of teeth seem sharp, they hurt the tongue.
  
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE.

Metallic taste, with dry, irritative hacking.
Taste : bitter, sour, like ink or iron.
Tongue : coated yellowish-white ; stiff ; dry, red.
Severe fine stitches, from behind forward, in under part of tongue when moving it.
Yellow ulcers on tongue.
Dry tongue and mouth, with increased thirst and greater redness of lips.

INNER MOUTH.

Inflamed, sore spot in the mouth, on tongue, inside of cheeks ; yellow ulcers on tongue.
Sickening smell from mouth.
Increase of saliva.
PALATE AND THROAT.

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

Appetite for salt food.
No appetite. θ Hysteria.
Thirst : with dryness of mouth ; awakens at night.
Longing for juicy articles ; fruits, especially apples.
Aversion to meat.
  
EATING AND DRINKING.

Soon after supper, growling in abdomen, as if griping of bowels would take place.
As soon as he eats anything, he must go to stool.
He has to hurry to closet immediately after eating and drinking. θ Colic.
After eating : flatulency, pulsations in rectum and sexual irritation.
After meals : distension of abdomen.
Hungry during diarrhoea ; hungry after morning stool.
Sour food does not agree.
Beer relieves pains in anus ; drinking vinegar, colic.
Water causes pains in stomach.
Thirst while eating, after eating, and during night.
Sweats after drinking.
  
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING.

Belching, with oppression of stomach.
Eructations : bitter ; acrid ; sour or tasteless.
Rising of flatulence towards throat, with sensation as if vomiting were coming on.
Nausea : with frontal headache ; with empty feeling in stomach ; with pain at umbilicus.
Vomiting of blood.
  
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH.

Painful pressure under sternum ; pressure through pit of stomach to back.
Pain in scrobiculum on making a false step.
Fulness in stomach, followed by distension of epigastrium.
Pain and fulness in stomach after drinking water.
  
HYPOCHONDRIA.

Painfulness in hypochondria, with chilliness and diarrhoea ; painful weakness of legs.
Hepatic region : burning, uneasiness, heat, pressure and tension ; dull pain, worse on standing, so that he bends forward.
Stitches from liver into chest, obstructing respiration.
Stitches in liver, when drawing a long breath.
Distension of hypochondria, better after passing flatus.
Increases the flow of bile.
Stitches from spleen into chest, or drawing into loins.
  
ABDOMEN AND LOINS.

Pulsation in region of navel.
Distension of abdomen, especially epigastrium, with flatus moving about ; worse after meals ; during menstruation ; on motion.
Congestion to abdomen (portal system) ; burning sensation.
Sensation of fulness, heaviness ; heat and inflammation.
Pelvis feels if filled with hot water.
Pain around navel, worse from pressure.
Stitches in umbilical region from sneezing.
Rumbling in abdomen.
Discharge of much flatulency, burning, smelling offensive, relieving pain in abdomen ; after each meal, in evening and morning, before stool.
Cutting across abdomen ; with ill humor, anthropophobia ; not disposed to got into open air, although it relieves.
Abdominal walls painful when rising, pressing to stool, when touched, and when standing erect.
Heaviness, fulness, and pressing downward in pelvis.
Left side of abdomen bloated, with gurgling in descending colon ; worse after eating.
A twisting and griping pain in upper abdomen and around navel, forcing him to sit bent up, which relieves ; therewith, repeated urging to stool, but only offensive burning flatus passes, with short relief of pain.
Griping in abdomen, before, with and after stool.
Feeling of weakness in abdomen as if diarrhoea would result ; but evacuation did not ensue for eight hours.
Shooting and boring in region of navel, < from pressure.
Painfulness in whole abdomen, especially in sides and along both sides of navel, which cannot endure being touched ; on making a false step on stone pavements it hurts very much in pit of stomach.
Dull abdominal pain, as after taking cold, morning and evening repeatedly, still without inclination to stool.
Great and cutting-griping pain in right and lower portion of abdomen, which was excruciating before and during stool ; after stool all pains ceased, leaving profuse sweating and extreme weakness. θ Colic.
Fulness, heat and heaviness in epigastrium ; labor-like pains in groins and loins, < when standing. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Feeling as if a plug was wedged in between symphysis pubis and os coccygis.
Dragging down in abdomen.
STOOLS AND RECTUM.

Urging to stool continuously ; worse immediately after eating ; feeling of fulness and weight in pelvis ; only flatus passes.
Urging to stool with passage of urine ; every time on passing urine, feeling as if stool would pass.
The not too hard feces cause a pricking in anus, later continuous pain in anus compelling him to draw it together frequently, whereby it becomes tense and achy.
Fulness and pressing out in anus.
Hemorrhoids : protrude like a bunch of grapes ; constant bearing down in rectum ; bleeding ; sore, tender, hot ; relieved by cold water.
Itching and burning in anus, preventing sleep.
Pain in left side down along ureter. θ Hysteria.
  
URINARY ORGANS.

Every time on passing urine, feeling as if some thin stool would escape with it.

Aloe Socotrina

Burning when urinating.
Frequent urging to urinate ; > at night ; or in afternoon.
Urine copious ; especially after stool.
Urine saffron-yellow, becoming cloudy ; scanty, hot.
Sediment yellowish, like bran, or slimy.
Incontinence of urine. θ In an old man with enlarged prostate (diarrhoea and urinary symptoms are present).
So urgent a desire that he can hardly retain urine.
Erections after urinating.
  
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS.

Semen comes too soon.
All the semen is not ejected.
Sexual desire increased : after awaking ; after eating ; in evening.
Seminal emissions ; strong desire afterwards.
Involuntary emissions during siesta.
Testicles cold ; penis small ; scrotum relaxed ; epididymis sensitive, especially to touch or while walking.
Offensive sweat on genitals.
Erections in morning and after passing water.
Gonorrhoea.
Itching of prepuce.
  
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.

Pain in hypogastrium as if menses were coming on.
Fulness, heaviness in uterine region, with labor-like pains in loins and groin ; worse standing.
Labor-like pains extending down legs. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Uterine hemorrhage about climaxis. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Menses too early and too profuse ; with dragging down in rectum and fulness in pelvis. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Menses too early and last too long. θ Prolapsus uteri.
During menses : earache ; headache relieved by cold water ; distension of abdomen ; backache.
Leucorrhoea of bloody mucus preceded by colic. θ Prolapsus.
  
PREGNANCY, PARTURITION, LACTATION.

Lameness, which seems to arise from a sense of weight and pressure into pelvis.
After confinement, dysentery with faint feeling after each effort at stool.
  
VOICE AND LARYNX, TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA.

Voice husky. Hawking.
Scraping in larynx.
  
RESPIRATION.

Whistling in throat, as if something had fallen into trachea.
Difficult respiration.
Respiration impeded : by stitches through left side of chest ; by stitches from liver into chest.
When drawing a long breath : stitches in liver.
  
COUGH.

Cough with stitches in right side of larynx ; sputa of yellow, tenacious mucus.
Cough with scratching in throat.
When she would sit down after standing, or stand up after sitting down, she would cough and tears would flow. θ Hysteria.
Spitting blood.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS.

Congestion to chest ; dry cough ; bloody expectoration.
Front of chest feels sore on deep inspiration.
Weakness of chest.
Stitches into chest from spleen.
  
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION.

Strong beat of heart occasionally ; pain through to left scapula.
Pulse : accelerated ; weak, suppressed, after vomiting ; slow in afternoon.
Ebullitions, with anxiety ; restlessness.
  
NECK AND BACK.

Dull, steady pain on either side, just above innominata, running into rectum, later becomes a throbbing, itching sensation of fulness, always with a feeling as if prostate was swollen and sensitive ; < in wet weather. Sometimes there was twitching in perineum, at one time feeling as if “asleep,” all ending with a slight pain and lameness in left thigh of short duration.
Backache. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Lumbago, alternating with headache.
Stitches through sacrum to loins.
Pressure and heaviness in sacral region while sitting ; better from motion.
Creeping beginning in sacrum, in bone, extending to coccyx, until it was a creeping in bones over whole body.
  
UPPER LIMBS.

Heaviness of right arm ; weakness of wrist joint.
  
LOWER LIMBS.

Extending down legs : labor-like pains. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Painful weakness of legs.
Painful weariness in calves.
Weakness of ankle joint.
Soles of feet pain when walking on pavement.
Great toe feels as if sprained.
  
LIMBS IN GENERAL.

Lameness, weariness in limbs ; weakness of joints ; often with abdominal disturbances.
Pains of short duration, as if bruised or dislocated (l. forearm, right scapula, left ribs).
Pricking, dull twitching, drawing pains in joints (fingers, knees, elbows).
Cold hands with warm feet.
  
REST, POSITION, MOTION.

Standing : dull pain in hepatic region, watery stools < ; causes involuntary stools ; labor-like pains <.
Sitting bent : relieves griping in abdomen.
Sitting : pulsating pains in rectum < ; backache ; congestion >.
Motion : causes giddiness, with anxiety ; nausea and pain in distended abdomen.
Walking : watery stools worse ; causes involuntary stools ; epididymis sensitive.
False step : causes pain in scrobiculum.
Stepping : aggravates stitches in temples.
Rising : abdominal walls painful.
Turning quickly : vertigo.
Ascending stairs : vertigo.
  
NERVES.

Debility. θ Prolapsus uteri.
General weakness, weariness.
Weakness inconsiderable, even when skin was golden color.
Lassitude alternating with mental activity.
Extreme prostration, with perspiration.
Paralytic drawing in muscles.
Faint feeling after stool. θ Dysentery.
Trembling from musical sounds or noises. θ Hysteria.
Hysteria from poisoning of blood with uric acid.
  
SLEEP.

Sleeps soundly for 8 hours, awakes very lazy and refreshed ; feels better in A. M.

Aloe Socotrina

Drowsy, dozing in morning.
Awakened : by thirst ; urgency to urinate ; pollutions and sexual desire ; pains in back ; chill.
Oppressive dreams of danger, could not cry out ; dreams of soiling himself.
Spasmodic jerks when falling asleep.
Cannot sleep : heat and a crowd of thoughts busy him ; itching and burning in anus ; cold hands and feet.
During siesta : seminal emission.
  
TIME.

Middle of day : angry, revengeful disposition.
Afternoon : frequent urging to urinate.
Night : urging to urinate worse ; sweat.
  
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER.

Relieved by cold water : headache ; prolapsus uteri.
Heat : aggravates headache.
In cloudy weather : out of humor ; face pale.
Damp weather : causes diarrhoea ; flatulency worse.
Wet weather : pain in back.
Worse in hot, damp weather.
Cold applications : relieve headache and piles.
In open air : nose red ; raw voice ; averse to walk in wind ; not disposed to go into air although it relieves.
Better in cold weather ; but cannot take a cold-water bath as it acts as stimulus to genitals.  

FEVER.

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

Twitching of eyelids.
Periodic heat of face, with headache.
Attacks preceded by obstinate constipation. θ Colic.
Sudden, quickly passing urging to stool.
Pains of short duration.
As Winter approaches each year itch manifests itself.
Alternate : headache and lumbago.
  
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION.

Locality and Direction
Right : eyes, nose, stitches in larynx ; scapula bruised ; arm heavy ; wrist joint weak.
Left : wind in descending colon ; stitches in chest ; pain through to left scapula ; ribs bruised ; pain along ureter ; pain and lameness in thigh.
Left to right : earache.
From behind forward : stitches in tongue.
In spots : sensitiveness of scalp.
SENSATIONS.

Feeling of vermin running over body. θ Hysteria.
Giddiness, feels as if he was sitting too high ; as if everything whirled with her ; musical sounds and noises set her in a tremor ; fauces as if burnt ; as if griping of bowels would take place ; as if vomiting was coming on ; empty feeling in stomach ; pelvis as if filled with hot water ; as if diarrhoea would result ; as if a plug was wedged between symphysis pubis and os coccygis ; as if stool would pass ; as if stool would escape with flatus ; as if rectum was full of fluid which feels heavy, as if it would fall out ; feeling as from fissures in rectum ; is compelled to contract anus, which makes it tense and achy ; as if stool would escape when passing urine ; can hardly retain urine ; faint feeling after effort at stool ; as if something had fallen into trachea causing whistling ; as if prostate was swollen and sensitive ; feeling as if asleep in perineum ; female organs feel as if torn ; as of hairs on back of hand and fingers.
Pain : in forehead ; deep in orbits ; at umbilicus ; in scrobiculum ; in stomach ; in hypochondria ; in left side along ureter ; in hypogastrium.
Boring : in region of navel ; in rectum.
Stitches : in temples ; in umbilical region ; in under part of tongue ; from liver into chest ; from spleen into chest ; through left chest ; in right side of larynx ; through sacrum to loins.
Pricking : caused by feces in anus ; in joints ; in fingers ; knees, elbows.
Sticking : in ears.
Shooting : in region of navel.
Cutting : across abdomen ; in right and lower portion of abdomen ; in anus.
Griping : in upper abdomen ; around navel ; in right and lower portion of abdomen.
Burning : in nose ; in hepatic region ; in abdomen ; in anus ; when urinating.
Scraping : in larynx.
Soreness : of borders of lips ; in mouth ; in front of chest.
Rawness : in pharynx.
Pressure : in forehead and occiput ; under sternum ; through pit of stomach to back ; in hepatic region ; in sacral region.
Pressing outward : to temples ; in anus.
Pressing downward : in pelvis ; in rectum.
Drawing : into loins ; in joints ; in fingers, knees, elbows.
Labor-like pains ; in groins and loins ; down legs.
Dragging : in abdomen ; in rectum.
Dull pressive pain : in supraorbital region ; in sinciput ; in hepatic region.
Painful weakness : of legs.
Bruised feeling : left forearm ; right scapula ; left ribs.
Dulness : in forehead.
Dull steady pain : on either side just above innominata, running into rectum.
Pulsations : in region of navel ; in rectum.
Sprained feeling : in great toe.
Dislocated feeling : left forearm ; right scapula ; left ribs.
Heaviness : of eyes ; in abdomen ; in hypogastrium ; in rectum ; in uterine region ; in sacral region.
Burning weight : in anus.
Fulness : in stomach ; in abdomen ; in anus ; in uterine region ; in pelvis.
Tensive : in hepatic region.
Swollen feeling : in pharynx.
Uneasiness : in hepatic region.
Lameness : from weight and pressure in pelvis ; in left thigh ; in limbs.
Heat : of face ; of ears ; in hepatic region ; in hypogastrium ; in rectum ; of right arm ; in spots on scalp or in face.
Coldness : of point of nose.
Creeping : from sacrum over whole body.
Weakness : of chest ; of wrist joint ; of ankle joint ; of joints.
Dryness : of hair ; of nose ; of mouth.
Itching : in rectum ; in anus ; of prepuce ; of legs.
  
TISSUES.

Congestion to head and chest, but especially to portal system.
Mucous membranes ; especially causes production of mucus in jelly-like lumps or cakes.
Acts mainly on rectal mucous lining.
  
TOUCH, PASSIVE MOTION, INJURIES.

Touch : muscles (especially of abdomen) sensitive ; scalp tender ; epididymis sensitive.
Pressure : aggravates pains in head ; abdominal pains.
  
SKIN.

Itching, especially of legs.
Pimples on abdomen.
Spots which, when scratched, pain and become sensitive.
  
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION.

Old people. θ Colic and diarrhoea.
Man at. 45 taken with dysentery confining him to his bed a month at a time.
Old men with enlarged prostate.
Women at. 55 ; and 65 ; colic.
Climacteric years.
Phlegmatic, indolent.
Women of relaxed phlegmatic habit. θ Prolapsus uteri.

RELATIONS.

Aloe has many symptoms like Sulphur, and is equally important in chronic diseases, with abdominal plethora, etc.
Similar to Ailant. (dull frontal headache) ; Gum. gutt. (diarrhoea) ; Ammonium mur. (abdominal and diarrheic symptoms) ; Nux vom. (gastric abdominal and uterine troubles ; bad effects of sedentary habits).
Antidotes to Aloe : Sulphur, mustard.
Camphor relieves for awhile.
Nux vom. and Lycop. relieve the earache.
“NOTE:
PLAIN TEXT : LOWEST & DESIGNATES AN OCCASIONALLY CONFIRMED SYMPTOMS;
Plain blue: MORE FREQUENTLY CONFIRMED;
BOLD BLUE : SYMPTOMS VERIFIED BY CURES;
BOLD RED : REPEATEDLY VERIFIED;
$BOLD ITALIC RED$ : AN APPROVED CHARACTERISTIC;
θ : STANDS BETWEEN CURED SYMPTOM & PATHOLOGICAL CONDITION;
** : OBSERVED FROM OLD SCHOOL OR NEW SCHOOL;
toxic : Toxicology;
r : Right;
l : Left;
< : Increased or aggravation;
> : Decrease or amelioration;
^^ : Symptoms observed only on the sick “

##culled from: Materia Medica by C. Hering

Natural History.
      Alnus rubra, Tag Alder, and Alnus glutinosa, Common Alder of Europe. N. O. Cupuliferae. (Not to be confounded with certain of

Alnus

the Rhamnacae, which are also popularly called "Alders. ") Tinctures of the dark, and of the young shoots.

Clinical.
      Amenorrhoea.
      Glands, enlarged.
      Gleet. hemorrhage.
      Herpes.
      Impetigo.
      Leucorrhea.
      Prurigo.
      Psora.
      Rheumatism.
      Scrofula.
      Syphilis.

Characteristics.
      Alnus is an unproved remedy.
      The bark-tincture of Alnus rubra is used by eclectics as an "alterative" in scrofulous conditions, in chronic skin affections, rheumatism, syphilis, gravel, and gleet.
      The plant grows in swamps and marshes.

      Among its indications are: Leucorrhea with erosions which bleed easily, amenorrhoea with burning pains from back to pubis.
      Hematuria.
      Cooper, who has used a fresh plant tincture of A. glutinosa, gives: "Pain in rectum after stool," and "heaviness in head as after being drunk the night before" as having been produced by it.
      Hale gives as particularly indicating it: "Eruptions on the skin alternating with diseased conditions of mucous membrane."

Relations.
      Compare: Ham., Still., Phyt., Kali-i., Merc., Nux-v., Bapt. (Alternating conditions); Aloe., Pod., Kali-bi.

##culled from : Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke

Garlic. Liliacea.
Tincture from the fresh bulb ; used as a condiment since olden times, and against worms and some fevers.
Proved in France by Petroz and Teste, 1852.

MIND.

Allium Sativum

Weak memory.
Lack of ideas.
Desire to escape.
Sadness when alone ; moral uneasiness ; afraid of never getting well ; fear of not being able to bear any kind of medicine ; fear of being poisoned ; sensitiveness ; impatience.
Cannot bear anything ; wants many things and is not pleased with any ; every afternoon.
  
SENSORIUM.

Vertigo : on looking long and steadily at anything ; transient on rising from a seat and heaviness of head, > as soon as menses appear.

INNER HEAD.

Heaviness in head : in forehead, can hardly open eyes ; with mucus in throat ; ceases with onset of menses, and returns afterwards.
Pulsations in temples.
Dull pain in occiput in morning when lying on back.
Pressing pains from within outward.
** Headache. θ In dyspeptic subjects.

OUTER HEAD.

Dandruff.
Baldness.
  
SIGHT AND EYES.

Could read only with spectacles ; heaviness in eyes.
Catarrhal ophthalmia at night ; smarting, burning, lachrymation ; eyelids agglutinated ; returns every night when he tries to read.
Tarsi sore, with irritation of eyes.
Profuse watering of eyes without coryza.
  
HEARING AND EARS.

Deafness of left ear (catarrhal).
Hardened earwax (topically with milk).
Hardened crusts in outer canal.
His customary aural catarrh disappeared ; he heard better in diseased ear.
  
SMELL AND NOSE.

Increased secretion of nasal mucus, with slight stoppage of both nostrils.
Coryza more dry than fluent, with pressive pain from above root of nose.
Ozana.
Smarting at junction of ala and face, mostly left.
  
FACE.

Smarting, itching of face.
Spots in face.
Stinging in one side of face.

LOWER FACE.

Smarting as from herpetic eruption, near left angle of lips.
Lips dry.

TEETH AND GUMS.

Toothache paroxysmal and severe.
Tickling sensation in lower teeth.
Drawing in teeth, swollen gums, sensation of a hair on tongue, < from reading.
Pressing, transitory jerking in jaws and upper molars of r. side, in forenoon.
Scurvy.
  
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE.

Taste : hot, as from throat, causing increase of saliva.
Tongue furred white, with a disagreeable taste.
Tongue dry at night.

INNER MOUTH.

Copious, sweetish saliva ; after meals, more after supper and at night.

Mouth symptoms worse from reading.
Sores in mouth.

PALATE AND THROAT.

Sticky feeling in throat, with dryness, tickling heat and raw feeling in larynx.
Anterior part of throat not sensitive to touch.
Ulcerated throat.
Accumulation of mucus in throat with heaviness of head in morning.
Feels as if something cold, then again something hot and stinging ascended oesophagus.
  
APPETITE, THIRST, DESIRES, AVERSIONS.

Voracious appetite.
Hunger and emptiness in stomach, without appetite.
Desire for butter.
Thirst.
  
EATING AND DRINKING.

Bowels disturbed by slightest deviation in diet.
The least change in his usual manner of living increases dyspepsia.
Complaints from bad water.
Chests complaints worse after eating.
Copious flow of saliva after eating.
Burning eructations after a meal.
Weight in hypogastrium immediately after a meal.
Complaints of those who eat to excess ; gluttony.
  
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING.

Belching after every change of diet.

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH.

Heartburn.
Pressure as from a stone.
Long-standing dyspepsia, especially in old, fleshy people, whose bowels are disturbed by slightest deviation from a regular diet.
  
HYPOCHONDRIA.

In forenoon pressure in epigastrium and transverse colon, had to sit bent forward and press with hands.
Pain under short ribs, back, right side.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS.

Pain in region of descending colon, just below ribs.
Violent burning in abdomen.
Wind-colic.
Everything (in abdomen) seems to drag downward.
Every step on pavement caused excruciating pain, as if intestines would be torn apart ; > by lying down.

STOOLS AND RECTUM.

Expels flatus.
Stools at first fecal, then watery and hot.
Looseness of bowels.
Constipation with almost constant dull pains in bowels.
Normal stool immediately after a meal.
Prolapsus ani.
Expels worms.

URINARY ORGANS.

Pain in region of kidneys.
Bladder distended, could bear no pressure ; continual urging to urinate with passing of a few drops.
** Ulceration of bladder, caused by calculi.
Urine whitish, abundant, becomes cloudy from nitric acid.
Urine increased, or lessened in quantity.
Urine dark brown with copious sediment.
A kind of diabetes.
  
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.

Menses too early ; headache and dizziness lessen as flow becomes established.
Soreness of vulva and thighs during menstrual flow.
Pustules on vulva during menses.
Bright red spots, with itching and smarting on inside of labia majora and at vulva.
  
PREGNANCY, PARTURITION, LACTATION.

Said to be injurious during pregnancy.
After-birth remains.

Allium Sativum

Mamma swollen and painful to touch.
Dull stitches in right mamma.
Said to be injurious to the nursing.
Mamma swell after weaning.
  
VOICE AND LARYNX, TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA.

Voice rough ; hoarse.
Sore sensation in larynx.
Chronic catarrh of windpipe without fever, but with difficult breathing and moist cough.
Almost continuous mucous rales in bronchi.

RESPIRATION.

Difficult respiration as if sternum was compressed.
Periodical asthma.
  
COUGH.

Chronic cough, dyspnoea ; ropy sputum.
Cough hollow, dry, not very frequent.
Morning cough, after leaving his bed-room, with extremely copious mucous expectoration.
Cough which seems to come from stomach.
Dry cough after eating.
Cough which gives rise to a fetid smell.
Sudden paroxysm of hard dry cough while smoking, obliging him to quit.
Expectoration of a thin, yellowish, purulent-looking, bloodstreaked mucus, of a putrid odor.
Great difficulty in expectorating a glutinous mucus.
  
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS.

Pain in left side of chest, with dark urine.
Lancinating in one side of chest.
  
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION.

Palpitation.
Jerking pulsations of heart.
Accelerates circulation.
  
OUTER CHEST.

Stitches in pectoral muscles and beneath scapula. 

NECK AND BACK.

Drawing or darting pains in neck.
Backache.
Weak back, child does not learn to walk ; marasmus (topically).
Red spots like ringworm on back.
Cutting pain in sacrum in morning.
  
UPPER LIMBS.

Red spots on hands.
Skin peels off the hand.
Dry heat on back of hands ; slight moisture of palms.
  
LOWER LIMBS.

Rheumatism of hips.
Tearing pain in hip.
Intolerable pain confined to common tendon of iliac and psoas muscles ; < from least movement ; extorts cries when he tries to cross his limbs ; no pain if he lifts leg gently with hand ; < 8 P. M. in bed, cannot then change his position or sleep.
Pains in limbs < from changes of temperature and under influence of moist heat.
Weakness of legs ; worse at knees.
Legs do not grow as rapidly as rest of body.
Pain as from a sprain in ankle joint.
Tearing pain in feet.
Sensation of stiffness in feet.
Toe joints pain as if sprained.
Burning in soles.
  REST, POSITION, MOTION.

Lying down : relieves pain in abdomen.
Lying on back : dull pain in occiput.
In bed : pain in tendon < ; cold at night.
Must sit bent forward : with pain in epigastrium.
Rising from a seat : transient vertigo.
Motion : increases pain in common tendon of iliac and psoas muscles ; makes rheumatism <.
Every step : causes excruciating pain in intestines.
  
NERVES.

Lassitude, especially in lower limbs ; a muscular weakness, with rheumatic pains ; generally worse in morning.
Child drowsy, lifeless ; would not walk ; torpor of bowels ; great paleness.
  
SLEEP.

Drowsiness after a meal.
Muscles twitching on falling asleep.
Sleep prevented by : stitches in chest ; weight in stomach ; thirst.
Coldness felt in sleep and awakening him frequently.
Restless sleep.
Dreams : of water and storm ; of rapid transit from place to place ; anxious ; continue after waking.
  
TIME.

Night : catarrhal ophthalmia.
Morning : dull pain in occiput ; heaviness of head and accumulation of mucus in throat ; cutting pain in sacrum ; rheumatic pains worse.

Allium Sativum

Forenoon : jerking in jaws and upper molars ; pressure in epigastrium and transverse colon.
Afternoon : sweat.
  
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER.

Worse in open air : chest complaints.
Change of temperature : pains in limbs worse.
Moist heat : pains in limbs worse.
Damp cold weather : tearing and stinging in different parts of body.
  
FEVER.

Chilliness and heat alternate, more evenings ; acrid sweat causing itching ; hard pulse.
Cold at night in bed.
Vomiting during fever.
Sweat acrid, offensive.
Sweat in afternoon.
  
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY.

Periodical asthma.
Stitches with paralytic weakness or tearing ; sometimes increasing to a high degree and then diminishing in same way.
  
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION.

Right : pressing, jerking in upper molars ; pain in side ; dull stitches in mamma.
Left : catarrhal deafness ; smarting at junction of ala nasi and face ; smarting near angle of lips ; pain in chest.
Pains go from within out, expanding sensation.
  
SENSATIONS.

As of a hair on tongue ; as if something cold then hot and stinging ascended oesophagus ; as if intestines would be torn apart when stepping ; expanding sensation, pains go from within out.
Pain : in region of kidneys ; in left side of chest ; in tendon of iliac and psoas muscles ; in limbs.
Dull stitches : in right mamma.
Lancinating : in one side of chest.
Stitches : in pectoral muscles and beneath scapula.
Transitory jerking : in jaws and upper molars.
Darting pains : in neck.
Cutting : in sacrum.
Drawing : in teeth ; in neck.
Tearing pain : in hip ; in feet.
Pressing pain : from within out in head ; in jaws and upper molars.
Dull pain : in occiput ; in bowels.
Pressive pain : from above root of nose.
Sprained feeling : in ankle ; in toe joints.
Soreness : of tarsi ; of vulva and thighs ; in larynx.
Raw feeling : in larynx.
Burning : in soles ; of skin.
Smarting : at junction of ala nasi and face ; near left angle of lips ; of vulva.
Stinging : in one side of face.
Heaviness : in head ; in eyes.
Weakness : of legs ; muscular.
Stiffness : in feet.
Heat : in larynx ; on back of hands.
Coldness : felt in sleep.
Tickling : in lower teeth ; in larynx.
Itching : of face ; of vulva ; of skin.
Dryness : of lips ; of tongue ; in larynx.
  
TISSUES.

Stings and bites.
Dropsy ; after protracted intermittent in marshy districts.
  
TOUCH, PASSIVE MOTION, INJURIES.

Touch : causes pain in swollen mamma.
Pressure : must use it during pain in epigastrium and transverse colon ; cannot bear it on distended bladder.
Stings and bites.
  
SKIN.

Skin sensitive ; dry ; wilted.
Swelling with itching and burning.
Herpetic, itching, burning, red or whitish spots on a swollen surface.
Tetter on ankle.
  
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION.

Fleshy people : catarrhs.
Fleshy, old people ; dyspepsia.
Those accustomed to high living and excessive eating.

RELATIONS.

Similar to : Bryon. ; Capsic. (asthma, fetid breath with cough) ; Coloc. (colic, hip-pain) ; Ignat. ; Lycop. ; Nux vom. and Senega.
Not following well : Aloes, All cep., Scilla.
Complementary to Arsen., especially in catarrh, asthma and effects of overexertion.
Antidote to Allium sat. : Lycop.

##culled from ;Materia Medica by C. Hering