Aletris Farinosa alet.

Aletris farinosa, Linn. (natural order Hæmodoraceæ), colic root. A tincture is prepared from the root.

It seems to be an irritant to mucous membranes (See nose, mouth and gastro-intestinal canal), and to produce an engorgement of the lower abdomen, with symptoms in women of a heavy uterus.

Colch., Arum tri., Aloes, Lil. Tig., Kali c., Iris, Crocus, Dioscorea.

Uneasiness. ▶ Faint feeling in evening, with nausea. ▶ Tired; all the afternoon, with dull, heavy, confused feeling in head and inability to concentrate the mind or study. ▶ Mind confused and wandering. ▶ Mind tends to run on pleasant thoughts, but it does not continue on one object long. ▶ Rapidity of thought not lessened, but the power and energy of mind weakened.

Aching; in morning on waking; every morning, with nauseous, faint, all-gone feeling, in stomach, amel. eating; in different parts. ▶ Strange feeling, gradually settling down, with aching in occiput. ▶ Feeling as if in a vise. ▶ Pressure over eyes, with a queer sensation behind ears. ▶ Pain over right eye, running down into eyeball, amel. closing lids, at same time nausea and pain in lower abdomen. ▶ Forepart felt as if in a vise; feeling in forehead as if in a vise, with dull pain running from right temple over eye down into eyeball. ▶ Aching in right temple. ▶ Temples feel as if in a vise; T. feel as if pressed together with an occasional twinge in right temple. ▶ Pain in vertex, agg. bending it forward and by straining at stool; P. in vertex, with weight in occiput. ▶ Heaviness in vertex and over eyes.

Occiput. ▶ Pain; and in neck; then weight; on left side, just behind ear; and heaviness, with sharp pain running down right trapezius, which was agg. bending head forward, amel. bending it backward. ▶ Queer feeling. ▶ Weight, with aching over eyes and through head from temple to temple. ▶ Heaviness, as if a weight would draw it backward, and the neck had not the strength to prevent it; amel. during breakfast, with a feeling as if the scalp were contracting across the back, drawing the sides of the occiput together.

Lancinating pain in right eyeball. ▶ Eyelids feel as if pressed down. ▶ Pain back of ear, running down sterno-mastoid muscle, leaving soreness to touch; P. back of right ear, extending down anterior surface of sterno-mastoid muscle. ▶ Ears feel as if open through from one to another. ▶ Deaf in left E., stuffed feeling. ▶ Nose sore inside of tip; inside, on left of tip; inside, agg. right side (a crack just inside right nostril). ▶ Watery discharge from nose. ▶ Lips dry and cracked (Arum tr.).

Pain; in right side all the afternoon, and at 5 P.M. in left side close up under jaw, with thirst and hyperæmia of mucous membrane of pharynx and larynx; in right side (in right anterior pillar), intermittent, like shocks of an electro-magnetic machine run slowly but strong, agg. any movement of head that stretched the muscles. ▶ Soreness in morning on waking.

Appetite lost. ▶ Thirst; during fever. ▶ Eructations of air after eating; of food in evening with burning in throat. ▶ Nausea, with giddiness, then vomiting and purging; nausea agg. by coffee; with pressure in forehead, the nausea amel. dinner, but returning with gagging at the sight or thought of grease. ▶ All-gone feeling in morning on rising, causing faintness, amel. eating.

Cramps. ▶ Griping (Diosc.). ▶ Pain all through, settling into lower part, amel. passing flatus and scanty diarrhœic stool (Colch.); P. all through, agg. bending forward, amel. bending backward, then the pain increased and it seemed as if all the insides had sunken to lower abdomen and were cut with knives (Verat.); amel. scanty diarrhœic stool (Colch.); intermittent, mostly in lower part, amel. scanty diarrhœic stool, tenesmus during and after stool, with feeling as if lower part of rectum were closed. ▶ Aching in hypogastrium; and across back of hips.

Frequent ineffectual urgings. ▶ Loose, painful, offensive, frequent. ▶ Thin, with hard lumps in it. ▶ Hard; and delayed, small, scanty. ▶ Difficult; and delayed, scanty, difficult, than constant desire to urinate for half an hour; frequent, the first small, urgent, dark, offensive, excoriating. ▶ Bad odor to S. and flatus.

Micturition rare. ▶ Incontinence, agg. walking fast or sneezing. ▶ Amount and specific gravity of urine diminished at first. ▶ Phosphated slightly increased.

Pain in uterine region; in morning on waking, menses almost black, scanty and sour, with malaise. ▶ Menses too soon, light-colored, with colic and bearing-down pains (Aloes), lasted 52 hours (always six days), then leucorrhœa, white, stringy; too soon and profuse, with labor-like pains.

It has been found useful for prolapsus uteri associated with general anæmia and scanty menstruation; the pains are griping clutching in the right inguinal region extending down the thigh; it has also been used for leucorrhœa and endometritis. ▶ It cured hæmorrhoids in one of the provers.

Tickling short, dry, hard, on waking, becoming spasmodic, agg. by talking, discharge of urine during cough, later cough incessant, and like whooping cough, lose my breath and become cyanotic C., amel. suddenly on occurrence of menstruation (eight days too soon).

Pain in left breast as if a knife ran into it; sharp pain in left breast, then extending through into back, to left of lower part of right scapula.

Irregular and intermittent.

Pain in centre of nape, running off into left shoulder, then the pain in nape moved up to occiput, where it lasted all the evening. ▶ Sharp pain from lower point of left scapula through to left breast. ▶ Pain in dorsal region. ▶ Sensation as if the back would break just above waist, afterwards the same pain higher up. ▶ Backache, with dragging in sacral region and stringy, colorless leucorrhœa, beginning when walking.

Sharp pain in right shoulder-joint, streaked down arm, then into left chest, where it located just above nipple. ▶ Knees painless in forenoon during motion, painful in afternoon while sitting right leg feels paralyzed below knee and numb, could not bear weight on it.

Itching, papillary eruption across chest and upper part of back, with hyperæmia and hyperæsthesia of surrounding integument, the itching agg. scratching with the nails, but amel. rubbing with the palms.

Restlessness at night, agg. fore part, preventing sleep; right every night, late falling asleep, then immediately terrible dreams, which wakened, till late in morning, then resting well; with many dreams. ▶ Unrefreshing. ▶ Sleeplessness till 12 or 1 o'clock, then restless sleep till late in morning, then undisturbed sleep; S. agg. fore part of night, with physical and mental restlessness, the mind, continually wandering on occurrences of his past life, no tendency to brood over sorrow, thoughts very pleasant.

Chills, face flushed. ▶ Limbs cold, head and face hot and flushed. ▶ Feverish.