A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Aloe Socotrina aloe.

Allen (1892)In every bookSave

General

In large doses, Aloes produce a determination of blood to the pelvic organs, which occasions hæmorrhoids, uterine engorgement with increased menstrual flow, sexual orgasm in men, etc.
It increases the peristalsis of colon; and increases the secretion of bile.

Relief from open air.
Disinclination to mental or physical effort.

Head

Frontal headache, dull, heavy, pressing downward into eyes and nose; must close the eyes.

Nose

Bleeding in the morning.

Mouth

Taste metallic, bitter.

Stomach

Nausea, with the frontal headache; flatulent distention and eructations.

Abdomen

Flatulence; weak, as if diarrhœa would ensue.
Soreness in sides.
Over the liver, heat and pressure.
Feeling of a plug in pelvis, between symphysis and coccyx, with urging.
General feeling of fullness and heaviness.

Rectum

Heaviness.
Dragging as if to stool.
Sudden impulse to evacuate feces.

Anus

Hæmorrhoids; swollen and sore.
Sphincter uncertain; permits escape of thin feces with gas.

Stool

Diarrhœa; yellow, pasty or thin, sudden in morning on waking and rising; cannot evacuate bladder without feces escaping.
Dysentery; bloody, jelly-like evacuations, followed by pain and soreness in the rectum.

Urinary organs

Urine scanty, hot, dark, or even bloody, with burning.
Much mealy sediment.

Sexual organs, Female

Uterus feels heavy, with a sensation of a plug in pelvis.
Uterine hæmorrhage; menstrual flow increased, dark and clotted.

Back

Sacral pain (alternates with headache).
Heaviness in sacrum > motion.

Skin

Jaundice; much crawling and itching (as in jaundice).
Furuncles with disordered liver.