Alumen alumn.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

I have been led to use Alumen quite extensively in a variety of ailments characterized by a most obstinate constipation, which had been existing for a long time. Some years ago a lady came to me suffering from very violent attacks of gastralgia, attended with nausea, vomiting, retching, etc., and unable to bear the least nourishment for ten days together. She also had most obstinate constipation, bowels moved once in ten days; feces dry, hard, black, sometimes large, sometimes small, like sheep dung, and voided with the greatest difficulty. Alumen 45m in a few days made her bowels regular and natural, and for several years she has had no return of her gastralgia. She still keeps the Alumen by her and at the first sign of the constipation she takes a few pellets, one dose, and it is all-sufficient. From a thin, spare, weakly woman, she has become plump and hearty.

Eyes

Various affections of the eye and sight.

Ears

Purulent otorrhœa.

Nose

Polypus of the nose, left side, with rough skin over the face and body, and neuralgic headache.

Teeth

Affections of the teeth and gums, rather scorbutic. Fearful bleeding after extracting a tooth.

Mouth

Ulcerated mouth, profuse salivation, scirrhous tongue. Uvula elongated, tonsils inflamed, sore throat. Dry, black tongue.

Stomach

Vomits large quantities of glairy mucus, or tough colorless slime, and often everything he eats. The pain is better by pressing on it.

Abdomen

Lead and other colics. Abdomen retracted, better from pressure.

Stool

Stools at long intervals, feces being dry, hard, black; sometimes large, sometimes small, like sheep dung, and voided with great difficulty. Diarrhœa ichorous, mixed with blood of an offensive odor, great exhaustion. Very exhausting diarrhœa. Masses of coagulated blood in typhus. Putrid dysentery. Scarcely endurable pains in the rectum, with scirrhous indurations, and in other conditions, after stool.

Urinary Organs

Frequent urination, with distinct lumps of blood; slimy sediment, catarrh of the bladder. Urine red and scanty.

Sexual

Male: Gonorrhœa. Frequent emissions. Female: Affections of left ovary, with constipation, weight and pressing down of the uterus, granulations of vagina. Leucorrhœa and emaciation, with yellow complexion. Indurations, ulcerations and scirrhus of the uterus. Flooding after childbirth, sore, inflamed nipples, cancer of the breasts.

Larynx

Complete aphonia, croup and bronchitis. Can't talk from tickling in larynx. Cough, from tickling in the throat, particularly in the morning; in the evening after lying down.

Skin

Proud flesh, chilblains, indolent ulcers. This remedy is particularly applicable to old people.

Fever

Slow pulse. Furious delirium.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Common Potash Alum

General

The clinical application of this remedy points to its bowel symptoms, both in obstinate constipation and in hæmorrhage from bowels in the course of typhoid-one phase of the paralytic weakness of the muscles in all parts of the body. Tendency to induration is also marked, a low form of tissue-making is favored. Hardening of tissues of tongue, rectum, uterus, etc; ulcers with indurated base. Adapted to old people, especially bronchial catarrhs. Sensation of dryness and constriction. Mental paresis; dysphagia especially to liquids. Tendency to induration, Scirrhus of the tongue.

Head

Burning pain as of weight on top of lead better by pressure of hand. Vertigo, with weakness in pit of stomach. Alopecia.

Throat

Throat relaxed. Mucous membrane red and swollen. Cough. Tickling in throat. Tendency to throat colds. Enlarged and indurated tonsils. Burning pain down the œsophagus. Complete aphonia. Every cold settles in throat. Constriction of œsophagus.

Heart

Palpitation, from lying down on right side.

Rectum

Constipation of the most aggravated kind. No desire for stool for days. Violent ineffectual urging to stool. No ability to expel stool. Marble-like masses pass, but rectum still feels full. Itching after stool. Itching in anus. Long lasting pain and smarting in rectum after stool; also hæmorrhoids. Yellow, like an infant's. Hæmorrhage from bowels.

Female

Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and mammary glands (Carb an; Con). Chronic yellow vaginal discharge. Chronic gonorrhœa, yellow, with little lumps along urethra. Aphthous patches in vagina (Caul). Menses watery.

Respiratory

Hæmoptysis, great weakness of chest; difficult to expel mucus. Copious, ropy morning expectoration in old people. Asthma.

Skin

Ulcers, with indurated base. To be thought of in indurated glands, epithelioma, etc; veins become varicose and bleed. Indurations resulting from long-continued inflammatory irritations. Glands inflame and harden. Alopecia, Scrotal eczema and on back of penis.

Extremities

Weakness of all muscles, especially arms and legs. Constricted feeling around limbs.

Modalities

Worse, cold except headache, which is relieved by cold.

Dose

First to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies have proved efficacious. Powdered alum, 10 grains, placed on tongue, said to arrest an attack of asthma.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

In typhoid hæmorrhages from the bowels. It is an excellent remedy and the stools are of dark clotted blood, in large quantities. It is also excellent for relaxed uvula in sore throat.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Potassic-Aluminic Sulphate. Potash Alum. K 2 SO 4 Al 2 S0 4 24 H 2 O, Trituration of the pure crystals.

Clinical

Alcohol, effects of. Anus, affections of . Bronchitis. Catarrh. Cancer. Chilblains. Colic . Constipation. Cough. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Eczema. Eyes, affections of . Eyes, operations on. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhages. Hoarseness. Lead colic . Leucorrhœa. Locomotor ataxy . Noma. Œsophagus, stricture of. Paralysis . Polypus. Pruritus. Scurvy. Skin, rough. Strabismus. Teeth, operations on. Throat, affections of. Typhoid, hæmorrhage in. Ulcers. Uterus, affections of. Uvula, relaxed. Vaginismus.

Characteristics

The well-known astringent action of Alum . gives a leading indication for its use in practice. Sensations of dryness and contraction are prominent in various parts. I have frequently removed with it constipation of the most aggravated kind, as in cases of cancer of uterus and rectum. Stools as hard as stones is the leading indication. No desire for stool for days. Contractive sensation in abdomen and pelvis, and retraction of abdomen as in lead colic. Paralytic states with the sensation as if bound with a tight band. On the other hand, it is equally available for the states of relaxation, which corresponds with its secondary action: sluggish action of muscles; hæmorrhages of various kinds; large clots in typhoid; relaxed mucous membranes; relaxed uvula; hoarseness and bronchial affections; diarrhœa. Catarrhal conditions prevail throughout the remedy. The Alum . patient is very sensitive to cold; exposure to air roughens and chaps the skin. Slight scratches bleed. Bleeding after tooth extraction. There is a tendency to indurations whenever inflammations occur, hence: scirrhous indurations; indurated glands. Pains are insupportable. Attacks come and go suddenly; periodic. Many complaints come on during sleep. There is nightmare. Turning on r. side > vertigo. Lying on r. side brings on palpitation. There is sensitiveness to all sorts of weather changes, and especially to cold. W. P. Wesselhœft has cured bronchitis characterised by scraping from upper sternum to throat, with free expectoration of thick, yellow mucus, paroxysmal cough, morning cough with gagging, aching in chest and in the lower part of the back in region of lower ribs. A peculiarity was the profuse expectoration with the scraping, for scraping coughs are usually dry. Cepa had helped the preliminary sneezing and coryza.

Relations

Antidoted by: Cham. (cramps in abdomen); Nux v., Ipec. (nausea and vomiting); Sul. Antidote to: Lead poisoning; calomel and other mercurials; Aloe (vomiting blood). Similar to: Alumina, Aluminium; Alo. (rectum); Caps. (long uvula); Fer. (relaxed abdominal walls, prolapsed uterus); Kali bi. (stringy discharges); Merc. (prolapsed uterus, vagina, rectum; tenesmus); Merc. cor., Mur. ac., Nit. ac., Nux v., Op., Plat. (lead poisoning); Plumb., Rhatan., Stan., Sul., Sul. ac., Zinc (eyes).

Causation

Bad news. Operations on eyes; on teeth.

Mind

Unpleasant news cause nervous tremors. ─ Lectophile.

Head

Vertigo, lying on his back, with weakness in pit of stomach, > opening eyes, > turning on r. side. ─ Headache > drinking cold water. ─ Burning pain and weight on vertex > ice-cold cloths pressed on the part.

Eyes

R. eye squints towards nose. ─ Prolapse of iris after cataract operation. ─ Sees double by candle-light.

Ears

Purulent otorrhœa.

Nose

Nasal polypus l. side with rough skin all over the face and body and neuralgic headache. ─ Lupus or cancer on rose.

Mouth

Teeth loose. ─ Gums swollen, inflamed, spongy. ─ Teeth and gums rather scorbutic. ─ Profuse hæmorrhage after extraction of tooth. ─ Tongue dry (black); burning in evening; sour feeling; stitches < at tip (scirrhus of tongue). ─ Spreading ulcers in mouth; noma. ─ Profuse ptyalism.

Throat

Tonsils inflamed. ─ Uvula elongated, relaxed. ─ Spasm of œsophagus, liquids can scarcely be swallowed. ─ Prickly sensation both sides of throat and great dryness with constant desire to drink. ─ Scraping in throat with cough. ─ Throat covered with mucus, causing cough. ─ Spitting up of a coagulated lump of blood morning after rising. ─ Enlarged indurated tonsils from frequent colds.

Stomach

Vomits large quantities of glairy mucus or tough, colourless slime, and often everything he eats; blood; habitual hæmatemesis in hard drinkers. ─ Sinking sensation > by eating. ─ Burning heat > by drinking cold water. ─ The pain is > by pressing on stomach.

Abdomen

Colic < by walking, with fulness and heaviness. (Potter's colic, lead colic.). ─ Abdomen retracted, > from pressure.

Stool and Anus

No desire for stool for days. ─ Violent, ineffectual urging to stool. ─ Stool hard as stones. ─ Difficult stool, with some blood and subsequent beating in anus. ─ Diarrhœa ichorous, mixed with blood of an offensive odour, great exhaustion. ─ Very exhausting diarrhœa. ─ Masses of coagulated blood in typhus. ─ Putrid dysentery. ─ Pains from rectum going down thighs. ─ After stool: scarcely endurable pain with scirrhous induration in rectum. ─ Itching in anus all evening.

Urinary Organs

Urine voided with difficulty. ─ (Diabetes mellitus.). ─ Oily iridescent film on urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Erections while at dinner. ─ Frequent emissions. ─ Gonorrhœa; gleet. ─ Shooting pain from middle line of belly, as along a thread, down into penis. ─ Cutting pain in l. side of penis.

Female Sexual Organs

Affections of l. ovary (with constipation), insupportable pain. ─ Weight and prolapse of uterus. ─ Indurations, ulcerations, of uterus, even scirrhus. ─ Copious leucorrhœa. ─ Leucorrhœa and emaciation, with yellow complexion. ─ Menses scanty, watery. ─ During menses hands weak. ─ Vagina very sensitive, and narrowed by swellings of various size (vaginismus). ─ Pruritus. ─ Flooding after childbirth; sore, inflamed nipples; cancer of the breasts.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness < from talking. ─ Aphonia. ─ Croup and bronchitis. ─ Cough from tickling in larynx caused by talking. ─ Scraping from upper sternum to larynx, thick, yellow sputa, paroxysmal cough. ─ Ropy sputa. ─ Atonic hæmoptysis.

Heart

Pain from heart to lower part of r. lung. ─ Strong pulsation through whole body.

Skin

Proud flesh; chilblains; indolent ulcers. ─ (This remedy is particularly applicable to old people.)

Fever

Slow pulse. ─ Furious delirium.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Lectrophilie, keeps bed without necessity, plaguing her family.
Anxiety, doubts if medicine will relieve her.
Feels like after unpleasant news.
Spells of rage, attacks people.
Thinking about her disease causes palpitation.
Unpleasant news excites and causes nervous tremors.

Sensorium

Vertigo : lying on his back, with weakness in pit of stomach ; > opening eyes ; > turning on right side.
Giddy looking down, as if falling forward ; rush of blood to head.
Deathlike fainting spell, with loss of all faculties.

Inner head

Neuralgic headache. θ Nasal polypus.
Jerking in left forehead, evening.
Pressing on top of head.
Pains coming and going, from place to place ; in forenoon.
Pain < morning, on awaking.
Shooting through temples, with sickness, > by drinking cold water.
Rush of blood to head.

Sight and eyes

Wild look, with spells of rage.
Sees things double by candlelight.
Pupils dilated.
Right eye squints towards nose.
Spots on cornea.
Prolapsus iridis after cataract operation.
Staphyloma corneæ.
Bruised feeling on inferior edge of orbit of left eye, on pressure, or by moving eyelids.
Varicosities of conjunctiva.
Trachoma (topically and internally).
Purulent ophthalmia of infants.
Itching burning on border of lower lids ; right to left.

Hearing and ears

Hears every little noise in sleep.
Heat in both ears and left side of face at night.
Purulent otorrhœa.

Smell and nose

Dryness of nostrils and choanæ.
Nosebleed.
Nasal polypus left side, with rough skin all over face and body, and neuralgic headache.
Lupus or cancer.

Upper face

Expression animated ; with fever.
Left side red and hot.
Complexion sickly, sallow ; yellow.
Pale as a corpse, lips blue.

Lower face

Pain in left articulation of jaw close to ear.

Teeth and gums

Teeth loose.
Gums swollen, inflamed, spongy, with a grey, dirty coating ; teeth surrounded by proud flesh. θ Stomatitis.
Profuse hemorrhage after extraction of a tooth.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : bitter ; sourish, astringent ; sweetish, disgusting after taste.
Tongue clean, except a slight coating of slime on back part.
Tongue : dry ; burning in evening ; sour feeling ; stitches worse at tip.
Scirrhus of tongue.

Inner mouth

Mouth dry, without thirst.
Spreading ulcers in mouth.
Noma.
Mouth burning, ulcerated ; grey dirty spongy skin about a tooth, which is surrounded with proud flesh ; offensive saliva.
Profuse ptyalism, mercurial in origin or not.

Palate and throat

Uvula inflamed and enlarged.
Uvula elongated, relaxed after catarrh.
Predisposed to tonsillitis.
Veins about fauces distended ; velum red ; much hawking.
Catarrh of fauces and throat.
Neuralgia of throat.
Spat a lump of coagulated blood in morning after rising.
Throat sore and dry when talking or swallowing fluids ; difficult swallowing.
Throat relaxed, ulcerated.
Burning and severe pains ; heat up from stomach.
Spasmodic constriction in œsophagus ; fluids can scarcely be swallowed.
Prickling sensation in both sides of throat and great dryness, with constant desire to drink.
Throat chronically affected ; mucous membrane covered with mucus, causing troublesome cough.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Appetite increased, even with fulness in stomach.
Loathes food.
Thirst : throat dry ; and increased appetite ; with heat in stomach, > by drinking cold water ; intense, with fever.
Mouth dry, but no increase of thirst.

Eating and drinking

Before breakfast : attacks of nausea ; cough.
During breakfast : cough worse.
After breakfast : cough better.
Eating > her sinking feeling in stomach.
After meal, heaviness in stomach ; throbbing ; distension ; vomited everything.
At dinner : erections.
Drinking cold water : relieves headache.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Squalmish at intervals, when awaking at night, prevents falling asleep again.
Nausea with headache, pain in stomach and retching.
Nausea with faintness and weakness more in morning, with restlessness and excitement, giddiness ; chilliness.
Vomits large quantities of glairy mucus, or tough, colorless, sour slime, seldom containing bile, oftener food.
Atonic hematemesis ; vomiting of blood.
Habitual hematemesis in hard drinkers.
Vomits everything he eats.
Vomiting, with colic.

Scrobiculum and stomach

A sensation of fulness in pit of stomach urges him to take a deep breath, but he cannot.
Weak faint feeling in pit of stomach ; sinking sensation.
Pain, nausea and rush of blood to head and drowsiness.
Pain with faintness, sickness and cold sweat.
Burning heat and feeling of fulness.
Heat in stomach, > by drinking cold water.
Severe pain to left of scrobiculum, > standing still and pressing on it.
Pyrosis and gastric catarrh.
Villi of stomach becoming disorganized ; mucus lining dark red or brown ; walls thickened, more at pylorus, and hardened, as if tanned (toxic).
Pressing followed by throbbing ; lying on back in evening.

Hypochondria

Warm creeps running down, followed by jerking contractions of abdominal muscles, towards linea alba.
Relaxed feeling in abdomen.
Distension from wind.
Burning pain low down and in small of back prevents him getting up ; as if back would break.
Colic pain > from pressure ; < when walking, with fulness and heaviness.
Spasmodic wind-colic.
Abdomen sensitive to touch during colic.
Abdomen and navel sunken in ; walls hard and retracted towards spine.
Potter's colic with sleeplessness, headache, crawling, tingling in limbs, constipation ; > from pressure ; abdomen retracted ; tongue dry, black ; urine red and scanty ; violent delirium and debility ; also after opium.
Lead colic, violent as if drunk and enraged ; pulse slow ; tongue in folds and dry ; trembling of limbs and pain as if beaten.

Stools and rectum

Violent ineffectual urging.
Stool : less frequent, dryer and harder ; large, black, hard or in small pieces like sheep's dung ; no relief afterwards.
Difficult stool with some blood and subsequent beating in anus.
First hard, then soft stools and pains following.
Diarrhœa yellow as an infant's ; slimy after colic pains, causing great weakness.
Diarrhœa ichorous, mixed with blood of an offensive odor ; abdominal typhus ; great exhaustion.
Very weakening colliquative diarrhœa.
Masses of coagulated blood. θ Typhus abdominalis.
Putrid dysentery.
Violent pains going from rectum down thighs.
During stool : dyspnœa ; pains in rectum ; tenesmus.
After stool : scarcely endurable pain, with scirrhous indurations in rectum ; no fissures.
Ulcerations in rectum, painful excrescences ; fetid bloody ichor.
Anus protruding, tumors inflamed and painful.
A small lump at anus itching violently, < at night.
Itching at anus all evening ; pruritus.
Long-lasting pain in rectum after each stool.
Painful, bleeding piles ; with aching in anus.
Bleeding from anus after wine or whiskey.

Urinary organs

Diabetes mellitus.
Contractive sensations deep in pelvis with complaints of rectum and bladder.
Urine increased, free, acid.
Frequent urging, with scanty, clear flow, containing lumps of blood ; sediment slimy, tough or membranaceous.
Frequent and painful urging, with painful passing of small quantities ; now and then mixed with blood, at others, clear ; after standing, thick as if mixed with clay, dirty, fibrous sediment ; catarrh of bladder, mostly with the aged.
Incontinentia urinæ ; enuresis.
Must urinate every hour or two, night and day.
Urine has an oily, iridescent film on it.
Urine scanty, reddish, in colic ; bloody.
Blennorrhœa urethræ.
Itching of orifice of urethra.

Male sexual organs

Unusual erections while at dinner.
Male parts weak, frequent emissions. θ Onanism.
Spongy, sycotic warts.
Gonorrhœa ; gonorrhœa preputialis ; gleet.
Shooting pain from middle line of belly, as along a thread, down into penis.
Cutting pain in left side of penis.

Female sexual organs

Affections of left ovary with troublesome constipation.
Insupportable pain near left groin, towards region of ovary.
Weight of uterus presses down collum ; granulations of vagina ; leucorrhœa copious ; emaciation, yellow complexion.
Indurations of uterus, even scirrhus.
Ulcers of uterus.
Discharge of coagula from uterus (and rectum). θ Typhus.
Menses scanty, watery ; during catamenia, hands weak.
Metrorrhagia with atony.
Vagina very sensitive, narrowed by swellings of various size.
Pruritus vaginæ.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Faintish weakness during pregnancy, no vomiting ; flushing, followed by throbbing of heart.
Flooding after childbirth.
(OBS :) Cancer of mamma.
Sore, inflamed nipples.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness ; voice shrill, cannot talk loud ; < from talking.
Voice sometimes high, sometimes low.
Voice entirely lost.
Talking increases hoarseness, causes tickling cough.
Scratching in larynx as from dust, roughness, brings up much clear much.
Epidemic membranous croup.
Constrictive feeling in windpipe.
Bronchitis.

Respiration

Inclined to take a deep breath.
Cannot take a full breath.
Oppression of chest, with colic.
Breathing oppressed, anxious, as from a heavy stone in chest.
Tightness across upper part of chest.
Rapid, short breathing with uneasiness in stomach.

Cough

With cough scraping in throat.
Dry cough in evening after lying down.
Cough from tickling in larynx caused by talking.
Coughs a long time every morning, with scratching in middle of sternum, pain in groin, in region of ovary. θ Whooping-cough.
Cough immediately after rising, excited by a tickling in throat ; < during, > after, breakfast.
Chronic morning cough of old people.
Sputa : ropy (bronchitis and phthisis), scanty.
Atonic hæmoptysis.
(OBS :) Phthisis.

Inner chest and lungs

Pain under clavicle and right shoulder when inhaling.
Stinging from upper chest through to back, awakens at night.
When bending, sore pain under right nipple or in left chest.
Feeling of weakness in lower part of chest and in abdomen.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Feels warm in left side opposite shoulder, also very tired.
At times feels well, then, when beginning to think of her disease, she feels the heart beat, and yet to the hand it seems to beat very little stronger than natural, and at other times motion is scarcely perceptible ; sometimes contractions are frequent, at others seldom.
Violent palpitation from a throbbing in epigastrium extending to heart.
Palpitation from mental excitement.
Rapid, violent palpitation, < lying on right side, or a length of time in one position.
Palpitation in attacks.
Dilatation of heart.
Pain from heart to lower part of right leg.
Pulse frequent with fever ; slow or threadlike with colic ; intermitting.
Strong pulsation through whole body.

Outer chest

Chest sore and tender to touch above clavicle and over second or third rib, left side.

Neck and back

Spine weak ; evening.
Feels as if cold water was poured down back, with headache.
Pain where shoulder blade ends, near spine, right side.
A warm, cramplike feeling below hips, going up left side.
Pain all evening on both sides of spine on a line with inferior angles of scapulæ, with every deep inhalation.

Upper limbs

Weakness in shoulders, > bending forward.
Pain in left shoulder ; > from motion.
Feels as if a cord was drawn tightly around upper arm, causing pain in lines from ligature Trembling and twitching of arms.
Right wrist feels sprained.
Hands weak, dropping things. θ During menses.
Pains in hands with other suffering.

Lower limbs

Pains in limbs, particularly at night.
Lassitude, numbness.
Bruised pain when standing.
Feels as if a cord was tied around leg under knee.
Cramps in calves.
Soles sensitive to pressure, when walking.
Stitches in right big toe.
Feet numb and cold, although covered up warm in bed.
Legs cold from knees down.
Frozen feet.
(OBS :) Ingrowing toe nails.

Limbs in general

Bruised pains.
Crawling, tingling.
Cold hands and feet with stomachache.

Rest. position. motion

Lying on back : vertigo ; pressing followed by throbbing in stomach.
Lying down : dry cough in evening.
Lying on right side : palpitation worse.
Lying in one position long : palpitation worse.
Turning on right side : relieves vertigo.
Standing still : pain in scrobiculum > ; bruised feeling in limbs.
Motion : of eyelids, bruised feeling of orbit ; pain in left shoulder better.
Bending : sore pain in chest ; weakness in shoulders better.
Cannot get up : pain in small of back.
Can hardly hold head up : with fever.
Walking hold head up : with fever.
Walking : colic worse ; soles sensitive.

Nerves

Trembling, after rising, most in arms ; excited.
Trembling with pain as if beaten.
Nervous tremor and excitability of feeling as if agitated by unpleasant news.
Weak. θ Typhus.
Weak and relaxed in stomach, abdomen and all the limbs.
Tired, faint, as if he would fall from his seat, forenoon.

Sleep

Light sleep, hears every little noise.
Cannot get to sleep on account of orgasm.
Anxiety at night, nausea, headache.
Sleepless from fever. θ Colic.
Wakened by stinging in chest.
Disturbed by nightmare, 4 A. M.

Time

Night : heat in ears and face ; squalmish when awaking ; itching lump in anus worse ; stinging in chest ; pain in limbs ; anxiety, nausea and headache.
Night and day : must urinate.
Forenoon : pains in head change from place to place ; tired and faint ; internal heat.
Evening : jerking in left forehead ; tongue burns ; pressing and throbbing in stomach ; itching at anus ; dry cough ; spine week ; pain on both sides of spine.
Morning : pain in head on awaking ; spat coagulated blood after rising ; nausea, fainting, giddiness and chilliness ; coughs a long time.
At 4 A. M. : nightmare.

Temperature and weather

Very sensitive to cold.
After taking cold, has a sore throat.
While washing, chest pains.
Exposure to air : roughens and chaps skin.

Fever

Chill : metallic taste, slight nausea, palpitation ; pain striking from heart across to lower extremity of right lung ; sensation as of cold water poured down back, and numbing coldness of feet, though covered warmly in bed ; deathlike faintness with chill.
Chilly with sick stomach.
Coldness followed by headache.
Coldness of skin followed by heat and tingling.
Fever with intense thirst, nausea, etc.
Inward heat throughout body, in forehead.
Warm creeps over belly.
Chilliness, and another time inward heat.
Coldness with stomach pain, followed by heat with rush of blood to head ; can hardly hold it up.

Attacks, periodicity

Sudden attacks disappearing quickly : of beating or fluttering of heart.
Nausea, flushes, cramps, etc., disappear soon, return quickly.
Same hour, 3 P. M., pain in arm.
Every other morning : nausea, faintness and weakness, with restlessness and excitement.
Every hour or two : must urinate.

Locality and direction

Right : eye squints towards nose ; pain under shoulder ; soreness under nipple when bending ; pain to leg through heart ; pain near spine ; wrist feels sprained ; stitches in big toe.
Right to left : itching on border of eyelids.
Left : jerking in forehead ; heat in side of face ; nasal polypus ; pain in jaw ; pain in scrobiculum ; cutting side of penis ; affection of ovary ; pain in groin ; pain in chest when bending ; soreness about clavicle and second and third
ribs ; warm feeling from hips up side ; pain in shoulder.
Above downward : warm creeps in abdomen ; pains from rectum to thighs ; shooting from belly to penis ; pain from heart to right leg ; feeling as of water being poured down back.
Front to back : stinging in upper chest.
Diagonally : pain from heart to right leg.
Below upward : warm sensation from hips.

Sensations

As if agitated by unpleasant news ; sinking faint feeling in stomach ; warm creeps running down abdomen ; relaxed feeling in abdomen ; pain in limbs as if beaten ; as from a heavy stone in chest ; uneasiness in stomach ; as if cold water was
poured down back ; warm cramplike feeling below hips ; as if a cord was drawn tightly around upper arm ; as if a cord was tied around leg under knee ; as if he would fall from his seat, faint.
Pain : in left articulation of jaw close to ears, to left of scrobiculum ; from rectum down thighs ; in groin ; in ovary ; under clavicle and right shoulder ; from heart to lower part of right leg ; where shoulder blade ends ; in both sides of
spine ; in left shoulder ; in hands ; in limbs.
Jerking : in left forehead.
Burning : in lids ; in tongue ; in throat ; in stomach ; low down and in small of back ; in anus.
Shooting : through temples ; from middle line of belly as along as thread down into penis.
Cutting : in left side of penis.
Stitches : in tip of tongue.
Stinging : in vertex ; in temple ; in tip of tongue ; in rectum ; from upper chest through to back ; in chest.
Prickling : in throat.
Sore pain : under right nipple.
Bruised feeling : orbit of left eye ; in lower limbs ; joints of arms ; hands and feet.
Sprained feeling : in right wrist.
Scraping : in throat.
Scratching : in middle of sternum.
Pressing : on top of head ; in stomach.
Throbbing : in epigastrium ; in stomach ; in anus ; through whole body.
Tightness : across chest.
Constriction : in œsophagus ; in windpipe.
Contractive sensation : deep in pelvis.
Cramps : in calves.
Neuralgia : of throat.
Crawling tingling : in limbs.
Tingling : in skin.
Itching burning : on border of lower limbs.
Itching : in eyelids ; in small lump at anus ; of orifice of urethra ; of scrotum ; of shoulder.
Tickling : in larynx.
Heaviness : in stomach ; in abdomen.
Fulness : in pit of stomach ; in abdomen.
Faintish weakness : during pregnancy.
Weakness : in lower chest and abdomen ; in shoulders.
Heat : in ears ; in left side of face ; from stomach ; in left side opposite shoulder ; in skin.
Coldness : of skin.
Dryness : of nostrils and choanæ ; of throat ; of skin.

Tissues

Hemorrhages from leech bites, extracting teeth, etc.
Parenchymatous bleeding from mouth, gums, nose, uterus.
Mucous membrane : dry in nose, on tongue, in mouth, larynx.
Emaciation.
Joints of arms, hands and feet feel bruised.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : abdomen sensitive ; tenderness of upper left chest.
Slight scratches bleed.
After extracting teeth, profuse bleeding.
After cataract operation, prolapse of iris.
After metallic pessaries, scirrhus.
Pressure relieves or increases colic.
In powdered substance or solutions, in burns or scalds, after a plunge of arm in boiling oil.
Pressure : causes bruised feeling in orbit ; relieves pain in scrobiculum ; colic better.

Skin

Itching in eyelids, anus, scrotum and shoulder.
Skin dry ; exposed to air, rough and chapped.
Rough skin all over body and face. θ Nasal polypus.
Furuncles on body, on thighs.
Ulceration less after a burning, or such as remain after different other applications to skin.
Fungous granulations.
Proud flesh.
Chilblains.
Indolent ulcers.
Scorbutic ulcers.

Stage of life, constitution

Old people. θ Disease of the bladder. See 21 .
Children, profuse bronchial catarrh.

Relations

Similar to its relatives, Aluminium, Alumina , etc., and to : Aloes (rectum) ; Capsic . (long uvula) ; Ferrum (relaxed
abdominal walls, prolapsed uterus, etc.) ; Ferr. jod . (leucorrhœa and prolapsus) ; Kali bichr . (stringy discharges from mucous membranes) ; Mercur . (prolapsed vaginia,
uterus and rectum ; tenesmus of rectum, etc.) ; Merc. corr . (burning and tenesmus of rectum) ; Mur. ac . (fluttering of heart, anal pains after stool with fissures) ; Nitr. ac .
(ulcers ; cancer recti ; hemorrhages from all orifices ; clots from rectum in typhoid ; tenesmus, fissures, etc., of rectum) ; Nux vom . (rectum) ; Opium ; Plumbum (colic ; tenesmus
of rectum ; granular lids, etc.) ; Ratan . (fissure of rectum) ; Stannum (prolapsed vagina) ; Sulphur (pain through left lung, etc.) ; Sulph.
ac . (hemorrhages, etc.) ; Zinc. met. et. sulph . (eyelids ; ulcers of cervix uteri ; colic, etc.)
Antidote to : lead poisoning ; calomel and other mercurial preparations : Aloes (for vomiting of blood).
Antidoted by : Chamom . (cramps in abdomen) ; Nux vom. ; Ipec . (nausea and faintness) ; Sulphur .