Materia Medica de A a Z

ALUMINA (Alum)

Region

SPINAL CORD, lumbar. Abdomen, left. RECTUM. Lower limbs. Mucus membranes. Skin.

Worse

WARMTH; ROOM, bed. Foods (Artificial. Potatoes). Speaking. Dry weather. Early on awaking. Sitting. After menses.

Better

Evening. Open air. Moderate (Exertion. Temperature).

General

Thin, inactive; inclines to lie down. Paretic effects. Talking is exhausting. Exhaustion after menses. DRYNESS; of mucous surfaces, eyes, throat, rectum, etc., or irritability and relaxation. Scanty, thick, acrid discharges [Hyds. Hydr)]. Mucus discharges, profuse: before menses, leucorrhoa runs to feet; expectoration. Induration. Chronicity..................... Illusions of being larger, numb, smooth, heavy, time passing too slowly, etc. Hasty, but slow of execution, hence mistakes in speaking, writing, etc. Peevish. Depressive mental states. Depressed, on awaking. Timorous; fears his own impulses; the sight of knives; loss of reason, etc. Bad memory. Vertigo, agg. talking. Violent stitches in brain. Dry, falling hair. Weak eyelids. Double squint; agg. teething. Inflamed, burning eyes. Hot, red ear. Dusky wrinkled, old look. As of white of egg or a cobweb on face. Teeth feel long; pain extends to other parts (Kali-bi). Twitching low jaw (Gels). Uvula hangs down. Throat feels full of sticks or constricted. Craves coarse foods (Calc). Big bellied children. Pains from rectum to ankle. Inactive rectum and bladder; strains to pass a soft stool; hard ones cause severe cutting. Stools of small balls, hard knots or bright clots of blood. Must strain at stool to urinate; slow flow. Tickling in sexual organs; increased desire. Profuse leucorrhoa. Constant, dry, hacking cough; interrupts breathing; with sneezing. Sudden loss of voice. As of a hot iron thrust through lower spine. Heavy lower limbs; staggering. Festination. Locomotor ataxia. Totters, if eyes are closed. Painful soles. Gnawing under nails. Bones feel squeezed. Dry, rough, cracked skin. Itching burning over seat of pain. Intolerable itching from heat of bed. Eczema. Chilliness; amel. open air. Heat, with itching.

Antidotes: Cad-m. (Cadm-met), Jaborand (Jab).

Related: Bry, Plb.