A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy
Aloe Socotrina aloe.
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.