Alumina alum.

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

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

Evening. Open air. Moderate: Exertion. Temperature.

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.). Mucus discharges, profuse: before menses, leucorrhœa 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, < talking. Violent stitches in brain. Dry, falling hair. Weak eyelids. Double squint; < 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 (Gel.). Uvula hangs down. Throat feels full of sticks or constricted. Craves coarse foods (Calc-c.). 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 leucorrhœa. 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; > open air. Heat, with itching.

Antidotes: Cad-m. Jaborand. Related: Bry. Plb.

Adapted to persons who suffer from chronic diseases; "the Aconite of chronic diseases.". Constitutions deficient in animal heat (Cal., Sil.). Spare, dry, thin subjects; dark complexion; mild, cheerful disposition; hypochondriacs; dry, tettery, itching eruption, worse in winter (Petr.); intolerable itching of whole body when getting warm in bed (Sulph.); scratches until bleeds, then becomes painful. Time passes too slowly; an hour seems half a day (Can. Ind.). Inability to walk, except with the eyes open, and in the daytime; tottering and falling when closing eyes (Arg. n., Gels.). Abnormal appetite; craving for starch, chalk, charcoal, cloves, coffee or tea grounds, acids and indigestible things (Cic., Psor.); potatoes disagree. Chronic eructations for years; worse in evening. All irritating things - salt, wine, vinegar, pepper - immediately produce cough. Constipation: no desire for and no ability to pass stool until there is a large accumulation (Melil.); great straining, must grasp the seat of closet tightly; stool hard, knotty, like laurel berries, covered with mucus; of soft, clayey, adhering to parts (Plat.). Inactivity of rectum, even soft stool requires great straining (Anac., Plat., Sil., Ver.). Constipation: of nursing children, from artificial food; bottle-fed babies; of old people (Lyc., Op.); of pregnancy, from inactive rectum (Sep.). Diarrhoea when she urinates. Has to strain at stool in order to urinate. Leucorrhoea: acrid and profuse, running down to the heels (Syph.); worse during the daytime; > by cold bathing. After menses: exhausted physically and mentally, scarcely able to speak (Carbo an., Coc.). Talking fatigues; faint and tired, must sit down.

Complementary: to Bryonia. Follows: Bry., Lach., Sulph. Alumina is the chronic of Bryonia. Similar: to Bar. c., Con., in ailments of old people.

In cold air; during winter; while sitting; from eating potatoes; after eating soups; on alternate days; at new and full moon.

Mild summer weather; form warm drinks; while eating (Psor.); in wet weather (Caust.). Alumina is one of the chief antidotes for lead poisoning; painter's colic; ailments from lead.

Peculiarities about the rectum and stool afford hints to the use of this remedy. For instance, when there is inactivity of the rectum, requiring great straining to evacuate even a soft stool. No desire to stool for days, sometimes a week, until there is a large accumulation, and then evacuation seems only after great effort. Even if the accumulated stool be very soft, the same effort is required to pass it. One must strain at stool in order to urinate. We see this in dysentery, typhus, and in many other disorders, when Alumina will be very likely the remedy.

Confusion of intellect, loss of memory, time passes too slowly. Seeing knives or scissors she is seized with desire for suicide. Sad thoughts constantly crowd upon the mind; everything is viewed in a sad light. Very changeable mood the same day, alternating from vivacity to thoughtfulness, full of assurance, great timidity. Fears of losing the reason. All mental symptoms worse on waking in the morning. Has a sensation as if he would fall forwards, which he greatly fears.

Vertigo on opening the eyes; everything turns with him in a circle; with white stars. Headache with constipation, vertex is painful to touch. Nape of the neck and head ache on going to bed, cease in the morning on rising. Semi-lateral affections of the head; old rheumatic affections always on same side.

The eyes are agglutinated on waking in the morning, and burn on being opened, with dread of light. Dimsightedness, which obliges her to wipe her eyes constantly, to sec better. Eyes inflamed, itching at the inner canthus, agglutination at night, and lachrymation by day; yellow halo around the candle. Eyelids thickened, dry, burning, granular lids. The left upper eyelid hangs down as if paralyzed. Dryness and burning of the eyes and lids, dry mucus in the lids and eyes.

Affections of the external ears. Stitches in the ears at night, purulent otorrhœa. Heat and redness of the ear for many evenings, roaring in the ears in the evening.

The septum of the nose is swollen, red, and painful to the touch. Swelling and hardness of the left ala of the nose. Soreness with scabs in the right nostril, with a discharge of much thick, yellow mucus, or pus. Impaired sense of smell. Scurfy, sore nostrils, with discharge of thick, yellow, or yellow-green mucus. Acrid nasal secretions. Ozena, with violent pain in root of the nose. Red nose; point cracked.

The skin of the face feels tense, as if the white of an egg or glue had dried upon it. Involuntary chattering of the lower jaw, with hæmorrhage of the bowels, dark offensive stools.

Toothache, extending to other parts, down the larynx; down the neck and shoulders. Taste insipid, tongue coated with a thin, slimy fur. Increased saliva and mucus, although the mouth may feel dry.

Inflammatory redness in the back part of throat, with thick, viscid mucus. Thick, viscid mucus, from the posterior nares. It is difficult to detach and spit out either of the above. After clearing the throat with so much difficulty, it feels very sore. Stitch in the throat, shooting here and there, on swallowing, and something pointed seems to stick in the throat in the evening. Sensation of constriction, with violent pain, as if a portion of the œsophagus were contracted, sometimes during deglutition, and sometimes not, when swallowing. Can swallow but small morsels at a time. Painful ulcers in the fauces, secreting a brown, badly-smelling pus. Painful deglutition, better after warm drinks. Sensation as of a splinter in the throat.

No appetite, sour eructations, heartburn, food no taste. Appetite for starch, chalk, slate, white rags, charcoal, cloves, acids, coffee or tea-grounds, dry rice, and other indigestible things. Worse from eating potatoes and all irritating things, likewise salt, vinegar, pepper, etc., which produce a cough. Constriction and twisting in the stomach, extending up the œsophagus to the throat. Aversion to meat.

Sticking, pressive pain in the region of the abdominal rings, as if a hernia would protrude there. Left side of the abdomen most frequently affected, Painters' colic.

Inactivity of the rectum requiring great straining to evacuate even a soft, small stool. No desire to stool for days, until there is a large accumulation, and then great effort is necessary to evacuate. One must strain at stool in order to urinate. Itching and burning at the anus; often feels as if excoriated and very sore after an evacuation. Dropping of blood during an evacuation, and often a stream of blood follows, leaving a soreness; typhus fever. Firm, hard, scanty stools, with pain in the anus and difficulty of evacuation. Hard, knotty stools, covered with mucus. Small stools, sometimes like pipestems (also Phosphor). Moist, hæmorrhoidal protrusion, with lancinating pain. Cannot urinate without passing stool Diarrhœa with scanty stools, with urging in the rectum, blood frequently, passing, often leaving a sore, raw feeling. Green stools in summer complaints.

Feeling of weakness in the bladder and genital organs. Fears he will wet the bed. Urine voided when straining at stool. Smarting, corroding urine, with a thick, white sediment.

Male: Involuntary seminal emissions, arousing all his old symptoms. Discharge of prostatic fluid during a difficult stool. Female: Prolapsus uteri, ulcerated os. Very abundant acrid leucorrhœa, excoriating all the adjacent parts, sometimes running down the limbs, making walking difficult, relieved by cold water. Leucorrhœa before and after the menses. Menses too soon, too short, scanty, pale, and painful. After the menses great mental and bodily exhaustion. Throbbing, itching, and stitches in the vagina. Burning and itching about the generative organs, internally and externally.

Dry hacking cough, day or night, sometimes with dryness of the throat. Hoarse and hollow voice from spinal affections. Dry cough, early every morning, until a little white mucus is raised. Dry, hacking cough, from elongated uvula; with vomiting; with sneezing. When stooping, a stitching pain runs from the left side of the abdomen to the middle of the chest. Talking or lifting increases the soreness in the chest. Frequent attacks of palpitation of the heart.

Pain in the back, as if a hot iron were thrust through the lower vertebræ. Violent stitches in the middle of the back. The cervical muscles draw the head back during sleep. Many spinal complaints are cured by this remedy.

Upper: Brittle nails and brittle skin on fingers. Much pain in shoulders, arms, and fingers. Lower: Great heaviness in lower limbs; when walking, he staggers and has to sit down. When sitting, the nates go to sleep. In the thighs and legs, long continued tension, like a cramp, extending downwards. Trembling of the knees. Frequent cramps in the calves. Numbness of the heel on stepping upon the foot. Soles of the feet too sore to step upon. Faint and tired, must sit down. Many troubles from spinal affections.

Restless sleep, always awakening with palpitation of the heart. Tired and drowsy. Confused, anxious dreams; dreams about thieves.

Intolerable itching of the whole body, especially when becoming heated from any cause, even in bed; has to scratch until the skin bleeds. Chapped skin. Boils or itching exanthemata on perineum. Brittle nails.

Sensation of throbbings, and pulsations in inner parts. Great and tremulous lassitude of the whole body. Spasms, with laughing and talking between the paroxysms. Very marked fatigue on talking. So excessively faint and tired, must lie or sit down. Patient improves for a time, then relapses.

On alternate days, in the afternoon, in a warm room. From eating potatoes.

In the open air.

Bryon.

Bryon., Chamom., Ipec.

Inactivity of the rectum, oven soft stool requires great straining. No desire for and no ability to pass stool, until there is a large accumulation. Profuse, transparent, acrid leucorrhoea running down to the feet during the day.

Oxide et Aluminum-Argilla

A very general condition corresponding to this drug is dryness of mucous membranes and skin, and tendency to paretic muscular states. Old people, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility. Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering, and the characteristic constipation find an excellent remedy in Alumina. Disposition to colds in the head, and eructations in spare, dry, thin subjects. Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods.

Low-spirited; fears loss of reason. Confused as to personal identity. Hasty, hurried. Time passes slowly. Variable mood. Better as day advances. Suicidal tendency when seeing knife or blood.

Stitching, burning pain in head, with vertigo, worse in morning, but relieved by food. Pressure in forehead as from a tight hat. Inability to walk except with eyes open. Throbbing headache, with constipation. Vertigo, with nausea; better after breakfast. Falling out of hair; scalp itches and is numb.

Objects look yellow. Eyes feel cold. Lids dry, burn, smart, thickened, aggravated in morning; chronic conjunctivitis. Ptosis. Strabismus.

Humming; roaring. Eustachian tube feels plugged.

Pain at root of nose. Sense of smell diminished. Fluent coryza. Point of nose cracked, nostrils sore, red; worse touch. Scabs with thick yellow mucus. Tettery redness. Ozœna atrophica sicca. Membranes distended and boggy.

Feels as if albuminous substance had dried on it. Blood-boils and pimples. Twitching of lower jaw. Rush of blood to face after eating.

Sore. Bad odor from it. Teeth covered with sordes. Gums sore, bleeding. Tensive pain in articulation of jaw when opening mouth or chewing.

Dry, sore; food cannot pass, œsophagus contracted. Feels as if splinter or plug were in throat. Irritable, and relaxed throat. Looks parched and glazed. Clergyman's sore throat in thin subjects. Thick, tenacious mucus drops from posterior nares. Constant inclination to clear the throat.

Abnormal cravings-chalk, charcoal, dry food, tea-grounds. Heartburn; feels constricted. Aversion to meat (Graph; Arn; Puls). Potatoes disagree. No desire to eat. Can swallow but small morsels at a time. Constriction of œsophagus.

Colic, like painter's colic. Pressing in both groins toward sexual organs. Left-sided abdominal complaints.

Hard dry, knotty; no desire. Rectum sore, dry, inflamed, bleeding. Itching and burning at anus. Even a soft stool is passed with difficulty. Great straining. Constipation of infants (Collins; Psor; Paraf) and old people from inactive rectum, and in women of very sedentary habit. Diarrhœa on urinating. Evacuation preceded by painful urging long before stool, and then straining at stool.

Muscles of bladder paretic, must strain at stool in order to urinate. Pain in kidneys, with mental confusion. Frequent desire to urinate in old people. Difficult starting.

Excessive desire. Involuntary emissions when straining at stool. Prostatic discharge.

Menses too early, short, scanty, pale, followed by great exhaustion (Carb an; Coccul). Leucorrhœa acrid, profuse transparent, ropy, with burning; worse during daytime, and after menses. Relieved by washing with cold water.

Cough soon after waking in the morning. Hoarse, aphonia, tickling in larynx; wheezing, rattling respiration. Cough on talking or singing, in the morning. Chest feels constricted. Condiments produce cough. Talking aggravates soreness of chest.

Stitches. Gnawing pain, as if from hot iron. Pain along cord, with paralytic weakness.

Pain in arm and fingers, as if hot iron penetrated. Arms feel paralyzed. Legs feel asleep, especially when sitting with legs crossed. Staggers on walking. Heels feel numb. Soles tender; on stepping, feel soft and swollen. Pain in shoulder and upper arm. Gnawing beneath finger nails. Brittle nails. Inability to walk, except when eyes are open or in daytime. Spinal degenerations and paralysis of lower limbs.

Restless; anxious and confused dreams. Sleepy in morning.

Chapped and dry tettery. Brittle nails. Intolerable itching when getting warm in bed. Must scratch until it bleeds; then becomes painful. Brittle skin on fingers.

Worse, periodically; in afternoon; from potatoes. Worse, in morning on awaking; warm room. Better, in open air; from cold washing; in evening and on alternate days. Better damp weather.

Compare: Aluminum chloridum (Pains of loco-motor ataxia. Lower trits in water). Slag Silico-Sulphocalcite of Alumina 3x (anal itching, piles, constipation, flatulent distention); Secale; Lathyr; Plumb. Aluminum acetate solution. Externally a lotion for putrid wounds and skin infections. Arrests hæmorrhage from inertia of uterus. Parenchymatous hæmorrhage from various organs-23 % solution. Hæmorrhage following tonsillectomy is controlled by rinsing out nasopharynx with a 10 % sol.

Complementary: Bryonia.

Antidotes: Ipecac; Chamom.

Sixth to thirtieth and higher. Action slow in developing.

Inactivity of the rectum; even the soft stool requires great straining.

Anæmia in women, who are hungry for starch, chalk, rags, charcoal, cloves and other ridiculous unnatural; things; potatoes disagree, profuse leucorrhœa.

Great heaviness in lower limbs, weak, has to sit down; numbness of heels; sense of hot iron thrust through back.

The chief characteristic leading to the use or this remedy is found in its peculiar constipation. "Inactivity of the rectum, even the soft stool requires great straining." Like Bryonia, there is no desire for stool and the constipation seems to depend upon dryness of the mucous follicles. Again it is adapted to dry, spare subjects. There are other points of resemblance between these two remedies and they complement each other well. There are both excellent in infantile constipation, which is often a very obstinate affection to treat. Anacardium, Sepia, Silicea and Veratrum album are nearest of kin in this lack of expulsive power in the rectum.

Alumina is one of our remedies in chlorotic conditions. The patient is pale, weak, tired, must sit down to rest. The menses are scanty, delayed, and are pale colored when they come, and after the menses the patient is exhausted and pale. (Carbo an. and Cocculus.) Then, again, there is profuse leucorrhœa sometimes running down to the heels if she does not wear a cloth. (Syphilinum.) It is as profuse as the menses ought to be. These anæmic patients are often hungry for starch, chalk, rags, charcoal, cloves and other ridiculous and unnatural things. Alumina is a great remedy in such cases. The Natrum mur. chlorotic couldn't eat bread, or had an aversion to it. The Alumina patient can't eat potatoes; they disagree. Pulsatilla can't eat fat food, pastries, etc. Alumina resembles Pulsatilla in chronic nasal catarrhs, and both are of tearful temperament, but the constitutions are different. Alumina being dry and thin, Pulsatilla phlegmatic. One thing I forgot to mention under stool and rectum, viz., Alumina is one of the best remedies for hæmorrhages of the bowels in typhoid fever. The blood comes in large clots looking solid like liver. This remedy is also very efficacious in chronic sore throats, like clergyman's sore throat. There is "soreness, rawness, hoarseness and dryness." This dryness excites a continual disposition to hawk, and after a long time the patient raises a little thick, tough phlegm. This kind of throat is temporarily relieved by warm food and drinks. The remedy nearest to this is Argentum nitricum, but in Argentum there are wart-like excrescences or granulations in the throat. Both remedies have a sensation of a splinter in the throat, as do also Hepar sulphuricum, Dolichos and Nitric acid.

Alumina has also a sensation of constriction in the throat and œsophagus. It hurts to swallow. Alumina is recommended for the following symptoms, which often appear in locomotor ataxia: "Great heaviness in the lower limbs; can scarcely drag them; while walking staggers and has to sit down; in the evening." "Inability to walk except with the eyes open and in the day time." Numbness of the heel when stepping." "Excessively faint and tired, must sit down." "Pain in the back as if a hot iron were thrust through the vertebræ." I give these on the authority of others, for I have never verified them. I will add here the value of Alumen.

Easily offended. Disposition to shed tears. Anxious and full of fears. Alternate vivacity and thoughtfulness. Great weakness of memory and inability to think coherently.

Reeling vertigo, as if he would fall over, with a faint feeling or nausea early in the morning, disappearing after breakfast. Vertigo, with white stars before the eyes. Pressing headache in the forehead, over the eyes, with congestion of blood to the eyes and nose, with a chill when walking in the open air ; better after lying or eating. Pulsations in the head (vertex) with congestions to the eyes and nose. Stitches in the brain, with nausea. The headache is worse in the evening and when walking in the open air ; better after lying down and after eating.

Stitches in the eyes. Sensation of coldness in the eyes and eyelids. Swelling of the eyelids. Inclination to stare. Squinting. Spasmodic contraction of the eyelids at night, with violent pain on opening the eyes. Dim-sightedness, as from a mist, compelling him to rub the eyes. The eyes water during the day, agglutination at night.

Stitches in the (left) ear (evening). One ear hot and red (in the evening).

Soreness and scabs in the nose, with discharge of thick low mucus. Swelling and redness. Frequent attacks of coryza. Ozæna.

Tension on the face, as if the white of an egg had dried on the skin. Bulbous swellings and blood-boils on the face and nose.

Sensation of soreness in the mouth when eating.

Sensation of constriction in the œsophagus when swallowing. Sensation, as if the œsophagus were contracted when swallowing a small morsel of food ; -it is felt until it enters into the stomach. Great dryness of the throat. The pains in the throat are worse in the evening and at night, and are relieved by warm food and drinks.

Sour eructations. Nausea, with faintness. Constriction of the Stomach, extending to the œsophagus.

Painter's colic.

Difficult evacuations from want of peristaltic motion of the intestines ; even the soft stool can only be passed by great pressing. Constipation of pregnant women, children and painters. Diarrhœa with tenesmus. Discharges of dark blood when walking, or in typhus fever, or with a hard stool. Humidity of hæmorrhoidal tumors. Itching at the anus.

Frequent ineffectual desire to urinate : the urine can only be passed during a stool. Increased secretion and frequent discharge of pale, water-colored urine.

Women. Menstruation too early, too short and too scanty ; blood pale. Before and during menstruation, pain in the abdomen. Fluor albus acrid, excoriating, transparent mucus before and after menstruation.

Dry, short cough, especially in the morning, with dyspnœa. Cough, with expectoration, in the morning. Hoarseness, especially in the afternoon and evening.

Pressing pain in the chest, at night. Constriction in the chest, when stooping.

Pain in the back, as if a hot iron were thrust through the lower vertebræ. Stitches in the back.

Paralytic lameness of the arms. Pain in the arm, down to the fingers, as if a hot iron were thrust through it. Rhagades on the hands.

The legs feel numb, as if asleep, especially at night.

Great debility and weakness, especially when talking (a short walk fatigues him much). Spasms, with attacks of laughing and weeping. Involuntary motions (jerks of the head and other parts). Unpleasant want of animal heat. Illusive sensations ; some parts of the body feel as if they had become larger. While sitting, frequent stretching of the limbs (as from drowsiness). Sensation constriction in internal organs (œsophagus, stomach, rectum, bladder). Great heaviness in the legs and arms.

Pulse full and accelerated. Chill, generally in the evening, in bed, or near the warm stove ; often with heat of the face. During the day, chill ; during the night, fever. Heat in the evening, which spreads from the face ; at times only over the right side of the body. Perspiration at night, or more towards morning, in bed ; mostly in the face, or on one side of the face. Inability to perspire.

Tetters itching in the evening. Humid scabs. Rhagades. Brittle nails. Chapped skin and bulbous eruptions.

Aggravation, on alternate days. The skin symptoms at each full and new moon ; periodically ; in the afternoon ; while sitting in a room ; while urinating ; from eating potatoes. Amelioration, daring moderate exercise ; in the open air ; on alternate days.

Argilla. Oxide of Aluminium. Pure Clay. AL 2 O 3 3 H 2 O. Trituration.

Anus, affections of . Boils. Bubo. Catarrh. Chlorosis. Constipation . Constipation of nursing infants. Cough . Disappointments, effects of. Dysentery. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Eyes, affections of. Fissures. Fistula. Headache. Hernia. Irritation. Leucorrhœa. Locomotor ataxy. Nails, affections of . Otorrhœa. Ozæna. Paralysis. Pregnancy, constipation of. Pregnancy, toothache of. Prostatorrhœa. Rhagades. Scrofula. Strabismus. Taste, disordered. Tetters, moist and itching. Throat, affections of. Trismus. Typhus.

Like its relative Alumen, Alumina produces irritation of mucous membranes with dryness or extreme secretion and paralysis of involuntary muscles, as those of the rectum and of the nervous and muscular systems generally. Alumina paralyses the bowels in the same way as lead, to which it is an antidote. Even small and soft stools are passed with great difficulty. Pregnant women and children are liable to this kind of constipation. A very prominent characteristic is that a person must strain at stool in order to urinate . Teste groups Alumina with Sepia and Copaiva . He considers it the chronic of Sepia as Silic . is of Puls . Paralysis of the internal rectus muscle of the eye, causing squint. Also ptosis. Drawing, pains appear in the limbs; a sensation of constriction in several organs. Several painful symptoms show themselves after the midday meal, and continue till evening, when they disappear or are replaced by others which begin only then. On the other hand the pains which appear in the morning or in the evening are abated after eating. Trembling, convulsive movements of the limbs and head; spasms, with tears and laughter alternately. There is exaltation of the whole nervous system. Trembling of the whole body with desire to lie down, which, however, < the fatigue. Great general fatigue, even after a short walk, but chiefly after speaking. Frequent stretching while sitting. The nates go to sleep while sitting. Drags legs (especially left). Many of the symptoms of locomotor ataxy are reproduced by Alumina , and it is one of the most useful remedies in that disease. Bœnninghausen cured a case with Aluminium . Sluggishness of action is characteristic of this medicine; urine is slow in passing; great straining to pass even a soft stool; can only evacuate bowels when standing; has to strain as if abdomen and rectum were paralysed. ( Caust . has defecation only when standing; but the straining is less.) Sensations are slow in being transmitted to the centres. In the mental sphere there is confusion. "When he says anything he feels as if another person had said it, and when he sees anything, as if another person had seen it, or as if he could transfer himself into another, and only then could see." A feeling of hurry follows, things do not move fast enough. Impulses. Suicidal tendency, a sudden impulse from seeing blood on a knife. Sad; apprehensive; wants to getaway; fears going crazy. Mental symptoms mostly come on in the morning on waking. Vertigo on closing eyes. Catarrh is a very general feature. Catarrh with dryness of mucous membranes. The throat looks parched and glazed. The nose is stopped, feels dry, and the point of it is cracked. Alm . has the fish-bone sensation in the throat on swallowing. There is profuse leucorrhœa running down to the heels, sometimes excoriating. As with the mucous membrane so with the skin: itching eruptions < from warmth of bed. Eruptions of all kinds, indurations, ulcers. Granular eyelids. Hairs fall out all over body. The skin of the face feels as if covered with dried white of egg, or as if a cobweb was on it. Fissures. Alumina has some curious symptoms in the digestive sphere. There is a craving for dry rice and dry food. It has < from starch, especially the starch of potatoes. < From salt, wine, vinegar, spirits. Burning pains in the back are very characteristic, and especially a sensation as if a hot iron were forced through the lower vertebræ.

There are pulsations in various parts. The pains go upward. Upper left; lower right affected (opposite of Lyc.).

The symptoms are < on alternate days; periodically. Guernsey describes a characteristic periodicity thus: "Patient gets along nicely for a time, then, from no apparent cause, gets worse for a time, then better, and soon a relapse may be worse than the original illness, another relapse not so bad, and so on with longer intervals between." In afternoons; at new or full moon; < in the morning on waking. < After coitus. < In cold air, out of doors; in dry weather. They are > by cold washing; by moistening the part; by warm food or drink; by warmth generally.

Alumina is suited to persons of sedentary habits who suffer from chronic ailments; to constitutions with diminished animal heat. Psoric persons. The action of Alumina is slow in developing, and the remedy must not be changed quickly.

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Consciousness not clear.
Consciousness of his personal identity confused. θ Paralysis.
Great weakness or loss of memory.
Inability to recollect things or follow up a train of thought. θ Cephalalgia.
Confusion and obscuration of intellect ; met. θ Spinal disease.
Makes mistakes in speaking, using words not intended.
Time passes too slowly ; intolerable ennui ; an hour seems half a day.
Difficulty of thinking.
Mania to kill himself with a sharp weapon.
Seeing blood on a knife, she has horrid ideas of killing herself, though she abhors the idea.
Crying, against his will.
No desire to do anything, especially anything serious. θ Cephalalgia.
Depressed and lachrymose. θ Melancholia.
Fearfulness.
Sad thoughts in morning, joyless and comfortless on awaking.
Low-spirited, trifling things appeared insurmountable. θ Liver complaint.
Apprehensiveness.
Apprehensive of losing his reason.
Uneasy evenings, as from impending evil.
Fears he is not to recover.
Dread of death, with thoughts of suicide.
Great anxiety, is fearful and peevish.
Anguish, oppressive and vague fearfulness, or uneasiness, as if he had committed a crime. θ Cephalalgia.
Anxiety as if threatened with an epileptic fit ; depressed with grief.
Variable mood, at one time confident, at another timid.
Disposition quiet and resigned ; met. θ Spinal disease.
Moroseness.
Peevish and whining, with hot earlobes.
Easily startled.
Sufferings following anger.
Mental symptoms worse in morning on awaking.

Quickly passing vertigo in morning.
Vertigo : everything turns in a circle ; with nausea ; < before breakfast ; on opening eyes ; on stooping ; > after breakfast, and from wiping eyes ; nausea,
faintness, pain in nape of neck ; as if drunken ; with seeing white stars ; when closing eyes.
Stupefaction, with dread of falling forward.
Heaviness of head, with pale, languid face.
Dulness and numbness of head.
Inability to walk, except with eyes open, and in daytime. θ Locomotor ataxia.
Cloudiness and drunken feeling, alternating with pain in kidneys.
Easily made drunk, even by weakest spirituous drink.
When his eyes were closed, his whole body tottered ; if not firmly held, he fell to ground ; met. θ Spinal disease.

Headache attended with nausea, pressure in forehead and congestion to eyes and nose, with nosebleed.
Pressure in forehead from without inward, or rather outward, or over eyes ; in evening, sometimes with a chill, or nocturnal heat or sweat.
Throbbing, frontal pain, < going up-stairs, or stepping.
Burning, pressive pain, with heat in forehead, while standing or sitting, > in open air.
Headache sometimes in left side, < by walking in open air.
Lacerating pain in head.
Severe stitches in brain, with nausea and dulness of mind.
Sensation in head as if its contents were in a vise, with a weight on top.
Headache : from chronic catarrhs of head ; with constipation ; > by lying quiet in bed, or resting head upon a cushion.
Heaviness of head, with pale, languid face ; vertex painful to touch.
Pulsations in vertex with congestion to eyes and nose.
Stupefying tightness in right temple, > by pressing upon it.
Heat in head.
Headache in region of both parietal bones. θ Spinal disease.
Pulsative headache in vertex, over right temple, early on waking.
Pain in vertex, < on moving head or stooping, > by pressure ; shooting in vertex on coughing.
Tightness, with drawing and beating in right side of occiput.
Pain in head and nape of neck, it increases on going to bed, and only leaves off in morning on rising.
Semilateral affections of head, old rheumatic affections, always appearing on same side.
Increased pulsation of temporal arteries. θ Spinal disease.

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This remedy comes in very nicely after Alumen, which has much Alumina in its nature and depends largely upon Alumina, which is its base, for its way of working.

It occurs to me to throw out a little hint. When you have a good substantial proving of an oxide or a carbonate, and the mental symptoms are well brought out, you can use these, in a measure in a presumptive way, in prescribing another salt, with the same base, which has a few mental symptoms in its proving.

For instance, you have a group of symptoms decidedly relating to Alumen.

The mental symptoms of Alumen, however, have not been brought out to any extent, but still you have the mental symptoms of the base of Alumen, which is the oxide, so that if the patient has the mental symptoms of Alumina and the physical symptoms of Alumen, you can rationally presume that Alumen will cure because of the Aluminum in each.

We know the mental symptoms of Alumina fairly well.

It especially takes hold of the intellect and so confuses the intelligence that the patient is unable to effect a decision; the judgment is disturbed.

He is unable to realize; the things that he knows or has known to be real seem to him to be unreal, and he is in doubt as to whether they are so or not.

In the Guiding Symptoms this is not so plainly expressed, but in the Chronic Diseases we have a record of this which is the best expression of it that occurs anywhere.

There we read:

"When he says anything he feels as if another person had said it, and when he sees anything, as if another person had seen it, or as if he could transfer himself into another and only then could see."

That is to say, there is a confusion of mind, a confusion of ideas and thoughts. It has cured these symptoms.

The consciousness of his personal identity is confused. He is not exactly certain who he was; it seemed as though he were not himself.

He is in a dazed condition of mind. He makes mistakes in writing and speaking! uses words not intended; uses wrong words.

Confusion and obscuration of e intellect. Inability to follow up a train of thought. Then he enters into another state, in which he gets into a hurry. Nothing moves fast enough; time seems so slow; everything is delayed; nothing goes right.

Besides this he has impulses. When he sees sharp instruments or blood, impulses rise up within him and he shudders because of these impulses. An instrument that could be used for murder or for killing causes these impulses to arise; impulse to kill herself.

The Alumina patient is very sad, constantly sad. Incessantly moaning; groaning, worrying, fretting and in a hurry.

Wants to get away; wants to get away from this place, hoping that things will be better; full of fears.

All sorts of imaginations. A sort of general apprehensiveness. When he meditates upon this state of mind he thinks he is going to lose his reason.

He thinks about this frenzy and hurry and confusion of mind, how he hardly knows his own name, and how fretful he is, and he wonders if he is not going crazy, and finally he really thinks he is going crazy.

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**Adapted to spare, dry, thin subjects of scrofulous habit, who suffer from chronic diseases; dark complexion; anxious, mild, tearful disposition; constitutions with lack of vital heat; old people; hypochondriacs.

Dry, tettery, itching eruption, worse in winter (Petr.); intolerable itching of whole body when getting warm in bed (Psor., Sul.); scratches until it bleeds, which then becomes painful.

Time passes too slowly; an hour seems half a day (Can. I.).

Inability to walk, except with the eyes open, and in the daytime; tottering and falling when closing eyes (Arg. n., Gels.).

Abnormal appetite; craving for starch, chalk, charcoal, cloves, coffee or tea-grounds, acids, and indigestible things (Cic., Psor.); potatoes disagree; cause colic.

Chronic eructations for years; worse in evening.

All irritating things—salt, wine, vinegar, pepper—immediately produce cough.

Constipation: no desire for, and no ability to pass stool until there is a large accumulation (Melil.); with great straining, must grasp the seat of closet tightly; stools hard, knotty, covered with mucus; or soft, clayey, adhering to parts (Plat.); of nursing infants, from artificial food; inactive rectum, even soft stool requires great straining (Anac., Plat., San., Sil., Ver.); of old people (Lyc., Op.); of pregnancy (Sep.).

Urine voided while straining at stool, or cannot pass it without such straining.

After menses; exhausted mentally and physically (Carb. an., Coc.).

Leucorrhœa; acrid, profuse, running down to heels in large quantities (Lyc., Lys., Onos., Syph.); > by cold bathing; < during the day.

Generally in cold air; out-doors; on alternate days; while sitting; eating potatoes, soups; at new and full moon.

-Generally in warmth; in mild weather; walking; while eating (Psor.); in wet weather (Caust., Nux, Lach., Sulph.).

Alumina is the chronic of Bryonia.

Complementary to Bryonia. Follows Bry. well.

Tertian. Chronic; relapsing. No regularity.

Chilliness at 4 P. M., lasting till evening. Evening paroxysm from 5 to 8 P. M.

With great thirst; with nausea (Arn., Caps., Ign.). Internally cold and chilly, with desire for warmth of stove without relief from heat (Lach.—relieved by heat of stove, Ign.), and stretching and bending of the limbs; worse after warm drinks, and after eating warm soup (after cold drinks, Ars., Caps., Eup. perf.). Chilliness of whole body, feet cold as ice the whole day, with heat of head, external chilliness and external heat, especially dark redness of the cheeks. Frequent repetition of chills in the evening, every other day. Chills near the warm stove. Violent chilliness in evening, especially feet and back, that could not get warm near stove. Chilly during the day, heat all night (chill lasting 12 hours, Canth.). Chill increased by slightest motion (Acon., Bry.—increased by uncovering, Amm., Nux, Sep.).

With thirst and nausea, $<$ by least motion, warm drinks, warm soup.

Without thirst; heat, with anxiety at night, and sweat. Heat in evening beginning in and spreading from face and head, frequently only of right side of body. Heat $<$ by motion (Bry.—$>$ by motion, Caps.).

Without thirst; often only right-sided; < by motion; with sweat.

At night, in bed, toward morning; most profuse in face, often only on right side of face (Nux, Puls.). Sweat upon every motion (Bry., Sep.), followed by cold shivers as if taking cold. Sometimes entire inability to sweat (Hep.).

< by motion; of right side of face.

Clean. Appetite good. Longing for fruit and vegetables. Longing for indigestible things. Aversion to meat (Arn.).

Continual empty eructations which afford relief. Great lassitude of the whole body; great exhaustion and inclination to lie down; unconquerable disposition to lie down.

If patient has had frequent attacks of painter's colic. Rarely indicated, but when acquired, chronic constitutional ailments will almost always be present. Often completes a cure begun by Bryonia, and should always be thought of as the next remedy if symptoms correspond.

The constitutional symptoms of this anti-psoric remedy are guiding. In fever accompanying myelitis or other diseases of the cord.

Mistakes in speaking, using words not intended.
Must be changed into some one else before he can see or speak.
Consciousness of his personal identity confused.
Time passes too slowly.
Seeing blood on a knife, she has horrid ideas of killing herself, though she abhors the idea.
Crying, against his will.
Low-spirited, trifling things appeared insurmountable.
Apprehensive of losing his reason.
Dread of death, without thought of suicide.
Variable mood, at one time confident, at another timid.
Peevish and whining, with heat of the ear-lobes.
Sufferings follow anger.
Mental symptoms worse in the morning on awaking.

Vertigo: everything turns with him in a circle with nausea, worse before breakfast, on opening the eyes, on stooping; better after breakfast, from wiping the eyes.
Great dullness, dread of falling forward.
Heaviness of the head, with pale, languid face.
Inability to walk, except with eyes open, and in daytime.
Cloudiness and drunken feeling, alternating with pain in the kidneys.

Throbbing frontal pains, worse going up stairs, or stepping.
Burning, pressive pain, with heat in the forehead, while standing or sitting, better in the open air.
Severe stitches in the brain, with nausea.
Headache, with constipation.
Headache relieved by lying quiet in bed.

Itching of scalp, with dry, white scales.
Humid scurf, worse about the temples, bleeding when scratched, worse in the evening, or at new and full moon.
Scalp feels numb.
Pressure on forehead, as from a tight hat.
Pain if the hair were pulled, with nausea.
Falling off and excessive dryness of the hair, scalp sore when the hair is touched.

White stars before the eyes, with vertigo.
Dim-sightedness, like looking through a fog.
Objects appear yellow.
Burning and pressure in the eyes.
Eyes inflamed, itching at inner canthus, agglutination at night, and lachrymation by day, yellow halo around candle; hot or acrid tears.
Spasmodic closure of the lids at night, and burning in the eyes in the morning and evening.
Eyelids thickened, dry, burning, smarting.
Nictitation from large papillæ of conjunctiva.
Inclination to share.
Strabismus of either eye; loss of power of internal recti.
Sensation of coldness in the eyes, in the open air.

Humming; roaring; whistling; sound as of large bells.
Redness and heat of one ear, evenings.
Sensation as if something lay before the ear: on blowing the nose it is felt, on swallowing it is removed; snapping in the ears when chewing or swallowing; dull hearing; eustachian tubes plugged.
Stitches in the ears, evening or night.

Sense of smell weak.
Disposition to colds in head.
Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, free from one nostril, the other obstructed; lachrymation.
Chronic nasal catarrh, with scurfy, sore nostrils, and discharge of thick, yellow mucus.
Discharge of dry, hard, yellow-green mucus from nose; nose swollen, red and sore to touch, worse in the evening.
Violent pain in root of nose.
Copious, yellow, sour-smelling mucus, with sore nostrils.
Septum narium swollen, red and painful to touch.
Redness of the nose.
Point of nose cracked.

Gloomy, pale, or alternately red and pale.
Itching of various parts of the face.
Tension of the skin of the face, as though white of egg had dried on it.
Bloated places, like bulbous excrescences.
Blood-boils on face and nose.

Tensive pain in articulation of jaw, when chewing or opening the mouth.
Involuntary spasmodic twitching of lower jaw.θ Hemorrhage of bowels.
Upper lip covered with little blisters.

Toothache, teeth feel loose and elongated, worse from chewing; in open air; evening.
Drawing toothache, extending to other parts, as down the larynx, neck, or shoulders.
Teeth covered with sordes.
Swelling of gums, they bled and ulcerate.

Taste: sweetish, or fatty; almost lost.
Tingling, itching on the tongue, must scratch it.

Musty, bad odor from mouth.
Small ulcers in mouth.
Saliva increased, although mouth may feel dry.
Sensation of soreness in mouth.

Pressure in throat as from a plug, with soreness and dryness.
Sensation of swelling in the sides of the throat.
Tightness from pharynx down to stomach, as if food could not pass.
Pharynx looks dry, glazed and red.
Great dryness of throat, especially on awaking, voice husky; sneezing, hawking, and sensation of lump in throat.
Feeling of splinter in throat.
Copious, thick, tenacious mucus in throat, evening and morning.
Thick, mucus, dropping from posterior nares. See 25.
Ulcers in fauces, spongy; secreting a yellowish-brown, badly-smelling pus; with boring pains from fauces to right temple and head.

Longing for fruit and vegetables, potatoes disagree.
Aversion to meat; to beer.
Thirst all day.
Appetite for starch, chalk; clean white rags; charcoal, cloves, acids, coffee or tea-grounds, dry rice, and other indigestible things.

Worse from eating potatoes. See 16.
Worse from tobacco smoke.
All irritating things, like salt, wine, vinegar, pepper, etc., immediately start cough.
Throat sore after using onions in food.
Easily drunken from the weakest spirituous drinks.
Mucus in throat, tasting sweet, after dinner.

Eructations: sour; bitter, after potatoes; worse evenings.
Heartburn.
Nausea, with chilliness, pale face, desire to lie down, faintness; better after breakfast.
Mucus vomit.

Constriction and twisting in the stomach, extending up the œsophagus to the throat.
Stitches in pit of stomach, extending upwards to chest.
Drawing or oppressive pain going upward to chest and throat.

Liver pains as if bruised, when stooping; stitches when rising again.
Tearing from the liver to hip.
Shooting pain in the region of the spleen.

Abdomen seems to hang down heavily, like a load, when walking afternoons.
Reaching too high strains the abdominal muscles.
Pains worse sitting bent.
Pressing in both groins, toward sexual organs, evenings.
Stitching, pressing pain in region of abdominal ring, like from hernia.
Flatulent colic; painter's colic.
Colic in the morning.

Inactivity of the rectum; even the soft stool requires great straining.
No desire for and no ability to pass stool, until there is a large accumulation.
Stools: hard, dry and knotty like sheep's dung, with cutting in anus, followed by blood.
Constipation of sucklings.
Diarrhœa; with urging in rectum; when she urinates.
Clots of blood pass from the anus.
Hemorrhoids worse in evening, better after night's rest.
Itching and burning at the anus; fistula ani.
Perineum: pressure when blowing the nose; sweats and is tender to touch.

Pains in the kidneys, in alteration with a cloudiness, as if drunken.
Tenesmus vesicæ.
Urine voided while straining at stool, or cannot pass urine without such straining.
Urine: scanty with red sediment, in arthritic affections; copious and pale, in nervous diseases; with thick, white sediment; more frequent, copious and dark.
Feeling of weakness in bladder and genitals in the evening, with fear that he will wet the bed.

Excessive sexual desire.
Involuntary emissions, followed by all his old symptoms.
Left testicle hard and very painful.
Tickling on the genitals and thighs.

Menses: too early, short, scanty and of pale blood; too early, preceded by headache; delay, finally appear, being pale and scanty.
Leucorrhœa: acrid, corrosive; acrid, profuse, relieved by cold washing; transparent, profuse during the day.
Painful throbbing in left side of vagina.
Stitches in left side of vulva, extending up to chest.

Gastric and abdominal symptoms during pregnancy.

Sensation of tightly adhering phlegm in larynx, removed by hawking or cough; wheezing on inspiration.
Tickling in larynx, with irritation to cough.
Rawness in larynx, awaking.
Sudden complete aphonia.
Hoarseness evening and night, especially toward morning.
Voice: has a nasal twang; husky and thick.

Rattling, asthmatic breathing, worse coughing.
Oppression worse when sitting stooped; better straightening up or walking in open air.
Talking or singing makes him cough.
Breathing arrested by copious, thick, tenacious, saltish mucus.

Cough: dry, hacking, with frequent sneezing; from sensation as of loose skin hanging in throat; from elongated uvula; from talking or singing; short; causes pains in right temple and top of head, sometimes also difficult breathing; soon after waking in the morning; every morning a long attack of dry cough, ending in difficult raising of a little white mucus; with tearing pain and involuntary emission of urine, in old or withered looking people.

Violent, oppressive pain in chest, worse at night.
Chest feels constricted, worse from sitting bent or stooping, better on straightening up or on walking.
Congestion of blood to chest and head, with redness of face and one ear, caused by suppressed hemorrhoidal flux.
Shooting stitches right to left in the afternoon, worse on going down stairs.
Talking increases soreness of chest; lifting aggravates or produces soreness in left chest.
Riding in a carriage gives pain in chest.

Awakes with palpitation.
Palpitation irregular, large and small beats intermit.
Pulse either unchanged or full and accelerated.

Shooting in right side of neck, posterior portion.
Pain in the back and small of back as if beaten.
Pain in back as if a hot iron were thirst through lower vertebræ.
Violent stitch in the middle of the back.
Gnawing pain in the back.

Pain, as from a sprain, in shoulder-joint, especially on raising the arm.
Sense of tightness in the arm, like from cold.
Burning on the arms and fingers, and in the left elbow, like from a glowing iron.
Arms feel heavy, as if paralyzed; go to sleep.
Rhagades worse in winter and from washing.
Nails brittle or thick.
Panaritium, with brittle nails, lancinating pains and tendency to ulceration of the finger tips.

Nates go to sleep when sitting.
Great heaviness in the lower limbs, can scarcely drag them; when walking he staggers, and must sit down evenings.
Burning and smarting-itching on the thighs, better from scratching.
Tearing in the knees and patellæ, or from knee to toes.
Numbness of the heel when stepping.
Pain in the sole of the foot on stepping, as though it were too soft and swollen.
Itching and redness of the toes.

Arms and legs feel heavy.
Frequent stretching of limbs when sitting.
Trembling of the limbs.
Jerking and twitching of the limbs.

Better from moderate exercise in the open air.
Feels moderately well at night, but cannot lie on right side, on account of cough.
Motion of jaw: 3, 33. Raising arms: 32. Reaching: 19. Stepping: 3, 33. Walking: 19, 26, 28, 33. Going up stairs: 3. Going down stairs: 28. Sitting: 3, 19, 21, 34. Must sit down: 36. Sitting stooped: 26, 28. Standing: 3. Stooping: 2, 28. Straightening body up: 28.

Much fatigued by talking.
Faint and tired, must sit or lie down.
Involuntary movements of single parts. Impaired co-ordination.
Spasms with attacks of laughing and weeping; sudden jerks, starts from sleep; paralytic weakness; obstinate spastic anæmia.
Paralysis from spinal disease.
Rheumatic and traumatic paralysis in gouty persons.

Sleepiness, with inclination to lie down.
Restless sleep, turns frequently, feels too warm, lies uncovered in unrefreshing slumber, with many dreams and frequent awaking.
Restless sleep, always awaking with palpitation of heart.
Dreams: anxious of boat foundering; of ghosts; of thieves; confused.

Morning: 1, 5, 13, 16, 19, 20, 27. Afternoon: 19, 28. Evening: 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 20, 21, 25, 33, 40. Night: 5, 6, 24, 25, 28, 40. Toward morning: 25. Day: 5, 23, 40.
New and full moon.

Generally better in warmth, worse in cold air, out-doors.
Worse in-doors, while sitting.
Better walking, out-doors, in mild weather.
Warmth in bed: 46. Open air: 3, 5, 10, 26. Winter: 32, 41. Cold washing: 23, 32.

Chill, with great thirst.
Internal chill and shivering, with desire for warmth of stove with stretching and bending of limbs, worse after warm drink.
Chill during the day, heat at night.
Heat at night, with anxiety and sweat.
Heat in the evening, commencing in and spreading from the face, sometimes of only the right side.
Sweat at night, toward morning most profuse in face, frequently only on right side of face.
Entire inability to sweat.

At intervals sudden sharp pains, like a stab.
Worse new and full moon, skin symptoms.
Worse in winter, skin symptoms.

Right: 18, 27, 31, 40. Left: 18, 22, 23, 28, 32. Right to left: 28. Below-upwards: 13, 17, 23.
Upper left and lower right side most affected.

Sensation of constriction of internal organs.
Some parts of body feel larger.
Some parts -lower jaw and arms- feel shorter.

Emaciation; spare habit, and old people.

Touch: 7, 20. Pressure of foot on ground: 33. Scratching: 11, 33. Riding in carriage: 28.

Intolerable itching of whole body, especially when getting warm and in bed: scratches until the skin bleeds, which is then painful; itching and formication with flatulence, dry stools or diarrhœa.
Eruptions humid, scabby, sore, gnawing.
Ulcerated surface secretes yellow-brown, badly-smelling pus.
Blood-boils: 8. Rhagades: 32. Bulbous excrescences: 8.

Infancy: constipation, especially when artificial food is used.
Cholera infantum, stools green, acidity of primæ viæ.
Constipation of sucklings.
Strabismus.
Puberty: chlorosis, with longing for indigestible substances.
Dark complexion, excitable.
Mild disposition.
Lack of animal heat.
Spare habit.
Old people, hypochondriacal.

Similar to: Bar. carb. (hypochondriasis of aged; constipation); Bryon. (peevish, irritable; gastric and abdominal symptoms; constipation; throbbing headache; dry cough with vomiting; stitches in chest; dryness of mucous surfaces; fever; etc.); Calc. ostr.; Chamom. (useful as an intermediate remedy); Conium (old people; loss of power of internal recti of eyes); Ferrum (chlorosis; relaxed abdomen; disgust for meat, etc.); Ferr. iod. (profuse, transparent leucorrhœa); Graphit. (chlorosis; skin rough, chapped, itching; nails, blepharitis, etc.); Ipec. Laches. (sad on waking; climaxis); Pulsat. (tearful, peevish; heat, etc.; better in open air; ozæna: taste lost; averse to meat; chlorosis; scanty menses; complaints at puberty; lack of animal heat; soles of feet sore, worse walking; toes red, itching, etc.); Plumbum (colic; constipation, etc.); Ruta (loss of power of internal recti of eyes); Sepia (irritable, tearful; ozæna; scanty menses; puberty, prolapsus uteri; inactive rectum; weakness in urinary organs, etc. Silic., Sulphur, Zincum (inner canthus; granular lids).
Compare with the following in clergyman's sore throat: Arg. nitr., Kali bich., Lycop., etc.
Alum. follows Bryon., Laches., Sulphur; and is followed by Bryon.
Alum. and Bryon. are complementary.
Chamom. is useful as an intermediate remedy.
Antidotes to Alum.: Bryon., Camphor., Chamom., Ipec.
Alum. antidotes: lead poisoning, as in painter's colic; ailments from lead.

Pure clay, a tri-hydrate of Aluminum, is triturated with sugar of milk for use.

On mucous membranes, causing a form of dry catarrh, on the spinal system of nerves and on tissues.

The alkaline earths, especially Kali c., Mag. c., Bar. c., Nat. m., Caust; also Graph., Silicea , Rhus t., Niccol. and Zinc.

Twitching; amel. rising. ▶ His arm and head are jerked backward several times, with apprehension. ▶ When he attempts to sleep while sitting after dinner, a jerk through head and limbs, like an electric shock, with stupefaction. ▶ Tremor after supper; during leucorrhœa, with lassitude. ▶ Involuntary motions. ▶ Tremulous excitement of nervous system. ▶ Lightning-like shooting to and fro in right shoulder, small of back and abdomen, then bruised feeling. ▶ Pain all over at night; (aching in bones, especially of legs, chest and back). ▶ Takes cold easily (Kali c.). ▶ Orgasm of blood, with increased pulse, and trembling of hands when writhing, also after a meal, with heat of whole body and sweat of face. ▶ Shaking pulsations through whole body. ▶ Restlessness at night, with pain all over body; R. when sitting or lying; anxious R.

▶ Unconquerable disposition to lie down. ▶ Faintness and weariness; feverish faintness, with internal heat. ▶ Weakness (Kali c.); morning on rising; morning on waking; after a short conversation or walk; during menses; of mind and body after menses; agg. talking; agg. after walking in open air, and by lying down, with yawning, stretching, drowsiness and inclination to lie down, the weakness agg. lying; amel. sleep in forenoon; with chilliness and headache; tremulous. ▶ Paralyzed feeling in all muscles. ▶ Most symptoms appear in morning; most S. come on when sitting. ▶ Aggravation towards evening; after an emission; after dinner. ▶ Amelioration every other day; at night; evening in open air; after eating; from walking.

Bœnninghausen cured four cases of locomotor ataxia.

Excitement of intellectual and physical powers. ▶ Absence of mind; alternating with animation. ▶ Inattention when reading. ▶ Dullness. ▶ Stupor; with dread of falling forward. ▶ Various objects occupy his mind, but not one is distinctly impressed upon his recollection. ▶ Memory weak; want of memory. ▶ Inability for connected thought. ▶ Indisposition for mental labor, with inability for it. ▶ Weakness of mind and body after menses. ▶ Chooses different expressions from what he intended. ▶ Reflective.

Horrible thoughts on seeing blood or knives, she feels, for instance, as if she would commit suicide, though she has the greatest aversion to it. ▶ Sad, disagreeable images. ▶ Despair. ▶ Anxiety; at night on waking, with dyspnœa and sweat; in morning, as if threatened with epilepsy; with external heat and uneasiness as if she had done something bad; with palpitation and pulsations in some parts of breast and abdomen. ▶ Anguish, with restlessness; A. on waking towards morning, caused by pains imagined in sleep.

Apprehension; of losing his thoughts and understanding. ▶ Dread when talking on entering house after a walk, with nausea. ▶ Fright; when he wishes to urinate; and starting on hearing least thing fall. ▶ Uneasiness in evening as if evil impended.

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Very little can be said of the physiological action of Alumina, but particular attention should be directed to a quite general catarrhal inflammation, characterized by scanty secretions or dryness, and also to the paralytic symptoms, particularly of the lower extremities.

Weariness (especially from talking), unconquerable disposition to lie down.
Tremulousness.
Involuntary movements like palsy; portions of the body feel larger than normal; general feeling of constriction of internal organs.
General aggravation in the afternoon while sitting.
General relief during moderate motion, in the evening and in the open air.

Connected thought difficult.
Memory weak.
Changing moods; depressed or peevish as soon as one opens the eyes mornings.

Vertigo on opening eyes in the morning.
Constrictive headache.

Squinting (both eyes), (paralytic?).
Lids agglutinated mornings; burning, itching and dryness of inner surface of lids; upper lids difficult to raise as if powerless; feeling of adhesion of lids to eyeball.
Photophobia mornings on waking.

Purulent discharge; crackling in ears on chewing; stitches in the ears; one ear red and hot in the evening.

Nostrils sore, even ulcerated, with scabs.
Tip of nose swollen, with internal soreness and scabs.
Nasal catarrh with scanty secretion and obstructed nostrils; diminished smell.

Tension of the skin of the face as if white of egg had dried on it.
Nodules or boils on the face and nose.

Teeth feel elongated.
Toothache on chewing.
Aphthous sore mouth, with increased saliva, though the mouth feels dry.

Constriction on swallowing.
Dryness.
Feeling of something sharp sticking in the throat.
Difficult swallowing of food.
General relief from warm food and drink.
Throat worse evenings and nights; frequent clearing; dryness; rawness; feeling of a lump.
The œsophagus feels contracted; pain as from a lump in the middle of the chest after swallowing food.

Appetite variable; aversion to meat; distress after eating potatoes.
Craving for chalk and other indigestible substances.
Nausea; faint-like mornings, while talking.
Heartburn and acid eructations.
Vomiting, with a hacking cough.
Constriction extending to chest and throat.

Seems to hang down, heavy, when walking < afternoon.
Sticking pains from below upward.
Cutting pains > warmth.
Lead colic.
Soreness over the liver, extends to pit of stomach on stooping.
Stitches in the region of inguinal ring (has relieved strangulated hernia); the pains extend up to the chest.

Scanty, dry in small bits.
The rectum seems dry, inactive and constricted.
Excoriations and bleeding after a hard, dry stool.
Strains to evacuate the bowels and bladder.

Cannot urinate without straining at stool.
Urine usually copious and pale, evacuated with burning.

Increased sexual desire, followed by loss of power.
Emissions while straining at stool.
Numerous troubles after emissions.

Menstruation early, short, scanty; preceded and accompanied by colic.
Leucorrhœa, before and after the menses, corrosive, transparent, albuminous, profuse.

Dry hacking cough, from tickling in the throat (elongated uvula) or irritability of the larynx < early morning (sometimes sudden in the evening) < using the voice.
Cough sometimes loosens, and there may be expectoration after coughing mornings.
Cough at times associated with dyspnœa, vomiting or even involuntary escape of urine.
Sudden hoarseness, not relieved by clearing the larynx, especially afternoons and evenings.
Constriction of chest (see under stomach also).

Pain as of a hot iron thrust through the lower vertebræ.
Bruised pain in the small of the back while at rest.

Paralytic heaviness of the arms.
Pains tearing, or as of a hot iron, from shoulder to fingers.
Gnawing beneath the finger nails, which are brittle.

Heaviness with rigidity and numbness, staggering.
Insensibility of the nates, of the sole of the foot, of the heel.
Tearings extending through the whole leg to the toes.
Tension.

Tension.
Rhagades.
Itching in the evening.
Nails brittle.

Sleeplessness fore part of night.
Sleep unrefreshing with anxious dreams.

Chilliness even by the stove, internal.

ALUMINA. (Oxide of aluminum.)

To secure quite pure clay, a matter of some difficulty, we may use the following process : Pure muriate of lime which has been thoroughly dried by heating in a porcelain bowl is pulverized while still hot, and dissolved in as much alcohol as is required. Half an ounce of white Roman alum from Solfatara is dissolved in five parts of distilled water and to remove any adherent earth is filtered. The sulphuric acid contained in its is precipitated in the form of gypsum, by dropping in the alcoholic solution of muriate of lime until the solution of alum is no longer rendered turbid thereby. The clear watery fluid on top then contains muriate of alumina, from which this earth is precipitated by means of alcoholic spirits of ammonia. It is then well washed and then thoroughly heated in order to completely remove the ammonia. The powder is then, while warm, preserved in a well-stoppered glass vial, and is pure alumina. One grain of this is then triturated in the well-known manner with thrice one hundred grains of sugar of milk. Through solution and further dilution with alcohol, it is then brought to the decillionth potency, in the manner directed at the conclusion of the first volume with respect to dry medicinal substances. Alumina has proved itself an important antipsoric. It proved itself excellent when it was otherwise homœopathically suitable to the case, when one or several of the following states were present : [*].

[] I am sorry to say the significance of the use of medicines as given in the preface to most of the remedies, and which have often been unreliably reported, has been now and then misunderstood, having been regarded as determining the choice of remedies in the treatment of diseases (as indications) ; this they cannot and should not be ; they are not names of diseases healed, but only of separate symptoms which, in treating a disease with the specified medicine, were either diminished or removed ab usu. To use them otherwise is a deceptive procedure which we leave now as before to our allopathic step-brothers. They are, on the contrary, only to serve to furnish occasionally a little confirmation of the correct choice of the homœopathic remedy, already found out from their pure peculiar medicinal effects, as indicated* according to the similarity of the symptoms of disease of the special case under consideration.

Moroseness ; anxiety ; solicitude ; timidity ; dislike to work ; difficulty in recollecting and reflecting ; vertigo ; headache as if the hair was pulled out, with nausea ; pressure on the forehead ; rush of blood to the eyes and nose, with epistaxis ; itching of the forehead ; heaviness of the face, [Hg.] tumor-like swellings in the face, [Hg.] sensation of coldness in the eyes while walking in the open air ; pressure, every evening, in the corner of the eye as from a grain of sand ; closing of the eyes from pus, and lachrymation ; buzzing before the ear ; redness of the nose ; tearing, lancinating pain in the cheek-bone ; dryness in the mouth ; eructation ; many years' tendency to rising from the stomach ; acid risings ; disordered appetite, now strong, now wanting ; frequent nausea ; pains in the scrobiculus cordis and the hypochondria while stooping ; colic the morning ; inactivity of the rectum ; itching of the anus ; urinating at night ; discharge of prostatic juice during difficult stools ; excessive sexual desire ; scanty menses ; pains during the menses ; leucorrhœa ; proneness to frequent colds of many years' standing ; coryza and cough ; rawness in the throat ; catarrh of the throat and of the chest ; dyspnœa ; asthma ; cough ; itching in the breasts ; pain in the thyroid cartilage on touching it ; palpitation of the heart ; shocks of the heart ; pains in the small of the back, while at rest ; paralytic heaviness in the arm ; pains in the arms, while they are hanging down or while they are stretched out in bed ; stitches in the wrist while working ; chapping and excoriation of the hands ; paronychia ; at night the legs go to sleep, are stiff and numb ; painful weariness of the articulations of the feet while sitting ; cold feet ; burning sensation in the toes ; twitching and trembling in the limbs ; frequent stretching and extension of the limbs while sitting ; disagreeable lack of vital warmth ; ill effects of vexation ; falling asleep late ; the sleep is too light ; dreamy sleep ; stupor, unrefreshing sleep ; chilliness in the evening ; fever and ague, the chills appearing immediately after the warm soup at dinner-time. [Bte.]. According to Bute, Bryonia is an antidote to the excessive fever-effects of alumina. Others mention Chamomilla and Ipecacuanha as antidotes. The abbreviations of the names of my fellow-provers are Hb., Dr. Hartlaub, Sen. ; Ng., [] S., Dr. Schréter ; Tr., Dr. Trinks ; Bte., Dr. H. G. Bute, of Philadelphia. [*].

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Alu. / (2nd W - Clay.) / Alfred.

Alumina affects the spine,
And hence (a paralytic sign).
The heavy, weary weight he feels
Adown his legs, with soft, numb heels.
All, all is dryness of his kin,
All dry and itching is his skin,
And dry the mucous tract within.
And hence his knotty stools delay;
Hence dry and sore his nose alway,
And dry his face, and tightly drawn
As from the white of egg dried on.
Yea, dry his throat and bronchial track,
From whence his morning hawking hack.
And with it in his throat a prickling,
As if from pin or splinter sticking.
A burning soreness marks these states,
Which cooling water mitigates.
A dizziness affects his head,
That causes forward falling dread.
Strange freaks of taste his longings mock,
As craving pencils, rags or chalk.
Of vegetable victuals, he
Finds out potatoes disagree.
Whilst salt, and pepper, and hot spices,
A tantalizing cough entices.

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Alfred, - Has a depraved appetite.

Alfred Nick, -Has one old Greek coin.

This Alfred,- Who is subject to Harsh, Dry Skin,- Is at the Gas Works.

Depraved Appetite (Craving chalk, lime, clay, etc.): Alu., Nat. m., Con., Cic., Calc. c., Nux v.,- craving charcoal- Cic., Con. (Inordinate craving for meat, Mag. c.)

Dry, Harsh Skin: Alu., Graph., Sul., Ars., Rhus, Kal. c., Sil.

Indicated in persons of low vitality, of advanced years; in chronic nasal and post-nasal catarrh, with dryness of the mucous membrane; sore throat of public speakers; painter's colic. Dryness of the mucous membrane and inactivity of the rectum are characteristic.

Takes cold easily.

Throat raw, dry, rough, especially in the morning; scraping in the throat, obliging him to cough; frequent clearing of the throat.

Colic; worse from eating potato.

Loss of appetite; sour eructations, craving for starch, chalk and other indigestible things.

Constipation, with soreness and bleeding of the rectum.

Inactivity of the rectum; straining with soft stool.

Straining at stool in order to urinate.

Stool accumulates in the rectum because of lack of desire (and inability) to expel it.

Stools hard, knotty, covered with mucus, followed by bleeding and cutting pain in anus.

General dryness of the skin, with intolerable itching and scratching until the skin bleeds; on getting warm in bed.

Worse on alternate days; in the afternoon; in the warm room; from eating potatoes.

Better in the open air; from lying down.

Inability to think connectedly. Anxious and peevish. Continued great weakness of memory. Mental activity alternating with inability to think. Great anxiety and apprehension. He takes everything in bad part. Alternate paroxysms of laughing and weeping. He views everything in a gloomy and discouraging light. Fear of losing his thoughts, his reason.

Severe stitches in brain with inclination to vomit. Throbbing and pulsating in, or compressive pain over eyes, as if coming from temples, with congestion to eyes and nose and shaking chill. Humid scurf on temples. Worse: in early morning, walking in open air in evening. Better: Lying quietly, after eating.

Pressure in, which impedes opening them. At night they are agglutinated. By day full of tears. Squint of both.

Stitches in. One ear is hot and red in evening. Purulent discharge from. Crepitation in when showing.

Redness and swelling of, Ulceration in. Sense of smell diminished.

Tension in skin as if egg albumen had dried thereon. Pale. Bulbous excrescences or boils on, and on nose.

Feel too long. Ache when chewing.

Painful soreness of entire mouth when eating. Constrictive sore throat when swallowing. Difficult, painful swallowing of food, as from narrowing of oesophagus. In the evening and at night the throat pains are most intense, by warm food and drink.

Constriction in, extending into throat and chest. Pressure in evening.

Hypochondria: Painful soreness in hepatic region extending to epigastrium, when stooping. Pain in kidneys.

Appetite etc. - Changeable. Bad effects of potatoes.

Eructations: Sour, and heartburn.

Nausea: And qualmishness when talking.

Sticking pains in, extending up into chest. Cutting pains in bowels, by warmth. Lead colic. Inguinal hernia.

Difficult from want of peristaltic action and inactivity of intestinal canal of mucus.

Varicose hemorrhoids and itching of.

Increased discharge of watery urine with burning.

Excessive sexual desire. Frequent pollutions. All complaints are worse after pollutions.

Menses: Too scant, too early and too short, Abdominal colic before and during. Acrid, corrosive leucorrhoea before and after.

Early in the day, dry, later with expectoration. Short, dry, with arrested breathing.

Suddenly appearing hoarseness not by hawking, mostly in afternoon and evening.

Pressing pain in, at night Constriction of when stooping. Thrusts at heart.

Pain in as if a hot iron were thrust throw lowest vertebrae (Bufo). Sticking in. Bruised pain in lumbar region when at rest.

Paralytic heaviness of arms. Tearing from shoulders to fingers. Pain in arms extending to fingers, as if a hot iron was thrust through them. Tumid scurf on forearm. Cracks on palmar surface of hands.

Nightly stiffness, deadness and numbness of legs. Heaviness of legs.

Involuntary motions and twitchings of head and other parts. Sensory illusions, i. e. as if certain parts of body had become larger. Extraordinary lassitude and fatigue, particularly from talking. Sense of constriction in internal organs. He is on alternate days. Many complaints are in afternoon and when sitting. He feels best during moderate exercise, in evening and in open air.

Herpes with itching, in evening, Humid tatters. Cracked. Skin symptoms are renewed and full and new moon. Brittle nails.

At night, unrefreshing and entirely too light, Sleeplessness before midnight. Many anxious, frightful dreams at night.

Pulse Full and somewhat accelerated. Chill: Predominant and mostly toward evening, even in bed and by a warm stove, as well as after eating warm soup, often with heat of face. During day, and heat at night. In evening, following the chill there is Heat which spreads from face, but sometimes only attacks the right side of the body. Evening fever with prevailing chill. Sweat: At night, especially in early morning in bed, most profuse on face, often on right side of face only, with anxiety. Entire inability to.

Allied Remedies: BRY., Calc - c, Cham, Ign, Ip, Lach, Nat - m, Phos., Plb., Pul., Verat - a.

Unpleasant want of animal heat.

He feels as if some parts of the body were enlarged.

Great debility from exercise, as in walking.

There is present tearing pain in the limbs and a sensation of constriction of the internal organs (oesophagus).

Involuntary motions (jerking of the head and other parts are associated in this condition).

Weakness of the memory and inability to think coherently.

Chapped skin and bulbous eruptions.

The aggravations are in the afternoon, occur periodically and are present during the act of micturition.

The amelioration is effected during moderate exercise, in the open air, in the evening and on alternate days.

Very efficient in the cure of intractable costiveness in women of an extremely sedentary habit.