Alumina

▲   GENERAL

General

A very general condition corresponding to Alumina 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.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, periodically; in afternoon; from potatoes. WORSE, in morning on awakening; warm room.

Better

BETTER, in open air; from cold washing; in evening and on alternate days. BETTER, damp weather.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships

Compare: Aluminum chloridum ( Pains of loco-motor ataxia. Lower trit. in water. Slag silico-sulphocalcite of Alumina 3x (anal itching, piles, constipation, flatulent distention); Secale Cornutum ^Secale; Lathyrus Sativus ^Lathyr.;Plumbum Metallicum ^Plumb. Aluminum acetate solution ( Externally a lotion for putrid wounds and skin infections. Arrests hemorrhage from inertia of uterus. Parenchymatous hemorrhage from various organs 2-3% solution. Hemorrhage following tonsillectomy is controlled by rinsing out nasopharynx with a 10% sol.)

Complementary

Complementary: Bryonia ^Bryonia.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Ipecacuanha ^Ipecac.; Chamomilla ^Chamomile.

▲   MIND

Mind

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.

Aversions, dislikes; cannot look at blood, or a knife

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

irritability

mood; alternating mood

unhappy; sadness, mental depression; morning; on waking

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; confusion; as to own identity

impaired thinking; weakness of mind; after period

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety; of conscience (as if guilty of a crime)

fear; of evil; evening

Talking, conversation

contrary (see obstinate, irritable)

obstinate

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Stitching, burning pain in head, with vertigo, worse in morning, but relieved by food

Vertigo, with nausea; better after breakfast

▲   HEAD

Head

Pressure in forehead as from a tight hat

Inability to walk except with eyes open

Headache

Throbbing headache, with constipation

Pain, headache

affected by certain foods and drinks (improved, brought on or aggravated); after eating

recurring headache

sides; one side

pressing (see bursting, pulling); forehead; while standing

stitching, sudden, sharp; brain

Scalp

Falling out of hair; scalp itches and is numb.

▲   EYES

Eyes

Objects look yellow

Eyes feel cold

Lids dry, burn, smart, thickened, aggravated in morning; chronic conjunctivitis

Ptosis

Strabismus.

Lids

thickening of lids

stuck together; night

Dryness

Inflammation; wounds; conjunctiva (external lining of eye)

Itching

corner

inner

Pain; burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

Tears; daytime only

Ulceration; conjunctiva (external lining of eye)

Vision

Colours and shapes in front of eyes; colours; yellow; halo around the light

▲   EARS

Ear

Humming; roaring

Eustachian tube feels plugged.

▲   FACE

Face

Feels as if albuminous substance had dried on it

Blood-boils and pimples

Twitching of lower jaw

Rush of blood to face after eating.

Lips; chapped

▲   NOSE

Nose

Pain at root of nose

Sense of smell diminished

Point of nose Cracked, nostrils sore, RED; worse touch

Scabs with thick yellow mucus

Tettery redness

Oxaena atrophica sicca

Membranes distended and boggy.

Discharge from nose; blood

Skin or lining of nose

cracks; tip

discoloration; redness

Discharge

Fluent coryza

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Sore

Bad odor from it

Tensive pain in articulation of jaw when opening mouth or chewing.

Gums and teeth

Teeth covered with sordes

Gums sore, bleeding

▲   THROAT

Throat

DRY, sore; food cannot pass, oesophagus 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.

Dryness; evening

Pain; swallowing; on swallowing

Scraping

evening

from dryness

External throat; itching

▲   CHEST

Chest

Oppressed feeling; bending head forward

Pain

night

pressing; night

Respiration

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.

Difficult (dyspnea); with cough

Interrupted; coughing

▲   COUGH

Cough

Morning

Choking

Constant

Dry cough

almost constant

Hacking cough

Suffocating

▲   SKIN

Skin

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.

Itching; without visible out-break on skin

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain

sore, bruised, beaten

sore, bruised, beaten; lumbar (lower half of back); sacrum (base of spine)

Neck

Skin; itching; neck

Tension; neck (see spasmodic pulling)

Back

Stitches

Gnawing pain, as if from hot Ferrum Met ^Iron

Pain along cord, with paralytic weakness.

Pain

dorsal (shoulder level); spine

tearing; lumbar (lower half of back)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Heartburn; feels constricted

Aversion to meat ( Graphites ^Graph.; Arnica ^Arn.; Pulsatilla ^Puls.) Potatoes disagree

No desire to eat

Can swallow but small morsels at a time

Constriction of oesophagus.

Colic, like painter’s colic

Pressing in both groins toward sexual organs

Left-sided abdominal complaints.

Pain; from lead poisoning

Bladder

urination; feeble stream (slow)

urination; feeble stream (slow); morning on waking

urination; delayed, difficult; must press; a long time before able to start

urination; delayed, difficult; must press; morning

Stomach

appetite; reduced

indigestion

after potatoes

Eating

Abnormal cravings - chalk, Carbo Veg ^Charcoal, dry food, tea-grounds

Vomiting

vomiting; on coughing

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Constipation

difficult stool

soft stool

inactivity of rectum

Diarrhoea; urinating

Pain

burning; during stool

cutting

soreness; during stool

Stool

Hard, dry, knotty; no desire

Rectum sore, dry, inflamed, bleeding

Itching and burning at anus

Even a soft is passed with difficulty

great straining

Constipation of infants (Collins.; Psorinum ^Psor.; Paraf.) and old people from inactive rectum, and in women of very sedentary habit

Diarrhoea on urinating

Evacuation preceded by painful urging long before stool, and then straining at stool.

Like balls

like sheep dung

Bloody

Dark

Hard

Knotty, nodular, lumpy

Small (see long and narrow)

Soft

Thin, liquid

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

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.

Urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); discharge; sharp mucous or pus

discharge

yellow

chronic

Female

Female

vaginal discharge

vaginal discharge; strong and sharp (acrid), wearing away skin

Genitals

Male; Excessive desire

Involuntary emissions when straining at stool

Prostatic discharge.

(Carb)

Relieved by washing with cold water.

Menses

Female; Menses too early, short, Scanty, pale, followed by great exhaustion

an.; Cocculus Indicus ^Coccul.) Leucorrhoea Acrid, profuse, transparent, ROPY, with burning; worse during daytime, and after menses

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Pain in arms and fingers, as if hot Ferrum Met ^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 degeneration and paralysis of lower limbs.

Hands and feet; corns; stinging

Heaviness

lower limbs

lower limbs; while sitting

leg

while sitting

foot

Movements and positions

incoordination

incoordination; ataxia

Pain

fingers; nails; under the nails

gnawing, biting; fingers; under nails

sore, bruised; foot; sole

while walking

as if sprained; shoulder

raising the arm

stitching, sudden, sharp; shoulder

stitching, sudden, sharp; hip

stitching, sudden, sharp; knee

tearing; lower limbs

tearing; thigh

tearing; knee

extending to other parts; downward

knee cap

tearing; leg

extending to toes

Paralysis

Skin

skin cracks at bends of joints; hands (see chapping)

itching; toes; toes that had been frozen

out-break on skin; foot; herpes

Weakness

tottering

lower limbs

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Evening

in bed

In bed

After sleep

On waking

Perspiration with heat

One-sided

right

▲   GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

Sleep and dreams

Restless; anxious and confused dreams

Sleepy in morning.

Dreams

anxious

robbers

Sleepiness, tiredness

Waking; frequent

Generalities

Evening

Physical exertion

Faintness, fainting; while standing

Lying down; inclination to lie down

Pain; pressing; together

Periodic, recurring

Pulsation; internally

Symptoms not symmetrical; symptoms on one side

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); tendency to catch cold

warmth

Walking; in open air

Warmth

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); from talking

walking

in open air

Weariness (see weakness)

after talking

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