Aloe

Socotrine Aloes

Abdomen

William Boericke 1922

Pain around navel, worse pressure. Fullness in region of liver, pain under right ribs. Abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, bloated. Pulsating pain around navel. Weak feeling, as if diarrhoea would 36 come on. Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and os coccygis, with urging to stool. Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels. Colic before and during stool. Burning, copious flatus.

William Boericke 1922

Diarrhoea from beer.

Back

William Boericke 1922

worse moving. Stitches through sacrum. Lumbago alternating zvith headache and piles.

William Boericke 1922

Pain in small of

Compare

William Boericke 1922

Kali bich.; Lycop.; Allium sat. Antidotes: Opium; Sulph.

Dose

William Boericke 1922

First to sixth potency.

Ears

William Boericke 1922

Cracking when chewing. Sudden explosion and clashing in left ear. Tinkling as of some thin, shivered, metallic globe in

Extremities

William Boericke 1922

Lameness in all

Eyes

William Boericke 1922

Compelled to make small during pain m forehead. Flickering before

William Boericke 1922

Redness of eyes with ycllozv vision. Pain deep in orbits.

Face

William Boericke 1922

Marked redness of lips.

Female

William Boericke 1922

Bearing down in rectum, worse standing and during menses. Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much on that, account. Labor-like pains in loins : extend down legs. Climacteric hjemorrhage. Menses too early and too profuse.

Guiding symptoms

William Boericke 1922

Especially suitable to lymphatic and hypochondriacal patients. The rectal symptoms usually determine the choice. Adapted to weary people, the aged, and phlegmatic, old beer-drinkers. Dissatisfied and angry about himself, alternating with lumbago. Heat internally and externally. Has been used successfully in the treatment of consumption by giving the pure juice.

Head

William Boericke 1922

Headache alternates with lumbago, with intestinal and uterine affections. Disinclination to mental labor. Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them. Headache after stool. Dull, prcssive pain; worse from heat.

Limbs

William Boericke 1922

Drawing pain^ in joints. Soles pain when walking

Modalities

William Boericke 1922

fl^’orse, early morning; summer; heat; in hot, dry weather; after eating or drinking. Better, from cold, open air. ALOE — ALSTONIA — ALU MEN 37

Mouth

William Boericke 1922

Taste bitter and sour. Tasteless eructations.

Nose

William Boericke 1922

Coldness of tip. Bleeding in morning on awakening.

Rectum

William Boericke 1922

Constant bearing down in

William Boericke 1922

bleeding, sore, and hot; relieved by cold water. Feeling of weakness and loss of power of sphincter ani. Sense of insecurity in rectum, when passing flatus. Uncertain whether gas or stool will come. Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed. Lumpy, watery stool. Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool. A lot of mucus, ivith pain in rectum after stool. Haemorrhoids protrude like grapes ; very sore and tender; better cold water application. Burning in anus and

William Boericke 1922

Constipation, with heavy pressure in lower part of

Relationships

William Boericke 1922

Complementary ; Sulphur;

Respiratory

William Boericke 1922

Winter coughs, with itching. Difficult respiration, with stitches from liver to che.st.

Stomach

William Boericke 1922

Aversion to meat. Longing for juicy things. After eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum, and sexual irritation. Nausea, with headache. Pain in pit when making false step.

Text

William Boericke 1922

An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological equilibrium after much dosing, where disease and drug svmptoms are much mixed. There is no remedy richer in svmptoms of portal congestion and none that has given better clinical results, both for the primal V pathological condition and secondary phenomena Pad effects from sedentary life or habits.

Throat

William Boericke 1922

Thick lumps of tough mucus. Varicose condition of veins in pharynx.

Urinary

William Boericke 1922

Incontinence in aged, bearing-down sensation and enlarged prostate.

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