Alumina

Alumina
(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.
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.
Head
- 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.
Eyes
- Objects look yellow.
- Eyes feel cold.
- Lids dry, burn, smart, thickened, aggravated in morning; chronic conjunctivitis.
- Ptosis.
- Strabismus.
Ears
- Humming; roaring.
- Eustachian tube feels plugged.
Nose
- Pain at root of nose.
- Sense of smell diminished.
- Fluent coryza.
- Point of nose cracked, nostrils sore, red; worsetouch.
- Scabs with thick yellow mucus.
- Tettery redness.
- Ozoena atrophica sicca.
- Membranes distended and boggy.
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.
Mouth
- Sore.
- Bad odor from it.
- Teeth covered with sordes.
- Gums sore, bleeding.
- Tensive pain in articulation of jaw when openingmouth or chewing.
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.
Stomach
- 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 oesophagus.
Abdomen
- Colic, like painter's colic.
- Pressing in both groins toward sexual organs.
- Left-sided abdominal complaints.
Stool
- 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.
- Diarrhoea on urinating.
- Evacuation preceded by painful urging long before stool, and then straining at stool.
Urine
- Muscles of bladder paretic, must strain at stoolin order to urinate.
- Pain in kidneys, with mental confusion.
- Frequent desire to urinate in old people.
- Difficult starting.
Male
- Excessive desire.
- Involuntary emissions when straining at stool.
- Prostatic discharge.
Female
- Menses too early, short, scanty, pale, followed by great exhaustion. [Carb. an.; Coccul.]
Leucorrhoea acrid, profuse transparent, ropy, with burning; worse during daytime, and after
menses.
- Relieved by washing with cold water.
Respiratory
- 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.
Back
- Stitches.
- Gnawing pain, as if from hot iron.
- Pain along cord, with paralytic weakness.
Extremities
- 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.
Sleep
- Restless; anxious and confused dreams.
- Sleepy in morning.
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.
Modalities
- 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.
Relationship
- 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 haemorrhage from inertia of uterus.
- Parenchymatous haemorrhage from various organs - 23 % solution.
- Haemorrhage following tonsillectomy is controlled by rinsing out nasopharynx with a 10 %
sol.
- Complementary : Bryonia.
- Antidotes : Ipecac.; Chamom.
Dose
- Sixth to thirtieth and higher.
- Action slow in developing.

Aesculus hippocastanum

Aesculus hippocastanum
(horse chestnut)
* The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged
haemorrhoidal veins, with characteristic backache, with absence of actual constipation.
* Much pain but little bleeding.
* Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple color; everything is slowed down, digestion,
heart, bowels, etc.
* Torpor and congestion of the liver and portal system, with constipation.
* The back aches and gives out and unfits the patient for business.
* Flying pains all over.
* Fullness in various parts, dry, swollen mucous membranes.
* Throat with haemorrhoidal conditions.
Head
- Depressed and irritable.
- Head dull, confused, aching as from a cold.
- Pressure in forehead, with nausea, followed by stitches in right hypochondrium.
- Pain from occiput to frontal region, with bruised sensation of the scalp; worse in the
morning.
- Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead, followed by flying pains in
epigastrium.
- Vertigo when sitting and walking.
Eyes
- Heavy and hot, with lachrymation, with enlarged blood vessels.
- Eyeballs sore.
Nose
- Dry; inspired air feels cold, nasal passages sensitive to it. Coryza, sneezing.
- Pressure at root of nose.
- Membrane over turbinate bones distended and boggy, dependent upon hepatic disorders.
Mouth
- Scalded feeling.
- Metallic taste.
- Salivation.
- Tongue thickly coated, feels as if scalded.
Throat
- Hot, dry, raw, stitching pain into ears when swallowing.
- Follicular pharyngitis connected with hepatic congestion.
- Veins in pharynx distended and tortuous.
- Throat sensitive to inspired air; feels excoriated and constricted, burns like fire on
swallowing, in afternoon.
- Early stages of atrophic pharyngitis in dried-up, bilious subjects.
- Hawking of ropy mucus of sweetish taste.
Stomach
- Weight of a stone, with gnawing, aching pain; most manifest about three hours after meals.
- Tenderness and fullness in region of liver.
Abdomen
- Dull aching in liver and epigastrium.
- Pain at umbilicus.
- Jaundice; throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis.
Rectum
- Dry, aching.
- Feels full of small sticks.
- Anus raw, sore.
- Much pain after stool, with prolapse.
- Haemorrhoids, with sharp shooting pains up the back; blind and bleeding; worse during
climacteric.
- Large, hard, dry stools.
- Mucous membrane seems swollen and obstructs the passage.
- Irritation caused by ascarides and aids their expulsion.
- Burning in anus with chills up and down back.
Urinary
- Frequent, scant, dark, muddy, hot urine.
- Pain in kidneys, especially left and ureter.
Male
- Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool.
Female
- Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis.
- Leucorrhoea, with lameness of back across the sacro-iliac articulation; dark yellow, sticky
corroding; worse after menses.
Chest
- Feels constricted.
- Heart's action full and heavy, can feel pulsations all over.
- Laryngitis; coughs depending on hepatic disorders; hot feeling in chest; pain around heart in
haemorrhoidal subjects.
Extremities
- Aching and soreness in limbs, in left acromion process with shooting down arms; finger tips
numb.
Back
- Lameness in neck; aching between shoulder blades; region of spine feels weak; back and
legs give out.
- Backache affecting sacrum and hips; worse walking or stooping.
- When walking feet turn under.
- Soles feel sore, tired, and swell.
- Hands and feet swell, and become red after washing, feel full.
Fever
- Chill at 4 p.m.
- Chilliness up and down back.
- Fever 7 to 12 p.m.
- Evening fever, skin hot and dry.
- Sweat profuse and hot with the fever.
Modalities
- Worse, in morning on awaking, and from any motion, walking; from moving bowels; after
eating, afternoon, standing.
- Better, cool open air.
Relationship
- Aesculus glabra - Ohio-Buckeye Proctitis.
- Very painful, dark purple, external haemorrhoids, with constipation and vertigo and portal
congestion.
- Speech thick, tickling in throat, impaired vision, paresis.
- Phytolacca (throat dry, more often in acute cases.) Negundium Americanum - Box-elder -
(Engorgements of rectum and piles with great pain, ten-drop doses of tincture every two
hours.) Compare also : Aloe, Collinson. Nux. Sulphur.
Dose
- Tincture, to third potency.

Actaea spicata

Actaea spicata
(baneberry)
* Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the small joints; tearing, tingling pains characterize it.
* Wrist-rheumatism.
* Pulsations over whole body, especially liver andrenal region.
* Cardiovascular spasm.
* Pains worse from touch and motion.
Head
- Fearful, starts easily; confused.
- Ebullition of blood to head excited by drinking coffee.
- Vertigo, tearing headache, better in open air, throbbing in brain, pain from crown to
between eyebrows; heat in forehead, pain in left frontal eminence as if bone were crushed.
- Itching of scalp alternating with heat; nose redat tip, fluent coryza.
Face
- Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones to temples.
- Perspiration on face and head.
Stomach
- Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region, with vomiting.
- Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with difficult breathing; sense of suffocation.
- Sudden lassitude after eating.
Abdomen
- Spasmodic retraction.
- Sticking pain and distension of hypogastrium.
Respiratory
- Short, irregular breathing at night, while lying.
- Great oppression. Shortness of breath on exposure to cold air.
Extremities
- Tearing pains in loins.
- Rheumatic pains in small joints, wrist, [Ulmus] fingers, ankles, toes.
- Swelling of joints from slight fatigue. Wrist swollen, red, worse any motion.
- Paralytic weakness in the hands.
- Lame feeling in arms.
- Pain in knee.
- Sudden lassitude after talking or eating.
Relationship
- Compare : Cimicif.; Cauloph.; Led.
Dose
- Third potency.

Adonis vernalis

Adonis vernalis
(pheasant's eye)
* A heart medicine, after rheumatism or influenza,or Bright's disease, where the muscles of
the heart are in stage of fatty degeneration, regulating the pulse and increasing the power of
contractions of heart, with increased urinary secretions.
* Most valuable in cardiac dropsy.
* Low vitality, with weak heart and slow, weak pulse.
* Hydrothorax, ascites.
* Anasarca.
Head
- Feels light; aches across front, from occiput around temples to eyes.
- Vertigo on rising, turning head quickly or lyingdown.
- Tinnitus.
- Scalp feels tight.
- Eyes dilated.
Mouth
- Slimy.
- Tongue dirty yellow, sore, feels scalded.
Heart
- Mitral and aortic regurgitation.
- Chronic aortitis, Fatty heart pericarditis.
- Rheumatic Endocarditis. [Kalmia].
- Praecordial pain, palpitation, and dyspnoea.
- Marked venous engorgement.
- Cardiac asthma. [Quebracho.]
- Fatty heart.
- Myocarditis, irregular cardiac action, constriction and vertigo.
- Pulse rapid, irregular.
Stomach
- Heavy weight.
- Gnawing hunger.
- Faint feeling in epigastrium.
- Better out of doors.
Urine
- Oily pellicle on urine.
- Scanty, albuminous.
Respiratory
- Frequent desire to take a long breath.
- Feeling of weight on chest.
Sleep
- Restlessness, with horrible dreams.
Extremities
- Aching in nape.
- Spine stiff and aching.
- Oedema.
Relationship
- Adonidin is a cardiac tonic and diuretic.
- Quarter grain daily, or two to five grains of first decimal trit. increases arterial pressure and
prolongs the diastole, favoring emptying engorged veins.
- Is an excellent substitute for Digitalis and is not cumulative in action.
- Compare : Digit.; Cratoeg.; Conval.; Strophanthus.
Dose
- Five to ten drops of the tincture.

Azadirachta indica

Azadirachta indica
(margosa bark)
* An afternoon fever and rheumatic pains in various parts are caused by this remedy.
* Pain in sternum and ribs, in back and shoulders and extremities; heat, pricking and aching
in hands, especially palms, fingers, also toes.
Head
- Forgetful; giddy on rising; head aches, scalp sensitive; eyes burn, pain in right eyeball.
Fever
- Slight chill, afternoon fever, glowing heat in face, hands, and feet, copious sweat on upper
part of body.
Relationship
- Compare : Cedron; Natr. mur.; Arsenic.

Asterias rubens

Asterias rubens
(red starfish)
* A remedy for the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic constitution, flabby with red face.
* Lancinating pains.
* Nervous disturbances, neuralgia, chorea, and hysteria come within the range of this
remedy.
* Has been used for cancer of the breast, and has an unquestioned influence over cancer
disease.
* Excitement in both sexes.
Head
- Cannot bear contradiction.
- Shocks in brain; throbbing; heat in head, as if surrounded by hot air.
Face
- Red.
- Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth.
- Disposition to pimples at adolescence.
Female
- Colic and other sufferings cease with appearanceof flow.
- Breasts swell and pain in breasts; worse left.
- Ulceration with sharp pains, piercing to scapulae.
- Pains down left arm to fingers, worse motion.
- Excitement of sexual instinct with nervous agitation.
- Nodes and indurations of mammary gland, dull aching, neuralgic pain in this region.
[Conium.]
Chest
- Breasts swollen, indurated.
- Neuralgia of left breast and arm. [Brom.]
- Pain under sternum and in muscles of praecordialregion.
- Left breast feels as if pulled inward, and pain extends over inner arm to end of little finger.
- Numbness of hand and fingers of left side.
- Cancer mammae even in ulcerative stage. Acute, lancinating pain. Axillary glands swollen
hard and knotted.
Nervous system
- Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the will.
- Epilepsy; preceded by twitching over whole body.
Stool
- Constipation.
- Ineffectual desire.
- Stool like olives.
- Diarrhoea, watery brown, gushing out in jet.
Skin
- Destitute of pliability and elasticity.
- Itching spots.
- Ulcers, with fetid ichor.
- Acne.
- Psoriasis and herpes zoster worse left arm and chest.
- Enlarged axillary glands, worse, at night and indamp weather.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Plumb.; Zinc.
- Compare : Conium; Carbo; Ars.; Condurango.
- Incompatible : Nux; Coffea.
Modalities
- Worse, coffee, night; cold damp weather, left side.
Dose
- Sixth potency.

Asparagus officinalis

Asparagus officinalis
(common garden asparagus)
* Its marked and immediate action on the urinary secretion is well known.
* It causes weakness and cardiac depression with dropsy.
* Rheumatic pains.
* Especially about left shoulder and heart.
Head
- Confused.
- Coryza, with profuse, thin fluid.
- Aching in forehead and root of nose.
- Migrainious morning headache with scotoma.
- Throat feels rough, with hawking copious tenacious mucus throat.
Urine
- Frequent, with fine stitches in orifice of urethra; burning; of peculiar odor.
- Cystitis, with pus, mucus and tenesmus.
- Lithiasis.
Heart
- Palpitation, with oppression of chest.
- Pulse intermits, weak, pain about left shoulder and heart, associated with bladder
disturbances.
- Great oppression in breathing.
- Hydrothorax.
Extremities
- Rheumatic pain in back, especially near shoulderand limbs.
- Pain at acromion process of left scapula under clavicle and down arm, with feeble pulse.
Relationship
- Antidote : Acon.; Apis.
- Compare : althea - Marshmallow - (contains asparagin; irritable bladder, throat and
bronchi.) Physalis Alkekengi. Digital.; Sarsap.; Spigelia.
Dose
- Sixth potency.