Aloe Socotrina

▲   GENERAL

General

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

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, early morning; summer; heat; in hot, dry weather; after eating or drinking.

Better

BETTER, from cold, open air.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Complementary

Complementary: Sulphur; compare: Kali Bich ^Kali-bich.; Lycopodium ^Lycop.; Allium sat.

▲   MIND

Mind

Aversions, dislikes; aversion to mental work

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; imbecility

▲   HEAD

Head

Disinclination to mental labor

Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them.

Headache

Headache alternates with lumbago, with intestinal and uterine affections

Pain, headache

cold applications

pressing (see bursting, pulling); forehead

over eyes

▲   EYES

Eyes

Compelled to make small during pain in forehead

Flickering before eyes

Redness of eyes with YELLOW vision

Pain deep in orbits.

Heaviness

▲   EARS

Ear

Cracking when chewing

Sudden explosion and clashing in left ear

Tinkling as of some thin, shivered, metallic globe in head.

▲   FACE

Face

Marked redness of lips.

▲   NOSE

Nose

Coldness of tip

Bleeding in morning on awakening

Full of crusts.

▲   MOUTH

Lips

Lips cracked and dry.

Taste

Taste bitter and sour

Tasteless eructations

▲   THROAT

Throat

Thick lumps of tough mucus

Varicose condition of veins in pharynx

Dry, scrapy feeling.

▲   CHEST

Respiration

Winter coughs, with itching

Difficult respiration, with stitches from liver to chest.

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Pain in small of back; worse moving

Stitches through sacrum

Lumbago alternating with headache and piles.

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Aversion to meat

Longing for juicy things

Pain in pit when making false step.

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 come on

Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and os coccyges, with urging to stool

Colic before and during stool

Bloated

Sensation of fullness

Heat

Heaviness

Noises from abdomen

gurgling

gurgling; before stool

Pain

before stool

cramping, griping

pressing; before stool

cutting

before stool

during stool

Sense of weakness; as if diarrhoea would come on

Flatus

After eating, flatulence, Pulsation in rectum, and sexual irritation

Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels

Burning, copious flatus.

Flatulence

Nausea

Nausea, with headache

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Constant bearing down in rectum; 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, with pain in rectum after stool

Hemorrhoids protrude like grapes; very sore and tender; better cold water application

Burning in anus and rectum

Constipation, with heavy pressure in lower part of abdomen

Diarrhoea from beer.

Urinary Organs.

Incontinence in aged, bearing-down sensation and enlarged prostate

Scanty and high colored.

Constipation; insufficient, incomplete, unsatisfactory stool

Diarrhoea

after eating

Dragging, heaviness, weight

Dysentery

Flatulence

during diarrhoea

hot

loud

during stool

sputtering

offensive

during stool

Fullness

Haemorrhoids

external

large

constricted, blood cut off from haemorrhoids

Heat

Involuntary stool

night

stool hard

on passing flatulence

Itching

Pain

after stool

burning

during diarrhoea

after flatulence

after stool

soreness

during stool

after stool

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing

during stool

Paralysis (see inactivity); sensation of

Relaxed anus

Skin and lining; excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed); from stool

Unnoticed stool; hard stool

Urging, desire to stool (see pain

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); after eating (see diarrhoea)

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); when passing flatulence

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); after stool

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); during urination

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Burning (includes hot)

Copious

Womb

Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much on that account

Genitals

Labor-like pains in loins; extend down legs

Climacteric hemorrhage

Menses

Female; Bearing down in rectum, worse standing and during menses

Menses too early and too profuse.

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Lameness in all limbs

Drawing pains in joints

Soles pain when walking.

▲   GENERALITIES

Generalities

Eating and food; after eating

Heaviness; internally

Sensation of plug; internally

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