Alumina, or Argilla

Pure Clay. Aluminium Oxide. Al^.O^.

Used by the Old School, but only according to very poor indications. Hahnemann had proved the pure earth when Hartlaub edited a collection of 975 symptoms, obtained from four provers, in his Mat. Med., in 1829. The year after, Hahnemann published his own observations in Stapfs Archiv., viz., 215 symptoms, from a much better preparation. Hartlaub simply purified his preparation by washing it, which never can suffice, but Hahnemann subjected his to red heat. A careful comparison of the symptoms will show that there is a difference. In 1835, in the second edition of his Chronic Diseases, Hahnemann gives it place among the antipsorics, adding a few symptoms from Dr. Bute, and condensing Hartlaub's collection to about 900 symptoms.

Boenninghausen published very remarkable cures with the pure metal, in the A. H. Z., being guided by the symptoms of the oxide.

The symptoms of a remarkable cure of spinal disease with Alum, metallicum, by Kehfuss, translated by Dunham, and distinguished by the abbreviation met., are here included.

Mind

Consciousness not clear.

Consciousness of his personal identity confused.

▌ 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 the morning, is joyless and comfortless on waking.

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 the morning on awaking.

Sensorium p. 126

Quickly passing vertigo in the morning.

││ Vertigo : ▌everything turns in a circle ; with nausea ; worse before breakfast ; ▌on opening the eyes.

Vertigo on stooping ; better after breakfast, and from wiping the eyes ; nausea, faintness, pain in the nape of the neck.

▌ Stupefaction, with dread of falling forward.

Heaviness of the head, with pale, languid face.

Dullness and numbness of the head.

Vertigo as if drunken.

Vertigo with seeing white stars.

Vertigo when closing the eyes.

▌ Inability to walk, except with the eyes open, and in daytime, θ Locomotor ataxia.

▌ Cloudiness and drunken feeling, alternating with pain in the kidneys.

Easily made drunk, even by the weakest spirituous drink.

▌ When his eyes were closed, his whole body tottered ; if not firmly held, he fell to the ground ; met. θ Spinal disease.

Inner Head p. 126

Headache attended with nausea, pressure in the forehead and congestion to eyes and nose, with nosebleed.

Pressure in forehead from without inward, or rather outward, or over the eyes ; in the evening, sometimes with a chill, or nocturnal heat or sweat.

Throbbing, frontal pain, worse going up stairs, or stepping.

Burning, pressive pain, with heat in forehead, while standing or sitting, better in open air.

Headache sometimes in 1. side, < by walking in open air.

Lacerating pain in head.

Severe stitches in the brain, with nausea and dullness of the mind.

Sensation in the head as if its contents were in a vice, with a weight on the top.

▌ Headache resulting from chronic catarrhs of the head.

▌ Headache with constipation.

Headache, relieved by lying quiet in bed, or resting the head upon a cushion.

▌ Heaviness of the head, with pale, languid face; the vertex feels painful to touch.

Pulsations in the vertex with congestion to eyes and nose.

Stupefying tightness in r. temple, > by pressing upon it.

Heat in the 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 r. side of occiput.

Pain in head and nape of neck, it increases on going to bed, and only leaves off in the morning on rising.

Semilateral affections of the head, old rheumatic affections, always appearing on the same side.

▌ Increased pulsation of the temporal arteries, θ Spinal disease.

Outer Head p. 127

Itching of the 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 the forehead, as from a tight hat.

▌ Headache as if the hair was pulled; with nausea.

││ Falling off and excessive dryness of the hair ; scalp sore when the hair is touched ; creeping and titillation of scalp.

▌ Pain in the head and nape of the neck worse on going to bed ; leaves on rising in the morning.

Itching on forehead.

Exanthema on the forehead, feels as if glue had dried on it.

Sight and Eyes p. 127

Far-sightedness.

▌ Vision dim and eyes dry in the evening, θ Chronic catarrh.

▌ Seeing fiery spots ; met. θ Spinal disease.

White stars before the eyes, with vertigo.

▌ Dim-sightedness, like looking through a fog, or as if feathers were before the eyes ; must rub the eyes.

Objects appear yellow. θ Liver complaint.

▌ Burning and pressure in the eyes.

││ Red eyes with lachrymation.

▌▌ Eyes inflamed, itching at the inner can thus; agglutination at night, and lachrymation by day ; yellow halo around the candle ; burning and dryness, smarting, but with very little ulceration.

Sensation of coldness in eyes when walking in open air.

▌ Spasmodic closure of the lids at night, and burning in the eyes in the morning and evening. θ Ophthalmia.

Inclination to stare.

││ Strabismus of either eye ; especially from loss of power of the internal rectus.

Sensation of coldness in the eyes, in the open air.

▌ Pressure in the eyes which are sensitive to the light.

Stitches in the eyes.

In evening pressure in canthus as from a grain of sand.

▌▌ Eyelids thickened, dry, burning.

▌ Chronic granular lids.

Eyelids stick together with matter ; lachrymation.

▌ Upper lids seem to hang down as if paralyzed, especially the left, θ Old, dry granular lids.

▌ Burning and dryness in the lids every evening, with pain in the internal canthus of left eye, with much dry mucus in the morning on waking.

▌ Burning, dryness; burning on waking, especially on looking up, with dread of light.

Eyes generally better from being bathed.

││ Itching in the canthi with burning.

Eyelashes fall out.

▌ Tottering and falling when closing eyes ; met. θ Spinal disease. See 2.

Hearing and Ears p. 128

│ ' Buzzing as if outside the ear.

Humming ; roaring ; whistling ; sound as of large bells.

▌ Redness and heat of one ear ; evenings.

Hot earlobes with peevishness and whining.

Sensation as if something lay before the ear ; on blowing the nose it is felt, swallowing removes it.

▌ Stitches in the ears, evening or night.

▌ Purulent otorrhoea.

Crepitation in the ears on swallowing or chewing.

Smell and Nose p. 128

▌ Sense of smell weak.

Nosebleed with pressure in forehead and congestion to eyes.

Disposition to colds in head.

││ Nose stopped up, more 1. side, with glairy mucus.

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.

▌ Catarrhs of long standing with old people.

▌ Discharge of dry, hard, yellow-green mucus from nose; nose swollen, red and sore to touch, worse in the evening.

▌ Nose dry ; met. θ Spinal disease.

▌ Violent pain in root of nose, θ Ozgena.

▌ Copious, yellow, sour-smelling mucus, with sore nostrils. θ Ozgena.

▌ Septum narium swollen, red and painful to touch ; more painful evenings.

▌▌ Redness of nose.

││ Nose ulcerated.

▌ Swelling and hardness of the left alse nasi.

▌▌ Point of nose cracked.

After blowing the nose, glittering before the eyes.

^ Face. Sallow skin.

Pale languid face with heaviness of the head.

Tearing and lancinating in the malar bone.

▌ Tension of the skin of the face, as though white of egg had dried on it.

Itching of various parts of the face ; of the forehead, with rough skin.

Blood-boils on face and nose.

▌ Tetter on temples and forearm. θ Leucorrhoea.

Gloomy, pale, or alternately red and pale.

▌ Heat and redness ; met. θ Spinal disease.

Coppery cheeks.

Bloated places, like bulbous excrescences ; nodular swellings.

Lower Face p. 129

Tension and drawing in the jaws and cheeks with increase of saliva.

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

Upper lip covered with little blisters.

Lower jaw seems shortened.

Lips dry, chapped.

▌▌ Involuntary spasmodic twitching of lower jaw, with haemorrhage of bowels ; dark offensive stools.

││ Trismus.

Teeth and Gums p. 129

' l Teeth feel long and sore.

▌ Toothache; teeth feel loose and elongated, < from chewing, in open air, evening.

▌ Drawing toothache, extending to other parts, as down the larynx, neck, or shoulders. θ During pregnancy.

Teeth covered with sordes.

Swelling of gums ; they easily bleed and ulcerate.

Saltish blood seems to come from the teeth.

"Taste. Speech. Tongue. ▌Taste flat; met. θ Spinal disease.

▌ Tongue coated with a thin slimy fur ; met. θ Spinal disease.

Taste: I I acrid, sweetish, or fatty; almost lost; like blood.

Tingling, itching on the tongue, must scratch it. θ During pregnancy.

Bites his tongue while asleep.

Inner Mouth p. 129

▌ Musty, bad odor from mouth.

▌ Small ulcers in mouth.

▌ Saliva increased, although mouth may feel dry.

Sensation of soreness in mouth when eating.

▌ Increased saliva and mucus.

Dryness in mouth.

Palate and Throat p. 130

Inflammatory redness in back of throat.

▌ Transient stitches in throat.

▌ Dryness of throat, as if parched.

▌ Rawness and roughness in throat, inducing hawking or coughing in the evening, with secretion of mucus.

▌ Pressure in throat as from a plug, with soreness and dryness.

Sensation of swelling in sides of throat.

▌ Sense of constriction from pharynx down to stomach, as if food could not pass.

▌ Great dryness of throat, especially on awaking, voice husky; constant hawking, and sensation of a lump in throat. θ Chronic catarrh.

▌ Feeling of a splinter in throat, ▌stinging on swallowing.

Copious, thick, tenacious mucus in throat, evening and morning on awaking ; can be expectorated only in lumps, with great effort.

▌ Thick mucus, dropping from posterior nares.

▌ Ulcers in fauces, spongy; secreting a yellowish-brown, badly smelling pus ; with boring pains from fauces to right temple and head.

Painful soreness in throat and upper part of oesophagus, worse swallowing empty.

│ Throat feels relaxed.

▌ Feels the food the whole length of the oesophagus.

▌ Swallowing painful, better after warm drinks; swallowing saliva or liquids often relieves ; but swallows solids with difficulty.

On waking in the morning pharynx feels narrower than usual, as if contracted and lame.

▌ Violent, pressive pain, as if a portion of the oesophagus were contracted or compressed, in the middle of the chest, especially during deglutition, but also when not swallowing, with oppression of the chest, alternately with palpitation of the heart, especially after a meal.

Swallowing causes crepitation in ears. See 6.

Pains in the throat ; < evening and night.

Appetite. Thirst p. 130

' ' No desire to eat.

▌ Has no appetite, food has no taste.

││ Irregular appetite.

Longing for fruit and vegetables, ▌potatoes disagree.

▌ Aversion to meat; to beer; meat has no taste.

Thirst all day.

▌ Appetite for starch, chalk; clean white rags; charcoal, cloves, acids, coffee or tea-grounds, dry rice, and other indigestible things, θ Chlorosis. See 44, 47.

Eating and Drinking p. 131

Before eating : canine hunger ; seems to quiver all over.

Better while eating.

▌▌ Worse from eating potatoes, θ Colic, θ Indigestion.

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.

Worse from cold, better from warm diet.

Worse after eating soups.

After eating : languor in the evening ; must lie down at noon ; phlegm on the chest.

Eating removes the faintness at the stomach.

After breakfast : vertigo ; nausea better.

After dinner : sweet tasting mucus.

Aggravation or appearance of all the symptoms immediately after dinner or in the evening.

Worse from warm drink : chill. See 40.

Better from warm drink : throat. See 13.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 131

Chronic inclination to belch, in old people.

Eructations: Sour; I bitter, after potatoes ; ▌< evenings.

Heartburn after supper ; sourish risings, with profuse flow of water from the mouth.

Nausea : with vertigo ; stitches in brain ; chilliness ; pale face, desire to lie down, faintness ; better after breakfast.

Frequent nausea ; faint nausea.

Vomits mucus and water.

Vomiting of food, mucus or bile ; met. θ Spinal disease.

Stomach p. 131

Distension of stomach.

▌ Constriction and twisting in stomach, extending up oesophagus to throat. See 13.

Stitches in pit of stomach, extending upwards to chest.

Drawing, or oppressive pain, going upwards to chest and throat ; after potatoes.

Hypochondria p. 131

││ Pains in the epigastrium and hypochondria when stooping.

Contractions in both hypochonders.

Spasmodic pains in the hypochondria and stomach with dyspnoea almost to suffocation.

▌ Liver pains, as if bruised, when stooping; stitches when rising again.

Tearing from the liver to the hip.

Shooting pain in the region of the spleen.

Stitches in both hypochondria ; < from motion.

Shooting in left hypochondriura going upwards and forwards to cardiac region, worse on deep inspiration.

Abdomen p. 132

Seems to hang down heavily, like a load, when walking, afternoons.

Reaching too high strains the abdominal muscles.

Pains ▌< sitting bent.

▌ Pressing in both groins, toward the sexual organs, evenings.

▌ Stitching, pressing pain in region of abdominal ring, like from hernia, with tension as far as the side of the abdomen.

Flatulent colic, bellyache.

Colic in the morning.

▌▌ Painters' colic.

││ Soreness and twitching of the r.^ inguinal glands.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 132

▌▌ 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.

After each dysenteric stool, involuntary urination.

▌▌ Severe hemorrhage from the bowels with flow of urine. θ Typhoid.

Pressing to stool aggravates her symptoms.

Tenesmus in rectum and bladder at the same time. θ Proctitis.

Stools too scanty.

▌▌ Stools: hard and knotty or covered with mucus; like sheep's dung, with cutting in the anus, followed by blood ; like pipe stems.

Constipation from great dryness of the mucous follicles of the rectum, with long-lasting pain in the rectum.

▌ Diarrhoea, with urging in rectum, also with bloody, scanty stools.

▌ Clots of blood pass from the anus.

││ Dropping of blood during an evacuation.

Hemorrhoids, worse in evening, better after night's rest.

▌ Itching and burning at anus.

Perineum : pressure when blowing the nose ; — sweats and is tender to touch.

▌▌ Soft and thin stool, passing with difficulty.

▌ Chronic diarrhoea; <C on alternate days ; from walking ; > from a short sleep or warm applications.

▌▌ Diarrhoea whenever she urinates.

Chronic diarrhoea. θ Chlorosis.

▌ Blind piles protrude, become moist, with lancinating pain ; are hard and itch.

During stool : I rectum as if constricted and dried up ; throbbing in the small of the back; I excoriated feeling in the rectum ; chills all over ; discharge of prostatic juice.

││ Varices become moist, sting and burn.

▌ Itching with burning excoriation and great sensitiveness. θ Hemorrhoids.

▌ Fistula ani.

Sensation of weakness of sphincter ani.

Pulsating in the anus.

Torpidity of rectum ; rectum seems paralyzed.

Itching of the anus.

Urinary Organs p. 133

Renal pains as from riding over a rough road ; alternating with cloudiness as if drunk ; dancing makes worse.

▌ Frequent micturition. θ Prolapsus uteri.

││ Tenesmus vesicse. θ Dysentery.

▌▌ Urine voided while straining at stool; or, cannot pass urine without such straining. See 20.

Frequent urination at night.

Frequent emissions of very small quantities of light colored urine with great straining, severe smarting and burning, with a feeling as though a few drops remained in urethra, which could not be expelled.

Urine : scanty, with red sediment, in arthritic affections ; copious and pale, in nervous diseases ; with thick, white sediment ; more frequent, copious and dark.

▌ Urine red without sediment ; met. θ Spinal disease.

Feeling of weakness in bladder and genitals, in evening, with fear that he will wet the bed.

Pouting of the meatus urinarius, with swelling and discharge of light yellow pus from urethra.

During urination : burning, with discharge of urine and desire to evacuate the bowels ; the stream assumes a spiral shape.

▌ Urine smarting, corroding. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Male Sexual Organs p. 133

││ Excessive sexual desire.

││ Frequent and painful erections, < at night.

▌ Involuntary emissions, followed by all his old symptoms.

Sexual desire lessened. θ Impotence.

▌ Feeling of weakness in bladder and genitals ; he fears he will wet the bed.

││ Discharge of prostatic fluid during difficult stool.

Light yellow pus from urethra, causing itching of glans penis.

Sensation of weakness in the penis.

Left testicle hard and very painful.

Tickling on the genitals and thighs.

Sweat on the perineum, with sensitiveness to touch.

▌ Pressure in the perineum at the beginning of an erection or during coitus.

Female Sexual Organs p. 133

Sexual desire decreased.

Weakness of the sexual parts.

▌ Prolapsus uteri.

▌ Bland, painless ulcers upon the os. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Severe painful swelling in either or both ovaries, very sensitive to touch, θ Metritis.

During an evacuation before the menses, she has pinching, writhing and pressing like labor-pains.

Menses : too early, short, scanty, and of pale blood ; too early, preceded by headache ; delay, finally appear, being pale and scanty.

▌ Menses scanty, pale and painful. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Before menses : many dreams, on awaking face hot, headache and palpitation ; abundant mucous discharge.

During menses : corroding urine and diarrhoea ; bloatedness.

After menses : 1 1 exhausted in body and mind, θ Leucorrhoea.

Leucorrhoea of transparent mucus, attended with tremor and sensation as if everything would fall out of the abdomen.

▌ Leucorrhoea : acrid, corrosive; profuse, relieved by cold washing; I transparent; during the day; I with tetter on the temples.

▌ Leucorrhoea corroding, profuse, running down to the heels, often only in the daytime, relieved by cold washes, θ Prolapsus uteri.

Painful throbbing in left side of vagina, like the tick of a watch.

Stitches in left side of vulva, extending up to chest.

││ Free light yellow excoriating discharge from the vagina.

││ Itching and burning pimples on the labia.

││ Inflammation and swelling of the vagina.

▌ Stitches, throbbing and itching in vagina. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Pregnancy and Nursing p. 134

▌ Gastric and abdominal symptoms during pregnancy : heartburn; 1 1 constipation from inactive rectum ; I I groaning at night, crying out " it is not I," begging them to stop ; tongue tingles ; mucous leucorrhoea, which runs down the limbs.

Itching in the mammae.

▌▌ Constipation of sucklings.

Voice and Larynx p. 134

Voice : has a nasal twang ; husky ; rough.

Hoarseness, evening and night, especially toward morning; disappearing while walking in the open air.

Sudden, complete aphonia.

Hoarseness.

Hoarse afternoons and evenings, with roughness and dryness.

▌ Voice hoarse, rough, hollow, almost aphonic ; met. θ Spinal disease.

Much talking, particularly in lively company, makes her hoarse.

Talking or singing makes him cough.

Talking increases soreness of chest.

Rawness in the larynx on awaking.

▌ Tickling in the larynx, with irritation to cough.

Sensation of tightly adhering phlegm in larynx, not removed by hawking or cough ; wheezing on inspiration.

Thyroid cartilage painful to touch.

Throat dry and voice husky on waking.

Respiration p. 135

Rattling, asthmatic breathing ; < coughing.

Oppression < when sitting stooped ; > straightening up, or walking in open air.

Talking or singing makes him cough.

Breathing arrested by copious, thick, tenacious, saltish mucus.

Oppressive pain in the chest, tight feeling.

Dyspnoea, with spasmodic pains in stomach and hypochondria.

Short-breathed when lying on the back ; goes off by turning on to the side.

Worse getting tired from exerting the voice.

Worse from deep inspiration ; shooting from left hypochondria to heart.

Wheezing inspiration, with tough mucus in larynx. See 25.

Cough p. 135

hacking cough, with frequent sneezing.

Cough: from sensation as of loose skin hanging in throat; from tickling in larynx; I from elongated uvula; I I from talking or singing.

Cough short ; causes pains in right temple and top of head, sometimes also difficult breathing.

Cough: I I soon after waking in the morning; every morning a long attack of dry cough, ending in difficult raising of a little white mucus.

Cough : I with tearing pain and involuntary emission of urine, in old or withered looking people.

All irritating things excite cough. See 15.

Painless evening cough.

▌ Dry cough at night, with dryness of the throat.

▌ Continued dry hacking cough, with vomiting and arrest of breathing.

Sudden, violent irrepressible cough in the evening while sitting.

Cough sometimes yields a piece of mucus mixed with blood.

Coughing causes shooting in vertex. See 3.

Sputum difficult and of a putrid taste.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 135

Chronic bronchitis with inclination to sing.

Constriction of the chest, with apprehension.

Oppression of chest, with constriction in oesophagus.

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.

▌ When stooping, a stitch from left side of abdomen to middle of chest.

Stitches extending from left side of vulva to chest.

Chest feels as if too large.

Chilliness in chest.

Hearing and Ears p. 136

Shocks in the cardiac region ; shooting from left hypochonder.

Awakens with palpitation.

││ Palpitation of heart. θ Prolapsus uteri. θ Dysphagia.

▌ Palpitation irregular, large and small beats intermixed.

Pulse either unchanged, or full and accelerated.

▌ Pulse hard, 90 to 100; met. θ Spinal disease.

Neck and Back p. 136

Itching in the nape of the neck and of the throat.

││ Shooting in right side of neck, posterior portion.

Pain in the back, and small of back, as if beaten.

▌ Pain in the back, as if a hot iron were thrust through the lower vertebrae. See 36.

At intervals, sudden sharp pains like a stab in lower part of back, which made her feel for the moment as if she could not straighten the spine.

▌ Cervical muscles drew head back during sleep ; met. θ Spinal disease.

▌ Violent stitch in the middle of the back.

││ Gnawing pain in the back.

Throbbing in small of back during stool.

Pain in the small of the back during rest.

││ Pain in sacrum, θ Uterine troubles.

Upper Limbs p. 136

Skin of the hands peels off.

Red rhagades on hands, worse in Winter and from washing.

Panaritium, with brittle nails, lancinating pains and tendency to ulceration of the fingertips.

Brittle nails and brittle skin on tips of fingers.

Nails brittle, or thick ; spots on the nails.

Pain in arms when letting them hang down, or on stretching in bed.

Sudden jerk or concussion in the shoulder.

Pain, as from a sprain, in shoulder-joint, especially on raising the arm.

Sense of tightness in the arm, as from cold.

Burning on the arms and fingers, and in elbow, as from a glowing iron.

Arms feel heavy, as if paralyzed ; they go to sleep.

Arms feel shorter.

▌ Tetter on forearm. θ Leucorrhoea.

Veins of the hands distended.

Gnawing beneath the finger nails, with crawling along the arm, as far as the clavicle.

Stitches in the wrist while working.

Lower Limbs p. 137

Tearing in the legs, the thighs and legs, when sitting and lying, especially at night.

▌ Long continued tension in thighs and legs, almost like a cramp, extending downwards.

Legs feel numb and stiff, especially at night.

▌ 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.

▌ Frequent cramps in the calves.

Tearing in the knees and patellae, or from knee to toes.

▌ Trembling of the knees.

▌ Numbness of the heel when stepping.

Soles of feet too sore to step on.

▌ Pain in the sole of the foot, on stepping, as though it were too soft and swollen. θ Tabes dorsalis. See 36.

Itching and redness of the toes, worse after scratching.

Stitches in corns and toes.

Great weariness of the legs when sitting.

▌ Heaviness in the feet with great lassitude of the legs.

Cold feet, followed by burning under the toes.

Smarting stitches in corns.

Pain as from fatigue, in the articulation of the foot when sitting.

Limbs in General p. 137

▌ Arms and legs feel heavy.

Frequent stretching of the limbs when sitting.

Trembling of the limbs.

Jerking and twitching of the limbs.

▌ Pains in the limbs as if the bones were squeezed narrower, with pressure in the joints.

▌ Drawing in the extremities.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 137

Resting head relieves the headache.

▌ Raising head : increases vertigo, nausea and vomiting; met. θ Spinal disease.

During rest : pain in small of back.

Aversion to motion.

Complaints from carrying on the back ; bodily exertion.

Pain in chest from lifting or carrying things.

Stitches in hypochondria, worse from motion.

Moderate exercise (in open air) relieves.

Walking about or moving feet relieves uneasiness.

Headache, > lying, <C walking in open air.

▌ When attempting to walk, great weakness and uncertainty in lower limbs, has to be led ; met. θ Spinal disease.

When walking; I abdomen hangs heavily; discharge of dark blood from the rectum ; fluor albus more profuse.

Talking or a short walk fatigues very much; causes numbness of limbs, flushes of heat.

Lying down : > headache ; < lassitude, yet there is desire to lie down.

Going down stairs : stitches in chest.

Worse from dancing : renal pains. See 21.

Worse ascending : frontal headache.

Stepping : < frontal headache ; numbness of heel ; pain in sole of foot.

Straining, lifting, etc., cause soreness in chest and abdomen.

Reaching high : strains abdominal muscles.

When sitting : weariness of legs ; pain in foot-joint ; stretching limbs.

Sitting bent: pain in abdomen <; oppressed respiration; constriction in chest.

Stooping causes vertigo ; pain in vertex ; constriction of chest ; pain in scrobiculum, liver, hypochondria and abdomen ; stitch from abdomen to chest.

Short-breathed lying on back, not on side. See 26.

Better lying on 1. side ; <C lyiiig on right.

Worse from standing and sitting : pain and heat in forehead.

Nerves p. 138

Want of bodily irritability.

Great exhaustion of strength, especially after walking in open air; accompanied by yawning, stretching, drowsiness and inclination to lie down ; lying, however, increases the lassitude.

▌ Much fatigued by talking. See 25, 28.

▌▌ Faint and tired, must sit down.

▌ Involuntary movements of single parts.

▌ Spasms, with attacks of laughing and weeping.

▌ Paralysis from spinal disease; cannot walk with the eyes closed. See 31, 32, 33.

Rheumatic and traumatic paralysis, in gouty patients.

One-sided paralysis, especially of the extensors.

Hysteria, θ Prolapsus uteri.

Excited condition of mind and body ; acute smell, red face, tingling tongue, constriction in internal parts, involuntary jerks, all alternating with dullness of sight, loss of smell, pale face, lassitude and drowsiness.

Tremor, θ Leucorrhoea and prolapsus.

Tremulousness, when he touches anything, he feels electrified.

Suddenly jerks the head backwards ; involuntary motions ; laughing and crying.

▌ Slow tottering gait, as after severe illness.

Sleep p. 139

Drowsiness by day.

Lies awake from crowding of ideas or fancies, or from heaviness in the arms.

▌ Sleepiness, with inclination to lie down. See 36.

Unrefreshing night sleep ; a mere slumbering, with feeling in the morning as if he had not slept enough, θ Cephalalgia.

Restless sleep ; turns frequently ; feels too warm ; lies uncovered in unrefreshing slumber, I with many dreams and frequent awaking ; starts in affright ; muttering or crying.

▌ Restless sleep, always awaking with palpitation of heart.

Dreams : anxious ; of boat foundering ; ghosts ; thieves ; confused.

Bites his tongue during sleep.

During sleep, lies on the side.

Frequent urination in the night.

▌ During sleep the cervical muscles drew the head backwards; met. θ Spinal disease.

Worse on awaking : mind ; weak and faint, until he eats ; wakes unrefreshed ; heat in the face ; huskiness ; dryness in throat, tenacious mucus ; rawness in larynx ; palpitation.

Time p. 139

Time passes too slowly. See 1.

Remission from evening until morning.

Worse evening and night : throat complaints.

Toward morning : hoarseness.

Before breakfast : vertigo, faint nausea, relieved after eating.

Morning : mental depression ; transient vertigo ; pain in head and neck better ; burning in eyes ; dry mucus in eyes ; cough and sputa ; pressure on chest ; colic.

Worse morning and evening : burning of eyes ; mucus in throat.

Worse all day : mucous leucorrhoea ; drowsiness.

Worse alternate days : constipation ; chronic diarrhoea ; prolapsus uteri ; chlorosis.

Worse afternoon : hoarseness.

Worse evening : apprehension ; tetter on scalp ; dim sight, dryness, pressure and burning in eyes ; spasmodic closure of eyelids ; one ear red and hot ; tearing and stitches in ear ; ozsena ; toothache ; pains in throat ; eructations ; hemorrhoids ; weakness in bladder ; hoarseness ; languor ; heaviness in lower limbs ; heat.

On going to bed : pains in head and neck.

From A p.m. till going to bed she feels well. θ Melancholy.

At night : headache < ; spasmodic closure of lids ; pains in throat worse ; frequent urination ; pain in chest <.

New and full moon ; tetter on scalp ; heat.

Temperature and Weather p. 140

Unpleasant want of animal heat.

Warm food and drinks relieve throat.

▌ She feels better in open air. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Takes cold easily sitting in the room, gets hoarse ; this lessens when walking in the open air.

Generally better in warmth ; worse in cold air, out-doors.

Better walking, out-doors, in mild weather ; inclination to be in the open air.

Cannot bear the cold, nor a warm room.

Warmth of bed : body itches.

Open air : pain in forehead, dullness of sight, cold feeling in eyes ; toothache worse ; hoarseness ; oppressed breathing better ; chilliness with headache.

Worse in dry weather; I thin fecal stools.

Winter : rhagades ; eruptions.

Cold washing : leucorrhoea > ; rhagades.

Better in Yet weather or moistening the diseased part.

Fever p. 140

Unpleasant want of animal heat.

Chill : with great thirst ; with nausea.

Internal chill and shivering, with desire for warmth of stove, with stretching and bending of limbs, worse after warm drink ; often with heat of the face.

Chill during the day, heat at night.

Frequent repetition of chills in the evening.

Heat at night, with anxiety and sweat.

Heat in the evening, commencing in and spreading from the office, sometimes of only the right side.

▌ Chill appeared after eating the soup at dinner, θ Intermittent fever.

▌ Slight chill in the evening; met. θ Spinal disease.

Sweat at night, toward morning most profuse in face, frequently only on right side of face; less when walking out-of-doors.

Entire inability to sweat.

Attacks p. 140

At intervals sudden, sharp pains, like a stab. See 31.

Worse at new and full moon. θ Skin symptoms.

Worse in winter, θ Skin symptoms.

▌ Worse on alternate days, θ Chronic diarrhoea. θ Chlorosis. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Locality and Direction p. 140

Complaints chiefly in external parts (burning, etc.).

Semilateral affections of head. See 3.

Paralysis left-sided, painless.

Pains go upwards. See 19, 28.

Jerks go from head over body.

Upper left, lower right side, most affected.

Drawing toothache, extending to other parts, as down to the larynx, neck, shoulder, etc.

Left : headache ; upper lid hangs down ; pain in internal canthus ; side of nose stopped up ; throbbing from hypochondria to heart ; throbbing in vagina ; stitches in vulva.

Right : heat and sweat of face ; inguinal glands sore and swollen ; shooting in side of neck.

Right to left : stitches in lungs.

Sensations p. 141

Illusive sensations ; some parts of the body feel as if they had become larger.

Sensation of constriction in internal organs (oesophagus, stomach, rectum, bladder).

Cutting in outer parts.

Lancinating in head ; malar bone; hemorrhoids; panaritium.

Boring : from fauces to temple.

Dryness : inner parts.

Gnawing : in back ; beneath fingernails.

Throbbing : in back.

Heaviness : in arms, legs and feet.

Creeping and titillation : on hairy scalp.

Crawling : on arm.

Pressure : in forehead ; eyes ; canthus ; throat ; groins ; perineum and joints.

As if squeezed together : bones of limbs.

Pricking : in muscles, from within outward.

Stitches : in brain ; eyes ; ears ; throat ; scrobiculum ; liver ; hypochondria ; abdominal ring ; from vulva extending to chest; back; wrist and corns.

Pulsation : in inner parts.

Soreness : (excoriation) outer and inner parts ; inguinal glands.

Drawing : from stomach to chest and throat ; in extremities.

Tearing : in outer parts ; most in soft parts ; in malar bone ; from liver to hip ; in thighs and legs ; on knees.

Shooting in spleen : in left hypochonder ; in side of neck.

Bruised pains : outer parts.

Burning : in forehead ; in eyelids ; with pressure in eyes ; in anus ; when passing water ; on arms, fingers and elbow ; on thighs ; under toes.

Coldness : in eyes.

Numbness: in scalp ; in legs ; in nates; of heel.

Sprained feeling: in shoulder-joint.

Complaints predominate on outer part of thighs ; patella ; wrist ; leg ; forearm ; sole of foot, etc.

Tension : in jaws and cheeks ; in groin ; in arm ; thighs and legs.

Of hot iron : through lower vertebrae ; on arms, fingers and elbow.

Sensation as if white of egg had dried on the skin : forehead ; face.

Irritability of body lessened.

Tissues p. 142

Veins distended. See 33.

Mucous membranes very dry or secreting scantily. See 5, 13.

Emaciation. See 47.

▌ Chlorosis. See 14, 47.

▌ Scrofula.

Cough p. 142

Passive Motions. Touch and pressure relieves pain in r. temple.

Sensitive to touch : vertex ; scalp ; perineum ; ovaries.

Better from scratching, but bleeding follows.

Pressing teeth together aggravates.

Better from wiping the eyes. See 5.

Riding in a carriage gives her pain in chest.

Skin p. 142

Skin yellow, θ Liver complaint,

▌ Intolerable itching of whole body, especially when getting warm and in bed ; scratches until the skin bleeds, which is then painful.

Eruptions humid, scabby, sore, gnawing.

Ulcerated surface secretes a yellow-brownish, badly smelling pus.

Blood-boils. Rhagades. Bulbous excrescences. I Leprosy.

▌ Dry, tettery, itching eruption.

Tetter itching in the evening. See 23.

Formication in the skin.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 142

Suitable to persons of a scrofulous habit who suffer from chronic diseases.

Constitutions with diminished animal heat.

Infancy : constipation, especially when artificial food is used. See 24.

Cholera infantum, stools green; acidity of primse vise. θ Strabismus.

Puberty : chlorosis, with longing for indigestible substances. See 14, 44.

Dark complexion, excitable.

Mild disposition : mild, tearful, anxious. θ Constipation and catarrh.

Spare habit; dry thin subjects.

Boy, set. 12, cerebro-spinal disease. After Bellad., Phos. and Nux. vom. had been given with very little improvement. Alum, met.'^^ cured.

Old people, hypochondriacal, or suffering from chronic diseases, especially catarrhs.

Vertigo in old people, with atheromata or earthy deposits on the cerebral or cardiac arteries.

▌ Chronic catarrh of the head.

Cough with involuntary emission of urine in old withered looking people.

▌*^ Relationship. 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. jod. (profuse, transparent leucorrhoea) ; Crraphit. (chlorosis ; skin rough, chapped, itching; nails; blepharitis, etc.); Ipec; Laches, (sad on waking ; climaxis) ; Pulsat. (tearful, peevish ; head, etc., better in open air; ozsena; taste lost; averse to meat ; chlorosis ; scanty menses ; complaints at puberty ; lack of animal heat ; soles of feet sore, < walking; toes red, itching, etc.); Plumbum (colic; constipation, etc.) ; Buta (loss of power of internal recti of eyes) ; Sepia (irritable, tearful ; ozsena ; scanty menses ; puberty ; prolapsus uteri ; inactive rectum ; weakness in urinary organs, etc.); Silic.; Sulphur; Zincum (inner can thus ; granular lids).

Compare with the following in clergyman's sore-throat : Arg. nitr., Kali which., Lycop., etc.

Alumin. follows: Bryon., Laches., Sulphur ; and is followed by : Bryon.

Alumin. and Bryon. are complementary.

Antidotes to Alumin.: Bryon., Camphor, Chamom., Ipec.

Alumin. antidotes : lead-poisoning, as in painters' colic ; ailments from lead.