Aloe socotrina
Keywords
- All veins
engorged, full, but anal sphincter relaxed.
- Irritable,
revengeful, with abdominal pain and constipation.
Synopsis
(identifying features)
- 1. Sense of
insecurity in the rectum, as if stool would escape while passing flatus or
urine.
- 2.
Dissatisfied and angry about himself or his complaint, esp. when constipated.
- 3.
Diarrhoea; has to hurry to closet immediately after eating and drinking (Crot.
t); with want of confidence in
sphincter
ani; diarrhoea drives him out of bed early in the morning (Psor, Rum, Sulph.).
- 4. Stool,
urging for, but passes only flatus.
- Rumbling
of flatus before stool.
- 5. Piles,
protrude like a bunch of grapes, sore and tender; amel. by cold washing (Ap.,
Kali.c. ).
- 6. Hungry
during diarrhoea.
- 7. Solid
stool and masses of mucus pass involuntarily. (Loss of sensation in the
rectum).
- 8.
Fullness, heaviness or pressure in the pelvis (rectum or uterus); with a
plug-like sensation; with
dragging
down pains.
- 9.
Alternating states;
-
(a)Lassitude alternating with great mental activity;
- (b)
Lumbago alternating with headache;
- (c)
Headache dependent upon bowel or uterine affections, and alternating with them.
- 10. Pain
from navel to rectum.
- 11. Heat
internal : Hot stool, flatus, urine, etc.
- Burning in
anus, piles, etc.
- 12.
Diarrhoea worse from standing (Sulph.) and walking (Thuj).
- 13. Colic,
cutting, excruciating, in right hypogastrium before and during stool; all pains
cease after stool, with
profuse
sweating and extreme weakness.
- 14. Colic
described above; attacks preceded by obstinate constipation.
Mind
- Indolent,
"weary"; averse to either mental or physical labour; mental labour
fatigues.
-
Dissatisfied and angry, esp. when constipated.
Objective
- Want of
confidence in sphincter ani; driving out of bed early in the morning; must
hurry to closet immediately after
eating or
drinking.
- Colic,
excruciating, before and during stool.
- Much
flatus with small stool.
-
Haemorrhoids like a bunch of grapes.
- Insecurity
of rectum.
- Solid
stool passes unnoticed.
- Lumpy
gelatinous stool.
- Hungry
during diarrhoea.
Causation
(a.f. )
- Sedentary
life.
-
Beer-drinking.
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Modalities
- Agg.
- Early
morning; summer heat; in hot dry weather; after eating or drinking; standing or
walking.
- Amel.
- Cold, open
air; bathing with cold water.
Food &
drinks
- Appetite,
thirst, cravings etc.
- Appetite
- Good.
Hungry during diarrhoea.
- Desire :
Juicy things; salty food; fruits.
- Aversion
- Meat;
bread.
Female
- Uterine
haemorrhage with great heaviness of uterus, and a sensation of plug between
pubes and coccyx.
Child
- Sexual
erethism ( excessive sensitivity ) in children.
- Children, even
old people, drop their stools all over the floor-pass stools without being
conscious of it.
Peculiar,
uncommon, grand characteristics
- 1. Mind
- Dreams of
soiling himself.
- 2. Mind
- Heat,
sensation of heat in the orifices of the body.
- 3. Head
- Headache
after insufficient stool.
- Headache
alternates with lumbago.
- 4. Abdomen
- Abdomen
distended, not relieved by passing flatus even in great quantities.
- 5. Abdomen
- Liver,
pain in the liver, worse on standing, so that he bends forward.
- 6. Rectum
- Diarrhoea
from oysters, out of season (Lyc. in season).
- 7. Rectum
- Dysentery
after parturition.
- 8. Rectum
- Cannot
pass flatus or urine without passing stool.
- Insecurity
of rectum.
- 9. Rectum
- Itching of
anus prevents sleep; has to bore into it with finger; it drives one to
distraction, amel, by cold applications.
- 10. Rectum
-
Haemorrhoids protrude like grapes, very sore.
- 11. Stool
- Hot stool,
flatus, urine.
- 12. Stool
- Must keep
mind on sphincter, else stool will escape.
- (Sep. must
keep mind on bladder or urine will escape).
- 13. Stool
- Extremely
prostrated after stool.
- 14. Back
- Lumbago
alternating with backache and piles.
- 15.
Extremities
- Hot
flushes; soles of feet burn and he uncovers them (Sulph.).
Cases
- 37. Aloes
- The
symptom, peculiar, characteristic and individualising, viz. relief of piles by
cold bathing, pointed out years ago
by C. Hering
led to the prescription.
- (This was
omitted in the Cypher Repertory just published, then Dr. Berridge points out,
"If the pain of any swelling
decreases
under homoeopathic treatment before the swelling decreases, it is a CURE; if
only after the discharge, it
is only a
recovery.
- Also look
up KR. 620 (haemorrhoids amel. cold) and KR. 622 (Rectum itching, cold bathing
amel).
- It appears
that the doctor did not take into account the other symptom like the shooting
pain in the right elbow to
wrist.
-
(E.W. Berridge - HH. 1984/36)