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- When someone is confused and he can't do two things at the same time, it is which remedy?

- Alumina.

- They have to concentrate on one thing.

- For example, a women can't cook in two pans at the same time.

- In Alumina you can also recognize the divergent strabismus like in Natrum muriaticum.

- If they look one eye is turned outwards.

- A: You had a feeling as if everything was unrealistic.

- Unreal things, again this is Alumina.

- A : colleague asked me whether it is possible a patient who was running all the time comes with clear Alumina symptoms.

- In the morning he is very slow, it takes quite a long time before he is really awake and in the course of the day he is doing better.

- Before he did quite a lot of sport and the colleague can't understand that this man needs Alumina now, but he has clear Alumina key-notes..he can't do two things at the same time, he has to do everything slowly, then the strong aggravation in the morning and the amelioration in the evening.

This is a kind of confusion. How can you translate this in the language of the Repertory ? "Confusion about his identity" (p. 15). The first remedy is Alumina, but with Alumina it is another kind of confusion. They look in the mirror and ask, "Is this really me ?" When they speak, they ask themselves if it is really they who are speaking. And Alumina has also the feeling, as if they are someone else, that someone else speaks through them. The cause in Alumina is that he has worked too much. That is what you see with MS in young men, who work very hard, who work in the coal mine or somewhere else during the day and build their house at the same time. They work day and night and when the house is ready, they get MS - that is Alumina.

A grief, a deep disappointment for a long time, these are important indications for Alumina. Afterwards, the weakness begins slowly. The first thing you see is the deviation of the eyes outwards. You also see this in Natrum muriaticum, the divergent strabismus.

It is also typical for Alumina that they have corns at the foot-soles, which are very sensitive, very painful.

In Guillain-Barré or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis you often mix Alumina with Sepia.

It is also strange that they like rice, but not potatoes. Not all kind of potatoes, they like fried potatoes, chips, but not boiled potatoes, they like rice.

I had a very severe case. I took him away from the psychiatry. His wife died, and since then he was very confused. It was terrible, I could not find the remedy. I searched 1 1/2 or 2 years, until I knew it was Alumina. They all have a strong aggravation in the morning; only at 9.00, 10.00 a.m. it becomes better. When they have to start working early - it is impossible. They become themselves slowly by 10.00 a.m. In the evening they feel well, together with Medorrhinum, Sepia and Aurum.

This man always said that he was all right when he could do things he has to do in his own tempo. When he has to do something quickly, he can not.

After the remedy he could drive the car again. In Alumina it is very difficult, to cure them completely; usually it is irreversible, but it is possible to stop the disease.

Until a certain point it is reversible, but usually they can not become completely healthy.

Ananda Zaren has a lot more experience with the treatment of newborn children than I do and she told me about a case of icterus neonatum in which the newborn had abdominal pain when the mother ate potatoes. The child got abdominal pain and some diarrhea. They have an aversion to potatoes and an aggravation, and the aggravation from potatoes seems to be very important for Alumina. An Alumina child suffers when the mother eats potatoes when breastfeeding.

P: In fact I never ate potatoes since my marriage until I became pregnant. Then I started eating potatoes because everybody said, "You have to eat potatoes, they are healthy, you need them during pregnancy." But before I never ate potatoes.

Everybody told her that she had to eat potatoes during pregnancy so she ate them and maybe this was the reason for the diarrhea.

Remark: There is a rubric "diarrhea from potatoes."

A : Yes, an aggravation from potatoes, this is Alumina.

At this moment I was thinking of giving her Alumina. The amelioration on Sepia officinalis was too slow to go to a real cure, and that's why I started doubting about the correctness of Sepia officinalis.

A: You liked tarts, but by what did you replace the potatoes?

P: With rice and spaghetti.

A: And you also like to eat fruit, a lot.

The desire for fruit is another very important keynote of Alumina.

As far as the potatoes are concerned they like fried potatoes, chips, French fries, croquettes and so on but they don't like boiled potatoes and they don't tolerate them.

A: This also belongs to the remedy. I gave you the remedy in 10M potency. My starting point to give this remedy was the sensitivity of the footsoles.

I forgot to tell you that she was very chilly. Alumina is a chilly remedy and it is the chronic of Sepia officinalis. I have another Sepia officinalis patient, constitutionally Sepia officinalis, who worked and worked until she finally developed paralysis. That was Alumina.

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