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Alumina

Keywords

- Confused : Sluggish, paretic.

Synopsis (identifying features)

- 1. Confused intelligence; disturbed judgement; indecisive; things he knows seem to him to be unreal (Med.).

- 2. Confusion of his identify (when he says or sees anything, he feels as if another person said it, or saw it), as if

he could transfer himself into another and only then could see.

- 3. Mistakes in writing and speaking; uses words not intended.

- 4. Sluggish and slow; sensations are slow in being transmitted to the centre (stool, urine, prick of a needle).

- 5. Time passes too slowly, an hour seems half a day (Cann. ind).

- 6. Paretic weakness (passing stool, tottering gait, etc.)

- 7. Extreme dryness of skin or mucous membranes.

- 8. Sensation of splinter in throat, fissures, cracks (Nit. ac).

- 9. Must strain at stool to urinate.

- 10. Gait tottering, after severe illness; unable to walk except with eyes open - staggers when walking with closed

eyes and in darkness.

- 11. Leucorrhoea acrid, profuse, running down to the heels (Syph.).

- 12. Inactivity of rectum; no desire until accumulation of a large stool; stools dry like sheep dung.

- Passes stool easily when standing.

- 13. Craving for indigestible things.

- Potatoes disagree.

Mind

- Confusion of mind and ideas.

- Confusion as to his personal identity; not certain who he is with a sense of duality.

- Hasty but slow of execution; hence mistakes in speaking and writing.

- Time passes too slowly; an hour seems half a day.

- Delusion everything seems unreal.

- Desire to kill at the sight of blood or knife; or suicidal on seeing them.

- Fears his own impulses.

- Pessimist ( thinking bad outcome ).

- Despair of recovery.

- Fears loss of reason.

- Moods alternating.

- Timidity alternating with sad thoughts constantly crowd upon the mind.

- Inclined to weep. Anxiety of conscience as if guilty.

Objective

- Intolerable itching of whole body when getting warm in bed (Sulph); scratches until bleeds, then becomes painful.

- Inability to walk except with the eyes open; totters and falls when closing eyes (Arg.n. , Gels.).

- Has to strain hard at stool.

- Strains at stool in order to urinate.

- Exhausted physically and mentally, scarcely able to speak after menses.

- Diarrhoea when she urinates.

- Leucorrhoea profuse, runs down to heels.

- Even a soft stool requires great straining.

- Sore throat of public speakers.

Causation (a.f. )

- Eating food cooked in aluminium vessels.

Modalities

- Agg.

- Cold air; during summer, also winter.

- Periodicity, every other day.

- Agg. at new and full moon; after menses (exhaustion).

- Amel.

- Summer : open air, warmth, while eating (Psor.), warm drinks.

- Alternate days.

- In wet weather (Caust).

- Evening.

Food & drinks

- Appetite, thirst, cravings.

- Appetite:

- No desire to eat.

- Constriction of oesophagus, can swallow but small morsels at a time.

- Thirst extreme, during chill.

- Cravings

- Abnormal craving for indigestible things like chalk, charcoal, earth, dry rice.

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- Desires fruits; vegetables.

- Aversion

- Potatoes; meat, beer.

- Disagree

- Potatoes, vinegar, pepper.

- Onions (sore throat).

- Drunkenness even from weak alcoholic drinks.

- Tobacco smoking.

Female

- After menses exhausted physically and mentally; is scarcely able to speak (Carb. an., Cocc).

- Leucorrhoea acrid and profuse, running down the heels (Syph.); worse during daytime; amel. by cold bathing.

- Leucorrhoea during pregnancy.

- Prolapsus uteri : ulcerated os.

Male

- Sexual desire without erections.

Child

- Constipation of sucklings; in children on artificial food or bottle fed babies.

- Passes stool easily when standing (Caust.).

- Craving for indigestible things; coarse food.

- Stool difficult though soft; like sheep dung.

Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics

- 1. Head

- Hair falls out all over body.

- Eye- lashes fall out.

- 2. Eyes

- Blepharitis, with great dryness of conjunctiva.

- Chronic blepharitis.

- Eyes dry on reading.

- 3. Eyes

- Direction of pains : Pains go upward.

- Or upper left and lower right side are affected (Rev. Lyc.).

- 4. Face

- Sensation of dried white of egg on face, or of a cobweb on face.

- 5. Rectum

- Paretic weakness : of rectum.

- Even a soft stool needs great straining.

- Must strain at stool to urinate.

- 6. Gen. Female

- Leucorrhoea alternating with catarrh of nose and throat.

- 7. Gen. Female

- Gonorrhoea chronic : when no other medicine has acted deeply.

- 8. Larynx- Voice

- Paralytic weakness of vocal cords ending in hoarseness or loss of voice.

- 9. Cough

- Cough violent, caused by elongated uvula (Dunham).

- 10. Eyes

- Ptosis - paralytic drooping of eyelids (Caust.)

- 11. Extremities

- Feels as if walking on cushions.

- 12. Extremities

- Gait ataxic; unable to walk with eyes closed.

- 13. Extremities

- Great weakness and heaviness in legs, chiefly in hips.

- Trembling of knees.

- Slow tottering gait as after severe illness.

- Unable to walk except with eyes open, and in the daytime.

- 14. Skin

- Absence of sweat with dryness and harshness of skin.

- 15. Skin

- All skin symptoms are worse in winter.

- 16. Skin

- Dryness of skin - perspiration rare and scanty.

- Nails have a tendency to break when they are cut.

- 17. Skin

- Dryness of skin and mucous membranes or profuse secretion from the latter.

- 18. Skin

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- Dryness of skin with tendency to itch (with or without eruptions); skin cracks, thickens, bleeds, or ulcerates and

indurates.

- 19. Skin

- Intolerable itching of the whole body, esp. from warmth of bed.

- Has to scratch until the skin bleeds.

- 20. General

- Chronicity, when complaints improve for a time and relapse for no reason.

- 21. General

- For old people with lack of vital heat, or for premature old age with debility.

- 22. Sleep

- Dreams anxious; confused; of falling; of fire; robbers; snakes; stars falling; water; wedding.

Cases

- 43. Alumina:

- Look up the symptoms 831, 636, 637 and 638 in Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases.

- "In the morning, when waking, desire to pass urine with difficult and tardy emission of the urine in a feeble (thin)

stream from the female urethra."

- The pathological condition of the patient had nothing to do with the selection of the remedy.

- The more we know of our Materia Medica the more successfully we can apply our great therapeutic law.

- (Adolph Lippe - H.H. 1986/83)

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