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