Aloe socotrina
Aloe perryi (Socotrine aloe) · Aloe, Cape aloe,Aloe ferox · Plant · Asphodelaceae
Homeopaths consider Aloe when the psychological traits exhibited include weariness, a reluctance to work, and great irritability, especially in cloudy weather. Dissatisfaction and anger are commonly directed internally, possibly producing constipation. Moreover, the person may dream about stools or involuntary soiling. Beer is a typical craving, despite the fact that it usually exacerbates any physical symptoms.
Aloe is most frequently prescribed for disorders of the large intestine. It may be taken for congestion in the pelvic organs and the head, and is also thought to counter fatigue, hemorrhoids, and the possible consequences of a sedentary lifestyle, particularly in the elderly.
Key symptoms
- involuntary stools
- diarrhea with sudden urging, especially at 5 a.m.
- insecure feeling in the rectum
- headaches that are better for cold compresses
Worse (aggravation)
- Early morning
- Heat
- After eating and drinking
- On rising in morning
Better (amelioration)
- Cold
- Open air
- Cold water (for hemorrhoids and headache)
Socotrine Aloes (ALOE)
An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological equilibrium after much dosing, where disease and drug symptoms are much mixed. There is no remedy richer in symptoms of portal congestion and none that has given better clinical results, both for the primary pathological condition and secondary phenomena. Bad effects from sedentary life or habits. Especially suitable to lymphatic and hypochondriacal patients. The rectal symptoms usually determine the choice. Adapted to weary people, the aged, and phlegmatic, old beer-drinkers. Dissatisfied and angry about himself, alternating with lumbago. Heat internally and externally. Has been used successfully in the treatment of consumption by giving the pure juice.
Head
Headache alternates with lumbago, with intestinal and uterine affections. Disinclination to mental labor. Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them. Headache after stool. Dull, pressive pain; worse from heat.
Eyes
Compelled to make small during pain in forehead. Flickering before eyes. Redness of eyes with yellow vision. Pain deep in orbits.
Face
Marked redness of lips.
Ears
Cracking when chewing. Sudden explosion and clashing in left ear. Tinkling as of some thin, shivered, metallic globe in head.
Nose
Coldness of tip. Bleeding in morning on awakening. Full of crusts.
Mouth
Taste bitter and sour. Tasteless eructations. Lips cracked and dry.
Throat
Thick lumps of tough mucus. Varicose condition of veins in pharynx. Dry, scrapy feeling.
Stomach
Aversion to meat. Longing for juicy things. After eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum and sexual irritation. Nausea, with headache. Pain in pit when making false step.
Abdomen
Pain around navel, worse pressure. Fullness in region of liver, pain under right ribs. Abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, bloated. Pulsating pain around navel. Weak feeling, as if diarrhœa would come on. Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels. Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and os coccygis, with urging to stool. Colic before and during stool. Burning, copious flatus.
Rectum
Constant bearing down in rectum; bleeding, sore, and hot; relieved by cold water. Feeling of weakness and loss of power of sphincter ani. Sense of insecurity in rectum, when passing flatus. Uncertain whether gas or stool will come. Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed. Lumpy, watery stool. Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool. A lot of mucus, with pain in rectum after stool. Hæmorrhoids protrude like grapes; very sore and tender; better cold water application. Burning in anus and rectum. Constipation, with heavy pressure in lower part of abdomen. Diarrhœa from beer.
Urinary
Incontinence in aged, bearing-down sensation and enlarged prostate. Scanty and high colored.
Female
Bearing down in rectum, worse standing and during menses. Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much on that account. Labor-like pains in loins; extend down legs. Climacteric hæmorrhage. Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory
Winter coughs, with itching. Difficult respiration, with stitches from liver to chest.
Back
Pain in small of back; worse moving. Stitches through sacrum. Lumbago alternating with headache and piles.
Extremities
Lameness in all limbs. Drawing pains in joints. Soles pain when walking.
Modalities
Worse early morning; summer; heat; in hot, dry weather; after eating or drinking. Better from cold, open air.
Relationship
Complementary: Sulphur; compare: Kali bich; Lycop; Allium sat.
Antidotes: Opium; Sulph.
Dose
Sixth potency and higher. In rectal conditions, a few doses of the third, then wait.
Generalities
Aloe, much like Aesculus, has a peculiar engorgement of the veins, causing stiffness and fullness throughout the body, but the greatest disturbance is in the veins of the portal system, with great fullness in the region of the liver, and abdominal, rectal and intestinal fullness.
This is associated with hemorrhoids. It has abdominal pains that drive him to stool like Nux vomica, cutting, cramping pains around the navel.
Pains about the navel that shoot down towards the rectum, cutting like knives. Dysenteric and diarrheic troubles. In the attacks of diarrhea there is gushing of thin, yellow, offensive, excoriating feces, which burn like fire, and the anus is sore.
Aloe socotrina. Common Aloes. N. O. Liliaceæ. Trituration or solution in spirit of the gum.
Clinical
Abdomen, plethora of. Anus, affections of. Bronchitis. Colic. Constipation. Cough. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhoids. Hysteria. Lumbago. Onanism, effects of. Phthisis. Proctitis. Prolapsus uteri. Prostate, affections of. Sacrum, pain in. Tenesmus.
Characteristics
Aloe is one of the oldest and most famous drugs. It is in worldwide use as a purgative at the present day, and forms a leading ingredient in a large number of patent medicines for regulating the bowels and menstrual functions. The habitual use of these medicines leads to all kinds of pelvic ailments, and the fact that Sulphur antidotes Aloe accounts for the success of Sul. as a medicine to commence with in many chronic cases where purgatives have been used. Aloe resembles All. s. somewhat closely. It causes congestion of various parts, especially abdomen, pelvic organs, and head. A periodicity enters into many of its …
Socotrine Aloes (Liliaceae)
Adapted to indolent, "weary" persons; averse to either mental or physical labor; mental labor fatigues. Old people; especially women of relaxed, phelgmatic habit. Extreme prostration, with perspiration. Itch appears each year, as winter approaches (Psor.). Dissatisfied and angry about himself or his complaints, especially when constipated. Diseases of mucous membranes; causes the production of mucus in jelly-like lumps from throat or rectum; affects mucous membrane of rectum. Headache across the forehead < by every footstep (Bell., Bry.); with heaviness of eyes and nausea. Headaches: are worse from heat, better from cold applications (Ars.); alternating with lumbago; after insufficient stool. Diarrhoea: has to hurry to closet immediately after eating and drinking (Crot. t.); with want of confidence in sphincter ani; driving out of bed early in the morning (Psor., Rum., Sulph.). When passing flatus, sensation as if stool would pass with it. (Olean., Mur. ac., Nat. m.). Colic: cutting, …
Abdomen
Abdominal plethora with feeling of fullness and pressing down, or weight in anus and bladder.
Abdomen
Feeling of weakness in abdomen, as if diarrhoea would come on; heaviness in hypogastrium and rectum.
Anus and Stool
Mucous stool coming away in a lump or "gob," either large or small end of the consistency of a jelly-fish.
Anus and Stool
Feeling of weakness and loss of power in sphincter ani; sense of insecurity in the rectum, as if passing stool would escape when passing flatus.
Anus and Stool
Solid stool passes involuntarily, dropping away unnoticed by the paient, even children at night in bed.
Urinary Organs
Every time he passes urine feels as if stool would pass.
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A feeling of weakness in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would result.
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Diarrhoea with want of confidence in the sphincter ani. The rectum seems full of fluid which feels heavy as if it would fall out.
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Passing involuntary stools while urging to urinate.
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Stools lumpy and watery, or composed of lumps of jelly-like mucus.
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Hemorrhoids protrude like a bunch of grapes, with, constant bearing down in the rectum.
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