Socotrine Aloes. HELBIG. Liliaceae.
Mind
Lassitude, alternating with great mental activity.
Great disinclination to mental labor; it fatigues him; general languor.
Anxiety.
Ill-humored; hypochondriacal, worse in cloudy weather.
Hates people, repels everyone.
Restlessness, with ebullitions of blood.
After a nocturnal emission, fright at slight noises.
Sensorium
Vertigo : as if everything whirled with her, worse on going up stairs or turning quickly; with anxiety when moving; everything seems insecure; better after nasal catarrh sets in.
Inner Head
Congestion to head, compelling one to sit up.
Headache across forehead, with heaviness of eyes and nausea; must make the eyes small.
Obtuse frontal headache, incapacity for all mental work.
Weight on the vertex; pressure in the forehead and occiput.
Dull, pressive pain : in supraorbital region; in sinciput.
Pressing outwards to the temples, with periodic heat of the face and flickering before the eyes.
Stitches in the temples aggravated by every footstep.
Headache after insufficient stool; with abdominal pains.
Headaches with gastro-intestinal irritation and with coldness of lower limbs from afflux of blood to the cerebral centres; headaches better from cold applications.
Outer Head
Sensitiveness of the scalp in spots.
Alopecia with chronic headaches.
Eyes
Eyes glittering, somewhat red, prominent; unsteady anxious look.
Flickering before the eyes, with heat of face; scotoma. Yellow rings move before the eyes.
Dimness before the eyes while writing.
Pain deep in orbits as if in muscles, worse on right side.
Ears
Cracking in the ears when moving in jaw.
Sticking pain in the left ear, later in the right.
Nose
Nosebleed in bed after awaking.
Coryza, with burning and pain in the nose; on sneezing, stitches in the umbilical region.
Face
Heat of the face with the headache or when excited.
Face : pale during cloudy weather, sickly, sunken.
Lower Face
Lips : redder than usual; dry cracked; moist, soreness of the borders; white scaly.
Teeth
Sensitiveness in a hollow molar; worse when eating; later a pustule appears on the gum near the diseased tooth.
Tongue etc.
Taste : bitter, sour, like ink or iron; metallic.
Tongue : coated yellowish-white; stiff; dry, red.
Severe fine stitches, from behind forward, in the under part of the tongue when moving it.
Yellow ulcers on tongue.
Inner Mouth
Inflamed sore spots in the mouth, on the tongue, inside of cheeks.
Sickening smell from the mouth.
Increase of saliva.
Palate and throat.
Fauces raw, hot, as if burned.
Palate swollen : arches of the velum palati pain on chewing hard food, or on yawning, worse in the evening, and in the morning on awaking; worse on empty swallowing.
Hawking of thick, jelly-like mucus, in lumps, from fauces and posterior nares; rawness and swollen feeling in pharynx.
Desires Aversions
Aversion to meat.
Longing for juicy articles;fruits, especially apples.
Thirst : with dryness of mouth; awakens at night.
Eating and Drinking
Hungry during the diarrhoea; hungry after the morning stool.
Sour food does not agree.
Beer relieves pains in anus; drinking vinegar the colic.
Water causes pains in the stomach.
Has to hurry to the closet immediately after eating or drinking.
Nausea and Vomiting
Eructations : bitter; acrid; or sour.
Rising of flatulence toward the throat, with sensation as if vomiting were coming on.
Nausea : with frontal headache; with empty feeling in the stomach; with pain at the umbilicus.
Vomiting of blood.
Scrobiculum and Stomach
Pain in the scrobiculum on making a false step.
Fullness in stomach, followed by distension of epigastrium.
Hypochondria
Painfulness in the hypochondria, with chilliness and diarrhoea; painful weakness of the legs.
Stitches from spleen into chest, or drawing into the loins.
Hepatic region : burning; uneasiness, heat, pressure and tension; dull pain; worse on standing, bends forward.
Stitches from the liver into the chest, obstructing respiration.
Abdomen
Pulsation in the region of the navel.
Distension of the abdomen, especially the epigastrium, with flatus moving about; worse after meals; during menstruation; on motion.
Gurgling of flatus in descending colon; worse after eating.
Abdomen painful, especially about the navel; twisting, griping about the navel, must sit bent forward; urging to stool, with passage only of offensive flatus.
The abdominal muscles pain when rising from a recumbent posture, or when touched. When standing erect, or when pressing to stool.
