Aloe



Severe thirst, with fever.

Thirst, especially for beer, which seems to alleviate the pains in the anus.

Aversion to drinks, especially to cold drinks (second day).

Eructations, tasting of aloes, lasting two hours, frequently recurring (after four grains), Bitter eructations (first day), Bitter eructations, many days.

Bitter eructations after drinking water.

Empty, tasteless eructation, with sense of fullness in the pharynx (second day); again (seventh day).

Eructations form time to time, part of the time without any taste (morning of eleventh day).

Easy eructation of wind without taste (after ten minutes), (after thirty minutes).

Much eructation of wind, with oppression of the stomach (second day).

Eructation of Flatulent gases.

Empty eructation, empty or tasting of food.

Eructation relieves the oppression of the stomach.

Acrid eructation, after dinner.

Sour eructation (W)..

Rising of flatulence towards the throat, with sensations as if vomiting were coming on.

Nausea.

Inclination to vomit, after sour things.

Nausea, with empty feeling in the stomach.

Nausea rising into the stomach, with inability to vomit.

Neither nausea nor a change in condition is observed therefrom.

Nausea, immediately after taking it; must sit completely still in order not to vomit; also, other days.

With the nausea, pains extend from the stomach towards both sides of the chest.

Nausea with headache.

Some nausea, with pain in the umbilical region increased by pressure, and diarrhoea.

Once, after half a drachm for headache form heat of the sun, vomiting a quantity of thick mucus on going to stool, which returns a half hour after a glass of water.

The pulse and strength were thereby sunken till the next day.

In a city where one had begun to adulterate beer with Aloes, hematemesis was almost endemic.

The use of alum-whey gave almost sure relief (Neumann).

Soon after taking it, troublesome sense of fullness in the region of the stomach, followed by distension of the epigastrium and both hypochondria; with a pain in the first hypochondrium, which goes away after a passage of flatus, but returns with stimulant (second day).

Fullness of the stomach after drinking water, and bilious eructation.

Crawlings in the stomach and abdomen.

Immediately, pain in the stomach on the right side.

Slight pressure in the stomach.

Pressure in the stomach with a feeling of warmth therein (first day).

The pit of the stomach pains very much on making a false step.

Pressure in the epigastrium and up into the pharynx (fourth day).

Painful pressure under the sternum (fourth day).

Some pressure in the pit of the stomach after breakfast, relieved by eructations.

Pressure in the pit of the stomach through to the back, like a weight, with sore pain; sometimes this pain rises higher up into the chest and then sinks down again; accompanied by copious eructations.

Feeling of weakness in the pit of the stomach, like a weight and burning there.

With the nausea, pains which draw form the stomach up into both sides of the chest, worse on motion (third day); still the same pins drawing form the pit of the stomach to both sides of the chest.

Snatching under the pit of the stomach (in a mesmerized person).

Jerks in the epigastrium.

Abdomen

Painfulness across below the ribs, with painful weakness in the legs; therewith, an evacuation somewhat diarrhoeic, with chilliness, so that he feels very cold as often as he goes away from the stove.Stitches under the left ribs, in the hepatic region.Dull pain under the ribs with distension.

Aching in the hypochondria, cutting.

Distension of both hypochondria.

Distension as if it were too narrow around under the ribs.

Occasional stitches in both hypochondria, extending around the navel, and then passing into the rectum.

An inner pressure at the short ribs, after three hours.

Pinching at both sides of the hypochondria, first day.

Pain in the left hypochondrium, better after passage of flatus.

Stitches in the left hypochondrium, as if in the left ligaments of the womb, and in the ovaries.

Dull pain in the left hypochondrium (third day); pressive pain (fourth day).

A jerking pain in the region of the left lower rib, internally, going from above downwards, and from the outside inwards on walking, morning (sixth day).

Crampy pain in the region of the spleen.

Dull stitches in the splenic region through the left breast (in the supraorbital region, in the frontal prominences, in the finger-joints), (sixth day).

Awaked by dull stitches in the splenic region, drawing into the loins (first night).

Transient stitches in the spleen (seventh day).

Stitches now left, now right.

Uneasiness, heat, pressure and tension in the region of the liver.

Uneasiness in the hepatic region (W)..

Only seldom is a heating and uneasiness in the hepatic region noticed when the purgative action is near at hand.

Pressure and tension in the right hypochondrium; in the right epigastrium.

Side ache, right (Hong).

Pressure under the right ribs.

Dull, pressive pain in the region of the liver (fourth and fifth day).

Hard, pressive pains in the region of the right lower ribs, alternation with just such pains in the upper part of the chest, as if it were seated under the sternum; i. e., they are found now here, now there.

The former are more transitory, but more frequent; the latter more enduring, but less frequent.

Dull pain on the right side under the ribs, the same in all positions, worse on standing, so that he bends himself forwards.

Pain in the region of the liver; at times it pains by the last ribs internally, as if strained, as after great exertion (first day).

Transient stitches in the hepatic region (second day).

Blunt stitches, now in the left, now in the right hypochondrium (second day).

Periodic blunt stitches in the hepatic region, sometimes moving into the chest and obstruction respiration (first day, less the second day).

Single blunt stitches in the hepatic region (first day).

On deep inspiration, it sticks in the precordium.

Stitches moving form the hepatic region into the chest.

Pain in the liver (Aloe perfoliata, herb)., (Hong).

Aloes increases the secretion of bile, and irritates the liver.

The purgative action of Aloes is secondary; the primary action is increased irritation of the liver, and consequent augmented secretion of bile, whose quantity and irritation induce purgation.

After passage of flatus, the distension in the hypochondria, and the pains in the left hypochondrium disappear.

Abdomen painful, especially in the umbilical region.

Severe pressing in the left side of the chest, across over to the umbilicus.

Throbbing, boring, sticking, in the umbilical region.

A twisting and griping pain in the upper abdomen, and around the umbilicus, compelling to sit bent up, which relieves; therewith, repeated urging to stool, but only flatus passes off, which is very offensive, and produces burning in the anus, with short relief from the pain (second day).

Pinching and twisting pains around the umbilicus.

Digging around the navel.

Pinching in the umbilical region.

It gripes sometimes in the umbilical region, with shivering through the whole body (first day).

Frequent cutting and twisting about the umbilicus, so that she lies upon the abdomen, but she cannot remain lying quietly, because the pains do not decrease in severity.

Cutting about the umbilicus after going to stool (second day).

In the morning, on rising, severe raking in a small circle about the navel, just as if he had received a blow from a fist upon the abdomen.

But he felt the pain plainly in the intestinal canal, and a pressure upon the umbilical region increased it very much.

Therewith, yellowish pappy diarrhoea, and occasionally some nausea (third day).

Boring pain in the umbilical region.

Dull stitches in the umbilical region; sneezing.

At 6 A.M., moving about in the umbilical region, with urgency to stool and hunger; second stool, with flatulence, and a kind of tenesmus (fourth day).

Itching at the umbilicus.

Drawing in of the navel.

Distension of the abdomen, especially of the whole epigastric region, with flatus moving about in the abdomen (third day).

Distension of the abdomen, moving about along the intestinal canal (fourth day).

Distension of the bowels; of the upper part of the bowels (second day).

After a meal, flatulence distends the abdomen (fifth day).

Mornings, flatulent distension of the bowels, especially in the hypochondrium (third day).

Flatulent distension during menstruation.

Some flatulent distension, with predominating ill-humor (second and third days).

Flatulent distension along the colon, with a pain which presses outward, is increased by motion, and suddenly disappears on passage of hot flatus (morning of second day).

Periodic movements and distension in the abdomen, chiefly after eating (third day).

There is moving about in the bowels frequently audible to him; swashing and gurgling (twelfth day).

Severe pains in the abdomen.

Increased heat in the abdomen.

Unpleasant warmth in the abdomen, as well as also a throbbing.

Sense of fullness, distension, and heat in the whole abdomen.

Burning throughout the whole abdomen.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.