Alumen



First hard, then soft stools and pain following.

Relieved constipation entirely; the stools since, of natural consistence and frequency.

Costiveness of long standing; 30 cent.

Stools dry, seldom.

Copious, solid stools.

In large doses it acts as a purgative.

More frequent discharges.

Had had several days three or four diarrhoea discharges, and while damp weather favored this state, after taking Alum in solution, no stools appeared; the morning, a copious, mushy stool.

After omitting the Alum, soon a light looseness returned four or five times a day.

Diarrhoea, with frequent strong tenesmus, slimy discharges; and while they pass very violent pains in the rectum, going down into the thighs.

A tuberculous patient.

Diarrhoea, stools yellow like those of an infant (three on eleventh day).

Diarrhoea appearing during the typhus abdominalis, consuming the strength of the patient, is quickest relieved by it (Maly. in Hygeia, 16, 335).

Diarrhoea in tuberculous patients.

Blood with stool.

Great masses of coagulated black blood pass from the anus in the third week of typhus, with signs of the greatest exhaustion.

A girl of 18 years, 3D. cent. in water.

Diarrhoea, with frequent violent urging, slimy stools with severe pains in the rectum during stool, going down into the thighs.

Fetid, bloody ichor from the rectum.

Putrid dysentery (Jahr)..

During stool, pains in rectum.

During stool strong dyspnoea.

After stool, smarting and burning at rectum; pains in anus and rectum; in rectum; violent, (for three or four hours).

After a stool, beating in anus.

After a hard stool, hemorrhoidal tumors.

Rectum and Anus.

Violent urging to stool.In rectum, severe pains during stool.

With the stool, tearing in rectum, a few minutes after stool; stinging and tearing up the rectum, relieved by bending forward and sitting bend over; worse particularly when lying on one side; somewhat better from lying on back; at the same time burning and throbbing in the anus.

In frequent attacks, first hard, then soft stools, and after it, for three hours, the most violent pains, burning, shooting, and particularly cutting in the rectum upwards, lasting from morning till noon; with the stool passes a great deal of blood, without any relief; sometimes a sensation as if the anus would protrude.

After the patient had carried a piece of Alum in his breeches pocket, he never had it again. (Reported to Dr.

Neidhard). The same symptoms have in many cases been cured by giving high potencies.

Severe pains in the anus and rectum, appearing several minutes after stool; stinging and tearing up the rectum, relieved by bending forward and sitting bent forward; particularly worse when lying on the side; not so much when lying on the back; burning and throbbing in the anus; after five days better, but then a stitching pain from the upper part of the left chest through to the back, between the shoulder blades; worse at night in bed; it wakes him; increases when lying on the left side; not increased by taking a long breath; at the same time, sudden attacks of flutterings at the heart, disappearing as quickly as they came.

A man with chronic asthma (Dr. J. Husmann).

A woman with what was called cancer of the rectum (?), caused by a metallic pessary introduced in the vagina for prolapsus uteri, and remaining there for years, which had been somewhat benefited by Nux. and Sulph., but not permanently.

Intense pains in the anus, and in the rectum the worst, permanently.

Intense pains in the anus, and in the rectum the worst, particularly after stool; she can scarcely endure it; sometimes lasting three of four hours.

During stool, strong dyspnoea.

Four days after taking 30 cent., more relief than from any other remedy since three months; for the first time, stool without pains; was perfectly cured, had no return, even after scirrhus was cut out of the mamma six years later, and is nearly well now, twenty-five years after(210).

Ulceration of the rectum; if there is an ulcerated surface, and mostly exceedingly painful excrescences and fetid, bloody ichor, 2M (Wolf).

Hemorrhoidal tumor after a hard stool.

Piles, with aching within the anus (after eight days).

A small lump at the anus itches violently, particularly in the night, not so much during the day.

Itching at the anus all evening (first and second day).

Urine.

Increased secretion of urine.Frequent urination.

The urine becomes remarkably acid from the use of it (Kraus).

In the morning a bluish, iridizing film on the urine passed the evening before.

Brown, muddy, urine, over which is formed a thin, variegated cuticle, like that which is formed over stagnant water that contains iron (after six days).

The urine looks as though cheesy milk had been stirred into it, b.

White, cloudy urine (after ten hours).

Orifice of urethra itching.

Male Genitals.

While at dinner (2 o’clock), erections; something quite unusual (third day).In the night an emission of very thick semen; felt unusually well and strong next morning.

A cutting in the left side of the penis.

Shooting pain from the middle line of the belly, as along a thread down into the penis (third day).

Itching on the scrotum and at the orifice of the urethra, in the evening (second day).

Female Genitals.

In the highest degrees of weakness of uterus, its good influence is only transient (Hufeland).Higher potencies relieved permanently if indicated by the symptoms.

Causes induration and scirrhus uteri, if continually used for copious menstruation and hemorrhages (Hufeland).

Catamenia very scanty and more watery than usual (33 years old), has usually very profuse menstruation.

During catamenia hands weak, drops things easily.

Menses did not appear since several months, no good digestion, loss of strength, pain in the lower limbs, particularly at night; the column uteri swollen and puffed up, the vagina very sensitive, and narrowed, particularly at the orifice, by swelling of various size (Jacquot).

As she had it during pregnancy, faint weakness in pit of stomach.

Respiratory.

Hoarseness, voice shrill, cannot talk loud; at times she feels as though she had lost her voice; altogether the sound of the voice varied when talking, it is sometimes high, sometimes low; cannot talk loud enough.After a week, repeated the proving with precisely similar though less violent effects, except that her voice was entirely lost for a full week, and the soreness of the throat became so troublesome, as apparently to give her doctor some uneasiness; he call ed repeatedly and administered medicine several times during the ensuing fortnight.

This aphony lasted for months.

Hoarseness; worse from talking, which likewise causes a tickling cough.

Hoarseness with tickling cough; with cough in the evening.

Talking increases hoarseness; voice changing; throat dry; causes a tickling cough.

Larynx.

Tickling in the larynx causing cough (Trbg)..Tickling in throat causes cough; scratching like dust in larynx.

Painful scraping sensation of roughness in the larynx, with expectoration of much clear mucus, for two or three days after taking the medicine.

With the cough, scraping in the throat to the middle of the sternum; rawness in the breast; but slight expectoration.

In larynx, heat and burning.

Sense of constriction in the windpipe.

Breathing.

Oppression of chest; tightness across the upper part; sense of heat and burning.Sensation as if ligated in chest.

With every deep inhalation, pain on both sides of the spine, in the middle.

When inhaling, pain in clavicle.

Rapid short breathing with uneasiness in stomach.

Respiration rapid.

Ineffectual urging to take a deep breath, by fullness in pit of stomach.

Not increased by deep breathing, stitches from chest to back.

Cough.

Cough from tickling in larynx, caused by talking.Some irritation to cough, in the morning after rising (first day); tickling in the throat causing cough (second day).

Tickling cough one hour after getting up in the morning (second day).

Cough immediately after rising, excited by a tickling in the throat; worse during breakfast, after breakfast better, and only occasional cough during the day.

Tickling cough in the evening, from twilight (7 o’clock), until bedtime, with hoarseness.

Severe spell of hard shaking cough, caused by a scratching sensation in the larynx, as if dust were in it, which relieved by the discharge of a quantity of clear mucus (after a few hours).

Dry cough in the evening after lying down; after she felt nearly well; but she had a cough in the evening.

Every morning (as often before), some cough (twenty-second day).

Cough in the morning immediately after rising, excited by a tickling in the throat, particularly worse during breakfast, afterwards better; only now and then during the day.

The same tickling cough in the evening, from 7 o’clock until he goes to bed, with hoarseness.

When coughing, a scratching in the throat, to the middle of the sternum, and rawness in the chest; very scanty expectoration.

After the 30 cent., immediate improvement; after three days a relapse; then with a repetition of the dose for two days, gradual improvement.

Diarrhoea with frequent, violent urging; slimy stools, with severe pains in the rectum during stool, going down into the thighs.

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.