Homeopathy Remedy Aletris Farinosa


Aletris Farinosa homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Aletris Farinosa


      Aletris farinosa, Linn. (natural order Haemodoraceae), colic root. A tincture is prepared from the root.

General Action

      It seems to be an irritant to mucous membranes (See nose, mouth and gastro-intestinal canal), and to produce an engorgement of the lower abdomen, with symptoms in women of a heavy uterus.

Allies.- Colchicum, Arum-tri., Aloes, Lil-tig., Kali-c., Iris, Crocus, Dioscorea.

Generalities and Mind

      Uneasiness. Faint feeling in evening, with nausea. Tired; all the afternoon, with dull heavy, confused feeling in head and inability to concentrate the mind or study. Mind confused and wandering. Mind tends to run on pleasant thoughts, but it does not continue on one object long. Rapidity of thought not lessened, but the power and energy of mind weakened.

Head

      Aching; in morning on waking; every morning, with nauseous, faint, all-gone feeling in stomach, (>) eating; in different parts. Strange feeling, gradually setting down, with aching in occiput. Feeling as if in a vise. Pressure over eyes, with a queer sensation behind ears. Pain over r. eye, running down into eyeball, (>) closing lids, at same time nausea and pain in lower abdomen. Forepart felt as if in a vise; feeling in forehead as if in a vise, with dull pain running from r, temple over eye down into eyeball. Aching in r. temple. Temples feel as if in a vise; T. feel as if pressed together, with an occasional twinge in r. temple. Pain in vertex, (<) bending it forward and by straining at stool; P. in vertex, with weight in occiput. Heaviness in vertex and over eyes.

Occiput. Pain; and in neck; then weight; on l. side, just behind ear; and heaviness, with sharp pain running down r. trapezius, which was (<) bending head forward, (>) bending it backward. Queer feeling. Weight, with aching over eyes and through head from temple to temple. Heaviness, as if a weight would draw it backward, and the neck had not the strength to prevent it; (>) during breakfast, with a feeling as if the scalp were contracting across the back, drawing the sides of the occiput together.

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Face

      Lancinating pain in r. eyeball. Eyelids feel as if pressed down. Pain back of ear, running down sterno-mastoid muscle, leaving soreness to touch; P. back of r. ear, extending down anterior surface of sterno-mastoid muscle. Ears feel as if open through from one to another. Deaf in l. E., stuffed feeling. Nose sore inside of tip; inside, on l. of tip; inside, (<) r. side (a crack just inside r. nostril). Watery discharge from nose. Lips dry and cracked (Arum tr.).

Throat

      Pain; in r. side all the afternoon, and at 5 P.M. in l. side close up under jaw, with thirst and hyperaemia of mucous membrane of pharynx and larynx; in r. side (in r. anterior pillar), intermittent, like shocks of an electro-magnetic machine run slowly but strong, (<) any movement of head that stretched the muscles. Soreness in morning on waking.

Stomach

      Appetite lost. Thirst; during fever. Eructations of air after eating; of food in evening with burning in throat. Nausea, with giddiness, then vomiting and purging; N. (<) by coffee; with pressure in forehead, the nausea (>) dinner, but returning with gagging at the sight or thought of grease. All-gone feeling in morning on rising, causing faintness, (>) eating.

Abdomen

      Cramps. Griping (Diosc.). Pain all through, settling into lower part, (>) passing flatus and scanty diarrhoeic stool (Colchicum); P. all through, (<) bending forward, (>) bending backward, then the pain increased and it seemed as if all the insides had sunken to lower abdomen and were cut with knives (Veratrum); (>) scanty diarrhoeic stool (Colchicum); intermittent, mostly in lower part, (>) scanty diarrhoeic stool, tenesmus during and after stool, with feeling as if lower part of rectum were closed. Aching in hypogastrium; and across back of hips.

Stool

      Frequent ineffectual urgings. Loose, painful, offensive, frequent. Thin, with hard lumps in it. Hard; and delayed, small, scanty, difficult; and delayed, scanty, difficult, than constant desire to urinate for half an hour; frequent, the first small, urgent, dark, offensive, excoriating. Bad odor to S. and flatus.

Urinary Organs

      Micturition rare. Incontinence, (<) walking fast or sneezing. Amount and specific gravity of urine diminished at first. Phosphates slightly increased.

Sexual Organs

      Pain in uterine region; in morning on waking, menses almost black, scanty and sour, with malaise. Menses too soon, light- colored, with colic and bearing-down pains (Aloes), lasted 52 hours (always six days), then leucorrhoea, white, stringy; too soon and profuse, with labor-like pains.

Clinical It has been found useful for prolapsus uteri associated with general anaemia and scanty menstruation; the pains are griping clutching in the right inguinal region extending down the thigh; it has also been used for leucorrhoea and endometritis. It cured haemorrhoids in one of the provers.

Cough

      Tickling, short, dry, hard, on waking, becoming spasmodic, (<) by talking, discharge of urine during C., latter C. incessant, and like whooping C., lose my breath and become cyanotic C., (>) suddenly on occurrence of menstruation (eight days too soon).

Chest

      Pain in l. breast as if a knife ran into it; sharp P. in l. breast, then extending through into back, to left of lower part of r. scapula.

Pulse

      Irregular and intermittent.

Neck and Back

      Pain in centre to nape, running off into l. shoulder, then the pain in nape moved up to occiput, where it lasted all the evening. Sharp pain from lower point of l. scapula through to l. breast. Pain in dorsal region. Sensation as if the back would break just above waist, afterwards the same pain higher up. Backache, with dragging in sacral region and stringy, colorless leucorrhoea, beginning when walking.

Extremities

      Sharp pain in r. shoulder-joint, streaked own arm, then into l. chest, where it located just above nipple. Pain running down tops of thighs, all night. Knees painless in forenoon during motion, painful in afternoon while sitting. R. leg feels paralyzes below knee and numb, could not clear weight on it.

Skin

      Itching, papillary eruption across chest and upper part of back, with hyperaemia and hyperaesthesia of surrounding integument, the itching (<) scratching with the nails, but (>) rubbing with the palms.

Sleep

      Restlessness at night, (<) fore part, preventing sleep. R. every night, late falling asleep, then immediately terrible dreams, which wakened, till late in morning, then resting well; with many dreams. Unrefreshing. Sleeplessness till. 12 or 1 O’clock, then restless sleep till late in morning, then undisturbed sleep; S. (<) fore part of night, with physical and mental restlessness, the mind continually wandering on occurrences of his past life, no tendency to brood over sorrow, thoughts very pleasant.

Fever

      Chills, face flushed. Limbs cold, head and face hot and flushed. Feverish.

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.