Homeopathy Remedy Alumina


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


      Pure clay, a tri-hydrate of Aluminum, is triturated with sugar of milk for use.

General Action

      On mucous membranes, causing a form of dry catarrh, on the spinal system of nerves and on tissues.

Relations. — The alkaline earths, especially Kali carb., Magnesia carb., Barayta carbonica, Nat.m., Caust; also Graphites, Silicea, Rhus.t., Niccol. and Zincum met.

Generalities

      Twitching; (>) rising.. His arm and head are jerked backward several times, with apprehension. when he attempts to sleep while sitting after dinner, a jerk through head and limbs, like an electric shock, with stupefaction. Tremor after supper; during leucorrhoea, with lassitude. Involuntary motions. Tremulous excitement of nervous system. Lightening-like shooting to and fro in r. shoulder, small of back and abdomen, then bruised feeling. Pain all over at night; (aching in bones, especially of legs, chest and back ). Takes cold easily (Kali c). Orgasm of blood, with increased pulse, and trembling of hands when writing, also after a meal, with heat of whole body and sweat of face. Shaking pulsations through whole body. Restlessness at night, with pain all over body; R. when sitting or lying; anxious R.

Unconquerable disposition to lie down. Faintness and weariness; feverish Faintness, with internal heat. Weakness (Kali.c.); morning on rising; morning on walking; after a short conversation or walk; during menses; of mind and body after menses; (<) talking; (<) after walking in open air, and by lying down, with yawning, stretching, drowsiness and inclination to lie down, the weakness (<) lying; (>) sleep in forenoon; with chilliness and headache; tremulous. Paralyzed feeling in all muscles. Most symptoms appear in morning; Most S. come on when sitting. Aggravation towards evening; after an emission; after dinner. Amelioration every other day; at night; evening in open air; after eating; from walking.

Clinical Boenninghausen cured four cases of locomotor ataxia.

Mind

      Excitement of intellectual and physical powers. Absence of mind, alternating with animation. Inattention when reading. Dullness. Stupor; with dread of falling forward. Various objects occupy his mind, but not one is distinctly impressed upon his recollection. Memory weak; want of memory. Inability for connected thought. Indisposition for mental labor, with inability for it. Weakness of mind and body after menses. Chooses different expressions from what he intended. Reflective.

Horrible thoughts on seeing blood or knives, she feels, for instance, as if she would commit suicide, though she has the greatest aversion to it. Sad, disagreeable images. Despair. Anxiety; at night on walking, with dyspnoea and sweat; in morning as if threatened with epilepsy; with external heat and uneasiness as if she had done something bad; with palpitation and pulsations in some parts of breast and abdomen. Anguish, with restlessness; A. on waking towards morning, caused by pains imagined in sleep.

Apprehension; of losing his thoughts and understanding. Dread when talking on entering house after a walk, with nausea. Fright; when he wishes to urinate; and starting on hearing least thing fall. Uneasiness in evening as if evil impended.

Peevishness. Whining. Weeping against his will; W. and howling. Depression of spirits on account of his disease; believes that he cannot recover; depressed as with grief, morning on waking, without perfect consciousness. Dissatisfaction with everything. Ennui. Desire to be alone in forenoon. Obstinacy. Opposition to the wishes of other. Quarrelsome in afternoon. Indifference. Irresolution. Laziness; in forenoon, with ennui. Exacting. Seriousness. Changing mood; assurance alternating with timidity. Did not answer, then anxious groaning, then laughter at everything; convulsive L., also evening in bed. Cheerfulness; after walking in open air, with staring.

Head

      Stitches through, at every step;. in brain, with nausea; going around brain; outward in afternoon. Tearing; in forenoon; evening, with pressure from both sides of head and with chills. Thrusts shooting through H. as from knives now and then. Pinching and griping externally in evening, (<) stooping, with a sensation of ague towards occiput.

Aching at night in bed; (>) morning on rising, with pain in nape; on walking, before menses; and in forehead, during menses,(<) blowing nose, with a cold; A. (<) walking; (<) walking in open air; (>) appearance of menses; (>) laying head down quietly in bed, with chilliness and lassitude; as if bruised, with red cheeks; as if brain were dashed to pieces, as in putrid fever; in afternoon, obliging one to lie down, with dry heat and cough during sleep; pulsative, on ascending stairs after dinner; as if screwed together at 2.P.M. when standing, with stitches in forehead and such heaviness in vertex that the head threatens to fall on stooping; as if a worm were crawling under skull, the pain is also cutting and corrosive.

Intoxication from smoking; from weakest spirituous drinks; intoxicated feeling alternating with pain in kidneys. Confusion; morning, (>) rising; afternoon; 4 P.M. with dread of losing consciousness; with heat of face, as if consciousness were outside of his body, when he says anything it seems as if some one else said it, or when he sees anything as if some else had seen it, or as if he could only see through some one else’s eyes. Paroxysmal stupefaction in morning; dizzy paroxysmal S. when at bodily labor. Heaviness; morning, with heat; heaviness in forenoon; afternoon; 4 P.M., with confusion of forehead and sensitiveness of vertex to touch; H., with pale face and lassitude; H. as if it would fall forward at 1.P.M. when sitting erect, (<) stooping. Weakness; from dreams.

Blood rushes to, with blackness before eyes, vertigo, ringing in ears and drowsiness. Rhythmical pulsation in afternoon when walking and morning in bed. Surging synchronous with pulse after dinner, on stooping, (>) becoming erect. Feeling as if brain would fall forward, after dinner on stooping, (>) raising head, with heat. Vertigo in morning;evening before urging to stool; as soon as she opens her eyes; when sitting; on walking; (<) stooping; (>) wiping eyes; with nausea; everything turns around him, also at 4 P.M.; as if she would turn around, in morning, with fainting nausea, the nausea, (>) wheat bread, then sour taste.

Forehead.– Stitches in afternoon; in evening; S. on going to sleep; S. after eating, (<) towards evening, and in occiput. Tearing in forenoon; afternoon; evening, (>) open air;T. pressing back over vertex at 10.30 P.M. Aching; above eyes; in a spot on upper part when touched, in morning; burning and pressive, when standing or sitting after dinner, with warmth, the pain, (>) by open air; pressing in; pressing out after dinner; as from a tight hat, and on occiput. Constriction. Beating and stitches in forehead and r. side of head in afternoon.

Temples.–Stitches in r. as with a large blunt instrument, leaving soreness; stitches in r. when singing. Tearing, shooting in r. and on vertex with the cough. Tearing externally in r. then internal boring and beating; in r., then burning after rubbing; upward in l., then stitches in r. Compressive aching, extending above eyes; in evening. Pressing-in pain in r. after dinner. Boring in r. in evening; in l. in evening, with drawing pain; in forenoon, with tearing. pulsation in r. in afternoon, with weight on vertex. Stupefying tension in a spot in r. in forenoon, (>) pressure. Crawling between skin and flesh, going to forehead and pressing outward there.

Vertex.– pulsative aching over r. temple, early on walking. Aching in l. as if raised by a lock of hair. Pulsation and raging in forenoon.

Sides. –Stitches in r. in morning; S. as with an awl, on outside close to vertex, on l. side; S. in r. when stooping during labor. Tearing in r. in forenoon, with stitches, and in the evening in l. frontal eminence. Sensation as if r. were screwed towards the other at 8.30 A.M. and as if vertex were oppressed by a heavy load. Painful drawing in r. Pulsation in r. in afternoon, with stitches; P, in upper part of r. at 1.P.M., with tearing.

Occiput. –Aching, during cough. Bruised feeling, (>) lying. Drawing and pulsative tension in r. side in forenoon.

Scalp.–Sore pain on touching hair. Hair dry; H. fell out. Pimples in a cluster behind r. ear, with painful tension. Itching here and there, with formication.

Eyes

      Squinting. Staring after walking in open air, with cheerfulness. Twitching. Trembling of l. as if it would leap out, (<) towards evening and on looking down, (>) closing eye, or looking up or holding eye with hand, with sensitiveness to light. Dimness morning on waking, (>) washing, with biting. Mucus in r.; dry M. morning on waking; much M. at night. Pressure; in r. in evening when reading or writing; below l. upper lid as from a foreign body. Tension around l. Biting in morning, with burning pain; in l. as from soap, in evening; tearing. Burning (Nice.); morning on waking; (<) by looking up; at night and in morning, with itching and increased secretion of mucus; burning and pressure in eyes and nose as if she would be attacked by a cold. Dryness in evening, with Dullness. Excoriated feeling in interior. in evening, after which they are continually closed. Itching. Lachrymation; morning after waking; in open air; Pressure on l. ball.

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.