It has often proved useful in haemorrhoidal affections of the kidney and bladder, when there is pain in one or both sides of the lumbar region, drawing pains along the ureters, towards the bladder, with scanty secretion of urine, and those derangements of the stomach which always attend kidney-affections, such as gastralgia, with good appetite, and vomiting soon after eating. These symptoms may increase until nephritic colic ensues, the pains are exceedingly severe, the abdomen is retracted, occurs, the urine is suppressed, until, finally, a quantity of dark blood red urine is passed. When the bladder is more particularly affected, there are periodical, violent, and contracting pains in the back of the bladder, especially while urinating; when the pains are very severe, entire retention of urine may occur, or when any water is passed it is only in drops or jets, never in a full stream; the pains continue after urination, and extend over the pubis; the patients can neither sit in comfort or assume any position in which the perinaeum is pressed upon; at first the urine is not altered in quality, but finally blood is passed; sometimes the urine is mixed with a large quantity of tough, ropy mucus. Harnisch says that aching in the region of the kidneys, with scanty discharge of hot urine, or tenesmus of the bladder from venous congestion of it, will often give way before the use of Aloes.
It is homoeopathic to haemorrhoidal affections of the uterus, in which there is aching in the region of the womb, pressing-down pain, with some prolapsus, varicose swellings about the neck of the womb, and in the vagina, with discharge of blood during the menstrual intervals; these discharge of blood during the menstrual intervals; these discharges consist of a dark, pitch- like substance, and have a different odor from that of menstrual blood; either before or after these haemorrhages there may be a discharge of tough greenish leucorrhoea with the peculiar odor of haemorrhoidal mucus. By restoring the haemorrhoidal secretion, Aloes will often relieve the sensations of aching and weight on the pelvis, the erections, pollutions and tenesmus, which are often felt as premonitory symptoms of piles. Eberle says that Aloes, given in small but frequent doses, deserves to be accounted the best remedy we possess for those protracted, exhausting, and obstinate haemorrhages from the uterus which occur in women of relaxed, nervous, and phlegmatic habits about the critical period of life. In amenorrhoea, it is, perhaps, more frequently employed than any other remedy in the dominant school, entering into almost all the numerous empirical preparations which are habitually restored to by females, and enjoying a no less favorable reputation in ordinary practice. Schoenlein recommends the injection of a solution of ten grains of Aloes in a small quantity of warm fluid, to be thrown into the rectum at the period when the catamenia should occur. He states that its action is more certain than that of any other emanagogue. Dr. Atwell has used it in this way with decided advantage.
Aloes will often prove serviceable in haemorrhoidal affections of the chest, when there are more or less of the signs of congestion of the lungs-viz., aching upon one or both sides of the chest, difficulty of breathing, cough, with expectoration of but little mucus, no fever, but lividity of the face, lips, cheeks, and tongue, followed by more or less haemoptysis.- J.C.P.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
Congestion of blood to the head, chest and especially the abdomen.- General heat of the body.- Accelerated pulse.- Anxiety.
HEAD.
Periodical haemorrhoidal headache, alternating with pains in the small of the back.- Dryness and chapping of the lips.
JAWS, MOUTH, PHARYNX,.
Stitches and throbbing in the hollow teeth.- Heat and dryness in the mouth; redness and dryness of the tongue.- Haematemesis.
TASTE, APPETITE, GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.
Taste as of clay; diminished appetite; violent thirst.- Eructations tasting of the ingesta; bilious eructations.
ABDOMEN.
Congestive malaise, pressure, and heat in the region of the liver.- Congestive fullness; heat, and distention of the abdomen; beating, boring, and stinging in the umbilical region; emission of a quantity of fetid flatulence.- Violent cutting pains in the abdomen.
STOOL AND ANUS.
Bilious papescent stools, the whole body becoming hot during the evacuations, with a feeling of malaise in the region of the liver.- Evacuations consisting of faecal and bilious matter, having a peculiar putrid smell.- Discharge of large clots of mucus from the rectum.- Frequent watery sanguineous stools, with violent colic.- Haemorrhoids.- Cutting pains previous to the diarrhoea which is accompanied with tenesmus.- Diarrhoea, followed by obstinate constipation, and torpor of the intestinal canal.- Violent burning in the rectum.- Congestive stricture of the rectum.- Fistula?.
URINARY AND GENITAL ORGANS.
Violent pains in the region of the kidneys.- Scanty, hot urine.- Burning during micturition.- Discharge of blood from the urethra.- Increased secretion of yellow turbid urine.- Congestion of blood to the uterus.- Profuse menstruation.- Miscarriage.
CHEST.
Congestive oppression of the chest, with anxiety.
BACK.
Drawing and burning in the small of the back.
PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
Dryness of the intestines.- Inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membrane of the intestines.
