It may prove useful in some scrofulous affections of the mucous membranes of the urethra, bladder, ureters, and pelves of kidneys; also in phosphatic diseases of the urinary organs. It is Homoeopathic to enlargement and induration of the testicles and to chronic gonorrhoea. Teste says he has seen a few doses of Alumina excite and maintain for two months (?) in succession, a tearing cough, every paroxysm of which was accompanied by involuntary emission of urine, which reduced the patient to despair. Every physician in full practice must have met with cases, in which no Alumina had been given. It is homoeopathic to the dry irritating cough which occurs in the first stage of phthisis from scrofulous irritation of the pharyngeal and laryngeal mucous membranes. To hoarseness from dryness or even follicular ulceration, or thinning and absorption of the mucous membranes of the air-passages. J. C. P.
It is homoeopathic to slow and insidious dyscratic irritations and inflammations about the lungs and air-passages, especially when the mucous membranes and follicular and glandular parts are especially affected. In the first stage of tubercular consumption, when the cough is dry and hacking, or almost incessant.
It is homoeopathic to acnous and urticarious eruptions on the nape and back. Also to chronic enlargement and induration of the cervical glands.
It is homoeopathic to scrofulous irritation of the nerves and fibrous tissues which simulate rheumatic pains; also to a chronic tendency to ulceration of the hands and fingers, and to subcutaneous corrosion of the cellular tissue, and to superficial felons.
It is homoeopathic to the pains and weaknesses in the back and legs which attend phosphatic diseases of the urinary organs; also to swelling and pains in the legs and feet from atheromatous disease of the coats of the arteries; to rhagades, fissures. herpes, and tendency to ulceration about the toes. J.C.P.
Hahnemann recommends it in the following affections, provided the remedy is otherwise homoeopathically indicated. Note. The diseases which I have indicated in the preface to every remedy, are not to be considered as names of disease, but merely as isolated symptoms, which have either decreased or disappeared when using the remedy under whose head they are mentioned. As these affections have not always been indicated with the necessary correctness, they never be relied upon as indicating the disorders which will be cured by this special remedy; they are mentioned to inform the reader that reliable experience, obtained at the bed-side of the patient, has proved that certain remedies, which had been chosen agreeably to their pathogenetic symptoms were curative in the diseases for which they had been administered. JAHR.
“Moroseness; fearfulness (easily starting up with fright); reluctance to labor; absence of the power of recollection; difficulty of thinking; vertigo; headache, attended with nausea; oppression in the forehead, and rush of blood to the eyes and nose, with bleeding from the nose; itching of the forehead; heaviness of the face (Hering); bloated places in the face, like bulbous excrescences (Hering); coldness in the eyes, when walking in the open air; in the evening, pressure in the canthi of the eyes, as if from sand; the eyes are closed with pus; running of the eyes; buzzing in the ears; redness of the nose; tearing pains in the malar bone; dryness of the mouth; eructations; inclination to eructations for years; sourish risings; irregular appetite, which is sometimes great, sometimes wanting; frequent nausea; pain at he pit of the stomach, and in the hypochondria, when stooping; colic early in the morning; want of action of the rectum; itching of the anus; frequent urinating at night; difficult stools, attended with discharge of the prostatic fluid; excessive sexual desire; scanty menses; painful menstruation, leucorrhoea; disposition to catch cold, which lasts for years; coryza and cough; rawness in the throat; catarrh of the throat and chest; difficulty of breathing; asthma; cough’ itching in the mammae; pain in the thyroid cartilage; palpitation and shocks of the heart; pain in the small of the back, during rest; paralytic heaviness of the arms; pain
in the arms on letting them hang down or stretching them in the bed; chapping and sense of excoriation of the hands; paronychia numbness, stiffness, and insensibility of the legs at night.; pain, as from fatigue, in the articulations of the foot when sitting; cold feet, followed by burning under the toes; tremor and twitches of the limbs; frequent aching of the limbs when sitting; disagreeable want of animal heat; bad consequences of chagrin; falling asleep late; light sleep; a great number of dreams during sleep Unrefreshing sleep, which is more like stupor; chills in the evening; fever and ague, beginning with chills, immediately after having eaten warm soup.
“According to Bute, Bryonia is an excellent antidote against the fevers caused by alumina; other consider chamomilla and Ipecacuanha antidotes.”?.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
Tearing and drawing, particularly in the limbs. Feeling of constriction, particularly in the internal organs. Dull bone- pains, with pressure. Inventory motions and conclusive jerks of single limbs. * Affections of the mucous membranes, sometimes accompanied with ulceration and purulent secretion? * Scrofulous, *arthritic, and rheumatic affections? *Complaints arising from chagrin or from the abuse of Mercury? *Congestion of blood to the chest and head, occasioned by suppression of the hemorrhoidal flux? *Spasmodic affection? Lacerating or pressure in the limbs. Sensation of paralysis in the muscles, principally in the morning. Congestion of blood to the head; blackness before the eyes; giddiness, tingling in the ears, and drowsiness. Inclination to convulsive laughter, in the evening, when in bed. Tremulous irritation of the whole nervous system; shaking rhagades. *pulsations through the whole body; sense of contraction in the feet, as if the tendons were too short; when he touches anything, he feels as if electrified. Involuntary convulsions and movements of the feet, fingers, and of the limbs, as if the bones were compressed; pressure in the joints. Great liability to take cold. Depression of strength, with lassitude, headache, dullness of the mind, chilliness, or feverishness. *Trembling of the limbs. *Deficiency of animal heat.
CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES.
Most of the symptoms come while sitting, and decrease when walking.
SKIN.
Corrosive itching over the whole body, particularly in the evening after getting warm in the bed. Existing herpes get worse towards evening. Itching rash on the arms and lower limbs, which bleed after scratching. Small excoriations become inflamed. * Rhagades. *Rhagades. *Humid scurf and gnawing tetters. * The cutaneous troubles come on at every new and full moon.
SLEEP.
Great drowsiness in the day-time, especially towards evening, succeeded by wakefulness in the evening, from fancies crowding on his mind; followed by yawning, with and without drowsiness. Restless night-sleep; he tosses about, and wakes frequently, with heat and anxiety, especially after midnight; unrefreshing night-sleep a mere slumbering, with sensation in the morning as if he had not slept enough; followed by deep, sound sleep, especially towards morning, when he wakes with difficulty, frequently with languor, weariness, and yawning. Symptoms at night, when in bed: uneasiness in the limbs and tossing about; heat and anxiety; throbbing in the roots of the teeth; cough, which disturbs sleep, and is succeeded by a dry heat, pinching pain and rumbling in the abdomen; headache, with pain form the bend of the knee down to the heel; spasm and oppression of the chest; anxiety, asthmatic oppression and sweat while walking. During the sleep: starting up as from fright, muttering, loud talking, and, and laughing; violent crying, sometimes with great restlessness, lamentations, expressions of disconsolate grief, moaning and groaning. A number of dreams at night; particularly dreams with anxiety, or apprehensions of death after waking, or with nightmare; dreams with mental exertions; agreeable, vexatious, confused, disgusting, and grateful dream. In the morning on waking: lowness of spirits, as if oppressed with grief; and pain in the stomach, chilliness, nausea, and fever.
FEVER.
Internal chilliness and shuddering, especially in the evening, with great sensitiveness to cold air; continuing even while in a warm room or in bed; or the whole night, with restless sleep; *or coming on immediately after eating the soup at dinner. Cold creeping over the body towards evening, with beating in the forehead and occiput. Hot cheeks and cold hands. Bitterness of the mouth, flow of saliva, prostration of strength, pain in the head as if it would burst, and vertigo; want of appetite, sleeplessness, and tossing about in the bed. Paroxysms of fever in the evening, consisting of chilliness and shuddering over the whole body, especially over the back and feet, sometimes with heat of the face, and alternations of coldness or warmth, or followed by heat of the body and sweat on the face. Heat over the whole body, generally without thirst, anxious sweat with heat, especially at night; or sudden paroxysms of heat, with anxiety and palpitation of the heart.
