ALOE


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Aloe from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Great disinclination to mental labor.

Dull headache across and above the forehead, with heaviness in the eyes, and nausea.

Dull pressive pain in the supra-orbital region.

One is compelled to make the eyes small with pain in the forehead.

Distention of the bowels.

A feeling of weakness in the abdomen as if diarrhoea would result.

Very offensive burning flatus.

Sensation of heat and burning in the rectum.

Urgency to stool, with passage of urine.

Sensation as of a plug wedged in between the symphysis pubis and the os coccygis.

Every time on passing urine, the feeling as if some thin stool would escape with it.

With the stool there is always a feeling as if still more were at hand.

Fear lest a stool should escape with the flatus.

The stool passes without his needing to make any any exertion; it falls, as it were out of the intestines.

Involuntary stool, with passage of flatus.

Faeces and urine will pass together, they escape together.

He must go to stool soon after a meal.

Gurgling in the abdomen as of water running from a bottle.

Usually awakes in the morning with severe urging to stool, etc.; before 5 o’clock, aroused and excited in the head has to hurry to the closet.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.