ALOE SOCOTRINA

Aloe socotrina

Generalities

• It affects ABDOMINAL VEINS, causing congestion relaxation of RECTUM; liver, colon, and pelvis.

• It establishes physiological equilibrium when disease and drug symptoms are much mixed.

• periodic headache which alternate symptoms are much mixed.

• periodic headache which alternate with lumbago.

• It is remedy for bad effects from sedentary life or habits.

• Adapted to weary people, aged, old beer drinkers.

• There is a sensation of fulness in the parts.

• Heavy, Dragging, as of a load.

• Drawing, downward sensation.

• Discharges; gelatinous; post nasal, stools etc.

• Sense of insecurity.

• General weakness and weariness.

• Heat external and internal.

• Children, much emotional, chat and laugh.

Worse

• Heat, hot damp weather; summer.

• Early morning.

• After dysentery.

• Yawning or mastication.

• Stepping hard.

• Evening.

• After eating and drinking.

Better

• Cool open air.

• Cold application.

• Passing flatus.

• Closing eyes.

• Taking tea or stimulants.

Mind

• Dissatisfied and angry about himself.

• Disinclination to mental labour.

• Hates people, repels everyone.

• Ill humour agg. in cloudy weather, or with constipation.

• Thinks, that she would die in a week.

• Life is a burben.

• Trembling from musical sounds and other noises.

• Imagines that persons are stepping hard or quickly.

Head

• Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them.

• Vertigo with a sense of insecurity.

• Head alternating with abdominal or lumbar symptoms amel. closing eyes.

• Heavy pressure on vertex.

• Clinking in as of some thin shivered glass, extending to ears.

Eyes

• Pain deep in orbit.

• Flickering, before the eyes.

• Closes eyes partially from pain in forehead.

Ears

• Cracking in, when chewing.

Nose

• Tip cold.

• Bleeding from the nose after awakening, in bed.

Face

• Lips makedly red, dry, cracked; bleeding.

• Pain while yawning or chewing.

Mouth

• Taste bitter and sour.

• Tongue, mouth dry.

Throat

• Hawking of thick lumps of jelly-like mucus.

• Raw and swollen feeling in.

Stomach

• Desire for juicy things, fruits, especially apples, salty food.

• Pain in pit, when making false step.

• Aversion to meat.

• Eructations, with oppressions in stomach.

• Hungry after stools.

Abdomen

• Feels; full, heavy, hot, bloated.

• Pain from navel to rectum.

• Sensation of a plug between symphysis pubis and coccyx, with urging to stool.

• Heaviness; in hypogastrium; in rectum; dragging down in the abdomen.

• Prolapsus recti.

• Rumbling, gurgling in bowels; sudden urging; SENSE OF INSECURITY then hurriedly passes a gushing watery stool.

• Uncertain whether gas or stool will come.

• Diarhoea; with pain in the rectum after stool; lienteric.

• ANUS WEAK, oozes mucus.

• Stools escapes with flatus or when urinating.

• Stools; mushy, lumpy; watery, gelatinous; bloody; solid stools passed involuntarily, urging to stools with passing flatus only.

• Piles, like a bunch of grapes, prolapsing amel. cold bathing.

• Burning and stitching in anus and rectum, from piles, preventing sleep.

• Stool and flatus hot.

• Burning in rectum.

• Pulsation in rectum after eating.

• The child goes around the house, dropping little hard round marble -like stools.

• Diarrhoea; after eating oysters; in hot season, or of beer drinkers.

• A lot of mucus is passed, with pain in rectum, after stool.

• Lumpy, watery stools.

Urinary

• Incontinence in aged.

• Prostate enlarged.

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

• Urine hot.

Male

• Sexual irritability, after eating; after awakening (in children).

• Involuntary emissions during siesta.

Female

• Heavy congested uterus, with labour-like pains, felt in groins and hips agg. standing and during menses.

• Climacteric haemorrhage.

• Menses too early and last too long.

• Leucorrhoea of bloody mucus, preceded by colic.

• Dysentery, after parturition.

Respiratory

• Winter cough, with itching.

• Difficult respiration, with stitches, from liver to chest.

• Cough, when she would sit down, standing, or stand up, after sitting, with tears.

Neck and back

• Lumbago alternating with headache and piles.

• Pain in sacrum agg. while sitting, amel. moving about.

Extremities

• Drawing pain in the joints.

• Lameness in all the limbs.

• Soles are painful when walking on the pavement.

Sleep

• Dreams of soiling himself.

Fever

• Internal heat.

Complementary

• Sulph.

Related

• Lil-t; Pod; Sep; Sulph.

Source: Phatak materia medica