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ALUMINA (Alum.)
KEY
> - Better for
< - Worse for
CAPITALS = Frequent or intense symptoms
* CONFUSION AND RETENTION.
MIND
VAGUENESS, no clear symptoms come out.
Seems closed, self-protective.
SLOWNESS. Slow comprehension. Dullness.
Answers slowly and vague. Seems not involved, speeks monotonous.
Difficult in expressing himself or his problems. Rubs forehead.
Mind seems 'constipated'.
RESTRICTED IMAGINATION. Irresolution. Incomprehension.
DON'T TOLERATE PRESSURE, ESP. OF TIME. Hurried but slow in completing activities.
Sensation of being hurried inside, can't stand being hurried.
Cannot do two things at the same time. Half an hour seems like a day.
Can have notes to make sure not to forget anything. Works hard to
overcome the slowness.
Aversion to conversion, < morning. Can't comprehend what
everybody is talking about.
Withholds feelings. Releases anger only towards family members.
Notices mental problems: FEAR OF INSANITY.
CONFUSION OF IDENTITY. "Who am I?".
When they talk, think someone else is talking.
Everything seems unreal.
FEAR OF KNIVES, blood (Nux-m.), cockroaches, disease, epilepty
(Arg-n., Merc.), evil spirits (Calc., Manc.).
Impulses to kill or hurt when seeing knife (Merc.), gun, or blood.
Anxiety or sadness in the morning on waking.
Variable mood
improves as day progresses.
Anxiety of conscience
as if guilty of a crime.
Despair of recovery. Depression.
Everything seems unreal.
GENERALITIES
DRYNESS.
< MORNING ON WAKING;
< 4-8 P.M. (Lyc.), sometimes >.
> EVENING.
> Snow; eating.
> Lying down.
< Heat, heat of the bed.
Periodicity, every other day.
NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS: Paralysis, m.s., a.l.s.
Ailments from long use of allopathic drugs, c.v.a.
Can be slow-acting remedy (Calc-ph., Sil.).
FOOD AND DRINKS
Desire: DRY FOOD, coffee, indigestible things (chalk, charcoal, tea-grounds).
< POTATOES, STARCHY FOOD (burping, indigestion, heaviness, nausea, pain in stomach).
VERTIGO
On closing eyes while standing (Rhomberg's sign). On opening eyes.
< Talking.
HEAD
Periodical headaches. One-sided.
Falling of hair.
Dryness of scalp and dry flakes.
Scalp sensitive when touched.
EYE/VISION
Dryness.
THICKENING OF LIDS. Swelling of lids. Granular lids.
Falling of eyelashes.
Tumors of meibomiam glands (Chalazion).
NOSE
Frequent recurring colds, extending to throat. Catarrh. Sinusitis.
Dryness. Cracks.
Scabs with thick yellow mucous.
FACE
Sensation of tightness of the skin
as if a cobweb or dried egg-white on it.
Pale, whitish color.
Wrinkled old look.
THROAT
Scraping from dryness.
Difficult swallowing from dryness or paralysis. Choking.
Frequent clearing of throat in evening from dryness.
As if splinters or sticks in throat on swallowing.
RECTUM/STOOL
CONSTIPATION FOR MANY DAYS, even with SOFT STOOL
(Sil.).
PASSIVE AND DRY RECTUM (Hep., Nux-m., Sep.).
Rectum seems paralyzed.
No urging, have to aid with fingers.
Perspires from great effort and straining at stool.
> While urinating.
Pressure and sense of excoriation in rectum after a small hard stool.
BLADDER
Urination: Feeble stream < morning on waking.
Retarded, must press a long time.
MALE GENITALIA
Impotency, often after increased sexual desire or excessive sexual activity.
FEMALE GENITALIA
Can have active sexual fancies. Likes foreplay, but doesn't allow
orgasm.
MENSES SCANTY, one day only, followed by exhaustion.
Alternating symptoms, on cessation of menses.
MENTAL & PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION AFTER MENSES (Carb-
an.).
Profuse, burning vaginal discharge (leukorrhoea). Ropy discharge.
COUGH
CONSTANT, DRY (Caust., Rumx.), < morning, talking.
Leads to loss of breath and vomiting.
EXTREMITIES
PARALYSIS: slow onset,
starts with numbness soles of feet, heaviness legs,
tingling in upper limbs.
Creeping feeling as if ants crawling on legs.
Incoordinated staggering walk, ATAXIA.
Heels feel numb and legs go to sleep when crossed.
SENSORY-DISORDERS, e.g. slow reaction on prick of needle
(Cocc, Plb).
Brittle or thick nails.
SLEEP
Unrefreshing. Frequent waking, < before menses.
Dreams of robbers (Nat-m.).
SKIN
DRY. Cracks. < winter.
ITCHING WITHOUT ERUPTION (Ars., Dol., Mez., Sulph.), especially on getting warm in bed.
Scratch until it bleeds.
No perspiration.
REMEDIES WITH SIMILAR SYMPTOMS
Caust., Cocc., Hell., Mang., Merc., Nux-m., Op., Ph-ac., Plb., Thall.
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