Aletris Farinosa

• ▸Alet.
• ▸far.
• ▸is said to be the most bitter of all plants.
• ▸It is characterised by

weariness of body and mind. Want of appetite, especially in connection with Uterine disorders.

The least food distends the stomach. There are fainting attacks with vertigo. Emaciation is

marked in some cases. Disgust for food, nausea; constipation. Obstinate vomiting of pregnancy.

Many symptoms appear in the uterine sphere: uterine atony, menses profuse and premature with

labour-like pains or amenorrhcea, debility, from loss of fluids, protracted illness. Menorrhagia,

• ▸black clots, fulness and weight.
• ▸Leucorrhcea, with debility.
• ▸Sterility.
• ▸Habitual tendency to

abortion. Sensation of weight in uterine region and tendency to prolapse. Sensation of weight in

occiput as if it would draw the head back. It is most suited for chlorotic girls and pregnant

women. Weak, emaciated people.

• ▸Power and energy weakened.
• ▸Confused feelings.
• ▸Cannot concentrate mind.
• ▸Fainting, with vertigo.

Vertigo, with sleepiness, vomiting, purging; even stupefaction.—As if head in a

vice.—Weight in occiput; as if it would draw the head backward.

Ears feel as if open through from one to the other.—Deaf in |. ear with stuffed feeling.

Much frothy saliva.

• ▸Disgust for food.
• ▸Least food causes distress.
• ▸Fainting spells, with vertigo.
• ▸Vomiting during pregnancy.
• ▸Nervous dyspepsia.
• ▸Flatulent colic.

Least food distresses the stomach; fainting attacks with vertigo; sleepy,

emaciated; disgust for food, nausea; obstinate indigestion —Vomiting during

pregnancy.—Eructations of food in evening with burning in throat.—All-gone feeling in morning

on rising, > by eating.—Nausea is > by coffee; is > by dinner, but returns with gagging at sight or

thought of grease.—Nausea, with pressure in forehead.

Cramps.—Griping.—Pain all through abdomen, settling into lower part, > passing

flatus and scanty diarrhceic stool; pain < bending forward, > bending backward, then the pain

increased and it seemed as if all the insides had settled into lower abdomen and were cut with

knives; > scanty diarrhceic stool.—Aching in hypogastrium and across back of hips.—Hysteric

colic.

Loads up with feces-paretic condition. Stool large, hard, difficult, great pain.

Scanty diarrheeic stool; tenesmus during and after stool, with feeling as if

lower part of rectum closed.—Fearful pains in rectum and anus, during a movement terrible pain

as if forcing a passage.—Inveturate constipation as from rectal atony.—Frequent ineffectual

urgings.—Stool: loose, painful, offensive, frequent; thin with hard lumps in it; hard, delayed,

small, scanty, difficult—Hzemorrhoids.

Micturition rare.—Incontinence, < walking fast or sneezing.—Urine

scanty, phosphatic.

• ▸Premature and profuse menses, with labor-like pains (Bell; Cham; Kali c; Plat). Retarded and scanty flow (Senecio).
• ▸Uterus seems heavy.
• ▸Prolapse, with pain in right inguinal region.
• ▸Leucorrhoea due to weakness and anaemia.
• ▸Habitual tendency to abortion.
• ▸Muscular pains during pregnancy.

Premature profuse menses with labour-like pains —Amenorrhcea or

delayed menses from atony; weariness of mind and body; abdomen distended, bearing-

down.—Menses too soon with colic, light-coloured.—Menorrhagia, profuse, black with coagula;

• ▸fulness and weight—Leucorrhea, white stringy.
• ▸—Prolapsus.
• ▸—Sterility.
• ▸—Habitual tendency to

abort; sensation of weight in uterine region; tendency to prolapse.—Myalgic pains like "false

pains." —Before menses: cough.

Raises a good deal of froth, feels as if wanted to cough and

couldn't —Tickling, short, dry, hard cough on waking, becoming spasmodic, < by talking; =

discharge of urine —Later, cough incessant, like whooping-cough; loses breath; cyanotic; >

suddenly on occurrence of menses eight days too soon.

• ▸Pain in |.
• ▸breast as if a knife ran into it.
• ▸—Pain in 1.
• ▸breast, then extending through into

• ▸back to |.
• ▸of lower part of r.
• ▸scapula.
• ▸—Pulse irregular and intermittent.

Pain in centre of nape, running into |. shoulder; then pain in nape moved

up to occiput, and remained there all evening.—Sharp pain from point of |. scapula through to I.

breast.—Sensation as if back would break just above waist; afterwards same pain higher

up.—Backache with dragging in sacral regions, and string, colourless leucorrhoea, beginning

when walking.

Itching papillary eruption across chest and back, < by scratching, > by rubbing.

• ▸Abortion.
• ▸Anzemia.
• ▸Colic.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Debility.
• ▸Dysmenorrhcea.

• ▸Dysuria.
• ▸Endometritis.
• ▸Fever.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Hysteric colic.
• ▸Indigestion.
• ▸Leucorrhcea.

• ▸Menorrhagia.
• ▸Myalgia.
• ▸Pregnancy, vomiting of.
• ▸Sterility.
• ▸Uterus, pain in; prolapse of.

Compare: Helonias dioica ("False" Unicorn, not to be confounded with Alet. f.),

• ▸Chin.
• ▸, Hydrast.
• ▸, Sabin.
• ▸, Senec.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Caulo.
• ▸; Dioscor.
• ▸(colic < bending forward); Caust.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸,

Fer., (discharge of urine during cough); Alumina (constipation; grasps the seat tightly, despairs

• ▸of having a stool.
• ▸During stool terrible pains as if a passage were being forced, Al.
• ▸f.
• ▸).

Compare: Helonias; Hydrastis; Tanacet; China.

Tincture to third potency.

Sharp pain in r. shoulder joint, streaked down arm, then into |. chest, settling above

nipple—Knees painful sitting.—R. leg feels paralysed below knee, numb, could not bear weight

on it.