Aloe Socotrina

A/oe is one of the oldest and most famous drugs. It is in worldwide use as a

purgative at the present day, and forms a leading ingredient in a large number of patent

medicines for regulating the bowels and menstrual functions. The habitual use of these medicines

leads to all kinds of pelvic ailments, and the fact that Su/phur antidotes Aloe accounts for the

success of Sul. as a medicine to commence with in many chronic cases where purgatives have

• ▸been used.
• ▸Aloe resembles A//.
• ▸s.
• ▸somewhat closely.
• ▸It causes congestion of various parts,

especially abdomen, pelvic organs, and head. A periodicity enters into many of its complaints.

There is a periodic headache which alternates with lumbago. As winter approaches each year itch

manifests itself. A/oe has the antipsoric property of throwing out internal complaints to the skin.

Among the leading mental symptoms are: Bad humour, especially in cloudy weather.

Dissatisfied and angry with himself < when constipated. Aversion to labour. Lassitude

alternating with great mental activity. Among the other head symptoms are: Darting pains in left

temple < every step. Carroll Dunham cured a heavy frontal incapacitating headache in an old

man occurring in winter and alternating with a diarrhoea which occurred in summer when he was

free from headache. A peculiar dull, heavy, pressing pain in forehead, but which indisposes to, or

incapacitates for, all exertion, especially intellectual. Heaviness in the eyes as with A//. s.

Pressure in vertex and forehead as from a weight. Compelled to make the eyes small during pain

in forehead. There are yellow rings moving before eyes. As there are illusions of sight, so there

are cracklings in the ears. One symptom is very peculiar: just after getting into bed, sudden

explosion and clashing in left ear, as from breaking of glass; the clink of the glass was heard at

the bottom of the head and extended thence toward the right ear. Aloe exerts its most marked

influence on the abdominal and pelvic organs. It causes uneasiness and pains in liver region.

Fulness, heaviness, heat and inflammation. The whole abdomen is painfully sensitive to touch.

Rumbling. Feeling as of a plug wedged in between pelvis and coccyx. Sudden and continued

• ▸desire to go to stool.
• ▸Desire for stool after each meal (Ars.
• ▸, Chin.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Pod.
• ▸, Trombid.
• ▸; while

• ▸eating, Fer.
• ▸).
• ▸Rumbling and cramp in abdomen before and during stool.
• ▸The hard stool falls out

without being noticed, urging to stool whilst passing water; every time on passing water feeling

as if stool would pass. A hard stool may be passed involuntarily. A child, constipated from birth,

screams all the time he is being held to stool, cannot pass it, even after enema; yet when not

• ▸trying passes solid pieces in bed without knowing.
• ▸Cured with Alo.
• ▸200 (Nash).
• ▸Involuntary soft

stool while passing wind. With the diarrhcea, flatulency, pinching in abdomen, pain in back and

rectum and chilliness. Flatus offensive, burning, copious; much flatus with small stool. Burning

in anus with passing of flatus. Stools like mush, bright yellow, grey, hot, undigested. Mucus and

• ▸blood in feeces.
• ▸Profuse with jelly-like lumps.
• ▸Watery stools < standing or walking.
• ▸Watery stool

containing lumps "like frog-spawn." Bilious yellow fecal, bright yellow diarrhcea, great

rumbling in bowels and escape of much wind, < morning; evening; in damp weather; from

overheating; after cold taken in damp room; after chagrin. Diarrhoea driving one out of bed very

early in morning (Su/). Diarrhoea with sense of insecurity (Phos.) Faintness after stool; with cold

• ▸sweat.
• ▸Griping may (Nux v.
• ▸) or may not (Merc.
• ▸) cease after stool.
• ▸Heaviness, heat, pressing,

burning in rectum. Itching, burning in rectum. Itching, burning, pulsating as from fissures at

anus. After stool: cutting feeling as if more would come protruding piles. Hemorrhoids: protrude

like a bunch of grapes constant bearing-down in rectum bleeding; sore; tender, hot; > by cold

water. Carroll Dunham has cured incontinence of urine in an old man with enlarged prostate with

the Aloe diarrhoea. Increased sexual desire in males, with erections. Penis shrunk and testicles

cold. In females pain in hypogastrium as if menses coming on. Labour-like pains drawing into

legs. Menses too early and too profuse. During menstruation: headache > by application of cold

water; earache; pain in small of back; pressing down in rectum. Fulness in pelvis. Leucorrhcea of

bloody mucus preceded by colic. Pain in small of back, < sitting or awaking at night, > moving

about. Lumbago alternating with headache. There is < in afternoon, especially of symptoms of

mucous membranes. Many symptoms, again, appear in the evening < yawning, or masticating.

There is a diarrhoea < in the early morning (like Su/ph). Diarrhoea < immediately after eating; <

• ▸walking (4sc.
• ▸, Thuj.
• ▸), or standing (Su/.
• ▸).
• ▸Like Phos.
• ▸, it has feeling of insecurity on passing wind

or before stool. Symptoms are < from heat; in hot, damp weather; > from cold applications; in

cold weather. > From passing flatus. /t is suited to: old people; to women of relaxed phlegmatic

habit; to persons of lymphatic or hypochondriac temperament.

Anxiety and ebullition of the blood.—Restlessness, fear, fear of man.—Bad humour,

esp. in cloudy weather.—He is dissatisfied and angry about himself; more so when he is

constipated or when he suffers from pain; better in the open air.—Suffering makes her frantic,

often loses consciousness.—Seems to have a presentiment of approaching death.—Angry,

revengeful, wishes to destroy the object of her wrath.—Aversion to labour.—Great disinclination

to mental labour; it fatigues him.—Disinclined to move.—Exhaustion, alternating with

activity —Children much enlivened, chat and laugh —Annoying amorous thoughts present

themselves.

• ▸Headache alternates with lumbago, with intestinal and uterine affections.
• ▸Disinclination to mental labor.
• ▸Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them.
• ▸Headache after stool.
• ▸Dull, pressive pain; worse from heat.

Giddiness and starting. —Giddiness, with anxiety when moving; he feels as if he were

sitting too high (after dinner) —Dulness in the forehead with chilliness.—Dull headache across

the forehead, with heaviness in the eyes, and nausea.—Pressure in the forehead and vertex, as

from a weight (and in occiput).—Pressing pain above the eyes.—Congestions to the head,

compelling one to sit up.—Headaches are worse from heat and better from cold

applications.—Stitches above the eyebrows.—Pressing out of the temples, with flickering before

the eyes and heat in the face.—Stitches in the temples at every step.—Headache after pain in the

abdomen; after (an insufficient) stool; worse from heat, better from cold.—Sensitiveness of the

scalp (in small spots).—With the pain in the forehead the eyes become small; patient compelled

to close them.

• ▸Compelled to make small during pain in forehead.
• ▸Flickering before eyes.
• ▸Redness of eyes with yellow vision.
• ▸Pain deep in orbits.

Congestion to the eyes; pressure in the orbits.—Lachrymation.—Pain deep in the orbits,

as if in the muscles; worse r. side—Occasional attacks of twitching of |. eyelids during the day,

spasmodic jerk of whole body on failing asleep at night.—Flickering before eyes, with heat of the

face.—Y ellow rings moving before the eyes.—Compelled to make the eyes small, with pain in

forehead; heaviness of eyes, and nausea.

Cracking when chewing. Sudden explosion and clashing in left ear. Tinkling as of some thin, shivered, metallic globe in head.

Hates musical sounds and noises, they set her all in a tremor.—Earache.—Stitches in the

• ▸ears; first in the |.
• ▸ear, afterwards in the r.
• ▸—Internal and external heat of the ears.
• ▸—Cracking in the

ears when reading aloud or moving jaws.—Just after getting into bed, sudden explosion and

clashing in |. ear, as from breaking of glass; the clink of the glass was heard at the bottom of the

head and extended thence towards r. ear.

Coldness of tip. Bleeding in morning on awakening. Full of crusts.

Redness of the nose in the open, cold air.—Coldness of the point of the nose.—Bleeding

of the nose in bed after awaking.—Dryness of the nose in the morning in bed.

Marked redness of lips.

Heat of the face when excited, or during headache.—Face pale during cloudy

weather.—Lips dry; cracked; swollen; pustular; sore at corners.

Taste bitter and sour. Tasteless eructations. Lips cracked and dry.

Concave edges of teeth seem sharp, and hurt the tongue.—Metallic taste, with dry,

irritative hacking.—Lips dry, peeling off, cracked, bleeding.—Yellow spots in mouth; yellow

ulcers on the tongue.—Tongue painful—When moving the tongue, stitches from below to the

tip.—Dry tongue and mouth; with increased thirst and greater redness of the lips.—Tongue red

and dry.—Accumulation of saliva in mouth.

Throat rough, scraped, hot, as if burnt.—Pain, when yawning, masticating solid food;

worse in the evening and in the morning, when awaking.—Thick lumps of tough jelly-like mucus

in the throat and posterior nares.

Thick lumps of tough mucus. Varicose condition of veins in pharynx. Dry, scrapy feeling.

• ▸Aversion to meat.
• ▸Longing for juicy things.
• ▸After eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum and sexual irritation.
• ▸Nausea, with headache.
• ▸Pain in pit when making false step.

Taste bitter, sour, like ink.—Aversion to meat; desire for juicy things

(fruits); for salt food—Hunger unusually keen in the evening. —Thirst while eating, after eating,

and during the night.—After eating, flatulency, pulsations in the rectum, and sexual irritation.—As

soon as he eats anything, must hurry to stool.—Sweats after drinking.

Pain in the stomach after drinking water—Sour things disagree with

• ▸him.
• ▸—Vomiting of blood.
• ▸—Eructations; tasteless, bitter, sour.
• ▸—Pain in the pit of the stomach

from a mis-step.—Painful pressure under the sternum.

• ▸Pain around navel, worse pressure.
• ▸Fullness in region of liver, pain under right ribs.
• ▸Abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, bloated.
• ▸Pulsating pain around navel.
• ▸Weak feeling, as if diarrhoea would come on.
• ▸Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels.
• ▸Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and os coccygis, with urging to stool.
• ▸Colic before and during stool.
• ▸Burning, copious flatus.

Tension in the region of the liver.—Uneasiness, heat, pressure, and tension in the

region of the liver —Pain in the liver, < on standing, so that he bends forward.—Stitches in the

liver, when drawing a long breath.—Congestion to the abdomen.—Sensation of fulness,

heaviness, heat and inflammation.—The whole abdomen is painfully sensitive to the

touch.—Abdominal muscles pain when touched, when pressing at stool, or on rising from a

recumbent position.—Bloated abdomen, more on the left side, or along the colon, worse after

eating.—Distension of the abdomen, esp. the epigastrium; with flatus moving about——Pulsation in

the region of the navel.—Pain around the navel, worse from pressure.—Rumbling in the

abdomen.—Discharge of much flatulency, burning, smelling offensive, relieving the pain in the

abdomen; after each meal, in the evening and morning, before stools—Much soreness in the

whole abdominal cavity, so that a false step hurts clear to the pit of the stomach.—Cutting in the

abdomen with disinclination to go into the open air, which relieves the pain.—Heaviness, fulness,

and pressing down in the pelvis.—Sensation of a plug wedged in between symphysis pubis and

coccyx; with urging.

• ▸Constant bearing down in rectum; bleeding, sore, and hot; relieved by cold water.
• ▸Feeling of weakness and loss of power of sphincter ani.
• ▸Sense of insecurity in rectum, when passing flatus.
• ▸Uncertain whether gas or stool will come.
• ▸Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed.
• ▸Lumpy, watery stool.
• ▸Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool.
• ▸A lot of mucus, with pain in rectum after stool.
• ▸Haemorrhoids protrude like grapes; very sore and tender; better cold water application.
• ▸Burning in anus and rectum.
• ▸Constipation, with heavy pressure in lower part of abdomen.
• ▸Diarrhoea from beer.

Sudden or continued urging to stool; < immediately after eating; feeling of

fulness and weight in pelvis; only flatus passes.—Desire for a stool after each meal.—Rumbling

and cramp in the abdomen, before and during stool —The hard stool falls without being

noticed.—Involuntary soft stool, while passing wind.—With the diarrhcea, flatulency, pinching in

the abdomen, pain in the back and rectum, and chilliness.—Diarrhcea very early in morning,

driving him out of bed.—Stools like mush; thin, bright, yellow, grey, hot, undigested.—Frequent

stools of bloody water: violent tenesmus; fainting; passing of mucus in jelly-like lumps, much

flatus.—During the stool, congestion to the head and red face, or hunger.—Heaviness, heat,

pressing, burning in the rectum.—Want of confidence in sphincter ani; rectum seems full of fluid

which feels heavy, as if it would fall out—When passing wind, feeling as if stool would escape

with it.—Itching, burning, pulsations, pain as from fissures, at the anus; preventing

sleep.—Hzemorrhoidal tumours, protrude like bunches of grapes, very painful, sore, tender, hot,

relieved by cold water.—Fulness and pressing out in anus.

Increased secretion of urine, esp. at night—Frequent urging; burning

when urinating.—Every time on passing urine feeling as if some thin stool would escape with it.

Incontinence in aged, bearing-down sensation and enlarged prostate. Scanty and high colored.

• ▸Bearing down in rectum, worse standing and during menses.
• ▸Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much on that account.
• ▸Labor-like pains in loins; extend down legs.
• ▸Climacteric haemorrhage.
• ▸Menses too early and too profuse.

Pain in the hypogastrium, as if menses were coming on.—Fulness

and heaviness in the uterine region, with labour-like pains in the loins and groins; worse

standing.—Labour-like pains drawing into the legs.—Catamenia too early, and too

profuse.—During menstruation, headache, which is relieved by the application of cold water;

earache; pain in the small of the back; dragging down in the rectum; fulness in the pelvis.—Fluor

albus.—Leucorrhcea of bloody mucus, preceded by colic.—Prolapsus uteri with the above

symptoms.—Uterine hemorrhage about the change of life.

Sexual desire increased; < after awaking; after eating; in the

evening.—Erections in the morning, and after passing water.—Involuntary emissions during the

siesta; towards morning; followed by sexual excitement, micturition, and stool, and restless

sleep.—Penis shrunk, and testicles cold.

Winter coughs, with itching. Difficult respiration, with stitches from liver to chest.

Congestion to the chest.—Breathing impeded by stitches in the 1. side of the

chest.—Expectoration of blood.

Pain in small of back; worse moving. Stitches through sacrum. Lumbago alternating with headache and piles.

Lumbago, alternating with headache.—Pain in the small of the back, <

sitting, or when awaking at night; > moving about.

Lameness in all limbs. Drawing pains in joints. Soles pain when walking.

Cannot get to sleep for a long time, thoughts crowd upon him and keep him awake.

Chills, with coryza, in the cold open air; at stool, shivering. Heat in spots, on scalp or

face. Sweat: smells strong; offensive on genitals; at night, after drinking.

• ▸Abdomen, plethora of.
• ▸Anus, affections of.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Colic.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Cough.

• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Gleet.
• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Heemorrhoids.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Lumbago.
• ▸Onanism, effects

• ▸of.
• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Proctitis.
• ▸Prolapsus uteri.
• ▸Prostate, affections of.
• ▸Sacrum, pain in.
• ▸Tenesmus.

• ▸Aloe is related to: All.
• ▸cep.
• ▸, All.
• ▸s.
• ▸, Agave, Scilla, Colch.
• ▸/t is antidoted by: Sul.
• ▸,

• ▸Mustard, Camph.
• ▸relieves for a while, Lyc.
• ▸, and Nux v.
• ▸relieve the earache.
• ▸Jt resembles: Sul.
• ▸in

many symptoms, and is of equal importance with Sul. in chronic diseases with abdominal

• ▸plethora; Ailanth.
• ▸(dull, frontal headache); Gambog.
• ▸(diarrhoea); Ammon.
• ▸mur.
• ▸(abdominal and

diarrhceic symptoms); Nux v. (gastric, abdominal and uterine troubles: bad effects of sedentary

• ▸habits); AEsc.
• ▸(hemorrhoids); Merc.
• ▸(dysentery); Pod.
• ▸(alternations between head symptoms and

abdominal symptoms).

Complementary: Sulphur; compare: Kali bich; Lycop; Allium sat.

Antidotes: Opium; Sulph.

Sixth potency and higher. In rectal conditions, a few doses of the third, then wait.

Aloe, much like /Esculus, has a peculiar engorgement of the veins,

causing stiffness and fulness throughout the body, but the greatest

disturbance is in the veins of the portal system, with great fulness in

the region of the liver, and abdominal, rectal and intestinal fulness.

This is associated with haemorrhoids. It has abdominal pains that

drive him to stool like Nux vomica, cutting, cramping pains around

the navel. Pains about the navel that shoot down towards the rectum,

cutting like knives. Dysenteric and diarrhoeic troubles. In the attacks

of diarrhoea there is gushing of thin, yellow, offensive, excoriating

faeces, which burn like lire, and the anus is sore. He holds the stool

with difficulty, docs not dare take his mind oft* the sphincter because

as soon as he does so the stool will escape. He cannot let the least

quantity of flatus escape, because with it there will be a rush of feces.

With the Aloe diarrheea the abdomen is distended with gas, causing a

feeling of fulness and tightness, and he must go often to stool. Little

ones, soon after they begin to walk, will drop all over the carpet, involuntarily, little yellow drops of mucus and Iccces. The mother sometimes punishes the little ones, but they cannot help it, they cannot hold

the stool, as it is passed involuntarily. There is a lack of control of

the sphincter. This state is not always confined to diarrha^a, because

sometimes children will go around dropping, involuntarily, little, hard,

round marble-like pieces of stool. They do not even know the stool

has passed. There is relaxation about the rectum and protrusion of

the anus, with bleeding piles. Every mouthful of food hurries him to

stool ; drinking water will often hurry him to stool. Diarrhoea from

eating oysters out of season. You might be disposed to give Lycopodium because in the text books poisoning from oysters is laid down

under Lyc* I do not know that you would be justified in saying poisoning from oysters in season is Lyc., and out of season is Aloe, but there

is a tremendous poisoning effect about oysters in the hot weather and

in the breeding season that is not found at any other time. A great

many people become nauseated, bloat up, purge tremendously, vomit

everything for several days after eating oysters. Now, when that

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group of symptoms is present Lycopodium will cure it and will remove the tendency to get sick from oysters. But if you notice those

who get sick have a cholera-likc trouble from eating oysters in the hot

season, you will find that that is where Aloe is the remedy.

This remedy is not well proved, hence I have first referred to the

things it is used for clinically. It is more nearly related to Sulphur

• ▸in its venous condition than to any other remedy.
• ▸If you study together, side by side.
• ▸Kali bi.
• ▸, Sulphur and Aloe, you will be astonished

at their wonderful relation to the stomach and bowels.

Among the few mental symptoms we notice. “She knew she would

• ▸die in a week.
• ▸’’ “Life is a burden.
• ▸” “Disinclined to move.
• ▸” Very

little is brought out by which we can distinguish it ; only a few things

common to many remedies are given. The Aloe patient is extremely

excitable when under the influence of pain, and the pains are generally

in the abdomen. Colic-like pains, flatulent pains in the abdomen, that

drive to despair ; he becomes extremely irritable and excited in his

attacks of colic. A little symptom that is somewhat striking is, “Hates

people, repels everyone.”

The head congestion, which occurs during the bowel disturbance, is

• ▸a sort of venous stasis such as is found in the portal system.
• ▸“Headache across forehead.
• ▸” “Headaches aggravated from heat, ameliorated from cold applications.
• ▸” Aggravation from heat and relief from

cold runs through Aloe. He wants to be In a cool room ; feels hot

and flushed ; the skin is often hot and dry ; he wants to be uncovered at

night in bed ; burning of the extremities, hot hands and cold feet, or

cold hands and hot feet ; these alternate. The head feels hot and he

wants something cool upon it. This is from the heat of the surface,

not fever. Sensation of heat in the surface, feeling of congestion and

fullness of the surface of the body ; fullness and engorged veins all

over the body. Bleedings are common in this remedy, venous oozings

from the nose, the bowels, the bladder ; bleeding in general. The veins

become varicose and the skin is hot. Much heat in the orifices of the

body ; the eyes, mouth and throat arc hot and bum. There is a sensation of dryness, burning and excoriation about the anus.

Under “Eating and Drinking” wt find “Soon after supper growling

in abdomen.” There are colicky pains in the bowels from eating and

drinking when there is no diarrhoea, even when there is a state of

constipation.

This remedy is useful for the complaints of old beer drinkers. Diarrhoea brought on from drinking beer. In persons who have a diarrhoea every time they drink beer you will most likely find that Aloe

will agree with the symptoms, but sometimes it will be Kali bu, for

these two remedies are very similar as to their stomach and bowel

5 symptoms. “Belching with oppression of stomach/’ Here is another

instance of the tendency to capillary and venous engorgement, “Vomiting of blood’’ and blood from the bowels.

There is much pain in the hepatic region, burning and heat, etc.

Mostly in the right hypochondrium you will find distension and fullness. It is pre-eminently a liver medicine. Jt is not as deep in its

• ▸action as Sulphur.
• ▸You will often find that Aloe will serve as a palliative when it will have to be followed by Sulphur, Sulph.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Kali bi,

or Sepia, the medicines that follow Aloe and are complementary to it,

finishing its work. Aloe will make a good beginning in these liver

troubles when there are great fiilnes-, distension, stitching pains in the

region cf the liver and a dry, hot, burning skin, with no increase of

temperature. Aloe has some fever, hut this sensation of heat of the

skin and dryness is without fever and is such as is found in psoric

patients. The proving has not been sufficiently extensive to demonstrate whether Aloe produces cnijition to any extent or not, but if such

could be proved this would j)lnce it among tlie anti-psorics. It is not

a deep long-acting constitutional remedy like Sulphur, and yet it is not

so short-acting as Aconite or Bclhidoiuia. Complaints come on only

with a moderate degree of rapidity. It may he associated very well

with Bryonia, Bryonia does not go so deeply into the life substance

as Sulphur.

Perhaps one of the most striking features of the abdominal state is

the fulness, distension and rumbling. It seems as if the abdomen

would burst and the rumbling is so great that it can be heard by anyone in the room. It keeps on one continuous gurgling. The stool

gurgles out with a noisy rumbling, like water out of a bung-hole. The

text of the earlier writers speaks of it as a sputtering, for while the

stool is passing out it is accompanied by much flatus which gurgles and

sputters. The abdomen seems to be as much distended as ever even

after great cjuantities of flatus have pavssed. There is no relief. The

pain is especially felt across the abdomen, about the hips. Great distension as if the abdomen would hurst across the transverse colon, and

also in the ascending and descending colon : pain, gurgling, rumbling,

heaviness, and feeling of pressure outwards. “Twisting and griping

pain in the upper abdomen, around the navel, compelling him to sit

bent up which relieves.” “Feeling of weakness in abdomen as if diarrhoea would result.” The weakness is sometimes very great, so much

so that he is compelled to go to bed with the diarrhfjea, and you will

often mistake it for Podophyllum, so great is the exhaustion. Pod.

has great distension, tremendous gushing, much flatulence, great rumbling in the bowel and the trouble comes on at 4 o’clock in the morning. Aloe is like Sulph. again, in that it drives him out of bed in the

early morning with diarrhoea, and there are times when he puts the

feet out from beneath the covers to cool them off ; the soles of the feet

burn and he uncovers them. Griping in the abdomen, feeling of weakness in the abdomen. “Painfulness in whole abdomen, especially in

sides and along both sides ot navel.'’ So sensitive is the abdomen that

he can find no comfortable position. “Dull, abdominal pain as after

taking cold, morning and evening repeatedly.'’

Now here arc abdominal symptoms that relate to the condition of

the woman and not to diarrha‘a. “Feeling as if a plug was wedged in

between sympliysis pubis and os coccygis" “Labor-like pains in the

groins and loins worse when standing.” Aloe lias cured prolapsus of

the uterus of long standing when it was associated with fulness, heat

of the surface ol the liody, tendency to morning tliarrhcea, dragging

down of the uterus and sensation of a plug wedged in between the

symphysis pubis and coccyx. The outward pressure of the uterus

causes that sensation, l^ragging down as if all parts of the pelvis

would push out, A funnelling sensation in the vagina, in the pelvis.

“Urging to stool, only hot flatus passes, giving relief, but urging

soon returns.” The idea is that it compels liim to go to stool, but

when upon the commode nothing but wind passes. It is useful also

in old chronic sufferers from this trouble, those wdio suffer from constipation, who go many days without a stool, but feel every little wdiilc,

or several times in the day, that they must go to stool, and then only

a little wind passes. Nalrum sulpli. will very commonly overcome that

state. “Lumpy, watery stool/’ That is a strong feature of Aloe ; hard

lumps mingled wdth a watery stool : the lumps are in the w^ater or in,

the liejuid feces ; little hard lumps looking like marbles or sheep dung.

In the constipation the stool is lumpy, like marbles. Sometimes these

little nodules remain in the rectum a long time without any urging to

stool, and finally escape unconsciouvsly, being found in the clothing.

Entire loss of sensation in the anus, an anaesthesia ; no feeling during

the passage of the stool.

Much of the Aloe trouble is dysenteric: in character, with a sharp,

inflammatory condition of the rectum and lower portion of the colon :

bloody discharges and yellow, jelly-like mucus. Sometimes the Aloe

patient will pass nothing but large cjuantities of this catarrhal, jellylike mucus. Don’t forget Aloe for hcTmorrhoids that form like a bunch

of grapes. “Itching and burning in anus, preventing sleep.” He is

• ▸compelled to bore with the finger into the anus ; so violent is the itching that the patient cannot let it alone ; it seems it will drive him to distraction.
• ▸He gets relief only from applying something cold.
• ▸A common feature of Aloe is that ointments increase the burning.
• ▸There is

increased burning of the skin round alx)ut the ulcers after applying an

ointment. The Sulphur patient also cannot bear any application ; it is

poisonous to him and he breaks out in eruptions.

Cold hands with warm feet.—Lameness in all the limbs.—Pricking, dull twitching,

drawing pain in the joints (fingers, knees, elbows).—Sensation of weakness in the joints of the

• ▸hands and feet.
• ▸—Pains of short duration, as if bruised or dislocated (1.
• ▸forearm, r.
• ▸shoulder-blade,

l. ribs).

24. Generalities—Great weakness, and weak pulse after vomiting —Bad effects from sedentary

habits.—Esp. suitable for persons of a lymphatic or hypochondriac temperament.