Library · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Alumina

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Alum.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Region:

SPINAL CORD, lumbar

Abdomen, left

RECTUM

Lower limbs

Mucus membranes

Skin

Worse:

WARMTH; ROOM, bed

Foods: Artificial Potatoes

Speaking

Dry weather

Early on awaking

Sitting

After menses

Better:

Evening

Open air

Moderate: Exertion, Temperature

Thin, inactive; inclines to lie down Paretic effects. Talking is exhausting. Exhaustion after menses. DRYNESS; of mucous surfaces, eyes, throat, rectum, etc, or irritability and relaxation. Scanty, thick, acrid discharges (Hydr). Mucus discharges, profuse: before menses, leucorrhoea runs to feet; expectoration Induration. Chronicity. Illusions of being larger, numb, smooth, heavy, time. passing too slowly, etc Hasty, but slow of execution, hence mistakes in speaking, writing, etc. Peevish. Depressive mental states. Depressed, on awaking. Timorous; fears his own impulses; the sight of knives; loss of reason, etc. Bad memory. Vertigo, < talking. Violent stitches in brain. Dry, falling hair. Weak eyelids Double squint; < teething. Inflamed, burning eyes. Hot, red ear. Dusky wrinkled, old look As of white of egg or a cobweb on face. Teeth feel long; pain extends to other parts (Kali-bi). Twitching low jaw (Gel). Uvula hangs down. Throat feels full of sticks or constricted. Craves coarse foods (Calc-c). Big bellied children. Pains from rectum to ankle. Inactive rectum and bladder; strains to pass a soft stool; hard ones cause severe cutting. Stools of small balls, hard knots or bright clots of blood. Must strain at stool to urinate; slow flow. Tickling in sexual organs; increased desire. Profuse leucorrhoea. Constant, dry, hacking cough; interrupts breathing; with sneezing. Sudden loss of voice. As of a hot iron thrust through lower spine. Heavy lower limbs; staggering. Festination. Locomotor ataxia. Totters, if eyes are closed. Painful soles. Gnawing under nails. Bones feel squeezed. Dry, rough, cracked skin. Itching. burning over seat of pain. Intolerable itching from heat of bed. Eczema. Chilliness; > open air Heat, with itching.

Relations

Antidotes: Cad-m, Jaborand

Related: Bry, Plb.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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