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Alumen
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Alumen Reference Specimen
Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm
The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
🧠General & Mental Health
▲GENERAL
The well-known astringent action of Alum, gives a leading indication f or its use in practice.
On the other hand, it is equally available for the states of relaxation, which corresponds with its secondary
action.
Stools as hard as stones.
No desire for stool for days.
Aggravated constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. and hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. from bowels
during the course of typhoid.
Cancer of uterus and rectum with the most obstinate constipation.
Constrictions and contractions of sphincters and various parts.
Tendency to indurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring. of glands and other tissues.
Tongue, rectum, uterus etc., are hardened, ulcers w ith
Indurated base.
Indurations following inflammation.
LupusAutoimmune inflammatory diseaseA chronic autoimmune disease where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs. or cancer of nose.
Scirrhus of the tongue.
Paralytic weakness of all the muscles of the body with typhoid.
Relaxation of muscles.
Prolapsed uterus and rectum, excruciating pains.
Sensation of dr yness and constric tion.
Mental paresis,
dysphagiaDifficulty in swallowingA medical term for difficulty or discomfort in swallowing food or liquids from the mouth to the stomach. especially to liquids.
Sluggish action of muscles, hemorrhages of various kinds, large clots in typhoid, relaxed mucus membranes,
relaxed uvula, hoarseness and bronchial affections, diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
Sensitive to cold, exposure to air causes
roughness and chaps in the skin.
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▲MIND
Nervous tremors from bad news.
Doubting people.
Lectophobia.
Desires to remain in bed.
Fear of
falling.
Spells of rage, attacks people.
Thinking about disease causes palpita tions.
Anxiety at night.
Anxiety at night with nausea and headache.
Sadness in morning.
Weeping in morning.
▲SLEEP
Many complaints come on during sleep, like nightmares.
Light sleep, hears every little noise.
Can't get
to sleep on account of orgasm of blood.
Sleeplessness from fever.
Disturbed by nightmare, at 4 a.m
▲GENERALITIES
Sensation of dryness.
Sensa tion of constriction, as if a cord or band around limbs in paralytic
states.
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👁️Head & Sensory Organs
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with weakness in the pit of stomach, better opening eyes, turning on right side.
Vertigo when
lying on his back.
COMMENTS-The Alumn patient is very sensitive to cold, exposure to air roughens and chaps the skin.
Slight
scratches bleed.
Bleeding after tooth extraction.
CatarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge. conditions prevail throughout.
Sensations of dryness and contraction.
Contractive sensation in abdomen and pelvis and retraction of
abdomen as in lead colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
Paralytic states with the sensation as if bound with a tight band.
Tendency to indurations whenever inflam mations occur.
Scirrhus indurations, indurat ed glands.
Pains are
insupportable.
Attacks come and go suddenly, periodically.
Many complaints come on during sleep, like nightmares.
Turning on right side improves the vertigo.
Lying on
right side brings on palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
There is sensitiveness to all sorts of weather changes and especially to cold.
W.
P.
Wesselheft cured bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing. char acterized by scrap ing from upper sternum to throat with free
expectoration of thick, yellow mucus, paroxysmal cough, morning cough with gagging.
Aching in chest and in the lower part of the back in region of lower ribs.
Profuse expectoration with a scraping
pain, for scraping coughs are usually dry.
All-c had helped the preliminary sneezing and coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge.
▲HEAD
AlopeciaHair loss or baldnessPartial or complete loss of hair from areas where it normally grows, especially the scalp..
Purulent ophthalmiaSevere eye inflammationInflammation of the eye, especially conjunctivitis. of infants.
Itching burning on border of lower lids.
Dilated pupils.
DiplopiaDouble visionThe simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. by candlelight.
Sees double by candlelight
▲EARS
Heat in both ears and left side of face at night.
Purulent otorrheaDischarge of fluid from the earAny drainage or discharge of fluid, pus, or blood exiting the ear canal..
Hears every noise in sleep
🫁Respiratory & Throat
▲MOUTH
Mouth dry, without thirst.
Dry ness of mouth, tongue and throat.
Taste bitter, sourish, astringent.
Taste sweetish.
Disgusting after-taste.
Spreading ulcers in mouth.
Noma.
Profuse salivation, mercurial in origin
or not.
Nose-Nasal polyps, left side with rough skin all over the face and body.
Lupus or cancer on nose.
Dryness
of nostrils and choanae.
Nosebleed
▲THROAT
Tendency to throat colds.
Burning and severe pains.
Hoarseness worse from talking.
Aphonia.
Enlarged and indurated tonsils from frequent colds.
Every cold settles in throat.
Mucus membrane red and
swollen.
Throat relaxed.
Throat sore and dry when swallowing fluids.
Uvula inflamed and enlarged.
Uvula
elongated, relaxed.
Scraping in throat with cough.
Tickling in throat.
Burning pain down the esophagus.
Constriction, spasms of esophagus, liquids can scarcely
be swallowed.
Tongue clean, except a slight coating of slime on back part.
Scirrhus of tongue
▲CHEST
Palpitations worse from thinking of her disease.
Palpitationsfrom lying down on right side.
PalpitationRapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or illness. from mental excitement.
Pain from heart to lower part of right leg.
DilatationStretching or widening of a vessel or organThe state of being dilated or stretched beyond normal dimensions (e.g., dilatation of the heart). of heart.
Strong
pulsation through whole body.
Kidneys-Frequent and painful urging with painful passing of small quantities of urine.
Must urinate every hour
or two, night and day.
Diabetes mellitus.
Urine passed with difficulty.
Oily iridescent film on urine falls
down perpendicularly (Hep.).
Urine scanty, clear flow, containing lumps of blood.
Urine sediment slimy,
tough or membraneous.
Scanty, reddish urine in colic.
AsthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity..
CroupChildhood throat infection with barking coughInflammation of the larynx and trachea in children, associated with infection and causing a barking cough. and bronchitis.
CatarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane. of chest.
HemoptysisCoughing up blood from lungsThe spitting or coughing up of blood or blood-stained mucus originating from the respiratory tract..
Great weak ness of chest.
Difficult to
expel mucus.
Copious ropy, expectoration in morning in elderly persons.
Ropy sputa.
Atonic hemoptysis
🥗Digestive & Genitourinary
▲ABDOMEN
Burning heat, better by drinking cold water.
Sinking sensation, better by eating.
The pain is better
by pressing on stomach.
Nausea with faintness and weakness.
Attacks of nausea in mor ning before
breakfast.
Vomits large quantities of glairy mucus or tough, colorless slime.
Vomiting of everything he eats.
Vomits blood.
Habitual vomiting in alcoholics.
Teeth loose.
Teeth and gums scor butic.
Gums swollen, inflamed, spongy.
Profuse bleeding after
extraction of tooth.
Temperature-Chill during nausea.
Cold ness followed by headache.
Coldness of skin followed by heat and
tingling.
Coldness during pain in stomach, followed by heat with rush of blood to head, can hardly hold it up.
Furious deliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations..
Fever with intense thirst, nausea, etc.
Internal heat throughout body.
Heat in forehead.
Warmth creeps over abdomen.
Colic worse by walking, with fullness and heaviness.
Potter's colic, lead colic.
Abdomen retracted,
better from pressure.
Contractive sensation deep in pelvis with complaints of rectum and bladder.
Appetite increased, even with fullness in stomach.
Loathes food.
Emaciation.
Thirst, throat dry and
increased appetite with heat in stomach, bett er by drinking cold water, intense with fever.
Mouth dry, but no
increase of thirst
▲GENITALS ETC
EczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches. on the back of penis and scrotum.
Erections while at dinner.
Frequent emissions.
Gonorrhea,
gleet.
Shooting pain from middle line of belly, as along a thread, down into penis.
Cutting pain in left side of
penis.
Induration of cervix.
Left ovary affected.
Menses scanty, watery.
Hands weak, drops things during
menses.
Chronic gonorrhea, yellow with little lumps along urethra.
Weight and prolapse of uterus.
Affections
of left ovary with troublesome constipation.
Chronic yellow vaginal discharge.
LeucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection. and emaciation
with yellow complexion.
Vagina very sensitive, and narrowed by swellings of various size.
Vaginismus.
Itching.
Aphthous patches in vagina (Caul.).
Bleeding after childbirth
🦴Musculoskeletal & Skin
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Bruised pain in joints of arms, hands and feet.
Weakness of all muscles, especially arms and legs.
Constricted feeling around limbs.
Cold hands and feet during pain in stomach.
Chilblains
▲BACK AND NECK
Sensation as if cold water were poured down back, with headache.
Backache in evening on both sides
of spine, with every deep inhalation.
Weakness of spine in evening.
Bladder-Irritable bladder alternating with pain in vertex.
Catarrh of bladder, mostly with the aged.
Discharge
of mucus from urethra.
Itching of orifice of urethra.
Breasts-Sore, inflamed nipples.
Induration of cervix and breasts (Carb-an., Con.).
Breast cancer.
Causations-Bad news.
Operations on eyes, on teeth.
Constitutions-Adapted to elderly people, especially bronchial catarrhs.
Disease of bladder.
Children with
profuse bronchial catarrh.
Coughs-Cough in morning before breakfast, better after.
Dry cough, in evening after lying down.
Chronic
morning cough of elderly people.
Cough from tickling in larynx caused by talking
▲SKIN
Skin roughens and chaps after exposure to cold air.
Skin dry.
Eczema.
Proud flesh, chilblains, indolent
ulcers with indurated base.
Indolent ulcers.
Scorbutic ulcers.
Indurations resulting from chronic
inflammations.
Glands inflame and harden.
Furu ncles on body, on thighs.
Fungus granulations.
Alopecia.
Epithelioma.
Veins become varicose and bleed
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🏷️ Category🩺 Homeopathic
🧬 MiasmSyphilitic Miasm
🌡️ Temperament❄️ Chilly
🕒 Aggravation🌙 Night
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📚Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.
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