# Alumen

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
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 constipation and hemorrhage 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 induration of glands and other tissues. Tongue, rectum, uterus etc., are hardened, ulcers w ith 
Indurated base. Indurations following inflammation. Lupus 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, 
dysphagia especially to liquids. 
Sluggish action of muscles, hemorrhages of various kinds, large clots in typhoid, relaxed mucus membranes, 
relaxed uvula, hoarseness and bronchial affections, diar rhea. Sensitive to  cold, exposure to air causes 
roughness and chaps in the skin. Yellow bland discharges. 
Useful after operations on the eyes and teeth. Hemorrhages from leech bites, ex tracting teeth,  etc. 
Parenchymatous bleeding from mouth, gums, nose, uterus. Hemor rhages of dark blood. Mucus membrane 
dry in nose, on tongue in mouth, larynx. Emaciation. Joints of arms, hands and feet feel bruised.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from cold, except head ache, which is relieved by cold. Worse during sleep. Worse lying 
on right side. Worse bad news.

## Symptoms by System

### 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.
- 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.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo 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.
- Catarrhal conditions prevail throughout.
- Sensations of dryness and contraction.
- Contractive sensation in abdomen and pelvis and retraction of 
abdomen as in lead colic.
- 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 palpitations.
- There is sensitiveness to all sorts of weather changes and especially to cold.
- W.
- P.
- Wesselheft cured bronchitis 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 coryza.

### Head
- Alopecia.
- Rush of blood to head.
- Headache, better drinking cold water.
- Burning pain and weight on 
vertex, better ice-cold cloths pressed on the part.
- Headache shoot ing through temples with nausea, better 
drinking cold water.
- Jerk ing pain in left forehead, evening.
- Pains coming and going, from place to place.
- Headache in morning on awaking.
- Alopecia.
- Rush of blood to head.
- Headache, better drinking cold water.
- Burning pain and weight on 
vertex, better ice-cold cloths pressed on the part.
- Headache shoot ing through temples with nausea, better 
drinking cold water.
- Jerk ing pain in left forehead, evening.
- Pains coming and going, from place to place.
- Headache in morning on awaking.

### Eyes
- Wild look with spells of rage.
- Bruised feeling on pressure or by moving eyelids.
- Spots on cornea.
- Prolapse of iris after cataract operation.
- Right eye squints towards the nose.
- Varicosities of con junctiva.
- Purulent ophthalmia of infants.
- Itching burning on border of lower lids.
- Dilated pupils.
- Diplopia by candlelight.
- Sees double by candlelight.

### Ears
- Heat in both ears and left side of face at night.
- Purulent otorrhea.
- Hears every noise in sleep.

### 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 - Dryness of tongue.
- Tongue dry, black.
- Tongue burning in evening.
- Tongue sour feeling, stitches 
worse at tip.
- 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.
- Palpitation from mental excitement.
- Pain from heart to lower part of right leg.
- Dilatation 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.
- Urine falls 
down perpendicularly (Hep.).
- Urine scanty, clear flow, containing lumps of blood.
- Urine sediment slimy, 
tough or membraneous.
- Scanty, reddish urine in colic.
- Asthma.
- Croup and bronchitis.
- Catarrh of chest.
- Hemoptysis.
- Great weak ness of chest.
- Difficult to 
expel mucus.
- Copious ropy, expectoration in morning in elderly persons.
- Ropy sputa.
- Atonic hemoptysis.

### Stomach & 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 - 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 delirium.
- 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.

### Urinary & Genital
- Eczema 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.
- Leucorrhea 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.

### Extremities
- 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.

### Neck & Back
- 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.
- 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.

### 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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