Aloe Socotrina

Socotrine Aloes. Liliacece.

One of the oldest and most famous drugs, largely cultivated, and in use as a horse-medicine, hence rarely to be obtained pure from the shops. From the collection of the College of Pharmacy some of the genuine socrotine aloes was obtained. It was brought from the Sultan of Muscat, by a physician in the service of the U. S. Navy, who made the Sultan's acquaintance while on an expedition from the United States. This was made the basis of all of Boericke & Tafel's preparations.

Aloe was most proved by Helbig in 1833, and several under his lead. The first publication of provings was made by Buchner, 1821. A complete monography, adding to all the former the provings made in this country with the genuine Socotrina, was given by C. Hg. in his American provings, 1856, pp. 764 to 862.

^ Mind. Lassitude, alternating with great mental activity. I She knew she would die in a week. 6 Hysteria. I Life is a burden, d Colic. Great disposition for desultory thinking. Children chat and laugh. Aversion to labor. Great disinclination to mental labor ; it fatigues him ; general

languor. I Disinclined to move. Anxiety.

Anxiety and ebullitions. Restlessness and fear ; fear of men. Ill-humored ; hypochondriacal, worse in cloudy weather.

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Dissatisfied and angry about himself, more so when he is con- stipated or suffers from pain.

I An easily excited, angry, revengeful state of mind, could not brook opposition, wanted to destroy the object of wrath ; relief from tea or mild stimulant ; worse in the middle of the day.

■ Attacks make her frantic, often loses consciousness, d Colic. Hates people, repels everyone.

I When sitting in a chair or lying in bed, complains of persons

stepping hard or quickly, d Hysteria. Restlessness, with ebullitions of blood. Fright at slight noises, after a nocturnal emission. ^ Sensorium. Giddiness and starts.

Giddiness, with anxiety when moving ; he feels as if he were

sitting too high (after dinner). Dullness in the forehead, with chilliness. Vertigo : as if everything whirled with her, worse on going up

stairs or turning quickly ; everything seems insecure ; better

after nasal catarrh sets in. Loses consciousness, with frantic spells. ^ Inner Head. ■ Congestion to the head, compelling one to sit

up.

I I Headache across the forehead, with heaviness of the eyes and nausea.

■ Weight on the vertex ; pressure in the forehead and occiput.

■ Dull pressive pain : in supra-orbital region ; in ■sinciput. Pressing outwards to the temples, with periodic heat of the

face and flickering before the eyes.

■ Stitches in the temples aggravated by every footstep.

■ Headache after insufficient stool; with abdominal pains.

■ ■Headaches are worse from heat and better from cold appli-

cations. I I A pain in the forehead which compels the patient to close

the eyes, or, if he wishes to look at anything, he must make

the aperture of the lids very small. Headache alternating with lumbago. ^ Outer Head. Sensitiveness of the scalp in spots.

Dryness of the hair. ° Sight and Eyes. I Yellow rings moving before the eyes. Unsteady, anxious look. Dimness before the eyes while writing. Flickering. See 3.

■ Pain deep in the orbits, as if in the muscles, worse on the

right side. Congestion to the eyes ; pressure in the orbits. Lachrymation.

■ Occasional attacks of twitching of left eyelids during the

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day, and a spasmodic jerk of the whole body just when fall- ing asleep at night. Heaviness of eyes, with frontal headache. Has to close the eyes, with pain in forehead. ^ Hearing and Ears. Hates musical sounds and noises, they

set her all in a tremor, d Hysteria. Cracking in the ears when moving the jaw. Sticking pain in the left ear, later in the right. Internal and external heat of the ears. ' Nose. Nosebleed, in bed after waking.

Coryza, with burning and pain in the nose ; on sneezing,

stitches in the umbilical region. Redness of the nose in the open cold air. Coldness of the point of the nose. Dryness of the nose in the morning, in bed. ^ Face. Heat of the face with the headache or when excited. Face pale, during cloudy weather. Face sickly, sunken. ^ Lower Part of Face. Lips : redder than usual ; dry, cracked ;

moist, soreness of the borders ; white, scaly. Pain when yawning or masticating solid food ; worse in the

evening and in the morning, when waking. ^^ Teeth and Gums. Sensitiveness in a hollow molar ; worse

when eating ; later a pustule appears on the gum, near the

diseased tooth. The concave edges of the teeth seem sharp, they hurt the

tongue. ^^ Taste, Speech, Tongue. I Metallic taste, with dry, irritative

hacking. Taste: bitter, sour, like ink or iron. Tongue: coated yellowish-white ; stiff; dry, red. Severe fine stitches, from behind forwards, in the under part

of the tongue when moving it. Yellow ulcers on the tongue.

Dry tongue and mouth, with increased thirst and greater red- ness of the lips. ^^ Inner Mouth. Inflamed, sore spots in the mouth, on the

tongue, inside of cheeks ; yellow ulcers on the tongue. Sickening smell from the mouth. Increase of saliva. ^^ Palate and Throat. Fauces raw, hot, as if burned.

Palate swollen ; arches of the velum palati pain on chewing

hard food, or on yawning, worse in the evening, and in the

morning on awaking ; worse on empty swallowing. Hawking of thick jelly-like mucus, in lumps, from the fauces

and posterior nares ; rawness and swollen feeling in the

pharynx. *

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^^ Appetite, Thirst, Desires, Aversions, i Appetite for salt food. No appetite, d Hysteria.

Thirst : with dryness of mouth ; — awakens at night. Longing for juicy articles ; fruits, especially apples. Aversion to meat. ^^ Eating and Drinking. Soon after supper, growling in the abdomen, as if griping of the bowels would take place.

I As soon as he eats anything, he must go to stool.

I I Has to hurry to the closet immediately after eating and drinking. 6 Colic.

After eating : flatulency, pulsations in the rectum and sexual irritation. .

After meals : distension of abdomen.

Hungry during the diarrhoea ; hungry after the morning stool.

Sour food does not agree.

Beer relieves the pains in the anus ; drinking vinegar, the colic.

Water causes pains in the stomach.

Thirst while eating, after eating, and during the night.

Sweats after drinking. ^^ Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Belching, with oppres- sion of the stomach.

Eructations : bitter ; acrid ; sour or tasteless.

Rising of flatulence toward the throat, with sensation as if vomiting were coming on.

Nausea : with frontal headache ; with empty feeling in the stomach ; with pain at the umbilicus.

Vomiting of blood. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Painful pressure under the sternum ; pressure through the pit of the stomach to the back.

Pain in the scrobiculum on making a false step.

Fullness in the stomach, followed by distention of the epigas- trium.

Pain and fullness in the stomach after drinking water. ^^ Hypochondria. Painfulness in the hypochondria, with chilli- ness and diarrhoea ; painful weakness of the legs.

Hepatic region: burning; I uneasiness, heat pressure and ten- sion ; dull pain, worse on standing, so that he bends forward.

Stitches from the liver into the chest, obstructing respiration.

Stitches in the liver, when drawing a long breath.

Distension of the hypochondria, better after passing flatus.

Increases the flow of bile.

Stitches from the spleen into the chest, or drawing into the loins. ^^ Abdomen. Pulsation in the region of the navel.

Distension of the abdomen, especially the epigastrium, with

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flatus moving about ; worse after meals ; during menstrua- tion ; on motion.

■ Congestion to the abdomen (portal system) ; burning sensation, II Sensation of fullness, heaviness ; heat and inflammation. Pelvis feels as if filled with hot water.

Pain around the navel, worse from pressure. Stitches in umbilical region from sneezing.

■ Rumbling in the abdomen.

B I Discharge of much flatulency, burning, smelling offensive, relieving the pain in the abdomen ; after each meal, in the evening and morning, before stool.

■ Cutting across the abdomen ; with ill-humor, anthropophobia ;

not disposed to go into the open air although it relieves.

■ The abdominal walls are painful when rising, pressing to stool,

when touched, and when standing erect.

■ Heaviness, fullness, and pressing downwards in the pelvis. Left side of the abdomen bloated, with gurgling in the descend- ing colon ; worse after eating,

■ A twisting and griping pain in the upper abdomen and around

the navel, forcing him to sit bent up, which relieves ; there- with, repeated urging to stool, but only offensive burning flatus passes with short relief of the pain.

■ Griping in the abdomen, before with and after the stool.

■ Feeling of weakness in the abdomen as if diarrhoea would re-

sult ; but evacuation did not ensue for eight hours. Shooting and boring in the region of the navel, < from pressure.

■ Painfulness in the whole abdomen, especially in the sides and

along both sides of the navel, which parts cannot endure being touched ; on making a false step on stone pavements it hurts very much in the pit of the stomach.

■ Dull abdominal pain, as after taking cold, morning and eve-

ning repeatedly, still without inclination to stool.

■ ■Great and cutting-griping pain in the right and lower portion

of abdomen, which was excruciating before and during stool ; after stool all pains ceased, leaving a profuse sweating and extreme weakness, d Colic.

■ Fullness, heat and heaviness in hypogastrium. ^Prolapsus

uteri.

■ Labor-like pains in groins and loins, worse when standing.

d Prolapsus uteri. I I Feeling as if a plug was wedged in between the symphysis pubis and the os coccygis.

■ Dragging down in the abdomen.

^^ Stools, Rectum and Anus. Urging to stool continuously ; worse immediately after eating ; feeling of fullness and weight in the pelvis ; only flatus passes.

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I Urging to stool with passage of urine ; every time on passing

urine, feeling as if stool would pass.

I I Urging to stool, only hot flatus passes, giving relief; but the urging soon returns, with a sensation as of a plug wedged between the symphysis pubis and the os coccygis.

1 1 Flatus offensive, burning, copious ; much flatus with small stool ; burning in the anus after passage of flatus.

Stools quite profuse with jelly-like lumps, and accompanied with wind, d Colic.

■ Watery stools, aggravated by standing or walking. Bloody water. 6 Dysentery.

1 1 1 1 Lumpy watery stool.

I Profuse watery diarrhoea, accompanied by wind, containing lumps " looking like frog-spawn." d Colic.

■ Diarrhoea yelloAV fecal, bright yellow, bilious ; great rumbling

in the bowels, escape of large quantities of wind ; -< morning ; evening ; in damp weather ; from overheating ; after cold taken in a damp room ; after chagrin.

■ 1 Diarrhoea driving out of bed very early in the morning (like

Sulphur.) Stools yellow fecal, worse after eating ; before stool violent

urging ; during stool tenesmus and discharge of much flatus ;

after stool faintness. Hospital diarrhoea. Small stools.

■ ■Dysenteric diarrhoea.

■ Frequent stools of bloody water, violent tenesmus; fainting;

passage of mucus in jelly-like lumps, much flatus, d Dysen- tery.

■ ■When passing wind, feeling as if stool would escape with it.

■ ■Want of confidence in the sphincter ani ; the rectum seems

full of fluid which feels heavy, as if it would fall out. d Diarrhoea.

■ Stool passes without making any exertion ; when walking

or standing ; after eating.

■ ■Solid stool passes involuntarily; dropping away unnoticed

by the sick, even children at night in bed. During stool congestion to the head and face ; hunger ; cutting about the navel extorting cries ; chilliness ; fainting ; heat in the rectum ; much flatus ; tenesmus.

■ Pains disappear after the stool, when she appeared very weak

and covered by a cold sweat.

■ ■Stools leaving him with a feeling of extreme weakness and

prostration.

■ Sensation of heat and burning in the rectum.

■ Heaviness in the rectum.

■ Stricture of the rectum.

■ Itching, pulsating in the rectum as from fissures, worse sitting.

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After stool burning weight and itching in the anus ; protruding piles ; cutting ; feeling as if still more would come.

■ The not too hard faeces causes a pricking in the anus, later

continuous pain in the anus compelling him to draw it to- gether frequently, whereby it becomes tense and achy.

■ Fullness and pressing out in the anus.

1 1 Hemorrhoids : protrude like a bunch of grapes ; constant bearing down in the rectum ; bleeding ; sore, tender, hot ; relieved by cold water.

■ Itching and burning in the anus, preventing sleep.

^' Urinary Organs. Pain in the left side down along the ureters. d Hysteria.

■ Every time on passing urine, feeling as if some thin stool

would escape with it. See 20.

■ Burning when urinating.

■ Frequent urging to urinate; worse at night; or in the after-

noon. Urine copious ; especially after stool. Urine saffron-yellow, becoming cloudy ; scanty, hot. Sediment yellowish, like bran, or slimy.

■ Incontinence of urine. 6 In an old man with enlarged prostate

(diarrhoea and urinary symptoms were also present).

I I So urgent a desire he can hardly retain the urine.

Erections after urinating. See 22. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Semen comes too soon.

All the semen is not ejected.

I I Sexual desire increased : after awaking ; after eating ; in the evening.

Seminal emissions ; strong desire afterwards.

Involuntary emissions during siesta.

Testicles cold ; penis small; scrotum relaxed ; epididymis sen- sitive, especially to touch or while walking.

Offensive sweat on the genitals.

Erections in the morning and after passing water.

Gonorrhoea.

Itching of the prepuce. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. ■ Pain in the hypogastrium as if the menses were coming on.

■ Fullness, heaviness in the uterine region, with labor-like

pains in the loins and groin ; worse standing.

■ Labor-like pains extending down the legs, d Prolapsus uteri.

■ Uterine hemorrhage about the climaxis. ^Prolapsus uteri.

■ Menses too early and too profuse ; with dragging down in the

rectum and fullness in the pelvis, d Prolapsus uteri.

■ Menses too early and last too long. ^Prolapsus uteri. During the menses : earache ; headache relieved by cold water ;

distension of abdomen ; backache.

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iLeucorrhoea of bloody mucus preceded by colic, d Prolapsus uteri. 2* Pregnancy and Parturition. Lameness, which seems to arise from a sense of weight and pressure into the pelvis. d During pregnancy.

I I After confinement, dysentery with faint feeling after each effort at stool. 2^ Voice and Larynx. Voice husky. Hawking.

Scraping in the larynx. ^^ Respiration. Whistling in the throat, as if something had fallen into the trachea.

Difficult respiration.

Respiration impeded : by stitches through the left side of the chest ; by stitches from the liver into the chest.

When drawing a long breath : stitches in the liver. ^^ Cough. Cough with stitches in the right side of the larynx ; sputa of yellow, tenacious mucus.

Cough with scratching in the throat.

When she would sit down after standing, or stand up after sit- ting down, she would cough and the tears would flow. d Hysteria.

Spitting blood. ^^ Inner Chest. Congestion to the chest ; dry cough ; bloody ex- pectoration.

Front of the chest feels sore on deep inspiration.

Weakness of the chest.

Stitches into chest from spleen. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Strong beat of the heart occasionally ; pain through to the left scapula.

Pulse : accelerated ; weak, suppressed, after vomiting ; slow in the afternoon.

Ebullitions, with anxiety ; restlessness. ^^ Back. Dull, steady pain on either side, just above the innomi- nata, running into the rectum, later becomes a throbbing, itching sensation of fullness, always with a feeling as if the prostate was swollen and sensitive ; worse in wet weather. Some times there was twitching in the perineum, at one time feeling as if "asleep," all ending with a slight pain and lameness in the left thigh of short duration.

■ Backache, d Prolapsus uteri.

Lumbago, alternating with headache.

Stitches through the sacrum to the loins.

Pressure and heaviness in the sacral region while sitting ; bet- ter from motion.

Creeping beginning in the sacrum, in the bone, extending to the coccyx, until it was a creeping in the bones over the whole body.

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32 Upper Limbs. Heaviness of the right arm ; weakness of the

wrist-joint. ^^ Lower Limbs. Extending down the legs : labor-like pains. 6 Prolapsus uteri.

Painful weakness of the legs. See 18.

I Painful weariness in the calves.

Weakness of the ankle-joint.

I Soles of the feet pain when walking on the pavement.

Great toe feels as if sprained. ^^ Limbs in General. l Lameness, weariness in the limbs; weakness of the joints ; often with the abdominal dis- turbances.

Pains of short duration, as if bruised or dislocated (left fore- arm, right scapula, left ribs).

Pricking, dull twitching, drawing pains in the joints (fingers, knees, elbows).

Cold hands with warm feet. ^^ Position. Motion. Standing : dull pain in hepatic region, watery stools worse ; causes involuntary stools ; in- creases labor-like pains.

Sitting bent : relieves griping in abdomen.

Sitting : aggravates pulsating pains in rectum ; backache ; re- lieves congestion.

Motion : causes giddiness, with anxiety ; nausea and pain in distended abdomen.

Walking : watery stools worse ; causes involuntary stools ; epididymis sensitive.

False step : causes pain in scrobiculum. See 17, 19.

Stepping : aggravates stitches in temples.

Rising : abdominal walls painful. See 19.

Turning quickly : vertigo.

Ascending stairs : vertigo. ^® Nerves. I Debility. ^Prolapsus uteri. I 1 General weakness, weariness.

I Weakness inconsiderable, even when the skin was very golden-

color. Lassitude alternating with mental activity.

I I 1 1 Extreme prostration, with perspiration. Paralytic drawing in the muscles.

Faint feeling after stool, d Dysentery.

Trembling from hearing musical sounds or noises. 6 Hys- teria.

I Hysteria from poisoning of blood with uric acid. ^^ Sleep. ■ Sleeps soundly for 8 hours, awakes very lazy and re- freshed: feels better in a.m.

Drowsy, dozing in the morning.

Awakened: by thirst; urgency to urinate; pollutions and sexual desire ; pains in the back ; chill.

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Cannot sleep, heat and a crowd of thoughts busy him. Oppressive dreams of danger, could not cry out ; dreams of

soiling himself. Spasmodic jerks when falling asleep. Cannot sleep : on account of itching and burning in anus ; on

account of cold hands and feet. During siesta : seminal emission. ^^ Time. Middle of day : angry, revengeful disposition. Afternoon : frequent urging to urinate. Night : urging to urinate worse ; sweat. ^^ Temperature and Weather. i Relieved by cold water.

d Headache, d Prolapsus uteri. Heat : aggravates headache. In cloudy weather : out of humor ; face pale. Damp weather : causes diarrhoea ; flatulency worse. Wet weather : pain in back. See 31. Worse in hot, damp weather. Cold applications : relieve headache and piles. In the open air : nose red ; raw voice ; averse to walk in the

wind ; not disposed to go into the air although it relieves.

■ Better in cold weather; but cannot take a cold water bath

as it acts as stimulus to genitals. ^^ Fever. Chilly: with coryza, in the cold open air; — at stool,

shivering. Cold hands and feet in bed, preventing sleep. Cold hands, warm feet. Heat in spots, on the scalp or in the face. Ebullitions, with anxiety and restlessness. Sweat : smells strong ; — offensive on the genitals : — at

night, after drinking. ^^ Attacks. Twitching of eyelids. See 3. Periodic heat of face, with headache.

■ Attacks preceded by obstinate constipation, d Colic. Sudden, quickly passing, I urging to stool.

Pains of short duration.

I As winter approaches each year, itch manifests itself. ^^ Locality and Direction. Right side : eyes, nose, stitches in

the larynx ; scapula bruised ; arm heavy ; wrist-joint

weak. Left side : wind in descending colon ; stitches in the chest ;

pain through to left scapula, 29 ; ribs bruised, 34 ; pain

along ureter ; pain and lameness in thigh. Left to right : earache. ^^ Sensations. Feeling of vermin running over the body.

d Hysteria. Bruised or sprained feeling : in left forearm, right scapula,

left ribs, great toe. Lameness : in limbs.

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Pressure : in many parts- Heaviness : in the abdomen, rectum, back, limbs ; "weight on the vertex ; eyes heavy.

Fullness : especially in stomach, hypochondria, abdomen, pel- vis.

Stitches : sticking, temples, ears, tongue, throat, epigastrium, spleen, liver to chest, back, limbs, through chest, larynx, region of heart ; sacrum to loins.

Pricking, twitching : joints.

Cutting : abdomen, navel.

Twisting, griping : navel.

Female organs feel as if torn.

Drawing : in various parts, as if the bones were involved ; in joints.

Jerking, drawing: in fingers, knees, elbows, etc.

Soreness : of the muscles ; soles of the feet ; scalp in spots. "

Sensation of hairs on the back of the hand and fingers.

Creeping : spreading from sacral bone over whole body. *^ Tissues. Congestion to head and chest, but especially to por- tal system.

Mucous membranes ; especially causes the production of mu- cus in jelly-like lumps or cakes.

Acts mainly on the rectal mucous lining. ■*' Touch, Passive Motions. Touch : muscles (especially of ab- domen) sensitive ; scalp tender ; epididymis sensitive.

Pressure : aggravates pains in head ; abdominal pains. '^^ Skin. Itching, especially of the legs.

Pimples on the abdomen.

Spots which, when scratched, pain and become sensitive. ^'Stages of Life, Constitution. iiOld people. ^ Colic and

diarrhoea.

Man get. 45 taken with dysentery confining him to his bed a month at a time.

Old men with enlarged prostate. See 21.

Woman get. 55. Woman set. 65. 6 Colic.

Climacteric years. See 23.

Phlegmatic, indolent.

I Women of relaxed phlegmatic habit. ^Prolapsus uteri. *^ Relationship. Aloe has many symptoms like Sulphur, and is equally important in chronic diseases, with abdominal pleth- ora, etc.

Similar to Ailant. (dull frontal headache) ; Crum. gutt. (diar- rhoea) ; Amm. mur. (abdominal and diarrhoeic symptoms) ; Nux vom. (gastric, abdominal and uterine troubles ; bad effects of sedentary habits).

Antidotes to Aloe : jSulphu7% mustard.

Camphor relieves for awhile.

JS^ux vom. and LycoiJ. relieve the earache.

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