Aloe Socotrina
ALOE · T. F. Allen - A Primer of Materia Medica · Timothy Field Allen · 1,665 chars
General
In large doses, Aloes produce a determination of blood to the pelvic organs, which occasions haemorrhoids, uterine engorgement with increased menstrual flow, sexual orgasm in men, etc.
It increases the peristalsis of colon ; and increases the secretion of bile.
General :
Relief from open air.
Disinclination to mental or physical effort.
Head
Frontal headache, dull, heavy, pressing downward into eyes and nose ; must close the eyes.
Nose
Bleeding in the morning.
Mouth
Taste metallic, bitter.
Stomach
Nausea, with the frontal headache ; flatulent distention and eructations.
Abdomen
Flatulence ; weak, as if diarrhoea would ensue.
Soreness in sides.
Over the liver, heat and pressure.
Feeling of a plug in pelvis, between symphysis and coccyx, with urging.
General feeling of fullness and heaviness.
Rectum
Heaviness.
Dragging as if to stool.
Sudden impulse to evacuate feces.
Anus :
Haemorrhoids ; swollen and sore.
Sphincter uncertain ; permits escape of thin feces with gas.
Stool
Diarrhoea ; yellow, pasty or thin, sudden in morning on waking and rising ; cannot evacuate bladder without feces escaping.
Dysentery ; bloody, jelly-like evacuations, followed by pain and soreness in the rectum.
Urinary Organs
Urine scanty, hot, dark, or even bloody, with burning.
Much mealy sediment.
Sexual organs, Female :
Uterus feels heavy, with a sensation of a plug in pelvis.
Uterine haemorrhage ; menstrual flow increased, dark and clotted.
Back
Sacral pain (alternates with headache).
Heaviness in sacrum > motion.
Skin
Jaundice ; much crawling and itching (as in jaundice).
Furuncles with disordered liver.