Alumina

Where are studies of Alumina found ?

In Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases .

How is it prepared ?

By trituration of the pure clay.

Give the general action of Alumina.

Through the spinal nerves Alumina acts on the colon and rectum, producing great dryness of their secretions ; it also produces profound prostration of the cerebro-spinal nervous system.

What is a feature that runs all through Alumina ?

Dryness of membranes, the conjunctiva, the nose and the intestinal tract are all very dry.

Give grand characteristics of the drug.

1. Dark complexioned, spare, dry, thin people [ Calcarea opposite].

3. Dryness of mucous membranes and catarrhal conditions.

5. Inactivity of rectum, soft stool expelled with difficulty.

Give the stomach symptoms and cravings of Alumina.

Constriction on swallowing food, and the patient is always worse after eating potatoes ; there is craving for chalk, charcoal, slate pencils and other indigestible substances.

Give symptoms which would indicate Alumina in locomotor ataxia.

The patient cannot walk without staggering if his eyes be closed ; he feels as if he were walking on cushions ; there is creeping as if ants were crawling on his legs and back, the extremities go to sleep, the legs are numb and there is a sensation as if there were a cobweb on the face ; there is also much severe pain in the back.

Give female symptoms of Alumina.

Chlorosis with pale and scanty menses and craving for indigestible substances. Leucorrhoea, which is yellowish mucus, very ropy and tenacious, and exhausts very much, as it is rich in albumen.

What is the constipation of Alumina ?

From dryness of the intestinal tract, there is complete inertia of the rectum, so that the stool is expelled with great difficulty, no matter what the consistency of it is ; there is little or no urging to stool, the stools may be dry, hard and knotty like sheep dung or soft ; constipation of children where the rectum is dry, hard, inflamed and bleeding.

Recapitulate its characteristic features.