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Aloe Socotrina

Aloe socotrina
ALOE · 15 entries across 15 books
PreparationTrituration or solution in spirit of the gum. Clarke
6X
Sixth potency and higher. In rectal conditions, a few doses of the third, then waitDose · Boericke

Reason for use

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.

The full T. F. Allen text, by section

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.

Complete text of the Aloe Socotrina entry in T. F. Allen - A Primer of Materia Medica; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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15 entries across 15 books · abbreviations: ALOE · Family: Liliaceae

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2 Kent

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3 Clarke

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4 Hering

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5 Allen

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6 Nash

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7 Hering

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10 Lippe

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14 T. F. Allen

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16 Guernsey

ALOE SOCOTRINA · Henry Newell Guernsey · 6,087 chars

17 Cowperthwaite

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18 Dewey

Aloe Socotrina · Willis Alonzo Dewey · 1,397 chars

20 Hempel

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23 T. F. Allen · shown above

ALOE · Timothy Field Allen · 1,665 chars

33 Gladstone Clarke

Aloe Socotrina · A. Gladstone Clarke · 1,283 chars

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