Aloe Socotrina

Head

Dull headache in sinciput, with heaviness in eyes, and nausea. Headaches are worse from heat and better from cold applications. Sense of weight on vertex and pressure in sinciput and occiput. After insufficient stool, headache and pain in the abdomen.

Eyes

One is compelled to partially close the eyelids from pain in forehead. Yellow rings moving before the eyes. Pain deep in the orbits.

Mouth

Lips dry, peeling, cracked and bleeding. Tongue and mouth dry with increased thirst; red lips, dry tongue. The concave surfaces of the teeth seem to hurt the tongue. Metallic taste, with dry, irritative hacking. Has to hurry to stool immediately after eating and drinking.

Throat

Rough, scraped, as if burned. Sore throat worse by yawning or masticating. Thick lumps of tough mucus, like the characteristic stool.

Abdomen

In region of the liver sensation of fulness, heaviness, must lean forward to relieve pain under the right ribs; in liver, heat and inflammation; the discharge of hot, offensive flatus relieves the pain in the abdomen. Heaviness, fulness, and pressing down in the pelvis. Sensation of tightness in region of liver; stitches in the liver. Griping in abdomen before, with and after stool. Much soreness in the whole abdominal cavity, so that a false step hurts clear to the pit of the stomach. Violent cutting, griping pain in right lower abdomen before and during stool; perfectly relieved after stool. Distension of the epigastric region, with flatus moving about in the abdomen. Sensation in abdomen as if diarrhoea would take place. A good deal of heat, burning and heaviness in the abdomen.

Gastric.-- Aversion to meat.

Stool And Anus

Pulsations in rectum after eating. Sensation of heaviness, heat, burning soreness in the rectum and anus, one or more of these at the same time, sometimes before and sometimes after stool. Itching and burning in the anus preventing sleep. Sensation as if more stool should pass; fears to evacuate it on account of the soreness, yet does not draw the anus together on account of pain it occasions. Loss of power of sphincter ani, which allows feces to pass involuntarily, particularly after stool. Constant feeling as if one ought to go to stool. Urging, wakes at night many times, driving one out of bed in the morning. Passes bloody mucus after urging and straining. Great care is necessary lest he passes stool with the flatus, also fears he will pass stool whilst urinating. The stool passes without effort, almost without being noticed; also, solid, well-formed stools pass unnoticed, till found in bed or elsewhere. A troublesome sensation as if still more feces will pass after a thin stool, but without tenesmus. Every morning on rising has a hasty desire for stool, with rumbling in the abdomen, and finally sputtering stool. Feces and urine will pass at the same time, cannot pass one without the other. One must go to stool soon after a meal. Stools are very often hot. Urging to stool, passing only hot flatus, which affords great relief: soon the urging returns with a sensation as of a plug wedged between the pubis and coccygis. Fissures of the anus. After stool, feels extremely weak and prostrated. Much haemorrhage from the bowels, feels like a stool, nothing but pure blood passes. Haemorrhoids, like bunch of grapes, protrude with bearing down, bleeding, sore, hot, relieved by cold water. The stools may be nothing but pure mucus, even transparent. Passing of large quantities of flatus, sometimes offensive, sometimes not, Sometimes feels as if bowels would move when nothing but flatus passes. Jelly-fish stools . Stools may be thin, or lumpy and fluid, yellow, bright yellow, or bilious, or slimy, or blood and slime, mucus. As a rule there is much less tenesmus with Aloes than with many other remedies--the stool falls away so easily.

Urine

Frequent urging with burning; worse at night.

Sexual.-- Female : Labor-like pains in the loins and groins, with fulness and heaviness in the uterine region, worse when standing. Labor-like pains extend down the legs. Uterine haemorrhage about the change of life. Pressing down in the rectum during catamenia. Menses too early and too profuse, with sense of weight and heaviness in the pelvis. Leucorrhoea of bloody mucus, heaviness in pelvis. Prolapsus uteri with the above symptoms.

Back

Pressing and heaviness in sacral region, especially on sitting, relieved on motion. Lumbago, alternating with headache.

Sleep

Cannot get to sleep for a long time, thoughts crowd upon him and keep him awake.

Worse.-- From yawning or masticating; after eating; sedentary habits. Awakes in the morning with severe urging to stool. The symptoms of the mucous membranes get worse in the afternoon. Many symptoms increase in the evening. Attacks following a most obstinate constipation.

Better.-- After cold water, in headache, haemorrhoids, etc., and cold weather; discharge of flatus.