Alumina Anhängsel

[M.L. Tyler]

Hufeland: "Alum. causes induration and scirrhus uteri, if continually used for copious menstruation and haemorrhages".

Evidently Alum may be one of the irritants of tissues on which cancer grafts itself.

Alum. is one of our greatest remedies in constipation, of he peculiar from of constipation it induces: "on desire for stool and-no power to strain at stool, however soft". Here one has used it from time to time with great success. And from what one has observed of the effects of Alum., one opines that the almost universal use of aluminium cooking vessels must be worth thousands a years to the chemists who sell laxatives and purgatives galore to the public. As said, idiosyncrasy no doubt comes in: but whatever else the aluminium salts may do in the way of vitiating health, interference with the normal bowed function os certainly one. No power to strain even for a soft stool; and no desire for stool-for a week or two, even: and as one has observed, the hold-up seems to be in the neighbourhood of the splenic flexure, or the upper part of the descending colon.

But not only here, but in many parts of the body, Alum. is a remedy of paresis and paralysis. In the ptosis of eyelids (Caus). Again in its paralytic effects on intestines (Plb-met., to which, by its similarity of symptoms, it stands in the relation of antidote. But its pitiful, increasing, and chronic condition of weakness and heaviness (lower limbs), make the drug very interesting. It weakens alike mentally and physically. In these days when national fitness is the ideal of the moment, a possible constant source of deterioration, mental and physical, dose not appeal to one as particularly helpful.

Apparently, as usual, the crude poison is antidoted, by its potencies, (200 etc.).

Craves indigestible things: slate pencils/earth/chalk/clay/white rags/charcoal/cloves/acids/coffee and tea-grounds/dry rice. Aversion to potatoes and disagree, it has aversion to meat which has no taste; to beer; and a longing for fruits and vegetables-barring potatoes. < all irritating things, like salt, vinegar, pepper; gets a sore throat from eating onions; gets easily drunken from the weakest spirituous drinks; and is < tobacco smoke. Considering its dryness and irritation of mucous membranes, one can understand some of these things.

Eyes inflamed; itching at inner canthus; agglutination at night, lachrymation by day. Burning; dryness; smarting.

Yellow halo round the candle.

Eyelids thickened, dry, burning.

Redness of nose.

Point of nose cracked.

Involuntary spasmodic twitching of lower jaw: with haemorrhage of bowels, and dark offensive stools.

In evening, dryness of throat, which induces frequent clearing of throat.

< eating potatoes.

Painters colic.

Inactivity of rectum; even the soft stool needs great straining. Rectum seems paralysed.

No desire for, and no ability to pass stool till there is a large accumulation.

Stools: hard, knotty, covered with mucus; like sheeps dung, with cutting in anus, followed by blood; like pipe-stems.

Soft and thing stool, passing with difficulty.

Severe haemorrhage from bowels, with flow of urine. Diarrhoea wherever she urinates.

Evacuation of small quantity of hard faces, with pressure and a sensation of excoriation in the rectum.

Urine voided when straining at stool; or cannot pass urine without straining.

Constipation of sucklings.

Continual dry, hacking cough, with vomiting and arrest of breathing; with frequent sneezing.

Every morning a long attack of day cough, ends with difficult raising of a little white mucus.

Great heaviness in lower limbs; he can scarcely drag them.

When walking he staggers and has to sit down.

Great weariness of the legs when sitting.

Faint and tired; must sit down.

Seeing blood on a knife, has horrid ideas of killing herself, though she abhors the idea.

Great dread of death, with thoughts of suicide.

Fear of losing his reason.

Uneasiness, evening, as if evil impending.

Weeps constantly, without wishing it.

Sneers at everything. Peevishness. Grumbles.

Intolerable ennui: no disposition for any kind of work.

Headache; violent stitches in brain; stabs: as with a knife.

Headache, as if hair pulled.

Vertigo.

Inability to walk, except with eyes open and in daytime.

Cloudiness and drunken feeling, alternating with pain in kidneys.

Easily made drunk, by weakest spirituous drink.

Sees fiery spots; white stars.

Objects appear yellow.

As if looking through a fog, or feathers.

Itching, corners of eyes, and of lids.

Upper lids seem to hang down, as if paralysed, especially the left.

Ears hot and red (evening).

It seems as if, in right ear, he had an entirely different voice.

Skin of face tense, even round eyes, as if the while of an egg had dried upon it.

Stitches in throat on swallowing; something pointed seems to stick in throat.

Sense of constriction, oesophagus down to stomach, every time he swallows a morsel of food.

Violent Pressive pain, as if part of oesophagus were contracted or compressed in middle of chest.

Rabid hunger; or aversion to food; no desire to eat.

No taste in food; or everything tastes like straw or shavings.

Rancid eructations; pyrosis; waterbrash. Worse after potatoes; a loathing which makes him shiver.

Crawling at pit of stomach, as from a worm.

Crawling in rectum as from worms.

Dropping of blood, or a stream of blood during, or after evacuation.

And, can only urinate when straining for stool. Can only pass stool when standing, is one of its curious symptoms.

Oppression, chest: constriction round chest.

Twitching and involuntary movements of limbs and fingers.

Heaviness of legs, can hardly lift them.

Heaviness in feet, with great lassitude of legs.

Pain in sole of foot, on stepping on it, as if it were too soft and swollen.

Lassitude: great; of whole body; slow, tottering gait; excessively faint and tired; great fatigue (talking).

HUGHES: "In mucous membranes, the characteristic feature seem to be dryness with more or less irritation: . . . in morbid sensitiveness of nasal mucous membrane to cold; in chronic dry catarrh of conjunctivae, even when granular; in chronic pharyngitis, where membrane looks dry, red glazed; in dry, hacking coughs from pharyngeal irritation; in dyspepsia from deficiency of gastric juice; in constipation from lack of intestinal secretion. Has also cured a frequent desire to urinate during the night. Chronic affections of old people, or dry, thin persons." He says, Dunham recommends it for violent cough excited by an elongated uvula.

GUERNSEY: "Peculiarities about rectum and stool afford hints to the use of this remedy. . . . Inactivity of her the rectum, requiring great straining to evacuate even a soft stool. No desire for stool for days, sometimes a week, until there is large accumulation, and even then evacuation seems only after great effort. Even if the accumulated stool be very soft, the same effort required to pass it. One must strain at stool in order to urinate. We see this in dysentery, typhus, and in many other disorders, when Alum. will be very likely the remedy.

FARRINGTON says: "Alum. has been used in nervous affections of a very grave character. Boenninghausen used the mental Aluminium for the following symptoms in that dreaded disease, locomotor ataxia: frequent dizziness; objects turn in a circle; ptosis; diplopia or strabismus; inability to walk in the dark or with the eyes closed without staggering; feels as if walking on cushions. Formication, or sensation of creeping as from ants in the back and legs. The nates go to sleep when sitting. The heels become numb when walking. A feeling in face as though it was covered with cobwebs, or as if white of egg had dried upon it. Pain on the back, as though a hot iron were thrust into the spin. These are the symptoms indicating Alum., and these are the symptoms which led Boenninghausen to Alum., and enabled him cure four cases of the disease".

"Hypochondriacal men, with lassitude and indifference to labour or to work. An hour seems to them half a day. Peevish and fretful, here rivaling Nux and Bry. . . .

"Alum. acts on skin just as if does on mucous membranes; produces dryness and harshness; indicated in rough dry eruptions which crack, and may bleed, but not often-but which itch and burn intolerable, and are worse in the warmth of the bed. . . .

"Feeling of constriction along oesophagus when swallowing food. Always worse from potatoes is a good indication for Alum. There is aversion to meat, and a craving for indigestible substances.

"There are diseases of the blood to which it is applicable. Anaemia, chlorosis, especially young girls at puberty. Menses pale and scanty. Abnormal craving for indigestible articles, such and scanty. Abnormal craving for indigestible articles, such as slate pencils, chalk, whitewash, Leucorrhoea may be profuse, even running down to the feet (Luet.)".

"Alum. acts best in spare aged persons, rather wrinkled and dried-up looking; and in girls at puberty, especially if chlorotic. Also in delicate children, especially those who have been artificially fed, i.e. nourished by the many varieties of baby foods with which the market is glutted. Such children are weak and wrinkled; nutrition is decidedly defective. Bowels inactive-(with the characteristic constipation as described). The child too my suffer, when teething, from strabismus; from weakness of internal rectus of affected eye".

KENT: From him we best get its mental symptoms. "It affects intellect; confuses intelligence; so that patient is unable to make a decision. Judgment is disturbed. Unable to realize; things he knows seem to him to be unreal" (Med.). Kent quotes Hahnemann, in Chronic Diseases, as giving the best expression of Alum. mentality that occurs anywhere. . . . "When he says anything, he feels as if another person had said it; when he sees anything, as if another person had seen it, or as if he could transfer himself into another and only them could see. . . ." The consciousness of personal identity is confused. He is dazed; makes mistakes is writing and speaking; uses words not intended.

"Then, another phase; gets into a hurry. Nothing moves fast enough; time seems slow, everything delayed.

"Then, impulses: when he see sharp instruments or blood, impulses rise within, him, and he shudders because of these impulses. An instrument that could be used for murder of for killing causes these impulses. Impulse to kill herself.

"Thinks surely he is going to lose his reason. Thinks about this frenzy and hurry and confusion of mind; how he hardly knows his own name, and how fretful he is, and finally thinks he is going crazy".

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