Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Kali bi., for these two remedies are very similar as to their stomach and bowel symptoms "Belchingwith oppression of stomach".Here is another instance of the tendency to capillary and venous engorgement. "Vomiting ofblood" arid blood from the bowels.There is much pain in the hepatic region, burning and heat, etc. Mostly in the righthypochondrium you will find distension and fullness It is pre-eminently a liver medicine. It is not asdeep in its action as Sulphur. You will often find that Aloe will serve as a palliative when it will have tobe followed by Sulphur, Sulph. ac., Kali bi. or Sepia, the medicines that follow Aloe and arecomplementary to it, finishing its work. Aloe will make a good beginning in these liver troubles whenthere are great fullness, distension, stitching pains in the region of the liver arid a dry, hot, burning skin,with no increase of temperature. Aloe has some fever, but this sensation of heat of the skin and drynessis without fever and is such as is found in psoric patients. The proving has not been sufficientlyextensive to demonstrate whether Aloe produces eruption to any extent or not, but if such could beproved this would place it among the anti-psorics. It is not a deep long-acting constitutional remedylike Sulphur, and yet it is not so short-acting as Aconite or Belladonna. Complaints come on only witha moderate degree of rapidity. It may be associated very well with Bryonia. Bryonia does not go sodeeply into the life substance as Sulphur.Perhaps one of the most striking features of the abdominal state is the fullness, distension andrumbling. It seems as if the abdomen would burst arid the rumbling is so great that it can be heard byanyone in the room. It keeps on one continuous gurgling. The stool gurgles out with a noisy rumbling,like water out of a bung-hole. The text of the earlier writers speaks of it as a sputtering, for while thestool is passing out it is accompanied by much flatus which gurgles and sputters. The abdomen seemsto be as much distended as ever even after great quantities of flatus have passed. There is no relief. Thepain is especially felt across the abdomen, about the hips. Great distension as if the abdomen wouldburst across the transverse colon, and also in the ascending arid descending colon; pain; gurgling,rumbling, heaviness, and feeling of pressure outwards."Twisting and griping pains in the upper abdomen, around the navel, compelling him to sit bentup which relieves". "Feeling of weakness in abdomen as if diarrhea would result". The weakness issometimes very great, so much so that he is compelled to go to bed with the diarrhea, and you willoften mistake it for Podophyllum, so great is the exhaustion. Pod. has great distension, tremendousgushing, much flatulence, great rumbling in the bowel and the trouble comes on at 4 o'clock in themorning. Aloe is like Sulph. again, in that it drives him out of bed in the early morning with diarrhoea,and there are times when he puts the feet out from beneath the covers to cool them off, the soles of thefeet bum and he uncovers them. Gripping in the abdomen, feeling of weakness in the abdomen."Painfulness in whole abdomen, especially in sides and along both sides of navel". So sensitive is theabdomen that he can find no comfortable position. "Dull, abdominal pain as after taking cold, morningand evening repeatedly".Now here are abdominal symptoms that relate to the condition of the women and not todiarrhea. "Feeling as if a plug was wedged in between the symphysis pubis and os coccyges" "Laborlikepains in the groins and loins worse when standing". Aloe has cured prolapsus of the uterus of longstanding when it was associated with fulness, heat of the surface of the body, tendency to morningdiarrhoea, dragging down of the uterus and sensation of a plug wedged in between the symphysis pubisand coccyx. The outward pressure of the uterus causes that sensation.Dragging down as if all parts of the pelvis would push out. A funneling sensation in the vagina,in the pelvis."Urging to stool, only hot flatus passes, giving relief, but urging soon returns". The idea is thatit compels him to go to stool, but when upon the commode nothing but wind passes. It is useful also inold chronic sufferers from this trouble, those who suffer from constipation, who go many days withouta stool, but feel every little while, or several times in the day, that they must go to stool, and then only alittle wind passes Natrumsulf.will very commonly overcome that state. "Lumpy, watery stool". That is a strong feature ofAloe; hard lumps mingled with a watery stool; the lumps are in the water or in the liquid feces; littlehard lumps looking like marbles or sheep dung. In the constipation the stool is lumpy, like marbles.Sometimes these little nodules remain in the rectum a long time without any urging to stool, and finallyescape unconsciously, being found in the clothing. Entire loss of sensation in the anus, an anesthesia;no feeling during the passage of the stool.Much of the Aloe trouble is dysenteric in character, with a sharp, inflammatory condition of therectum and lower portion of the colon; bloody discharges and yellow, jelly-like mucus.