Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Sometimes the Aloe patient will pass nothing but large quantities of this catarrhal, jelly-likemucus. Don't forget Aloe for hemorrhoids that form like a bunch of grapes. "Itching and burning inanus, preventing sleep". He is compelled to bore with the finger into the anus; so violent is the itchingthat the patient cannot let it alone; it seems it will drive him to distraction. He gets relief only fromapplying something cold. A common feature of Aloe is that ointments increase the burning.There is increased burning of the skin round about the ulcers after applying an ointment. TheSulphur patient also cannot bear any application; it is poisonous to him and he breaks out in eruptions.Wherever a mucous membrane is inflamed there is formed a deposit of thick, jelly-like mucus.If there is an ulcerated spot or aphthous patch or inflamed surface, thick, jelly-like cakes of mucus maybe peeled off almost as thick as leather at times. At times the lower portion of the rectum is in this stateand the patient will say that the lumpy stools are caked in jelly. The lumpy stools in Graphites look asif embedded in coagulated white of egg. Sometimes the Aloe patient, before having a stool, will expel ateacupful of thick, jelly--like mucus which has occupied the lower portion of the rectum. Aloe cured acase of stricture of the rectum in which it was indicated by this symptom. The stricture preventednearly all the fecal matter from getting down to the anus, but the rectum would fill up three or fourtimes a day and compel the patient to expel a quantity of jelly--like mucus. The feces that could beforced through were scarcely larger than a pipe stem. It has been said that our medicines are notcapable of curing strictures, but they sometimes do cure strictures. If they can cure the patient it ismarvelous how nature will take up all that inflammatory tissue and the canal become normal. Thisthing has been seen many times in stricture of the urethra and stricture of the rectum.ALUMEN [alumn] [Kent’s]This medicine, like Alumina, seems to produce a peculiar kind of paralytic weakness of themuscles in all parts of the body, a sort of lack of tone. The extremities are weak. This weakness is feltespecially in the rectum and bladder. The stool becomes impacted from want of ability of the rectumand colon to expel their contents. The bladder is also slowed down in its action, and i: is with greatdifficulty that the urine is voided. After urinating, the bladder often remains half full. The urine is veryslow to start, and when the patient stands to urinate the urine falls down perpendicularly, as in Hepar.From this we see the sluggish action. The paralytic condition extends also to the veins producing avaso-motor paralysis.Another peculiar condition running through the remedy is the tendency to induration whereverthere is an inflamed surface. All remedies that have this in their nature relate more or less to cancerousaffections, because in cancer we have as the most natural feature a tendency to induration. Ulcers arecommon in Alumen, and this induration underlies the ulcer; ulcers with indurated base. Or little scalesmay appear upon the skin where the circulation is feeble, over cartilaginous portions for instance, and agreat thick indurated mass forms. Infiltration takes place under this crust, the crust keeps coming off,and a lack of healing follows because of the weakness of the tissues from a vaso-motor paralysis.Epithelioma is scarcely more than that, and so we have in this remedy features like epithelioma andother cancerous affections. What is the scirrhus but a peculiar form of induration? When the economytakes on a low type of life, a low form of tissue making, and the tissues inflame and upon the slightestprovocation indurate we can see that this is a kind of constitution that is predisposed to deep-seatedtroubles, to phthisis, Bright's disease, diabetes, cancer, etc. We are on the border line of ultimates andsomething is going to happen. This remedy leads the economy into such a state of disorder, a low typeof tissue making is found, and many of these indurations will have cancer as an ultimate. This is a longacting antipsoric remedy.There is also in this medicine a tendency to induration of the neck of the uterus and themammary glands. Glands become slowly inflamed, arid do not stop with ordinary congestion andhardness, but become as hard as bullets. This induration extends to the various glands of the body, butis especially noticeable in the tonsils. For those who have a tendency to colds which settle in the throat,especially singling out the tonsils and indurating these, those who keep on taking cold and the tonsilskeep on growing and indurating, we have in Alumen a medicine that fits the whole process, thehardening and infiltration, and it cures these cases according to the law of similars--when the symptomsagree. It cures young children growing up with enormously enlarged and very hard tonsils, in whomevery cold settles in the throat. Alumen is one of the cognates of Baryta carb., which has the sametendency. In one patient there will be one kind of constitution, and, after thoroughly examining it, lookslike Baryta carb. You may have a different constitution in another patient, and, after carefully carefullyexamining it, see that it it looks like Alumen; another you will see is Sulphur another, if you look into itcarefully, you find is Calcarea carb., and another, Calcarea iod.", and so on among those remediescapable of bringing about the conditions described. If we can find symptoms which picture the