ALOE SOCOTRINA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to indolent, weary persons
- averse to either mental or physical labor
- mental labor fatigues
- old people especially women of relaxed, phelgmatic habit
- extreme prostration, with perspiration
- itch appears each year, as winter approaches
- dissatisfied and angry about himself or his complaints, especially when constipated
- diseases of mucous membranes
- causes the production of mucus in jelly-like lumps from throat or rectum
- affects mucous membrane of rectum
- headache across the forehead worse by every footstep
- headache with heaviness of eyes and nausea
- headaches are worse from heat, better from cold applications
- headaches alternating with lumbago
- headaches after insufficient stool
- diarrhoea has to hurry to closet immediately after eating and drinking
- diarrhoea with want of confidence in sphincter ani
- diarrhoea driving out of bed early in the morning
- when passing flatus, sensation as if stool would pass with it
- colic cutting, griping pain in right lower portion of abdomen
- colic excruciating, before and during stool
- all pains cease after stool, leaving profuse sweating and extreme weakness
- attacks preceded by obstinate constipation
- flatus offensive, burning copious
- much flatus with small stool
- burning in anus after passage of flatus
- solid stool and masses of mucus pass involuntarily
- hungry during diarrhoea
- before stool rumbling, violent sudden urging
- before stool heaviness in rectum
- during stool, tenesmus and much flatus
- after stool faintness
- haemorrhoids blue, like a bunch of grapes
- constant bearing down in rectum
- haemorrhoids bleeding, sore, tender, hot, relieved by cold water
- haemorrhoids intense itching
- itching and burning in anus, preventing sleep
- worse early morning
- worse sedentary life
- worse hot dry weather
- worse after eating or drinking
- worse standing or walking
- better cold water
- better cold weather
- better discharge of flatus and stool