ALUMINA
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Dryness of mucous membranes and skin
- Paretic muscular states
- Lack of vital heat
- Debility
- Sluggish functions
- Heaviness
- Numbness
- Staggering
- Constipation
- Disposition to colds in the head
- Eructations
- Low-spirited
- Fears loss of reason
- Confused as to personal identity
- Hasty
- Hurried
- Time passes slowly
- Variable mood
- Suicidal tendency when seeing knife or blood
- Stitching, burning pain in head
- Vertigo
- Pressure in forehead as from a tight hat
- Inability to walk except with eyes open
- Throbbing headache
- Vertigo with nausea
- Falling out of hair
- Scalp itches and is numb
- Objects look yellow
- Eyes feel cold
- Lids dry, burn, smart, thickened
- Chronic conjunctivitis
- Ptosis
- Strabismus
- Humming
- Roaring
- Eustachian tube feels plugged
- Pain at root of nose
- Sense of smell diminished
- Fluent coryza
- Point of nose cracked
- Nostrils sore, red
- Scabs with thick yellow mucus
- Tettery redness
- Ozena atrophica sicca
- Membranes distended and boggy
- Face feels as if albuminous substance had dried on it
- Blood-boils and pimples
- Twitching of lower jaw
- Rush of blood to face after eating
- Mouth sore
- Bad odor from mouth
- Teeth covered with sordes
- Gums sore, bleeding
- Tensive pain in articulation of jaw when opening mouth or chewing
- Throat dry, sore
- Food cannot pass
- Esophagus contracted
- Feels as if splinter or plug were in throat
- Irritable, and relaxed throat
- Throat looks parched and glazed
- Clergyman's sore throat
- Thick, tenacious mucus drops from posterior nares
- Constant inclination to clear the throat
- Abnormal cravings-chalk, charcoal, dry food, tea-grounds
- Heartburn
- Feels constricted
- Aversion to meat
- Potatoes disagree
- No desire to eat
- Can swallow but small morsels at a time
- Constriction of esophagus
- Colic, like painter's colic
- Pressing in both groins toward sexual organs
- Left-sided abdominal complaints
- Hard dry, knotty stool
- No desire for stool
- Rectum sore, dry, inflamed, bleeding
- Itching and burning at anus
- Soft stool is passed with difficulty
- Great straining
- Constipation of infants and old people
- Diarrhea on urinating
- Evacuation preceded by painful urging long before stool, and then straining at stool
- Muscles of bladder paretic
- Must strain at stool in order to urinate
- Pain in kidneys, with mental confusion
- Frequent desire to urinate in old people
- Difficult starting of urine
- Excessive desire
- Involuntary emissions when straining at stool
- Prostatic discharge
- Menses too early, short, scanty, pale
- Followed by great exhaustion
- Leucorrhea acrid, profuse transparent, ropy, with burning
- Worse during daytime, and after menses
- Relieved by washing with cold water
- Cough soon after waking in the morning
- Hoarse, aphonia
- Tickling in larynx
- Wheezing, rattling respiration
- Cough on talking or singing, in the morning
- Chest feels constricted
- Condiments produce cough
- Talking aggravates soreness of chest
- Stitches in back
- Gnawing pain, as if from hot iron in back
- Pain along cord, with paralytic weakness
- Pain in arm and fingers, as if hot iron penetrated
- Arms feel paralyzed
- Legs feel asleep, especially when sitting with legs crossed
- Staggers on walking
- Heels feel numb
- Soles tender
- Soles feel soft and swollen on stepping
- Pain in shoulder and upper arm
- Gnawing beneath finger nails
- Brittle nails
- Inability to walk, except when eyes are open or in daytime
- Spinal degenerations and paralysis of lower limbs
- Restless sleep
- Anxious and confused dreams
- Sleepy in morning
- Chapped and dry tettery skin
- Intolerable itching when getting warm in bed
- Must scratch until it bleeds; then becomes painful
- Brittle skin on fingers