ALUMINA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to persons who suffer from chronic diseases
- constitutions deficient in animal heat
- spare, dry, thin subjects
- dark complexion
- mild, cheerful disposition
- hypochondriacs
- dry, tettery, itching eruption, worse in winter
- intolerable itching of whole body when getting warm in bed
- scratches until bleeds, then becomes painful
- time passes too slowly
- an hour seems half a day
- inability to walk, except with the eyes open, and in the daytime
- tottering and falling when closing eyes
- abnormal appetite
- craving for starch, chalk, charcoal, cloves, coffee or tea grounds, acids and indigestible things
- potatoes disagree
- chronic eructations for years, worse in evening
- all irritating things - salt, wine, vinegar, pepper - immediately produce cough
- constipation: no desire for and no ability to pass stool until there is a large accumulation
- great straining, must grasp the seat of closet tightly
- stool hard, knotty, like laurel berries, covered with mucus
- stool soft, clayey, adhering to parts
- inactivity of rectum, even soft stool requires great straining
- constipation of nursing children, from artificial food
- constipation of bottle-fed babies
- constipation of old people
- constipation of pregnancy, from inactive rectum
- diarrhoea when she urinates
- has to strain at stool in order to urinate
- leucorrhoea: acrid and profuse, running down to the heels
- leucorrhoea worse during the daytime
- leucorrhoea better by cold bathing
- after menses: exhausted physically and mentally, scarcely able to speak
- talking fatigues
- faint and tired, must sit down
- worse in cold air
- worse during winter
- worse while sitting
- worse from eating potatoes
- worse after eating soups
- worse on alternate days
- worse at new and full moon
- better in mild summer weather
- better from warm drinks
- better while eating
- better in wet weather
- one of the chief antidotes for lead poisoning
- painter's colic
- ailments from lead