Alumina Aluminum oxydatum, Argilla pura. English: Oxide of aluminium, common clay French: Alun, Argile German: Thonerde, Alaunerde Aluminum is one of the most abundant metals on earth, being found in air, water and soil. It is used in the manufacture of abrasives, smelting and in antacids. In olden times it was confounded with lime and silica, but it has been recognized now as an oxide of aluminum [Al2O3]. After silica, aluminum is one of the most widely disseminated substances in nature and is found almost pure in the sapphire, corundum and adamantine spar. It is extracted from alum, which is a supersulphate of alumina and potassa or ammonia, by pouring an excess of ammonia into a slightly concentrated solution of this salt; the precipitate which is formed, being carefully washed and dried, is pure alumina. Of this powder, take one grain [5 centigrammes], in order first to make    three triturations with sugar of milk, prior to dissolving it and making the succeeding attenuations with alcohol.     The essential features The Alumina case is one which is difficult to diagnose. Frequently, as one takes a homeopathic case history, one searches read more [...]

Alumen Common potash alum. Alum. Potassic-Aluminic Sulphate. An astringent double salt, found as a mineral near the volcanoes of the Lipari Isles, in Sicily.   The essential features This remedy should be understood as having mainly two phases, two states of pathological action upon the human organism. In the first it produces conditions where we see extreme dryness of the mucous membranes (coition is almost impossible), and skin which becomes rough, indurations and hardening of glands and tissues of tongue, of rectum, uterus, mammae etc with a tendency to malignancy, ulcers with indurated bases, epitheliomas, scirrhus etc. There is a tendency in this remedy to greyish black manifestations such as eruptions, stool which is black, dark pseudomembranes on throat etc. The second phase is one of paralysis, paralytic weakness, especially in rectum (severe constipation) and bladder (no power to expel the urine, runs perpendicularly),  with constricting feelings like that of a tight band especially on extremities. Also paresis, sluggish action of muscles, varicose veins that become relaxed and bleed, hemorrhages of various types especially from rectum, etc. Sometimes read more [...]

Alumina silicata Andalusite rock - Alumina 63, Silica 37 parts.   The essential features This is another interesting remedy about which we do not have enough information. Most of the symptomatology comes from Kent and from the few cases where I have prescribed it so far. I am convinced that this is going to prove to be a very important remedy once we know more about it. You may need this remedy in the deepest and most stubborn cases you meet in your homeopathic career. It is a remedy that contains in its pathogenesis elements from all three remedies : Alumen, Alumina and Silica and yet it has its own individuality. What is striking in my experience is the fact that those patients who need this remedy may present symptoms which are not very obtrusive, but deep and disturbing on a permanent basis. It seems that once an Alumina silicata symptomatology sets in there is no interval in the suffering of the patient, it is there all the time, day and night. In this way the patient becomes a victim of the most deep and annoying symptomatology. This subtle but incessant suffering becomes a great element of this remedy. For instance a woman may take to her bed for most of her read more [...]

Allium Sativum Garlic. N.O. Liliaceae. Tincture of fresh bulb   The essential features Allium sativum is another remedy to be classed among the neglected remedies in our Materia Medica. I consider it to be an important and valuable remedy in certain cases for which Bryonia, Kali bichromicum, Sulphur, Lachesis, belladonna etc. are given today. It corresponds to fleshy people with voracious appetites, with chronic spastic colitis where there is a lot of gas that cannot come out and that causes pain. There is a pressing pain - from within outwards - in the upper abdomen and along the transverse colon which is aggravated from stepping. Walking causes excruciating pains (Bell). They have to lie down to get relief or sit in a bent forward position and press with both hands. Allium sativum people are obliged to keep to a particular diet, for fear of immediate aggravation in their digestive problems from any deviation in their eating habits. They may develop heartburns, gas in the abdomen, eructations with much saliva, and strong pressing pains, pressure from within outward. They have a feeling as if everything inside the abdomen is dragging down (Sep). In comparing read more [...]