Aloe socotrina
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Aloe socotrina
Socotrine Aloes. Liliaceae.
Adapted to indolent, “weary” persons; averse to either mental or physical labor; mental labor fatigues.
Old people; especially women of relaxed, phlegmatic habit. Extreme prostration, with perspiration.
Itch appears each year, as winter approaches (Psor.).
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 < by every footstep (Bell., Bry.) ; with heaviness of eyes and nausea.
Headaches : are worse from heat, better from cold applications (Ars.) ; alternating with lumbago; after insufficient stool.
Diarrhoea : has to hurry to closet immediately after eating and drinking (Grot, t.) ; with want of confidence in sphincter ani; driving out of bed early in the morning (Psor., Rum., Sulph.).
When passing flatus, sensation as if stool would pass with it (Olean., Mur. ac., Nat. m.).
Colic: cutting, griping pain in right lower portion of abdomen; 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 (Agar.) ; burning in anus after passage of flatus.
Solid stool and masses of mucus pass involuntarily; hungry during diarrhoea.
Before stool : rumbling, violent sudden urging, heaviness in rectum; during stool, tenesmus and much flatus; after stool, faintness.
Hoemorrhoids : blue, like a bunch of grapes (Mur. ac. ) ; constant bearing down in rectum ; bleeding, sore, tender, hot, relieved by cold water; intense itching.
Itching and burning in anus, preventing sleep (Ind.).
Relation. — Like Sulphur in many chronic diseases with abdominal plethora and congestion of portal circulation; develops suppressed eruptions.
Similar: to. Am. m., Gamb., Nux, Pod.
Aggravation. — Early morning; sedentary life; hot^ dry weather; after eating or drinking; standing or walking.
charge of flatus and stool.
What the other books say about Aloe socotrina
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Aloe socotrina in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Aloe socotrina in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Aloe socotrina in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Aloe socotrina — Keynotes, pp. 22–24. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/aloe-socotrina. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.