Aloe socotrina
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Socotrine Aloes An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological equilibrium after much dosing, where disease and drug symptoms are much mixed. There is no remedy richer in symptoms of portal congestion and none that has given better clinical results, both for the primary pathological condition and secondary phenomena. Bad effects from sedentary life or habits. Especially suitable to lymphatic and hypochondriacal patients. The rectal symptoms usually determine the choice. Adapted to weary people, the aged, and phlegmatic, old beer- drinkers. Dissatisfied and angry about himself, alternating with lumbago. Heat internally and externally. Has been used successfully in the treatment of consumption by giving the pure juice.
Modalities
Worse early morning; summer; heat; in hot, dry weather; after eating or drinking. Better from cold, open air.
Head
Headache alternates with lumbago, with intestinal and uterine affections. Disinclination to mental labor. Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them. Headache after stool. Dull, pressive pain; worse from heat.
Face
Marked redness of lips.
Eyes
Compelled to make small during pain in forehead. Flickering before eyes. Redness of eyes with yellow vision. Pain deep in orbits.
Ears
Cracking when chewing. Sudden explosion and clashing in left ear. Tinkling as of some thin, shivered, metallic globe in head.
Nose
Coldness of tip. Bleeding in morning on awakening. Full of crusts.
Mouth
Taste bitter and sour. Tasteless eructations. Lips cracked and dry.
Throat
Thick lumps of tough mucus. Varicose condition of veins in pharynx. Dry, scrapy feeling.
Stomach
Aversion to meat. Longing for juicy things. After eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum and sexual irritation. Nausea, with headache. Pain in pit when making false step.
Abdomen
Pain around navel, worse pressure. Fullness in region of liver, pain under right ribs. Abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, bloated. Pulsating pain around navel. Weak feeling, as if diarrhœa would come on. Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels. Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and os coccygis, with urging to stool. Colic before and during stool. Burning, copious flatus.
Rectum
Constant bearing down in rectum; bleeding, sore, and hot; relieved by cold water. Feeling of weakness and loss of power of sphincter ani. Sense of insecurity in rectum, when passing flatus. Uncertain whether gas or stool will come. Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed. Lumpy, watery stool. Jelly- like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool. A lot of mucus, with pain in rectum after stool. Hæmorrhoids protrude like grapes; very sore and tender; better cold water application. Burning in anus and rectum. Constipation, with heavy pressure in lower part of abdomen. Diarrhœa from beer.
Urinary
Incontinence in aged, bearing-down sensation and enlarged prostate. Scanty and high colored.
Female
Bearing down in rectum, worse standing and during menses. Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much on that account. Labor-like pains in loins; extend down legs. Climacteric hæmorrhage. Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory
Winter coughs, with itching. Difficult respiration, with stitches from liver to chest.
Back
Pain in small of back; worse moving. Stitches through sacrum. Lumbago alternating with headache and piles.
Extremities
Lameness in all limbs. Drawing pains in joints. Soles pain when walking.
Relationships
Complementary: Sulphur; compare: Kali bich; Lycop; Allium
sat. Antidotes: Opium; Sulph.
Dose
Sixth potency and higher. In rectal conditions, a few doses of the third, then wait.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Aloe socotrina — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/aloe-socotrina. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.