Alumina

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

Thin, inactive; inclines to lie down. Paretic effects. Talking is exhausting. Exhaustion after menses. DRYNESS; of mucous surfaces, eyes, throat, rectum, etc., or irritability and relaxation. Scanty, thick, acrid discharges (Hyds.). Mucus discharges, profuse: before menses, leucorrhœa runs to feet; expectoration. Induration. Chronicity. .................... Illusions of being larger, numb, smooth, heavy, time passing too slowly, etc. Hasty, but slow of execution, hence mistakes in speaking, writing, etc. Peevish. Depressive mental states. Depressed, on awaking. Timorous; fears his own impulses; the sight of knives; loss of reason, etc. Bad memory. Vertigo, < talking. Violent stitches in brain. Dry, falling hair. Weak eyelids. Double squint; < teething. Inflamed, burning eyes. Hot, red ear. Dusky wrinkled, old look. As of white of egg or a cobweb on face. Teeth feel long; pain extends to other parts (Kali-bi.). Twitching low jaw (Gel.). Uvula hangs down. Throat feels full of sticks or constricted. Craves coarse foods (Calc-c.). Big bellied children. Pains from rectum to ankle. Inactive rectum and bladder; strains to pass a soft stool; hard ones cause severe cutting. Stools of small balls, hard knots or bright clots of blood. Must strain at stool to urinate; slow flow. Tickling in sexual organs; increased desire. Profuse leucorrhœa. Constant, dry, hacking cough; interrupts breathing; with sneezing. Sudden loss of voice. As of a hot iron thrust through lower spine. Heavy lower limbs; staggering. Festination. Locomotor ataxia. Totters, if eyes are closed. Painful soles. Gnawing under nails. Bones feel squeezed. Dry, rough, cracked skin. Itching burning over seat of pain. Intolerable itching from heat of bed. Eczema. Chilliness; > open air. Heat, with itching.

Worse

WARMTH; ROOM, bed. Foods: Artificial. Potatoes. Speaking. Dry weather. Early on awaking. Sitting. After menses.

Better

Evening. Open air. Moderate: Exertion. Temperature.

Region

SPINAL CORD, lumbar. Abdomen, left. RECTUM. Lower limbs. Mucus membranes. Skin.

Relationships

Antidotes: Cad-m. Jaborand. Related: Bry. Plb.

What the other books say about Alumina

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Alumina in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Alumina in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Alumina in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Alumina in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Alumina — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/alumina. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.