• Aloe Socotrina is an excellent remedy to re-establish physiological equilibrium after excessive dosing, especially when disease and drug symptoms are mixed.

• It addresses portal congestion and its primary and secondary effects.

• Suited to lymphatic and hypochondriacal constitutions.

• It addresses the negative effects of sedentary life and habits.

• Rectal symptoms are a keynote.

• Aloe Socotrina is adapted to weary people, the aged, phlegmatic individuals, and old beer drinkers.

• The patient is dissatisfied, angry about himself, alternating with lumbago.

• Heat internally and externally.

• Aloe Socotrina was historically used for consumption.

• Great debility and prostration.

• A general sensation of heaviness.

• A tendency to hemorrhages.

• There are burning pains in various parts.

• Laxity of tissues; lack of tone.

• Offensive discharges are present.

• Symptoms often appear and disappear suddenly.

• Aloe Socotrina is often indicated after abuse of purgatives.

• Complaints arise from suppressed foot sweat.

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• The patient is dissatisfied and angry about himself.

• The patient is irritable and easily offended.

• Aversion to mental work.

• Anxiety about health.

• Fear of death.

• It experiences sadness and despondency.

• It feels overwhelmed and mentally fatigued.

• It desires solitude.

• Easily startled.

• It experiences weakness of memory.

• Impatience.

• Easily vexed by trifles.

• Mental dullness.

• It experiences restlessness, but it is averse to motion.

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• One of the oldest and most famous drugs, widely used as a purgative.

• Habitual use can lead to pelvic ailments.

• Resembles Allium sativum somewhat closely.

• Causes congestion of various parts, especially abdomen, pelvic organs, and head.

• Periodicity is a feature of many complaints.

• Periodic headache alternates with lumbago.

• Itch manifests as winter approaches each year.

• Has the antipsoric property of throwing out internal complaints to the skin.

• Suited to old people, women of relaxed phlegmatic habit, and persons of lymphatic or hypochondriac temperament.

• Symptoms are < from heat; in hot, damp weather; > from cold applications; in cold weather; > from passing flatus.

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• Dull, pressive headache; worse from heat.

• Frontal headache with heaviness.

• Congestion of the head.

• Vertigo with weakness.

• The head feels too full.

• Headache alternating with rectal symptoms.

• Yellowish discoloration of the conjunctiva.

• Weakness of vision.

• Flickering before the eyes.

• Ringing in the ears.

• Dryness of the nose.

• Sore throat with rawness.

• Sensation of a lump in the throat.

• Hoarseness.

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• Shortness of breath.

• Cough, especially with rectal symptoms.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Dry, hacking cough.

• The cough is worse in the morning.

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• Palpitations.

• Weakness of the heart.

• The pulse is rapid and weak.

• Nausea and vomiting.

• Sour eructations.

• Loss of appetite.

• Craving for acids.

• Thirst for cold drinks.

• Sinking sensation in the stomach.

• Pain in the liver region.

• Distension of the abdomen with gas.

• Rumbling in the bowels.

• Colic pains in the abdomen.

• The abdomen feels sore and bruised.

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• Constant urging to stool.

• Involuntary stool, especially on passing flatus.

• Sensation of insecurity in the rectum.

• Diarrhoea, often alternating with constipation.

• Stools are watery, yellowish, and offensive.

• Haemorrhoids, often protruding and painful.

• Burning and itching in the anus.

• Jelly-like mucus passed with stool.

• Bleeding from the rectum.

• The rectum feels full of hot water.

• Prolapsus of the rectum.

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• Frequent urination.

• Burning in the urethra.

• Urine scanty and dark.

• Involuntary urination.

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• Increased sexual desire.

• Leucorrhoea (vaginal discharge), profuse and excoriating.

• Menses too early and profuse.

• Bearing down sensation in the uterus.

• Weakness and heaviness in the limbs.

• Pain in the back and loins.

• Lumbago alternating with mental symptoms.

• Coldness of the extremities.

• Stiffness in the joints.

• Pain in the shoulders and neck.

• Cramps in the calves.

• Gouty pains.

• The skin is dry and rough.

• Itching of the skin.

• Offensive perspiration.

• Eruptions with burning and itching.

• Restless sleep.

• Dreams vivid and disturbing.

• Dreams of misfortune.

• Sleep is unrefreshing.

• Worse (<): Heat.

• Morning.

• After eating.

• From beer.

• Sedentary life.

• Warm weather.

• Damp weather.

• Motion.

• Standing.

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• Cold applications.

• Open air.

• Cold food and drinks.

• After stool (sometimes).

• Rest.

• Lying down.

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• Antidotes: Opium; Sulph.

• Complementary: Sulphur, Nux Vomica.

• Compare: Sulphur, Podophyllum, Colocynthis, Nux Vomica, Aesculus Hippocastanum, Bryonia, Pulsatilla.

• Useful in cases of dysentery.

• Indicated in portal congestion.

• Common Name: Common Aloes

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• Family: Liliaceae

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• Preparation: Trituration or solution in spirit of the gum.

• Burning sensation in rectum and anus.

• Congestions, especially to the head and abdomen.

• Great prostration and exhaustion.

• Tendency to catarrhal affections.

• Complaints are worse in the morning.

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• Anxiety and ebullition of the blood.

• Restlessness, fear, fear of man.

• Bad humor, especially in cloudy weather.

• Dissatisfied and angry with himself; more so when constipated or in pain; better in open air.

• Suffering makes her frantic, often loses consciousness.

• Seems to have a presentiment of approaching death.

• Angry, revengeful, wishes to destroy the object of her wrath.

• Aversion to labor.

• Great disinclination to mental labor; it fatigues him.

• Disinclined to move.

• Exhaustion, alternating with activity.

• Children much enlivened, chat and laugh.

• Annoying amorous thoughts present themselves.

• Irritable and easily offended.

• Mental confusion, difficulty concentrating.

• Despondency and melancholy.

• Apathy and indifference.

• Giddiness and starting.

• Giddiness, with anxiety when moving; he feels as if he were sitting too high (after dinner).

• Dulness in the forehead with chilliness.

• Dull headache across the forehead, with heaviness in the eyes, and nausea.

• Pressure in the forehead and vertex, as from a weight (and in occiput).

• Pressing pain above the eyes.

• Congestions to the head, compelling one to sit up.

• Headaches are worse from heat and better from cold applications.

• Stitches above the eyebrows.

• Pressing out of the temples, with flickering before the eyes and heat in the face.

• Stitches in the temples at every step.

• Headache after pain in the abdomen; after (an insufficient) stool; worse from heat, better from cold.

• Sensitiveness of the scalp (in small spots).

• With the pain in the forehead the eyes become small; patient compelled to close them.

• Congestion to the eyes; pressure in the orbits.

• Lachrymation.

• Pain deep in the orbits, as if in the muscles; worse right side.

• Occasional attacks of twitching of left eyelids during the day, spasmodic jerk of whole body on failing asleep at night.

• Flickering before eyes, with heat of the face.

• Yellow rings moving before the eyes.

• Compelled to make the eyes small, with pain in forehead; heaviness of eyes, and nausea.

• Dim vision.

• Hates musical sounds and noises, they set her all in a tremor.

• Earache.

• Stitches in the ears; first in the left ear, afterwards in the right.

• Internal and external heat of the ears.

• Cracking in the ears when reading aloud or moving jaws.

• Just after getting into bed, sudden explosion and clashing in left ear, as from breaking of glass; the clink of the glass was heard at the bottom of the head and extended thence towards right ear.

• Buzzing and ringing in the ears.

• Redness of the nose in the open, cold air.

• Coldness of the point of the nose.

• Bleeding of the nose in bed after awaking.

• Dryness of the nose in the morning in bed.

• Nasal catarrh with profuse discharge.

• Heat of the face when excited, or during headache.

• Face pale during cloudy weather.

• Lips dry; cracked; swollen; pustular; sore at corners.

• Flushed face.

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• Great sensitiveness of a decayed molar tooth (lower) right side.

• Teeth yellow.

• Concave edges of teeth seem sharp, and hurt the tongue.

• Metallic taste, with dry, irritative hacking.

• Lips dry, peeling off, cracked, bleeding.

• Yellow spots in mouth; yellow ulcers on the tongue.

• Tongue painful.

• When moving the tongue, stitches from below to the tip.

• Dry tongue and mouth; with increased thirst and greater redness of the lips.

• Tongue red and dry.

• Accumulation of saliva in mouth.

• Offensive breath.

• Throat rough, scraped, hot, as if burnt.

• Pain, when yawning, masticating solid food; worse in the evening and in the morning, when awaking.

• Thick lumps of tough jelly-like mucus in the throat and posterior nares.

• Breathing impeded by stitches in the left side of the chest.

• Expectoration of blood.

• Cough, dry or with expectoration of mucus.

• Shortness of breath.

• Palpitations of the heart.

• Oppression of the chest.

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• Taste bitter, sour, like ink.

• Aversion to meat; desire for juicy things (fruits); for salt food.

• Hunger unusually keen in the evening.

• Thirst while eating, after eating, and during the night.

• After eating, flatulency, pulsations in the rectum, and sexual irritation.

• As soon as he eats anything, must hurry to stool.

• Sweats after drinking.

• Pain in the stomach after drinking water.

• Sour things disagree with him.

• Vomiting of blood.

• Eructations; tasteless, bitter, sour.

• Pain in the pit of the stomach from a mis-step.

• Painful pressure under the sternum.

• Nausea and vomiting.

• Tension in the region of the liver.

• Uneasiness, heat, pressure, and tension in the region of the liver.

• Pain in the liver, < on standing, so that he bends forward.

• Stitches in the liver, when drawing a long breath.

• Congestion to the abdomen.

• Sensation of fulness, heaviness, heat and inflammation.

• The whole abdomen is painfully sensitive to the touch.

• Abdominal muscles pain when touched, when pressing at stool, or on rising from a recumbent position.

• Bloated abdomen, more on the left side, or along the colon, worse after eating.

• Distension of the abdomen, esp. the epigastrium; with flatus moving about.

• Pulsation in the region of the navel.

• Pain around the navel, worse from pressure.

• Rumbling in the abdomen.

• Discharge of much flatulency, burning, smelling offensive, relieving the pain in the abdomen; after each meal, in the evening and morning, before stools.

• Much soreness in the whole abdominal cavity, so that a false step hurts clear to the pit of the stomach.

• Cutting in the abdomen with disinclination to go into the open air, which relieves the pain.

• Heaviness, fulness, and pressing down in the pelvis.

• Sensation of a plug wedged in between symphysis pubis and coccyx; with urging.

• Sudden or continued urging to stool; < immediately after eating; feeling of fulness and weight in pelvis; only flatus passes.

• Desire for a stool after each meal.

• Rumbling and cramp in the abdomen, before and during stool.

• The hard stool falls without being noticed.

• With the diarrhea, flatulency, pinching in the abdomen, pain in the back and rectum, and chilliness.

• Diarrhea very early in morning, driving him out of bed.

• Stools like mush; thin, bright, yellow, grey, hot, undigested.

• Frequent stools of bloody water: violent tenesmus; fainting; passing of mucus in jelly-like lumps, much flatus.

• During the stool, congestion to the head and red face, or hunger.

• Heaviness, heat, pressing, burning in the rectum.

• Want of confidence in sphincter ani; rectum seems full of fluid which feels heavy, as if it would fall out.

• When passing wind, feeling as if stool would escape with it.

• Itching, burning, pulsations, pain as from fissures, at the anus; preventing sleep.

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• Fulness and pressing out in anus.

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• Increased secretion of urine, especially at night.

• Frequent urging; burning when urinating.

• Every time on passing urine feeling as if some thin stool would escape with it.

• Sexual desire increased; < after awaking; after eating; in the evening.

• Erections in the morning, and after passing water.

• Involuntary emissions during the siesta; towards morning; followed by sexual excitement, micturition, and stool, and restless sleep.

• Penis shrunk, and testicles cold.

• Swelling and inflammation of the prostate.

• Pain in the hypogastrium, as if menses were coming on.

• Fulness and heaviness in the uterine region, with labour-like pains in the loins and groins; worse standing.

• Labour-like pains drawing into the legs.

• Catamenia too early, and too profuse.

• During menstruation, headache, which is relieved by the application of cold water; earache; pain in the small of the back; dragging down in the rectum; fulness in the pelvis.

• Leucorrhea of bloody mucus, preceded by colic.

• Prolapsus uteri with the above symptoms.

• Uterine hemorrhage about the change of life.

• Painful menstruation.

• Lumbago, alternating with headache.

• Pain in the small of the back, < sitting, or when awaking at night; > moving about.

• Stiffness of the neck.

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• Cold hands with warm feet.

• Lameness in all the limbs.

• Pricking, dull twitching, drawing pain in the joints (fingers, knees, elbows).

• Sensation of weakness in the joints of the hands and feet.

• Pains of short duration, as if bruised or dislocated (left forearm, right shoulder-blade, left ribs).

• Swelling of the joints.

• Heaviness and weariness in the limbs.

• Itching, especially of legs.

• Spots which, when scratched, pain and become sensitive.

• Eruptions that ooze and crust over.

• Dry and scaly skin.

• Urticaria.

• Cannot get to sleep for a long time, thoughts crowd upon him and keep him awake.

• Restless sleep.

• Waking up frequently during the night.

• Dreams vivid and anxious.

• Sleepiness during the day.

• From heat; in hot, damp weather; from sedentary habits; after eating; from drinking; in cloudy weather; sitting; standing; in the evening; in the morning; in winter; suppressed emotions.

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• From cold applications; in cold weather; from passing flatus; in open air; moving about; uncovering.

• Abdomen, plethora of

• Anus, affections of

• Bronchitis

• Colic

• Constipation

• Cough

• Diarrhea

• Dysentery

• Gleet

• Gonorrhea

• Hemorrhoids

• Hysteria

• Lumbago

• Onanism, effects of

• Phthisis

• Proctitis

• Prolapsus uteri

• Prostate, affections of

• Sacrum, pain in

• Tenesmus

• Uterine hemorrhage

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• Related to: Allium cepa, Allium sativum, Agave, Scilla, Colchicum.

• Antidoted by: Sulphur, Mustard, Camphor relieves for a while, Lycopodium and Nux vomica relieve the earache.

• Resembles: Sulphur in many symptoms, and is of equal importance with Sulphur in chronic diseases with abdominal plethora; Ailanthus (dull, frontal headache); Gambogia (diarrhea); Ammonium muriaticum (abdominal and diarrheic symptoms); Nux vomica (gastric, abdominal and uterine troubles: bad effects of sedentary habits); Aesculus (hemorrhoids); Mercurius (dysentery); Podophyllum (alternations between head symptoms and abdominal symptoms).

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• Sedentary habits.

• Suppressed eruptions.

• Overeating.