ALUMEN [Alumn]:

- Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.

Region

Mucous membranes

Glands

Veins

Nerves; Spine

Worse

COLD weather

appl. (exc. head)

Weather changes

During sleep

Lying on (r.) side

Excitement

Better

Exercise

Breakfast

Catarrhal. Paralytic. Scrofulous. Scorbutic

Atonic. Ulcerating. Indurating. Malignant

Make-up : Predisposed to deep-seated troubles; grave, low forms of disease, disorganized functions and tissues. Old, scrofulous, psoric, constipated persons. Very sensitve to cold. Every cold settles in throat and respiratory system, causing catarrhs.

Catarrhs, with ulcerative tendency (nose, mouth, throat, stomach, urethra, vagina, bronchi, lungs). Discharges bland, yellow, glossy, copious; tending towards dryness (with constrictions, band or cord like. Alum is an astringent). Ulcers, on an indurated base or with an indurated ring; aphthous; everywhere (eyes,ears , mouth, stomach, intestines, urethra, cervix, vagina). Dry M.M.(mouth, throat, rectum, vagina).

Hardening of tissues; tongue, rectum, uterus etc. Indurations on inflamed surfaces; in glands (tonsils, mammae,etc.); tongue, rectum , neck. With a malignant tendency: cancers ;epithelioma; scirrhus (of tongue, mammae, rectum); lupus (at nose); lung abscess or cancer with hemoptysis.

Hemorrhages; from tooth extraction; slight scratches; bowels (in typhoid); lungs; large clots like solid liver, also light, uncoagulable; atonic.

Non-healing due to atony ; all repair at stand still and landing at last into phthisis,cancer, Bright's disease or diabetes.

Veins varicose, enlarge, ulcerate, bleed, hemorrhoids. Paralytic condition. Pulsations. Scurvy; gums.

Sluggishness of muscles everywhere (esp. tongue, rectum, bladder, chest, larynx). Paralytic condition of motor nerve filaments, of vasomotor nerves. Paralytic weakness and paralysis. Hysterical P. P. of larynx (aphonia). P. after (or even before) excitement. Awkwardness (from spinal symptoms); staggering.

Attacks come and go suddenly ( pains, cramps, flushes, aphonia, nausea, palpitations). Pains bruised, with faintness, coldness (Led.).

Mind : Skeptic, doubts everything, ''I don't believe.'' Furious deliriums. Any unpleasant news causes nervous tremors. Mental paresis, dulness, slowness. Anxiety at night. Lectophile (lectus = bed).

Head : Vertigo; with faintness in stomach; (<) lying on back; (>) turning to r. side, opening eyes.

Headache (>) after cold drink, cold application, pressure.Vertex pain (burning, pressing), alternating with urging to urinate, (>) pressure.

Eyes : Chronic sore eyes; congestive; inflammatory, purulent. Granular lids. Cornea, spots on;staphyloma of. Diplopia in candle light. Prolapse of iris after cataract operation.

Ears : Purulent otorrhoea.

Nose : Ulceration, with a sanious discharge.Polypus (1.). Lupus or cancer.

Face : Pale. Lips blue.

Teeth : Loose; decay. Gums scorbutic, bleed, recede; inflame; ulcerate, proud flesh.

Mouth : Burning; dry; dirty; gray; spreading ulcers. Ptyalism; mercurial. Tongue dry; black; stitches, at tip; scirrhus. Noma.

Throat : Tendency to throat colds, chronic, catarrhal. Membrane red and swollen or grayish white. Predisposed to tonsillitis; enlarged and indurated. Uvula inflamed, enlarged, relaxed. Scraping in throat (and middle of sternum). Dysphagia to liquids; burning down oesophagus; constriction.

Stomach : Thirst, for ice-cold water. Pulsation at pit. Sinking, (>) after eating. Pain (>) pressing. Vomits all food; mucus glairy, tough. Nervous exhaustion with inactive bowels and trembling legs. Breakfast welcome.

Abdomen : Flatulence. Cramps. Colic; boring, rending; due to spasmodic action of intestines; with trembling, crawling, tingling in limbs; vertical linear pain down to penis. Lead colic; retraction at navel (Plb-m.).

Pain in r. iliac fossa, after perityphlitis, with biliousness.After peritonitis, obstipation, r.ovarian pain shooting to l.

Rectum : Obstipation like (Selen.); from dryness; atony, no urging for days, or ineffectual, departed peristalsis. Prolonged pain after stool. Unfinished sensation even after passing marble like masses.Stools : stringed beads like; sheep dung like; large, hard as stones, black. Ulcerated bleeding rectum; painful piles,(>)lying on back, bending forward, pressure. Haemorrhage, dark, clotted, profuse, patient cold; in typhoid. Diarrhea; infantile; in typhoid; stools yellow, slimy, bloody, ichorous; colliquative.Putrid dysentery.

Urinary : Chronic painless yellow, lumpy catarrh; gonorrheal. Lumps of blood in urine. Oily pellicle. Sluggish bladder; residual urine; slow to start; falls down perpendicularly (Hep.).

Female : Uterus heavy, pressing on column; ulcers; induration, even scirrhus, after metallic pessaries. Metrorrhagia, from atony. Leucorrhea yellow or white thick, but menses watery. Ovarian affections, with constipation.

Vagina : aphthous; dry; narrowed by swellings; sensitive (vaginismus), coition painful.

Respiratory : Voice entirely lost from constant cold taking and low economy; sudden. Asthma, with piles. Chronic bronchial catarrhs, of children or elderly; cough, worse coughing; loose in morning (dry in evening), (>) after breakfast; with scraping in throat. Expectoration : mornings; ropy; difficult; copious or scanty; bloody. Hemoptysis and weakness of chest.

Heart : Pain ext. to r. leg. Slow pulse. Palpitations; visible; (<) lying on r. side (opp. Tabacum).

Back : Weak spine. Coldness as if cold water flowed down back.

Locomotor : Constrictions. Bruised pains. Legs cold, numb, formication, tingling. Chilblains.

Skin : Rough and chapped; in cold weather. Itching; in eyelids, anus, scrotum, urethral orifice, vagina, shoulders. Eczema; on scrotum and back of penis. Indolent ulcers; sarcomatous (fleshy). Fungous granulation.

Relations : Antidotes: Aloe., Cham., lp., Nux-v., Plb., Sul.

Antidote to : Aloe., Lead poisoning, Calomel and other mercurials.

Similar: Alo.,Alumina, Bar-c., Elap., Fer., Fer-i., Hydr., Kali- bi., Merc(-c.)., Nux-v., Op., Plat., Plb., Rat., Sel., Sul., Ter., Zin.

Compare : Ant-t., Carb-an., Con.