Alumina


Alumina homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

Chemically prepared pure Aluminium oxide (Al2O3).

Preparation: Triturate with sacch. lactis.

Mind.

He feels light-spirited; the intellectual and physical powers appear to be excited (first day).

(He feels excessively contented).

He takes everything in the worse sense, and weeps and howls for hours (second day).

The boy weeps constantly against his will, for half an hour.

Depressed as with grief, early in the morning on waking; consciousness is not clear.

Depressed and friendless; he wishes only to be left alone, in the forenoon (the eighth day).

The person imagines only disagreeable, sad images (first day).

Involuntary sighing and groaning, as in great pain; he is not conscious of it.

He believes he will not be able to recover his health.

He feels low-spirited on account of his disease.

She is constantly possessed by bad thoughts, which oblige her to weep; at the same time she feels apprehensive and uneasy, as if something evil were to happen to her; everything that she only looks at, fills her with sadness (eleventh day).

Upon seeing blood, or knives, horrible thoughts throng her mind; she feels, for instance, as though she would commit suicide, although she has the greatest aversion to it.

Intolerable ennui, an hour seems to him half a day.

Serious, anxious mood.

Anxious, reflective, peevish mood.

Oppressive anxiety, attended with emptiness and confusion of the head, and pressure in the forehead (after twelve hours).

Anxiety, with external heat and uneasiness as if she had done something bad.

Anxiety, early in the morning, as though he were threatened with an epileptic fit.

Anxiety and fearfulness, as if he had committed a crime (fifth day).

Anguish, with much uneasiness, the whole day (second day).

Anxiety, with palpitation of the heart, and pulsations in some parts of the breast and abdomen (fourth day).

Uneasiness, in the evening, as though some evil were impending.

Extremely frightened, and starts upon hearing the least thing fall.

He is apprehensive of showing his thoughts, and his understanding.

Dissatisfied with everything, feels despairing.

Ill-humored and peevish; she is grumbling continually.

Not disposed for anything; nothing gives him pleasure.

Peevish, ill-humored; she is conscious of it, at one o’clock in the afternoon (first day).

Peevish and whining; the lobules of the ears are hot (after two days).

Extremely peevish and obstinate.

Is opposed to the wished of other people.

She is excessively peevish, and everything is offensive to her; she desires nothing but to quarrel and make a fuss, in the afternoon (fifth day).

The person is greatly excited, over fatigued, and nevertheless discontented as if not enough had been done.

He sneers at everybody contemptuously.

Indifference, absence of mind, and peevishness.

His mood changes greatly.

Frequently changing mood during the day, sometimes assurance, sometimes timidity.

Increased animation alternating with absence of mind, during which one’s thoughts, sight, and hearing, are indistinct, and have almost disappeared.

He constantly speaks wrong, choosing different expressions from those which he intended.

Want of attention in reading; the mind does not remain fixed on one object (first day).

Incapacity for connected thought.

Dulness of mind.

Inability and want of disposition for mental labor.

Great absence of mind and irresolution (second day).

Reluctance to any kind of employment (first day).

Want of disposition for any kind of labor, with ennui, in the forenoon.

The mind is occupied with a variety of objects, but not one of them, leaves a distinct recollection in the mind (fourth day).

Absence of all power of recollection, and great weakness of memory.

Continual great weakness of memory.

Want of memory for many weeks.

Great forgetfulness.

Striking forgetfulness.

Great stupor, with dread of falling forward.

Head.

Confusion of the head, with heat in the face.

Confusion of the head, with dread of losing his consciousness.

Early in the morning, the head feels confused and dull; this passed off after rising (third day).

The head feels extremely confused, as if his consciousness were outside of his body; when he says anything, it seems to him as though somebody else had said it; or when he sees anything. it seems as though somebody else had seen it, or as if he saw it through somebody else’s eyes.

Early in the morning his head feels cloudy and hot.

Her head feels befogged and intoxicated; it seems to her as though she would turn about, for nine days, this alternated with pain in the kidneys, and the cloudiness of the head decreased in proportion as the pain increased, and vice versa (after thirty days).

Great heaviness of the head, with paleness of face, and lassitude.

Heaviness of the head, attended with confusion of the forehead, and sensitiveness of the vertex to the touch, at four o’clock in the afternoon (second day).

Heaviness of the head when sitting erect, he feels as if he would fall forward, this increases on stooping, at 1 P.M. (fifth day).

Early in the morning the head feels heavy and hot.

Occasional weakness of the head.

Vertigo in the morning.

Quickly passing vertigo in the morning.

Vertigo increased on stooping.

Vertigo, everything turns with him in a circle, attended with nausea.

Everything before his eyes turns with him.

Vertigo even to falling; the whole room seems to turn with her; she is obliged to sit down at once, at four o’clock in the afternoon (third day).

Severe vertigo in walking or sitting, as though he would fall over; often for several days, and with stiffness in the nape of the neck, extending towards the head.

Vertigo, even to falling, during a walk; she had to lean against a wall (twenty-fourth day).

Vertigo, early in the morning, as through she would turn around, with a fainting nausea; after having breakfasted on wheat bread, her nausea ceased, but a sour taste remained in the mouth (eleventh day).

Giddiness for some days almost without interruption; it is like slight intoxication produced by beer (thirty-first day).

Giddiness the whole day, even to falling; in order to moderate this vertigo, she obliged to wipe her eyes (eleventh day).

The head always feels giddy as soon as she opens her eyes (sixteenth day).

On stooping, surging in the head, synchronous with the pulse; on becoming erect, it is somewhat diminished (after dinner).

Over the head, externally, a sensation as though the skin would go to sleep (three days).

Violent headache, peculiar, as though the brain were dashed to pieces.

Headache, increasing by walking in the open air.

Headache, when in bed at night.

Pain in the head and nape of the neck; it increases on going to bed, and only leaves off in the morning, on rising.

Headache, which obliges one to lie down; with dry heat and cough during sleep, the whole afternoon.

Heat rises into his head, from the stomach, in the forenoon.

External pinching and griping on the head, with a sensation as of freezing towards the occiput, worse on stooping, in the evening.

After dinner, heat in the head; on stooping, a sensation in the brain as if it would fall forwards; this passes off on raising the head (first day).

Pain as if the head were being screwed together, with stitches in the forehead, and such a violent heaviness in the vertex, that the head threatens to fall down on stooping; when standing, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon (two days).

Dull, pressive headache, increased on walking (first day).

Screwing pressure in the head.

Tearing in the whole head, in the forenoon (first day).

Headache, tearing, with a sense as of pressing from both sides, in the evening (after two and a half hours), with chills, many evenings, in succession.

Thrusts, as with a knife, now and then shooting through the head.

Stitches in some parts of the head.

Headache, violent stitches in the brain, with inclination to vomit.

Stitches in the head from within outwards, in the afternoon (eighth day).

Stitches head from within outwards, in the afternoon (eighth day).

Stitches shooting through the head at every step.

A stitch in the head, going round the brain.

Sharp stitches in the right side of the head, when stooping during labor (twenty-eighth day).

Stitches in the fore and back part of the head after eating, worse towards evening (after thirty-seven days).

Pulsative headache on ascending the stairs, after dinner (second day).

Rhythmical beating in the whole head, in the afternoon, when walking, and next morning in bed (after three days).

Headache, as if bruised, with redness of cheeks.

Headache, as if a worm were crawling under the skull; the pain is also cutting, and corrosive.

Intolerable itching of the head; he is obliged to scratch until the parts bleed; after scratching, the skin pains.

Itching, formication here and there over the head.

Sense of warmth in the forehead, which is not perceptible externally; with dulness of the mind, for half an hour.

Burning and pressive pain, with warmth in the forehead, after dinner, when standing or sitting; the pain is relieved in the open air, and does not return in the room.

Sense of constriction around the forehead, attended with aching (after a quarter of an hour).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.