Alumina
(Alumina · Aluminum oxide)
The remedy of dryness and slowness. In the materia medica, Alumina is associated with dry skin and membranes, sluggish bowels that need great effort even with soft stools, and a sense that time drags.
Source
Aluminum oxide, the earth of clay
Kingdom
Mineral
Abbreviation
Alum.
Home acute kit
Usually prescribed by a homeopath
The classic picture
(a remedy is chosen when the whole picture fits the person, not from a single symptom)
A very sluggish bowel; no urge, and even a soft stool takes great straining
Dry, itchy skin, worst on getting warm in bed; scratches until it bleeds
Hurried inside, yet time passes slowly; may feel confused about their own identity
Odd cravings for dry or inedible things like chalk; potatoes disagree
Tends to feel better
Open air
Cold washing
Evening
Damp, mild weather
Tends to feel worse
Morning on waking
Warm rooms
Eating potatoes
Winter
How it compares
(remedies that are often confused with Alumina)
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Bryonia
(Bryonia alba)
Classically complementary; Bryonia’s dryness brings large, hard stools and great thirst, with everything worse for movement.
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Silica
(Silicea terra)
Silica’s stool slips back when partly expelled; Alumina’s bowel simply lacks the power to push.
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Plumbum metallicum
(Plumbum metallicum)
Plumbum shares the sluggish bowel and colic, with a stronger sense of the abdomen drawn in toward the spine.
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From the classic texts
“A very general condition corresponding to this drug is dryness of mucous membranes and skin, and tendency to paretic muscular states.”
“Adapted to persons who suffer from chronic diseases; "the Aconite of chronic diseases." Constitutions deficient in animal heat (Cal., Sil.).”
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