From Allen's Keynotes:

 Southernwood. (Compositae.)

Alternate constipation and diarrhoea; lineteria. Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially of legs (Iod., Sanic., Tub.); the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds (of neck, Nat. m., Sanic.). In marasmus head weak, cannot hold it up. (Aeth.). Marasmus of lower extremities only. Ravenous hunger; loosing flesh while eating well (Iod., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.). Painful contractions of the limbs from cramps or following colic. Rheumatism; for the excessive pain before the swelling commences; from suddenly-checked diarrhoea or other secretions; alternates with haemorrhoids, with dysentery. Gout; joints stiff, swollen, with pricking sensation; wrists and ankle-joints painful and inflamed. Very lame and sore all over. Itching chilblains (Agar.). Great weakness and prostration and a kind of hectic fever with children; unable to stand. Child is ill-natured, irritable, cross and despondent; violent, inhuman, would like to do something cruel. Face old, pale, wrinkled (Op.).

Relationship: After Hepar in furuncle; after Acon. and Bry. in pleurisy, when pressing sensation remains in affected side impeding respiration.

 From Boericke's material medica:

(Black Spruce) A powerful and long-acting remedy, in various forms of disease, whenever the characteristic stomach symptoms are present. Most of the symptoms are associated with the gastric disturbances. IN DYSPEPTIC TROUBLES OF THE AGED, with functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco. CONSTIPATION. Pain in external meatus.

Head
Hot, with flushed cheeks. Low-spirited. Dull during the day, wakeful at night. Unable to think.

Stomach
PAIN IN STOMACH ALWAYS COMES ON AFTER EATING. Sensation of a lump that hurts, AS IF A HARD-BOILED EGG HAD LODGED IN THE CARDIAC END OF STOMACH; continual distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up. Total loss of appetite in morning, but great craving for food at noon and night. Offensive breath. Eructations.

Chest
Painful sensation, as if something were lodged in the chest and had to be coughed up; lungs feel compressed. Cannot be fully expanded. Worse coughing; waterbrash succeeds cough. Choking sensation in throat. Dyspnoea; worse lying down; Sharp, cutting pain in heart; HEART'S ACTION HEAVY AND SLOW; TACHYCARDIA, bradycardia.

Back
Pain in small of back. Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.

Sleep
Wakeful and restless at night, with hunger. Bad dreams.

Fever
Alternate heat and cold; chronic intermittent fever, with pain in stomach.

Modalities
WORSE after eating.

Relationship
Compare: (Lump in stomach-CHINA BRYON. PULSAT.) also other Conifers-THUJA, SABINA, CUPRESSUS (painful indigestion) also NUX VOM. KALI CARB.

Dose
First to thirtieth potency.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Common Wormwood) A perfect picture of epileptiform seizure is produced-by this drug. Nervous tremors precede attack. Sudden and severe giddiness, delirium with hallucinations and loss of consciousness. Nervous excitement and sleeplessness. Cerebral irritation, hysterical and infantile spasms come within range of this remedy. Poisoning by mushrooms. Chorea. TREMOR. Nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children.

Mind
Hallucinations. Frightful visions. Kleptomania. Loss of memory. Forgets what has recently happened. Wants nothing to do with anybody. Brutal.

Head
VERTIGO, WITH TENDENCY TO FALL BACKWARD. General confusion. Wants head low. Pupils dilated unequally. Face blue. SPASMODIC FACIAL TWITCHING. Dull occipital headache. (GELSEM. PICRIC AC. )

Mouth
Jaws fixed. Bites tongue; trembles; feels as if swollen and too large; protruding. Throat. Scalded sensation; as of a lump.

Stomach
Nausea; retching; eructation. Bloated around waist and ABDOMEN. Wind colic. Urine. Constant desire. Very strong odor; deep yellow color. ( KALI PHOS. )

Sexual
Darting pain in right ovary. Spermatorrhoea, with relaxed, enfeebled parts. Premature menopause.

Chest
Sensation of weight on chest. Irregular, tumultuous action of heart can be heard in back.

Extremities
Pain in limbs. Paralytic symptoms.

Relationship
Compare: ALCOHOL; ARTEMISIA; HYDROCY. ACID; CINA; CICUTA.

From Boericke's materia medica:

(Indian Nettle) A drug having a marked action on the alimentary canal and respiratory organs. It is indicated in incipient phthisis, with bard, racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial haemorrhage, but no febrile disturbance. Very weak in the morning, gains strength during day. Progressive emaciation. All pathological haemorrhages having notably A MORNING AGGRAVATION.

Chest
COUGH DRY, HARD, FOLLOWED BY HOEMOPTYSIS; worse in morning and at night. Constant and severe pain in chest. Blood bright red and not profuse in morning; dark and clotted in afternoon. Pulse soft and compressible. Burning in pharynx, oesophagus, and stomach.

Abdomen
Burning in intestines. SPLUTTERING DIARRHOEA WITH FORCIBLE EXPULSION OF NOISY FLATUS, bearing down pains and tenesmus. Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen. Rectal hemorrhage; worse in morning.

Skin
Jaundice. Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings.

Modalities
WORSE in morning.

Relationship
Compare: MILLEFOL.; PHOSPHOR.; ACETIC ACID; KALI NIT.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Antifebrinum) Depresses heart, respiration and blood pressure, lowers temperature. Cyanosis and collapse. Increased susceptibility to cold. Destroys red blood corpuscles; pallor.

Head
Enlarged sensation. Fainting. Moral depravity.

Eyes
Pallor of optic discs, contracted visual field and shrinking retinal vessel; mydriasis.

Heart
Weak, irregular, with blue mucous membranes, albuminuria, oedema of feet and ankles.

Relationship
Compare: ANTIPYRIN.

From Allen's Keynotes:

Glacial Acetic Acid. (CH3COOH.)

Adapted to pale lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy (Fer.). Haemorrhage; from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Fer., Mill.); metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis (Arn.). Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic., Tub.). Great prostration; after injuries (Sulph. ac.); after surgical shock; after anaesthetics. Thirst; intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in dropsy, diabetes, chronic diarrhoea; but no thirst in fever. Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night (Lac. ac., salivation < at night, Mer. s.). Diarrhoea; copious, exhausting, great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis; with night sweats. True croup, hissing respiration, cough with inhalation (Spong.); last stages. Inhalation of vapor of cider vinegar has been successfully used in croup and malignant diphtheria. Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on back, Ars.); sensation of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnoea; rests better lying on belly (Am. c.). Hectic fever, skin dry and hot; red spot on left cheek and drenching night sweats.

Relationship. It antidotes anaesthetic vapors (Amyl.); fumes of charcoal and gas; Opium and Stramonium. Cider vinegar antidotes Carbolic acid. Follows well; after Cinchona, in haemorrhage; after Digitalis, in dropsy. It aggravates; the symptoms of Arn., Bell., Lach., Mer., especially the headache from Belladonna.

Millefolium is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• hemorrhoids
• nosebleeds
• hemorrhages
• hemorrhages after birth
• varicose veins
• varicose veins during pregnancy
• bruises

From Boericke:

(Yarrow) An invaluable remedy for various types of haemorrhages; blood bright red. Incarcerated hernia; small-pox, with great pain in pit of stomach. After operations for stone. Bad effects from fall from a height; overlifting. CONTINUED HIGH TEMPERATURE. Haemoptysis.

Head
Vertigo when moving slowly. Sensation as if he had forgotten something. The head seems full of blood. Convulsions and epilepsy from suppressed menses. PIERCING THRUSTS of pain.

Nose
NOSEBLEED. (ERECHT.) Piercing pain from eyes to root of nose.

Stool
Haemorrhage from bowels. Bleeding haemorrhoids. URINE BLOODY. (SENEC. AUR.)

Female
Menses early, profuse, protracted. Haemorrhage from uterus; bright red, fluid. PAINFUL VARICES DURING PREGNANCY.

Respiratory
Haemoptysis in incipient phthisis. Cough, with bloody expectoration, in suppressed menses or haemorrhoids. Violent palpitation.

Relationship
Compare: FICUS VENOSA (PAKUR). Haemorrhage from bowels and lungs. ACALYPHAand HELIX TOSTA- Snail-(in haemoptysis, diseases of chest, consumption); also, SECALE; IPEC; ERECHT.; GERAN.; HAMAM.

Dose
Tincture, to third potency.

 From Boericke's materia medica

Mucous membranes are affected by Abies Can. and gastric symptoms are most marked, and a catarrhal condition of the stomach is produced. There are peculiar cravings and chilly sensations that are very characteristic, especially for women with uterine displacement, probably due to defective nutrition with debility. Respiration and heart action labored. Wants to lie down all the time; skin cold and clammy, hands cold; very faint. Right lung and liver feel small and hard. Gleet.

Head
Feels light-headed, tipsy. Irritable.

Stomach
Canine hunger with torpid liver. GNAWING, HUNGRY, FAINT FEELING at the epigastrium. Great appetite, craving for meat, pickles, radishes, turnips, artichokes, coarse food. TENDENCY TO EAT FAR BEYOND CAPACITY FOR DIGESTION. Burning and DISTENTION OF STOMACH AND ABDOMEN WITH PALPITATION. Flatulence disturbs the heart's action. Pain in right shoulder-blade, and constipation, with burning in rectum.

Female
Uterine displacements. Sore feeling at fundus of uterus, relieved by pressure. Prostration; wants to lie down all the time. Thinks womb is soft and feeble.

Fever
Cold shiverings, as if blood were ice-water. (Acon.) Chills run down back. Cold-water feeling between shoulders. (AMMON. MUR.) Skin clammy and sticky. Night-sweat. (CHINA.)

Dose
First to third potency.

From Boericke's materia medica:

(Fool's Parsley) The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, When, with the diarrhoea, there is MARKED INABILITY TO DIGEST MILK, and poor circulation. Symptoms set in with VIOLENCE.

Mind
Restless, anxious, CRYING. Sees rats, cats, dogs, etc Unconscious, delirious. INABILITY TO THINK, TO FIX THE ATTENTION. Brain fag. Idiocy may alternate with furor and irritability.

Head
Feels bound up, or in a vise. OCCIPITAL PAIN extending down spine; better lying down and by pressure. Head symptoms relieved by expelling flatus (SANGUIN.) and by stool. HAIR FEELS PULLED. VERTIGO WITH DROWSINESS, WITH PALPITATION; HEAD HOT AFTER VERTIGO CEASES.

Eyes
Photophobia; SWELLING OF MEIBOMIAN GLANDS. Rolling of eyes on falling asleep. EYES DRAWN DOWNWARD; pupils dilated. Ears. FEEL OBSTRUCTED. Sense of something hot from ears. Hissing sound.

Nose
Stopped up with much thick mucus. HERPETIC ERUPTION on tip of nose. Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.

Face
PUFFED, red-spotted, collapsed. Expression anxious, full of pain; LINEA NASALISmarked.

Mouth
Dry. Aphthae. Tongue seems too long. Burning and pustules in throat, with difficult swallowing.

Stomach
INTOLERANCE OF MILK; vomiting as soon as swallowed or in large curds. Hungry after vomiting. REGURGITATION OF FOOD ABOUT AN HOUR AFTER EATING. Violent vomiting of a white frothy matter. Nausea at sight of food. Painful contraction of stomach. Vomiting, WITH SWEAT AND GREAT WEAKNESS, accompanied by anguish and distress, followed by sleepiness. Stomach feels turned upside down, with burning feeling up to the chest. Tearing pains in the stomach extending to oesophagus.

Abdomen
Cold, internal and external, with aching pain in bowels. Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness, Tense, inflated, and sensitive. Bubbling sensation around navel.

Stool
UNDIGESTED, THIN, GREENISH, preceded by colic, with tenesmus, and followed by exhaustion and drowsiness. Cholera infantum; child cold, clammy, stupid, with staring eyes and dilated pupils. Obstinate constipation; feels as if all bowel action is lost. Choleraic affections in old age.

Urinary
Cutting pain in bladder, with frequent urging. Pain in kidneys.

Female
Lancinating pains in sexual organs. Pimples; itching when warm. Menses watery. Swelling of mammary glands, with lancinating pains.

Respiratory
Difficult, oppressed, anxious respiration; crampy constriction. Sufferings render patient speechless.

Heart
Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness. Pulse rapid, hard and small. Back and Extremities. Want of power to stand up or hold head up. Back feels as if in a vise. Aching in small of back. Weakness of lower extremities. Fingers and thumbs clenched. Numbness of hands and feet. Violent spasms. Squinting of eyes downward.

Skin
Excoriation of thighs in walking. Easy perspiration. SURFACE OF BODY COLD AND COVERED WITH CLAMMY SWEAT. LYMPHATIC GLANDS SWOLLEN. Itching ERUPTION AROUND JOINTS. Skin of hands dry and shrunken. Ecchymosis. Anasarca.

Fever
GREAT HEAT; NO THIRST. Profuse, cold sweat. MUST BE COVERED DURING SWEAT.

Sleep
Disturbed by VIOLENT STARLINGS; cold perspiration. Dozing after vomiting or stool. CHILD IS SO EXHAUSTED, IT FALLS ASLEEP AT ONCE.

Modalities
WORSE, 3 to 4 a. m., and evenings; warmth, summer. BETTER in open air and company. Compare: ATHAMANTHA (confused head, vertigo better lying down, BITTERtaste and saliva. Hands and feet icy cold); ANTIMON.; CALC.; ARS.; CICULA. Complementary: CALC.

From Allen's Keynotes:

Monkshood (Ranunculacea.)

It is generally indicated in acute or recent cases occurring in young persons, especially girls, of a full, plethoric habit who lead a sedentary life; persons easily affected by atmospheric changes; dark hair and eyes, rigid muscular fibre. Complaints caused by exposure to dry cold air, dry north or west winds, or exposure to draughts of cold air while in a perspiration; bad effects of checked perspiration. Great fear and anxiety of mind, with great nervous excitability; afraid to go out, to go into a crowd where there is any excitement or many people; to cross the street. The countenance is expressive of fear; the life is rendered miserable by fear; is sure his disease will prove fatal; predicts the day he will die; fear of death during pregnancy. Restless, anxious, does everything in great haste; must change position often; everything startles him. Pains; are intolerable, they drive him crazy; he becomes very restless; at night. Hahnemann says: "Whenever Aconite is chosen homeopathically, you must, above all, observe the moral symptoms, and be careful that it closely resembles them; the anguish of mind and body; the restlessness; the disquiet not to be allayed.". This mental anxiety, worry, fear accompanies the most trivial ailment. Music is unbearable, makes her sad (Sab., during menses, Nat. c.). On rising from a recumbent position the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes faint or giddy and falls, and fears to rise again; often accompanied by vanishing of sight and unconsciousness. Amenorrhoea in plethoric young girls; after fright, to prevent suppression of menses. For the congestive stage of inflammation before localization takes place. Fever; skin dry and hot; face red, or pale and red alternately; burning thirst for large quantities of cold water; intense nervous restlessness, tossing about in agony; becomes intolerable towards evening and on going to sleep. Convulsions; of teething children; heat, jerks and twitches of single muscles; child gnaws its fist, frets and screams; skink hot and dry; high fever. Cough, croup; dry, hoarse, suffocating, loud, rough, croaking; hard, ringing, whistling; on expiration (Caust. - on inhalation, Spong.); from dry, cold winds or drafts of air. Aconite should never be given simply to control the fever, never alternated with other drugs for that purpose. If it be a case requiring Aconite no other drug is needed; Aconite will cure the case. Unless indicated by the exciting cause, is nearly always injurious in first stages of typhoid fever.

Aggravation. Evening and night, pains are insupportable; in a warm room; when rising from bed; lying on affected side (Hep., Nux m.).

Amelioration. In the open air (Alum., Mag. c., Puls., Sab.).

Relationship. Complementary: to Coffea in fever, sleeplessness, intolerance of pain; to Arnica in traumatism; to Sulphur in all cases. Rarely indicated in fevers which bring out eruptions. Aconite is the acute of Sulphur, and both precedes and follows it in acute inflammatory conditions.

Aconite is a natural, homeopathic remedy indicated for:

• Panic attacks
• Anxiety
• Phobias (fears of crows, open spaces, narrow spaces, darkness, elevators)
• Palpitations
• Paralysis
• Fevers
• Cold and flu
• Restlessness

•  

 From HC Allen:

 From Boericke's materia medica

(Horse Chestnut) The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged haemorrhoidal veins, with characteristic backache, with absence of actual constipation. Much pain but little bleeding. Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple color; everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels, etc. Torpor and congestion of the liver and portal system, with constipation. The back aches and gives out and unfits the patient for business. Flying pains all over. FULLNESS IN VARIOUS PARTS; dry, swollen mucous membranes. Throat with haemorrhoidal conditions.

Head
Depressed and IRRITABLE. Head dull, confused, aching as from a cold. Pressure in forehead, with nausea, followed by stitches in right hypochondrium. Pain from occiput to frontal region, with bruised sensation of the scalp; worse in the morning- Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead, followed by flying pains in epigastrium. Vertigo when sitting and walking.

Eyes
Heavy and hot, with lachrymation, WITH ENLARGED BLOOD VESSELS. Eyeballs sore.

Nose
Dry; inspired air feels cold, NASAL PASSAGES SENSITIVE TO IT. CORYZA, sneezing. Pressure at root of nose. Membrane over turbinate bones distended and boggy, dependent upon hepatic disorders.

Mouth
Scalded feeling. Metallic taste. Salivation. Tongue thickly coated, feels as if scalded. Throat. Hot, DRY, raw, stitching pain into ears when swallowing. Follicular pharyngitis connected with hepatic congestion. VEINS IN PHARYNX DISTENDED and tortuous. Throat sensitive to inspired air; feels excoriated and constricted, burns like fire on swallowing, in afternoon. Early stages of atrophic pharyngitis in dried-up, bilious subjects. Hawking of ropy mucus of sweetish taste.

Stomach
Weight of a stone, with gnawing, aching pain; most manifest about three hours after meals. Tenderness and fullness in region of liver.

Abdomen
Dull aching in liver and epigastrium. Pain at umbilicus. Jaundice; throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis.

Rectum
Dry, aching. FEELS FULL OF SMALL STICKS. Anus raw, sore. Much pain after stool, with prolapse. HAEMORRHOIDS, with sharp shooting pains up the back; blind and bleeding; worse during climacteric. Large, hard, dry stools. Mucous membrane seems swollen and obstructs the passage. Irritation caused by ascarides and aids their expulsion. BURNING IN ANUS WITH CHILLS UP AND DOWN BACK.

Urinary
Frequent, scant, dark, muddy, hot urine. Pain in kidneys, especially left and ureter.

Male
Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool.

Female
CONSTANT THROBBING BEHIND SYMPHYSIS PUBIS. Leucorrhea, with LAMENESS OF BACK ACROSS THE SACRO-ILIAC ARTICULATION; dark yellow, sticky corroding; worse after menses.

Chest
Feels constricted. Heart's action full and heavy, can feel pulsations all over. Laryngitis; coughs DEPENDING ON HEPATIC DISORDERS; hot feeling in chest; pain around heart in haemorrhoidal subjects.

Extremities
Aching and soreness in limbs, in left acromion process with shooting down arms; finger tips numb.

Back
Lameness in neck; aching between shoulder blades; region of SPINE FEELS WEAK; back and legs give out. BACKACHE AFFECTING SACRUM AND HIPS; WORSE WALKING OR STOOPING. When walking feet turn under. Soles feel sore, tired, and swell. Hands and feet swell, and become red after washing, feel full.

Fever
Chill at 4 p.m. Chilliness up and down back. Fever 7 to 12 p.m. Evening fever, skin hot and dry. Sweat profuse and hot with the fever.

Modalities
WORSE, in morning on awaking, and from any motion, WALKING; from moving bowels; after eating, afternoon, standing. BETTER, cool open air.

Relationship
ASSCULUS GLABRA - Ohio-Buckeye Proctitis. Very painful, dark purple, external haemorrhoids, with constipation and vertigo and portal congestion. Speech thick, tickling in throat, impaired vision, paresis. PHYTOLACCA (throat dry, more often in acute cases.) NEGUNDIUM AMERICANUM-Box-elder-(Engorgements of rectum and piles with great pain, ten-drop doses of tincture every two hours.) Compare also: ALOE, COLLINSON. NUX. SULPHUR.

Aesculus is natural treatment for:

• • Hemorrhoids
  • Circulation 
  • Hemorrhoids during pregnancy
  • Painful hemorrhoids
  • Varicose veins
  • Varicose veins during pregnancy

   

 From Boericke's materia medica:

AMANITA (Toad Stool-Bug Agaric) This fungus contains several toxic compounds, the best known of which is MUSCARIN. The symptoms of poisoning do not develop at once, usuallly twelve to fourteen hours elapse before the Initial attack. There is no antidote, treatment, entirely symptomatic (Schneider). Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes. Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications. Incipient phthisis; is related to the tubercular diathesis, anaemia, CHOREA, twitching ceases during sleep. Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured in the symptomatology of this remedy. It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion. Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc. General paralysis. SENSATION AS IF PIERCED BY NEEDLES OF ICE. Sensitive to pressure and cold air. VIOLENT BEARING-DOWN PAINS. Symptoms appear diagonally as RIGHT ARM AND LEFT LEG. Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.

Mind
Sings, talks, but does not answer. LOQUACITY. Aversion to work. Indifference. FEARLESSNESS. DELIRIUM characterized by singing, shouting, and muttering; rhymes and prophesies. Begins with paroxysm of yawning. The provings bring out four phases of cerebral excitement. 1. SLIGHT STIMULATION-shown by increased cheerfulness, courage, loquacity, exalted fancy. 2. MORE DECIDED INTOXICATION-great mental excitement and incoherent talking, immoderate gaity alternates with melancholy. Perception of relative size of objects is lost, takes long steps and jumps over small objects as if they were trunks of trees-a small hole appears as a frightful chasm, a spoonful of water an immense lake. Physical strength is increased, can lift heavy loads. With it much twitching. 3. THIRD STAGE produces a condition of furious or raging delirium, screaming, raving, wants to injure himself, etc. 4. FOURTH STAGE-mental depression, languor, indifference, confusion, disinclination to work, etc. We do not get the active cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of fevers, etc.

Head
VERTIGO FROM SUNLIGHT, and on walking. Head in constant motion. Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput. Lateral headache, as if from a nail. (COFF.; IGNAT.) Dull headache from prolonged desk-work. Icy coldness, LIKE ICY NEEDLES, or splinters. Neuralgia with icy cold head. Desire to cover head warmly. (SILICA.) Headache with NOSE-BLEED or thick mucous discharge.

Eyes
READING DIFFICULT, AS TYPE SEEMS TO MOVE, TO SWIM. Vibrating specters. DOUBLE VISION (GELS.), dim and flickering. Asthenopia from prolonged strain, SPASM of accommodation. TWITCHING OF LIDS AND EYEBALLS. (CODEIN.) Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate. Inner angles very red.

Ears
Burn and itch, as if frozen. Twitching of muscles about the ear and NOISES.

Nose
NERVOUS nasal disturbances. ITCHING internally and externally. Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery non-inflammatory discharge. Inner angles very red. Fetid, dark, bloody discharge. NOSEBLEED IN OLD PEOPLE. Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth.

Face
FACIAL muscles feel stiff; TWITCH; face itches and burns. Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters. Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them.

Mouth
Burning and smarting on lips. Herpes on lips. Twitching. Taste sweet. Aphthae on roof of mouth. Splinter like pains in tongue. Thirsty all the time. Tremulous tongue. (LACH.) Tongue white. Throat. Stitches along eustachian tube to ear. Feels contracted. Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up. Dryness of pharynx, swallowing difficult. Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note.

Stomach
Empty eructations, tasting of apples. Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough. Unnatural hunger. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Profuse inodorous flatus. Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure. GASTRIC DISTURBANCE WITH SHARP PAINS IN LIVER REGION.

Abdomen
Stitching pains in liver, SPLEEN (CEANOTHUS) and abdomen. Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhoea with much fetid flatus. Fetid stools.

Urinary
Stitches in urethra. Sudden and violent urging to urinate. Frequent urination.

Female
Menses, increased, earlier. Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and back. Spasmodic dysmenorrhoea. Severe BEARING-DOWN PAINS, ESPECIALLY AFTER MENOPAUSE. Sexual excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition and coitus. Leucorrhoea, with much itching.

Respiratory
Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while cough lasts. Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep, WITH EXPECTORATION OF LITTLE BALLS OF MUCUS. Labored, oppressed breathing. COUGH ENDS IN A SNEEZE.

Heart
IRREGULAR, TUMULTUOUS PALPITATION, after tobacco, Pulse intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed. Palpitation with redness of face.

Back
Pain, WITH SENSITIVENESS OF SPINE TO TOUCH; worse in dorsal region. Lumbago; worse in open air. Crick in back. TWITCHING OF CERVICAL MUSCLES.

Extremities
Stiff all over. Pain over hips. Rheumatism better motion. Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait. Trembling. ITCHING OF TOES AND FEET AS IF FROZEN. Cramp in soles of feet. Pain in shin-bone. Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms. Numbness of legs on crossing them. Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation. Tearing painful contractions in the calves.

Skin
BURNING, ITCHING, REDNESS, AND SWELLING, AS FROM FROSTBITES. Pimples, hard, like flea-bites. Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning. Chilblains. Angioneurotic oedema; rosacea. Swollen veins with cold skin. Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and ïedematous lesions.

Sleep
PAROXYSMS OF YAWNING. Restless from violent itching and burning. On falling asleep, STARTS, TWITCHES, AND AWAKES OFTEN. Vivid dreams. Drowsy in daytime. Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter.

Fever
Very sensitive to cool air. Violent attacks of heat in evening. Copious sweat. Burning spots.

Modalities
Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus. In cold weather, before a thunder-storm. Worse, pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter. BETTER, moving about slowly.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(The Chaste Tree) The most effective point of attack of Agnus upon the organism is the sexual organism. It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy. It shows this distinctive influence in both sexes, but is more pronounced in men. Premature old age from abuse of sexual power. History of repeated gonorrhoeas. A prominent remedy for sprains and strains. GNAWING ITCHING IN ALL PARTS, ESPECIALLY EYES. Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men. 

Mind
Sexual melancholy. Fear of death. SADNESS WITH IMPRESSION OF SPEEDY DEATH. Absentminded, forgetful, lack of courage. Illusion of smell-herrings, musk. Nervous depression and mental forebodings. 

Eyes
PUPILS DILATED. (BELL.) Itching about eyes; photophobia. 

Nose
Odor of herring or musk. Aching in dorsum better pressure. 

Abdomen
Spleen swollen, sore. Stools soft, recede, difficult. Deep fissures in anus. Nausea with sensation AS IF INTESTINES WERE PRESSED DOWNWARDS; wants to support bowels. 

Male
Yellow discharge from urethra. No erections. IMPOTENCE. PARTS COLD, RELAXED. DESIRE GONE. (SELEN.; CON.; SABAL.) Scanty emission without ejaculation. Loss of prostatic fluid on straining. Gleety discharge. Testicles, cold, swollen, hard, and painful. 

Female
Scanty menses. Abhorrence of sexual intercourse. Relaxation of genitals, with leucorrhoea. AGALACTIA; with sadness. Sterility. Leucorrhoea staining yellow; transparent. Hysterical palpitation with nose bleed. 

Relationship
Compare: SELENIUM; PHOSPH. AC.; CAMPHOR; LYCOP.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Bluebell) A relaxed condition of the system generally and a proneness to take cold on exposure to cold winds. Catarrhal conditions; obstruction of nostrils. ADENOIDS, THROAT DEAFNESS. ENLARGED TONSILS. Mucous diarrhoea from cold. Chill from cold winds. Throat and ear troubles WITH TENDENCY TO FREE DISCHARGE FROM MUCOUS MEMBRANES. Mutinism of childhood unconnected with deafness. 

Relationship
Compare: HYDRAST.; CEPA; CALC. PHOS.; SULPH.IOD.; CALC.IOD.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Carbonate of Ammonia) The diseased conditions met by this remedy are such as we find often in rather stout women who are always tired and weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms before menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally, and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle. Too frequent and profuse menses. Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are especially affected. Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated. Very sensitive to cold air. Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it. Malignant scarlatina, with somnolence, swollen glands, dark red sore throat, faintly developed eruption. Uraemia. HEAVINESS IU ALL ORGANS. Uncleanness in bodily habits. Swelling of parts, glands, etc. Acid secretions. Prostration from trifles. 

Mind
Forgetful, ill-humored, gloomy during STORMY WEATHER. UNCLEANLINESS. Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly. Sad, weepy, unreasonable. 

Head
Pulsating forehead; better, pressure and in warm room. Shocks through head. 

Eyes
Burning of eyes with aversion to light. Eye-strain. (NAT. MUR.) Asthenopia. Sore canthi. 

Ears
Hardness of hearing. Shocks through ears, eyes, and nose, when gnashing teeth. 

Nose
Discharge of sharp, burning water. STOPPAGE AT NIGHT, WITH LONG-CONTINUED CORYZA. CANNOI BREATHE THROUGH NOSE. SNUFFLES of children. EPISTAXIS AFTER TOASHING AND AFTER EATING. Ozaena, blows bloody mucus from nose. Tip of nose congested. 

Face
Tetters around mouth. Boils; and pustules, during menses. Corners of mouth sore, cracked, and burn. 

Mouth
Great dryness of mouth and throat. Toothache. PRESSING TEETH TOGETHER SENDS SHOCKS THROUGH HEAD, EYES, AND EARS. Vesicles on tongue. Taste sour; metallic. Cracking of jaw on chewing. Throat. Enlarged tonsils and glands of neck. Burning pain all down throat. Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils. Diphtheria WHEN NOSE IS STOPPED UP. 

Stomach
Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, waterbrash, and chilliness. Great appetite, but easily satisfied. Flatulent dyspepsia. 

Abdomen
Noise and pain in abdomen. Flatulent hernia. Stools difficult, hard, and knotty. BLEEDING PILES; WORSE DURING MENSES. Itching at anus. Protruding piles, worse after stool, better lying down. Urine. Frequent desire; involuntary at night. Tenesmus of bladder. Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid. 

Male
Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords. Erection without desire. Seminal emissions. 

Female
Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum. Leucorrhoea burning, acrid, watery. Aversion to the other sex. Menses too FREQUENT, PROFUSE, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with FATIGUE, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness. 

Respiratory
Hoarseness. Cough evory morning about three o'clock, with dyspnoea, palpitation, burning in chest; worse ascending. Chest feels tired. Emphysema. MUCH OPPRESSION IN BREATHING; worse after any effort, and entering WARM ROOM, or ascending even a few steps. Asthenic PNEUMONIA. Slow labored, stertorous breathing; bubbling sound. Winter catarrh, with slimy sputum and specks of blood. Pulmonary oedema. 

Heart
Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation, inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands. HEART WEAK, wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation. 

Extremities
Tearing in joints relieved by heat of bed; inclination to stretch limbs. Hands cold and blue; distended veins. Fingers swell when arm is hanging down. Panaritium, deep-seated periosteal pain. Cramps in calves and soles. Big toe painful and swollen. Felons in the beginning. Heel painful on standing. Tearing in ankle and bones of feet, better when warm in bed. 

Sleep
SLEEPINESS during the day. Starts from sleep strangling. 

Skin
Violent itching and burning blisters. Scarlet rash. Miliary rash. Malignant scarlatina. Faintly developed eruptions from defective vitality. Erysipelas in the aged, with brain symptoms. Eczema in the bends of extremities, between legs, about anus and genitals. 

Modalities
Worse, evenings, from cold, wet weather, wet applications, washing, and during 3 to 4 a. m., during menses. BETTER, lying on painful side and on stomach; in dry weather. 

Relationship
Inimical to LACHESIS. Similar in action. Antidotes: ARNICA; CAMPHOR. Compare: RHUS; MURIATIC ACID; TARTAR EMET. Of use in poisoning by charcoal fumes

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Bluebell) A relaxed condition of the system generally and a proneness to take cold on exposure to cold winds. Catarrhal conditions; obstruction of nostrils. ADENOIDS, THROAT DEAFNESS. ENLARGED TONSILS. Mucous diarrhoea from cold. Chill from cold winds. Throat and ear troubles WITH TENDENCY TO FREE DISCHARGE FROM MUCOUS MEMBRANES. Mutinism of childhood unconnected with deafness. 

Relationship
Compare: HYDRAST.; CEPA; CALC. PHOS.; SULPH.IOD.; CALC.IOD.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Red Onion) A picture of coryza, with ACRID NASAL discharge and laryngeal symptoms, eye secretion BLAND; singers' cold, WORSE IN WARM ROOM and toward evening; better in open air is presented by this remedy. Specially adapted to phlegmatic patients; colds in DAMP COLD WEATHER. Neuralgic pains, LIKE A FINE THREAD, following amputations or injuries to nerves. Traumatic chronic neuritis. Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder and skin. Sensation of glowing heat on different parts of the body. 

Head
Catarrhal headache, mostly in forehead; WORSE IN WARM ROOM towards evening. Thread-like pains in face. Headache ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears. 

Eyes
Red. Much BURNING and smarting lachrymation. SENSITIVE TO LIGHT. Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, BLAND lachrymation, better in open air. Burning in eyelids. 

Ears
Earache, shooting in eustachian tube. 

Nose
Sneezing, especially when entering a warm room. COPIOUS, WATERY AND EXTREMELY ACRID DISCHARGE. Feeling of a lump at root of nose. Hay-fever. (SABAD.; SIL.; PSOR.) Fluent coryza with headache, cough, and hoarseness. Polypus. 

Stomach
Canine hunger. Pain in pyloric region. Thirst. Belching. Nausea. 

Abdomen
Rumbling, offensive flatus. Pains in left hypo-gastrium. Colic sitting, moving about. 

Rectum
Diarrhoea with very offensive flatus. Stitches in rectum; itching and rhagades in anus. Glowing heat in rectum. 

Urinary
Sensation of weakness in bladder and urethra. Increased secretion of urine with coryza. Urine red with much pressure and burning in urethra. 

Respiratory
HOARSENESS. HACKING COUGH ON INSPIRING COLD AIR. TICKLING IN LARYNX. SENSATION AS IF LARYNX IS SPLIT OR TORN. OPPRESSED BREATHING from pressure in middle of chest. Constricted feeling in region of epiglottis. Pain extending to ear. 

Extremities
Lame joints. Ulcers on heel. Painful affections of fingers about nails. Neuralgia of stump. Bad effects from getting feet wet. Limbs, especially arms, feel sore and tired. 

Sleep
Yawning with headache and drowsiness. Gaping in deep sleep. Dreams. Wakes at 2 a. m. 

Modalities
WORSE, in the evening, in warm room. BETTER, in open air, and in cold room. 

Relationship
Compare: GELS.; EUPH.; KALI HYD.; ACONITE; IPECAC. Complementary: PHOSPHOR.; THUJA; PULS. Antidotes: ARN.; CHAM.; VERAT.

Allium cepa is a great homeopathic remedy for:

• Seasonal allergies
• Hay fever
• Allergies
• Watery eyes
• Watery nose
• Ragweed allergy
• Pollen allergy

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Socotrine Aloes) An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological equilibrium after much dosing, where disease and drug symptoms are much mixed. There is no remedy richer in symptoms of portal congestion and none that has given better clinical results, both for the primary pathological condition and secondary phenomena. Bad effects from sedentary life or habits. Especially suitable to lymphatic and hypochondriacal patients. The rectal symptoms usually determine the choice. Adapted to weary people, the aged, and phlegmatic, old beer-drinkers. Dissatisfied and angry about himself, alternating with lumbago. Heat internally and externally. Has been used successfully in the treatment of consumption by giving the pure juice. 

Head
Headache alternates with lumbago, with intestinal and uterine affections. Disinclination to mental labor. ACHES ABOVE FOREHEAD, WITH HEAVINESS IN EYES, MUST PARTIALLY CLOSE THEM. Headache after stool. Dull, pressive pain; worse from heat. 

Eyes
Compelled to make small during pain in forehead. Flickering before eyes. Redness of eyes with YELLOW vision. PAIN DEEP IN ORBITS. 

Face
Marked redness of lips. 

Ears
Cracking when chewing. Sudden explosion and clashing in left ear. Tinkling as of some thin, shivered, metallic globe in head. 

Nose
Coldness of tip. Bleeding in morning on awakening. Full of crusts. 

Mouth
Taste bitter and sour. Tasteless eructations. Lips cracked and dry. Throat. Thick lumps of tough mucus. Varicose condition of veins in pharynx. Dry, scrapy feeling. 

Stomach
Aversion to meat. Longing for juicy things. After eating, flatulence, PULSATION IN RECTUM, and sexual irritation. Nausea, with headache. Pain in pit when making false step. 

Abdomen
Pain around navel, worse pressure. Fullness in region of liver, pain under right ribs. ABDOMEN FEELS FULL, HEAVY, HOT, BLOATED. Pulsating pain around navel. Weak feelling, as if diarrhoea would come on. Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lowei bowels. SENSATION OF PLUG BETWEEN SYMPHYSIS PUBIS AND OS COCCYGIS, with urging to stool. Colic before and during stool. Burning, copious flatus. 

Rectum
Constant bearing down in rectum; bleeding, sore, and hot; relieved by cold water. Feeling of weakness and loss of power of sphincter ani. Sense OF INSECURITY IN RECTUM, when passing flatus. Uncertain whether gas or stool will come. Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed. Lumpy, watery stool. Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool. A LOT OF MUCUS, WITH PAIN IN RECTUM AFTER STOOL. Haemorrhoids protrude like grapes; very sore and tender; better cold water application. BURNING IN ANUS and rectum. Constipation, with heavy pressure in lower part of abdomen. Diarrhoea from beer. 

Urinary
Incontinence in aged, bearing-down sensation and enlarged prostate. Scanty and high colored. 

Female
Bearing down in rectum, worse standing and during menses. Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much on that account. Labor-like pains in loins; extend down legs. Climacteric haemorrhage. Menses too early and too profuse. 

Respiratory
Winter coughs, with itching. Difficult respiration, with stitches from liver to chest. 

Back
Pain in small of back; worse moving. Stitches through sacrum. LUMBAGO ALTERNATING WITH HEADACHE AND PILES. 

Extremities
Lameness in all limbs. DRAWING PAINS IN JOINTS. Soles pain when walking. 

Modalities
WORSE, early morning; summer; heat; in hot, dry weather; after eating or drinking. BETTER, from cold, open air. 

Relationship
Complementary: SULPHUR; compare: KALI BICH.; LYCOP.; ALLIUM SAT. Antidotes: OPIUM; SULPH.

Aloe is a great homeopathic remedy indicated for:

• Hemorrhoids
• Ulcerative colitis
• Diarrhea
• Travellers' diarrhea
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Crohn's disease

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Common Potash Alum) The clinical application of this remedy points to its bowel symptoms, both in obstinate constipation and in haemorrhage from bowels in the course of typhoid-one phase of the PARALYTIC WEAKNESS of the muscles in all parts of the body. Tendency to INDURATION is also marked, a low form of tissue-making is favored. Hardening of tissues of tongue, rectum, uterus, et:.; ulcers with indurated base. Adapted to old people, especially bronchial catarrhs. SENSATION OF DRYNESS AND CONSTRICTION. Mental paresis; dysphagia especially to LIQUIDS. Tendency to induration, Scirrhus of the tongue. 

Head
BURNING PAIN AS OF WEIGHT ON TOP OF HEAD BETTER BY PRESSURE of hand. Vertigo, with weakness in pit of stomach. Alopecia. Throat. Throat relaxed. Mucous membrane red and swollen. Cough. Tickling in throat. Tendency to throat colds. ENLARGED AND INDURATED TONSILS. Burning pain down the oesophagus. Complete aphonia. Every cold settles in throat. Constriction of oesophagus. 

Heart
Palpitation, FROM LYING DOWN ON RIGHT SIDE. Bectum. CONSTIPATION OF THE MOST AGGRAVATED KIND. No desire for stool for days. Violent ineffectual urging to stool. No ability to expel stool. MARBLE-LIKE MASSES PASS, BUT RECTUM STILL FEELS FULL. Itching after stool. Itching in anus. Long lasting pain and smarting in rectum after stool; also haemorrhoids. Yellow, like an infant's. Haemorrhage from bowels. 

Female
Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and mammary glands. (CARB. AN.; CON.) Chronic yellow vaginal discharge. Chronic gonorrhoea, yellow, with little lumps along urethra. Aphthous patches in vagina. (CAUL.) Menses watery. 

Respiratory
Haemoptysis, great weakness of chest; difficult to expel mucus. Copious, ropy morning expectoration in old people. Asthma. 

Skin
ULCERS, WITH INDURATED BASE. To be thought of in indurated glands, epithelioma, etc.; veins become varicose, and bleed. Indurations resulting from long-continued inflammatory irritations. Glands inflame and harden. Alopecia, Scrotal eczema and on back of penis. 

Extremities
WEAKNESS OF ALL MUSCLES, especially arms and legs. Constricted feeling around limbs. 

Modalities
WORSE, cold except headache, which is relieved by cold.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Oxide of Aluminum-Argilla) A very general condition corresponding to this drug is DRYNESS of mucous membranes and skin, and TENDENCY TO PARETIC MUSCULAR STATES. Old people, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility. Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering, and the characteristic constipation find an excellent remedy in Alumina. Disposition to colds in the head, and eructations in spare, dry, thin subjects. Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods. 

Mind
Low-spirited; fears loss of reason. Confused as to personal identity. HASTY, HURRIED. Time passes slowly. VARIABLE MOOD. Better as day advances. Suicidal tendency when seeing knife or blood. 

Head
Stitching, burning pain in head, with vertigo, worse in morning, but relieved by food. Pressure in forehead as from a tight hat. Inability to walk except with eyes open. Throbbing headache, with constipation. Vertigo, with nausea; better after breakfast. Falling out of hair; scalp itches and is numb. 

Eyes
Objects look yellow. Eyes feel cold. Lids dry, burn, smart, thickened, aggravated in morning; chronic conjunctivitis. Ptosis. Strabismus. 

Ears
Humming; roaring. Eustachian tube feels plugged. 

Nose
Pain at root of nose. Sense of smell diminished. Fluent coryza. Point of nose CRACKED, nostrils sore, RED; worse touch. Scabs WITH THICK YELLOW MUCUS. Tettery redness. OZAENA ATROPHICA SICCA. Membranes distended and boggy. 

Face
Feels as if albuminous substance had dried on it. Blood-boils and pimples. Twitching of lower jaw. Rush of blood to face after eating. 

Mouth
Sore. Bad odor from it. Teeth covered with sordes. Gums sore, bleeding. Tensive pain in articulation of jaw when opening mouth or chewing. Throat. DRY, sore; food cannot pass, oesophagus contracted. Feels as if splinter or plug were in throat. Irritable, and relaxed throat. Looks parched and glazed. Clergyman's sore throat in thin subjects. Thick, tenacious mucus drops from posterior nares. Constant inclination to clear the throat. 

Stomach
Abnormal cravings-chalk, charcoal, dry food, tea-grounds. Heartburn; feels constricted. Aversion to meat. (GRAPH.; ARN.; PULS.) POTATOES DISAGREE. No desire to eat. CAN SWALLOW BUT SMALL MORSELS AT A TIME. Constriction of oesophagus. 

Abdomen
Colic, like painter's colic. Pressing in both groins toward sexual organs. LEFT-SIDED ABDOMINAL COMPLAINTS. 

Stool
HARD, dry, knotty; NO DESIRE. Rectum sore, dry, inflamed, bleeding. Itching and burning at anus. EVEN A SOFT STOOL IS PASSED WITH DIFFICULTY. GREAT STRAINING. Constipation of infants (COLLINS.; PSOR.; PARAF.) and old people from inactive rectum, and in women of very sedentary habit. Diarrhoea on urinating. EVACUATION PRECEDED BY PAINFUL URGING LONG BEFORE STOOL, AND THEN STRAINING AT STOOL. Urine. Muscles of bladder paretic, MUST STRAIN AT STOOL IN ORDER TO URINATE. Pain in kidneys, with mental confusion. Frequent desire to urinate in old people. Difficult starting. 

Male
Excessive desire. Involuntary emissions when straining at stool. Prostatic discharge. 

Female
Menses too early, short, SCANTY, PALE, FOLLOWED BY GREAT EXHAUSTION. (CARB. AN.; COCCUL.) Leucorrhoea ACRID, PROFUSE, transparent, ROPY, with burning; worse during daytime, and after menses. Relieved by washing with cold water. 

Respiratory
Cough soon after waking in the morning. Hoarse, aphonia, tickling in larynx; wheezing, rattling respiration. Cough on talking or singing, IN THE MORNING. Chest feels constricted. Condiments produce cough. Talking aggravates soreness of chest. 

Back
Stitches. Gnawing pain, as if from hot iron. Pain along cord, with paralytic weakness. 

Extremities
Pain in arm and fingers, as if hot iron penetrated. Arms feel paralyzed. Legs feel asleep, ESPECIALLY WHEN SITTING WITH LEGS CROSSED. STAGGERS ON WALKING. HEELS FEEL NUMB. Soles tender; on stepping, feel soft and swollen. Pain in shoulder and upper arm. Gnawing beneath finger nails. BRITTLE NAILS. Inability to walk, except when eyes are open or in daytime. Spinal degenerations and paralysis of lower limbs. 

Sleep
Restless; anxious and confused dreams. Sleepy in morning. 

Skin
Chapped and dry tettery. Brittle nails. INTOLERABLE ITCHING WHEN GETTING WARM IN BED. Must scratch until it bleeds: then becomes painful. Brittle skin on fingers. 

Modalities
WORSE, periodically; in afternoon; from potatoes. Worse, in morning on awaking; warm room. BETTER, in open air; from cold washing; in evening and on alternate days. BETTER, damp weather.

Alumina is a great natural remedy indicated  for:

• Constipation