From Boericke's materia medica:

(The Honey-Bee) Acts on cellular tissues causing oedema of skin and mucous membranes. The very characteristic effects of the sting of the bee furnish unerring indications for its employment in disease. Swelling or puffing up of various parts, OEDEMA, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation are some of the general guiding symptoms. Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute, inflammation of kidneys, and other parenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis. Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes. It produces serous inflammation with effusion, membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion, etc. Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked. CONSTRICTED sensations. Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body. Much prostration. 

Mind
Apathy, indifference, and unconsciousness. AWKWARD; DROPS THINGS READILY. Stupor, with sudden sharp cries and startings. Stupor alternating with erotic mania. Sensation of dying. Listless; cannot think clearly. Jealous, fidgety, hard to please. Sudden shrill, piercing screams. WHINING. TEARFULNESS. Jealously, fright, rage, vexation, grief. Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study. 

Head
Whole brain feels VERY TIRED. Vertigo with sneezing, worse on lying or closing eyes. Heat, throbbing, distensive pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion. Sudden stabbing pains. Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as from a blow, extending to neck (better on pressure), accompanied with sexual excitement. Bores head into pillow and screams out. 

Eyes
Lids SWOLLEN, red, OEDEMATOUS, everted, inflamed; burn and sting. Conjunctiva bright red, puffy. LACHRYMATION HOT. Photophobia. SUDDEN PIERCING PAINS. Pain around orbits. SEROUS EXUDATION, OEDEMA, AND SHARP PAINS. SUPPURATIVE INFLAMMATION OF EYES. Keratitis with INTENSE CHEMOSIS OF OCULAR CONJUNCTIVA. Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation. STYES, also prevents their recurrence. 

Ears
External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains. 

Nose
Coldness of tip of nose. RED, SWOLLEN, inflamed, with sharp pains. 

Face
Swollen, red, with piercing pain. Waxy, pale, Oedematous. Erysipelas with stinging burning oedema. Extends from right to left. 

Mouth
Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles. Scalding in mouth and throat. Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling. Gums swollen. Lips swollen, especially upper. Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished. RED, SHINING, AND PUFFY, like erysipelas. Cancer of the tongue. Throat. Constricted, stinging pains. UVULA SWOLLEN, saclike. Throat swollen, inside and out; tonsils swollen, PUFFY, FIERY RED. Ulcers on tonsils. FIERY RED MARGIN around leathery membrane. Sensation of fishbone in throat. 

Stomach
Sore feeling. THIRSTLESS. Vomiting of food. CRAVING FOR MILK. (RHUS.) 

Abdomen
SORE, BRUISED on pressure, when sneezing. EXTREMELY TENDER. Dropsy of abdomen. Peritonitis. Swelling in right groin. 

Stool
Involuntary on every motion; ANUS SEEMS OPEN. Bloody, painless. Anus feels raw. Haemorrhoids, with stinging pain, after confinement. Diarrhoea watery, yellow; CHOLERA INFANTUM TYPE. Cannot urinate without a stool. Dark, fetid, worse after eating. Constipation; feels as if something would break on straining. Urine. Burning and soreness when urinating. Suppressed, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; stinging pain and strangury; SCANTY, HIGH COLORED. Incontinence. LAST DROPS burn and smart. 

Female
Oedema of labia; relieved by cold water. Soreness and stinging pains; ovaritis; worse in RIGHT ovary. Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls. Dysmenorrhoea, with severe ovarian pains. Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain. Sense of tightness. Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear. Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains. Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region. 

Respiratory
Hoarseness; DYSPNOEA, breathing hurried and difficult. Oedema of larynx. Feels AS IF HE COULD NOT DRAW ANOTHER BREATH. Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal. Hydrothorax. 

Extremities
Oedematous. Synovitis. Felon in beginning. Knee swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore, with stinging pain. Feet swollen and stiff. Feel too large. Rheumatic pain in back and limbs. Tired, bruised feeling. Numbness of hands and tips of fingers. Hives with intolerable itching. Oedematous swellings. 

Skin
Swellings after bites; SORE, SENSITIVE. Stinging. Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue. Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain. (ARS.; ANTHRAC) Sudden puffing up of whole body. 

Sleep
Very DROWSY. Dreams full of care and toil. Screams and SUDDEN STARTING DURING SLEEP. 

Fever
AFTERNOON CHILL, WITH THIRST; WORSE ON MOTION AND HEAT. External heat, with smothering feeling. Sweat slight, with sleepiness. Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently. Sleeps AFTER the fever paroxysm. After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering. 

Modalities
Worse, heat in any form; TOUCH; pressure; late in afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and heated rooms. Right side. BETTER, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing.

Apis is a homeopathic remedy indicated for: 

• Hives
• Pink eye
• Styes
• Allergies
• Edema
• Swelling
• Insect bites
• Bee stings
• Swollen ankles 

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Black Sulphide of Antimony) For homeopathic employment, the mental symptoms, and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. EXCESSIVE IRRITABILITY AND FRETFULNESS, together with a THICKLY-COATED WHITE TONGUE, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are aggravated by HEAT AND COLD BATHING. Cannot bear heat of sun. Tendency to grow fat. An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. Gout with gastric symptoms.

Mind
Much concerned about his fate. Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction. Sulky; does not wish to speak. Peevish; vexed without cause. CHILD CANNOT BEAR TO BE TOUCHED OR LOOKED AT. Angry at every little attention. Sentimental mood.

Head
Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, FROM BATHING, from DISORDERED STOMACH, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines. Suppressed eruptions. Heaviness in forehead. with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed. Headache with great loss of hair.

Eyes
Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated. CANTHI RAW AND FISSURED. Chronic BLEPHARITIS. Pustules on cornea and lids.

Ears
Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Ringing and deafness. Moist eruption around ear.

Nose
Nostrils CHAPPED AND COVERED WITH CRUSTS. ECZEMA OF NOSTRILS, SORE, CRACKED AND SCURFY.

Face
Pimples, pustules, and boils on face YELLOW CRUSTED ERUPTION ON CHEEKS and chin. Sallow and haggard.

Mouth
CRACKS IN CORNERS OF MOUTH. Dry lips. Saltish saliva. Much slimy mucus. TONGUE COATED THICK WHITE, AS IF WHITEWASHED. Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily. Toothache in hollow teeth. Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus. CANKER SORES. Pappy taste. No thirst. Subacute eczema about mouth. Throat. Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares. Hawking in open air. Laryngitis. Rough voice from over use.

Stomach
LOSS OF APPETITE. DESIRE FOR ACIDS, PICKLES. Thirst in evening and night. ERUCTATION TASTING OF THE INGESLA. Heartburn, nausea, vomiting. After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross. Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather. CONSTANT BELCHING. Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels. Sweetish waterbrash. BLOATING AFTER EATING.

Stool
Anal itching. (SULPHO-CALC. ALUM.) DIARRHEA ALTERNATES WITH CONSTIPATION, especially in old people. Diarrhoea after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools. Mucous piles, CONTINUED OOZING OF MUCUS. HARD LUMPS MIXED WITH WATERY DISCHARGE. CATARRHAL PROCTITIS. Stools composed entirely of mucus. Urine. Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odor.

Male
Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Impotence. Atrophy of penis and testicles.

Female
Excited; parts itch. Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse. Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region. Leucorrhoea watery; acrid, lumpy.

Respiratory
Cough worse COMING INTO WARM ROOM, with burning sensation in chest, IKHING OF CHEST, oppression. Loss of voice from becoming overheated. VOICE HARSH AND BADLY PITCHED,

Back
Itching and pain of neck and back.

Extremities
Twitching of muscles. Jerks in arms. ARTHRITIC PAIN IN FINGERS. Nails brittle; grow out of shape. Horny warts on hands and soles. Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence. FEET VERY TENDER; covered with large horny places. Inflamed corns. Pain in heels.

Skin
Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. URTICARIA; measle-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. WARTS. (THUJA; SABINA; CAUST.) Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.

Sleep
CONTINUAL DROWSINESS IN OLD PEOPLE.

Fever
Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhoea. Hot sweat.

Modalities
WORSE in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices. BETTER in open air, during rest. Moist warmth.

Antimonium crudum is a great homeopathic remedy indicated for:

• Indigestion
• Stomach upsets
• Stomach ulcers
• Dyspepsia
• Digestive problems 

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Iodide of Ammonia) Indicated when iodine has but partially relieved its cases of laryngitis and bronchitis, catarrhal pneumonia, oedema of lungs. 

Head
Dull headache, especially in young people, face stupid, heavy; vertigo, Meniere's disease. 

Dose
Second and third trit. Compare: AMMONIUM TARTARICUM (Dry hacking cough after every cold).

From Boericke's materia medica:

(Sal Ammoniac) A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced by this remedy. All mucous secretions are increased and retained. It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles. Coughs associated with catarrhs and affections of liver. A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc. Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, PROFUSE GLAIRY SECRETIONS. Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings. "Boiling" sensation. 

Mind
Melancholy, apprehensive; like .from internal grief. DESIRE TO CRY, but cannot. Consequences of grief. 

Head
Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff. Feels full, compressed; worse mornings. 

Eyes
Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipient cataract; capsular cataract. 

Nose
Free ACRID, HOT WATERY DISCHARGE corroding the lip. Sneezing. Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils. LOSS OF SMELL. OBSTRUCTED, STUFFY FEELING; constant and unavailing efforts to blow it out. Itching. 

Face
Inflammatory faceache. Mouth and lips sore and excoriated. Throat. Throbbing in, and swelling of tonsils, can scarcely swallow. Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating. Internal and external swelling of throat with VISCID PHLEGM. So tough, it cannot be hawked up. Tonsillitis. Stricture of oesophagus. 

Stomach
Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter waterbrash. Nausea. Gnawing in stomach. Epigastric pain immediately after eating. Cancer of stomach. 

Abdomen
Splenic stitches, especially in the morning, with difficult breathing. Pain around navel. Abdominal symptoms appear during pregnancy. Chronic congestion of liver. Excessive fatty deposit around abdomen. Much flatus. Strained feeling in groin. 

Rectum
Itching and hemorrhoids, soreness with pustules-Hard, CRUMBLY stool, or covered with glairy mucus. Stinging in perinaeum. Green mucus stools alternate with constipation. During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum. Haemorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhoea. 

Female
Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; FLOW MORE AT NIGHT. Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy. Diarrhoea, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain DURING MENSES. Leucorrhoea, like white of an egg (Alum.; BOR.; CALC. P.); with pain about the navel; brown, slimy AFTER EVERY URINATION. 

Respiratory
HOARSENESS AND BURNING IN LARYNX. Dry, hacking, scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side. Stitches in chest. Cough loose in afternoon, with profuse expectoration and rattling of mucus. Oppression of chest. Burning at small spots in chest. Scanty secretion. Cough with profuse salivation. 

Back
ICY COLDNESS BETWEEN SHOULDERS; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting. Backache, as if in a vise when sitting. 

Extremities
Pain as from ulceration in finger tips. Shooting and tearing IN TIPS OF FINGER and toes. Ulcerative pain in heels. CONTRACTION OF HAMSTRING TENDONS. Sciatica, WORSE SITTING, BETTER LYING. Neuralgic pain in amputated limbs. Offensive sweaty feet. Pain in feet during menses. 

Skin
Itching, generally evenings. Blisters on various parts. Intense burning better cold applications. 

Fever
CHILLINESS EVENINGS AFTER LYING DOWN and on awakening, without thirst. Heat in palms and soles. Sub acute, low fevers due to unhealthy climate. Lowest potencies. 

Modalities
BETTER, open air. WORSE, head and chest symptoms in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon. 

Relationship
Antidotes: COFFEA; NUX; CAUST. Compare: CALCAREA; SENEGA; Caustic. 

Dose

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Phosphate of Ammonia) A remedy for chronic gouty patients uric acid diathesis, indicated in bronchitis and NODOSITIES OF THE JOINTS of the fingers and backs of the hands. Facial paralysis. Pain in shoulder-joint. Tightness around chest. Heaviness of limbs, unsteady, tottering gait. Coldness from least draft of air. 

Head
Sneezing with excessive running from nose and eyes, ONLY IN MORNING. 

Respiratory
Deep rough cough with greenish expectoration. Urine. Rose-colored sediment.

From Boericke's materia medica:

(Marking Nut) The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; IMPAIRED MEMORY, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions. Intermittency of symptoms. Fear of examination in students. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. SENSATION OF A PLUG in various parts- eyes, rectum, bladder, etc.; also OF A BAND. Empty feeling in stomach; EATING TEMPORARILY RELIEVES ALL DISCOMFORT. This is a sure indication, often verified. Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak. 

Mind
Fixed ideas. Hallucinations; THINKS HE IS POSSESSED OF TWO PERSONS OR WILLS. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with TENDENCY TO USE VIOLENT LANGUAGE. BRAIN-FAG. IMPAIRED MEMORY. ABSENT MINDEDNESS. VERY EASILY OFFENDED. Malicious; seems bent on wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Suspicious (HYOS.). Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead. Senile dementia. Absence of all moral restraint. 

Head
Vertigo. Pressing pain, AS FROM A PLUG; worse after mental exertion-in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; BETTER DURING A MEAL. Itching and little boils on scalp. 

Eyes
Pressure LIKE A PLUG on upper orbit. Indistinct vision. OBJECTS APPEAR TOO JAR OFF. 

Ears
Pressing in the ears as from a plug. Hard of hearing. 

Nose
Frequent sneezing. SENSE OF SMELL PERVERTED. Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged. 

Face
Blue rings around eyes. Face pale. 

Mouth
Painful vesicles; fetid odor. Tongue feels swollen, impeding speech and motion, with saliva in mouth. Burning around lips as from pepper. 

Stomach
Weak digestion, with fullness and distention. EMPTY FEELING IN STOMACH. Eructation, nausea, vomiting. EATING RELIEVES THE ANACARDIUM DYSPEPSIA. Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Swallows food and drinks hastily. 

Abdomen
PAIN AS IF DULL PLUG WERE PRESSED INTO INTESTINES. Rumbling, pinching, and griping. 

Rectum
Bowels inactive. INEFFECTUAL DESIRE; RECTUM SEEMS POWERLESS, AS IF PLUGGED UP; spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty. ITCHING AT ANUS; MOISTURE FROM RECTUM. Haemorrhage during stool. Painful haemorrhoids. 

Male
Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams. Prostatic discharge during stool. 

Female
Leucorrhoea, with soreness and itching. Menses scanty. 

Respiratory
Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug. Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air. Cough excited by talking, in children, after fit of temper. Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput. 

Heart
Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region. Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches. 

Back
Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight. Stiffness at nape of neck. 

Extremities
Neuralgia in thumb. Paralytic weakness. Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged. Cramps in calves. Pressure as from a plug in the glutei. Warts on palms of hands. Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption. 

Sleep
Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights. Anxious dreams. 

Skin
INTENSE ITCHING eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; SWELLING, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison-Oak. (XEROPHYL.; GRINDEL.; CROTON.) Lichen planus; neurotic eczema. Warts on hands. Ulcer formation on forearm. 

Modalities
WORSE, on application of hot water. BETTER, from eating. When lying on side, from rubbing. 

Relationship
Antidote: GRINDELEIA; COFFEA; JUGLANS; RHUS; EUCALYPTUS. Compare: ANACARD. OCCIDENTALE (cashew nut) (erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions), anaesthetic variety of leprosy; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet). RHUS; CYPRIPED.; CHELIDON.; XEROPHYL. Platina follows well. CEREUS SERPENTINA (swearing).

Anacardium is a homeophatic remedy indicated for:

• Anxiety

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Peach Tree) A most valuable remedy in vomiting of various kinds; MORNING SICKNESS. Irritation of eyes. Ischuria and hematuria. Haemorrhage from the bladder. Gastric irritation of children; no form of food tolerated. Loss of smell and taste. Gastric and intestinal irritation when the tongue is elongated and pointed, tip and edges red. Constant nausea and vomiting. 

Relationship
Compare: AMYGD. AMARA-Bitter Almond. (Pains through tonsils, throat dark, difficult swallowing, vomiting, cough with sore chest.)

 From Boericke's materia medica:

Rag-Weed) A remedy for hay-fever, LACHRYMATION and INTOLERABLE ITCHING OF THE EYE-LIDS. Some forms of whooping-cough. Respiratory tract in its entire length stopped up. MANY FORMS OF DIARRHOEA, especially during summer months, also dysentery. 

Nose
Watery coryza; sneezing; watery discharge. NOSEBLEED. Stuffed up feeling of nose and head. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes, with asthmatic attacks. (ARAL.; EUCALYPT.) Wheezy cough. 

Eyes
Smart and burn. Lachrymation. 

Relationship
Compare in hay-fever: SABADILLA, WYETHIA; SUCCIN. AC.; ARS.IOD.; ARUNDO.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

Hydrate of Ammonia-Ammonia Water) This is a powerful cardiac stimulant. As such in SYNCOPE, thrombosis, haemorrhage, snake-bites, chloroform narcosis, may be given by inhalation. The oedema and ulceration of mucous membranes produced by this powerful drug have been utilized as guiding symptoms for its use; hence in membranous croup with burning in oesophagus. Aphonia. See CAUSTICUM. 

Respiratory
Difficult respiration. Accumulation of mucus with incessant coughing. LOSS OF VOICE. BURNING RAWNESS IN THROAT. Spasm of the glottis with suffocation; patient gasps for breath. Pain in oesophagus on breathing deeply. Scraping and burning in throat and oesophagus. Uvula covered with white mucus. Nasal diphtheria, with burning excoriating discharge. 

Extremities
EXCESSIVE EXHAUSTION and muscular debility. Rheumatism of shoulders. Skin hot and dry.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Ambergis-A Morbid Secretion of the Whale) Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous patients. Extreme NERVOUS HYPER SENSITIVENESS. External numbness of whole body in the morning and weakness. Nervous bilious temperament. Thin, scrawny women. Adapted to hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive cough, eructation, etc. Also for patients WEAKENED BY AGEor overwork, who are anaemic and sleepless. Great remedy for the aged, with impairment of all functions, weakness, coldness and NUMBNESS, usually of single parts, fingers, arms, etc. One-sided complaints call for it. MUSIC AGGRAVATES SYMPTOMS. Ebulitions and pulsations after walking in open air. One-sided complaints. 

Mind
Dread of people, and desire to be alone. Cannot do anything in presence of others. Intensely shy, blushes easily. MUSIC CAUSES WEEPING. Despair, loathing of life. Fantastic illusions. Bashful. Loss of love of life. Restless, excited, very loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking, difficult in the morning with old people. Dwells upon unpleasant things. 

Head
Slow comprehension. Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach. Pressure on front part of head with mental depression. TEARING PAIN IN UPPER HALF OF BRAIN. SENILE DIZZINESS. Rush of blood to head, when listening to music. HEARING IMPAIRED. Epistaxis, especially in the morning. Profuse bleeding from teeth. Hair falls out. 

Stomach
Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough. Acid eructations, like heartburn. DISTENTION OF STOMACH AND ABDOMEN after midnight. Sensation of coldness in abdomen. 

Urinary
Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time. Burning in orifice of urethra and anus. FEELING IN URETHRA AS IF A FEW DROPS PASSED OUT. Burning and itching in urethra while urinating. URINE TURBID, EVEN DURING EMISSION, forming a brown sediment. 

Female
Nymphomania, ITCHING OF PUDENDUM, WITH SOFTNESS AND SWELLING. Menses too early. Profuse, bluish leucorrhoea. Worse at night. DISCHARGE OF BLOOD BETWEEN PERIODS, AT EVERY LITTLE ACCIDENT. 

Male
Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Parts externally numb; burn internally. Violent erections without voluptuous sensations. 

Respiratory
Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas. NERVOUS, SPASMODIC COUGH, with hoarseness and ERUCTATION, on waking in morning; worse in presence of people. Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of breath when coughing. HOLLOW, SPASMODIC, BARKING COUGH, COMING FROM DEEP IN CHEST. Choking when hawking up phlegm. 

Heart
PALPITATION, WITH PRESSURE IN CHEST AS FROM A LUMP LODGED THERE, OR AS IF CHEST WAS OBSTRUCTED. Conscious of the pulse. Palpitation in open air with pale face. 

Sleep
CANNOT SLEEP FROM WORRY; MUST GET UP. Anxious dreams. Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep. 

Skin
Itching and soreness, especially around genitals. Numbness of skin. Arms "go to sleep." 

Extremities
CRAMPS IN HANDS and fingers, worse grasping anything. Cramps in legs. 

Modalities
WORSE, music; presence of strangers; FROM ANY UNUSUAL THING; morning, warm room. BETTER, slow motion in open air; lying on painful part; cold drinks. 

Relationship
Do not confound with AMBER-Succinum. q. v. MOSCHUS frequently follows advantageously. Compare: OLEUM SUCCINUM (hiccough). SUMBUL; CASTOR.; ASAF.; CROCUS. LILIUM.

 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.