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:

(Amyl Nitrite) On inhaling this drug, it rapidly dilates all arterioles and capillaries, producing flushings of face, heat, and throbbing in the head. Superficial arterial hyperaemia. Palpitation of the heart and similar conditions are readily cured by it, especially the flushings and other discomforts at climacteric. HICCOUGH AND YAWNING. Often relieves temporarily epileptic convulsions. Seasickness. 

Head
ANXIETY, as if something might happen; MUST HAVE FRESH AIR. SURGING OF BLOOD TO HEAD AND FACE; sensation as if blood would start through skin, with htat and redness. FLUSHINGS, FOLLOWED BY SWEAT AT CLIMACTERIC. Ears hyperaemic. Throbbing. Throat. Constriction; collar seems too tight. 

Chest
Dyspnoea and asthmatic feelings. Great oppression and fullness of chest; spasmodic, suffocative cough. Praecordial anxiety. TUMULTUOUS ACTION OF HEART. Pain and constriction around heart. Fluttering at slightest excitement. 

Female
After-pains; haemorrhage associated with facial flushing. CLIMACTERIC HEADACHE AND FLUSHES OF HEAT, WITH ANXIETY AND PALPITATION. 

Fever
Much flushing of heat; sometimes followed by cold and clammy skin and profuse sweat. Throbbing throughout whole body. ABNORMAL SWEAT AFTER INFLUENZA. 

Extremities
CONSTANT STRETCHING FOR HOURS. Veins of hands dilated; pulsations felt in tips of fingers. 

Relationship
Compare: GLONOINE; LACHESIS. Antidotes: CACTUS; STRYCHN.; ERGOT

 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:

(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:

(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:

(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:

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:

(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:

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:

(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:

(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

 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:

(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

Red Alder - buds

Indications: Anti-inflammatory

European Alder - buds

Indications: Cardio-vascular system

Inflammatory conditions

Alnus glutinosa is a remedy for the circulatory system, most strikingly after the acute stage of cerebral and coronary issues. It can increase circulation and regrowth of cells after myocardia infarction (heart attack) and cerebral infarction (ischemic stroke). It also has anti-coagulant and anti-thrombotic properties. It has the ability to increase cognitive function in cases of memory loss and senile dementia. It is a natural antibiotic and detoxifies the digestive system, and can be used in cases of IBS, ulcers, colitis, diverticulitis and celiac disease. It works well in cases of chronic and allergic urticaria. 

Gemmotherapy remedies are very close to herbal, so there can be counter-indications. Please consult your health care practitioner before using any of the gemmotherapy remedies, or ask one of our skilled homeopaths for advice!