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Alumen

30CAlumen

Potassium Alum · Common Alum · "The Paralysis of Rectum Remedy"

alumn.MineralUncommonPsoric

🎯 A remedy primarily acting on the bowels and tissues, characterized by a tendency toward hardening, dryness, and paralytic weakness.

📖 Boericke writes:

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, etc; 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.

👤 Constitution

•Adapted to old people, especially those with bronchial catarrhs, who exhibit a tendency toward tissue hardening and general muscular weakness.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Tendency to induration is also marked, a low form of tissue-making is favored.

introduction

Hardening of tissues of tongue, rectum, uterus, etc; ulcers with indurated base.

introduction

Sensation of dryness and constriction.

introduction

Tendency to induration, Scirrhus of the tongue.

introduction

Burning pain as of weight on top of lead better by pressure of hand.

head

Enlarged and indurated tonsils.

throat

Palpitation, from lying down on right side.

heart

Constipation of the most aggravated kind.

rectum

Marble-like masses pass, but rectum still feels full.

rectum

Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and mammary glands (Carb an; Con).

female

Ulcers, with indurated base.

skin

Weakness of all muscles, especially arms and legs.

extremities

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for head pain characterized by a heavy, burning sensation and dizziness associated with stomach weakness.

Burning pain as of weight on top of lead better by pressure of hand.

Vertigo, with weakness in pit of stomach.

Alopecia.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

1st to 30th

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🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Carbo Animalis →Conium Maculatum →Caulophyllum Thalictroides →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Alumen is listed in 68 rubrics across 17 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 15 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen16 Respiratory System9 Head6 Female Sexual System6 Throat5 Generalities5 Skin4 Locomotor System3 Circulatory System2 Modalities2 Tongue2 Nervous System2 Stomach2 Mouth1 Male Sexual System1 Fever1 Eyes1

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