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Potassium Alum · Common Alum · "The Paralysis of Rectum Remedy"
alumn.MineralUncommonPsoric
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🎯 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 theparalytic 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.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
1st to 30th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Carbo Animalis →Conium Maculatum →Caulophyllum Thalictroides →
📚 Sources & References

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