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Alumina

30C / 200CAlumina
Oxide of Aluminium · Pure Clay · "The Dryness and Paralysis Remedy"
alum.PolychrestMineralCommonPsoric
🎯 Alumina acts primarily on the mucous membranes and the nervous system, causing extreme dryness and a tendency toward muscle weakness or paralysis.
📖 Boericke writes:
Oxide et 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 . Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering, and the characteristic find an excellent remedy in Alumina. Disposition to colds in the head, and in spare, dry, thin subjects. Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods.
👤 Constitution
•Typically thin, dry, and spare subjects who lack vital heat. Often used for the elderly or for children who are physically delicate.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
ALUMINA Oxide et Aluminum-Argilla A very general condition corresponding to this drug is dryness of mucous membranes and skin, and tendency to paretic muscular states.
introduction
Hasty, hurried.
mind
Variable mood.
mind
Scabs with thick yellow mucus.
nose
Ozoena atrophica sicca.
nose
Potatoes disagree.
stomach
Can swallow but small morsels at a time.
stomach
Left-sided abdominal complaints.
abdomen
Even a soft stool is passed with difficulty.
stool
Great straining.
stool
preceded by painful urging long before stool, and then straining at stool.
stool
Muscles of bladder paretic, must strain at stool in order to urinate.
urine
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for mental states involving confusion, anxiety about sanity, and hurried, variable moods.
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.
🔑 Modalities
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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.

6th to 30th and higher
Centesimal
📝Action is slow in developing.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Bryonia Alba →
🚫 Antidotes
Ipecacuanha →Chamomilla →
🔄 Compare With
Graphites →SlagSecale Cornutum →Plumbum Metallicum →Lathyrus Sativus →Zincum Sulphuricum →Sol →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Alumina is listed in 351 rubrics across 23 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 103 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen38Locomotor System36Modalities27Nose24Respiratory System22Female Sexual System22Nervous System21Skin20Eyes19Throat19Mind16Stomach15Head13Urinary System12Face9Generalities8Male Sexual System7Ears6Fever5Mouth4Teeth3Gums3Taste2

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