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Alumina

30C / 200CAlumina
Oxide of Aluminium · Pure Clay · "The Dryness and Paralysis Remedy"
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🎯 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, andtendency 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.
👤 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
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
Evacuation preceded by painful urging long before stool, and then straining at stool.
stool
Menses too early, short, scanty, pale, followed by great exhaustion (Carb an; Coccul).
female
Staggers on walking.
extremities
🩺 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
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
6th to 30th and higher
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝Action is slow in developing.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Bryonia Alba →
🚫 Antidotes
Ipecacuanha →Chamomilla →
🔄 Compare With
Graphites →Slag →Secale Cornutum →Sol →Plumbum Metallicum →Lathyrus Sativus →Zincum Sulphuricum →
📚 Sources & References

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