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Alumen

Common potash alum

15 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • 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.
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  • Mental paresis; dysphagia especially to liquids.
  • Tendency to induration, Scirrhus of the tongue.

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What makes it better or worse

Worse

Cold except headacheWhich is relieved by cold

Symptoms by body part

Head

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

Rectum

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. Yellow, like an infant's. Haemorrhage from bowels.

Female

Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and mammary glands. Chronic yellow vaginal discharge. Aphthous patches in vagina. Menses watery.

Respiratory

Coughing up blood, great weakness of chest; difficult to expel mucus. Copious, ropy morning phlegm coughed up in old people.

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.

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