Alumen
Common potash alum
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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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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