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ALUMINA

Source: Aluminum Oxide

Introduction: Dr. Margery Blackie, MD,F.F.HOM, who had been

the  HomeopathicPhysician to H.M. The Queen since 1968
-1981, writes her experiences about Aluminium Oxide: She
writes, in her book CLASSICAL HOMEOPATHY, Repertory
Edition, "As a student she once visited a laboratory in Harley
Street, and the demonstrators showed all sorts of experiments
which were carried out for Aluminium poisioning.  One of the
experiments was when they cooked an egg for four minutes in
an aluminium saucepan and traced aluminium inside the egg.
She was impressed with that result. She thought if in four
minutes aluminium is inside the shell of the egg, what effect
does it have on a patient? Many years ago there was a doctor
at the London Homeopathic Hospital who was very keen on
aluminium poisoning, and who put all the young doctors off by
attributing every possible disease to aluminium.  He managed
to get the Navy to ban cooking in aluminium at one time and
the consequence was that the gastric and duodenal ulcers in
the Navy went down fifty per cent. It is not known that
everybody is sensitive to aluminium, but there is a proportion
of people who are.

  The chief action of this drug is on the mucous membranes &

skin causing dryness and also causing tendency to paretic
muscular states:-

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The main three  guiding symptoms for which this drug is

employed in Homeopathy are as follows:-

1.      CONSTIPATION:-  Inactivity of the rectum; even the soft

stool requires great straining.

2.   DERMATITIS: Itching of the skin(without eruption)

[(Mez.Dolichos,Ars.]-with     thickening     of skin(dry)Itching
until it bleeds < warmth. The striking  feature of this
r                                                                               remedy is the
chronic dryness of the skin with fissures.. Sweat is rare and
scanty.

3.    ANAEMIA: In women, who are hungry for starch, chalk,

rags, charcoal, cloves and other ridiculous unnatural things;
pototoes disagree; profuse leucorrhoea.

Constitution: The Alumina constitution corresponds to a

constitution that may be called PSORIC- old, broken-down,
feeble constitutions, scrofulous constitution, such as are
inclined to tubercles and catarrhal affections.

Mental Symptoms:  Mentally Aluminium patients vary a lot. 

They may be contented, very much on the spot, competent,
with intellectual powers alert, or else there is the type who is
timid, not bright in the mornings and on the top of their form
later in the day.  So the best time for Aluminium patients is
usually later in the day.  On the other hand they may be very
contrary, take

everything  the wrong way and weep a lot.  This second type
gets easily confused-they take things in slowly and answer
questions slowly.  You feel tht they are mentally rather slow
and apt to be bored. Aluminium children are also peevish,
whiny and rather obstinate.

 "Like Argentum Nitricum, they are hasty, hurried. Times passes

slowly." Suicidal tendency when seeing knife or blood.

Head:- They are many headaches with nausea and vomiting.

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The headaches come whenever he takes cold.  This probably is

due to the catarrhal state. Throbbing headache with
constipation. This medicine is full of vertigo; he quivers, reels
and "objects go round" almost constantly.  It corresponds to
the vertigo of tired-out people, old broken down ptients, men
worn out from old age. Vertigo also that comes on when
closing the eye, as is found in spinal affections,in sclerosis of
posterior lateral columns.  Alumina has produced affections
analogous to locomotor ataxia.There is inability to walk except
with eyes open.  It produces numbness of the soles of the feet,
the fulgurating pains, the vertigo when closing the eyes, and
produces staggering and

disturbances of co-ordintion. Dr. Kent says that " it is true tht in

an early stage of locomotor ataxia, Alumina will check the
disease process by bring into order the internal state of
economy".

Face: The patient is usually pale, although the colour can vary.
 There is a greyish tint. Feels as if albuminous substance had
dried on it. Rush of blood to face after eating.

Eyes: Objects look yellow. Lids dry, burn smart, thickened,

aggravated in morning, Ptosis, Stabismus. There is much
disturbance of vision belong to the catarrhal condition of the
eyes. Dimness of the visionas if looking through a fog,
sometimes described as through a veil. A misty dimness of
vision. There is also disturbances of the muscles of the eyes.

Nose:-Due to the dryness of the mucous membranes, the nose

is dry, stuffed up, especially on one side, commonly the left.
Nose feels full of sticks, dry membrane or crusts, old atrophic
catarrh, crusts in the posterior nares. Large green, offensive
crusts all through the nose.

Mouth: Dry mouth. The tongue cleaves to the roof of the

mouth.Tensive pain in articulation of jaw when opening mouth
or chewing.

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Throat:- Clergyman's sorethroat in thin subjects. Tickling

sensation in the throat which may occur due to   from
elongated uvula- causing cough. Constant inclination to clear
the throat.  The throat is Dry, sore. There is a sensation of
constriction in the throat and oesophagus. It hurts to swallow. 
Food cannnot pass, oesophagus contracted.Swallows with
great difficulty. The bolus goes down with an effort and he
feels it all the way down. There is soreness and clumsiness,
paresis and difficulty  of swallowing due to dryness of the
mucous membranes or paresis of Oesophagus. This paralytic
weakness reminds the patient that he must put on a little force
in order to swallow and this swallowing is felt while the
substance goes down as if the oesophgus was sensitive.

Stomach: Abnormal cravings- Especially anaemic  patients are

often hungry for starch, chalk, rags, charcoal, cloves and other
ridiculous and unnatural things. Alumina is great remedy in
such case. The Natrum Mur patient couldn't eat bread, or had
an aversion to it.  The Alumina patient can't eat potatoes, they
disagree. Pulsatilla can't eat fat food, pastries, etc. No desire to
eat. Can swallow but small morsels at a time- due to
constriction of oesophagus.

Abdomen:- Colic, like painter's colic. Pressing in both loins

towards sexual organs. Left-sided abdominal complaints.

Stools: Hard, dry, knotty; no desire. Like Bryonia, there is no

desire for stool and the constipation seems to depend upon the
dryiness of mucous membranes.  Again it is adapted to dry,
spare subjects. There  are other points of resemblance
between these two remedies and they complement each
other.  They are both excellent in infantile constipation, which is
often a very obstinate affection to treat. Anacardium, Sepia,
Silicea and Veratrum album are nearest of kin in this lack of
expulsive power in the rectum. Rectum is sore, dry, even a
softstool is passed with difficulty- with great straining.
Constipation of infants (Collins.Psor.Paraf.,) and old people
from inactive recturm, and in women of very sedentary habits.
Evacuation preceded by painful urging long before stool, and

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then straining at stool.

Urine: "Frequent Micturition"  especially in old people.  "Urine

voided while straining at stool, or cannot pas urine without
such straining." These are the high grade symptoms, it is a
peculiar symptom, and may be called a particular of first grade.
He must strain at stool in order to empty the contents of the
bladder.  "Urine smarting, corroding."  "Feeling of weakness in
the bladder

and genitals". "Swelling and discharge of light yellow pus from

urethra."  "Burning with dischrage of urine."

Male:- The symptoms of the male sexual organs are

characterized by weakness , impotency and nightly emissions;
suitable when the sexual organs are worn out from abuse or
over use. Involuntary emission when straining at stool.
Prostatic discharge. Paralytic weakness or paraesis of the
sexual organs , a state that is in keeping with the whle remedy.

Female: Menses too early, short, scanty, pale, followed by great

exhaustion (Carbo an.; Coccul.). .After menses, it takes the
woman nearly until the next period to get straightened. Up.  All
the muscles are weak; there seems to be no tonicity about her.
It is highly suitable to women drawing near the end of the
menses, about forty years of age; the menses period
prostrates, the flow is scanty, yet prostrating, the sufferings are
terrible and the patient is miserable at the menstrual. After
menses , exhasted in body and mind, is a strong feature of
Alumina. Leucorrhoea is acrid profuse, transparent, ropy with
burning;running down to the heals(Syph.) worse during daytime,
and after menses.

Respiratory:  The other most striking features of Alumina are

the cough and chest troubles. There is expectoration in some
of the coughs, but the cough is usually a constant, dry, hacking
cough, one of those throublesome lingering coughs that has
existed for years. It competes with Argenticum Mett. In its
character of the dry, hacking cough, especially associated with

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weakness but Arg. Met, has the cough in the daytime, which is
not so in Alumina. The Alumina cough is in the morning. Here is
a symptom that about covers the Alumina Cough: "Cough soon
after waking in the morning.:. Every morning, a long attack of
dry cough.  The cough is hard, a continued dry hacking, and
she coughs until she loses her breath and vomits, and loses
the urine. This symptoms commonly occurs in the woman, 
"Dry, hacking cough with frequent sneezing."  Cough with
tickling in larynx; as from enlarged uvula or with a sensation as
of loose skin hanging in throat.  wheezing, rattling respiration.
Chest feels constricted. Talking aggravates soreness of chest.

Back:- The most striking symptoms are , Burning and stitching

pains in the back/spine. He expresses it as follows: "Pain the
back, as if a hot iron was thrust through lower vertebrae.".  In
myelitis this medicine does wonderful work when there is
considerable amount of spasmodic condition of the back, as
well, showing that the membranes are involved. 

Extremeties:  Pain in the arms and fingers, as if hot iron

penetrated.  Arms feel paralyzed. Legs feel asleep, especially
when sitting with legs crossed. Staggers on walking . Heels feel
numb. Soles tender; on stepping, feel soft and swollen. Pain in
shoulder and upper arm. Gnawing beneath finger nails. Brittle
nails. Inabilty to walk, except when eyes are open or in daytime.
Spinal degenerations and paralysis of lower limbs, paralysis of
one side of the body.

Sleep:- Sleepy in morning( unrefreshed sleep- Nux Vom.).

Restless sleep, anxious and confused dreams.

 Skin: The skin is chapped and dry tettery.  Intolerable itching

when getting warm in bed. Must scratch until it bleeds; then
becomes painful. Brittle skin on fingers.  There is a great lack
of animal heat, coldness, and yet the patient wants to be in the
open air; must be well clothed and kept warm, but wants to be
in the open air.  The patient takes cold continually from every
change and draft. Sometimes the patient will go to bed as cold
as frog.and when warm in bed is so disturbed by itching and

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the warmth of the bed that there is no comfort. These are two
extremes coming together.  The circulation is so feeble over
the extremities and backs of the hands that in

cold weather the hands are constantly cold and covered with
cracks and fissures that bleed. A patient comes to you covered
with crusts and he says; " When I get warm at night I have to
scratch, and I scratch until the skin bleeds.".  now in Alumina it is
very important to find out whether  these crusts were produced
by the scratching or whether the eruption came out as an
itching eruption, for in Alumina in the beginning there is no
eruption, but he scratches until the skin is off and then come
the cursts. You must here prescribe not for the eruption but for
the itching of the skin without eruption.   Now in Mez., Ars.
Dolichos and Alumina the skin itches and he scratches until it
bleeds, and then he gets relief .Of course after this there is an
apparent eruption because crusts form. As soon as the healing
begins the itching begins the itching begins, and he is only
relieved when the skin is raw.  With the bleeding and moisture
of the skin ,there is relief of the itching. The skin thickens and
indurates due to dryness of the skin and then ulcerates.

MODALITIES:-

Worse : At new moon and full moon, periodically, in afternoon,

from potatoes. Worse in morning on awaking, warm room.

Better : Mild summer weather. Damp weather.

              From warm drinks. From open air; cold washing, in

evening and on alternate days.

Relationship:

Complementary: Bryonia. Alumina is the chronic Bryonia alba.

The antidote each other as well.

Antidotes: Ipecac, Chamom. , Camphora, Bryonia.

SUMMARY OF INDICATIONS:   CONSTIPATION(OBSTINATE) -

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LEUCORRHOEA.

Some illustrated cases of Alumina

 (Taken from Dr. Margery Blackie's "CLASSICAL

HOMEOPATHY:REPRETORY EDITION")

The first Aluminium case I ever say was a man well over
seventy with a letter from his doctor to say that for some
inexplicable reason he wished to try Homeopathy!  He sent his
X-Rays and a report from a specialist which stated that he had
an inoperable carcinoma of the gall bladder. The patient was
very thin, drawn and lined and had the peculiar greyish tint that
I have always since associated with Aluminium.  I took a lot of
rather poor symptoms, nothing very definite. He complained of
constant abdominal pain and a gripping sensation when he
tried, as if food stuck somewhere.  He said he felt awful in the
morning but that he might pick up a little later in the day. He
though he was probably hopeless, and if I would only keep him
from too awful a death he would be grateful.

 I asked if he had his food cooked in aluminium and he said

that he did, but was sure that his wife would change if I thought
it advisable.  I talked to her and suggested she should change. 
So conscientious was she that she would not even have an
aluminium spoon to stir anything. He had an aluminium beaker
in which he put his teeth at night, and this was changed to
something else.  I

gave him Sac. Lac. For a fortnight and at the end of that time
he was a little better, which made me feel there might possibly
be something in it, and then gave him a 200c of Aluminium. I
did not see him for two months and then he had put on half a
stone. He was eating moderately well, but carefully, and hardly
any discomfort.  He lived from another twelve years and finally
died from an influenzal bronchitis.  He has always stuck in my
mind as the colour of aluminium and one of the true cases of
aluminium poisoning.

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SECOND CASE:  The next case was a man of thirty-three.  He

worked for the BBC and was getting on well.  He said he had
constant indigestion and that he was fortunate because his
work was always an evening stint and that this was the best
time of the day for him. He felt much better in the evenings,
although he would have fits of apprehension and worry that
everything would go wrong. When he had had a bad  day he
would go to work thinking,'I shall never get through tonight,'but
he did.  He said the indigestion was such that when eating he
got quite painful constriction of his oesophgus and had
difficulty in swallowing, as if there was an obstruction. 
Otherwise he had vague indigestion.

 Then he suddenly broke off his history and said, ' You know, I
have a little boy of seven and he has a lot of the same
symptoms.  At the weekend my wife was away and I saw much
more him than usual. In two of the meals he clutched his
stomach and said wh a pain he had in the middle of his food. 
He was really very unwell for about half an hour and then when
it had gone off he was all right again.'  He said the child had
told him his stomach ache was much worse if he took
potatoes. This was interesting because it was the first time I
had ever met that symptom.  He also used to eat strange
things like Calcarea Carb. child. He was very constipated and
so was the father.  The boy had no desire for his bowels to act
and often passed a lot of small ball-like faeces only.   He
seldom had a really good action. The patient said he had the
greatest difficulty over his bowels too, and seemed unable to
strain or expel the stool even when it was quite soft. He also
had frequent headache, more like a pressure in the forehead,
as a rule sometimes very severe on the top of the head.   I
thinkt this is where your Aluminium headache is if you have
one. It is more often on the vertex. His whole head often
irritated him if he had a headache, and he would sit pressing
his hand on top of his head to ease it off a bit.

 I had great difficulty with his wife because when she came
back on Monday she had a new lot of aluminium saucepans

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and was very unwilling to get rid of them.  Finally her sister lent
her three stainless steel ones and I made her buy a different
kettle.  I saw the wife some months later and was rather
pleased when she said, 'My family's health is entirely different. 
They are all so much better, I can't believe it.  you don't think it
would really be the aluminium, do you?'  I said I was sure it was
and that I though they were all sensitive to aluminium,  It is
likely to happen in one family rather than in individuals.  They
have not used aluminium for the last twenty years not even to
stir anything, and have been quite well.

THIRD CASE:

 The third case was a man who had not been at all well, with
great many abdominal symptoms. He had had four biopsies of
his liver and all sorts of other tests.  He had had X-rays which
had not shown anything definite, although various specialists
thought he had a carcinoma of the stomach and his doctor had
been very serious about it. He was a nervous person and his
wife had managed to ask the doctor not to tell him what he
thought, but only tell her.  The doctor had told her that he gave
the patient another year and  that he though he had probably
got a stomach cancer.

 At this point I was called in. the lived in a flat on the ground
floor in one of London's squares, and when I went into the
room and saw him in the half light he looked absolutely
greyish. He told me he had a very great deal of trouble and that
he did not think I would be able to do anything about it.

 I went to see his general practitioner, who was a very nice man,
who told me what had been done.  He said,'You can feel how
tender and how thickened he is overf his upper abdomen' and I
said, 'I quite agree with you , he is very thick there but I doubt
whether it is malignant.  You have not foundanything in all your
X Rays and biopsies and therefore I am hoping that it is not
acually malignant. I agree with you that it will be if we leave it,
but I don't think it is at present. I think he is aluminium
sensitive.'

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 The first thing I did was to take him off aluminium utensils and
I left him without any other medicines except Sac lac for a
month.  I then gave a 30c, 200c and 1M of Aluminium, night
morning and night, and Sac lac to follow. Four years later I
examined him again and he told me he could not be better.  He
still had a slight thickening in the epigastrium, but less than it
was, and said he could eat anything.

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