Aloe Socotrina

Botanical name : Aloe socotrina lam.

Common name : Aloe, Ghikumari, Ghi kanvar.

Family: Liliaceae.

Proved by : Helbig

Introduction

Plant, cultivated easily, grows in any soil, requires little care, abundant on arid plains. First employed by Galen and later described by the Greek and Roman 1st century writers.

KEY WORDS

A – abdominal and anal complaints

L – lumbago, lump of mucus

O – oozes mucus

E – evening aggravation

S – spastic colitis

O- onsent of urge to closet immediately after wakeup

C – cold application works as amelioration

C – cutting , gripping pain in right lower abdomen

O – old beer and oyster eating as ailments

T – tea stimulants

R – rectal complaints

I – insecure, involuntary stool

A – anger, averse to mental labour

Hemorrhoids like bunch of grapes

SPHERE OF ACTION

Rectum, intestine, portal system, liver, skin, blood.

CLINICAL PATHOGENEISIS

Abdominal, Constipation, hemorrhoids, headache, dysentery, diarrhoea, skin affections.

CONSTITUTION

Insecure, indolent, averse to either mental or physical labour, plegmatic habit, old people.

AILMENTS

Old beer drinker, oyster eater, over use of prugatives, suppression of skin disease, mental dissatisfaction, anger, sedentary life.

GUIDING FEATURES

• Immediate urge to closet after wakeup mostly 5 AM.
• While passing of flatus sensation of passage of stool.
• Cutting, gripping pain in the right lower abdomen.
• 3D – diarrhoea , dysentery, drawing pain.
• Itching appears every year when winter approaches.
• Burning sensation in anus after passage of flatus.
• Headache, with heaviness in eyes and nausea.
• portal congestion.

MENTAL GENERALS

• Insecure
• Anger, Dissatisfaction on health
• indolent

PHYSICAL GENERALS

• Likes cold water and weather more than Dry, hot weather
• aversion to meat
• thirsty, dryness of mouth

PARTICULARS

• Headache, increases at every footsteps, heaviness of eyes and nausea, aggravation at hot weather and amelioration with cold application.
• lump of mucous at throat
• Cutting, gripping pain at right lower portion of abdomen, flatulence after each meal, evening and morning, before stool with offensive smell.
• Insecure sphincter Ani, urge to pass stool with the passage of urine, while urinating feels as if stool would pass.
• Rumbling of stomach before stool passing, heaviness in rectum, after stool faintness.
• Hemorrhoids like bunch of grapes.

GENERAL MODALITIES

AGGRAVATION : hot dry weather, evening, morning, sedentary life.

AMELIORATION : cold air, cold application, discharge of flatus and stool.

RELATION

Sulphur, gambogia, nux vomica, podophyllinum.