Aletris-farinosa
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1993 Jul / Aug Vol II No 4.
Dr Tarkas P I.
` Alet
A tonic par excellence for the stomach (Alf) and uterus (Helon). Congestion of gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary. General atony and functional torpor, after protracted exhausting illness.
Make up: Run down anaemic females who always want to lie down, predisposed to haemorrhages and uterine atony as close-up of general.
Always tired, especially at PM. Debility from defective nutrition. Impaired digestion after severe illness, or as an uterine reflex.
Faint all gone feeling in the morning on rising with vertigo, headache, faint like nausea (qualmishness) and sleepiness. Worse by coffee and better by eating.
Mental faculties also enfeebled but rationalisation unaffected or distracted and confused. Heavy occiput. Open feeling in the ear or feels stuffed.
Much frothy saliva. Eructations. Vomiting amel. after eating. Nervous dyspepsia. Anorexia. Least food causes distress. Abdominal neurosis. Colic, flatulent or hysterical (Poth) amel by bending backwards (Dios). Clutching pain in right inguinal region extending down to the thighs; with uterine prolapse. Obstipation, stool large, hard. Haemorrhoids. Rectal distress. Gagging at sight or smell of grease. micturition seldom or incontinence, worse any jerk or vibration.
Female: Bearing down or labour like pains, morning on waking. Menses too early, too short and scanty, or copious; also too late and scanty. Menorrhagia, more copious at midnight, dark clotted or pale; then leucorrhoea, stringy white. Bruised pain in right ovary. Uterus feels heavy. Sterility; or abortive tendency. False pains in pregnancy. Pain in left breast as from a knife through to back or right scapula, or vice versa.
Cough before menses, with cyanosis. Frothy sputum. Whooping cough.
Pain in the back, breaking. Right shoulder extending to arm then to left chest. Right leg numb and lame.
Feverish chill, hand and face hot and flushed, cold limbs.
Penetrating wounds.