Aloe Socotrina appears in 12 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Socotrine Aloes (Liliaceae) Adapted to indolent, "weary" persons; averse to either mental or physical labor; mental labor fatigues. Old people; especially women of relaxed, phelgmatic habit. Extreme prostration, with perspiration. Itch appears each year, as winter approaches (Psor.). Dissatisfied and angry about…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Aloe socotrina, Lam. Nat. order , Liliaceæa. Preparation . The fiery red gum is to be triturated. Authorities. [Nos. 1 to 24 , taken from Hering's Arzneiprufungen; 25, A. H. Z., 74, 29; 26, Z. f. v. H. Œst., 1, 88; 27, Symptoms from five provers, Jour. du dispens. Hahn., 8, 285.] , L. S., θ; 4 , Pren, θ; 5 , A. B…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Socotrine Aloes (ALOE) An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological equilibrium after much dosing, where disease and drug symptoms are much mixed. There is no remedy richer in symptoms of portal congestion and none that has given better clinical results, both for the primary pathological condition and…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ALTERNATING EFFECTS, sides, states, etc.(Comp. Periodicity, Wandering, Waves). CONGESTION FALLING GELATINOUS (Comp. Albuminous) GURGLING HEAVINESS, partial HUMID, warm, wet weather, Agg. INCONTINENCE, stool, urine, sexual, etc. LUMPY EFFECTS, discharges, etc. ORIFICES RELAXATION (Comp. Inactive.) STANDING, Agg…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“socotrina. Common Aloes. N. O. Liliaceæ. Trituration or solution in spirit of the gum. Abdomen, plethora of / Anus, affections of / Bronchitis / Colic / Constipation / Cough / Diarrhœa / Dysentery / Gleet / Gonorrhœa / Hæmorrhoids / Hysteria / Lumbago / Onanism, effects of / Phthisis / Proctitis / Prolapsus uteri /…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Socotrine Aloes. Liliaceæ. One of the oldest and most famous drugs, largely cultivated, and in use as a horse-medicine, hence rarely to be obtained pure from the shops. From the collection of the College of Pharmacy some of the genuine socrotine aloes was obtained. It was brought from the Sultan of Muscat, by a…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Generalities: Aloe, much like Aesculus, has a peculiar engorgement of the veins, causing stiffness and fullness throughout the body, but the greatest disturbance is in the veins of the portal system, with great fullness in the region of the liver, and abdominal, rectal and intestinal fullness. This is associated with…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Mental dissatisfaction and bad humor about himself, and more especially during the state of costiveness or when he suffers from pain. Giddiness on moving. Great weakness and weak pulse after vomiting. Aloe is frequently called for in correcting the bad effects from sedentary life and habits and is especially suitable…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Anxiety and ebullition. Restlessness, fear, fear of man. Bad humor, especially in cloudy weather. He is dissatisfied and angry about himself; more so when he is constipated or when he augers from pain; better in the open air. Aversion to labor. Children chat and laugh. Giddiness and starts. Giddiness, with anxiety…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: socotrine aloes. Aloe is frequently called for in correcting the bad effects from sedentary life and habits (Nux-V.), and is especially suitable to persons of a lymphatic and hypochondriacal constitution. DISEASES OF MUCOUS MEMBRANES; CAUSES THE PRODUCTION OF MUCUS IN JELLY-LIKE LUMPS FROM THROAT OR…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Insecurity of rectum; rectum feels full of heavy fluid, which will fall out, and does, if he does not go to stool immediately. Diarrhoea. Solid stool, passing (in large balls) away involuntarily and unnoticed. Great fullness and weight in whole abdomen, with feeling of weight in rectum and hemorrhoids protruding like…”
