- 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 — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“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…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“ABDOMINAL VEINS: RECTUM. Liver. Colon. Pelvis. Lumbar region. Head. Female organs. HEAT; damp. Summer. Early A.M. (in bed). After dysentery. Stepping hard. Evening. Cool, open air. Cold applications. Relaxation and VENOUS CONGESTION, closing eyes. Pain from navel to rectum. Heavy hypogastrium; rectum. Prolapsus recti…”
- 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 /…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“The key-notes of this most important remedy are found in the stool, rectum, and anus. The characteristic stool is a "gob" of mucus, either large or small, in consistence like the jelly-fish; usually dark in color, but sometimes colorless. Another strong characteristic is that the stools often pass away unnoticed by…”
- 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…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“ALOE, jf/wf Socotrina^ Lam. Gum aloes. Nat, Ord„ LiUacf^g, L Proving$, — 1. Every healthy person who takes a certain quantity of A, has some stools from it. He experiences otherwise no symptoms^ unless it be sometimes a little heat and uneasiness in region of Jivcr. The effect is rarely felt for the first 8 h», often…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“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 (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…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“Aloes may be of use in those cases of lumbago where there is associated with the symptoms the characteristic disturbances of the lower bowel with protruding hæmorrhoids. It differs from Aesculus in the character of the hæmorrhoids and in the aggravations. (Cracking in cervical vertebræ on motion.) DULL STEADY PAIN ON…”
