by E. B. Nash — Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
In typhoid hæmorrhages from the bowels. It is an excellent remedy and the stools are of dark clotted blood, in large quantities. It is also excellent for relaxed uvula in sore throat.
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Alumen appears in 8 of the 21 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.
“Alum: the crystallized double sulphate of Aluminum and Potassium (Kal2SO4 Preparation , Triturations of the pure crystals. Authorities. (The symptomatology is, with a few exceptions, taken from Hering's monograph of Alumen; the clinical observations of the old school are not here included) Conscious of all that…”
“Common Potash Alum The clinical application of this remedy points to its bowel symptoms, both in obstinate constipation and in hæmorrhage from bowels in the course of typhoid-one phase of the paralytic weakness of the muscles in all parts of the body. Tendency to induration is also marked, a low form of tissue-making…”
“Potassic-Aluminic Sulphate. Potash Alum. K 2 SO 4 Al 2 S0 4 24 H 2 O, Trituration of the pure crystals. Alcohol, effects of / Anus, affections of / Bronchitis / Catarrh / Cancer / Chilblains / Colic / Constipation / Cough / Diabetes / Diarrhœa / Dysentery / Eczema / Eyes, affections of / Eyes, operations on / Gleet /…”
“I have been led to use Alumen quite extensively in a variety of ailments characterized by a most obstinate constipation, which had been existing for a long time. Some years ago a lady came to me suffering from very violent attacks of gastralgia, attended with nausea, vomiting, retching, etc., and unable to bear the…”
“Alum. Aluminii et Potassii Sulphas. The well-known astringent double salt, found as a native mineral near the volcanoes of the Lipari Isles, in Sicily ; abundant in this country in Maryland and in Tennessee. One of the oldest medicines ever used. Introduced and proved by C. Hg., in 1845, with the assistance of Drs…”
“^^P ALUMEN. ^^m Alum, PotasstcAlumimc sutphnte. K3Al24S04,%4HjO. L Frovings, — I. Dr. Jeanes took 3rd cent. trit. (how is not stated). On 8th d. had bruised feeling on lower edge of I orbit, on pressure or on moving lids, lasting 2 d, ; and piles, with aching within anus. On nth d., three yellow diarrhceic stools…”
“Weakness: This medicine, like Alumina , seems to produce a peculiar kind of Paralytic weakness of the muscles in all parts of the body, a sort of lack of tone. The extremities are weak. This weakness is felt especially in the rectum and bladder. The stool becomes impacted from want of ability of the rectum and colon…”
Kent's Repertory lists Alumen in 837 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (140), STOMACH (77), HEAD (65), CHEST (41), GENERALITIES (39).
