Aluminium metallicum

Introduction -

For Aluminium metallicum Dr. Jan Scholten says,

• there is a confusion about who he is and who the other person is.

• They feel they have managed to find their own place and they deserve to have this place, but there are still several points that aren't clear to them. They wonder whether they really want this relationship. They also wonder how to proceed. How much of themselves should they give to this relationship? What is left of them since they have given themselves to this relationship? 

• They are confused about their own position in relation to the other person. They know they are in a relationship but they don't know where their own identity and responsibility end and the other person's begins. They ask themselves questions like: 'Was it really me who did this?' or 'Am I being myself at the moment?' This is the well known rubric'Confusion about identity'. Another typical symptom is that they don't recognise themselves when they look in the mirror. They look at themselves in surprise and think: 'Is that really me?' The confusion about where they end and the other person begins is sometimes so strong that it stops them from taking responsibility for their own actions. 

• Out of a desire to belong to the group they often do whatever the other person wants, thereby ignoring their own wishes. They carry out a task as requested by a family member or a peer group and later on they discover that it was probably not such a good idea. They feel uncomfortable about it and start to ask themselves whether it was really them who carried out this request: 'After all it was the group who asked them to do this, so isn't it the groups responsibility?' We find this in the repertory under the rubrics 'Delusion other speaks', 'Delusion other hears', 'Delusion consciousness belongs to another', 'Delusion head belongs to another' and 'Errors about identity'. 

• It is a very important remedy for people who did wrong during the war, who did things that did not agree with their own morals, but 'Befehl ist befehl'; also for people who spend their life thinking they have committed a crime. 

• These people might talk about themselves in an impersonal way, as if they are talking about someone else, using the words 'you' or 'one' instead of 'I'. 

• They doubt whether they have chosen the right partner or the right relationship. They keep on searching to try and find out whether another relationship wouldn't be more suitable. This creates complicated triangular relationships with all the confusion and doubt that goes with these. Who should they choose? Whose ideas should they follow? Should they listen to their boss or to their colleague? Should they choose for their wife or for their sister. They can never make up their minds, always afraid to make the wrong choice and regret it later. 

• All this wavering and hesitation eventually makes their partner unsure about the whole relationship too. The partner thought that a commitment had been made but now it all looks very unstable and he doesn't know what to think of it anymore. 

• A similar doubt may exist with regard to the family. They know they are part of the family but they don't really feel at ease, as if they can't really be themselves, as if they have to give part of themselves away for the sake of the whole group. 

• This theme may emerge within a very strict or religious family, where everybody has to obey the rules. Or we may see it in religious sects where there is a strong regime of discipline and obedience to authority. Nobody can be themselves, they have to do as they are told. A similar situation exists in the army, where they are forced to do things they would never dream of doing themselves. 

Here the Expression comes :-

 Fears: knives, blood, insanity, own impulses.
 Mood: timid, adapting, complaining, moaning, hurried, slow to act and speak, depressed, suicidal.
 Delusions: time going too fast, parts of body belong to someone else, being a  criminal, insanity, having no friends, ghosts, killing, marriage, mistake about own identity agg. looking in the mirror.
 Aggression: impulsively aggressive agg. seeing knives or blood.
 Mental: absent minded, confused, doubting, overwhelmed, as if in a fog, wandering, being lost, mistakes and faults, dementia.
 Causes: executing other peoples' commands, loss of relations, agg. being hurried or pushed. 

Homoeopathic ALUMINA [Alum]

Dullness. Slowness. Disorientation. Dryness. Potatoes aggravate. Constipation. Paralysis. SYNONYM Aluminium oxydatum. COMMON NAME Aluminium Hydrate. A/F -From artificial food, lifting. -Bottle fed babies, bodily exertion, disappointments, anger. -Lead poisoning. MODALITIES < Food, artificial, potatoes, starch, salt < Periodically, on alternate day < Full and new moon < In cold air, during winter < Speaking < Early on awaking < After menses < Talking < Eating potatoes, cold > Mild summer weather > Warm drinks > While eating > Wet weather MIND -The patient is very hasty and HURRIED. Time passes too slowly, an hour seems half a day. -Great mental CONFUSION as to his own personal identity. -Alternating moods. -Everything is viewed in sad light, depressed on awakening, on the other hand, fears his own impulse. -SUICIDAL tendency on seeing knife or blood. Fears loss of reason. -Parasthesia in the mental sphere, the consciousness of the reality and judgment is disturbed. Impressions reach consciousness SLOWLY i.e. prick of needle will be felt with delay. -Illusions of being large, numb, smooth, heavy. Makes mistakes in speaking or writing. -Laughs and talks between paroxysms of spasm. -Great stupor and dread of falling forward. Slowness in answering questions and vague replies can not be hurried > at own place < time limits. -Anxiety of conscience, as if guilty of a crime. -VAGUENESS, no clear symptoms come out. (Stages) 1. Slowness. Slow comprehension. Don't tolerate pressure of time. Sensation of being hurried inside, can't stand being hurried. Cannot do two things at the same time. 2. CONFUSION. TURMOIL. Vague state of mind. Impossible to express feelings, their problem. 3. Loss of identity. "Who am I?". When they talk, think someone else is talking. Everything seems unreal. 4. Come to conclusion they are going insane. Deep despair of recovery. Depression, resignation. Fear of knives, blood, cockroaches, disease, epilepsy, evil spirits. Impulse to kill themselves when seeing knife or blood. GUIDING INDICATIONS -It affects the cerebrospinal axis causing disturbance in co-ordination and paretic effects. Parasthesia, spinal degeneration. -Very chilly patient, deficient in animal heat and relieved by warmth in general, except skin eruptions. -Dryness of all the mucous membranes of the body, also there is a dry skin or irritability and relaxation. -Mucus discharges profuse, discharges are thin, acrid and irritant. -Patient is thin, wants to lie down but increases the fatigue. -Pulsations are felt in various parts and pains go upwards(especially in infants, old people, sedentary women). -Desire- dry food, indigestible things such as dry rice, starch, chalk, charcoal, earth, coal, cloves, coffee grounds, tea. -Aversion- meat, potatoes. -Potatoes disagree, cause eructations, heaviness and indigestion. -Vertigo-On closing eyes. -Tend to fall forward. -Eye-Dryness. -Thickening lids. -Chalazion. -Ptosis of eyelid. -Dim vision. -Catarrhal conjuctivitis, with great dryness and burning. -Throat-Scraping from dryness. -Abdomen-Colicky pain; painter's colic. -Chronic eructations for years, worse in evening. -Rectum-CONSTIPATION FOR MANY DAYS, with SOFT STOOL. -Constipation during pregnancy. Constipation of newborns. -No urging, have to aid with fingers. Rectum seems paralyzed. -Perspiration from straining at stool. -Thin stool ("thin as a pencil"). -There is extreme inactivity of rectum, even soft stool requires great staining. There is no desire for days together, obstinate constipation due to paretic condition of rectum and dryness of mucous membrane. Requires great straining. -Diarrhoea when patient urinates. -Urinary system-It takes a long time to get urination started. -Female genitalia-Sexual desire low. No orgasm. -Menses short, one day only, scanty. -Alternating symptoms, at end of menses. -After menses- great exhaustion, physically and mentally, menses scanty, pale. -Mental and physical exhaustion after menses. -Leucorrhoea is profuse, transparent and acrid running down to heels, more during day and better by cold bathing. -Cough-Constant, dry. -All irritant things- like salt, wine, vinegar, pepper, etc. Immediately produces cough and sore throat of public speakers. -Extremities-Paralysis, slow onset, starts with numbness soles of feet, heaviness of legs. -Heaviness of limbs progressing to paralysis. -Incoordinated walking, ataxia. -Sensory disorders; e.g. slow reaction on prick of needle (Cocc, Plb). -Callosities, tenderness in soles of feet. -Inability to walk, except with eyes open and in the daytime, tottering and falling when closing eyes. -Locomotor Ataxia. -Spinal degeneration - paralysis of lower limbs; legs feels asleep, when sitting with legs crossed. -Ankylosing spondylosis (sensation as if hot bandage around lumbar region). -Skin-DRY, dry, tettary eruption. Burning < winter. -Falling of hair, eyelashes. -Itching without eruption (Ars, Dol, Mez, Sulph). -Scratches until it bleeds. -No perspiration. -Intolerable itching of whole body when getting warm in bed. KEYNOTES 1. Inability to walk with eyes closed in darkness, tottering and falling when closing eyes. 2. Constipation-Even for soft stool has to strain, sticks to rectum like clay, has to strain at stool to urinate. Diarrhoea when she urinates. 3. Allergy to salt, wine, vinegar, pepper immediately produces cough. 4. Sensation of cobweb or dried white of an egg on face. CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS 1. Lack of vital heat, great mental and physical exhaustion (especially after menses). 2. Dryness-Irritation of mucous membrane with dryness, catarrhal dryness. Dryness of skin. Dryness of rectum, vagina. 3. Sensation as if dried white egg is on face, or of a cobweb. 4. Craving for indigestible things like starch, chalk, charcoal, etc. NUCLEUS OF REMEDY -Lack of vital heat. -Chilly persons who are apprehensive, hasty, impulsive with guilty conscience. -Anxiety about future. -Dryness of mucus membranes. -Tendency to paretic muscular states especially of the rectum, locomotor ataxia. -Debility, sluggishness, heaviness, numbness, staggering. -Chilly, disposition to colds. CLINICAL -Ataxia, Alzheimer's disease, Constipation, Dementia, Depression, Eczema, Fecal impaction, Multiple sclerosis, Myopathy, Paralysis, Parkinson's disease, Urinary retention, Vertigo. -For sore throat of clergymen or other public speakers who are thin in flesh, there is no remedy equal to Alumina - Dr. Dunham. -Violent cough excited by an elongated uvula - Dr. Dunham. A very slow acting remedy, let it act a long time (Calc-p, Sil). REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS Complementary: Bry Follows Well: Calc, Ign, Lyc, Nux-v, Phos, Puls, Sep, Sulph Compare: Alum-met Similar: Arg-n, Bar-c, Bry, Calc, Cham, Con, Ferr, Ferr-i, Gnaph, Ip, Kali-bi, Lach, Lyc, Plb, Puls, Ruta, Sep, Sil, Sulph, Zinc Antidoted By: Bry, Camph, Cham, Ip, Puls

Some useful Rubrics of ALUMINA :-

• mind; talking, conversation; contrary (see obstinate, irritable);
• mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; fear; of evil; evening; ;
• mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety; of conscience (as if guilty of a crime);
• mind; intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; weakness of mind; after period; ;
• mind; intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; confusion; as to own identity;
• mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; sadness, mental depression; morning; on waking; ;
• mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; mood; alternating mood;
• mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; irritability;
• mind; aversions, dislikes; cannot look at blood, or a knife;
• mind; talking, conversation; obstinate;
• Time passes slowly
• Confused as to personal identity
• Hasty, hurried
• Variable mood
• Better as day advances
• Suicidal tendency when seeing knife or blood.
• head; pain, headache; pressing (see bursting, pulling); forehead; while standing; ;
• Vertigo, with nausea; better after breakfast
• Stitching, burning pain in head, with vertigo, worse in morning, but relieved by food
• Pressure in forehead as from a tight hat
• Falling out of hair; scalp itches and is numb.
• head; pain, headache; sides; one side; ;
• head; pain, headache; stitching, sudden, sharp; brain; ;
• head; pain, headache; recurring headache;
• head; pain, headache; affected by certain foods and drinks (improved, brought on or aggravated); after eating;
• Throbbing headache, with constipation
• Inability to walk except with eyes open
• eye; tears; daytime only; ;
• eye; pain; burning, smarting, gnawing, biting;
• eye; itching; inner; ;
• eye; ulceration; conjunctiva (external lining of eye); ;
• eye; itching; corner; ;
• eye; inflammation; wounds; conjunctiva (external lining of eye); ;
• eye; dryness;
• eye; lids; stuck together; night; ;
• eye; lids; thickening of lids;
• Eyes feel cold
• Objects look yellow
• Lids dry, burn, smart, thickened, aggravated in morning; chronic conjunctivitis
• Ptosis
• Strabismus.
• vision; colours and shapes in front of eyes; colours; yellow; halo around the light;
• Eustachian tube feels plugged.
• Humming; roaring
• nose; discharge from nose; blood;
• nose; skin or lining of nose; cracks; tip; ;
• Membranes distended and boggy.
• Oxaena atrophica sicca
• Tettery redness
• Scabs with thick yellow mucus
• Point of nose Cracked, nostrils sore, RED; worse touch
• Fluent coryza
• Sense of smell diminished
• Pain at root of nose
• nose; skin or lining of nose; discoloration; redness;
• face; lips; chapped;
• Feels as if albuminous substance had dried on it
• Blood-boils and pimples
• Rush of blood to face after eating.
• Twitching of lower jaw
• Tensive pain in articulation of jaw when opening mouth or chewing.
• Sore
• Gums sore, bleeding
• Teeth covered with sordes
• Bad odor from it
• throat; dryness; evening; ;
• throat; pain; swallowing; on swallowing; ;
• throat; scraping; evening; ;
• throat; scraping; from dryness; ;
• throat; external throat; itching;
• DRY, sore; food cannot pass, oesophagus contracted
• Feels as if splinter or plug were in throat
• Constant inclination to clear the throat.
• Thick, tenacious mucus drops from posterior nares
• Clergyman’s sore throat in thin subjects
• Looks parched and glazed
• Irritable, and relaxed throat
• No desire to eat
• abdomen; stomach; indigestion; after potatoes; ;
• Pressing in both groins toward sexual organs
• Colic, like painter’s colic
• Can swallow but small morsels at a time
• Constriction of oesophagus.
• abdomen; bladder; urination; feeble stream (slow); morning on waking; ;
• Aversion to meat ( Graph.; Arn.; Puls.) Potatoes disagree
• Heartburn; feels constricted
• Stomach; Abnormal cravings - chalk, Charcoal, dry food, tea-grounds
• abdomen; pain; from lead poisoning; ;
• abdomen; stomach; appetite; reduced;
• abdomen; bladder; urination; delayed, difficult; must press; morning; ;
• abdomen; bladder; urination; delayed, difficult; must press; a long time before able to start;
• abdomen; stomach; indigestion;
• Left-sided abdominal complaints.
• abdomen; bladder; urination; feeble stream (slow);
• abdomen; stomach; vomiting; on coughing; ;
• rectum; constipation; inactivity of rectum;
• rectum; constipation; difficult stool;
• rectum; constipation;
• rectum; pain; soreness; during stool; ;
• rectum; diarrhoea; urinating;
• rectum; constipation; difficult stool; soft stool;
• rectum; pain; burning; during stool; ;
• rectum; pain; cutting;
• stool; like balls; like sheep dung;
• stool; dark;
• stool; bloody;
• stool; small (see long and narrow);
• stool; soft;
• stool; knotty, nodular, lumpy;
• stool; thin, liquid;
• stool; hard;
• stool; like balls;
• Evacuation preceded by painful urging long before stool, and then straining at stool.
• great straining
• Diarrhoea on urinating
• Constipation of infants (Collins.; Psor.; Paraf.) and old people from inactive rectum, and in women of very sedentary habit
• Even a soft is passed with difficulty
• Itching and burning at anus
• Rectum sore, dry, inflamed, bleeding
• Hard, dry, knotty; no desire
• Pain in kidneys, with mental confusion
• Frequent desire to urinate in old people
• Muscles of bladder paretic, Must strain at stool in order to urinate
• Difficult starting.
• genitals; urethra (urinary part of genitals); discharge; yellow; chronic;
• Involuntary emissions when straining at stool
• an.; Coccul.) Leucorrhoea Acrid, profuse, transparent, ROPY, with burning; worse during daytime, and after menses
• (Carb
• Prostatic discharge.
• Male; Excessive desire
• genitals; urethra (urinary part of genitals); discharge; yellow;
• genitals; urethra (urinary part of genitals); discharge; sharp mucous or pus;
• Female; Menses too early, short, Scanty, pale, followed by great exhaustion
• genitals; female; vaginal discharge;
• genitals; female; vaginal discharge; strong and sharp (acrid), wearing away skin;
• Relieved by washing with cold water.
• respiration; interrupted; coughing; ;
• Cough soon after waking in the morning
• Hoarse, aphonia, tickling in larynx; wheezing, rattling respiration
• Cough on talking or singing, In the morning
• Chest feels constricted
• Condiments produce cough
• Talking aggravates soreness of chest.
• respiration; difficult (dyspnea); with cough;
• cough; hacking cough;
• cough; suffocating;
• cough; dry cough; almost constant;
• cough; dry cough;
• cough; constant;
• cough; choking;
• cough; morning; ;
• chest; oppressed feeling; bending head forward;
• chest; pain; night; ;
• chest; pain; pressing; night; ;
• back; skin; itching; neck; ;
• back; pain; tearing; lumbar (lower half of back); ;
• back; pain; sore, bruised, beaten;
• back; pain; dorsal (shoulder level); spine; ;
• back; pain;
• back; tension; neck (see spasmodic pulling); ;
• Pain along cord, with paralytic weakness.
• Gnawing pain, as if from hot Iron
• Stitches
• back; pain; sore, bruised, beaten; lumbar (lower half of back); sacrum (base of spine); ;
• extremities, limbs; weakness; tottering;
• extremities, limbs; skin; out-break on skin; foot; herpes;
• extremities, limbs; pain; as if sprained; shoulder; raising the arm; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; as if sprained; shoulder; ;
• extremities, limbs; skin; itching; toes; toes that had been frozen; ;
• extremities, limbs; weakness; lower limbs; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; sore, bruised; foot; sole; while walking; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; sore, bruised; foot; sole; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; gnawing, biting; fingers; under nails; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; fingers; nails; under the nails; ;
• extremities, limbs; movements and positions; incoordination; ataxia;
• extremities, limbs; skin; skin cracks at bends of joints; hands (see chapping); ;
• extremities, limbs; paralysis;
• extremities, limbs; pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; shoulder; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; tearing; knee; knee cap; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; hip; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; knee; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; tearing; lower limbs; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; tearing; thigh; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; tearing; knee; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; tearing; knee; extending to other parts; downward; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; tearing; leg; ;
• extremities, limbs; pain; tearing; leg; extending to toes; ;
• extremities, limbs; movements and positions; incoordination;
• extremities, limbs; heaviness; foot; ;
• Spinal degeneration and paralysis of lower limbs.
• Inability to walk, except when eyes are open or in daytime
• Brittle nails
• Gnawing beneath finger nails
• Soles tender; on stepping, feel soft and swollen
• heels feel numb
• staggers on walking
• Legs feel asleep, Especially when sitting with legs crossed
• Arms feel paralyzed
• extremities, limbs; heaviness; lower limbs; ;
• Pain in shoulder and upper arm
• Pain in arms and fingers, as if hot Iron penetrated
• extremities, limbs; hands and feet; corns; stinging;
• extremities, limbs; heaviness; leg; while sitting; ;
• extremities, limbs; heaviness; lower limbs; while sitting; ;
• extremities, limbs; heaviness; leg; ;
• sleep; dreams; robbers;
• sleep; waking; frequent; ;
• sleep; sleepiness, tiredness;
• sleep; dreams; anxious;
• Sleepy in morning.
• Restless; anxious and confused dreams
• chill; evening; ;
• chill; on waking; ;
• chill; after sleep; ;
• chill; in bed; ;
• chill; evening; in bed; ;
• fever; perspiration with heat;
• fever; one-sided; ;
• fever; one-sided; right; ;
• skin; itching; without visible out-break on skin;
• Brittle nails
• Brittle skin on fingers.
• Chapped and dry tettery
• Intolerable itching when getting warm in bed
• Must scratch until it bleeds; then becomes painful
• generalities; temperature (felt and effects of temperature); tendency to catch cold;
• generalities; temperature (felt and effects of temperature); warmth;
• generalities; walking; in open air;
• generalities; warmth;
• generalities; weakness (see lethargic, weariness); from talking; ;
• generalities; weakness (see lethargic, weariness); walking; ;
• generalities; weakness (see lethargic, weariness); walking; in open air; ;
• generalities; weariness (see weakness);
• generalities; symptoms not symmetrical; symptoms on one side; ;
• generalities; pulsation; internally; ;
• generalities; evening; ;
• generalities; open air;
• generalities; physical exertion;
• generalities; faintness, fainting; while standing; ;
• generalities; lethargic, tired;
• generalities; lying down; inclination to lie down;
• generalities; pain; pressing; together;
• generalities; periodic, recurring; ;
• generalities; weariness (see weakness); after talking; ;

For More Details :-

• homeopathy and the elements by jan scholten
• dictionary of practical materia medica by j.h.clarke
• http://abchomeopathy.com/r.php/Alum

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