Aletris Farinosa alet.

Female organs (R). Blood.

Loss of fluids.

Passing flatus. Bending backward.

Debility. Always tired. Heaviness of parts. Uterine reflexes. Hæmorrhage. Anæmia.

Frothy saliva. Abdominal colic. Terrible pain during stool. Constipation. Early, profuse menses. Tendency to abortion.

Related: Chin. Helo. Tril.

The curative range of this remedy crops out in the female sexual organs; more particularly when there is nervous debility from protracted illness or defective nutrition.

The least food causes distress, fainting spells with vertigo, disgust for food, constipation. Obstinate vomiting during pregnancy. Flatulent colic in weak, emaciated persons.

Female: Premature, profuse menses, with labor-like pains. Menorrhagia, profuse, black blood and coagula, fulness and weight in uterine region. Leucorrhœa, in debility, as above. Sterility; the above weakness as an apparent cause. Prolapsus, from same cause, other symptoms agreeing. Habitual tendency to abortion, sensation of weight in uterine region, tendency to prolapsus. Myalgic pains during pregnancy.

Stargrass

An anæmic, relaxed condition, especially of the female organism, is portrayed by this remedy. The patient is tired all the time, and suffers from prolapsus, leucorrhœa, rectal distress, etc. Marked anæmia. Chlorotic girls and pregnant women.

Power and energy weakened. Confused feelings. Cannot concentrate mind. Fainting, with vertigo.

Much frothy saliva.

Disgust for food. Least food causes distress. Fainting spells, with vertigo. Vomiting during pregnancy. Nervous dyspepsia. Flatulent colic.

Loads up with feces-paretic condition. Stool large, hard, difficult, great pain.

Premature and profuse menses, with labor-like pains (Bell; Cham; Kali c; Plat). Retarded and scanty flow (Senecio). Uterus seems heavy. Prolapse, with pain in right inguinal region. Leucorrhœa due to weakness and anæmia. Habitual tendency to abortion. Muscular pains during pregnancy.

Compare: Helonias; Hydrastis; Tanacet; China.

Tincture to third potency.

Star Grass Blazing Grass. Colic Root. Unicorn Root. (United States.) N. O. Hæmodoraceæ. Tincture of root.

Abortion. Anæmia. Colic. Constipation. Convulsions. Debility. Dysmenorrhœa. Dysuria. Endometritis. Fever. Hæmorrhoids. Hysteric colic. Indigestion. Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Myalgia. Pregnancy, vomiting of. Sterility. Uterus, pain in; prolapse of.

Alet. far . is said to be the most bitter of all plants. It is characterised by weariness of body and mind. Want of appetite, especially in connection with Uterine disorders. The least food distends the stomach. There are fainting attacks with vertigo. Emaciation is marked in some cases. Disgust for food, nausea; constipation. Obstinate vomiting of pregnancy. Many symptoms appear in the uterine sphere: uterine atony, menses profuse and premature with labour-like pains or amenorrhœa, debility, from loss of fluids, protracted illness. Menorrhagia, black clots, fulness and weight. Leucorrhœa, with debility. Sterility. Habitual tendency to abortion. Sensation of weight in uterine region and tendency to prolapse. Sensation of weight in occiput as if it would draw the head back. It is most suited for chlorotic girls and pregnant women. Weak, emaciated people.

Compare: Helonias dioica ("False" Unicorn, not to be confounded with Alet. f.), Chin., Hydrast., Sabin., Senec., Puls., Caulo.; Dioscor. (colic < bending forward); Caust., Puls., Fer., (discharge of urine during cough); Alumina (constipation; grasps the seat tightly, despairs of having a stool. During stool terrible pains as if a passage were being forced, Al. f.).

Weariness of body and mind.

Vertigo, with sleepiness, vomiting, purging; even stupefaction. — As if head in a vice. — Weight in occiput; as if it would draw the head backward.

Eyes feel sore and look dim.

Ears feel as if open through from one to the other. — Deaf in l. ear with stuffed feeling.

Appetite lost; with weakness.

Least food distresses the stomach; fainting attacks with vertigo; sleepy, emaciated; disgust for food, nausea; obstinate indigestion. — Vomiting during pregnancy. — Eructations of food in evening with burning in throat. — All-gone feeling in morning on rising, > by eating. — Nausea is > by coffee; is > by dinner, but returns with gagging at sight or thought of grease. — Nausea, with pressure in forehead.

Cramps. — Griping. — Pain all through abdomen, settling into lower part, > passing flatus and scanty diarrhœic stool; pain < bending forward, > bending backward, then the pain increased and it seemed as if all the insides had settled into lower abdomen and were cut with knives; > scanty diarrhœic stool. — Aching in hypogastrium and across back of hips. — Hysteric colic.

Scanty diarrhœic stool; tenesmus during and after stool, with feeling as if lower part of rectum closed. — Fearful pains in rectum and anus, during a movement terrible pain as if forcing a passage. — Inveturate constipation as from rectal atony. — Frequent ineffectual urgings. — Stool: loose, painful, offensive, frequent; thin with hard lumps in it; hard, delayed, small, scanty, difficult. — Hæmorrhoids.

Micturition rare. — Incontinence, < walking fast or sneezing. — Urine scanty, phosphatic.

Premature profuse menses with labour-like pains. — Amenorrhœa or delayed menses from atony; weariness of mind and body; abdomen distended, bearing-down. — Menses too soon with colic, light-coloured. — Menorrhagia, profuse, black with coagula; fulness and weight. — Leucorrhœa, white stringy. — Prolapsus. — Sterility. — Habitual tendency to abort; sensation of weight in uterine region; tendency to prolapse. — Myalgic pains like "false pains.". — Before menses: cough.

Raises a good deal of froth, feels as if wanted to cough and couldn't. — Tickling, short, dry, hard cough on waking, becoming spasmodic, < by talking; = discharge of urine. — Later, cough incessant, like whooping-cough; loses breath; cyanotic; > suddenly on occurrence of menses eight days too soon.

Pain in l. breast as if a knife ran into it. — Pain in l. breast, then extending through into back to l. of lower part of r. scapula. — Pulse irregular and intermittent.

Pain in centre of nape, running into l. shoulder; then pain in nape moved up to occiput, and remained there all evening. — Sharp pain from point of l. scapula through to l. breast. — Sensation as if back would break just above waist; afterwards same pain higher up. — Backache with dragging in sacral regions, and string, colourless leucorrhœa, beginning when walking.

Sharp pain in r. shoulder joint, streaked down arm, then into l. chest, settling above nipple. — Knees painful sitting. — R. leg feels paralysed below knee, numb, could not bear weight on it.

Itching papillary eruption across chest and back, < by scratching, > by rubbing.

Restless fore part of night.

Chilly, face flushed. — Limbs cold, head and face hot and flushed.

Star Grass. Hæmadoraceæ.
The most bitter plant ; much more so than Aloes, Gentian or Quassia. (-BIGELOW.)

Weariness of body and mind.

Vertigo, sleepiness, vomiting and purging ; even stupefaction.
Dizzy when stooping.

Eyes feel sore and look dim.

Spits a good deal and raises froth.

Want of appetite with weakness.
Want of appetite. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Least food distresses stomach ; fainting attacks with vertigo ; sleepy, emaciated ; disgust for food, nausea ; obstinate indigestion ; constipation ; debility.
Indigestion. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Obstinate vomiting during pregnancy.

Flatulent colic in weak, emaciated persons.
(OBS :) Hysteric colic.

Fearful pains in rectum and anus ; during a movement terrible pains as if forcing a passage.

Premature, profuse menses, with labor-like pains.
Amenorrhœa or delayed menses, from uterine or ovarian atony ; weariness of mind and body ; abdomen distended, bearing down ; lassitude.
Prolapsus from muscular atony.
Menorrhagia from a congested state of uterus and ovaries ; profuse black blood and coagula ; fulness and weight in uterine region.
Leucorrhœa from loss of fluids or defective nutrition ; debility from protracted illness.
Leucorrhœa. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Menses too early and too profuse. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Sterility from uterine atony.

Habitual tendency to abortion, sensation of weight in uterine region, and tendency to prolapsus.
Myalgic pains, simulating "false pains," during pregnancy.

Raises a great deal of froth ; feels as if wanting to cough, but cannot.

Stooping : causes dizziness ; has a great sense of weakness.

Debility, especially of females, from protracted illness or defective nutrition ; no organic disease.
Great debility. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Debility after diphtheria.
(OBS :) Fits.
(OBS :) Epilepsy with young persons.

(OBS :) In many fevers.

Pain in rectum as if forcing a passage.
Fearful pains : in rectum and anus.
Myalgic pains : during pregnancy.
Soreness : of eyes.
Fulness : in uterine region.
Weight : in uterine region.

(OBS :) Chronic rheumatism.
(OBS :) Dropsy.

Most suitable for chlorotic girls and pregnant women.
Weak, emaciated people.

Similar to Helon., Cinchon., Hydrast., Sabin., Senec., Pulsat . and Cauloph .
In collecting the root not to be mistaken for Helon. dioic .

Aletris farinosa, Linn. (natural order Hæmodoraceæ), colic root. A tincture is prepared from the root.

It seems to be an irritant to mucous membranes (See nose, mouth and gastro-intestinal canal), and to produce an engorgement of the lower abdomen, with symptoms in women of a heavy uterus.

Colch., Arum tri., Aloes, Lil. Tig., Kali c., Iris, Crocus, Dioscorea.

Uneasiness. ▶ Faint feeling in evening, with nausea. ▶ Tired; all the afternoon, with dull, heavy, confused feeling in head and inability to concentrate the mind or study. ▶ Mind confused and wandering. ▶ Mind tends to run on pleasant thoughts, but it does not continue on one object long. ▶ Rapidity of thought not lessened, but the power and energy of mind weakened.

Aching; in morning on waking; every morning, with nauseous, faint, all-gone feeling, in stomach, amel. eating; in different parts. ▶ Strange feeling, gradually settling down, with aching in occiput. ▶ Feeling as if in a vise. ▶ Pressure over eyes, with a queer sensation behind ears. ▶ Pain over right eye, running down into eyeball, amel. closing lids, at same time nausea and pain in lower abdomen. ▶ Forepart felt as if in a vise; feeling in forehead as if in a vise, with dull pain running from right temple over eye down into eyeball. ▶ Aching in right temple. ▶ Temples feel as if in a vise; T. feel as if pressed together with an occasional twinge in right temple. ▶ Pain in vertex, agg. bending it forward and by straining at stool; P. in vertex, with weight in occiput. ▶ Heaviness in vertex and over eyes.

Occiput. ▶ Pain; and in neck; then weight; on left side, just behind ear; and heaviness, with sharp pain running down right trapezius, which was agg. bending head forward, amel. bending it backward. ▶ Queer feeling. ▶ Weight, with aching over eyes and through head from temple to temple. ▶ Heaviness, as if a weight would draw it backward, and the neck had not the strength to prevent it; amel. during breakfast, with a feeling as if the scalp were contracting across the back, drawing the sides of the occiput together.

Lancinating pain in right eyeball. ▶ Eyelids feel as if pressed down. ▶ Pain back of ear, running down sterno-mastoid muscle, leaving soreness to touch; P. back of right ear, extending down anterior surface of sterno-mastoid muscle. ▶ Ears feel as if open through from one to another. ▶ Deaf in left E., stuffed feeling. ▶ Nose sore inside of tip; inside, on left of tip; inside, agg. right side (a crack just inside right nostril). ▶ Watery discharge from nose. ▶ Lips dry and cracked (Arum tr.).

Pain; in right side all the afternoon, and at 5 P.M. in left side close up under jaw, with thirst and hyperæmia of mucous membrane of pharynx and larynx; in right side (in right anterior pillar), intermittent, like shocks of an electro-magnetic machine run slowly but strong, agg. any movement of head that stretched the muscles. ▶ Soreness in morning on waking.

Appetite lost. ▶ Thirst; during fever. ▶ Eructations of air after eating; of food in evening with burning in throat. ▶ Nausea, with giddiness, then vomiting and purging; nausea agg. by coffee; with pressure in forehead, the nausea amel. dinner, but returning with gagging at the sight or thought of grease. ▶ All-gone feeling in morning on rising, causing faintness, amel. eating.

Cramps. ▶ Griping (Diosc.). ▶ Pain all through, settling into lower part, amel. passing flatus and scanty diarrhœic stool (Colch.); P. all through, agg. bending forward, amel. bending backward, then the pain increased and it seemed as if all the insides had sunken to lower abdomen and were cut with knives (Verat.); amel. scanty diarrhœic stool (Colch.); intermittent, mostly in lower part, amel. scanty diarrhœic stool, tenesmus during and after stool, with feeling as if lower part of rectum were closed. ▶ Aching in hypogastrium; and across back of hips.

Frequent ineffectual urgings. ▶ Loose, painful, offensive, frequent. ▶ Thin, with hard lumps in it. ▶ Hard; and delayed, small, scanty. ▶ Difficult; and delayed, scanty, difficult, than constant desire to urinate for half an hour; frequent, the first small, urgent, dark, offensive, excoriating. ▶ Bad odor to S. and flatus.

Micturition rare. ▶ Incontinence, agg. walking fast or sneezing. ▶ Amount and specific gravity of urine diminished at first. ▶ Phosphated slightly increased.

Pain in uterine region; in morning on waking, menses almost black, scanty and sour, with malaise. ▶ Menses too soon, light-colored, with colic and bearing-down pains (Aloes), lasted 52 hours (always six days), then leucorrhœa, white, stringy; too soon and profuse, with labor-like pains.

It has been found useful for prolapsus uteri associated with general anæmia and scanty menstruation; the pains are griping clutching in the right inguinal region extending down the thigh; it has also been used for leucorrhœa and endometritis. ▶ It cured hæmorrhoids in one of the provers.

Tickling short, dry, hard, on waking, becoming spasmodic, agg. by talking, discharge of urine during cough, later cough incessant, and like whooping cough, lose my breath and become cyanotic C., amel. suddenly on occurrence of menstruation (eight days too soon).

Pain in left breast as if a knife ran into it; sharp pain in left breast, then extending through into back, to left of lower part of right scapula.

Irregular and intermittent.

Pain in centre of nape, running off into left shoulder, then the pain in nape moved up to occiput, where it lasted all the evening. ▶ Sharp pain from lower point of left scapula through to left breast. ▶ Pain in dorsal region. ▶ Sensation as if the back would break just above waist, afterwards the same pain higher up. ▶ Backache, with dragging in sacral region and stringy, colorless leucorrhœa, beginning when walking.

Sharp pain in right shoulder-joint, streaked down arm, then into left chest, where it located just above nipple. ▶ Knees painless in forenoon during motion, painful in afternoon while sitting right leg feels paralyzed below knee and numb, could not bear weight on it.

Itching, papillary eruption across chest and upper part of back, with hyperæmia and hyperæsthesia of surrounding integument, the itching agg. scratching with the nails, but amel. rubbing with the palms.

Restlessness at night, agg. fore part, preventing sleep; right every night, late falling asleep, then immediately terrible dreams, which wakened, till late in morning, then resting well; with many dreams. ▶ Unrefreshing. ▶ Sleeplessness till 12 or 1 o'clock, then restless sleep till late in morning, then undisturbed sleep; S. agg. fore part of night, with physical and mental restlessness, the mind, continually wandering on occurrences of his past life, no tendency to brood over sorrow, thoughts very pleasant.

Chills, face flushed. ▶ Limbs cold, head and face hot and flushed. ▶ Feverish.

"A bitter uterine tonic".
Prolapsus uteri with general anæmia, leucorrhœa, constipation, distress in rectum. Tired all the time.

This most useful and neglected remedy has been frequently indicated in the complaints of women, especially in those predisposed to hemorrhages ; uterine hemorrhages particularly whether it be after an abortion or in connection with menstruation.

Copious bleeding from the uterus is characteristic ; hemorrhages when the uterus fills with blood until it becomes distended, and its contents are expelled in large clots, followed by copious hemorrhage with or without painful contractions.

A copious menstrual flow followed by watery oozing during the intermenstrual period, now and then dilating into copious gushing flow with black clots ; this remedy is useful at the critical period when it is attended with hemorrhage.

The hemorrhages of this medicine are particularly due to a relaxed or debilitated state of the uterus.

Weakness of the reproductive organs may be said to be the guiding feature ; atony.

Weakness of the uterus with repeated abortion or hemorrhages with debility of the individual.

Bruised feeling in the region of the ovaries, particularly in the right.

Bearing down in the region of the uterus as if the contents of the pelvis would escape.

Much worse while walking.

An attack of hemorrhage that came on with great violence in the middle of the night, the patient waking, unable to speak, so exhausted from the flow : was cured by Aletris 45m.

This patient lost her urine when coughing, sleeping or walking, and this symptom which has been present many years was entirely cured by Aletris.

This involuntary escape of urine was always brought on by catching cold.

Disgust for food ; nausea ; obstinate indigestion.

The patient has a pale sickly chlorotic face, would like to lie down all day and do nothing but rest.

Such debilitated patients, when they become pregnant, suffer from vomiting and colic ; the stomach seems to be in the same weak condition as the reproductive organs.

Most inveterate constipation.

Until this remedy was known, Kreosote was the most promising remedy for copious frothy eructations with vomiting ; this remedy must take the place of Kreosote in the vomiting of pregnant women, when the symptoms agree.

There are violent pains in the rectum and anus.

Stool very large and hard, most difficult to expel.

Painful constipation.