Aloe Socotrina

Question 1

Diarrhoea of aloe

Answer 1

Causation : after eating or drinking
Time: early in the morning, patient has to run out of bed, early in the morning, or immediately after eating and drinking with WANT OF CONFIDENCE IN SPHINCTER ANI.
• Scanty stool
• character: watery, yellowish, jelly-like mucus in stool.
• BEFORE STOOL – abdomen in distended with gas, causing fullness with rumbling sound in abdomen.
• DURING STOOL – cutting, gripping pain in right lower portion of abdomen. Pain with much flatus
• AFTER STOOL – all pains cease after stool. LEAVING PROFUSE SWEATING AND PROFOUND WEAKNESS

• MODALITIES – agg. After eating or drinking
Amel. Discharge of stool and flatus

Question 2

Dysentry of aloe

Answer 2

Character of stool – bloody discharge with much jelly like mucus and less blood. Sometimes, only jelly-like mucus is passed instead of stool.
• BEFORE STOOL – rumbling sound of abdomen, with fullness due to gas.
• DURING STOOL – cutting, gripping pain in lower abdomen
• AFTER STOOL – profound weakness and prostration

• MODALITIES
Agg. After eating or drinking
Amel. By passing stool

Question 3

Constipation of aloe

Answer 3

Causation – sedentary life
Character – hard lump without any urging to stool. Solid stool and masses of mucus pass involuntarily. Loss of sensation in anus, no feeling during passage of stool.

Question 4

Piles of aloe

Answer 4

•Causation – sedentary life
•Character – bleeding piles
•Appearance – like a bunch if grapes, bluish in colour
• character – constant bearing down pain the rectum with itching and burning in anus.
• MODALITIES
Agg. From heat
Amel. Cold application