Vergleich Aloe und Chamomilla

 

Aloe = Chamomilla - ähnlich/hard to please/angry at nothing/throws things when contradicted. He has "disgust with everything, dissatisfied and angry with himself, capricious, discouraged about

his success. He is impatient and irritable. He curses, quarrels with everyone who contradicts him. He has aversion to company, cannot endure the visit of people. They are repugnant to him to the

point of repelling everyone." You will find this symptom under "hatred, repels everyone," like one of the above-mentioned patients who turned his head away when his girlfriend picked up his

hand or when his mother wanted to kiss him. Fear of men, anthropophobia.

Acute cases of diarrhea: Aloe:

Podophyllum: and often it will be very difficult to differentiate aloe and Podophyllum. It is therefore necessary to study carefully their similarities and differences.

Both can have prolapse of the rectum with diarrhea (more common in Podophyllum).

Both can have involuntary stool in sleep or when passing flatus. Both < motion/summer heat/after eating or drinking.

Both can have profuse, watery, yellowish, gushing diarrhea. (Podophyllum a gush “As from a fire hydrant”.)

The Podophyllum child can have a deathly look, very pale, as if he is going to die.

Both can develop hemorrhoids with the diarrhea. Both can have offensive diarrhea. (in Podophyllum it can smell like carrion).

Both can have a morning aggravation, < 5 h., and both can be driven out of bed. Both can have alternation of complaints: diarrhea # with headaches.

Aloe lassitude # great activity.

Both have heat in the abdomen with full, bloated feeling, distention and the soreness of the abdomen, all > after stool. Both have a pressing out feeling.

(Podophyllum feels that the uterus will come out while urinating and that during a stool, all the internal organs will come out).

What are the main differences?

Aloe: Prominent with Aloe is the insecurity of the sphincter of the rectum. The bolus moves with great rumbling and when it reaches the rectum a weakness is felt. There is a feeling of not being

able to hold the stool. The haste to go is therefore more prominent with Aloe because of this weakness.

Aloe will also have a greater tendency to lose control and have involuntary stools,  < after eating or while walking. Aloe commonly has involuntary stool

while urinating like Mur-ac. The involuntary stools of Aloe can even happen with hard-formed stools and can even be unnoticed.

Another good differentiating symptom is the amount of flatus during diarrhea, which is definitely more pronounced in Aloe where it is characterized by a loud sputtering. Loud gurgling, as of water running out of a bottle, prior to passing stool or large amounts of gas is more characteristic of Aloe.

The Aloe patient will characteristically pass hot flatus. Jelly-like stool is more characteristic of Aloe while Podophyllum’s is generally watery. It is more characteristic of Aloe for the diarrhea to be worse standing +/o walking. Aloe will tend to be hungry after every stool like Veratrum album while Podophyllum tends to have no appetite with the diarrhea.

Above all, the Aloe patient is a more unpleasant patient when acutely sick. Podophyllum is more depressed, he thinks he is going to die.

 

Podophyllum: The most characteristic symptom of the Podophyllum diarrhea is how profuse it is. You wonder where so much can come from. The profuse gushing stool of Podophyllum tends to be more changeable, in terms of the color: yellow, green, white or black. It is changeable also in terms of the consistency. It can be watery, slimy, gelatinous, lienteric, bloody, pasty or naturally formed. The very offensive stool like carrion belongs to Podophyllum. Podophyllum can have empty retching with the diarrhea. The diarrhea of Podophyllum < during dentition, not found in Aloe. In this condition there is a desire to press the gums or teeth together. The sleep of Podophyllum tends to be more restless. He sleeps with his eyes half open, whining, moaning and rolling the head from side to side. However, both grind their teeth in sleep. The painless stool is more characteristic of Podophyllum. The hot flatus is not characteristic of Podophyllum, but instead it passes hot eructations.

 

Differentiated from Aloe and Podophyllum in cases of acute diarrhea,

Crot-t., which shares with them many characteristic symptoms such as the loud gurgling before the diarrhea followed by a profuse, yellow, watery stool which is aggravated by drinking, eating and motion. The most characteristic aspect of the stool of Crot-t. is the explosiveness. It comes out like a sudden explosion, in like a shot all at once, in one violent gush like water from a hydrant. The aggravation of drinking (nursing in an infant) and eating is more intense in Crot-t. and more characteristic of it. The gurgling before the stool can sound like a loud swashing of water. The diarrhea tends to be more painful in Crot-t., more griping pain and tenesmus. Other characteristic symptoms of Crot-t. are the great pallor and weakness associated with faintness, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, dimness of vision, perspiration and coldness. Podophyllum can have vomiting preceding its diarrhea. The time aggravation is not very prominent in Crot-t.. Aloe has most prominently the urgency with insecurity of the rectum,

Podophyllum has the great quantity of stool and

Crot-t. has the explosiveness of stool.

Only Aloe, among these three remedies, will pass stool without noticing it.

 

The third remedy, which often must be differentiated with Aloe, is Sulphur but this time it is on the chronic level. Both share hundreds of similar symptoms. Both are hot remedies but Aloe is more intolerant of the heat. For instance, the diarrhea of Aloe is aggravated in the heat of the summer, which is not characteristic of Sulphur. However the great heat of the feet and the desire to uncover them especially at night is more characteristic of Sulphur. Both are driven out of bed in the morning 5 h. but it is more striking for Sulphur and less for Aloe. Both will desire apples, beer, farinaceous foods and salt but Sulphur will also tend to desire spices and sweets more prominently. The 11 h. aggravation is more characteristic of Sulphur. The aversion to change and the cycles of fixations are characteristic of Aloe. The great indolence and lassitude alternating with activity is also more characteristic of Aloe. Sulphur tends to be often hungry during the day and especially at 11 h., while Aloe tends to be most hungry after stool, as illustrated by the following case:

 

"Mary H., 23 years old, applied for treatment because she had a movement of the bowels after every meal. The trouble had existed for about six weeks. The stools were nearly normal in consistency and looked well digested. Always after eating and drinking, she must go to stool in hurry. She had no bowel movements, except immediately after eating and drinking. She suffered from an empty feeling after stool, and soon became hungry; but if food were eaten, she would be compelled in a few minutes to go to the closet.

Her tongue was a little narrow and covered with a light gray coat. Menses were regular and lasted five days, with backache and pain in the uterine region the first day.

She had lost considerable flesh and was getting uneasy, as the difficulty seemed persistent

Two symptoms especially called my attention to Aloe; one was stool after eating and drinking, and the other was the desire to go to stool in a hurry.

Desire for stool after each meal especially found under Ars., Chin., Lyc., Podo. and Trom.

Under Aloe in the Guiding Symptoms, I found the following: "Hungry during the diarrhea; hungry after the morning stool" "As soon as he eats anything, he must go to stool" "Has to hurry to the closet immediately after eating and drinking." Although hunger occurred in this case after every stool instead of after the morning stool only, I gave her on January 22, 1908, Aloe 1M, dry on the tongue, every night for a week.

Feb. 5, Reported that she was much better in every way. She did not feel so empty after stool and the hunger was nearly gone. As the case seemed at a standstill, the same medicine in the same potency was again prescribed, and in a short time all the symptoms disappeared, and she has not had any trouble since."

 

 

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