Alumina

Alumina

Aluminum oxide

Aluminum is widely used in indigestion remedies for its antacid effects. It is also used to make cooking utensils. There is concern that as aluminum is found in greater amounts in the brains of people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, it may be partly to blame for this condition. Interestingly, the homeopathic remedy is used to treat senile dementia.

Parts Used

Aluminum oxide.

Uses

Sluggishness is the keynote running through Alumina. This is an excellent remedy for severe constipation in which the bowels are sluggish and even small, soft stools are difficult to pass. This is common in pregnant women and children. Alumina is also used for dizziness on closing the eyes, a sensation of cobwebs over the face, heaviness, a lack of coordination, and paralysis of the limbs, as in multiple sclerosis, and difficulty urinating due to sluggishness.

Source

Bauxite, which is found in France, Italy, Hungary, Ghana, the US, Jamaica, Indonesia, and Russia.

Personality profile

Alumina is not a common constitutional type. Alumina is one of that group of remedies that the homeopath thinks of when he has a patient who is mentally unstable, with a tendency towards hysteria. Such patients often have a history of unstable childhood circumstances, including a family history of mental illness and alcoholism, a reflection of the syphilitic miasm in the family.