It is pre-eminently a liver medicine. It is not as deep in its action as Sulphur . You will often find that Aloe will serve as a palliative when it will have to be followed by Sulphur , Sulph. Aloe will make a good beginning in these liver troubles when there are great fullness, distension, stitching pains in the region of the liver and a dry, hot, burning skin, with no increase of temperature. The proving has not been sufficiently extensive to demonstrate whether Aloe produces eruption to any extent or not, but if such could be proved this would place it among the anti-psorics.
Complaints come on only with a moderate degree of rapidity.
It may be associated very well with Bryonia. Bryonia does not go so deeply into the life substance as Sulphur . It seems as if the abdomen would burst and the rumbling is so great that it can be heard by anyone in the room. It keeps on one continuous gurgling. The stool gurgles out with a noisy rumbling, like water out of a bung-hole.