Common name (German), Stinkasand.
Introduction
Ferula Asafoetida, Linn.
Natural order: Umbelliferae.
Preparation: tincture of the gum.
Mind.
Very irritable in disposition, and yet indifferent to everything.
Fretful and apprehensive mood, which seems to arise from the abdomen; it is however, not difficult to fix his attention (second day).
Ill-humored, and dislike for work (thirtieth hour).
Head.
Vertigo Slight vertigo.
Turning in the head (third hour).
Confusion of the head, with pressure in the temples (first day).
Dulness of the head.
Head dull and confused.
Heaviness, fullness, and confusion of the head, followed by aching headache over the whole brain.
Heaviness of the head.
Headache.
Aching in the brain.
With steady heat and pressure in the head there was a sensation of momentary unconsciousness when sitting and reading.
Continued headache, becoming alternately more severe and slighter.
During the night when awaking, and in the morning, some pains in the joints and bones of the head.
Weakness in the head (three-quarters of an hour).
Headache, like an emptiness in the head, which attracts the attention (first day).
Fullness in the head.
After sleeping well, awoke with fullness of the head, which gradually changed to periodically recurring pains, lasting more or less into the next night.
Fullness of the head, changing gradually into an aching and pressing pain, as if the whole brain were compressed, attended with dizziness, increased heat of skin, and some quickness of pulse.
Fullness of the head, with frequent stitches of pain in the forehead and temples.
The brain seems to be tense.
Rush of blood to the head, and warmth of the face (first day).
Congestion of the head, with heat of the face and headache.
Severe pressure on small places of the skull.
Pain in the forehead.
Frontal headache.
Headache, more particularly on the left side of the forehead.
Heat in the forehead and face, with chills in the back, and cold hands off and on (three and a half hours).
Sense of tensive confusion and burdensome heaviness of the forehead (after frequent smelling it).
Frequent drawing in the forehead.
Drawing wavelike pressure, through the left half of the forehead, which ends in a dull pressure on the frontal eminence.
Pressive pain in the forehead (sixth hour).
Pressive pain in the forehead from within outward (fifth hour).
Pressure externally in the forehead (first hour).
Especially hard to bear is a pressure in the forehead and maxilla.
Pressive pain in the right side of the forehead from within outward (one hour and three-quarters).
A slow, intermitting ache (like a pushing out) beneath the right frontal eminence.
Pressure on the forehead in different places, sometimes combined with stitching pains.
Pressure in the forehead, with weakness in the whole body (two hours and a half).
Tearing pains in the forehead.
Find needle stitches in the left frontal eminence.
Single, sudden, and deep-penetrating stitches under the left frontal eminence, like shocks, followed by some sensitiveness.
Swashing and gurgling sensation in the brain, beneath the upper part of the frontal bone (second day).
Near the frontal eminence externally, continued burning stinging, which disappears on touch, and pains as if ulcerated, but immediately disappears (second day).
Tearing in the right temple.
Pressing asunder in both temples, sometimes very severely.
Pressure in the right temple (one hour and a quarter).
A transient dull pressure over the right temple, suddenly.
Pressure in the left temple, from within outward (sixty- eighth hour).
A sudden pain in the left temple, like an inward-pressing pointed plug.
Intermitting pressing-inwards in the left temple, almost like a pushing inward.
Slow, successive, dull stitches in the left temple.
Single, deep stitches in the left temple.
Sensation of pressure on the vertex.
A pressure exactly on the vertex, and on the forehead over the right eye.
Pains in the left side of the head, extending to the eyes, and changing into intermitting, severe, and slight fullness of the brain.
Stupefying tension in the head, especially in the left side.
In the right side of the head above the ear, a drawing, which changes into a simple sticking.
Pressive pain on the right side of the head (thirtieth hour).
Pressure in the left side of the head from within outwards (forty-fifth hour).
A suddenly beginning, rapidly increasing pressure on the left side of the head, as from a dull tool being pressed in; it suddenly goes away.
Pain in the right parietal bone, as from a deeply penetrating plug.
Aching pain in the occiput, gradually extending over the head, as if the brain were compressed by a cloth thrown over it.
Drawing pain in the occiput.
Drawing and pressure in the occiput.
Pressure on the left side of the occiput (nine hours and a half).
A couple of fine, superficial stitches on the right side of the occiput.
Eyes.
Causes trouble in the eyes.
Troublesome dryness of the eyes.
Periodic burning in the eyes, and pressing together of the lids, as if overcome with sleep (twenty-sixth hour).
Pressure in both eyes (second day).
Aching over the eyes, as if from great sleepiness.
Burning stinging in the left eye (two and one-quarter hours).
Rough feeling of the eyes, as if sand were under the lids.
Itching in right eye (forty-ninth hour).
Burning in the left brow (sixty-second hour).
Severe boring pain above the eyebrows.
Pinching drawing across the supraorbital region (first hour).
Dull pressure on the external margin of the left orbit.
Twitchings in the left upper eyelid.
Often a twitching movement in the upper lid.
Frequent burning in the right eyelid.
Burning in the edges of the right eyelid.
Burning in the inner corner of the right eye.
A transient, dull pressure in the middle of the upper lid.
Stitching and itching of the eyelids.
Stitching and itching in the edges of the eyelids.
Itching, stitching and burning in the lids, especially the right.
Burning in the right ball (twelfth hour). Tensive burning in the right ball (twenty-sixth hour).
Burning in the left ball, as from within outward (five and a half hours).
Burning stinging in the right ball (sixty-second hour).
Some dilatation of the pupils.
Dimness of sight.
A kind of dimness of the eyes; on writing, the letters become darker, as from a slight veil over them; disappears after some blinking.
Muscae volitantes.
Ears.
Strong heat of the ears, which burn, and are very red.
Drawing behind the left ear.
Slight transient drawing on the outer rim of the concha of right ear.
Drawing and stitches around the left ear.
Repeated short drawing in the meatus auditorius.
Pressive pain in the right ear (forty-nine hours).
Pressure in the left ear (two and a half hours).
Dull sensibility, especially dull hearing, forenoon; he hears nothing distinctly, must always ask a second time (first day).
Clear ringing before the ear.
Nose.
Violent sneezing several times a day.
Coryza (thirty-sixth hour).
Pressure in the nose, as if it would burst, especially in the right wing (thirty-one hours).
Face.
Heat of the face and ear continues, and with hot hands, chills run down the back.
Heat in the face, even the ears feel hot.
Pressure in the right side of the face from within outward (half an hour).
Heat in the cheeks.
Severe heat in the cheeks, perceptible to the touch.
Frequent flushes of heat over the cheeks, afternoon (first day).
Heat of the cheeks and forehead, with heaviness.
Stinging burning in left cheek (four and a half hours).
Itching in the right cheek (seventy-two hours).
Stitches in the skin of the left cheek, then on the right.
Pressure on the zygomatic bone.
Drawing pain in the left cheek.
Pressure in the left cheek (twenty-four hours).
In various places in the face, on the malar bone, the nasal bones, painless tension, with a kind of numb sensation.
On the left angle of the chin, in a small area, a numb pressure, which extends into the tooth right above it.
Pain in the maxillary joints.
A transient pain, like a continuous pinch, on the ramus of the lower jaw.
Drawing in the left lower maxilla.
Drawing in the right lower maxilla, then in the right forehead.
Pressure in the maxillary joint.
Severe pressure in the left corner of the maxilla.
Mouth.
Bluntness of the teeth.
Severe drawing in the lower incisors.
Soreness of the gums.
Great dry sensation in the mouth, though he has moisture enough (first day).
Burning in the mouth, throat, and stomach.
A biting burning pain on the point of the tongue, frequently repeated.
Stitches in the point of the tongue.
Accumulation of spittle.
Accumulation of saliva in the mouth.
Salivation.
Continual running of saliva in the mouth. Insipid taste.
The taste (of the drug) is not only nauseous, but also harsh and hard, and hard to be got out of the mouth.
Fatty, rancid taste in the mouth.
Rancid taste in the mouth, as if the stomach had been disordered by rich and fatty food.
Throat.
Dryness in the throat; while swallowing, tension in it (twelve hours).
In the evening, a hysterical rising in the throat, as if a ball or large body ascended from the stomach to the oesophagus, or even pharynx, obliging him repeatedly to attempt to swallow it.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.