A tincture is prepared from the fresh root and kept in a cool, at dark place.
General Action and Relationships
Same as Arum tri.
Horrible convulsions. Weakness; with inability to speak, raising hands frequently to its mouth and throat, uttering at intervals a sharp cry and starting up as if suffocated. Torpor, then violent febrile reaction. Taciturnity, with sleepiness after eating. Pressure in l. temple; below ears, behind lower jaw. Gums bleed (on kissing). Tongue, stitches; with burning; swollen; feeling as if swollen. Burning pain in mouth and lips. Caustic effects over lips, mouth and as far as could be seen. Salivation. Throat; swollen so that a probe could not be introduced into oesophagus; stinging in T. and oesophagus. Pain on l. side below larynx, near trachea, on pressure; P., provoking swallowing, which is difficult, as from a swelling on l. side above larynx. Tickling in throat, becoming a burning. Swallowing impossible; difficult, as if the “palate were down.”
Appetite lost. Vomiting; of blood. Cramp in stomach. Cardialgia. Pain in stomach on pressure. Constriction in abdomen as in anxiety and fear, then it ascended over whole chest, with hot breath, then it rose into throat, first like a pressure inward in the back part of palate above larynx, provoking swallowing, which is difficult, afterwards it feels too narrow. Emptiness in abdomen as after vomiting, mornings after eating. Pressure on a spot between navel and top of hip, (<) standing, or lying on side or back, most on filling chest full or marking abdominal muscles tense, with pain on pressure.
Diarrhoea. Bleeding from urethra. Urine copious. Urine watery, smelling almost like burnt horn, becoming cloudy in middle on standing. Hoarseness. BLoody sputa. Sleepiness. (<) after dinner and sleep, with red face. Sweat.
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.