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General Action
A marked affinity for the urethra, bladder and vagina, where it produces violent inflammation. The mucous membranes of throat and air-passages are also involved, as well as the skin.
Allies. – Copaiba, Cantharis
Generalities
Emaciation. Peculiar odor to evacuations, sweet and saliva. Face red and swollen, lips dark purple, saliva viscid, frothy, tongue dry, chapped in centre, brown sordes on teeth, veins of forehead and temples turgid, eyes turned upward, injected, pupils contracted to a point, clammy sweat, pulse slow, dispersed by least pressure, gasping, he was aroused for a moment by shaking, uttered an incoherent expression and sank back into a comatose sleep. Convulsions. Restlessness. Weakness. Partial paralysis.
Mind and Head
Mind weak. Memory lost. Headache; deep- seated. Dullness of head.
Eyes, Nose and Face
Eyes turgid and watery. Full feeling in eyes. Coryza. Face swollen; and occasionally flushed. Face flushed. Lips twisted to one side on attempting to speak or smile.
Clinical Obstinate otorrhoea, offensive discharges. Nasal catarrh, with fetid odor, and catarrh of the throat, with greenish-yellow expectoration of fetid odor. In catarrh of the throat the mucus trickles from the nose into the throat is greenish-yellow, with rawness of throat and hoarseness (compare Sinapis).
Mouth and Stomach
Tongue white. Tongue furred and moist. Appetite increased. Intense thirst; slight T., with burning in throat. Eructation, with warmth in epigastric region; acid E., with uneasiness, Heat at pit of stomach and fever. Nausea. vomiting. Gastric irritation. Disordered stomach. Burning pain in stomach. Burning in epigastric and umbilical regions, with pressure.
Abdomen, Rectum and Stool
Flatulence. Griping, with diarrhoea. Colic. Burning in abdomen; in rectum. Haemorrhoids. Diarrhoea; copious; distressing, with headache.
Clinical Dysentery, stools colorless, transparent, mingled with white particles like, rice, with unquenchable thirst, distended, sensitive abdomen, (<) fruit, acids, etc.
Urinary Organs
Inflammation of urethra. Mucus from urethra much increased. Cutting after micturition, with constriction. Irritation of passages. Urine copious, dark. Urine frothy. Haematuria enlargement of liver enlargement of liver(Terebintha).
Clinical Chronic inflammation of bladder, with cutting and constriction during micturition. Haemorrhage from the bladder. Inflammation bladder and urethra in women, necessity to urinate every ten or fifteen minutes, with smarting, tenesmus and ropy mucus.
Sexual Organs
Prostatitis (Copaiva, Elat.), the gland feels enlarged to finger in rectum, perineum tender, last drops of urine passed with pain, after micturition sensation as if bladder still contained water. (Hernia femoralis.) Testicles swollen (Copaiva). Excitement. No inclination for coition, with weakness of sexual organs.
Clinical Inflamed prostate, with thick yellow gonorrhoeal discharge; especially useful in the chronic form, sometimes with swollen testicles. Leucorrhoea, profuse, acrid, offensive, yellow or green, with Pruritus, intense sexual desire, uterus swollen and painful, etc. Acrid leucorrhoea in girls. Catarrhal leucorrhoea, offensive, yellow.
Respiration and Pulse
Respiration hurried and difficult. Pulse rapid; and full; and small. Pulse intermittent and sometimes slow, sometimes rapid.
Clinical Dyspnoea, with deposit of a false membrane in the larynx and danger of suffocation; also useful in bronchitis, in which the cough seems to tear the bronchi, expectoration difficult, sometimes streaked with blood.
Extremities
Numbness of fingers and toes. Acute deep- seated pain in wrists, then redness and swelling of them. Wrists stiff and thickened. Hands swollen and so stiff that the fingers could not be bent. Pricking in soles.
Skin
Eruption form head to foot, with fever. Urticaria (Copaiva); febrilis. Redness, afterwards eruption from head to foot, which in some parts could not be distinguished from urticaria febrilis, while in others it appeared more like lichen in its papular stage, but with more inflammation around base of papulae than is common in that disease. Itching.
Fever
Heat; with thirst; fever, with heat at pit of stomach; internal and external, with tingling over whole body; hot skin; heat at times in palms and soles; in hands and feet, with numbness of them; in flushes upon face, soles and palm.
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.