One part of oil of turpentine is dissolved in 99 parts of alcohol.
General Action
It inflames the kidneys and urinary tract, causing profuse haemorrhage from the kidneys as well as strangury; it irritates the bronchial and intestinal mucous membrane, causing cough and loose, bloody evacuations, with marked tympanitis. It has caused haemorrhages from the lungs and uterus (as well as from the kidneys and bowels).
Allies – Secale-c., Carbo-v., Cantharis, Erigeron., Phosphorus
Generalities
Swayed backward and forward when dressing and undressing, though his feet were far apart. Relaxation of muscles. Occasional subsultus. Opisthotonos at intervals of ten or fifteen minutes. Convulsions (Secale-c.); when she heard water poured out or when water was offered to her, or if a looking glass was presented to her she suddenly jumped to her feet, muscles of body rigid, spine stiff, but arms, hands and face were convulsed, groaned, and on being approached she attempted to scratch and bite the person coming near her, eyes wide open, look savage, the attacks lasted from two to five minutes, then she gradually relaxed all muscles and lay down, the spasms were preceded by strangury, no urine all day.
Symptoms resembling those of malignant cholera (Secale-c.). Neuralgia in various parts, (<) one or other lower limb. Mucous membranes dry. Weakness; through the day; with inability to walk, staggering and falling; so that when limbs were raised they fell heavily back by their own weight. Faint. Stiffness of whole body; of muscles, he walks slowly and bent over. Inability to ride horseback.
Mind
Excitement. Anxiety; with weakness on going to bed. Facility of thought. Dullness, inability to fix attention. Stupefaction. Coma. Insensibility.
Head
Tearing; extending towards r. side; intermittent, till evening. Aching; with colic; intermittent, with nausea. Dullness. Fulness in evening; F. and pressure, so that he constantly cried out “My head! my head!” and apoplexy was apprehended. Intoxication; and sometimes a kind of trance; drenched in sweat all night and stupid, woke next morning weak and with head bewildered, staggering about when undertaking to stand still, (>) profuse discharge of urine, which smelled of violets. Vertigo; with Dullness of head and sick feeling in whole body; with nausea and diminished appetite; sudden, even to falling, with blackness before eyes.
Forehead – Sticking. Tearing extending out towards r. ear, which is hot, while l. ear is cold to touch. Heavy pain over l. eye when sitting and during mental work. Drawing in bones of F. and r. half of face in evening.
Sticking in r. mastoid process. Intermittent smarting tickling pain in l. temple in evening in bed, (>) rubbing.
Eyes
Sunken; and surrounded by dark rings. Pupils contracted. Vision of black, floating points and spots when walking in open air, (>) looking at a distance, with vertigo.
Clinical Ciliary neuralgia over r. eye (Cedron). Episcleritis, with intense pain in eye and side of the head. Rheumatic iritis, with intense pain, especially with burning in the kidneys, dark urine. Adhesions of the iris. Amblyopia from alcohol.
Ears and Nose
Ringing and singing before ears, like the striking of a clock. Coryza, peculiar, watery, at times from one nostril, at times from both, without the usual accompanying symptoms. Nosebleed.
Clinical Deafness, with discharges from l. ear.
Face
Pale; and anxious, shrunken. Red. Anxious. Sensation of spasm beginning under chin and extending to cheek-bones, with nervous drawings in cheeks, without visible contraction of face, then supra-orbital pain as if bruised. Herpes of lips. Lips could scarcely be moved.
Mouth and Throat
Drawing in teeth. Burning in tip of tongue, with prominent papillae. Agreeable coolness in M. Breath cold (Secale-c., Carbo- v.). Scraping in throat; in evening, provoking hacking cough; in pharynx and in stomach, with warmth. No power over deglutition.
Stomach
Hunger and thirst; sudden H. for rue on bread and butter (of which he had always eaten freely) in evening during enjoyable mental work; H. diminished; lost. Thirst. Rancid eructations. Nausea; in morning; from meat; with eructations and griping beneath stomach-pit; with inability to vomit owing to weakness. Vomiting; of mucus; of yellowish mucus.
Rumbling in S. and abdomen after dinner, with pain extending into side. Symptoms of gastro-enteritis. Inflammation of S. and intestines, so that slight touch of abdomen, especially epigastric region, could not be endured. Pain; in a spot in pit, (>) stooping, lying and deep breathing; in evening when lying on l. side, preventing sleep, (>) emission of flatus while lying on r. side; becoming nausea, (>) eructations; in pit after eating, as if food had been swallowed too hastily. In pit sensation as if he had swallowed a ball. In pit pressure as from without. In pit sensation between pain and burning. Heat; in epigastric region.
Abdomen
Distention (Carbo-v.); after food which was relished; with constipation; obliging him to rest. Meteorismus. Rumbling; in morning, with gurgling; and gurgling, then colic in evening; and in griping and thin stool. Griping. Colic; with violent movements in abdomen; with heaviness and emission of flatus; bending the patient up; extending into legs. Feeling as before violent purging. Irritation. Sensation as if intestines were drawn back to spine. Heaviness after midday nap. Coldness as if naked, after dinner.
Cutting in upper. Pressure beneath diaphragm, extending from l. to r. side, after eating. Sticking in r. side after stool, with griping. Tearing cutting in l. side in evening when lying on r. side, then also on r. side. Umbilical region retracted, cold, as if a cold round plate were pressed against it, when lying after dinner.
Hypochondria – Jerking sticking in l. in evening when urinating. Cutting in l. when sitting, (>) motion, with pain. Griping. Pressure in l., with drawing; burning P. Burning in r.
Hypogastrium – Swelling of inguinal glands when sitting in evening, with pain. Movement as if a hernia would protrude in groin, (<) sitting with legs outstretched. Cramp, now in r., now in l. groin, (>) walking, with dragging and pressure outward. Tearing in symphysis pubis. Cutting; with distention of some parts as if a hernia would protrude. Feeling as if pubes were suddenly forced asunder. Drawing in groins and thighs. Cutting drawing in r. groin; from ring into r. testicle, (>) stooping. Dragging in r. groin, with cutting.
Clinical Abdominal dropsy. It has proved valuable in pelvic peritonitis, especially when complicated with bladder troubles and with excessive tympanitis.
Anus
Burning; when standing; after stool; and tickling; and crawling and sensation as if worms crept out; itching, after stool, as from blind haemorrhoids. Urging; ineffectual.
Stool
Diarrhoea; yellow, with discharge of tape worm, also round worms; greenish-yellow, frequent, with discharge of tape-worm. Pasty, with colic and burning in anus. Constipation. Hard, scanty; H. and dark chestnut-brown. Diminished (two instead of one). Two in evening.
Clinical Diarrhoea, with red, sore shining tongue.
Urinary Organs
Bladder. Movement in region during stool, as if B. were suddenly distended and bent forward. Inflammation. Twinging and cutting alternating with a similar pain above navel, (>) walking in open air, (<) rest. Spasmodic pain when sitting. Burning, and when urinating, also in urethra. Frequent desire, with scanty wine each time.
Strangury, bloody urine, then soreness of bladder (Cantharis); S., bloody urine and total suppression of urine. Dysuria. Incontinence of urine. Difficult micturition. Urethritis, with painful erections (Cantharis). Burning in urethra; when urinating.
Urine – Bloody (Cantharis, Phosphorus, Erigeron); and scanty. Scanty; and red, sometimes bloody, or else copious and light-colored. Copious. Suppressed (effects from use for stone). Smelling of violets; has a wine color and deposits a thick, slimy whitish- yellow sediment. Contains sugar. Clear, but on standing becomes turbid, with reddish-white sediment. Slimy sediment.
Clinical Inflamed kidneys, with dull pain and burning, pain extends to the bladder, strangury, bloody urine; particularly useful when this condition follows any acute disease. Congestion of the kidneys, with great quantity of blood in urine. Acute cystitis, with burning pain in region of kidney. Dysuria and constant tenesmus.
Sexual Organs
Drawing in l. testicle when sitting; spasmodic, in l. extending along l. spermatic cord. Burning posteriorly in r. testicle. Emission at night. Tearing in mons veneris. Menstruation delayed and scanty.
Respiratory Organs
Dryness. Prickling in trachea as in commencing bronchitis. Voice gone. Cough as from a foreign substance in trachea, with cramp in larynx as in whooping cough, inspiration in six or seven catches, the cramp became so violent that he could scarcely inspire, then scraping in throat. (Aggravation of short, dry cough, especially when lying after eating.) Expectoration streaked with blood. Breathing difficult; and lungs seem overdistended. Breathing stertorous. B. short; and hurried, anxious. Increase of respiratory movements.
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.