CINCHONA OFFICINALIS
Leucorrhoea often bloody and attended with spasmodic, uterine contractions which supercede the menses; leucorrhoea purulent or bloody; bloody serum alternating with discharges of pus; countenance pale, yellow, sickly, pointed, after abortion or childbirth, after hemorrhages; < at midnight, in least draft of air, and every other day; debilitating night sweats; congestion of the uterus with a feeling of fullness; aversion to exercise; bitter or sour taste in the mouth, after severe hemorrhages ringing in ears; black spots before the eyes; desire to be fanned (Carbo veg.).
COCCULUS INDICUS
Leucorrhoea between the menses or in place of them; flesh- colored leucorrhoea which gushes out when bending over; leucorrhoea bloody or like the washings of meat; bloody serum; distension of abdomen with cutting colic; much vertigo with spinal irritation; great nervous exhaustion aggravated by riding in a car or carriage; nausea, vomiting. great vertigo or sick headache caused by riding in a car or carriage. Headache in occiput or at base of brain and cervical region as if tightly bound by a cord; time passes too slowly (Argentum nit.).
COCCUS CACTI
Leucorrhoea mucous in its character and accompanied with constriction in the abdomen or drawing pain in the inguinal region. Sweet metallic taste in the mouth; she passes great quantities of ropy mucous during the day from the vagina; catarrhal leucorrhoea worse in the winter time; jelly-like mucus (Kali bich.). The mental symptoms are depression, anxiety, and sadness; inflammation or congestion of the vagina or uterus with copious discharges of thick, white, ropy, jelly-like mucus; worse from excitement.
CAPSICUM
Adapted to plump, fleshy, flabby, sandy-haired or red faced people, who are sensitive to cold and have no physical endurance. Leucorrhoea thick, yellow, cream like; tenesmus of bladder with strangury.
COFFEA
Leucorrhoea mucus-like, milky, more profuse while urinating; occasionally it is bloody with great hyperesthesia and sensitiveness of the external genitals; hyperesthesia of all the senses, hearing, taste, smell, sight and touch; full of fanciful imaginations and ideas; all the physical and mental faculties seem exalted and carried far above the normal pain; great excitement of the genitals and excessive itching of the vulva; cannot keep hands from genitals (both sexes); trembling of hands; does not know what to do with them; bad effects on the whole nervous system from the use of coffee; has no appetite until she partakes of a cup of coffee; eats nothing to speak of. Diseases brought on by over-joy or excitement (“The nervous system is in a fret.” Kent).
COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE
Leucorrhoea jelly-like mucus, bloody and stringy (Crocus, Kali bich., Coccus cacti.). Leucorrhoea during pregnancy with nausea and loathing of food; dreads the smell of cooking food or odors of the kitchen in general. Soreness and tympanites of whole abdomen; numbness oedema, and swelling of limbs; gouty joints, finger joints enlarged; urine like beer, very strong and acid; sudden suppression of menses followed by dropsy.
COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS
Leucorrhoea with obstinate constipation and pruritus; stools are dry, hard, light-colored balls; hemorrhoids; pruritus vulva; loss of appetite; violent itching of the genitals; parts are badly swollen; dysmenorrhoea; stubborn constipation; hemorrhoids; pruritus and uterine displacements.
CONIUM MACULATUM
White, acrid leucorrhoea causing a burning sensation; mucous leucorrhoea with great weakness and paralyzed sensation in small of back. It sets in a few days after menstruation, ceases, then alternates with a fresh flow of the menses; this is apt to occur in malignancies. Leucorrhoea in old maids; foul, bloody, or brownish discharges from the uterus in fibroid or cancerous growths of the uterus; carrion-like odor from cancer in early stages, no pain, and indeed a lack of any general symptoms, simply the dirty brown offensive discharges from the vagina, vertigo when lying down or when turning over in bed. Face is sallow, earthy; breasts painful, hard, sensitive with shooting pains in them. Nipples sore and tender with a tendency to retraction. I have made many cures of uterine cancer and malignant disease of the breast in women of a tubercular diathesis who had acquired and suppressed Sycosis, appearing as a malignancy at the beginning of the change of life.
CROCUS SATIVUS
Leucorrhoea dark colored, even black or bloody viscid, stringy; smells badly; sometimes it drops out in viscid strings of mucus. It is aggravated by the slightest motion. Sensation as if menses would return, or as if something were moving or were alive in abdomen (Cocculus).
CROTALUS HORRIDUS
Leucorrhoea with ovaritis or ovarian neuralgia; leucorrhoea offensive and bloody; discharges from malignant growths about cervix or uterus in puerperal states, which are dark and even black, very offensive; pruritus vulvae; large dark vesicles on external genitals that burn severely, very sensitive, cannot rub or scratch the part; vicarious menstruation from any orifice of body (Lachesis).
CROTON TIGLIUM
Leucorrhoea with herpes about genitals; intense itching of genitals, aggravated by scratching or rubbing; eruption vesicular, like Rhus tox.
CUBEBA
Leucorrhoea profuse, acrid, yellowish, or greenish, and of a very offensive odor; it produces erythema of inner surface of thighs and vulva, with intense pruritus of vulva. Menses scanty. preceded by copious leucorrhoea; much weakness and fatigue in loins; uterus swollen and painful.
CURARE
Leucorrhoea scanty but thick, clotted, purulent, foul smelling with heat, itching and burning in vulva; much burning and contraction in uterus.
CARBOLIC ACID
Leucorrhoea copious, of fetid, greenish-acrid matter from vagina; ulceration of cervix after cauterization, after severe burns. Dragging sensation through the loins and pelvis; excoriating discharge worse after profuse menses; frequent urination with burning pain in the urethra.
CYCLAMEN
Membranous leucorrhoea with constant chilliness, indicated in blondes or in leuco-phlegmatic subjects who have scanty and retarded menses; mental symptoms better when menstruating; more cheerful, feet do not feel so heavy; much distension of abdomen; pains in the heels; swelling of the mammae with secretion of milk in the breasts; inclination to weep easily, and yet ill-humored; aversion to open air (reverse of Pulsatilla). Pork disagrees; saliva has a salty taste; better when walking (Calcarea carb., Cocculus indicus).
COPAIBA
Sycotic leucorrhoea in first and second stages, bright-yellow in color, purulent; burning and itching in urethra and vagina. Discharge of thick bloody mucus from uterus. Profuse, greenish, gonorrhoeal discharge with much distress and burning when urinating; itching of vulva; sensation of warmth or heat in the vagina.
DULCAMARA
Leucorrhoea with menstrual suppression from taking cold, from acute catarrh of the sexual organs, from getting wet, from a sudden change to wet weather, wading in water, too much bathing in lake (river, China) (sea, Nat. mur); urticaria before the menses appear. Aggravation from cold, getting wet, suppressed menses and eruptions.
DAPHNE MEZEREUM
Leucorrhoea like albumen; chronic in malignant cases; much discharge of mucus from the vagina.
DICTAMNUS
Leucorrhoea tenacious mucus, first brown then white, lastly streaked with blood; leucorrhoea attended with frequent discharges of urine; itching of the anus and perineum, with erosion of these parts. Uterine leucorrhoea (Minton).
ERIGERON
Chronic leucorrhoea, profuse, uterine or vaginal, attended with spasmodic pains and great irritation of rectum and bladder; epistaxis of bright red blood; bleeding from the jaws or from the cavity of a tooth; menstruation with much suffering in lower dorsal region; itching and distress in bladder; all symptoms < in wet weather.
EUPION
After menses, leucorrhoea yellow, painless with bland discharges; colors the linen yellow, and is attended with emaciation, great lassitude and trembling of the whole body; leucorrhoea with a terrible backache; when the backache ceases, the discharge comes on in gushes; it runs form her in a stream; during urination, burning, itching and swelling of the labia; pressing against something hard relieves backache of menstruation; sacrum feels as if broken; vertigo with confusion of the head; things turn black before her (China.).
FERRUM
Leucorrhoea like water or milky; smarting and corroding the parts; dragging pains, weight and pressure in sacrum and loins. Leucorrhoea in chlorotic patients, like boiled starch, generally during stool; sallow, earthy complexion; palpitation of the heart; flushing of the cheeks; rush of blood to face and chest; occasionally a discharge which is mucus and in shreds; young girls suffering with incipient tuberculosis; great weakness and relaxation of genitals and bladder. Leucorrhoea from masturbation or developing from a tubercular cachexia. Quite often in these chlorotic girls the menses will cease for months and a severe form of leucorrhoea take its place, and the longer it exists the more sallow and chlorotic they become. Great hunger all the time; food tastes bitter. She is ameliorated by walking slowly about (Pulsatilla).
J.H. Allen was a student of H.C. Allen. He was the president of the IHA in 1900. Dr. Allen taught at the Hering Medical College in Chicago. Dr. Allen died August 1, 1925
Books by John Henry Allen:
Diseases and Therapeutics of the Skin 1902
The Chronic Miasms: Psora and Pseudo Psora 1908
The Chronic Miasms: Sycosis 1908