Deep, contractive pain in the region of the spleen.
Dull pressure in the spleen in the evening, when he is lying in bed upon the left side; the pain is diminished by turning to the right side.
Stitches under the short ribs of the left side in inspiration, and especially when sitting with a stooping chest.
Rather violent stitch in the region of the spleen several times during the afternoon.
After the medicine a slight sensation of pain in the abdomen, scarcely worth noticing during the day; it increased to a sensitive pain in the region of the spleen, and continued, though diminished, during a short walk.
Acute pulsative pain below the left hypochondrium it rises as high up as the third and fourth ribs (afternoon of eighth day).
Continued pain deep in the navel.
Uncomfortable sensation in the abdomen, especially around a navel.
Sensation of fulness at the region of the navel.
Slight pinching about the navel.
Pinching below the umbilicus, attended with a bloated condition of the abdomen.
Sensation of heaviness under the navel after breakfast.
Soon after taking, a sensation as of a burden under the navel appears, and some pressure of flatus; afterwards rattling in the intestines, upon which the sensation of heaviness returns.
Urging under the navel.
Soon after taking, heaviness in abdomen, especially in the region of the navel.
Soon after the medicine a sensation of heaviness appears in the navel.
More or less severe pressive pain in the umbilical region, sometimes rising into the right side of the chest.
Griping in the region of the navel.
Violent griping in the region of the navel for several seconds after breakfast.
Slight griping between the navel and the right hypochondrium.
Griping about the navel, lasting till dinner-time.
Slight griping in the region of the navel, which ceases after awhile.
Colic-like pains, especially in the region of the navel, of some duration.
Thumbing of flatus against the navel, lasting several minutes.
Cutting pain in the umbilical region (after two hours).
Itching stitches in the navel.
Evenings, in bed, a twitching, writhing, jumping in the recti-muscles.
Jumping of the muscles of the left flank.
Pinching, painful sensation in the left side of the abdomen, above the hip; relieved by passage of flatus.
Transient stitches in the right flank, rapidly succeeding each other from two to four times, and returning after the lapse of ten or fifteen minutes.
Frequent twitching of the abdominal muscles, even in the pyramidal muscles by the pubis.
Twitching in the left abdominal muscles.
Frequent twitching of the muscles of the upper abdomen.
Frequent jumping of the muscles of the walls of the abdomen.
Bloated abdomen.
Slight meteorism of the abdomen.
Distension of the abdomen for some time after breakfast.
Distension of the abdomen; gurgling in the intestines.
Distension of the abdomen.
Distension of the abdomen after the medicine.
Directly after the taking, inflation and heaviness of the abdomen.
Flatus moves to and fro in the abdomen in an audible manner.
Grunting and rumbling in the abdomen.
Audible grunting in the abdomen early in the morning (second day).
Gurgling in the intestines.
Loud rumbling in the abdomen (after half an hour).
Loud, painless din in the abdomen, like distant thunder, attended with a feeling as if the person had to go to stool (in the evening).
Rumbling and wandering of flatus in the abdomen.
Rumbling in abdomen, with constant pain deep in umbilical region; aggravated by pressure.
Excessive rumbling in the abdomen.
Rumbling in the intestines.
After stool, rumbling in the abdomen.
Some rattling in the intestines.
After breakfast, gurgling and rattling in the intestines.
Directly after taking, rattling in the abdomen for several seconds.
Frequent recurrence of rumbling and rattling in the abdomen during the day.
Pressure, rumbling, and rattling in the intestines directly after the medicine.
Gurgling and rattling in the intestines after breakfast.
Rattling in the abdomen, as if peas were being rolled about.
Noise in the intestines; no gurgling, but short, abrupt tones.
Loud gurgling in the bowels, deep down.
Gurgling and rattling in the intestines.
After stool rumbling in the abdomen.
Sensation of fermenting in the abdomen.
Passes a large quantity of wind.
Passage of much flatus.
Passage of flatus.
Much passage of flatus.
Frequent passage of flatus.
Passes wind, attended with a sensation similar to that experienced in diarrhoea.
Passage of flatus soon after the medicine, followed by a feeling of heaviness in the lower abdomen.
Soon after taking, passage of flatus, with warmth in the abdomen.
The prover has passage of flatus for thirty-seven days.
Much passage of flatus, frequently painful, or preceded by colic-like pains.
Some relief after passage of flatus.
Passage of much inodorous flatus.
During the entire time of proving, frequent passage of inodorous flatus after a distending pain in the rectum.
Frequently passes fetid wind.
Passes wind which smells of garlic.
Moving of flatus in the abdomen.
Flatus troubled him during the night.
Continued rolling of wind in bowels, eructations of tasteless air, and passing flatus.
Slight uncomfortable sensation in the intestines.
Violent pain in abdomen (after four hours).
Uncomfortable sensation in abdomen, with grumbling, growing, and occasional cutting gripes in a slight degree, but lasting nearly all day.
Sensation of discomfort in the abdomen, with frequent rumbling, and occasional griping, occurring often in the forenoon, as well as in the afternoon.
A constant uncomfortable sensation in the abdomen, with some flatus.
Slight burning in the intestines after the medicine.
Burning in the intestines, gradually following after burning in the stomach.
After breakfast, burning in the abdomen for a short time.
Immediately after taking, slight burning sensation in the abdomen that soon ceases.
Sensation of distension in the abdomen, following after a very insufficient stool.
Sensation of distension and heaviness in the abdomen.
Directly after the medicine, a peculiar sensation of distension and heaviness appears in the abdomen.
Soon after the medicine, the same sensation, already often felt, of distension and pressure in the abdomen.
After eating moderately, feeling of distension in the abdomen.
Uncomfortable sensation in the abdomen; it is not distended, and yet there is a feeling of distension there.
Pressure and sense of fullness in the abdomen after moderately partaking of light food.
Troublesome fulness of the whole abdomen; it makes sitting and breathing difficult.
Tension in the abdomen.
Tension in the whole abdomen.
First remarked when accidentally stooping, and always repeated when intentionally doing so; a sensation of tension across the region of the lungs into the sides of the abdomen, where it resembled a sprained pain in the abdominal muscles.
Directly after the medicine, tension and heaviness in the abdomen.
Pinching in the abdomen.
Slight pinching after the medicine; passage of flatus.
Violent pinching and cutting in the abdomen before and during the stools.
Griping in the abdomen.
Griping in the abdomen, lasting for several minutes.
Slight griping after breakfast.
Slight griping in the abdomen for several hours.
Directly after the medicine, slight griping here and there in the abdomen, more against the abdominal walls than in the intestines.
Transient griping at short intervals, which always began with a stitch, and gradually disappeared.
Slight griping in the abdomen at noon, with passage of flatus.
Griping in the abdomen that urged to stool; relieved by a tolerably dry evacuation, accompanied by cutting pain in the abdomen.
Several times, while walking in the open air, griping for a little while, and a burning pressive pain in the lower abdominal region.
At 9 A.M., a burrowing, pressive pain sets in, and slight griping in the abdomen, with ineffectual urging of flatus towards the anus.
After dinner, slight heaviness and slight griping in the abdomen, with ineffectual urging of flatus towards the anus.
Slight griping and rumbling in the intestines.
Griping, with passage of flatus, an hour after the medicine.
Griping appears, with rumbling in the abdomen, over which he fell asleep.
The griping becomes more violent and frequent.
Griping in the abdomen, stitches, and then a cutting pain.
Accumulation of much flatus, causing oppression.
Pressure and qualmishness in the abdomen, with qualmish feeling in the stomach during the forenoon.
A pressive, very disagreeable, painful sensation in the left side of the abdomen, causing a nauseated ill-feeling in the abdomen, in the affected spot.
Heaviness in the abdomen.
Heaviness in the abdomen, soon after taking.
Heaviness in the abdomen, directly after taking.
Urging of flatus towards the anus.
Soon after the medicine, heaviness and urging in the abdomen, with rattling in the intestines.
Directly after the medicine, heaviness and tension in the abdomen.
Sense of writhing in the abdomen.
Writhing pain in the abdomen.
Violent colic.
Colic, after stool, as if the person had swallowed poison, early in the morning (seventh and ninth day).
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.