Common names: Tree of Heaven; (Germ)., Gotterbaum; (Fr)., Ailante.
Introduction
Ailanthus glandulosus, Desf.Natural order: Simarubeae.
Preparation: Tincture from the flowers beginning to open.
Mind.
Low-spirited.Continual sighing.
Depression of spirits.
Recklessness in regard to present or future events.
Stoical indifference to whatever happens.
Restlessness.
Great anxiety.
Inability to concentrate mental effort; compelled to read a subject several times to get even a misty understanding of it.
Confusion of intellect; found it almost impossible to add a column of figures correctly; had to go over it several times to get it right.
Loss of memory.
Mental alienation.
(Stupor, delirium, and insensibility, after suppressed scarlatina eruption).
Head.
Vertigo, especially when stooping.Dizziness.
Dizziness and confusion of the head.
Staggering dizziness when rising or moving.
A sensation of giddiness with nausea and sickness at the stomach.
Tottering gait, with an inclination to stagger; requires extra effort to walk straight.
Giddiness; nausea, with retching and some vomiting.
Slight headache, accompanied with nausea and giddiness.
The figures on the ledger began to dance up and down the columns; my head grew dizzy.
Pain in the occiput, with dizziness and ringing pain in the forehead.
A fulness and somewhat of an intoxicated sensation in the brain.
A fullness and burning on the brain.
Apoplectic fullness of the head.
Thick heavy feeling in the head, figures and letters look blurred.
Electrical thrill starting from the brain and extending to the extremities.
Feeling as if an electrical current were passing through the left side of the head.
Dull headache.
Severe headache.
Headache with confusion of intellect.
Dull headache, with burning; in eyes (immediately).
Dull headache, with great oppression of bronchia.
Dull heavy headache, with heavy feeling in the sternal region.
Heaviness of the head, with pain over the eyes, ameliorated by pressure.
Dull compressed feeling, with confusion and pain in the forehead.
Severe pains in the head with chills, followed by flushings of heat.
Tingling sensation of left arm and hand, with dull headache; no appetite; tongue coated; pasty taste (on waking in A.M)..
Pain in back, head, neck, and numbness extending from under the left scapula, in a band down to the left hip.
Pain in center of forehead, more to left (in five minutes).
A peculiar, heavy dull pressing pain in the forehead, of no great severity. but which indisposes to or even incapacitates for intellectual labor.
This is always relieved by Aloes 200th.
Between one and two P.M., a heavy frontal headache, with drowsiness; slept two hours.
Severe darting pain through the temples and back part of head, with confusion of ideas.
Severe pain through the temples on waking.
Tender, bruised feeling over parieto-frontal sutures.
Darting pain in the back part of the head.
Pain in the occiput, with dizziness and ringing pain in the forehead, and swelling in the left side; of the face, below the eye, and upon the cheek.
Beating in the occipital arteries.
Eyes.
Eyes feel rough and irritated, as from wind and dust.Smarting and aching, as from powerful astringents.
Burning in the eyes.
Sneezed, and experienced a sensation of cold about the eyes, and a gnawing in the chest.
Light affects the eyes.
Lachrymation in the open air, or by brilliant light.
Purulent discharge, with agglutinated lids in the morning.
Conjunctivitis, with redness and inflammation, extending around the external canthus.
Falling out of the eyebrows.
(Eyes suffused and congested; startled look when roused; pupils dilated and sluggish; in scarlet fever.
Dr. Chalmers). ( Pupils widely dilated).
Photophobia.
Intolerance of light.
Figures and letters look blurred.
Nose.
Itching and uneasy feeling around the nose.Soreness and pain on the left side of the nose.
Dryness and suppressed secretion.
Catarrhal obstruction, as from cold in the head.
Difficult breathing through the nose.
Loss of smell.
Chronic catarrh.
(Copious thin ichorous discharge without fetor; discharge of blood and pus.
In scarlet fever.
Dr. Chalmers).
Face.
Face pale.Dusky bilious complexion.
Complexion sallow and inactive.
Jaundiced.
Dark-blue circle around the eyes.
Irregular spots of capillary congestion, as in the face of a drunkard after a debauch.
Hot, red face.
Miliary rash, more profuse on the face and forehead, especially the forehead, than upon the rest of the body.
Pain in the occiput, with dizziness and ringing pain in the forehead, and swelling in the left side of the face; feels heavy and sleepy; nausea coming on at intervals.
On the second evening, tearing in the upper and lower teeth of the left side, also in the face and head, aggravated by lying down and forcing him to walk about; external pressure relieves.
Improvement only toward morning.
( Face and forehead dark mahogany; suppressed scarlatina).
Tongue.
Tongue coated.Tongue coated; pasty taste in morning.
Tongue thickly covered with a whitish coat, brown in center.
( Tongue dry, parched, and cracked; moist, and covered with white fur; tip and edges livid. the favorable action of Ailanthus, the clearing-off of the coating revealed prominent papillae.
In scarlet fever.
Dr. Chalmers).
Throat.
Sensation as after applying an astringent to the pharynx.Thick, oedematous, and dry choky feeling in the throat, continuing in the acute form only a short time, and then becoming chronic.
A fullness in the throat just above the sternum, and a desire to hawk up something.
Throat dry, rough, and scrapy, more so in the morning.
Irritability of the throat and hawking up of mucus.
Hawking of mucus from the throat.
Constant hawking, and efforts to raise lumps of whitish matter.
Raising of mucus and yellow matter from throat.
Great accumulation of matter, part of which is easily expectorated, while a portion is with much exertion detached in small flakes.
Croupy choking.
Throat tender and sore on swallowing, or on admission of air.
When deglutition is painful, the pain always extends to the ears.
Redness of the throat with or without pain during deglutition.
The fauces and tonsils are inflamed, with spots of incipient ulceration.
Spreading ulcers, feeling as after the application of nitrate of silver.
Tenderness and enlargement of the parotid and thyroid glands.
Thickened and swollen feeling of the muscles of the neck.
( The throat is livid and swollen, the tonsils studded with numerous deep, angry-looking ulcerations, from which a scanty fetid discharge exudes; the neck is very tender and swollen; the tonsils are prominent and studded with ulcerated points.
In scarlet fever.
Dr. Chamlers).
Appetite.
No feeling of hunger, but eats his usual quantity.No appetite for breakfast; tongue coated; pasty taste.
No appetite for dinner, everything tasting flat and insipid.
She could take no food, the sight of it made her feel worse.
Appetite capricious.
Loss of appetite; slight nausea; disgust at food.
Loathing of food.
During the chill there was great hunger, with a distressing sense of general emptiness.
Stomach.
Every morning nausea, and during the day a febrile heat with this nausea (but frequently without it); a diarrhoea set in; four or five stools daily, with pains in the abdomen; sometimes vomiting with the diarrhoea.With the nausea are oppression and pain below the hypochondria, in some like a stricture below the short ribs.
Some find this symptom very debilitating.
Excessive nausea, but no vomiting, during the headache.
In women, nausea similar to that of pregnancy.
Nausea and sickness at the stomach, with sour eructation.
Nausea and vomiting.
Any food taken was speedily vomited.
Vomited repeatedly.
Peculiar feeling of emptiness in the stomach.
Inactive condition of the stomach, as though its contractive power was impaired.
Constant, violent increasing pain in the stomach.
Water tastes brackish and flat; no desire for drinks except when eating.
Took a teaspoonful of the tincture.
In half an hour began to feel queer and somewhat frightened; a sensation of giddiness with nausea and sickness at the stomach came over me; cold perspiration stood out upon the skin; my fingers, in fact my whole body, began to tingle and prick; my limbs felt as if they were asleep; the figures on the ledger began to dance up and down; my head grew dizzy; I staggered back and fell into my chair almost unconscious.
Drank half a tumbler of Bourbon; soon began to vomit and purge, and was very ill for two hours.
Two days after was as well as common, excepting some headache, and a sort of numbness of the left arm.
Abdomen and Stool.
Tenderness over the hepatic region.Tympanitis.
Burning in the stomach and bowels.
Weak, burning, uneasy feeling in the bowels, as of approaching diarrhoea.
Slight rumbling in the bowels.
A feeling of “insecurity,” as if he would be attacked with diarrhoea any; minute.
Bowels moved easier than natural, two or three times a day.
Looseness of the bowels, appearing more in the large intestines.
Colicky and griping pains in the bowels.
Frequent watery dejections, which are expelled with great force.
Pains in hypogastrium and hips.
Morning, nausea with diarrhoea, which is sometimes attended with vomiting.
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.