Ailanthus



Dysentery; frequent painful stool, little fecal matter, much bloody mucus, with very little fever.

Constipation.

Urinary Organs.

Urine suppressed.

Genitals.

A sore appeared on the prepuce of the prover, which had the exact appearance of an incipient chancre; it dried up and disappeared in a few days after ceasing Ailanthus.(This sore and the rash are similar to those which characterize primary syphilis).

Cough.

Cough somewhat oppressed; expectoration muco-purulent, free in the morning, sticky and scanty during the day.Deep exhausting cough, with asthmatic expansion of the lungs.

Cough deep and painful.

Violent fits of coughing before retiring, and on rising; she coughs continually, until expectoration becomes free; afterwards is comfortable during the day.

Chest.

Oppression of breathing.Equable oppression, as though chest was strapped.

Asthmatic oppression in the larger bronchi.

On the second day after suspending the drug, wheezing asthmatic respiration.

Feeling as though the air-cells were stuck together; inability to completely expand the lungs; can hear the air-cells open (?) as the lungs expand.

Tired feeling in the lungs, rendering it almost an exertion to breathe.

Pain with constriction or tightness of the chest.

Excessive tenderness all over the lungs.

Excessive soreness and tenderness of the lungs, compelling a suspension of the drug.

Soreness of the internal chest with pain and aching of the lungs.

Soreness and pain of the lungs increased; severe pains in the head, with chills, followed by flushes of heat.

Pain and contracted feeling, especially through the center of the left lung, sternal edge.

Aching in the anterior portion of the left lung, extending to the posterior.

Pain as from small blade two inches at the left of the lower portion of the sternum.

Heated, burning feeling, as from breathing hot steam or air.

Burning in the right lung.

Burning pain under the left shoulder.

Stitching and aching in the chest.

Aching pain directly under the clavicle, sometimes extending to the sternum.

Respiration quickened.

Crepitant rhonchus.

Heart and Pulse.

Pulse accelerated.

Back.

Soreness in the glands of the neck with pain under the left shoulder blade.Intolerable pain in the back of the neck, upper part of the back, and in the right hip-joint.

Pain in the head, neck, back and numbness under left scapula, extending as a band down to left hip.

Constant aching between the shoulders.

Aching, pressed feeling of the dorsal vertebra.

Shooting, aching pains in the shoulders and hips.

Constant sharp pain through the small of the back and hips.

Superior Extremities.

Pain in the right scapula, deep inside (in six minutes).The pain in right scapula prevents motion of the arm; a similar pain in the right foot prevents walking (in one hour).

Numbness of the left arm, and a sensation as though the fingers were asleep.

Tingling sensation of left arm and hand on waking, in A.M.,.

The numbness of left arm and hand, with pain in the shoulder, back, and hips, lasting four or five days after ceasing to take the drug,.

A sort of numbness of the left arm.

Fingers tingle and prick.

Electrical thrill, extending to the ends of the fingers.

Inferior Extremities.

Limbs felt as though they were asleep.Numbness of the left leg, with tingling, prickling pain in the foot and toes.

Feeling of uneasiness and aching restlessness in the limbs.

Heaviness of the extremities.

Pain in the right foot prevents walking.

Severe pain in left foot, a kind of tension in walking.

Sleep disturbed and unrefreshing.

Heavy sleep during the night.

Great sleepiness in the morning or forenoon; sleepiness the whole day, but this is not refreshing.

After drinking a glass of wine great sleepiness, with fulness of the head.

Fever.

Dry, hot skin, especially in the morning, lasting until the middle of the day.Skin dry.

Cold perspiration stood out upon the skin.

Felt slightly ill on rising in the A.M.; could take no food; sight of it made her feel worse; was suddenly seized with vomiting; severe headache, dizziness; hot, red face; inability to sit up rapid small pulse; drowsy, at the same time very restless; great anxiety.

In two hours drowsiness had become insensibility, with constant muttering delirium; did not recognize the members of the family.

She was now covered in patches with an eruption of miliary rash, all of a dark, almost of a livid color.

The patches between the points of the eruption were of a dingy, dull opaque appearance.

The eruption was more profuse on the forehead and face than elsewhere, and especially on the forehead.

The pulse was now small, and so rapid as hardly to be counted; the surface had become cold and dry; the livid color of the skin when pressed out returned very slowly; the whole was a most complete picture of torpor.

The chill was always preceded by a miliary eruption, most copiously developed;on the forehead and face.

During the chill there was great hunger, with a distressing sense of general emptiness.

Any food taken was speedily vomited.

Intolerable pain was felt in the back of the neck, the upper part of the back, and the right hip-joint.

During the hot stage there was urgent thirst, with delirium, and a strong desire for brandy.

(This group represents the quasi “secondary action”. It supervened upon the poisoning depicted in S. 193, and the girl was subject to this role for a fortnight). The eruption is slow to make its appearance, and never takes on the genuine scarlet color; it remains livid.

Ailanthus produces an eruption which has an exact resemblance to ordinary measles, but it is attended by no catarrhal symptoms, or other concomitants of that exanthem.

Generalities.

Immediately after taking one drop, a dulness over the whole body.Languor and lassitude on making exertions.

Incapability of standing long at a time.

Tottering gait, with an inclination to stagger; requires extra effort to walk straight.

All asthmatics who are exposed to the odor feel worse during the blossoming period.

The odor affects women and children more than men, and old people least of all.

If odor gives any indication, Ailanthus should prove a good remedy in malignant puerperal fever.

Affects the organism in the following order; throat, lungs, eyes, head.

(In prover M., this order of evolution is exactly reversed.

J). After discontinuing the drug the head, throat, and chest symptoms lasted for about twenty-four hours, and gradually died away.

The numbness of (left) arm and leg, with pain in shoulder, back, and hips, continued four or five days.

Two days after taking a teaspoonful of the mother tincture, as well as ever, with the exception of some headache, and a sort of numbness of the left arm.

The neuralgic pains (facial) force him to walk about.

Conditions.- Aggravation.

(Morning), Purulent discharge from eyes, etc.; coated tongue, etc.; throat dry, etc.; nausea; nausea with diarrhoea; dry, hot skin.(Morning on waking), Tingling in arm, etc.

(Morning or forenoon), Great sleepiness.

(On admission of air), Throat tender.

(In open air), Lachrymation.

(During chill), Great hunger.

(On exerting body), Languor and lassitude.

(During heat), Urgent thirst, etc.

(Lying down), Tearing in teeth, etc.

(Brilliant light), Lachrymation.

(Rising or moving), Staggering dizziness.

(Stooping), Vertigo.

(Swallowing), Throat tender.

(After taking wine), Great sleepiness, etc.

Amelioration.

(Toward morning), Improvement.(Pressure), Heaviness of head, etc.

(External pressure), Tearing in teeth.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.