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Loeffler). (Colic after immoderate eating.

Loeffler). (Frequent pains in bowels in the summer, especially if he has eaten cucumbers, salad, or the like; this relieves nearly every time, and a second dose in rarely needed).

(In colic of children often useful). (Ascites (11 years old); roasted and rubbed in as a salve, with goose grease; even after twenty-four hours’ use, the water flowed from her by the quart; she became weak, that she was despaired of, but she rallied, and there was no relapse after six years.

Franks Mag).

Flatulent distension of the abdomen.

If too many are eaten, they distend the abdomen and cause flatulence. (Removes flatulence).

Make bad blood, afford little nourishment, puff up the abdomen, cause thirst, injure the bile.

Cooked, they become milder and sweeter, but still cause flatulence (Hahnemann).

Flatulence from raw onions.

In one woman, raw onions always caused much wind in the stomach, and eructations; cooked onions, never.

Immediately eructations of wind, then confusion of the head, especially in the forehead, and distension of the abdomen; afterwards urgency to stool, but only passage of wind, with weak feeling in the limbs, and at evening free expectoration of mucus; the distension of the abdomen continued till the next day, and ended with a diarrhoea, when all the other symptoms also disappeared (from fifty drops of tincture several times repeated).

Continued eructations, nausea, and pressure in the stomach, with rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, especially on the left side, where there is stitching and rumbling, and urgency to stool, which is ineffectual.

Rumbling in the abdomen, with passage of much wind through the anus, preceded by a sensation of heat and frequent eructations (soon after taking, the first day).

Frequent eructations, abdomen distended and painful; relieved every time after passing wind downwards, with internal heat (first day). Sensation as if the abdomen were much swollen, with sharp pain and oppression of breathing before and after diarrhoea.

Rumbling in the transverse colon, evenings, and sudden urgency to stool.

Rumbling in the bowels, with stomach-ache; epigastrium after breakfast; in left side of lower bowels.

The abdomen is distended before dinner, so that the clothes seem too tight (after one hour).

Lower abdomen very heavy, as if it were pressed upon, before and after standing; disappeared after bathing (the ninth day).

Heonionated! (Zwiebelt) (Popular expression); the young people in Upper Lusatia say, if they wish to express themselves politely, “he has made a mistake” (Zweifelt)), without knowing how analogous the abdominal mistake is to the scientific.

Both are criticizable (Grimm).

Very offensive flatus, and moist; mornings.

Offensive flatus, with loud passage (after fifty minutes).

Frequent flatus, difficult to pass; evenings (the first day).

Flatus difficult to press out, odorless (the first day).

Frequent passage of flatus at a night.

Offensive, moist flatus (first day).

Frequent passage of flatus without pain.

Less passage of wind in the morning and all day; the few passages are (contrary to all habit) very offensive.

Exceptionally little flatus, almost none, in one who is accustomed to pass a great deal every morning, though he has eaten apples the previous evening according to his custom (the second and subsequent days); this diminished emission of flatus, mornings, and its offensive odor, lasted for over a year, after which the flatus was as odorless and abundant as before.

Pain in bowels relieved after passing wind.

Stool and Anus.

Promotes defecation.Soft evacuations without pain.

If he eats onions in the evening, he becomes sleepy, and his eyes heavy; the next morning, he has a regular and satisfactory stool.

After eating food seasoned with onions always diarrhoea, either the next night or towards morning.

Feeling of diarrhoea in the bowels, and soft stool without diarrhoea.

Purging (the third day and later).

Purging (third to seventh day), also nights.

Diarrhoea following distension of the abdomen, whereupon all troubles disappear. (Diarrhoea after midnight and toward morning).

Absence of evacuations, with most severe bellyache.

Difficult evacuation of faeces (at the usual time after breakfast); though without hard faeces, still he had to strain very hard (the third day).

The stool fails (the third day).

Stool on the morning of the fourth day, long and thick. (No stool for many days, with catarrh.

Satisfactory stools in the morning, in constipated habits.

Since an intermittent fever and large doses of China, two years previous, the prover had infrequent evacuations (four to eight days, without feeling the slightest desire); they occurred mostly at evening; since the proving, for a year and a half, he has had a stool nearly every morning, only very seldom omitting for two or three days.

Strong urging and pressure for a soft stool at the usual time (five or six days).

Sudden urging to stool, with rumbling.

Urging to stool, with rumbling in bowels, but nothing passes.

Urging to stool but only passage of wind.

A very painful stitch extends along the rectum down into its lower part (afternoons).

With an evacuation, it seems as if there were cracks on the inside of the anus (morning of seventh day).

In the anus, and some protruding hemorrhoids, a cold creeping, like a cool worm, more on left side (after one hour and later).

Biting in anus.

Blood passes with the stool (tenth to twelfth day); (had not happened since he proved Lithium).

Urinary Organs.

Dull pains in right kidney region, and a very uncomfortable feeling of fullness in the bladder, with frequent urging to urinate (second day).Most violent pains in region of bladder and uterus.

Pressure in the bladder.

Irritability of the bladder, and pain over the kidney region.

Very uncomfortable feeling of fullness in the bladder and urgency to urinate.

Pain in region of the bladder and in left side of abdomen.

(Weak feeling in bladder and urethra)..

Very pleasant sensation of warmth in the urethra, without erections or sexual desire.

Copious urinating (afternoons).

Urgency to urinate and feeling of fullness in the bladder.

( Frequent urinating, with catarrh).

Frequent urinating, with burning in the urethra; the urine very red (second day); all day, still oftener evenings (third day); especially with shuddering and chilliness.

Frequent excessive urging to urinate, with dribbling burning discharge.

Is obliged to pass even small amounts of urine; this ceased after a few days, but again returned and remained a long time.

Urinating is more difficult.

Iridescent film on the urine in two cases.

Urine very frothy, but clear; the forth remains longer than usual.

Very red urine; with reddish-yellow, sandy sediment. (In albuminuria it relieved the frequent urinating, and even diminished the amount of albumen). (Pressure with the hand on the bladder increases the child’s cries). (Sensitiveness of the bladder and pain in the region of the kidneys, weak feeling of the bladder and urethra of long duration (cured by six doses). ( Polyuria). (Difficult micturition from spasmodic closure of the bladder).

Spasmodic strangury after getting the feet and bowels cold).

(Roasted and bound on to the navel; popular remedy). ( Dribbling or spurting urine in old people).

Sexual Organs.

Increases coition and arouses sexual desire.Increases virility.

Increases desire.

Mornings on waking, erections with painful tension, without sexual desire (eighth, ninth, and tenth days).

Drawings in right spermatic cord (first day).

Pain from inguinal ring along spermatic cord.

Burning in urethra.

Burning pain in forepart of the glans.

On account of weakness in the hips, he cannot finish coition, even after two or three repeated attempts (first day).

Pressive pains in bladder and prostate, deep in the pelvis, the next morning and forenoon, after coitus (fourth, fifth, and sixth days).

Violent pains in uterine region.

Brings on menses.

Brings on menses, but not very strong.

Juice mixed with wine brings on menses.

Shoved into the womb brings on menstruation.

Eaten raw, it expedites menstruation.

Expels urine and menses.

Macerated in vinegar it brings on menses.

Respiratory Apparatus.

Tickling in the epiglottis.Tickling in the larynx, with copious and troublesome collection of mucus in the fauces.

Tickling in the throat, with aching in the larynx.

Hoarseness.

(Hoarseness in spring).

Throbbing in larynx, and sensation as if it contracted.

Cannot breathe freely evenings; an obstruction in the middle of the chest, in the upper part.

Asthmatic breathing, as often before, at 11 P.M., after smoking tobacco.

Oppression of breathing, with ascites.

Relieved asthma and caused copious sweat. ( Pressure in the upper part in the middle of the chest, makes respiration difficult).

On deep inspiration, sticking i n the left side.

On inspiring cold air hacking cough.

Dryness and tickling in the throat, and hacking cough mornings (fourth day).

Constant inclination to hack in order to relieve tickling in the larynx. (Tickling in the throat and cough). (Short cough, which plagued him very much for a week). ( Violent catarrh in a boy, after northeast wind and rainy weather, eyes suffused, lids very red, as from crying and rubbing them; nose dropping, throat sore, and some cough). ( A severe cold, frequent sneezing, lachrymation, pain in forehead, acrid discharge from left nostril, hacking cough on inspiring cold air, cold alternates with heat; no stool for several days). ( Violent catarrhal laryngitis; the hoarse cough seemed to split and tear the larynx; cause watering of the eye, etc).

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.