Chest.
Pain in chest.Pain in the chest, as though the food had remained lodged behind the sternum.
Stitches in the left chest with burning pain. ( The sticking pains in the left side are aggravated by every deep inspiration).
Sticking pain in various parts of the chest; most in region of cartilages of the fifth and sixth ribs. (Flitting pains in chest). (Tension in upper part of chest, with coryza and cough).
Heart and Pulse.
Pulse accelerated, full, hard, with stomachache; excited nights.Pulse harder evenings, only 82-84 beats (first day).
Neck and Back.
Shiverings in the back.Pains a hand’s breadth below the right shoulder, more towards the spine, after long sitting. (Pain of the right shoulder-blade, on lying in bed).
Stitches in lumbar region.
Pains in the loins, as he used to have if he had no stool for several days (third day).
Burning pressure in small of back.
Pain in region of left kidney, afterwards less severe in the right (first day), the following days in the left.
Aching in region of left kidney.
Dull pains in right kidney region, and a very uncomfortable feeling of fullness in the bladder, with frequent urging to urinate (second day).
(Pain in region of kidneys). (Pains over the region of kidneys).
Extremities in General.
In all the limbs, especially on both arms, sore as if it were all scratched off, with tired feeling therein.Rheumatic pains in the joints.
Troubles as after taking cold; the next day, pains in all the bones, aching in the throat, prostration, etc.
Restlessness in all the limbs; cannot hold them still.
Weak sensation in the limbs, with flatulent troubles. Neuralgia of the stump (after amputation), violent burning stinging pains. (Tincture).
Upper Extremities.
Pain in shoulder and abdomen.Sweat in axilla.
Weak sensation, especially in the arms.
A stitch run through the right arm, from the shoulder-blade to the elbow, with burning pain.
Needle stitches in the arms.
Numb sensation in the left elbow-joint, worse on slight motion (forenoons).
Numb sensation in left elbow-joint, with headache.
In right elbow-joint, pain as from a blow, seventh day at noon.
Painful affection of the left forearm especially in the radius on resting on the arm in writing; evenings (first day).
Pains in the middle of the left radius, disappears on taking hold of it and rubbing, but returns (second day).
Pains in the right wrist, on the back, and extensor side, evenings (first day).
Lameness in the joints of left hand.
Trembling of right hand, so that he can hardly write, evenings, with coryza (first day).
Trembling of right hand (also after X again).
Dry, red hands, as if he had been in the cold (third day).
Pain in left middle finger.
Pain in right fourth and fifth finger (soon).
Voluptuous, corrosive itching, especially on the palmar side of the left thumb, from the first to second phalanx, not on the ball, lasts all evening, till after 10 P.M. (first day).
Sweat of palm of hand.
Lower Extremities.
Excessive tired feeling in the region of the hips, late in the evening, on rising from sitting, on walking, especially on going up steps (first day).Weakness in the hips, nights.
Bruised pain in left thigh, in lower part on the side, very near the knee (first hour).
Pain, almost burning pressure in upper part of left thigh, toward the outer side (after seventy minutes).
Pain in left thigh, on the outer side, very near the knee, like the pain in the ankle (one and a half hours).
On the outer side and upper part of both thighs, a glowing sensation.
Nettle-rash on both thighs down to the knees, with heat; on rubbing, they itch, and at upper part, there are hard round pimples; in lower part, marbled spots; after a cold and other troubles.
Shooting pains in left leg and right foot.
Paralytic pains in the knee-joint.
Stitches in the right knee, as if coming form the bones, from within, extending outward, in front.
Burning pressure in the middle of the left lower leg, on a small spot externally, then on the right, just the same, but low down, evenings (first day).
Severe pains in right ankle, mornings.
Pains in left ankle (after one hour).
Burning pains around the left outer ankle, afterward lower down, and a burning pressure externally, then also internally (after one and a quarter hours).
Pains in the right foot, evenings (first day).
Painful twitching on inner side of left heel.
Pain in the most external soft parts of the right great toe, and also in the left middle finger.
Violent ticking pain in the metatarsal bones of the left great toe, repeated and becomes continued; evenings (first day).
(Places on the outside of the left ankle, rubbed sore and inflamed, and very painful, speedily cured, after other things tried in vain).
Generalities.
Attacks at once the whole body, and causes a shock, with eructations of wind.The whole body is set into a revolution which the prover is not in a condition to describe.
Such weakness over and over, that she must lie down.
Deathly faintness after profuse micturition.
Skin.
External redness and itching of the skin.A slight corrosive itching here and there, with which are little points, which cannot be very well described or seen; an indefinite desire to be rubbed or washed, but still a severe, distinct sensation, evenings, worse sitting still after going out (first day).
Stitches, as with needles, in the skin, especially on the head, on the forehead, in the brows, in the throat, and on right arm. (Nettle-rash on the thigh).
A wart between the left shoulder and side of neck begins to pain the next morning, is red and scratched off.
Fever.
Unusual chilliness.Frequent cold shivers creep along the back (first day).
Cold creepings along the back (fifth day).
Shivers down the back, especially nights in bed; he wants always more covering; therewith, he feels feverish in all his veins, and has sweat, especially in the axilla and in palms.
(Young man who did not know what he took).
Cold shivers down the back, with liver-pains (evenings).
Shivering and chilliness, with increased urinating.
Internal coldness, with subsequent heat and great thirst, which continues into the night (third day).
(Coldness alternates with heat, in catarrh).
It is injurious, by overheating.
Increased warmth of the skin.
Feverish through all the veins, with shivering in the back.
The juice arouses the circulation (Hahnemann).
Flitting heat now and then.
Internal heat, with rumbling in abdomen.
Heat in the head, on the head, in brows, in face in cheeks, in throat, down to stomach, in bowels.
Heat, with coryza, evenings, alternating with cold, and flitting heat over the whole body, and thirst, evenings.
Heat and thirst after coldness.
After eating onions, he feels as after taking cold; feverish, especially evenings, with heat in the face; tongue and mouth feel burnt and dry, without thirst; drinks only a small quantity, with restlessness in all the limbs, so that he cannot hold them still; the next day the tongue is coated.
Heat, without thirst, at 2 A.M., disappears mornings, worse again after breakfast.
Unusual sweating while working.
Sweat breaks out after larger doses, in three cases.
Sweat in axilla and palms.
Copious sweat. (Internal fever always produced and renewed from too much walking.
Wakes nights at 2 A.M., with excited pulse; cannot sleep again till morning; without any chill, only heat without thirst; disappears mornings, but is worse again for a few hours after breakfast; afterwards very much prostrated; Phosph., without result; Cepa cured).
Sleep and Dreams.
With the sleepiness, near objects seem distant.Much yawning, with headache and pressure in stomach.
Frequent internal, but not very deep, yawning (evenings) (first day).
Midnight, very sleepy, soon falling asleep; not easily disturbed sleep (first day).
If one eats much, it causes lethargy, a deep overpowering sleep.
Sopor.
Excessive use causes sopor.
Heavy sleep, sopor, lethargy, follow its use.
Causes heavy dreams, especially in those who have been lately ill.
Who will have pleasant dreams must eat a raw onion before going to sleep, without supper.
Constant dreams of battles, fights, precipices, storms at sea, and difficulty in reaching the coast, of deep wells, and efforts to get out of them.
Dreams of being near water two nights in succession.
Restless sleep, with swarming dreams.
Sleep disturbed by toothache.
During sleep, teeth feel too long.
Wakes at 2 A.M., with excited pulse; can no more sleep.
Mornings, after rising, sleepy and disinclined to work; every day.
Sleepy, mornings.
On waking, nauseous taste.
Conditions.- Aggravation.
(Morning), Apathetic; sleepy; flatulence; erections, etc.; dry throat and cough; pain in ankle.(Afternoon, after wine and coffee), Confused and absent-minded, etc.
(Evening), All catarrhal symptoms and pains; heat of face; eructation of wind; flashes of heat and thirst; pulse harder; pains in foot; heat and thirst; mucus behind choanae.
(Night), Passage of flatus.
(Nights, in bed), Shivers, etc.
(After midnight), Diarrhoea.
(In open air), Dropping from nose.
(In bed), Pain under breast-bone.
(Bending forward), Pain under breast-bone renewed.
(After breakfast), Dryness of soft palate.
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.