Introduction
Alum; the crystallized double sulphate of Aluminum and potassium.(KAI2SO4,12H2O).
Preparation: Triturations of the pure crystals.
Mind.
Conscious of all that happens; conscious of the services in church, while the blood rushes to the head that she hardly can hold it up or keep her eyes open.From 9 A.M. until noon very depressed and sad; could have wept all the time; felt very much oppressed, anxious, and heavy, like a stone on the chest, with inclination to take a long breath (third day).
Great anxiety, and disbelief in the power of medicine to relieve him.
Feared to leave her set in church, after feeling faint.
They frighten him, ebullitions going upwards.
Great fear in her dreams.
Scarcely endurable pains in rectum.
Much excited, with the twitching.
Excitability of feeling, as when one is agitated by unpleasant news.
Great agitation, anxiety, and restlessness.
Nervous restlessness and excitement, more like that caused by; mental emotion than bodily illness.
Perceptive faculties were gone during the deathlike fainting spell.
When thinking about his disease, he feels the heart beating.
After mental excitement, heart begins to beat violently.
More anxious at night than at other times.
Intellect and senses perfect.
Head.
In the evening, when lying on the back, a sensation as if vertigo was coming on, with a weakness in the pit of the stomach, which disappears when opening the eyes and turning on the right side (one hour).Vertigo when looking downwards, as if he should fall forwards, and at other times often giddy.
Great vertigo, nausea, and weakness.
She staggers to a chair; overcome by sudden nausea.
Vertigo, with headache, in the evening, ceases after lying down.
Blood rushes to the head with such rapidity and force that she cannot raise or open her eyes.
Blood at first driven to the head by the suddenness and severity of pain, leaving it afterwards.
Dull, heavy pain in the head, particularly in the back of
it.
At 8 A.M., severe jerking pain on the left side of the forehead (third day).
Pain in right of neck and forehead.
Temples shooting.
In the afternoon until evening, stinging pain on the vertex, when stooping.
Pressing on top of the head; vertex (third day).
Back of the head pains.
Pain in the head, going from place to place, coming and going (forenoon).
The pain in my head was worse than any other symptom (worse in the morning when getting awake); at one time it was acute, shooting from one temple to the other; at another, heavy, and pressing on the top of my head, as if a great weight were placed there on, with nausea; this continued all day without cessation, but the sickness of the stomach left me, and returned at intervals only; it was accompanied by chilliness and feeling as if cold water were poured down my back; at another time great heat throughout my body; in fact I felt exactly like I did the time I was attacked with small-pox.
About twenty-five minutes after taking the third dose, the same sensation of warmth; slept during the night; in the morning some headache over the eyes and pains on the left side of the chest.
Wakes in the morning with pressing headache over the eyes, which lasts until 10 A.M.; headache is relieved by drinking cold water; the following morning the same symptoms (first and second days); in the evening, at half-past nine, the same headache as in the morning, with vertigo, lasts until bedtime; lessens after lying down to sleep.
Great pain in head, and nausea, when awaking at night.
Headache, with sickness.
Headache, lasting all afternoon, after attack at noon.
Pain in head after cold feeling.
Head and hands cold; blood seemed to be forsaking them.
Headache relieved by drinking cold water.
Eyes.
Slight grew dim, with attack of pain in the stomach.When opening eyes vertigo disappears.
Looking down, vertigo.
Pain over the left eye.
Bruised feeling on the inferior edge of orbit of left eye on pressure, or by moving the eyelids (after eight days for two days).
Itching, burning on the border of the right lower eyelid, followed by milder itching, also on the left lower lid and on the left hip; in the morning (second day).
Burning, itching on the right lower eyelid.
Spongy excrescences of the lachrymal caruncle and of the eyelids (Lefevre).
Ears.
Hears everything in sleep; his bird’s moving in the cage; what happens around her.At midnight, heat in both ears and left side of the face, disappearing when going to bed.
Nose.
Great dryness in nose.In choanae dryness from throat.
Face.
Animated expression of the face, with fever.Face, left side, heat at night.
Embonpoint from general bloating, with a sickly and sallow complexion.
Sickly, sallow complexion.
Deathly pale, she supposed she was.
Deathly pallor of the face, like a corpse, with cramp in stomach.
Pain in the left articulation of the jaw close to the ear.
When shaving, the chin bleeds from slight scratch, in the morning (second day).
Lower lip twitching, with pain in stomach.
Lips blue.
Mouth.
Mouth very dry after five hours, but the thirst not increased.Dryness in the mouth and throat.
Very severe pain in mouth; burning sensation and dryness of the mouth.
In mouth burning pains, burning.
Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, with feeling of dryness on the tongue; qualmishness in the stomach, and accumulation of wind in the abdomen (third day).
Taste and Tongue.
Immediately after taking it, at midnight, a metallic taste and slight nausea; she was very sick, and went to sleep soon, and slept until 5 A.M.Immediately after taking it, metallic taste in the mouth, and slight nausea, more like qualmishness.
Taste sourish, astringent, with a disgusting sweetish aftertaste.
Metallic.
Burning, sourish feeling on the right side of tongue; after taking 30th.
In the evening, after taking it, burning, sourish feeling on the tongue.
Stitches in the tongue, especially on the tip.
Tongue rough, and as if scraped, in the morning.
Feeling of dryness on the tongue, especially on the forepart, as if it had been scraped (notwithstanding there being sufficient saliva in the mouth), in the morning (second day).
In the evening, immediately after taking it, burning on the tongue (second day).
Palate and Throat.
Roof of the mouth thickly coated with phlegm.After the powder of Alum was blown in the throat, to cure a redness there, the lower half of the uvula was like a berry hanging on a string from the upper part.
Pains in gullet, extending up into the swallow, pain from stomach.
Very severe pains in the pharynx; burning in the mouth, pharynx, and stomach.
Thick phlegm in the throat and the roof of the mouth is thickly coated with it.
He spit up a lump of coagulated blood in the morning after rising (third day).
Tickling in throat after rising.
IN throat, scratching, with the cough.
Prickling sensation in both sides of the throat, and great dryness with constant desire to drink; the dryness extended to the posterior nares, and rose into the throat (after two weeks).
Soreness and dryness in the throat, on the both sides, when talking, and when swallowing (two weeks after taking the last dose).
Dryness in the throat, with desire to drink.
Heat and burning in the throat larynx.
In pharynx, burning pains, burning down the oesophagus.
Appetite.
Appetite was rather increased (Barthez).Undisturbed appetite after two hours; increased in two days.
One drachm, dissolved in water, taken in small doses during the twenty-two hours, increased the appetite and digestion moderately, increased the secretion of urine, confined the bowels somewhat, but without injuring digestion.
Increased appetite.
Unusually good appetite, and thirst (third week).
Good appetite, with fullness of stomach.
Increased appetite and thirst, after a sensation of contraction in the stomach.
Appetite lessened.
No appetite; she eats little (twenty-first day).
Thirst.
Desire to drink, with dryness in the throat.Thirst intense.
Thirst, and good appetite; thirst and appetite increased.
Thirst, with heat in the stomach, relieved by drinking cold water.
Thirst and appetite increased after contraction of stomach.
Intense thirst, with fever.
Before breakfast, attack of nausea; worse during breakfast, better after it; during breakfast, cough worse; after it, full in stomach.
Eating something, with sinking in stomach, she feels better.
While at dinner, erections.
After the meal, heaviness in the stomach, and a throbbing like in an abscess; distension of the stomach and epigastrium.
After eating, violent throbbing in the stomach, lasting twenty-five minutes.
Gastric Symptoms.
Immediately after taking a dose, each time some eructations.Slight nausea immediately after taking the 12th.
Nausea.
Qualmish in stomach; sickness at intervals; when awakening at night, prevents falling asleep again; continues in the morning, preventing him from going to his work.
Two hours after taking it in the morning, she was taken with nausea, faintness, and weakness, lasting until the afternoon.
Nausea and faintness in the morning, together with nervous restlessness and excitement, which seemed more like that produced by agitation of the mind than by illness of the body.
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.