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Pain in feet.

Coldness of the feet, with numbness, in bed, even if the feet are covered up warm.

In the feet, coldness from the knee.

Feet are very sensitive to pressure, and when walking, particularly the soles.

Pain in the sole of the foot between the ball of the little toe and the heel; also, drawing, tearing pain, particularly in the left shoulder.

In the evening, when walking in the street, stitch pain in the under part of the right big toe; felt each time when pressing on it, all evening (second day).

Stitches in the right big toe.

All the Limbs.

Rheumatic pain in the whole body.Pain in the right side of the neck and forehead, then in the left foot and ball of the foot, then on the vertex.

Bruised pain in the whole body.

Slept well; in the morning, an hour after rising, tiredness, and for three hours a twitching in the limbs, particularly in the arm, and with it much excited.

Coldness of the legs from the knees down to the feet, and coldness of the hands, in the afternoon and evening.

Coldness of the hands, and rheumatic pain in the left shoulder; worse after motion.

Cold hands and feet, as if all the blood had left them, with pain in stomach.

Generalities.

Has to throw himself about in bed; restlessness, agitation, with fever.Nervous tremor and excitability of feeling, as when one is agitated by unpleasant news.

Trembling of muscles.

Twitching in limbs three hours in the forenoon; of lower lip.

Jerking contraction of abdominal muscles; follow the warm creeps.

Slight convulsive movements.

Sensation as if a string were tied around the arm and lower limbs.

Weak feeling in pit of stomach; sinking sensation; uneasiness; faintness and weakness, as if dying.

Lassitude in the whole body, particularly in the left lower extremity (Trbg)..

Feels very tired (soon after taking it).

Keeps the bed; so faint that she expected every moment to fall from her seat; (reached her chamber with difficulty; staggers to a chair); deathlike fainting.

Weak with the nausea; could not sit up; loss of strength, with sickness; faintness and nausea (in the morning).

Very weak, as if she had been ill for some time; great weakness, as after long illness; debility in typhus.

I was immediately sensible of a metallic taste, and slight nausea, but soon fell asleep, being greatly fatigued, and slept heavily until near five; I arose without more effort than usual, and about six, while standing at a table making some arrangements for breakfast, was suddenly seized with the most overpowering nausea, as though my whole stomach were rising to my throat; I tottered to a chair, when a cold sweat broke over me; the effort to vomit ceased, though the nausea continued, attended by a flushing to my head, extreme faintness, and a disposition to shiver; I reached my chamber with much difficulty, and on lying down felt some relief, chiefly in the faintness, and after taking some Ipecacuanha was able to rise and attend to my family, though feeling very weak; strong palpitation of the heart, intermitting pulse; the pain shoots from the heart to the region of the lower right lung.

Great weakness after attack, particularly in spine.

He feels exactly as he felt when he had the small-pox (second day).

Sleep

When going to bed heat in ears and face disappears.Cannot get to sleep on account of ebullition of blood (first day).

Is more anxious at night than at other times.

Sleeplessness, with fever.

Very light sleep in the night; hears nearly everything that happens (Trbg)..

Very restless sleep, tossing to and fro; when he does sleep it is so light that he hears it if his birds move in their cage (Trbg)..

Wakes at night, with night, with nausea and violent headache; lay awake about a quarter of an hour, when he went to sleep again; next morning, when he was called, he was unable to attend to his business on account of nausea, with violent headache; now sharp stinging, from temple to temple; now heavy pressure on the vertex, as of a heavy weight lying on it; continued all day long.

In the night, half waking, half dreaming, she hears what happens around her, but dreams on, of dead bodies, that her father had died; with it great fear; would like to turn on her side, but cannot do it, feels so heavy in her bones; in her dream it seems to her as if the dream would soon pass over if she could turn on her side, but she is not able to do it (at 4 A.M., fourth day).

When awaking in the night, thick phlegm in the throat, and roof of the mouth thickly coated, which she never had before (third day).

Fever

Very sensitive to cold, which was not the case before (third day).Like after a severe cold, pain in limbs.

While washing and dressing, pain in chest.

Inclination to chilliness after attack of retching.

Chilliness with the sickness at the stomach.

She complained of being very cold, but did not shiver; it passed off, perhaps in an hour, but was succeeded by pain in the head, which lasted all the afternoon.

In the last attack the coldness was general; she could not distinguish a particular coldness of the feet; but all perceptive faculties were gone during the deathlike fainting spell.

Chilliness, and feeling as if cold water were poured down the back.

Coldness in hands; of legs and hands.

Cold feet, even when covered up.

Creeping and coldness of the skin, soon after doses, followed by heat and tingling of the same parts.

Fever, accompanied by intense thirst; continued nausea and vomiting; sleeplessness; agitation, animated expression of the face; pain and distension of the epigastric region; frequent pulse, and burning pains in the mouth, pharynx, and stomach.

Sensation of warmth, soon after taking it.

Great heat throughout the body.

Sensation all forenoon, as of inward heat.

Heat and tingling following creeping and coldness.

Warm ebullitions in both sides.

He cannot get to sleep for a long time, on account of extraordinary ebullition of blood in the whole body (Second day).

In the morning, after the fourth dose, very soon tired; warm ebullitions like spasms spread over the whole trunk, particularly in the back; no pains, but a trembling of the muscles; towards two o’clock the pains in the chest return; feels better when walking.

Flushes of heat to the head after attack.

Warm creeps run over the abdomen.

Cold sweat; breaks out over the whole body; covers her, with cramps in stomach.

Chilliness; at another time, great heat throughout the body.

Coldness, with pain in the stomach, gave place to heat, and the blood rushed to her head with such force that she scarcely could hold it up.

Chill; metallic taste, slight nausea, palpitation; pain striking from the heart across to the lower extremity of the right lung; a sensation as of cold water poured down the back, and numbing coldness of the feet, though covered warmly in bed (returned repeatedly after taking the 12th); in the last attack the chill was general; I was not sensible of any particular coldness of the extremities, though, indeed, nearly all sensation was lost for a time in the deathlike faintness.

Conditions.- Aggravation.-

(Morning), Headache over eyes, etc.; itching-burning on border of eyelid, etc.; tongue rough, etc.; dry feeling on tongue; sickness at stomach; nausea, etc.; nausea, with weakness, etc.; cough; bluish film on urine; sore pain in right chest; cramp in back; pain in left ankle-joint; very soon tired, (Morning, when getting awake), Pains in head.(Morning, on waking), Headache over eyes; rheumatic pain in bend of left elbow.

(Morning, after rising), Spits up coagulated blood, etc.; tickling in throat; severe pain, etc.; irritation to cough; cough; cough from tickling; twitching in limbs.

(Forenoon), Sinking sensation at stomach; most violent pains in rectum; twitching in limbs, etc.; twitching of lower lip; sensation as of inward heat.

(Noon), Most acute pain in stomach, etc.; sprained pin in right wrist.

(Afternoon), Headache; difficult passage of hard stool, etc.; hard stool, etc.; sense of painful fullness of chest, etc. (Afternoon and Evening), Coldness of the limbs, etc.

(Evening), Contraction of abdominal muscles, etc.; itching of anus; itching on the scrotum, etc.; hoarseness with cough; tickling cough; pain on both sides of the spine; pain under big toe.

(Evening, after lying down), Dry cough.

(Night), More anxious; heat in side of face; itching of lump at anus; emission of very thick semen; pain in lower limbs; nausea and violent headache.

(Night, when awaking), Great pain in head, etc.; thick phlegm in throat, etc. (Night, in bed), Stitching pain through upper chest; stinging pain through upper chest.

(Midnight), Heat in ears, etc. (9 A.M. till noon), Very depressed, etc. (Towards two o’clock), Pains in chest return.

(2 P.M. till evening), Tearing pain in back.

(3 P.M)., Sudden pain from stomach into the swallow, etc. (Between 3 and 4 P.M)., Pain in right arm.

(About 3.30 and 4 P.M)., Pain in stomach.

(8 P.M)., Pain in left or the scrobiculus.

(Evening at 9.30), Headache over eyes, etc. (Walking in open air), Pain to left of the scrobiculus.

(In bed), Coldness of feet, etc. (Bending up double), Sore pain in right side of chest.

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.