Common name: Marking nut.
Introduction
Semecarpus Anacardium, Linn.
Natural order: Anacardiaceae.
Preparation: Trituration of the layer of the nut between the shell and the kernel.
Mind
Illusions of the fancy; he imagines he hears his name called by the voice of his far-distant mother and sister, accompanied by an apprehension of misfortune and anxiety.
Excessive cheerfulness. In the afternoon he is more cheerful than in the forenoon; as soon as the sleepiness after dinner is past he is more cheerful and more disposed to work (after thirty-eight hours).
He laughs when he should be serious.
When occupied with serious things he is obliged to laugh on account of a tickling at the pit of the stomach; when occupied with ludicrous things he is able to refrain from laughter.
Sadness.
In the forenoon he is extremely hypochondriac, low-spirited, and desponding, with awkward and childish manners; all his motions are extremely awkward and indolent (after third day).
Melancholy illusion; he imagines a bier is in the side-room, upon which either his friend or himself is lying.
He is separated from the whole world, and has so little confidence in himself that he despairs of being able to do that which is required of him.
He is very indifferent and unfeeling; neither agreeable nor disagreeable objects excite his interest; for eight days.
When walking he felt anxious, as if some one were pursuing him; he suspected everything around him.
Anxious apprehension and thoughtfulness, when meditating over his present and future destiny.
Anxious apprehension and peevishness.
Anxiety, apprehension of threatening misfortune.
The future appears dangerous to him, as if nothing but misfortune and danger were reserved for him; want of confidence in his strength and despondency.
Anxiety in all his actions; everything appears to him more terrible; he imagines himself surrounded with enemies; then he feels warm and the blood seems to boil within him (seventh, eighth days).
Internal anxiety, which did not leave him any peace; he felt solicitous on account of every trifle, as if it would lead to some great trouble; with apprehension of the future.
In the evening, anxiety and apprehension, after cheerfulness through the day.
Irritable and contradicting.
A slight offence makes him excessively angry, breaking out in personal violence.
Peevish mood all day; everything about him made a disagreeable impression upon him.
Gloomy, peevish mood, with desire to go into the open air.
Excessively peevish and ill-humored.
Very peevish and ill-tempered; extremely susceptible to all annoyances.
He takes everything in bad part and becomes violent.
Increased fancy; he constantly thinks of some new object to which the mind forcibly clings.
His mind is much more animated than before; he likes to enter upon acute analysis, but every effort of this kind causes a tearing, pressive headache in the forehead, the temples, and the occiput.
Extreme excitement of the fancy, with a number of projects, in the evening, from 9 to 10 o’clock; he is not able to control his attention; little by little the mind becomes dull, so that he is without any idea (after sixteen hours).
Indisposed to do anything.
Every kind of intellectual labor is difficult for him, like a kind of absent mindedness.
Dread of labor; he is afraid of undertaking the least labor; he like nothing.
The mind is much confused, as if a cold were coming on.
He confounds the present with the future.
Early in the morning, after a sound sleep, he is unable to comprehend the slightest thing; his head feels confused and empty.
Dulness of the senses, with confusion of the head, and prostration.
Increase and greater vividness of the memory; he spontaneously recollects the smallest circumstances of times long past; he would be able to learn easily by heart if his attention were not diverted by other thoughts, which, however, he finds it easy to control (after one and a half hours).
Dullness of the senses, with anxiety; he scarcely perceives what is taking place around him.
Anacardium weakens the understanding (Matthiolus).
Great weakness of memory; cannot remember anything; forgets everything immediately.
He remembers with difficulty; he retains nothing in his memory; he is deficient in ideas and he soon loses his subject without being aware of it.
Diminution of the imagination and the memory in the afternoon; he cannot recollect anything (after five, six hours).
He can only reflect upon a subject which has been furnished to him; he does not remember anything himself.
The memory is quite deficient, early in the morning, especially as regards single names.
In the afternoon his memory is better than in the forenoon, although his recollections only come to him after the time when he was in need of them; however, he easily understands what he reads, although he does not entirely remember it (after third, fourth days).
Thoughts vanish.
Head.
His head feels very heavy all day.
Early in the morning, after rising, his head feels so confused and heavy that he is scarcely able to support it; he was obliged to lie down again.
Painful, dull confusion of the head when he lies in bed in an uncomfortable position.
Vertigo, as if all objects or himself were wavering; he is obliged to steady himself (first day).
Vertigo, he almost fell down.
Vertigo when walking, as if all objects were too far distant.
Vertigo on stooping, with a sensation of turning round in a circle (after thirteen hours).
Vertigo, black before the eyes.
The head reels.
Dizziness of the head, as after spirituous drinks.
Great giddiness after a walk, in the afternoon.
The whole head swelled.
Heat in the head.
Occasional pressure in the head.
Pressure in the right side of the head, interrupted by violent stitches (after three-quarters of an hour).
Dull pressure from without inward, here and there, in small places of the head.
Repeated tearings in the whole head, with chills all over the body, low spirits, and restlessness; this does not permit her to remain in any one place; always returns every third day.
Tearing headache during hard labor (after fourth day).
Repeated tearing in the right side of the head, face, and neck, and immediately after, humming before the left ear.
Violent, grinding headache, in the evening.
Sharp stitches through the left side of the head, reaching deep into the brain.
Dull, tremulous stitches on the left side of the upper part of the head; they are merely incipient, and do not become distinct.
Any effort of the mind causes a bruised sensation in the brain.
Throbbing headache.
Several violent jerks, so that he would like to scream out loud; they come from behind, and reach across the left side of the upper part of the head and forehead (after half an hour).
The headache is worse during motion.
Hard, red, pustules on the forehead and in the angle of the left wing of the nose, with a feeling of soreness, for several weeks.
Dull, painful confusion of the forehead, extending down to the root of the nose.
Constrictive headache in the forehead, with extremely peevish mood, increasing from hour to hour, accompanied by a violent grinding pain, which is diminished for a few moments by strongly pressing upon the forehead; at last the pain takes hold of the whole head, with a painful sensation as if a tense band were reaching from the nape of the neck to the ears; he is obliged to lie down; the pain lasts from 5 P.M. to next morning.
Violent constrictive pain in the right side of the forehead, especially at the external border of the orbit.
Pressive, pinching headache in the forepart of the head, with single tearings towards the forehead (after twenty-four hours). pain in the head, especially in the forehead, stupefying, pressive, exciting vertigo; he threatened to fall to the left side when sitting (after two, two an a half hours).
Pressure at the forehead from without, over the left eyebrow (after two hours).
Hard pressure in the angle between the frontal and nasal bones (after three days).
Pressure in the forehead, every morning on waking; worse in walking, as if the brain were shaken.
Dull pressure in the centre of the forehead, increasing at slow intervals, becoming more and more deep, and gradually extending over the whole front of the head in the evening.
Violent pressure in the right side of the forehead, from within outward.
Dull pressure coming out at the right frontal eminence.
Compression and dull pressure below the left frontal eminence.
Tearing-sticking in the forehead over the right eye.
Grinding in the right half of the forepart of the head, especially along the border of the orbit; relieved by strong pressure (and during a meal), accompanied by intolerable pain, as if a heavy body were forced in there; the pain diminishes in the evening when in bed, on lying with the painful spot upon the arm; on falling asleep it subsides entirely.
Itching of the forehead.
Painless pimples, with red areolae at the top of the left temple (after nine hours).
Compression simultaneously in both temples.
Pressure inward, and squeezing in both temples, with continual constriction of the upper part of the head; passes off towards evening.
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.