Anacardium



Tobacco does not taste, only causes biting.

In the afternoon his speech is firmer and surer than in the forenoon.

When speaking, he finds it difficult to utter certain words, as if his tongue were too heavy.

Throat.

Phlegm, firm and tough, comes into the throat, obstructing at the same time, the posterior nares (after one hour).

Prickings as with needles, now here, now there, in the throat, externally.

Dryness of the throat, passing off by eating, in the forenoon.

Roughness of the throat.

Roughness of the throat, with deep tone of voice, after a meal.

Hard pressure in the throat, on both sides of the larynx, which sometimes interferes with deglutition.

Pressure in the pit of the throat.

Sudden, dull pressure, as from a weight, on the left side of the throat.

Slow, dull thrusts coming from both sides of the ears, and in their cavities, as if two blunt plugs were penetrating, to meet in the centre.

His throat feels as if it were raw and sore.

Sensation as if scraping in the throat.

Frequent itching of the throat.

Great appetite, pressure at the stomach and nausea unto vomiting, after a meal, even when without exercise.

He has no appetite for dinner; nevertheless, he takes it an relishes it, because it is dinner-hour; bread, however, tastes a little bitter.

At times, violent hunger; at times, none at all.

Constant thirst; however, when drinking, his breath is interrupted, and he is obliged to swallow his drink little by little.

Eructations of fluid, frequently repeated, which choke him. Eructations with spasmodic pain at the stomach.

Eructations, after drinks and liquid food.

Eructations, after a meal, which burn in the throat.

Empty eructations, early in the morning.

Hiccough.

Qualmishness at the pit of the stomach, between meals, with anxiety as from a sprain; without, however, real nausea, and with good taste in the mouth and good appetite.

Several kinds of food, of which he is generally very fond, disgust him so much, that he would like to vomit.

Much nausea, early in the morning.

Nausea, early in the morning, with a sensation of fasting in the stomach.

Violent nausea toward evening, constant accumulation of water in the mouth, and, at last, vomiting, followed by great acidity in the mouth.

Nausea, with retching returning shortly after drinking cold water, and then vomiting of this water, with a sensation as if the oesophagus were pressed asunder by a large ball.

Shaking in the pit of the stomach, at every step, after every meal.

Rumbling and fermenting in the pit of the stomach.

Sensitive, dull pressure at the pit of the stomach, slowly coming and going.

Dull pressure, at intervals, over and near the pit, during a meal.

Pressure and tension, in the pit of the stomach, after every meal.

Soft pressure, with drawing, in the pit of the stomach, which disappears after a meal; when walking in the open air (after twelve hours).

Pressive and drawing pain below the pit of the stomach, when walking (after ten and a half hours).

Compressive, painful pricking at the pit of the stomach, when inspiring and expiring, which cannot be relieved by any position, or by contact (after four hours).

First, sensation as of fasting at the pit of the stomach, then pressure in the stomach the whole day, and as if obstructed emission of flatus both above, and below, and want of appetite.

Burning, rising out of the stomach into the throat.

Heartburn, after soup, like sour air in the oesophagus, with a constricted sensation.

Violent contractive pain in the stomach, relieved by stooping, made worse by lifting the arm, and when turning the body.

Pressure at the stomach, from reflection and intellectual exertions.

Pressure at the stomach, after a meal.

After a slight breakfast, pressure in the region of the stomach, towards the abdomen, as if he had eaten too much.

Pressure at the stomach after a meal, with a feeling of extreme exhaustion and lassitude, with great thirst (after three and a half days).

During dinner, almost all the symptoms disappear; they come on again two hours afterwards.

Abdomen.

Pressure in the region of the liver, an hour after a meal.

Stitches in the hypochondria, when inspiring, sometimes on the right side, sometimes on the left.

Stitches in the left hypochondrium.

Dull stitches in the region of the spleen; they seem partly in the chest, partly in the abdominal cavity.

Pressure in the region of the navel, as if something hard had formed there, with a sensation when breathing, speaking, and especially when coughing, as if the abdomen would burst; when touching the part it pains like a pressure and tension.

Pain around the navel, as if a blunt plug were squeezed into the intestines.

Dull, intermittent stitches at the navel.

Sensitive, sharp stitches over the navel on the right side, which cause him to start.

Hard pressure at a small spot above and below the navel, worse by pressing upon it, and by breathing; shortly after a meal.

Pinching contraction at a small spot on the left side near the navel, when breathing (after half an hour).

Dull stitches in the abdominal cavity, not far from the navel.

One quick cutting in the abdomen, on the right side.

Burning prickings, as regular as beats, externally, on the right side of the abdomen, below the short ribs.

Transient, short stitches in the muscles of the left side of the abdomen, just below the short ribs.

Thrusts as from a blunt tool, on the right side near the navel (after six hours).

Stitches which are very sensitive and dull, on the left side near the navel.

Inflation of the abdomen, shortly after dinner, as if he had eaten too much.

After a meal, flatus moves about in the abdomen, as from a purgative.

Continual rumbling and pinching in the abdomen.

Continual rumbling in the abdomen, especially in the region of the navel.

Cutting and pinching in the abdomen, as from flatulence, or cold, with tenesmus (after four and twenty-two hours).

Pinching in the abdomen during stool.

Pinching and griping in the abdomen (after twelve hours).

Griping pain in the abdomen, apparently in the intestines (after seven hours).

Attacks of colic more cutting than pinching, coming on when flatus becomes incarcerated in the abdomen.

Hypochondriac dejection after a meal; there is a pressure in the abdomen, from below upward, and he feels extremely weak both in body and mind (after six hours).

A sudden, wavelike shooting into his abdomen, like lightning.

Pain, as if something in the abdomen would become twisted together, with subsequent pressure (after thirty-two hours).

Upon bending the body backwards, the intestines are painful, as if spasmodically shortened, in the forenoon.

Single, sharp stitches in the lower abdomen.

Intermittent dull pressure, from within outwards, over the abdominal ring.

Dull, deeply penetrating stitches, at the spinous processes of the left iliac bones.

Stool and Anus.

The varices of the rectum become smaller, and cease to be painful, except soreness when the person begins to walk (curative effect).

Tenesmus; he cannot expel anything; the rectum seems to be plugged up.

Frequent tenesmus during the day, for many days, without ever being able to expel anything.

Constant tenesmus; the expulsion not taking place immediately; there is a painful twisting and turning in the intestines, transversely across the abdomen.

Frequent itching in the anus.

Itching of the anus, after an embrace.

Desire for stool three times a day; he had a desire, but upon going to stool and sitting down, the desire had gone; the rectum would not perform its functions; he had to strain considerably, even when the stools were very soft.

He was frequently obliged to go to stool; however, he expelled but little every time; the stools were first soft, then hard.

Every day, two or three ordinary stools, passing with great difficulty.

Urging to stool, after a meal, more in the upper part of the intestines.

Diarrhoea at night, with subsequent constipation.

Frequent watery diarrhoea; the expulsion being, nevertheless, with much exertion.

During the act of expulsion of faeces, and especially after, dull pressure in the abdominal muscles, increased by inspiration, just below the navel.

Yawning and eructations after stool.

Stools of a very pale color (after forty-eight hours).

Urinary Organs.

Itching of the urethra.

Constant desire to urinate.

Frequent desire to urinate, but little urine passing (first four hours).

Frequent emission of clear watery urine in small quantities.

Early in the morning, before breakfast, frequent clear water urine.

He is obliged to rise at night to urinate; nevertheless, he urinates again at the usual period.

The urine, while being emitted, is turbid, deposits a dirty sediment, and, when shaken, looks like clay.

Sexual Organs.

Cutting pain along the penis.

Discharge of the prostatic juice, with natural stool.

Discharge of the prostatic juice, with difficult stool.

Discharge of the prostatic juice, after emission of urine.

Continual voluptuous itching of the scrotum, which excites the sexual desire (after two hours).

Extreme sexual desire.

Sexual desire early in the morning, after waking, with erection of the penis.

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.