Common names: Vetiver or Viti-vayr.
Introduction
Andropogon muricatus, Retz. (Anantherum muricatum).
Natural order: Gramineae.
Mind
Gay humor, with disposition to laugh and sing.
Sadness and restlessness, with fear of death and of the future.
Sheds tears easily.
Hypochondria, with dread of society; he seeks solitude and obscurity; does not want to see or hear anything.
Restless, suspicious, and very irritable character, or apathetic and as if besotted.
Disposition to anger, with desire to strike and destroy.
Quarrelsome and contrary humor, but after being angry he often regrets what he has done.
Ungovernable jealousy; everything causes jealousy.
Foolish joy and absurd complacency.
Frequent changes in his mood and turn of thought, even to idiotism.
A besotted condition, like drunkenness, in which he forgets even to eat and drink.
A great deal of self-esteem; great satisfaction with himself and his labor; internal complacency, with smiles.
Is constantly inclined to weep, even about lively things, with reveries and hallucinations.
Ardent desire to travel.
Blunted intellect and loss of memory.
Feverish haste in all his actions.
Persistent fear of death during all his sufferings.
Monomania, as for rowing about in a boat, dressing or walking out in a grotesque manner, always frequenting the same places and doing the same things.
Frequent delirium, idiocy, mental alienation.
Head.
Heat of the head, with vertigo.
Vertigo, with debility and stupidity of the head.
Head excessively heavy, with burning and pulsative pains.
Vertigo and dulness, with cerebral congestion, red face, and tendency to fall backwards.
Vertigo and dulness, with burning stitching pains in the head, and sensation as if it was crushed.
Vertigo, with feeling of drunkenness and staggering gait.
Vertigo, with confusion of sight and great heaviness of the head.
Vertigo, with debility in the back and lower extremities, and inability to remain upright.
Vertigo, with heat and heaviness of the head, perturbation of ideas and senses.
Vertigo, in all positions, aggravated especially by motion and strong air.
Heaviness and weakness of the head, with pressure in the sinciput.
Sensation as if something turned round in the head, with pains in the stomach, great appetite, colic, venereal desire; chills and shaking, notwithstanding the great heat; depression or very great cheerfulness (very persistent symptom).
Great heat of the head, with desire to bathe it with cold water.
Sensation as if he had water in the head, especially in walking, with confusion of the cerebral faculties and great headache.
Burning, lancinating, pulsating headache, principally on the right side, in the forehead and temple, with nausea, vomiting, and great heaviness of the eyes.
Head excessively weak and heavy, so that he cannot keep it up, and lets it drop on one side or the other.
Sensation as if the brain were laid bare, and currents of cold air passed over it.
Sensation as if heavy objects and balls moved about in the head, especially at night and when he lies on the right side.
Cramps and cold chill in the head, with confusion of ideas.
Pressive and lancinating headache, accompanied by pains, as from hammering in the head.
Vertigo, with contraction and digging in the inner canthi of the eyes, extending into the brain.
Sensation as if the head had struck against a stone and been crushed.
Neuralgic pains in the temples, with sensation as if there were iron points there.
Lancinating, cramplike, and dilating pains in the temples, with desire to compress them forcibly.
Pulsative and lancinating pains in the brain, as if it were pricked every moment.
Pains which pierce the brain like steel arrows, from the forehead to the nape of the neck.
Desire to lean the head against something hard and cold.
Pressure on the top of the head, with sensation as if the skull were crushed.
Pains as if the brain were bruised and wounded.
Pains in the head, as if there were abscesses and tubercles in the brain, with lancinating, burning, and cramplike pains in many places in the head, and a stupefied condition.
Dull pains in the head, torpor of the brain, desire for rest, and nausea.
Inflammation of the brain, with heat, as if he had live coals in the head.
Neuralgic and spasmodic pains in the head, producing fits of craziness.
Pressive and constrictive pains in the head, as if it were compressed by an iron band.
Congestion of blood to the head, with great heat, dizziness, loss of consciousness, and epistaxis.
Headache worse in the afternoon and evening; also from noise, motion, and light.
All pains in other parts seem to produce in the head congestion, cramps, and stitches.
The headache are almost always accompanied by burning and pulsative pains.
Spasmodic twitchings in the head, pulling it from one side to the other.
Nervous trembling of the head.
Itching and excessive heat in the head, extending to the face.
Herpes and ulcers on the hairy scalp, with large thick humid scabs and much prurigo.
Large tumors, like lupia, suppurate, and form ulcers on the head.
Growth like warts and lupia on the eyebrows.
Protuberances, like exostoses, on the sinciput and temples.
Redness, itching, excoriations, obstinate, scabby herpes on the forehead.
Eyes.
Heat and burning in the eyes.
Pressure and painful stitches in the eyes.
The eyes enlarged, red, inflamed, with frequent dimness of vision and appearance of sparks, as if they were smartly struck or compressed.
Very great photophobia; light produces a kind of itching in the eyes.
Swelling and pains as if an abscess would from in the right eye.
Spasmodic contraction of the eyes, which remain turned upwards.
Sensation of roughness and excoriation of the eyes, especially when moving the eyelids.
Yellowness of the sclerotica.
Pupils strongly dilated; he has to wink with his eyes in order to distinguish objects.
Congestion of blood to the eyes, with tickling, pricking, and pains as from rheumatism in the eyeballs.
The slightest local application aggravates the pains in the eyes.
Inflammation and swelling of the eyelids.
Ulceration of the margin of the eyelids, with inability to separate them.
The eyelids are inverted, and as if scarified.
Abundant secretion of mucus, and considerable lachrymation, especially in the open air.
Trembling of the lids.
Swelling and ulceration of the lachrymal glands.
Amaurotic weakness of the eyes.
Neuralgic and rheumatic pains in the orbits, with sensation as if the frontal bone were fractured.
Intense and burning pains in the eyes, with spasms and alteration of their axis.
Dull, dim, wild, wandering eyes, without expression.
Very prominent or deeply sunken eyes.
Contracted pupils.
Objects appear dark and vacillating, red or covered by a grayish cloud.
The images of objects are retained before the vision in an inconvenient and unpleasant manner.
Black points, muscae volitantes, and fiery circles before the eyes.
Everything seems excessively bright and shining.
Candlelight appears diffused, and the letters run together in reading.
Dimness of vision, as if from watery vapors before the eyes.
Inclination to wink, and to pass the hand frequently over the eyes, as if to remove a veil from before them.
Sensation of a great weight on the eyelids, which keeps them closed.
Pressure on the eyes as if one were going to sleep, or even into a swoon.
Spasmodic motions of the pupils, which obscure the sight at intervals.
Nose.
Heaviness and stoppage of the nose.
Stitches in the nose, with a crushing sensation at its root.
The air which passes through the nostrils seems icy cold.
Great dryness and heat in the nose, with frequent and very painful sneezings.
Ulcers in the nostrils, with epistaxis.
Very frequent epistaxis.
Fluent coryza, with pressure pains in the head and root of the nose; burning in the nostrils; lachrymation and sneezings, as if he had pepper or tobacco.
Abundant discharge from the nose of purulent, greenish, and very badly smelling matter.
Stitches and pulsations in the root of the nose, with nasal hemorrhage.
Dry or fluent coryza, with cerebral torpor, intoxication, headache, and sensation as if the head were full of water.
Nasal catarrh, with bronchitis.
The nose is enlarged and red.
Insupportable tickling in the nose, with violent sneezings as soon as he inhales a little cold air.
Inflammation and swelling of the nasal bones, with hammering pains.
Boils and small tumors, like lupia, on the tip of the nose.
Nose cold, pale, and pointed, or large and inflamed, with many small blood vessels visible on its surface.
Ears.
Heat in the interior of the ears, with pulsation and sensation as if there were abscesses in them.
Severe digging stitches in the ears, with discharge of yellowish, purulent matter.
Very copious secretion of cerumen.
Heat, and smarting in the lobes of the ears.
Fissures in the lobes of the ears.
Burning, crusty eruption, with inability to lie on them.
Attacks of deafness, especially in the evening and in damp weather.
Paralytic hardness of hearing.
After listening for a few moments, the hearing becomes fatigued, and the words are confused and indistinct.
Noises, murmurs, and hissing in the ears.
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.