Angustura



Pressure, sometimes very severe, in the facial bones, especially in the zygoma (after ten hours).

Cramplike pain at the zygoma (after a quarter of an hour).

Stitches in the left zygoma (after one and a half hours).

Pain in the masseter muscles, as if one had fatigued them by chewing too much.

Cramplike pain near the articulation of the jaw, in the masticator muscles, especially when at rest; the pain is diminished by opening or closing the jaws.

Pressure several times in the right maxilla (after one hour).

Drawing in the maxilla (after one and a half hours).

Mouth.

Drawing pain in the two right upper incisors.

Throbbing toothache in a hollow tooth, in the evening after lying down (after fourteen hours).

Slight drawing in some of the upper molar teeth, which, however, cannot be defined.

Drawing pain which, to judge by the feeling, is between the crowns of the middle upper right molar teeth, and may be palliated by touching the teeth with the cold finger (after one hour).

Sticking-drawing in the right upper gums (after three hours).

White tongue, with a feeling of roughness (after twelve hours).

Burning, as of pepper, on the left side of the tongue, almost on its border (after three hours).

Stitches several times at the tip of the tongue (after eight hours).

Pinching stitches in the tip of the tongue, which are extremely painful, even when the tongue is not moved (after six hours).

In the evening, during slumber, his mouth had become filled with a viscid, insipid, and foul phlegm; he could not drink enough.

Great dryness of mouth and lips, without any thirst (after three hours).

Much saliva flows from the mouth.

Bitter taste in the mouth after the usual smoking.

Bitter taste in the mouth, and several slight eructations after dinner, which he ate with a good appetite (after thirty hours).

Foul, flat taste in the mouth for a short time (after two hours). (Bread tastes sour to her).

Taste in the mouth as of peach-pits.

Throat.

Frequent roughness in the throat; he must hack, without being able to expectorate anything (after six hours).

Roughness and dryness in the back part of the palate and fauces, without any thirst, worse when swelling (after twenty- five hours).

Stomach.

Although his appetite is very great, yet he does not relish his food; it seems offensive to him; at the same time a fullness in the chest, owing to suppressed eructations; he feels unable to satisfy his appetite by eating a plentiful dinner (after six hours).

Loss of appetite while at dinner.

Desires this thing and that, but is disgusted with everything brought to her.

Particular aversion to meat.

Thirst.

Great desire for cold drink (after fifteen hours).

Raging desire to drink, but it took her when she put the glass to her lips.

He has no desire for drink, nevertheless he crave warm drinks more than cold; he did not feel any chilliness after the cold drinks.

Eructations of water.

Many empty eructations after a meal.

Bilious eructations.

Frequent hiccough (after three hours).

Sense of nausea in the stomach (after one hour).

Nausea, with water brash.

Nausea, especially during a meal.

Empty feeling in stomach.

In the beginning of the meal cutting pain in the stomach, like soreness; it went off during the meal (after three days).

Nausea during a walk, as if he would faint, accompanied by great lassitude as if the nausea rose into his head, and he felt hungry.

Cutting-tearing in the pit, increased by moving the trunk, after dinner.

Cramp like, pinching pain below the pit of the stomach, in the evening, when sitting (after thirteen hours).

Abdomen.

Cutting under the short ribs, in the right side of the abdomen, when moving the trunk (after forty-eight hours).

Loud rumbling in the abdomen.

Audible rumbling in the abdomen, with eructations.

Fermenting and rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would come on, accompanied by incarceration of flatulence (after three hours).

Painless motions, grumbling, and gurgling in the intestines, continuing almost unceasingly for three hours.

Emission of stinking flatulence.

Slight warmth over the abdomen.

Cramplike colic when walking.

Stitches in the abdomen, followed by drawings.

Drawing pain, as from a bruise, in the right side of the abdomen, when walking in the open air (after one hour).

Dull stitches in the abdomen, on the left side near the navel (after twenty-four hours).

Dull, shaking, transient shootings here and there, in the left side of the abdomen.

Cutting in the hypogastrium transversely over the pubis, with pressure towards the rectum (after a quarter of an hour).

Cutting and gurgling in the hypogastrium, transversely over the pubis, when taking warm mild (after three-quarters of an hour).

Pressure in the hypogastrium, from within outward, accompanied by anguish (after sixteen hours).

Sense as of drawing and cramping in the pelvis, when walking.

Dull stitches in the left os innominatum, just behind the hip-joint; they occur in short paroxysms, and are increased by every motion.

Pains in the sacrum and abdomen, as if things wound together lay in the abdomen, and were sore and paralytically pressed upon the sacrum, preventing her from walking about, as if she were too old and too tired; stooping was also difficult.

Cramp like pressure over the pubis when sitting, as if something were boring out there (after twelve hours).

Periodic throbbing and contraction in the abdomen, in a spot above the mons veneris.

Several times a sensation in the intestines as if diarrhoea would come on.

Pinching in the right lumbar region when at rest.

Cutting pain in the left lumbar region, from within outwards (after three hours).

Cramp like pain at the upper border of the ilium, extending to the spine (after twelve hours).

Stool and Anus.

During a soft stool there was a painful tenesmus of the rectum, as if it had been contracted, with distension of the hemorrhoidal veins, and a burning pain, as if the rectum were being corroded (after two days).

Sensation in the rectum, as if it would protrude; this symptom is followed by a yellow, soft, very profuse evacuation (after one and a half hours).

Frequent urging in the rectum, as if diarrhoea would come on immediately, with shiverings over the face.

Stitching in the rectum. (Tingling-itching of the rectum, as from ascarides).

Protrusion of hemorrhoids during a hard, knotty stool, with contractive pain and sticking after feeling a contraction of the rectum the day before. Haemorrhoids remain protruded, even during the night.

Indications of diarrhoea, with drawings through all the intestines (after three hours).

Frequently slight desire for stool; he felt as if the passage would not take place; upon much straining a few hard pieces came out (after twelve hours).

Thin, copious stool, without any pain (after two hours).

The stool was not as thin as might have been expected from the indications of diarrhoea.

Three profuse, very thin stools within four hours.

Early in the morning, diarrhoea comes on after previous colic and nausea; the last evacuation was only mucus.

Colic and diarrhoea; the last evacuation is only mucus (after twelve and eighty-four hours).

Every evacuation is followed by shivering over the face and goose-skin.

Sensation as if stool had not been passed sufficiently, as if more would come.

Daily stool, as usual, only more hard; usually has soft stools.

Moderate costiveness.

Urinary Organs.

Tenesmus of the bladder, followed by the profuse emission of white urine; tenesmus after micturition (after thirty-six hours).

Inclination to pass urine during the day; the urine is of a light color, and is passed in large quantities (after one and a half hours).

Frequent desire to urinate, with but little urine (after two hours).

Frequent micturition (after one hour).

Burning after micturition; one is obliged frequently to urinate, although but a few dark-yellow drops are emitted each time; they cause a burning each time.

Urine copious, and nearly as light-colored as water (after one hour).

Orange-colored urine, soon becoming turbid (after twenty- four hours).

Sexual Organs.

Stitches, sometimes itching, of the prepuce.

Voluptuous itching of the tip of the glans, which forces one to rub; when walking in the open air (after six and a half hours).

Itching of the scrotum.

Drawing in the left spermatic cord, alternating with twitches, accompanied by a sensation of shivering in the neighboring parts of the scrotum and thigh.

Prolapsus uteri.

Rapid successive stitches in the uterus, relieved by bathing with cold water.

Short-lasting pressure in the right ovary.

Itching pimples on the left labium major (these usually appear when the menses have been retarded some time); they burn when urinating; larger pimples on the labia minora, that itch when touched.

Discharge of milky mucus from the vagina.

A slight yellowish discharge from the vagina the day before the menses appear.

Irritation and raging in the genitals.

Transient irritation in the genitals, and a contraction of ligaments of the uterus.

Itching and swelling of the genitals, without voluptuous sensation.

Itching in the genitals, obliging her to scratch so as to draw blood; after which it abated.

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.