Introduction
Apium virus.
Poison of the honey-bee.
Preparation: Tincture of the working bees (made by putting them alive into alcohol), or of the poison sac, carefully extracted.
Mind.
Excitement, with heat at night.
Laughs at every misfortune.
In the daytime, he danced with excessive joyousness; performed all his antics singing and dancing; was affability itself; and utterly unable to walk slowly.
He laughed at the greatest misfortune, as he would at a comedy.
She feels like crying about everything.
Sad thoughts, with longing for death (third day), forenoon.
Dejection, with great prostration.
Anxiousness, with tension on the vertex.
Great anxiety and excitement; must lie down; wants to get up and go again, just before death.
General anxiety and distress.
Great anxiety in the head and swelling of the face.
Anxiety, excitement, and fear increase until death.
Dread of death, or sensation as if he should not able to breathe again.
Premonition of death arose after a few minutes; “he believes he is going”.
Feels that he must succumb, after a few minutes, and dies ten minutes after being stung.
She thought she must die, she felt so strangely.
He says, after a few minutes, ” I am a dead man”.
Is himself conscious of an extremely disagreeable, violent, and sensitive mood; would have liked to kill a dog that barked at him, etc.; everything went wrong; nothing could be done to please him.
Became more angry that ever before; (in a female scold).
Irritable mood (fifth and sixth days); nothing appeared to satisfy him; everything out of place (eighth day), (2D dil)..
Mental restlessness, during uterine hemorrhage. Confusion of mind, (A. R. M).. confusion when attempting to read a study, (A.
R. M)..
It seems to her as if she did not know what to do, as if she had no volition of her own, her head feels so stupid.
Stupid, sleepy, and headache.
Unfit for mental exertion.
Inability to think clearly, or express himself, (A. R. M)..
Inability to concentrate the mind, (A. R. M)..
Mind bewildered, (A. R. M)..
Head stupid.
Torturing sensation in the head, during which he becomes wholly incapable of mental labor.
Inclination to change his occupation; will not keep steadily at anything, with dulness of the head (second day).
She was partially conscious, and continually moaning, (J. P.
D)..
Was unconscious of what passed about him.
Complete loss of consciousness. (A. R. M)..
Perfect insensibility, with vomiting, desire for rest and sleep, slow beat of the heart, and scarcely perceptible radial pulse (Wasp).
Sank into a state of insensibility in fifteen minutes (five minutes before death).
Head.
Dulness of the head, with restless condition.
Gloominess of the head and some confusion.
Head confused and gloomy (first day), (2D dil)..
Confusion of the head with the pains.
Head dull and confused.
Head is dull and slightly confused.
Head feels big, confused, (A. R. M)..
Confusion of the head, with pain in the forehead. (2D dil)..
Pain in sinciput, and confusion of the head.
Head confused and dizzy, with constant pressive pain above and around the eyes, that is somewhat relieved by pressure of the hands.
Vertigo.
Confused vertigo, very violent at times; worse when sitting than when walking; extreme when lying down and closing the eyes.
(During several days, and after several strong doses).
Attacks of vertigo and nausea (fifth day, and lasting into the second week).
Vertigo, with headache (evenings, after sleeping).
Vertigo, with blindness, (A. R. M)..
Headache, with vertigo.
Vertigo, and pressure in the forehead, after sneezing.
Vertigo, when pressing the head. Vertigo.
After sleeping on the sofa, evenings (second day).
Dizziness in the head, during the whole second day.
Whirling in the head, with weakness.
She grows dizzy and faint, while standing.
Headache and chilliness, from 8 to 10 in the evening, with some toothache; pain in the forehead, first left side, then right, thus alternating; afterwards, in the vertex, right side, where it is also sensitive to the touch; then in the temples, and, at last, again in the forehead, right side (second day); morning of the third day, pain again in forehead, left side.
Her whole brain feels as if tired, gone to sleep and crawling; she feels it at the same time in both arm, especially the left, and from the left knee down to the foot.
During toothache, she feels it in her head, when biting her teeth together.
Headache, worse when reading, increased in a warm room.
Pain spreading from the gums into the head.
With cough, in single shocks, all the evening (first day).
With suppressed menstruation.
Burning, piercing in the head.
Burning and throbbing in the head, increased by motion and stooping, relieved for awhile by pressing the head firmly with the hands; with occasional perspiration (for some hours).
Very violent headache, and sensation of a great pressure, as of congestion to the head, with throbbing and painful burning in the temples, redness and smarting of the eyes.
Bursting, expansive pain in the head, attended by vertigo and confusion of the mind. (A. R. M)..
Inflammatory swelling, and twitching so violent that an apoplectic attack was feared.
The head seems as if too large, swelled to the size of a bushel-basket, causing him to look into the glass, involuntarily.
Swelling of the head.
Head feels too large.
She feels as if her head were too large; with sore throat.
Fullness and pressure in the head and stomach.
Head as if too full; it seems as if there were too much blood in it; heaviness, pressure, and sometimes a sudden rush of blood to the head, during which warm, close rooms are perfectly intolerable.
Great rush of blood to the head.
Dulness, and the head feels compressed.
Head pains, as if pressed together.
Throbbing in the head, worse when moving and stooping, relieved for awhile by pressing the head between the hands.
Dull pain over the whole head, relieved by pressure.
Dull heavy headache, on rising, lasting till 3 in the afternoon (second day).
Dull pressure in the head, when rising from a reclining position, or from sitting.
Heaviness and pressure in the head, one hour after taking one drop, lasted three and four days.
Oppressive headache, when in a warm room, and reading.
Oppression of the head.
Frontal headache. (Piercing).
Violent headache, mostly confined to the forehead, with fever (second day).
Headache in the forehead, left side, with single stitches under the left ear, lachrymation of the left eye, chilliness, yawning, and some pain in the umbilical region (evening of eighth day).
Particularly disagreeable pain in the forehead with dulness and confusion (first day), (2D dil)..
Sensation of dulness across the forehead, just over the eyes (third day).
Pressing pain in forehead, with vertigo, after sneezing (at once).
Pressive pain in the sinciput, with vertigo, immediately.
Heat in the forehead, during headache.
Prickling in the forehead (6th dil)..
In glabella, tensive drawing of the skin up toward the forehead.
Dull confusion in both sides of the forehead, exactly from the supraorbital ridge to the frontal protuberances, fifteen minutes after taking, lasting about two hours, and ceasing after breakfast.
Headache in the left side of the forehead, with lachrymation.
Pain in the organs of causality, comparison, and ideality.
Dull, heavy pain in the forehead and sides of the head (temples?) that is relieved by pressure with the hands (St)..
Dull pressive headache in the upper part of the forehead, as if it would burst, extends to the temples.
Violent, pressive pain for several days, in forehead and temples.
Headache, in single jerks, from the temples to the middle of the forehead; therewith, exterior head sensitive to the touch; increases at 10 in the forenoon; the eyes burn; the nose itches; (second day), the same; likewise, the sixth to the tenth day.
Stitches in the forehead and temples.
Pain in both temples; the whole head heavy, sleepy, and stupid (after one hour).
Burning in the temples.
Pressing.
Violent aching pains through the temples and organs of causality, comparison, mirthfulness, and ideality.
Throbbing and painful burning in the temples.
Throbbing, painful sensation in the temples. Boring pains in the temples, every morning, on waking (for three mornings).
Boring pains in the temples, continued for several days, at intervals, lasting only a few minutes at a time; beginning the third day (after taking three drops of the 3D dil., every morning).
Dull, pressive pain in the right temple, on waking in the morning, soon changing to the left.
Slight aching in the left temple.
Violent, sharp pain in the left temple.
Stitch in the left temple (evening of sixteenth day).
Pain in the vertex, evenings.
Violent pressure in the top of the head, left side, deep inward, when drawing on boots (after an hour); afternoon, a pain in a little spot, inwardly, in the left front corner of the head, above the extreme end of the left eyebrow; lasts all day; worse when coughing (after several days).
Weight and fullness in the upper part of the head.
Heaviness and fullness in the vertex.
Tension in the scalp, on the vertex, as if everything were violently drawn apart there; not painful, but with great anxiety.
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.