Arsenicum Album



H.. Sounds in the ear and the whole head. Roaring in the ears, etc. Roaring in the ears at every new paroxysm of pain. Roaring in the left ear. Strong rushing noise in the ear, as of a near waterfall. Ringing in the ears. Ringing in the right ear, when sitting (after an hour and a half).

Nose.

OBJECTIVE AND DISCHARGES: Nose pointed. Nose swollen and pouring forth a profuse watery discharge. Sores of mucous membrane of nose. Ulceration of the upper part of the inner nose, secreting, without coryza (after eleven hours). Violent continued sneezing. Violent and intractable sneezing. Frequent violent attacks of sneezing, which awake her at night, and attended by copious, watery discharge from nose. Running from the nose. Profuse running from the nose. Considerable running at the nose for two days, with itching. Excoriating discharge from the nostrils. ( Discharge of a corrosive fluid from the nose). Profuse, thick, yellow discharge from the nose. Every morning at 5 o’clock sets in an excessive discharge from the nose, during five years and a half, with very occasional intermissions of a few weeks during very hot weather; it was always worse in the morning, and went off in the open air. Cold in the head. Slight coryza. Sudden coryza. Violent fluent coryza. Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing (after eleven hours). Coryza, with sneezing, every morning when walking, and going off speedily. Very annoying coryza; stoppage of the primae viae. Excessive coryza, with hoarseness and sleeplessness. She is constantly blowing her nose, as if she had a cold in the head (never was thus troubled before). Dryness of the nasal cavity. Fluent and dry coryza together. Stoppage of the nose, as from catarrh. Violent hemorrhage from the nose during ill-humor (after three days). After the use of wine excessive bleeding from the nose. Bleeding of the nose when vomiting. (Violent hemorrhage from the nose after violent vomiting). SENSATIONS AND SMELL: Pain in the nasal bone, in the root of the nose. Distressing feeling of stoppage under the bridge of the nose, which occasionally altered his speech. Distressing stoppage in the bridge of the nose. Nose and ears cold. Burning pain in the nose, eyes, and mouth. In the evening, unpleasant heat in the left nasal fossa, with a peculiar dryness of the back part of the mouth. The watery nasal mucus causes a smarting and burning at the nostrils, as if they were made sore by it. Itching in the nose. Stitches in the nasal bones. (The smell of cooked meat is intolerable to him). (* “After antidote.” *) Offensive smell before the nose. Smells of pitch and sulphur before the nose alternately.

Face.

APPEARANCE:. Face covered with sweat. Face covered with cold sweat, etc. Skin of face icy cold. Face cold, nose and lips blue. Face and hands cold, covered with cold sweat. Features greatly changed. His appearance is best compared with that of a cholera patient in the algid stage. Face stupid. Suffering appearance. Distressed expression of countenance. Anxious countenance. The look anxious, but not wild or confused. Expression of agony on the countenance. Face expressive of genuine mental agony. Frightful expression of apprehension. On the face signs of vague anxiety and desperation, as well as an expression of deep trouble. Face expressive of the deepest anxiety, now red, now pale. Wild look, etc. Hippocratic face, etc. Deathlike expression (during vomiting). Deathly color to the face (during vomiting). Pale countenance, etc. Extremely delicate pale appearance. (Deadly paleness, with violent vomiting). Deadly white look; extreme pallor. Face pale, except a flush on each cheek. The face pale; confused expression. Pallid and anxious countenance. Face pale and haggard. Pale and squalid countenance. Pale, corpse like, convulsively distorted countenance. Face pale, with an expression of extreme pain. She looked very pale, felt very powerless. Pale-gray, swollen face. Pale, yellow, cachectic look. Face leaden gray. The face bluish-gray. The face somewhat livid. Face livid and lurid. (Clayey, lead- colored face, with green and blue streaks and spots). Color of the face yellowish. Color of face grayish-yellow. Yellow face. Yellow or jaundiced state of the countenance. Yellow face and sunken eyes. A greenish-yellow color of the face. Face flushed, etc. Face and eyes injected. Reddish, distorted face. Face red, etc. Face red, inflamed. Face red, with a yellowish tinge about the nostrils. Face red in spots, and covered with sweat. Face and tongue red. Face red and puffy. Face red and swollen. The face at times puffed. Swelling of the face, etc. Oedema of the face. Swelling of the whole face (from the external application of Arsenic). (Elastic swelling of the face, especially of the eyelids, and more particularly in the morning, in three persons). Swelling of the face and legs. Face swollen and livid. Bloated, red face. Bloated, red face, with swollen lips. Swollen, dark, hot face. Whole face extremely swollen, with dark, erysipelatous redness, and large blisters, which soon discharge, and become gangrenous looking. Face swollen, flushed, and covered with cold sweat. Swelling of the face, with fainting-fits, and vertigo. Sunken face, etc. Sunken, anxious features, Face sunken, pale, covered with cold sweat. Disfigured, pale countenance. Distorted, drawn lines of the face. Distortion of the features, as if dissatisfied. Face horribly distorted by convulsions and pain. The mouth drawn in all directions. Twitching of the facial muscles. Convulsions of facial muscles. Frequent smiling. SENSATIONS: Sensation as if an eruption was about to appear all over face. Pains in the face, teeth, and gums. Increase of pain in face on touching the painless side. The left side of the face feels colder than the right. Heat and redness of face. Tearing in face of a quotidian type. Tearing pain in left half of the face. Throbbing in face and head as if the boiling blood would burst the veins. Itching in the face; he scratches it until it is red. Red spot on right cheek. Extensive tumefaction of the right cheek, with violent pain in the whole of that side of the face; smooth, shining, scarlet redness of the skin over the swelling. Corrosive ulcer on the lip, painful in the evening after lying down a sort of tearing and smarting pain; the pain is worst when touching the part and exposing it to the air; prevents sleep, and wakes him at night (after fourteen days). White- powdered lips. Lips livid. Bluish lips. Lips and tongue bluish. A brown strip of shriveled, almost burnt, epidermis extends through the middle of the vermilion border of the lower lip. Lips spotted, black. Lips covered with small back spots. Painful blotches in the upper lip. Swelling of the lips. Swollen, cracked lips. Lips swollen, with two large blisters, as if from a cold, one on the right edge of the upper lip, the other at the left edge of the lower lip; the former afterwards discharges lymph, the latter pus. Lips convulsively distorted, as with risus sardonicus. Bleeding of the under lips. after a meal (after one and a half hours). Lips somewhat dry, and pale red. Lips dry, and covered with herpes. Sore lips, and ulcers in the mouth. Pricking twitching or jerking in one side of the upper lips, especially when going to sleep. Itching in the upper lip, as if pricked with innumerable hot needles, extending as far as under the nose; next day, swelling of the upper lip, above the vermilion border. Jaws clenched. Jaws closed tightly. Jaws firmly locked. Spasms in jaws; can scarcely separate the teeth. When drinking, can only open mouth a little, and with difficulty. When trying to drink, she bites the edge of the tumbler. She swallows the offered drink with a conclusive motion of the jaws, so as to almost break the glass. Abscesses of the jaw. Pressure in the left upper jaw. Twice in the space of five minutes he felt severe pains along the course of the right inferior maxillary nerve, each time five or six very painful and distinct lancinations; while lying down, some time after, very severe headache, and the same painful lancinations along the maxillary nerve.

Mouth.

TEETH AND GUMS: Gnashing of teeth. Convulsive grinding of the teeth. Grinding of the teeth, while asleep. Considerable deposit of tartar at the base of the teeth (in a dentist, who took the greatest care of his teeth). Falling out of all the teeth. The upper teeth of the right side began to loosen and were removed with the fingers. Painful looseness of the teeth; they feel sore per se, and still more when chewing; the gums are likewise painful to the touch, and the cheek swollen. A tooth becomes loose and prominent, in the morning; the gum of that tooth is painful to the touch; that part of the cheek behind which the tooth is located is still more painful on the outside; the tooth is not painful when biting the biting the teeth together(670). Progressive caries of the teeth, with unbearable toothache. Dulness of teeth, as if she could not chew with them. The tooth seemed longer than natural; was sensitive to pressure and cold water; was somewhat loosened. Pain in teeth. toothache in all the teeth of left side. Toothache all day in the left upper jaw. Pain of some of the teeth as if they were loose and would fall out; the pain is not increased by chewing (after one hour). Slight toothache on rising; it soon becomes extremely severe, with profuse salivation. Toothache, at night, shortly after going to sleep; it wakes her. In the evening, for four or five minutes, slight but well- marked pains in the upper, and especially in the lower, molars of the right side. Upper teeth painful when biting on them. Toothache, more aching than drawing. Severe dull aching pain in the tooth, extending to all the teeth of that side. Tearing in teeth, regularly recurring to all the teeth of that side. Tearing in teeth. regularly recurring at night. Tearing in the teeth and head, driving her almost to frenzy; she strikes her head with her fist; shortly before the menses. Jerking, continuous toothache, extending as far as the temple, relieved or arrested by sitting up. The toothache always consists of very distinct painful stitches. Abscess over the canine (upper), on the right side; on being opened, discharged freely a sanious pus, for several weeks. Characteristic deposit of false membrane on the gums. Swollen gums, completely covered with network of white false membrane. Swollen, bleeding gums, very painful to teeth, and spotted white. The gingivolabial groove is much injected. A purple-red line on the gums. A large portion of the alveolar process of the superior maxilla becomes detached and was removed. Nightly tearing pain in the gums of the incisors, intolerable as long as he lies on the affected side, but arrested by the warmth of the stove; on the following morning the nose is swollen and painful to the touch (after thee days). Stitching in the gums in the morning. TONGUE: Swollen tongue. Inflammation and swelling, externally and internally, about the root of the tongue. On the edges of the tongue, five superficial ulcers as large as a pea. tongue clean. Tongue thickly coated, etc. Mucous coating on tongue. Tongue much furred. Tongue furred, with a red streak down the middle and redness of the tip. Tongue coated tongue, sometimes with red edges. White tongue. Thin white coating o tongue. Tongue coated whitish. The tongue, roof of the mouth, gums, fauces, and throat became covered with a thick white velvety coating, growing drier and darker until the fourteenth day, when it began to loosen and detach itself, in small pieces at first, but soon came off rapidly, and was discharged by the bowels in large quantities, having the fetor of putrid animal matter, leaving the mouth, throat, stomach, and bowels acutely tender for some time. The upper surface of the tongue was white, not coated, but thickened. Tongue white and dry. The tongue grayish, swollen. Tongue coated yellowish-white. Tongue at its base covered with a yellow coating, and red at the tip and edges. Bluish tongue. Tongue and lips bright red. Tongue fiery red, smooth and dry. Thick, brownish coating on tongue. Tongue with very protruding papillae, at the end scarlet. Patchy tongue. Scalded tongue. Moist tongue.

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.