Arundo Mauritanica



Burning pain in the knees.

Cramps in the knees, often with a sensation of heat.

Stitches in the knees.

Pain in left calf, especially when standing up, and when walking.

Cramps in the legs.

Burning pain in the heels.

Prickings in the heels.

Oedema of the feet, in children.

Oedema of feet and ankles, worse on movement.

Copious and offensive sweat of the feet.

Numbness in the feet.

Burning heat in the feet.

Feet as if plunged into boiling water.

Cannot bear anything on his feet.

Formication in the feet.

Burning and swelling of the soles of the feet, as after a long journey.

Beating and burning heat in the soles of the feet. Burning stitches in the toes.

Generalities.

Twitchings and inclination to yawn.

Tendency to hysterics.

Prickings in the arteries.

Pain and prickings in the glands.

In women, painful constriction of the pubis and loins, which prevents walking.

Pain beginning in the kidneys, passing into the lumbar region, and extending to the pubis, in woman.

Burning pain, which passes from the kidneys, through the left ilium, to the pubis, in women.

Heat, with formication, beginning at the loins, rising to the shoulders, and extending to the hands, in women.

In women, pain starting from the left side of the jaw, running along the left eyebrow, thence extending to the shoulders and loins, and finally settling on the pubis, where it burns like fire.

Formicating pain rising from the loins to the shoulders, and settling on the left clavicle.

Towards midday attack of pain, which extends to the loins, the knee, and the foot.

The pains, which settle in any part, almost always begin somewhere else, and pursue a winding course in changing their location.

The pains alternate with local sensations of coldness or heat.

Skin.

Redness of the skin, like a birth-mark.

At the height of the fever, the skin, in children, turns blue.

Eruptions resembling itch, on the breast, in children, mostly behind the ears.

Itching papular eruption in children; erysipelas on various portions of the body.

Itching miliary eruption on loins.

Pustules, like those of scabies, with intolerable itching; when opened by friction they discharge a watery fluid.

Eruption of suppurating pimples on the chest and arms.

Feeling as of an insect crawling over the loins, the shoulders, and sometimes the entire surface of the body.

Sleep and Dreams.

Sleepiness in daytime.

Sleepiness by day, and sleeplessness at night.

Sleepiness, with burning in the eyes.

Sleeplessness and weeping of children at night.

Fever.

Quotidian fever before midnight.

Fever, preceded by coldness, with thirst.

Feverish paroxysm, with burning pain and formication all over the body.

Febrile paroxysm, with nausea, coldness, thirst, pain in bowels, and salivation.

Excessive heat at night.

Nightly fever.

A sensation of burning heat, together with numerous prickings, rises from the loins, passes over the shoulders, and then invades the middle of the head and face, in women.

In women, heat, with formication, beginning in the loins and rising to the face, where it is succeeded by perspiration.

Constant sensation of heat; he is burnt in the sun, and frozen in the shade.

Alternate heat and coldness on different parts of the body.

The fever is always accompanied with thirst.

Tendency to perspire.

Motion causes profuse sweat.

The fever ends with sweat, principally on the shoulders and chest, sometimes accompanied with vertigo.

Conditions.- Aggravation.

(Morning), On waking, bitter mouth; after waking, thirst; on waking, nausea; hoarseness.

(Towards noon), Attack of pain, etc. (Noon), Photophobia; cough.

(Afternoon), Pain in knees.

(Evening), Photophobia; cough; dry cough, etc.

(Night), Sleeplessness and weeping; excessive heat; fever.

(Before midnight), Quotidian fever.

(Towards midnight), Pain in right side of chest.

(After coughing), Burning, etc., in hypogastrium; feeling of obstruction in larynx, etc. (During an embrace), Difficult breathing.

(After an embrace), Pain in the spermatic cords.

(After expectorating), Bruised feeling in pit of throat.

(Getting out of bed), Vertigo.

(When looking steadily), Pricking in the orbit.

(Before menstruation), Pain in uterus, etc. (Motion), The pains; oedema of feet, etc.; profuse sweat.

(When standing), Pain in left calf.

(Sneezing), Stitches in loins.

(After urinating), Weight; burning itching in urethra.

(Walking), Dyspnoea; pain in left calf.

(Walking upstairs), Dyspnoea.

Amelioration

(Morning), Easy expectoration.

(Open air), Anxiety.

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.