Common names: Butterfly weed, Pleurisy root.
Introduction.
A. tuberosa, Linn.
Natural order: Asclepiadaceae.
Preparation: Tincture of the root.
Mind.
Toward evening, unusual elevation of spirits.
The cheerful mood changed, and, without exterior cause, he became fretful and peevish (after eleven and a half hours).
Mental prostration (fifteenth day).
Difficulty in thinking (fifteenth day).
Weakness of memory for two days (third day).
Head.
Confusion in the head (nineteenth day).
Swimming of the head, with dulness behind the forehead (immediately).
Head feels dull and gloomy (after twenty-three and a half hours).
Head very heavy (fifteenth day).
Heaviness of the head; the headache begins again (second day).
Heaviness of the head; pain worse on the left side (one and a half hours).
Heaviness and confusion of the head when getting up (twenty- third day).
Heaviness of the head, with drowsiness, for one hour (noon, eighth tenth day).
Heaviness of the head and eyes (tenth day).
Headache (thirteenth day).
Headache all day (fourteenth day).
Great headache all day; he goes to bed late (twenty-second day).
Intolerable headache, which lasts all day and a part of the night (thirty-third day).
Very bad headache, ceasing after taking a foot-bath (twenty- fourth day).
Headache in the morning, when getting up (twenty-fifth day).
Very severe headache when getting up, obliging him to lie down again in consequence of too great debility (8 A.M., fourteenth day).
Frontal headache, which went on increasing (one minute).
Dull aching headache in forehead and vertex, aggravated by motion and relieved by lying down (after one hour).
Slight headache, right side (at noon, second day).
To headache presses deeply on the base of the skull, and is very similar to the Ipecac. headache.
Alopecia (thirty-ninth day).
Pain of the hairy scalp (left occiput); pain on touching the place, as if there was a pimple there (twenty-sixth day).
Eyes.
Dull eyes; he looks as if he had just got up after several weeks sickness (fifteenth day).
Fatigued eyes (forty-first day).
Eyes fatigued and heavy (twenty-fifth day).
Ophthalmia (fortieth day).
Feeling of sand in the eyes (thirty-ninth day).
Transient pain in the left orbit (ten minutes).
Blepharitis (the prover has for years had very weak eyes), (twenty-fifth day).
Blepharophthalmy, heaviness of the eyes, itching in the right eyeball (eighth day).
Pain in the left upper canthus and itching in the globe of the eye; shutting the eyelid makes a noise like the sucker of a pump-box (twenty-fourth day).
Ulcerative sensation in the lower eyelids (forty-first day).
Itching in the right inner canthus, in the lower eyelid, and all over the face; pricking in the forehead, as with pins, and in several parts of the body (6 P.M., second day).
Disturbed vision (pulse 55), (one and a half hours).
Gaslight is painful to the eyes (ninth day).
Large dark spots (black) before the eyes.
Nose.
Desire to sneeze felt in the left nostril, which soon passes off (seventeen minutes).
He sneezes three times, and a few seconds after, sneezes again five times; the sneezing continued for some moments, even after he has blown his nose several times (three and a half hours).
In the morning, coryza in the open air (thirty-eighth day).
Dry coryza (seventeen minutes).
The coryza, which was previously dry, becomes fluent (three and a half hours).
He blows blood from the left nostril(thirteenth day).
He blows a very small quantity of blood from the left nostril (fourteenth day).
Sudden pricking in the nose like a fleabite (twelfth day).
Itching of the nose (forty-two minutes).
Itching in the root of the nose on both sides (twenty-fourth day).
Itching in the left nostril (twenty-five minutes).
Face.
Hippocratic face (fifteenth day).
Yellow complexion (fifteenth day).
Mouth.
Yellow teeth, the enamel being covered with yellow tartar (eighth day).
Pain in the lower right molar teeth (twenty-fourth day).
The gums and buccal membrane are very pale, inclining to yellow (eighth day).
Bleeding of the gums (fourteenth day).
Bleeding of the gums of the right upper canine teeth (ten and a quarter hours).
Tongue coated with yellow mucus (eighth day).
Fetid breath, having even a smell of pepper (ten and a quarter hours).
Putrid taste in the mouth (fifteenth day).
Taste of blood in the mouth (fourth day).
Throat.
Slight constriction of the throat and pricking in the larynx (first day).
Angina (twenty-sixth day).
Stomach.
Insatiable hunger (at noon, second day).
Deficient appetite (first day).
Anorexia, in the morning (fifteenth day).
Depraved appetite (tenth day).
Eructation (fifty-two minutes).
Prolonged eructation, smelling of the medicine (one and a quarter hours).
Repeated eructations during the day (second day).
Repeated eructations until evening (first day).
Desire to vomit in the morning on getting up (seventeenth day).
Pain in the stomach (nine and three-quarter hours).
Gastralgia (fourteenth day).
In the evening, after supper, violent gastralgia; it seems as if coughing would bruise the stomach (twenty-ninth day).
Nervous pains in the stomach (forty-second day).
Burning in the stomach and intestines;burning borborygmi, though with slight pain (forty-two minutes).
Cramps in the stomach (eighteenth day).
Pressive pain in stomach, with rumbling in the bowels (after seven hours).
Disagreeable feeling of weight at stomach (first day).
Pain in the pit of the stomach and burning in the stomach (twenty-five minutes).
Abdomen.
While lying down, twelve successive and regular grumblings in the right hypochondrium, without pain, after being magnetized (in the evening, thirty-first day).
Feeble intestinal pains in the right hypochondrium (five minutes).
Throbbing in the left hypochondrium (three and a half hours).
On awaking, at 6 A.M., rumbling in bowels, with soreness of the peritoneum (after fourteen hours ).
Rumbling and uneasiness in the bowels, with feeling of heat in the umbilical region (after eighty-five minutes).
Awaked, at 3 A.M., by rumbling in the bowels, with sharp cutting pains; felt tranquil and calm, though the pain was very severe (after fifteen hours).
Burning borborygmi (nine and three-quarter hours).
Repeated emissions of flatulence until evening (first day).
Flatulence which smells intolerably of the medicine (fifty- two minutes).
Burning flatulence for some days (seventeenth day).
Emission of some flatulence, with rumbling in the region of the transverse colon (one and a half hours).
Intestinal pains (fourteenth day).
Wind-colic after breakfast (twenty-fourth day).
Colic in the forenoon (twenty-third day).
Slight colic after dinner (second day).
Violent colic at night (eighth day).
Colic when going upstairs (one and a half hours).
Very severe wind-colic (while walking); pain as if everything would fall out of the bottom (seven and three-quarter hours).
Flatulent colic and stool of an intolerable smell, with a sharp pain in the hypogastrium, as if that part was rotten, with soreness on pressure, and as if it would all come out (eight and three-quarter hours).
Violent colic at 1 A.M.; very painful and pretty large stool; pain as if all the intestines would fall out; 1.30 A.M., another very small and very painful stool; 2 A.M., another like it, and the pains are continually increasing; so aggravated were the symptoms and so impossible was it to endure such violent colic, that he took a single dose of Veratrum album, three drops of the eighth dilution in two spoonfuls of water.
The colic ceased, as if by magic until 10 A.M., (The dose taken on this occasion was very large, considering his constitution, and especially considering his habits, but he acted in accordance with what seemed to him a serious emergency), (fourteenth day).
The colic continues long after evacuation; smarting in the rectum for more than an hour and a half (eighth day).
Dull pain in bowels on pressure (after fourteen hours).
Pressing pain in the bowels and emission of fetid flatulence (after six hours).
Stool and Anus.
Blind haemorrhoids (fourteenth day).
Urging to stool (after seven hours).
Stool, at 9 A.M., of a very strong, intolerable smell (third day).
Soft and fetid stool, at 11 A.M., preceded by rumbling in bowels (second day).
Another (soft and fetid) stool, like that in the morning (unusual), (after one hour).
11 A.M. another stool, pretty painful, accompanied by colic.
The stools are of a bistre color, and slimy, the last one being distinguished from the others chiefly by containing a large quantity of false membranes, looking as if the intestines had been scraped with a knife.
It also showed yellow spots, as from particles of grease.
The stools, when passing, feel like a stream of fire.
Made an injection of tepid water, and retained it more than two hours.
Took another at 5 P.M., which was retained only a quarter of an hour (fourteenth day).
Liquid stool (after eating salad; yesterday and to-day the symptoms are less striking) (fourth day).
Liquid stool, causing smarting; the pain continues about an hour and a half, whereas the evening before (7 o’clock), after stool, there was a very sensible feeling of comfort during the same length of time (2 P.M., second day).
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.