Nose
The nose seems swollen and internally agglutinated.
The nose is stopped.
Obstinate dryness of the nose.
Frequent but transient catarrh, with stopped sensation in the nose (fifteenth day).
Fluent catarrh, which rapidly appears and soon again disappears.
Fluent catarrh, with a hollow deep voice and dry cough, in the morning and during the day, but not at night.
Frequent discharge of mucus, from the nose.
Discharge of thick, yellow mucus from the nose.
Frequent inclination to blow the nose, with discharge of thick mucus, whereupon a constant sensation of dryness remains (eighth day).
Sneezing, so violent the brain is shaken by it; it leaves behind a feeling of dizziness (first day).
Frequent sneezing in rapid succession, in the evening.
Frequent nose bleeding.
Frequent and profuse nose bleeding (after twenty four hours).
Bleeding of the nose several times a day (after twenty four days).
Nose bleeding in the morning when in bed, bright red blood.
The nose bleeds easily when blowing it or cleaning it.
Every time when blowing the nose a stream of blood.
The nose pains in the tip and margin.
Burning in a small place on the top of the nose, as from a drop of hot fat.
Crawling on both sides of the nose.
The smell is very sensitive.
Face
Face puffy.
Pale face.
Redness of the face in the evening (after twelve days).
Great redness in the face, with purple red lips, and severe congestion of blood immediately.
Twitching in the left side of the face.
Sharp stitches in face.
Tensive feeling in the whole skin of the face.
Rough, red spot on the right cheek.
Swelling of the left cheek and the region behind the ear, with pain in the temple (after thirty days).
Crawling or creeping in the left cheek (first day).
Swelling of the upper lip, with burning pain.
Lower lip cracked.
Vesicles on the lower lip.
In the morning, after rising, the lips are dry.
The upper lip feels swollen.
Burning in a small spot on the red part of the lower lip.
Painful gnawing in the left side of the lower jaw.
Tension in the lower jaw extends as far as the os hyoides.
Cannot close the lower jaw without great pain in the articulation.
Pressure under the chin, increased by touch and by moving the lower jaw.
Tearing in the lower jaw of the right side.
A stitch in the middle of the lower jaw.
Glands on the under jaw are painful.
Mouth
Teeth and Gums.
(Tooth becomes rapidly hollow).
A sound tooth becomes loose, and pains when eating and for some time afterwards.
At times, an involuntary chattering of the teeth.
Frequent and profuse bleeding of the teeth.
Toothache, evening in bed, not by day (after eight days).
Burning pain, now in the upper, now in the lower teeth of the left side, with accumulation of much saliva in the mouth; he cannot lie upon his side because the side of the head feels as if pressed in, and it throbs in the left ear.
Tensive and sticking pain in all the right teeth.
Boring in the teeth as if they would be rent asunder, if he takes anything cold or warm into the mouth.
Crawling-burning in the lower teeth (after thirty six days).
A sensitive crawling in the tips of the teeth, in the evening (after six days).
Drawing, jerking, throbbing toothache, as though something were seated under the teeth, extending into the ear and the right temple.
Painful gnawing in the roots and gum of the back teeth.
Grumbling in the back teeth.
Grumbling in a decayed tooth during the day.
Tearing in the back teeth.
A sore, painful toothache; she cannot touch the teeth.
Throbbing pain, with great sensitiveness in the lower back teeth, in the morning after rising.
Gum swollen about a hollow tooth.
The gum bleeds and seems to retract from the teeth.
Tongue.
A vesicle under the tongue.
Pointed vesicles in the middle of the tongue.
Burning vesicles at the tip of the tongue, of long duration (after six days).
Tongue much coated.
Tongue coated, as if fuzzy.
Hardness of a spot in the middle of the tongue, with burning under touch for several days (after eighteen days).
Dryness of the tongue in the morning, with sensation as of swelling in the throat when swallowing.
Pain in the side of the tongue, as from vesicles.
Tearing on the left border of the tongue, which smarts and pains as if sore.
Smarting, burning pain in the tip of the tongue (fourth day).
Rawness on the tongue, in the morning on waking; if it touches the palate it feels as if it were a grating-iron (after thirty one days).
Mouth, Saliva, and Taste.
The whole mouth becomes filled with inflamed vesicles, especially the palate and the inside of the cheeks.
Much thick mucus in the mouth.
Much trouble with tough phlegm, which has no end; from it the mouth becomes very dry, and therefrom a kind of thirst.
Intolerable odor from the mouth, which he does not perceive himself (after five days).
Dryness in the mouth, in the morning after rising.
Mouth is sticky.
The mouth feels numb in the morning (third and fourth days).
Stitches in the palate, as with needles (after nine days).
Continual spitting of saliva for eight days (after thirty eight days).
The mouth is constantly full of water which rises from the stomach (after fourteen days).
During the morning sleep, saliva runs out of the mouth.
Taste completely lost for several days.
Mouth bitter and slimy, with coated tongue (sixth day).
Foul, bitter taste and smell in the mouth.
Foul taste in the mouth every morning, with very coated tongue.
Salty taste in the mouth and throat in the afternoon.
Sour taste in the mouth, in the morning after rising (after forty eight days).
Sour taste in the mouth in the evening.
Sour taste in the mouth before eating, not after it.
Throat In General
Takes cold very easily, and has an inflammation of the throat in consequence.
Dryness and severe painful sticking and pressure, as from swelling, in the back part of the left side of the throat, only when swallowing (after four days).
After chilliness and heat, and bruised feeling in all the limbs, an inflammation of the throat, with swelling of the palate and tonsils, which suppurate, and on account of which he cannot open the jaws, neither speak nor swallow, with dark brown urine and loss of sleep (after eighteen days).
Feeling as if there were much mucus in the throat, and hence much desire to drink in order to relieve the sensation.
A feeling as though the throat were swollen internally in the morning, when swallowing, with dryness of the tongue.
Attacks of choking in the throat after dinner, when sitting and writing with sensation as if the thyroid gland were pressed inward, which thereby impedes respiration (after twenty eight days).
Choking or constriction in the throat, with arrest of breathing, so that he is obliged to open his clothes during dinner (after twenty six days).
Constriction in the throat, with sensation on swallowing as if a plug were in the region of the larynx; worse in the afternoon.
Pressive pain in the throat when swallowing.
Sticking in the throat (after fourteen days).
Sticking pain in the throat on swallowing.
Sticking in the throat, worse when swallowing, with dryness, in the evening (after six days).
Pain in the throat from taking cold; a sharp stitching pain when swallowing (seventh day).
Smarting pain in the throat when swallowing, though most on empty swallowing; therewith the throat is painful externally on both sides to the touch.
Rawness in the throat followed by severe paroxysms of cough (after one hour).
Rawness and smarting in the throat after a night-sweat, more painful on empty swallowing than when swallowing (soft) food (after forty eight hours).
The throat is scraped and raw, worse after swallowing (after two days).
Tickling in the throat, which causes a constant hawking.
Pharynx and Tonsils.
When sneezing a sensation in the pharynx as if a piece of flesh had become loosened in the upper part of the fauces, with burning at that spot (after four days).
A feeling in the pharynx following previous scratching, as if a plug or a morsel had become lodged there.
A sensation in the pharynx as if a fine leaf lay before the posterior nares, in the morning after waking (second day).
Swelling of the left tonsil.
Swelling of the submaxillary gland (after thirty nine days).
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst.
Insatiable.
Hunger, even on rising in the morning (after two days).
(Desire to nibble). Sensation of hunger in the stomach, but no appetite (after ten days).
Want of appetite.
Appetite slight for several days.
Loss of appetite for three weeks (after twenty six days).
Indifference to sweet things.
Aversion to fruit, especially to plums.
Thirst almost every evening at 6 o’clock (after sixteen days).
Thirst, with dryness in the mouth.
Eructations and Hiccough.
Frequent eructations.
Incessant eructations.
Many eructations in the afternoon (after twenty five days).
Eructations from the afternoon (after twenty five days).
Eructations from the afternoon until far into the night, which prevent his going to sleep (after forty days).
After dinner, suppressed eructations, followed by spasmodic constrictive pain in the stomach (after seven days).
Forcible eructations, with pressure in the stomach, as if a stone rose and fell down again.
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.