Introduction
Barium chloride, BaCl2 2H2O.
Preparation: Solution of the crystals in water (1 to 10), for the lower dilutions.
Mind
Anxiety. Great internal anxiety, which bends one together.
Great anxiety with retching.
Head
Vertigo.
Vertigo; whatever he looked at seemed to turn around.
The head is affected.
Feels so heavy in the head that he can scarcely sit up.
Headache.
Eyes and Ears
Eyes deeply sunken (after one and a half hours).
Catarrh of eyes, nose, ears.
The eyes become quite stiff, he cannot move them.
Left eyelid paralyzed.
Deafness.
Face
Face pale, with an anxious expression (after half an hour).
Face red.
Spasmodic drawing of muscles of face.
Sensitive drawing in the muscles of the face.
Mouth and Throat
Looseness of the teeth.
Toothache, at first fine sticking, then (twitching), throbbing, like the beat of the pulse, especially after sleeping, and after midnight, which compels him to sit up in bed, but which is neither increased nor diminished by touching it, nor by biting, no r by cold water.
Coated tongue.
Tongue and mouth dry.
Offensive smell from the mouth, as from mercury.
Swelling of the palate.
Swelling of the salivary glands.
Profuse salivation.
Bad taste in the mouth, even the food tastes badly.
Swallowing difficult.
Stomach
Loss of appetite, Nausea.
Nausea, immediately.
Nausea (after half an hour).
Retching.
Increasing and incessant, tormenting, ineffectual retching; cannot lie.
Inclination to vomiting.
Violent vomiting.
Violent vomiting of slimy, watery fluid.
Vomiting of everything taken, with stringy mucus (one and a half hours).
Vomiting of small portions of nauseous looking and tasting substance, for six hours.
Vomiting in the morning.
Violent vomiting, with anxiety.
Vomiting and pain in the abdomen.
Troubles with the stomach.
Pain in the stomach.
Pressure in the stomach.
Pressure in the stomach, and nausea, with great anxiety.
Abdomen
Pain in the abdomen.
Continual pain in the abdomen. Burning pains in the abdomen.
Violent burning in the abdomen.
Slight colic.
Pinching pain in the pelvic cavity.
Stool
Diarrhoea.
Continued diarrhoea. Painful diarrhoea.
Profuse diarrhoea, without pain in the bowels, for ten hours.
Liquid stool.
Stool greenish and chopped.
Stool coated with mucus.
Urinary Organs
Painful urinating.
Increased desire for urinating.
Constant urinating.
Involuntary urinating.
Increased urine (after twenty-four hours).
Urine has white sediment.
Sexual Organs
Frequent emissions at night.
Induces menstruation.
Respiratory Apparatus and Chest
Voice weak.
Cough.
Dyspnoea.
Oppression.
Heart Pulse and Back
Beating of the heart irregular, pulse scarcely perceptible (after one and a half hours).
Pulse rapid, full.
Pulse soft and irregular.
Pain in the back.
Extremities
Swelling of the hands and feet.
Trembling of the limbs, faintness, twitchings.
Twitchings in hands and feet.
Extreme weariness of the muscles of the limbs (after one and a half hours).
(The limbs are cold, paralyzed).
Hands and feet paralyzed.
Painless twitching in the arm, especially at night.
Tension in the legs.
Cramp in the toes.
Generalities
Trembling.
Convulsions.
Death, with violent convulsions (after seventeen hours).
Immobility of the body.
General paralysis, for two days.
Weakness.
Laxity of the muscles of the body, and sinking of the strength, so that he was scarcely in a condition to crawl or move the limbs.
The body feels so heavy that he cannot keep up, like loss of power.
Skin
Skin inflamed.
Small eruptions on the skin.
Itch like eruptions on the body and throat.
Itching eruption on the neck.
On the side of the tip of the nose, a broad red pimple, with a biting, tickling, sore sensation, with small fine stitches on touching and rubbing it, though these sensations do not cause him to scratch it.
Scruff-like eruption on the abdomen and thighs.
A kind of scurf; profusely suppurating eruption on the scalp.
Suppurating glands discharge more.
Tearing burning in denuded spots.
Biting pain in the skin.
Fever
Surface cold (after one and a half hours).
Ice-cold extremities (after half an hour).
Tertian fever.
Dry heat of the whole body both day and night.
Internal heat in the upper part of the chest.
Fever with thirst.
Increased perspiration.
Sweat.
Conditions Aggravation
(Morning), Vomiting.
(Night), Twitching in the arm.
(After midnight), Toothache.
(After sleeping), Toothache.
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.