Throbbing pain in the anus for a minute (in three hours and a half).
Crawling in the anus, as from ascarides (after two and six hours).
Itching in the anus (second day).
Pressive pain in the perineum in front of the anus (for half a minute). digging-sticking pain, with short jerking stitches, as if she had been pierced by a thorn and the perineum were pressed upon it, extending deep into the left side of the womb (seventy- second day).
Crawling, burning, itching in the anus and about it.
Stool
Urging to stool (second day).
Urging before the stool, especially in the colon, and extending into the small of the back (first and second days).
Tensive urging to stool in the small of the back and anus (first day).
Stool in the morning, with pressure and pain (third day).
Stool passes easily (first, second, and third days).
A satisfactory soft stool passes easily (after a warm infusion of half an ounce of the Berberis root) (the next morning).
Stool at first somewhat hard, then soft (twenty hours after a second warm infusion of the same root).
In the morning of the second day a similar stool (after a third infusion of the same).
Easy, copious, natural, not hard stool in the evening, which is not usually the case (first day).
Easy, soft, profuse stool in the morning (second and third days, in two persons).
Copious, soft stool in the evening, at an unusual time, (nine hours after taking an infusion of the root, followed in twenty hours by another similar one).
Copious, soft stool, followed for half an hour by a pressive-tensive sensation in the small of the back and rectum (twenty-four hours after taking one-half drachm of the powdered bark of the root).
Copious, soft stool at an unusual time in the afternoon; the next morning there followed the ordinary evacuation, preceded by much pressure in the small of the back and anus (eight hours after two scruples of the root).
A loose movement three or four times a day, with cutting pains (eighth to tenth days).
Three soft stools, usually she had only one or two, with great urging (third day).
Three copious, thick, pasty evacuations (six, thirteen, and twenty-six hours after one-half drachm of the powdered bark of the root).
Hard stool (third day).
Diarrhoeic stool without cutting pain (second day).
Diarrhoea twice (first day).
Fully developed diarrhoea, consisting of four pasty, yellowish evacuations, the first six, the last ten hours, after taking the drug, with rumbling without cuttings, much passage of wind, at times some nausea, much thirst, heat in the face and confusion of the head, with increased appetite in the evening (after a decoction of three and one-half drachms of the root).
Stool scanty, thin-formed, but not hard (fifth day).
Stool scanty and rather hard (seventh day).
Stool scanty, hard, or also soft, thin-formed, delayed (after three days, frequently afterwards, in several people). (*Form small doses the stool seems to be retarded. I have to others to judge whether retarded or increased diarrhoea like stool is the secondary action. The distinctions seem to me not so easy, because the potencies also produced diarrhoea. How then will we account for the purging effect of large doses, followed by an inclination to constipation and retention of stool?*) The next morning the usual evacuation seemed harder, not copious (sixth hour), then a more copious, softer stool (after ten hours), afterwards a profuse, pasty evacuation (after twenty- four hours), again (after twenty-five hours), and again (after twenty-eight hours), preceded by severe pressure, especially with the first evacuations (after ten grains of Berberis).
Stool hardish and in small quantity (fourth day).
Stool firm, hard like sheep dung, with comfortable sensation of relief.
A long-continued sensation after the stool, as if one had just been to stool, or as if one had just recovered from a pain in the anus (first to third day).
Sensation after the stool as if one must soon go again, with perceptible movement of the intestines (first and second day).
Constipation (ninth day).
No stool (second day).
Urinary Organs
Kidneys and Bladder.
A sticking-digging, or digging-tearing pain in one or the other kidney regions, as if it were suppurating, aggravated by deep pressure.
Drawing pain in the left kidney region.
Tearing, pulsating pain in the right kidney region.
Tearing, pulsating pain in the right kidney.
Tearing pain in the region of both kidneys soon after rising in the morning, which extends sideways and forward, both upward and downward, so that the whole region of the back between the thorax and the pelvis is affected.
If she stooped the lower part of the back felt stiff, and it was with difficulty that she could stand up on account of this painful stiffness.
This tearing was noticed even when sitting, more severe than when standing; was relieved in the afternoon (second day).
Bubbling sensation in the left kidney region, extending across into the abdomen and into the bladder (tenth day). (*The symptoms in the region of the kidney were worse when stooping and when becoming erect, in sitting, and also in lying than when standing, though not always*).
Burning-itching, biting-smarting pain in the region of the bladder.
Burning pain in the bladder, sometimes when it is full, sometimes when empty, even after urinating, for several times, frequently also in the morning before urinating for the first time.
After urinating, a sensation in the bladder as if one must go again soon, or as if some urine remained behind.
Pinching constrictive pain in the region of the bladder.
Pressive pinching pain in one or the other side of the region of the bladder; on pressure upon it there sometimes arises burning in the whole urethra.
Drawing-sticking pain in one or the other side of the bladder, extending down into the female urethra, often arising in the lumbar region, and extending along the course of the ureters.
Pressive pain in the region of the bladder when filled, and also when empty, and after urinating, very frequently and continuous in three provers.
Violent cutting-tensive pain deeply seated in the left side of the bladder, at last becoming a sticking obliquely in the female urethra, as if in its orifice, lasting a few minutes (twenty-fifth day).
Painful cuttings in the left side of the region of the bladder extend into the urethra, coming from the left kidney along the course of the ureter (nineteenth day).
Cutting constrictive pain in the bladder, sometimes when full, sometimes when not full, sometimes immediately after evacuating it.
Violent sticking pain in the bladder extending from the kidneys, only increased by severe pressure after half an hour, without desire to urinate (seventh day).
Tearing-sticking pain in the region of the bladder, especially on the left side, just above the symphysis and extending into it, then passing into the left side of the penis, or also returning higher up.
Violent stitches in the bladder, which compel one to urinate.
Several stitches in the region of the bladder, either when the bladder is full or after urinating, and also at other times (forty-eighth day).
As many as forty stitches in the bladder, pulse like, above the symphysis, at last becoming a slight sticking pain, lasting a short time; returning in a less degree during three next day, when the bladder is not very full (fifty-ninth and sixtieth days).
Urethra.
Burning in the urethra.
Burning pain in the female urethra during and after urinating, though more at other times (seventh day, and very often at other times).
Burning in the urethra, usually more towards the anterior, sometimes also more posteriorly, or along the whole length of it, often continuing for several hours, for the most part more on one side, usually when not urinating, but sometimes also when urinating and soon afterwards.
The morbid urine seems warmer than usual when urinating.
Smarting-burning sensation in the left side of the urethra, with intercurrent bubbling-like shocks.
Momentary constrictive pain in the posterior portion of the urethra.
Pressure when urinating (after two hours).
Cutting pain in the urethra, frequently more upon one side.
Cutting pain in the urethra, after urinating and also at other times (after two hours, and frequently).
Slight sticking in the urethra (after eight hours, and frequently).
Sticking pain in the female urethra beginning in the bladder, sometimes in the middle, sometimes on one side.
Sticking pain in the female urethra, as if a thorn were sticking into it.
Sensitive sticking pain in the urethra, extending into the bladder (third day).
Jerking sticking sensation in the female urethra, with a spasmodic constrictive sensation for several seconds.
Several stitches in the urethra.
Smarting constrictive pain in the urethra.
Smarting in the urethra after coition, once even a sensitive pain in it during ejaculation of semen.
Smarting pain in the urethra and the glans, chiefly towards the forepart and upon one side, or extending into the bladder, returning frequently and continuing a long-time; either the urethra pains are caused or aggravated by motion.
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.