Feeling of burning in the mouth, pharynx, and stomach; increased secretion of mucus, inclination to vomit, severe eructations and stomachache. Burning from the mouth to the stomach, accompanied by internal heat. Sore pain; slight smarting on the arches of the palate (second day). Saliva and Taste. Increased secretion of saliva every time after taking it. Increased secretion of saliva (from fumes). Increased secretion of saliva; salivation, with increased mucus in the mouth and nose. If inhaled it increased the saliva, lachrymation, nasal mucus, caused coryza, cough, slight headache here and there, and vertigo. Much thin saliva (one hour). Much collection of thin saliva (one hour). Thin tasteless saliva. Tasteless saliva. Collection of tasteless saliva (after three- quarters of an hour). constrictive sensation in the orifice of the salivary glands, with flow of saliva. Very disagreeable taste (immediately, from 40 drops tinct). Very nauseous, offensive taste from six drops in half an ounce of water. Taste is very strong, peculiarly puckered, burning and offensive. Sweetish taste in the mouth (half an hour). Decided salty taste in the tip of the tongue for several minutes (one and a half hours). Sour taste. Intensely bitter taste at the tip of the tongue, without other gastric symptoms. It leaves a strong scraping taste (13 drops in water). Very acrid, scraping, offensive taste, or rather exciting nausea, if taken without water. Violent burning taste immediately after taking. Water taste salty in the morning fasting.
Throat
In General. The throat is stiff an painful on turning the head, on the left side. In the morning, the throat is stiff, so that she cannot turn the head. A very acrid burning extending from the tongue to the stomach; on account of which he becomes nauseated, has great inclination to vomit, the mouth becomes filled with saliva, respiration difficult and somewhat painful (from 20 to 30 drops). Sticking in the throat. Stitches in the throat, with lachrymation and flow of thing saliva. Stitches near the hyoid bone, with secretion of thin saliva; afterwards coldness in the tip of the tongue, with flow of saliva. The throat is very sore and raw (second day), (from 6th). Scraping in the throat. Scraping and frequent hawking of scanty mucus from the throat. Scraping and sticking in the throat, lasting two hours. Scraping in the throat and a rough deep voice, continued for an hour (soon after taking). Feeling of rawness in the throat, with severe stitches and tickling in the larynx, lachrymation of the eyes, and a feeling as if the larynx were laced together, in the evening (second day). Fauces. Chronic inflammation of the fauces, with a dry sensation, was aggravated (from the 1st). Inflammation of the fauces and uvula, with dry dough, caused by irritation nasal mucus, streaked with some blood, without sneezing or blowing of the nose, both of which conditions are usually very severe, with coryza, lasting some days, and disappearing gradually (fifth day). Fauces and uvula are rd. Fauces dark-red, the tonsils covered with much mucus, scraping-sticking sensation of rawness, some swelling of the tonsils; repeated after several days (soon after taking). Feeling as if a small body were in the fauces, which caused hawking. Unpleasant puckered sensation in the fauces, followed by burning and sensation as if sore. In the fauces, at first, an unpleasant puckered sensation, followed by burning and soreness; salivation lasted a quarter of an hour, with increase of mucus in the mouth and nostrils (soon after 5 drops). Puckering in the fauces. Scraping in the fauces, which causes hawking. Scraping and dryness in the fauces towards evening. Pharynx, Oesophagus, and Externals. Feeling of warmth, which increases to a burning, extending through the whole pharynx into the stomach, especially distressing in the pharynx (after 8 drops in an ounce of water). Sensation of burning and scraping in the pharynx, so violent that for some minutes there are convulsive twitchings in the face and in the hands, with strong inclination to vomit and forcible empty retchings (after daily doses increased to 45 drops). Raw, unpleasant feeling in the pharynx (immediately). Pressure arising from the stomach into the oesophagus. Burning in oesophagus and stomach (1/2 drop tinct). Swallowing is especially painful in the whole of the right side of the fauces, which is dark-red and without secretion of mucus. Pain in the submaxillary glands of both sides (first day). Slight pressive pain in the left submaxillary gland (second day). Stitches in the glands at the side of the hyoid bone.
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Appetite neither increased nor diminished while taking it (for sixteen days). Good appetite and digestion;increases (in provers of large daily doses). Diminished appetite. Not much appetite (fifth and sixth days).
Little appetite.
Very little appetite the whole day. No appetite. Desire for acids, which aggravate the symptoms and cause diarrhoea. Aversion to the customary tobacco-smoking; it causes nausea and vertigo. Thirst. Aversion to drinking cold water. Eructations and Hiccough. Eructations shortly after taking it (from the 8th). Empty eructations. Empty tasteless eructations (first day). Eructations of tasteless air (from 3d). Eructations taste of bromine (soon). Empty eructations, with taste of bromine. Eructations like foul eggs (from five to seven days), (from 3d), Frequent eructations, with vomiting, whereby much mucus is thrown up (after 5 drops). Many eructations of tasteless air and much rumbling of air in the abdomen. Remarkably frequent empty eructations and much rumbling in the abdomen. Frequent regurgitations. Hiccough (2k drops tinct). Nausea and Vomiting. Qualmishness in the pit of the stomach, with eructations. Nausea. Nausea (2 drops tinct). Slight nausea. Some nausea. At times, transient nausea. Slight sensation of nausea in the epigastric region. Nausea toward evening, without being able to vomit; better after eating. Nausea, eructations, roughness in the stomach, mouth full of saliva, slow pulse, and congestion of the chest. Great inclination to vomit, increased discharge of mucus, and profuse eructations. (Exceedingly offensive vomiting, suddenly, after allopathic doses, which were give to a patient to remove indurations in the stomach. After persistent continuance of the drug a constant retching set in, exhausting the patient even to dying; it could not be relieved by the usual methods; Lachesis, X, relieved it at once, prolonged the patient’s life, and enabled him to go home and die comfortably). Stomach. Inflammation of the stomach; suggillations in the stomach like ulceration. Feeling of emptiness in the stomach. Emptiness in the stomach; better after eating, for which, however, he had no longings. Feeling of heaviness in the stomach. Warmth in the stomach, with confusion in the forehead (first day). Warmth and burning in the stomach, and flow of saliva. Warmth in the region of the stomach. Warmth in the stomach, immediately. Warmth in the stomach, nausea, empty eructations, increase of saliva, with pressive heaviness in the sea, empty eructations, increase of saliva, with pressive heaviness in the forehead, with sensitiveness of the eyes; continued for a long time. Slight attacks of pain at stomach (40 drops tinct). Violent pain in the epigastric region, worse upon pressure, relieved by bending forward, together with a distended abdomen and flushed of heat starting from the back (first day). Severe pain in the stomach, now and then. Burning pain at stomach (in half an hour). Burning in the stomach constantly (after large doses). A kind of contractive cramp in the stomach at 11.30 A.M.; disappears after eating. Aching in the stomach, as if diarrhoea would ensue, followed in about an hour by a liquid stool, with some urging, although two hours before he had a normal stool, at noon (first day). Slight pressure of the stomach (after one hour). Pressure on the stomach, as from a stone, with internal heat. Constant pressure on the stomach, as of a stone (latest action). Pressure in the stomach and right hypochondrium, with sensation of fullness. Long-continued pressure in the stomach, increased by pressure with the hand. Excessive pressure in the stomach, with inclination to vomit, eructations, colic, and rumbling in the abdomen (a quarter of an hour after 10 drops). Sticking pain in the pit of the stomach, extending to the navel, increased by deep pressure, and generally seems to be deeper than the stomach (from 8 to 11 A.M). The pain in the stomach is increased by pressure.
Abdomen
Hypochondriac and Umbilical Regions. Sensation as of a ball in the left hypochondrium (after six hours). Pain in the left hypochondrium. Pressure upon the hypochondria is painful. Violent cutting in both hypochondria, deep. Extending to the side of the navel, especially on the left side, with a soft abdomen, increased by pressure. Transient stitches in the hypochondria from right to left. Sharp stitches in the left hypochondrium. Sharp stitches in the right and left hypochondria. Stitches in the left hypochondrium. Sharp stitches in the left hypochondrium. Sensitiveness of the hypochondrium and epigastric region to pressure, with flow of saliva. Pulsation in the right hypochondrium in the evening. Pain in the liver. Decided pain in the region of the liver, especially on pressure and riding, with great distension and hardness of the right hypochondrium, and a feeling as if a hard body were sinking down there; lasts from ten to twelve hours (after three days). Stitches shooting from the liver toward the navel. Dull pain in the region of the spleen, extending towards the spinal column. The pain in the abdomen extends from the stomach to the navel, and below the short ribs (first day). Severe pain to the left of the navel, deep, increased by pressure. Pain in the region of the navel, increased by drawing in the walls of the abdomen. Cutting pain in the region of the navel, after eating, increased by pressure (after three and a half hours). Sticking pain on the left side from the navel to the inner surface of the walls of the chest, increased by pressure, morning and evening, and in the evening cuttings deep in the region of the navel, increased by pressure, lasting half an hour, with stitches extending towards the rectum, to the neck of the bladder, and along the right spermatic cord. In General. Tympanitic distension of the abdomen and passage of much wind. The abdomen is full of wind, as is shown by percussion. Slight twitching in the left side (from 8th). Sounds of gas in the intestines, and also in the oesophagus. Rumbling in the bowels. Rumbling in the abdomen. Much rumbling in the abdomen. Frequent rumblings in the abdomen. Rumbling and fermenting in the abdomen (from four to six days), (from 3d). Rumbling in the abdomen and slight pressure in the stomach. Continued rumbling, with passage of flatus and empty eructations. Flatulence. Passage of flatus (after two hours). Passage of much odorless flatus (from 8th). Pleasant sensation of warmth in the abdomen, with accelerated pulse (after 5 drops). Pain in the left side for several days. Pain in the abdomen and small of the back, as during menstruation; passage of much flatus, as was the case during menstruation. After tobacco-smoking, very violent pinching pains in the abdomen, better when pressing upon it, worse on sudden motion; on sitting bend and pressing upon it he noticed the pain only during expiration, not during inspiration (from 3d). Slight gripings in the intestines immediately after taking, each time (after 6 to 8 drops). Severe gripings in the intestines (from 13 drops). Colic (1/2 drop tinct). Colic, violent pains in the abdomen. Colic and borborygmi. Before menstruation, sticking in the abdomen, relieved by lying bend. Some right inguinal glands are much larger than usual, without pain. Pain in the left inguinal ring. Pain in the left inguinal canal, especially on walking, pressure, and cough. Pain in the left side of abdomen, becomes a dragging toward the inguinal ring (from 8th). Pain in the crest of the right ilium (from 8th). Boring in the posterior position of the left crest of the ilium. Stitches in the anterior spine of the crest of the left ilium.
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.