Introduction
Oleum Cajuputi (obtained by distillation of the leaves of Melaleuca leucadendron, L). Natural order: Myrtaceae.
Mind
Feeling as if I did not want any one to speak to me (after twenty-four hours). Do not want to be spoken to; feel better in the society of ladies; do not like to talk with the men, but can laugh and make free with the women (am naturally bashful), (after two hours). Feel sad and down-hearted, as if I could cry (after two hours).
Head
Frontal headache, especially in the eyes, worse on bending forward (third day).
Eyes
Pain in the right eye (after two hours). “He looks around the eyes as if he had taken too much liquor”. Pain over the left eye (after six hours). Sticking pain above the orbital arches, relieved by pressing the hand on the parts, worse on removing the hand (after ten minutes). Could not see on going out of doors; rubbed his eyes to bring sight (at midnight).
Nose
Nose is most prominent; it looks as if it were large and extending out from the face, on looking down.
Face
Sensation of burning in the face (had same sensation last night). Pain through the left malar bone (after six hours).
Mouth
Tongue looks white and rough; feels as if it were scalded, and as if the skin would peel off; it looks like a calf’s tongue. Tongue moist, feels as if scalded, looks white and rough. Much water in the mouth; want to spit a great deal (after twenty-one hours). Taste in the mouth between sour and bitter (after twenty-one hours). Always had salty taste, now have sweetish taste (after twenty-one hours).
Throat
Burning in the throat down to the stomach.
Stomach
Some appetite, but when I get what I had previously desired, then I do not want it (after twenty-four hours). No appetite. No appetite (after one hour). No appetite (after twenty-one hours). No appetite (second day). No thirst (after one hour). No thirst (second day). Nausea. Smoking tobacco makes me feel like vomiting (after twenty- one hours).
Abdomen
Griping pain in the bowels on riding.
Rectum and Anus
Itching around the anus.
Stool
Diarrhoea, watery, yellowish, although while taking the medicine I was costive (second day). Diarrhoea by day, and worse by night; bowels moved about ten times (second day).
Urinary Organs
Passed water, the first for thirty hours (after eighteen hours). Urine dark-red, and smells like that of cats (after eighteen hours).
Sexual Organs
Erections, with great desire for an embrace (after four hours).
Chest
Pain across the chest (after one hour). Soreness across the chest, with pain in the left shoulder (after one hour). The lungs felt loose and that I must hold them together by pressing on them, on riding (after ten hours). Pain in the right side below the ribs. Pain in the right lung.
Heart and Pulse
Pulse 74. Pulse 70.
Extremities in General
Joints feel enlarged, with some pain (after twenty-one hours).
Superior Extremities
Sensation in the arms, as if they were tied to the body, especially the left one (after one hour). Left arm feels as if it were out of joint; cannot raise it without pain (after two hours). A pain, as if the joints were enlarged, in both shoulders (after twenty-one hours). Pressure on the inside of shoulder- joint gives sharp pain, which seems to act most on the left side (after two hours).
Lower Extremities
Weakness and pain in both knees, so that it was with great difficulty that I could walk, on going to supper. Went to bed without supper, and was better on lying down. Stitching pains through both knees, on rising in bed (never had such pains before), lasting quarter of an hour (at midnight).
Generalities
Languid. Tired and sleepy. Felt as though I could not get myself together, and could not find my clothes for some time, although they were quite near; better in the open air, at 10 P.M. Feel all over as if poisoned (after twenty-one hours).
Skin
An eruption as thick as measles, all over the arms and body, and upper portion of the legs (third day). Intense itching, aggravated by scratching, lasting two hours (after five hours).
Sleep and Dreams
Wanted to sleep with his arms locked under his head, for the fire time. Sleep, with amorous dreams, without emissions.
Fever
Feels, cold, and cold sweat all over the body (after one hour). Very (uncommonly) profuse and weakening sweat.
Conditions Aggravations
(Night), Diarrhoea. (On bending forward), Frontal headache. (On riding), Pain in bowels; loose feeling in lungs, etc. (Scratching), Itching.
Amelioration
(In open air), Felt as though he could not get himself together, etc. (In society of ladies), Feels better. (Lying down), Weakness, etc. (Pressure), Pain above orbital arches.
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.