Frequent sneezing. Copious mucous secretion from the nose.
Frequent blowing out of thick mucus. Catarrh, rough throat, and hoarseness disappeared soon from using the water. Her former a stopped catarrh disappeared in a few days. The habitual stopped catarrh was worse during the first part of the proving, then it disappeared; after 14 days fluent catarrh appeared, which also afterwards disappeared; he drew the usual amount of air through the nose, but constantly felt the necessity of snuffling (after the proving the old catarrh returned worse, than ever). Chronic catarrh, with elongated uvula; dryness of the throat disappeared.
Habitual bleeding of the nose. Subjective. Dryness in the nose, with crawling sensation. Tension across the nasal bone, as if he had drunk wine (soon after the first bath of a quarter of an hour at 28 Degree. R. Some stitching sensation in the right nostril, with sneezing several times, and blowing out blood; on suppression of the menses. Sensitiveness of the nose, as in incipient catarrh. Smell. Loss of smell, after stoppage of the nose.
Face.–Objective.
Yellow color of the face. White faces, after three or four glasses, become sallow. In the fourth week, he became gradually yellow (had formerly been white); the urine, however retained its normal color, only it had a very strand and pungent odor; the stool remained dark green. Redness and heat in the face, especially in the evening and after eating when the organism is always stronger. Frequent changing of the color of the face. Face as if somewhat swollen. Red swelling and pain especially when touched, on the right side near the nose, from a prominent tooth, at times intolerable (16th day). Subjective. Sensation as if cobwebs were drawn over the face. Sensation on spots here and there in the face, as from a hair which can be wiped away.
Transient heat in the face. Sensation as if one side of the face were swelling. Cheeks. Prickling formication on the cheeks, in the region of the pes anserina. On the right cheek, in the region of the pes anserina, quivering and prickling without increased redness or warmth. Tearing-drawing on the right cheek. Sensation as if the zygomatic process were distended. Cutting-drawing on the zygomatic process below the right eye. On the zygomatic processes, now dull pressing, now itching, tearing toward the head. On the right zygomatic process a sensation of cobwebs, as if he must constantly rub something away. Lower Jaw. Involuntary pressure of the lower jaw against the upper, during sleep;even grinding of the teeth.
Mouth.–Teeth and Gums.
Thick, pappy, mucous coating on the teeth. The teeth become very bad, loosen, and fall out. The teeth are Painfully prominent, the gum is painfully swollen (in several persons sooner or later. A painful tooth bleeds of itself very much, especially when sucking it (17th day). Dulness of the teeth, as from an acid. Burrowing in an upper hollow tooth; can endure neither cold nor warmth (5th day). Pain in a sound incisor, tensive, and as if the teeth were being driven apart, on each touch of the tooth. Slight pain in a hollow molar, passing through almost the whole side of the face, especially the zygomatic processes. Tearing pain in the roots of the upper molars. Toothache increase after every meal, so much so that he avoids touching the elongated tooth; relieved by olfaction of Chamomilla. Gum at times swollen, painful, to touch at times bleeding on slight pressure. Tongue. Tongue coated white, with offensive smell from the mouth. Thick yellowish white coating on back of tongue, at times more on one half of the tongue than on the other. General Mouth. Dryness in the mouth and throat now with thirst, now without it. Dryness of the whole mouth, with increased thirst especially of the whole roof of the mouth, as if dried up. Warmth and sensation of dryness in the soft palate and pharynx, sensation as of swelling of these parts. Saliva. Flow of saliva and frequent spitting; at times sensation of soreness on the uvula and larynx, and in the throat.
Frequently in the morning, an increase of mucus in the mouth. In the morning after waking the entire mouth is often lined with mucus, which frequently sticks like paste to the teeth and causes a furry sensation in the mouth. Taste. Insipid, mucous taste.
Clayey, pappy taste, with copious salivary secretion. Metallic taste in the mouth constantly during the first part of the proving; food tasted natural. Salty taste in the mouth, causing the hawking up of tough mucus. Everything tastes as if salted.
Nauseous, bitter taste, with yellow tongue, Taste at first mucous, afterwards salty, sometimes bitter. Frequent unpleasant taste of blood in the mouth, especially on drinking the water.
Taste of pus in the mouth comes from an upper front tooth that has been painful; sometimes when drinking the water, or when eating, also if he presses externally downward from the right wing of the nose, which causes a dull pain in the place (3rd & 4th weeks).
Throat.–(160)
Constantly much hawking up of mucus. Transient stitches in the throat and along the Eustachian tube. Frequently a rough scraping, at times becoming a tickling sensation, in the throat. Pain in the throat on swallowing, after he had omitted his neck cloth for some time.
Stomach.
Appetite.
Appetite and thirst much increased. Uncommonly increased appetite at quite unusual times; at times with hiccough. Desire for rye bread. Appetite much lessened; afterwards very capricious.
Anorexia and acidity in the mouth (3rd week). Anorexia and pressure in the stomach, transient. Aversion to meat, with longing for rye bread. Thirst. Frequently increased thirst.
Thirst in the afternoon and evening (2nd week). Water, though his usual drink, is unpleasant to him during the first part of the time. Eructations and Hiccough. Eructation of air, after rumbling in the region of the stomach. Eructation of air and hiccough, with rumbling noise in the intestines. After he had eaten rather more than usual at noon, eructations towards evening, and a sensation as if heartburn would ensue (19th day).
After a bunch of grapes, and potatoes with butter, in the evening, eructations as of bad eggs (12th day). Frequent eructations during the day, sometimes tasting and smelling of the food, sometimes very bitter. Incomplete eructation, with oppressed feeling in the chest, sometimes painful. Frequent hiccough, with yawning at the same time, especially after drinking and breakfast, also after eating, frequently loud hiccoughing, in shuddering attacks, followed by mostly empty and tasteless eructation. Heartburn. After an unusually full meal, attacks of heartburn in the latter part of the afternoon (22nd day). After a full meal decided heartburn in the latter part of the afternoon and in the evening; even at night on waking he felt it, and in the morning, while smoking a cigar, he felt traces of it (36th day). Frequent heartburn, with accumulation of much water in the mouth; also violent, with eructation of an almost corroding liquid and long-lasting sour taste in the mouth; often after the slightest disturbance of the diet, at times becoming less after the drinking of cold water. Rising of a watery liquid the whole forenoon; at times salt-tasting water brash. After two crabs, acidity in the stomach and mouth; after much exertion on a hunt, pressure in the stomach (4th week). Nausea and Vomiting.
Attacks of nausea, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth, and frequent spitting; gloominess of the head, shuddering along the back, at times even to fainting, with loss of consciousness.
Vomiting of a tasteless mucus, or of a bitter and sour liquid, without special exertion. Stomach. Sensation as of emptiness in the stomach, and afterwards canine hunger. In the afternoon, while riding, a sensation as if heartburn would ensue, together with golden yellow urine and rattling and whistling in the chest (after 6 days). At times fullness and tension in the stomach, extending to the chest and toward the back, even after eating very little. The region about the stomach and below the ribs tensive and distended. Constrictive pain in the stomach when fasting, with sensation of emptiness beneath the short ribs (10th day). Gnawing pain in the pit of the stomach, frequently decreasing after eating something. After supper pressing in the stomach, also burning, at intervals drawing diagonally across, which at times extends up to the pharynx, with much flow of saliva in the mouth. Pressing and contraction in the stomach, at its entrance, and in the pharynx, usually commencing shortly after dinner, and often accompanied by empty eructations.
Pressing pain and heaviness in the stomach, as from a load after eating. Much dull pressure, as with the thumb, in the pit of the stomach (18th day). After a late supper (of warm chops) transient dull pressure in the stomach (22 day). A dull pressure in the pit of the stomach, and at the same time opposite in the back, as with pincers, by paroxysms (14th day). Some dull stitches in the pit of the stomach, on descending (13th day). Smarting in the stomach (6th day). Scraping, rancid sensation from the stomach, like heartburn. A scraping and sore sensation in the stomach returns after drinking the first glasses of water.
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.