Causticum



Frequent starting up in fright from sleep (3rd and 12th days).

She frequently starts up and cries out in sleep. She was obliged to turn constantly at night, and had slight sweat in the morning. He makes many motions with his arms and legs, at night in sleep. Loud laughing in sleep (1st day). He talks after midnight in a whining way in his sleep, “Come here, come here,” and then sleeps so quietly that one could not hear him breathe. Dreams. Many dreams at night. Many confused dreams. Laughs aloud in his dream. Dreams at first merry, then confused historical dreams, at night of beautiful girls, with emissions (1st and 2nd days). Sad dreams of dead acquaintances. Anxious dreams. Fretful dreams. Fretful dreams, vividly remembered (5th day). Dreams full of strife, with uneasy sleep at night (1st night). Frightful dreams, from which he is awakened, and on account of anxiety, which they cause, he cannot fall asleep again (21st day).

Fever.– Chilliness.

Shivering over the whole body in a room, lasting 5 minutes.

Shivering over the whole body as often as he lays down the left hand, after motion. Shivering, with gooseflesh the whole day, as often as she goes into the open air. Shivering every time on waking from sleep at night. Shivering, with gooseflesh, and urging to stool, which is very soft, accompanies by painful pinching in the whole abdomen, followed by general chill, with external coldness, with soon disappeared in the room, where it is replaced by sensation of internal warmth in the head. With increasing pain in the stomach she shivers. Very sensitive to the cold air (after 10 days). Very sensitive to a draft; it is very unpleasant, and causes pressive pains. Greater sensitiveness to the free air (in May than in winter). Takes cold very easily, even from a transient draft, together with chilliness over the whole body. Chilliness and yawning.

Chilliness in various parts of the body. Chilliness over the whole body, in the open not cold air. Chilliness towards morning, when asleep. Chilliness after a meal. Chilliness, with hot face, after eating. At 4 P.M., first chilliness, with creeping in the legs up into the back, with weariness, lasting three hours, followed by sweat, without heat or thirst.

Much internal chilliness the whole day (1st week). He is always either chilly or in a sweat. Febrile chill, lasting one hour, followed by heat in the forehead. Shivering chill over the whole body, without thirst and without subsequent heat. Shaking chill over the whole body in the open air, which disappears in the room, at 7 P.M. Shaking chill over the whole body, with gooseflesh, lasting two minutes. Transient shaking chill over the whole body. Severe shaking chill in a warm room, lasting a quarter of an hour. Severe internal chill about midnight, especially in the arms and legs, with cutting pain in the back, followed by general sweat, with tingling and heaviness of the head; was obliged to remain lying until noon (29th day).

Coldness in the open air, after dinner. Frequent internal coldness, with cold hands and feet. Chill the first half of the night, followed by heat, and towards morning moist skin, after which there was for the first time some rest and sleep (3rd day). He feels feverish; at one time chilliness, at another heat in the face. Shivering over the whole of the right side of the body. Sudden shivering from the face, extending over the chest down to the knee. Shivering, extending from the face down along the back as far as the knee. Shivering in the neck, extending into the brain, in the evening. Continual febrile shivering along the back. Some attacks of shivering in the back, extending over almost the whole of the abdomen, without heat during or afterwards. Frequent shivering, now in the upper arm, now in the leg, now over the whole body.

Sensation of shivering, extending from the right temple through the forehead, where it becomes a throbbing. The whole of the left side of the body is cold and gone to sleep. Coldness of the whole of the left side of the body. Sensation as if cold water was running from the right clavicle across the chest down to the toes in a small stream, lasting 2 minutes. Sensation as of a cold wind blowing upon the middle of the spine between the shoulder-blades this part remains cold even by a warm stove. Cold and stiff sensation in the right forearm and fingers; he could not get the arm warm even by the hot stove.

Coldness of the hands, which extends up the left arm to the elbow. Coldness of the hands and feet. Painful coldness of the hands and soles of the feet. Cold Feet. Always very cold feet. Heat. After walking, flushes of heat and discomfort (after 4 hours). Heat for two hours every evening, beginning at 6 (7th week). After walking slowly in the open air, he is very much heated and much excited. Falls asleep late in the evening, on account of great heat of the body. Much orgasm of blood (1st day). Sensation of rising heat in the head, with sweat in the palms in the room, after a chill. Internal warmth in the forehead and in the back, as if sweat would break out, which soon disappears. Warmth and redness of the face, after eating. Much heat in the face and eyes, after eating (after 8 days).

Sweat. Frequent attacks of sweat over the whole body. In the morning he lay in a sweat. Sweat when walking in the afternoon, with great weariness. Sweat at night. Night-sweat for two nights in succession (after 36 hours). Night-sweat for several nights in succession (after 11 days). General sweat at night, with uneasy sleep. He awoke about 4 A.M., with profuse sweat all over the body, without thirst; this continued 24 hours. Profuse sweat when walking in the open air. Sour-smelling night-sweat all over (after 26 days). Moisture over the whole body, without heat and without thirst, followed by general gradual coolness, with yawning and stretching of the arms. Sweat on the back and abdomen, after long-continued walking.

Conditions.– Aggravation.

(Morning), On waking, anxiety; confusion of head, etc.; on rising from bed, vertigo; on stooping, vertigo; dizzy, etc.; on waking, pain in the top of head; after rising, beating, etc., in vertex; dryness, etc. of eyes; pressure in eyes; difficult opening of eyes;sensation in lids; after waking, pain in the right inner canthus; itching in eyeball; when blowing nose, obscuration of eyes; after waking, dim vision; stopped sensation in ears; re-echoing in ear; swelling of nose; blood blown from nose; frequent sneezing; tearing in roots of teeth; teeth, etc., sensitive; pain in teeth; hawking of mucus; dryness of throat; on waking, pressure in throat; thirst; nausea; soon after rising, pain in stomach; on waking, cramp in stomach; pressure in stomach; in bed, griping about umbilicus; pain in abdomen; pressure in stomach; in bed, griping about umbilicus; pain in abdomen; pressive pain in abdomen; stitches in right side of abdomen; cutting colic; erections, etc.; after coition, frequent erections; hoarseness, etc.; voice stopped; cough; hollow cough; hoarse cough; on waking, dry cough; shortness of breath; sensation in chest; rawness in chest; in bed, rushing in left chest; palpitation, etc.; pain in arms; on waking, weakness in hand; fingers become dead; in bed, on waking, weariness of legs; in bed uneasiness in both limbs; bruised pain in legs; sensation in lower legs, etc.; on rising, tension in bend of thigh; in bed, cramp in calf; weakness of feet; on waking, trembling, etc.; in bed, attack of spasm; in bed, weariness; on rising, very weary; drowsy; sweat. (Forenoon), Pain in all the teeth; dryness of mouth; accumulation of saliva; sore throat; water brash; erections; cough; on deep respiration, stitches in chest; on waking, trembling; pain in calf. (Afternoon), From 4 o’clock till evening, burning, etc., of eyes; throbbing in forehead; pain in teeth; offensive taste; nausea; nausea, etc.; stitches in hepatic region; pressure in abdomen; oppression of chest; weariness in legs; pain in muscles of leg; jerking in left knee; 4 o’clock, chilliness, etc.; when walking, sweat; towards evening, pain in small of back.

(Evening), Before going to sleep, anxiety; frightful ideas; rush of blood to head; stitches in left side of head; burning in scalp; 6 to 8 o’clock, burning, etc., in eyes; in bed, stitches in ear; sensation in left ear; pain in right meatus; ringing in ear; swelling of the gum; scraping in fauces; on lying down, water-brash; when beginning to eat, nausea; stitching below right ribs; tearing in liver; distension of abdomen; abdomen full, etc.; pressure in abdomen; stitches in abdomen; diarrhoea; after urinating, pain in urethra; hoarseness; cough; hoarse cough; pain in right chest; palpitation, etc.; twitching in limbs; uneasiness in limbs; pain in muscles of leg; drawing in right leg; when walking, stitch in thigh; drawing-tearing in knee; 7 to 9 o’clock, tension in calf; tearing in outer malleolus; drawing in right foot; when slumbering in bed, attack of spasm; weary; yawning; shivering in neck; beginning at 6 o’clock, heat.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.