Introduction
C. Bonplandii, Par met (variety of Cerus grandiflorus).
Natural order: Cactaceae.
Preparation: Tincture of the stems.
Mind.
Emotional. Desire to engage at work Desire to have the time all employed. Felt all day an astonishing inclination to be engaged in something useful. Felt a desire to give something quite necessary to myself to another. Desire to be dissolved, especially the trunk (after three hours). Reluctance to take medicine (2nd day). Experienced an agreeably tranquil frame of mind and body. A grateful feeling of dependence on a divine spirit was experienced (2nd day). Not very pleasant in mind. Very much disturbed in mind. Arose feeling miserable (2nd day).
Praying, or disposition to pray. Very irritable.
Very irritable; act from impulse (2nd day). Apathetic during attendance at church; could not fix the mind on devotional exercises, effort being strong (2nd day).
Intellectual. Difficult to keep employed. Very dull all morning; pass the time in a listless manner. Time passed very slowly (5th day).
Head.
Vertigo. On rising up from a kneeling posture, dizziness comes over one, followed by sickness at stomach, continuing for some little time. Swimming of the head.
General head. Felt a feeling as if the head were suspended from some support under the skull and base of the brain (after 10 minutes).
Head felt drawn to the left backward. Heat feels badly (2nd day).
Headache (6th day). The effect on the brain and nervous system passes off in 4 or 5 days principally.
Forehead. Painful sensation in the anterior lobes of the cerebrum, extending from the frontal bone backward (after 6 hours and a half).
Pain across anterior lobes of brain, just behind os frontis.
Slight heavy feeling in top of forehead. Pain extending along the external angular process of frontal bone, right side. Pain extending through the forehead, left side, to the occiput (after 20 minutes).
Pain in right forehead. Momentarily, a painful stunning sensation in the right side of the os frontis. Sensation of a slight burning feeling, extending backward from the right forehead.
Sensation of pain of a boring nature, extending from the left frontal region deeper and backward (after 10 minutes). Sensation of a pressing feeling in right forehead (after 10 minutes).
Parietals. Pain verging around and along left parietal bone from left occiput.
Occiput. Disagreeable feeling in the back of the head, seeming to pass down over the neck and terminate in a disagreeable sensation, an approach to qualmishness at the stomach. Sensation as of a broad bound to back of head, more plainly on the left side. Headache, occipital pain. Headache affecting occiput for quarter of an hour. Severe occipital headache (3rd day). Pain in occiput, running through to the lobes of the cerebrum. Pain in occiput, high up in the head. Felt a decidedly painful drawing sensation in occipital region, soon subsiding. Feeling of being pressed at left occiput, and immediately afterwards a counter pain on left side of forehead, the latter continuing a moment or 2. Slight pressive sensation in the right occiput, from behind forward. On walking out, descending 1 or 2 steps, had a severe pain, forcing from without inwards in the occiput, on a line with the sagittal suture.
External head. On combing the hair, find it falls out in considerable quantities (2nd day).
Eye.
Heavy feeling at the eyes, as in cephalic catarrh (6th day). Rose suffering severe pain in eyes (5th day). Sore feeling at the eyes (6th day). Sore feeling in eyes, as if pained by strong sunlight.
Orbit. Pain above right eye, passing down over globe of eye.
Pressive pain in orbits, from before backward. Tenderness at supraorbital notch (after 6 hours and a half).
Lids. Left eyelid slightly painful when the head is bent to the floor. A little capillary congestion of the conjunctiva.
Lachrymal apparatus. Swimming eyes.
Ball. Somewhat painful sensation in globe of left eye.
Pain through the globe of the right eye. Pain through the globe of the left eye and orbit (after 6 hours and a half).
Vision. Great sensitiveness to the impulse of light all day (photophobia), (5th day). Strong light painful to eyes (6th day).
Perception of a cluster of orange-colored spots, round-shaped and symmetrical.
Ear.
Pain behind mastoid process, left side, extending backward and upward. Pain through ear and head, commencing at a point at the back of left ear, and running upward and forward diagonally in the direction of the opposite ear and right parietal bone.
Nose.
Sneezing, fetid flatus passed from bowels. Accumulation of mucus in both nostrils (3rd day). Hardened mucus from left nostril.
Mucus from nose, as in catarrh. Dislodge greenish discharges from the right nares; similar discharge in less quantity from the left. Stinging in right nostril. Haggard look (6th day).
Yellowish hue of the countenance. Awoke before 5 A.M.; looked somewhat haggard (2nd day). Pain along right malar bone, running to temple, through to occiput.
Mouth.
Tongue. Tongue too red to be natural. Deep purplish hue over the whole tongue. Tongue feathery. Sensation of a thread of mucus on the tongue. Tongue feeling rough.
General Mouth. Mucus adherent to the roof of mouth, cleared by a single effort. Clearing of the hard palate of mucus. Watery sensation, not disagreeable in the mouth. Sensation of saliva in the mouth, which is swallowed, of no particular taste. Sensation of coldness and a metallic taste in the mouth.
Saliva. Water in mouth. Watery mouth, with some shade of insipidness. Saliva in the mouth (after 10 minutes. 6 drops).
Taste. Taste watery. Alkaline taste. Taste of green vegetables.
Throat.
Mucus in throat. Mucus in the throat, a persistent symptom early in the proving, and quantity abundant. Mucus of a pale greenish color, sometimes colorless of nearly so. It was from the throat, mainly, pharynx, and top of larynx. Clearing of mucus from throat (6th day). Slight uneasiness in throat verging to stomach, with simultaneous congested sensation in both eyes.
Stomach.
Appetite. Relish for sweet things. Ate light breakfast (2nd day).
Thirst. Thirstlessness.
Eructations. Dry eructations from the stomach. Slight painful feeling at epigastrium. Slight sensation of pain in epigastrium at intervals, coming and going in short paroxysms.
Abdomen.
Light rumbling in the left side of the abdomen. Slight griping (soon after). Felt a slight griping, accompanied by the beginning of a soreness, extending through the region of the whole portal circulation (after 10 minutes). Pain in left groin, sharp and cutting, as from impacted calculus in the ureter.
Rectum and Anus.
Slight desire to evacuate bowels (6 drops).
Stool.
Copious and urgent evacuation from the bowels. Felt very well afterwards (after 6 hours and three-quarters). Stool not easy not sufficient (2nd day). Effort to evacuate bowels nearly or quite ineffectual.
Urinary Organs.
Pain in left kidney (after 4 hours and one-third).
Pain long-continued in left kidney, as from renal calculus. Quite severe sticking pain in the right kidney (2nd day). Slight pain of sticking character in region of right kidney. Feel pain in right kidney; sore to pressure. Sticking pain in right ureter (2nd day).
Slight desire to pass urine, lasting for a minute (immediately).
Micturition. In the night, pass a small quantity of clear urine.
Passed urine, less than half the usual quantity, and yellowish. 6 A.M., pass a small quantity of yellowish saturated urine (2nd day).
Urine. Deep-colored urine (4th day). Urine passed of a slight brownish tinge, scanty, and smelling strongly after a few minutes.
Sexual Organs.
Priapism in presence of the opposite sex (3rd day).
Early in afternoon noticed a feeling of flabbiness in the genitalia, which felt small (2nd day). No feeling at sexual organ. Anaesthesia of the genital organs (5th day). Waked in the right, with slight sexual desire. The effect on the generative functions passed off in about 10 days.
Respiratory Organs.
Clearing the larynx of mucus. Voice sounds dim (2nd day).
On divesting oneself of outer garments, experience coughing.
Breath fetid; noticed by others. Fetid breath noticed by self (subjective symptom). Sighing respiration (noticed many times).
Respiration is measured; no interval between inspiration and expiration. Deep inspiration. Deep inspiration (after six hours and a half). Deep inspiration, as if tired, accompanied with no fatigue. At intervals, deep inspiration, as if the chest were laboring under the effect of some indefinable oppression. Deep inspiration and expiration; chest is emptied quickly (2nd day).
Experienced the long, deep, uneasy respiration of previous days, but more intensified, before rising (2nd day).
Chest.
Thorax acts automatically, not in accordance with one’s whim (2nd day). Tendency to automatically expand the chest (this recurs as a symptom very frequently). The chest expands itself seemingly to its utmost capacity, in an instant collapsing, to be repeated.
Weakness of chest, with deep inspiration. Chest feels empty (2nd day). Slight feeling of oppression. Chest feels pained or oppressed. Slightly painful sensation in the left chest in the region of the heart. Pain in chest, left side, and through the heart, flanked by a painful sensation at an toward the spleen, the latter momentary, the former continuing, especially that at the heart. Pain in left great pectoral muscle, more aggravated toward the tendon of the lesser pectoral and at coracoid process.
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.