Sensation of great dryness and fullness in the nose (soon after 60 drops). A transient sensation of great dryness and burning in the nose (3rd day). Constant great sensation of dryness of the mucous membrane of the nose, and on the border of the left wing of the nose a painful sensation to touch, as if a pustule would develop (35 minutes after 5 drops). Fullness, with some crawling in the nose and some lachrymation (after 5 drops). Transient sensation of fullness in the nose, with sensation as if it would bleed (3rd morning). Crawling in the nose, provoking sneezing (10 minutes after 5 drops). Pressive stitches in the nasal bones (2nd day after 60 drops). Crawling in the nose (2nd day). Crawling in the nose until the eye waters. Severe crawling in the right nostril, as if coryza would follow, at 10 A.M. (2nd day).
Excessive crawling and a sensation of fullness in the nose during the whole forenoon (2nd day after 5 drops). Smell.
Extremely sensitive to all smells. Beer seems to smell offensive.
Face.
Puffiness of the face and hands. Burning in the face (30 minutes after 40 drops. Cheek. Redness of one cheek, returning in paroxysms, without shivering or internal heat (after 4 and 12 hours). Lips.
Lips crack and peel (after 16 hours). Dry lips. At night, the lips become dry and stick together, without thirst. Jaws. Heaviness in the jaws, with slight burrowing in the alveoli (6th day after 60 drops). Sensation of heaviness in the lower jaw returns about 1 P.M. (3rd day). Pain on opening the jaws, as if the masseter muscles were painfully cramped, which pain also extended into the teeth. Stitches in the right joint of the jaw, extending into the upper back teeth, severe but transient. Single stitches in the jaw, extending into the inner ear. Feeling of weakness in the muscles of mastication, with inclination to hold the mouth open, with increased accumulation of saliva (3rd day).
Mouth.
Teeth.
Looseness of the teeth. Teeth covered with mucus. Wakened at 3 A.M. by toothache (a corroding pain, as if something scratched the nerve), which ceased about 7 o’clock, so that only a few jerk like stitches remained. Toothache occurs during the forenoon, and lasts all day (3rd day). Toothache as from taking cold, if one exposes himself to the cold air when sweating. Toothache while eating. Toothache while eating, and for some time afterwards. Toothache after eating and drinking, though nothing warm nor cold was taken (later). After eating and drinking, especially something warm (though also after cold things), toothache reappears immediately or after a minute. Toothache, even when not eating, in the left lower canine tooth and in the incisor next to it, aggravated by touching the tooth with the tongue. Toothache if anything warm is taken into the mouth. Toothache, especially severe after a warm drink, particularly coffee. (Toothache is renewed in a warm room). Toothache, with swelling of the cheek. (* The toothache which Chamomilla causes is very similar to that so frequently produced by drinking coffee; the latter is therefore homoeopathically and specifically cured by small doses of Chamomilla.-H. *). Toothache recurring in intermittent attacks, with swelling of the cheeks and accumulation of saliva; the pains shoot back and forth, even extending to the eye, and are aggravated by drinking cold water. Violent toothache in a left upper diseased back tooth during breakfast. Violent toothache in the left upper jaw, every time after eating warm food. Drawing toothache (without being able to locate it in any tooth); it disappears during eating, but especially rages at night, therewith the teeth feel too long.
(* It is a peculiarity of Chamomilla pains generally that they are worse at night, when they frequently drive one to the border of distraction, not infrequently with unquenchable thirst and redness of the cheeks; also with hot sweat on the head even in the hair. THE PAINS OF chamomilla GENERALLY SEEM INTOLERABLE, AND NOT TO BE ENDURED. All these characteristics of Chamomilla show how similar diseased conditions may be removed homoeopathically by it. – H. *) Drawing toothache in the lower jaw, extending forward (after half an hour). Grumbling-drawing toothache in the jaw. Pressive toothache in the alveoli of the right upper jaw. Tearing toothache, which extends to the ear, with swelling of the cheek. Pain in a left upper hollow back tooth, less during dinner, but more during supper (3rd day). Sensation in the upper back teeth as if they were too heavy and dragged downward (35 minutes after 20 drops).
Grumbling and crawling in the teeth of the upper jaw. Sensation of distension and heaviness in the roots of the upper back teeth on both sides (2nd morning after 10 drops). Boring and digging pains in the teeth on waking in the morning (after 5 drops). Boring and digging in the roots of some of the back teeth, especially in the hollow ones; cold water relieves this sensation for the moment, but it soon returns more severe than ever (15 minutes after 5 drops). Long continued dull digging and boring in the roots of some of the back teeth. Drawing pain in the teeth. Drawing pain in the teeth after eating and drinking.
Pressure upon the canine tooth and first back tooth of the left side above and below caused pain (4th day). Very transient pressure and pressing as under pain in the teeth (soon). Slight transient pressive pain in the second and third back teeth in the afternoon. Stitches in some of the lower teeth in the morning (after 40 drops). Severe stitches in the roots of the three back teeth of the left upper jaw (9 hours after 60 drops). Evening, tearing pain in teeth, worse from tea, and continued so as to disturb sleep, with restlessness and heat in face. Teeth sensitive to touch, especially some hollow back teeth (9th day after 60 drops). Teeth very sensitive to touch, especially some hollow teeth of the upper jaw, with heaviness in the alveoli, etc. (7th day after 60 drops). Throbbing pain in the 2nd and 3rd right lower back teeth, aggravated by pressure, and momentarily relieved by cold water (2nd day after 60 drops). Throbbing in the roots of some of the back teeth, especially in the right upper jaw, and pain in some of the teeth when touched (4th day after 60 drops). The prover remarks that the first left upper tricuspid is hollow, that he had pain in it nine months ago, but only while eating, and then only if some food got into it, and these pains have increased during the proving of Chamomilla; he farther remarks that since his earliest recollection he has had much sweat on the feet, and four or five years ago he had much pain in his throat. Gums and Alveoli. Swelling of the gum. Swelling of the gum, with increased tension; pressure upon it causes a pricking as with needles; this he had frequently before, but never to such a degree. Swollen gum, with tension, sticking and violent pulsation of the alveoli of the upper and lower jaws, especially of the lower, and particularly in the region of the right angle, with severe pressure and sensation of pain. Sensation as if the gum were swelling about some of the back teeth (15 minutes after 5 drops). Heaviness in the lower alveoli, with dull stitches and pressure in some of the back teeth of the right side of the lower jaw (30 minutes after 10 drops). Heaviness in the lower alveoli, especially in the last back teeth, with dull digging sensation in the roots of the lower back teeth of both sides (3rd day). Great heaviness in the alveoli; they feel as if filled with lead (15 minutes after 5 drops). Great heaviness in the alveoli, with pressive pain, digging, and pressure in some of the back teeth, especially of the lower jaw (soon after 60 drops). Sensation of fullness and heaviness in the alveoli of the first and second back teeth of both sides of the upper jaw, with a slight burrowing and boring in their roots, with a sensation as if the alveoli were distended and formed a hard, tense swelling (2nd day after 5 drops). A slight burrowing and sensation of heaviness in the alveoli of some of the back teeth; “this sensation seems intolerable, and makes him very peevish” (3rd day after 5 drops).
Pressure and heaviness in the alveoli of the upper and lower jaws, as if they were filled with lead, especially noticed in the lower jaw, where it seems to start from the anterior foramen (mental foramen), towards 6 P.M. Pressure and sensation as of something heavy in the alveoli of the upper jaw, especially on the right side; the teeth feel as though filled with lead. Long continued pressure and sensation of heaviness in the upper and lower alveoli. Continued slight pressure in the alveoli of the upper 2nd and 3rd back teeth of each side, extending up to beneath the eyes (4th day). Tensive pressing asunder and sensation of pressure in the upper alveoli, especially involving the second and third back teeth, continued the 2nd day. Pressive pain and a feeling as if distended by wind in the alveoli of the 2nd and 3rd back teeth on both sides of the upper jaw; this sensation was persistent, with frequent intermissions, and extended deep into the malar bone; it was especially noticed in the right side. Some indications of the pressive pain in the alveoli of the upper 2nd and 3rd back teeth (1st day). Stitches in the alveoli of the upper and lower jaws (40 minutes after 40 drops). Throbbing and sensation of heat in the alveoli and gum of the upper back teeth, and afterwards also about the lower jaw; boring and digging in the roots of the teeth, only momentarily relieved by cold water, at 9 A.M. (3rd day after 5 drops). Tongue. Red tongue. Furred tongue. Yellow, furred tongue (16 to 20 grains). Tongue coated dirty-white. Tongue coated yellow. Tongue slimy- coated, without changed taste and without want of appetite (2nd day). Blisters on and beneath the tongue, with stinging pain. Tongue dry. The tongue is dry, with thirst for water, loss of appetite, flushes of heat, sweat of the face, and palpitation, followed by unnatural hunger. Severe biting on the back of the tongue and on the roof of the palate (after 1 hour). General Mouth. Offensive odor from the mouth after dinner, like a foul breath (after 3 hours). Dryness of the mouth in the morning, followed by distension of the abdomen and imperfect evacuation. Dryness and bitter tasting mucus in the mouth in the morning (after 5 drops). Toward noon, sensitive scraping burning in back of mouth. Spasmodic drawing pain in the palate, extending into the fauces. Severe tickling in the hard palate (9 hours after 60 drops). Pressure in the salivary glands, with increased secretion of saliva (2nd day after 60 drops). Pressure and dull stitches in the salivary glands, with pressure and increased secretion of saliva (6th day after 60 drops). Stitches and pressive sensation in the salivary glands, especially a sensation of swelling in the tonsils (9th day after 60 drops). Saliva. Secretion of saliva increased.
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.