Increased secretion of saliva (11th day after 60 drops). Increased secretion of saliva, with a sensation of pressure in the salivary glands (2nd day after 20 drops). Increased secretion of saliva soon after supper, with a peculiar sweetish metallic taste. Profuse secretion of tough saliva (10 minutes of 40 drops). Collection of metallic sweetish saliva in the mouth (2nd day). Great accumulation of metallic tasting saliva. The saliva was especially copious half an hour after supper, and had a sweetish metallic taste. Salivation. Taste. Slimy taste (after 2 and 12 hours). (At night, an offensive taste in the mouth). Sour taste (after three and 18 hours). Bitter taste in the mouth (2nd day). Bitter taste in the mouth in the morning (after 24 hours). Bitter aromatic taste. Taste fatty, unpleasant, with irritation to vomit (soon). An unpleasant fatty taste in the mouth, with increased secretion of saliva. Disgusting taste of the drug (8 to 14 grains). Everything tastes like old rancid fate (after 2 hours). Bread tastes sour.
Throat.
On hawking mucus from the throat, some drops of clear blood are expectorated (11th day after 60 drops). What he hawks up has an offensive taste. A simple pain in the back part of the throat, which is increased by moving the throat and swallowing. Sensation of oppression in the throat. Some stitches in the throat near the ear. Throat raw (8th day). Sore throat, as from a plug in it, on swallowing (after 4 hours). Sore throat, with swelling of the parotid. Throbbing in the back of the throat (after a quarter of an hour). Tonsils and Uvula. Some pain in the soft palate, a kind of burning, together with irritation to cough. Tension in the soft palate, followed by slight spasmodic contraction in it. Severe pressure and dull stitches in the soft palate (45 minutes after 40 drops). Tickling, in the soft palate about noon (2nd day).
(* The prover notes that four or five years ago he had pain in the soft palate as a consequence of taking cold from getting wet, from which he became quite hoarse, and suffered for at least two years afterwards with pain in the throat. *) Spasmodic contraction of the external pterygoid muscle (?), (2nd day after 5 drops). Spasmodic contraction of the left pterygoid muscles. The tonsils seem swollen, and there is some rawness in the larynx (3rd day after 60 drops). Sensation as if the tonsils were somewhat swollen, with difficult swallowing, in the morning (after 5 drops). Sensation of swelling of the tonsils, with a feeling of hardness and heaviness in them, with some difficulty in swallowing (soon after 60 drops). Stitches in the tonsils, with a feeling as if they were swollen, frequently with difficult swallowing (8th day after 60 drops). Stitches in the right tonsil, with a sensation as if it were swollen, and as if swallowing was difficult (35 minutes after 20 drops). Stitches and pressure in the tonsils, with sensation as if they were swollen (10 minutes after 40 drops). Fauces and Pharynx. In fauces, tough mucus causes repeated hawking. Sensation in the fauces as if the tonsils were swollen, and as if the uvula were too long (2nd day). Pain in the left side of the fauces while swallowing; the velum was somewhat reddened, and external pressure just under the angle of the jaw caused pain in the fauces. Pressive sensation in the fauces (3rd day after 60 drops). Tension and pressure in the pharynx, with sensation of pressure upon the uvula.
Constriction in the pharynx (11 hours after 60 drops).
Slight constriction of the pharynx, with sensation of pressure on the hard palate. Slight attacks of constriction of the pharynx (1st day). Spasmodic constriction of the pharynx.
Sensation of constriction in the pharynx (afternoon of 2nd day).
Sensation of constriction in the pharynx, with violent dull stitches in it, extending up to the base of the skull (soon after 60 drops). Slight sensation of constriction in the pharynx, in the morning and towards noon. Sensation of pressure in the pharynx, which obliges him to swallow frequently, with sensation as if the tonsils were swollen. Oesophagus and Swallowing. Sensation in the oesophagus as if a ball filled with air were raised into the throat by the contraction of the oesophagus, with great anxiety; this sensation returned three times in quick succession. Swallowing difficult, as if caused by swelling of the tonsils (15 minutes after 10 drops). At supper, the food seems to go down only as far as the pit of the throat, and there remain, with sensation of fullness, nausea, and eructations. External Throat. Sensation of pressure and tension in the parotid, with increased secretion of saliva (soon after 60 drops). Constant pressure upon the parotid, and also upon the other salivary glands (40 minutes after 40 drops). Sticking and pressure in the right parotid (30 minutes after 10 drops). Stitches in the parotids (11th day after 60 drops). Dull stitches in the parotids (2nd day after 20 drops). (Throbbing pain in the sub- maxillary gland), (after 4 hours).
Stomach.– Appetite.
Unnatural hunger in the evening (after 3 hours). (Desire for sauerkraut). Appetite lessened (12 grains). Appetite diminished. Appetite diminished, with pressure and tension in the stomach, and some nausea, which was relieved by eating (2nd day after 5 drops). The appetite was diminished from large doses of Chamomilla, but after the 3rd day after 60 drops it began to improve. Diminished appetite (10th day).
Diminished appetite (16 to 20 grains). Diminished appetite and eructations. Loss of appetite. Loss of appetite, as though the food sickened him, although it has no unnatural taste. Loss of appetite, but after eating the appetite returns. No appetite.
He has no appetite, and relishes nothing; the food will not go down. No longing for food; nothing tastes good. Disgust.
Disgust at food (22 and 24 grains). When food is set before him, it makes him shudder, it is so repugnant. Especial aversion to animal food (2nd day after 5 drops). (Aversion to broth). Thirst. Thirst. Thirst increased (2nd day after 5 drops). Thirst decidedly increased during the day. Thirst in the evening, and waking at night on account of pain. Thirst, with febrile heat and redness of the cheeks. Some thirst (3rd day). Much thirst (30th day). Excessive thirst. Unquenchable thirst, with dryness of the tongue (after 5 hours). Great longing for coffee (after 7 hours). (* This seems to be a reaction from S. 128.-H. *). A version of coffee. Eructations and Hiccough. Eructations. Eructations of gas (10 minutes after 40 drops). Eructations of gas smelling of bad eggs. Eructations of an acrid, salty fluid (afternoon, 2nd day). Eructations as after radishes (45 minutes after 5 drops). Eructations after breakfast. Eructations and passage of flatus (soon). Eructations and passages of flatus, with slight pain in the abdomen. Eructations, with some desire to vomit (some time after 10 drops). Severe eructations, accompanied by pain in the left side of the abdomen, near the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium (after supper, 11th day). Empty eructations (after a quarter of an hour).
Sour eructations. Regurgitation of food by eructations (after 5 hours). Hiccough. Frequent hiccough (30 minutes after 30 drops). Frequently a single hiccough (after one hour). Heart burn. Sensation of heartburn in the stomach. Nausea and Vomiting. Qualmishness and faint like nausea. The qualmishness (faint like nausea) in the pit of the stomach disappears on eating. Nausea. Nausea in the morning. Nausea after eating. Nausea after breakfast, lasting the whole morning. Nausea after the morning coffee, with attacks of suffocation. Nausea, with collection of saliva in the mount.
Slight nausea, with some tension in the stomach (45 minutes after 40 drops). Slight attack of nausea, with tensive pain in the stomach (soon). Inclination to vomit. Inclination to vomit, as if one would faint. Almost constant desire to vomit. Irritation to vomit at 8 A.M. Vomiting. (Vomiting, without previous eructations). Vomiting of food, at first caused by fullness of the abdomen, but afterwards by intolerable nausea. Sour vomiting (sour smell from the mouth). Bilious vomiting (children, from flowers. Stomach. Pain in the stomach (4th and 39th days). Some pain in the stomach. Some pain in the pit of the stomach, on pressure (2nd morning after 5 drops).
Transient pain in the stomach (soon after 5 drops). Severe pain on the right side near the pit of the stomach (6th day). Sensation of warmth and fullness in the epigastrium (after 5 drops). Heat in the stomach and slight burning of it (45 minutes after 10 drops). Fullness while eating, with nausea after eating. Fullness, heaviness, and uncomfortable tension in the stomach, extending up into the pharynx, with a sensation of heartburn (3rd day after 5 drops). An unpleasant sensation of fullness in the stomach, with pressure and tension in it (3rd day after 5 drops). Repletion of the stomach after eating, lasting until the next day; nausea. Tension in the stomach (11 hours after 60 drops). Tension in the stomach and oesophagus, with attacks of great nausea (soon after taking). Tension and heaviness in the stomach, with slight attacks of nausea (3rd hour after 5 drops). Tension and pressure in the stomach, with nausea (2nd day). Tension in the stomach and slight sensation of nausea. Spasmodic tension in the stomach, and above the navel generally. Spasmodic tension in the stomach and intestines about the navel. Spasmodic tension in the stomach, with some nausea (soon after 60 drops). Spasmodic tension in the stomach, with sensation of slight nausea. Unpleasant sensation of tension in the stomach and umbilical region, lasting for several hours (4th day). Spasmodic sensation of tension in the stomach, extending along the oesophagus to the throat, and accompanied by excessive apprehension and nausea, with inclination to vomit from the much-increased secretion of sweetish saliva. Drawing and pressive pain in the stomach and sensation of heaviness in it, as if the stomach were distended by a hard body, which, however, soon disappeared (2nd day).
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.