Common names: Stinkender gausefuss, L’anserine fetide. Synonym, Chenopodium olidum, Curt.
Introduction.
Chenopodium vulvaria, Linn.
Natural order: Chenopodiacae The plant has an order of decaying fish, and contains a large amount of Trimethylamine (Propylamine) Preparation: Tincture of the entire plant.
General symptoms.
Increased action of bowels not amounting to actual diarrhoea, sometimes attended with griping. Often constipation, the bowels not acting for three or four days and then with difficulty; the constipation was accompanied with external piles. After some time, a feeling in lower lobe of right lung, as if some fluid wanted to discharge itself into the region of the duodenum; recurring frequently for several days.
Increased secretion of urine of offensive odor. Increased sexual desire for ten to fourteen days, followed by considerable loss of sexual desire and erectile power, though the secreting power of the testicles was not diminished, but, if anything increased. This disappeared in about three months. Late in the proving, a painful feeling of weariness and weakness in the lumbar and lower dorsal region.
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.