Stretching. Trembling. Jerkings. Cramp like jerking in various muscles. Cracking in the joints. Extreme lightness of all movements. as if he had no body (after 2 to 3 hours).
(* Alternate action, following the previous sensation of weakness caused by China.-H *) Inclination to lie down. After the last dose, an agreeable melange of inclination to rest and merriment. A version to physical or mental, exertion. (Sleepy indolence).
Indolence. A languid condition of mind and body, with unusual sensitiveness. Awoke in morning quite lively, yet feeling somewhat exhausted as after a night of walking (2nd day).
Weakness. Weakness; he could scarcely hold up the head and fell asleep. Weakness and relaxation of the whole body. Weakness, together with loss of the senses. Weakness and sleepiness after supper (after 12 hours). At one time weakness at another extreme sensation of vigor in the joints. (* An alternate action in a healthy person.-H. *) Chronic weakness. (* Not found-HUGHES. *) (Sinking of the strength) (Exhausted strength). (* Mentioned by the author only to reject it.-HUGHES. *) Exhaustion of the whole body, noticed even while sitting, but still more while walking. Faintness. Faintness, death. (* Also Sydenham (Opera Lips., 1696, p. 379) speaks of two men killed by Cinchona bark taken a few hours before the paroxysm of fever.-H *) Great faintness.
(* Occurred in a strong man who had taken a drachm of the best red bark at one dose; the attack of faintness was so violent that he did not come out of it until an emetic had been administered.- H. *) Restlessness. Sensations. Excessive tenderness and sensitiveness of the nervous system; the special senses, sight, smell, hearing, and taste, seem too acute; his internal sensibility is offended, and his mind is unpleasantly affected; previous pains seem subdued and violently suppressed, through with great heaviness of the whole body. Excessive sensitiveness of all the nerves, with a morbid sensation of general weakness. (* Compare with note to 1013. Here we see expressed the peculiar weakness which Cinchona causes in such an excessive degree and it is especially this kind that Cinchona can permanently remove, if the other morbid symptoms correspond to those caused by Cinchona. This particular kind of weakness is very similar to the exhaustion caused by the loss of fluids.-H.*) The sensibility of the whole nervous system is particularly weakness. The sensibility of the whole nervous system is particularly increased, tense, and excited. Cannot endure the customary tobacco smoke; it affected his nerves. Excessive, almost painful, sensitiveness of the skin of the whole body, even if the palms of the hands (after 20 hours). In the morning, after a night sweat the skin is not sensitive to the air, and is not liable to take cold; he is able to uncover himself without injury. Feeling of comfort in the evening. Weariness. Weariness and indolence after dinner. Weariness after eating, so that he desires to lie down and sleep. Sensation of weakness, especially on rising from sitting; is much inclined to sit down, and even sinks back upon a chair if he does not exert the muscles; where upon a comfortable sensation of rest follows (after 3 and 4 hours). He seems very weak and prostrated in the open air, and very faint about the stomach and chest, although he seems to have a superabundance of strength for walking. Sensation of heaviness of the body. If he remains erect for a few minutes, stiffness follows, he becomes pale and loses consciousness. All the joints feel stiff on rising from the midday nap. An internal sensation as of impending disease. He feels sick generally; is not at all well.
Complaints from a slight draft of air. Dread of the open air. Rheumatic pains. Pain in the joints while sitting and lying; the limb cannot endure lying quietly in one place, as after an excessive fatigue from a long journey, or from great exhaustion consequent upon excessive bleeding or a profuse loss of semen; one is obliged to move the limbs hither and thither, at one time bend them up, at another stretch them out. (* The weakness here noticed as if proceeding from great loss of the fluids is associated with 1, 987, 993, 994, 995, 1014, together with the mental symptoms (11,32, 40, 41, 47), also with the existence of disordered digestion, the disturbance after eating, the confusion of the head, and is exactly that weakness for which Cinchona is the only fit remedy, and it, almost without exception, affects persons who have lost an essential portion of their strength by haemorrhoids or frequent bloodletting, by constant loss of milk from the breast, by excessive nursing of children, by excessive coition, or onanism, or frequent in voluntary emissions, by profuse sweating during disease, by too powerful sudorifics, by diarrhoeas, or by frequently repeated cathartics. In the other forms of morbid exhaustion, when the disease itself does not find its remedy in this drug, Cinchona is always followed by the most pernicious results, frequently shortening the life of the patient; although, indeed, in these inappropriate cases an excitement of the vitality may be produced during the first few hours, but which is easily seen to be unnatural and forced, and which only tends to hasten death by the excessive excitement; and if in these cases its use be long continued, a cachexia difficult to cure may be brought about by the malpractice of the physician.-H. *) (Tensive pains). Affection of the bones, like a drawing. Tensive, extremely sensitive drawing pain in almost all the bones, now in one, now in another, which is for the moment relieved while lying, but soon returns more violent than ever (after 14 hours). Pain in all the joints, as from a heavy weight pressing upon, them, in the morning, in bed, disappearing on rising. Pain in all the joints, as from a heavy weight pressing upon them, while sitting; the longer he sits, the more tired he becomes.
Oppression of all parts of the body, as if the clothes were too tight (after walking in the open air). He is sore all over, in the joints, the bones, and the periosteum, as if they had been sprained, like a drawing tearing, especially in the spine, the sacrum, the knees, and thighs. Pain in all the joints, as if bruised, during the morning nap; the longer he lies, the more they pain; he is obliged to move the limbs frequently, because motion relieves the pain; when fully awake, the pains disappear. Bone pains in the joints of the ribs, in the limbs, in the shoulders, and in the shoulder blades, as if they were bruised, if he touches or moves them, even in the slightest degree. (* This is the alternate action of 299, 300, 302.-H. *).
Skin.
Objective.
(Yellow color of the skin). (Jaundice). A jumping in the skin of the abdomen in several places, as if a hair were pulled up.
Eruptions, Dry. In the morning, frightful swelling of face, forearms, and hands (urticaria); eight days after this had disappeared the dose was repeated, upon which the eruption returned with the same intensity; this time the nettle rash pimples were mingled with vesicles like varicella. Eruption in the concha. (Red rash like eruption on the forepart of the throat, without itching). Eruptions, Moist. Watery blisters behind the ears. Eruptions, Pustular. Boil upon the cheek. A boil in the pectoral muscles. (Eruption on the lips and tongue, ulcers, which itch and burn very much).
(* Said to be critical.-HUGHES. *) (Offensive matter is discharged from an ulcer, with burning and itching in it; he cannot let the foot hang down; the foot is painful when standing). Subjective. Fine sticking at various points in the skin. Itching of the skin; blood oozes on scratching, vesicles, as from burning nettles, appear.
Sensation at the elbow joint as if the skin were infiltrated with blood. Contractive pain on the left side of the occiput externally; it seems as though the skin were drawn to one point; not aggravated by touch. Boring pain in an ulcer. Digging pain in a sore. An ulcer becomes painfully sensitive, with boring pain in it. Painful sensitiveness of the skin of the thighs to the rubbing of the clothes, as though the skin were raw and covered with pimples (after eight days).
Throbbing pain in an ulcer on moving the part, but not during rest. (Sticking throbbing pain in an ulcer, even while at rest).
(Creeping in the skin of the forehead). Itching crawling in the scrotum, in the evening in bed, which caused rubbing.
Itching on the left lid. Itching on the arms, loins, and chest, especially in the evening; after scratching pimples appear. Violent itching on the right sole while walking and sitting, relieved for a while by scratching. Burning itching under the knees, on the inside of the arms, when warm and at night in bed, with eruption of small blisters which contain water, but which disappear in the cold air. Sticking itching on the scrotum. In a sore (an ulcer) sticking itching pain, lasting two hours (after a few hours). Biting itching, almost only on those parts upon which he does not lie, and which are turned upward (during the midday nap), (after 26 hours). Biting itching almost only in those parts upon which he lies in bed; scratching relieves only for a moment; but if he lies upon the other side, so that the itching side may be upward, then the itching soon disappears (after 8 and 9 hours). Crawling itching on the coccyx, which disappears for only a short time on rubbing (after 1 hour).
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.