Bitter taste on waking in morning, lasting only a short time; afterwards an unusual flow of water from nose. Bitter taste in mouth, for a minute or so, about 7.15 A.M. (tenth day). Bitter taste on right half of tongue, for about a minute, at 12.45 P.M.
(second day). Bitter taste on right side of tongue, at 6.40 P.M.
(fifteenth day). Insipid, grapy taste of the infusion. Water tastes burnt (twelfth day). Butter tastes like herring (ninth day).
Throat.
Sensation of dryness in the throat (after two hours).
Soreness at back of throat on rising (thirteenth, nineteenth and, forty-first days). Scraping in the throat, with swollen uvula; this caused frequent hawking and expectoration of mucus (second day).
Tickling at back of throat, on rising (forty-third day). Hawking up of small, transparent lumps of mucus, chiefly in morning (third day), third proving.
Tonsils and Uvula.
The uvula became long and red (from chewing the leaves).
Pain on swallowing, as from soreness and swelling, in a small spot on the right side of the uvula (seventh day).
Sensation of dryness in the throat; an unpleasant sensation on swallowing, as if swollen (second morning).
Fauces and Pharynx.
By a slight cough, loosened and swallowed some mucus from back of pharynx, 8.20 P.M. (ninety-first day). 3 o’clock A.M., dreamed he was trying to remove mucus from pharynx by hawking; on waking, in midst of dream, found himself doing so; could not succeed by coughing or hawking; voice hoarse; cold water did not affect the throat in any way (ninety-sixth day). Great dryness of fauces.
Feeling as if some mucus were at back of pharynx, not removed by coughing or hawking, 11 P.M. (eighty-ninth day); still there, 8.27 (ninety-first day); gone, 8 (ninety-second day). At back of pharynx soreness and feeling of obstruction, not removed by coughing or hawking, with hoarseness, early morning (eighty-ninth day); after rising (eighty-ninth and ninetieth days), a slight cough loosened mucus; brought up a piece of green mucus (ninety- first day). Tickling or kind of soreness when talking (the same, one hundredth day); slight cough loosening mucus (ninety-first day); after rising (ninety-second day), not removed by coughing or hawking up, which however loosened; the cough caused soreness.
Tickling at left side of pharynx when talking, 8.45 A.M. (one hundred and thirty-sixth day). When talking, tickling at back of pharynx towards left side (ninetieth day).
Swallowing.
Difficulty in swallowing; the uvula is swollen, without special redness (second day).
Pain on swallowing, with great swelling of the uvula, on waking in the morning (third day).
Stomach.
Appetite.
Appetite increased for last few days (one hundred and thirty- second and one hundred and thirty-fifth days). Great appetite (after three hours). Sudden voracious appetite, especially for animal food, contrary to usual habit. Great hunger; dinner was eaten with appetite, even at 11 A.M., though less was eaten than on the preceding day, when he had no special hunger (sixth day).
Morbid hunger, even to swallowing animal excrements; chronic symptom of chewers. Longing for food although the abdomen was somewhat distended in the epigastric region, as from an overloaded stomach (second day). Indians, after chewing all day, not eating any food, ate at night like hungry men, and sometimes at a single meal swallowed as much as would serve others two days. Appetite diminished; could not take his usual moderate quantum of food. Slightly diminished appetite Great diminution of the usually vigorous appetite; chewing the leaves suspended the sensation of hunger; though eating one-half less than usual, his weight did not diminish, nor the capacity to endure labor. Little appetite (fourth day). Very little appetite the first week, especially for meat, of which I was usually most fond (fifth day). Loss of appetite. Loss of appetite, with speedy satiety (twenty-first day). Want of appetite; weak digestion, and nervous irritation, with headache. Drinking the decoction at 3 or 4 o’clock P.M. it has invariably and totally deprived him of all appetite for dinner, and of his rest at night; under these circumstances he always passed the night in reading or writing; he felt no fatigue or hunger on the following morning. Retards approach of hunger (taken as tea). Enables the body to feed upon itself, without the hunger-pains and weakness usually accompanying prolonged abstinence from ordinary food. Very little need for nourishment, even during heavy work, with remarkable vigor. Did without food for full forty hours, and the next food taken was then exceedingly well digested.
Indisposed for food; ate very little dinner, and no tea or supper. No relish for food (first day). No desire for dinner, in spite of which much was eaten with relish (second day). Great satiety, without longing for nourishment, for a long time.
Appetite extremely irregular, for the aversion to all food is often suddenly followed by an insatiable craving, especially for animal food. Appetite extremely irregular; aversion to all food is soon followed by the most ravenous hunger, especially for animal food. Sometimes aversion to all food, with sudden voracious appetite, especially for animal food.
Thirst.
Thirst; drank about half a tumbler of cold water between 8 and 9 P.M. (third and tenth days). Great thirst (seventh day).
Eructation and Hiccough.
Eructations, with heaviness in the stomach and constant desire to eructate, lasting three hours (thirteenth day). Eructations several times after his usual coffee (after one hour and a half).
Loud eructations, without taste or unpleasant sensation in the stomach (after 10 drops). Many eructations (second day). Many eructations of air, without taste, recurring every quarter of an hour (after one hour). Slight eructations after dinner (second day). Slimy eructations. Repeated painless hiccough, following a tepid shower bath taken after supper, hiccough going off soon after lying down in bed (first day), again when eating sandwiches about 12 M. (sixteenth day).
Nausea and Vomiting.
Slight nausea. Great nausea after breakfast (after four hours).
Slight sick feeling before supper, removed by it; had little appetite (eighty-fifth day). Violent vomiting, very slimy water, without bitter or sour taste, at 6 P.M. (first day).
Distension of the stomach and continued gulping and desire to eructate, returning after dinner and lasting till evening (thirteenth day). Increase of digestive powers. Digestion goes on with great activity. Digestion became extraordinarily good and continued so.
Debility of digestive organs at first seems to be slight uneasiness, soon reaches a frightful intensity. Dyspepsia (nineteenth day).
Dyspepsia, with tasteless eructations, nausea, and great weariness (eighteenth day). Satisfied, comfortable feeling in stomach, as after a meal taken with a good appetite. After breakfast, emptiness; again after a long walk (one hundred and sixth day). Feeling of emptiness of stomach, as if from want of food; about 8 A.M., before breakfast, removed (sixth day); again (seventy-seventh day), 6 A.M. (in bad), fell asleep; on waking at 7, it was gone; again, 10 P.M., after having a good meal a short time before; removed by some strawberries, soon returning; when reading intently did not notice it, but at 11 P.M., on leaving off reading, I felt it again; (on the one hundred and sixteenth day), after rising, removed by breakfast, for which he had not much appetite; (one hundred and seventeenth day), 7.30 A.M., after rising, removed by breakfast; in morning before rising (one hundred and nineteenth day); soon after rising, going off before breakfast (one hundred and nineteenth and one hundred and twenty- second days); (one hundred and thirty-first day) about 8.30 A.M.
renewed by breakfast. Peculiar sensation of emptiness in the stomach and abdomen (four hours). Painful contracted sensation in the stomach, with a pain in the left side, something like a so- called stitch in the spleen (after fourth hour). An intense gnawing, hungry sensation at the pit of the stomach. Sensation of fullness in the epigastric and mesogastric regions (after two hours and a half). A sensation of gastric fullness and repletion, as after a very full meal, continuing several hours, followed by a total disinclination to eat or sleep, for a period of twelve or twenty-four hours, depending upon the quantity of the leaves taken. When walking, a pain about region of cardiac end of stomach, gradually increasing; would have amounted to a cutting pain; after standing, 4 P.M., it went off, returning during a walk, soon (first day). Pricking pain in a spot about the cardiac end of stomach, when sitting indoors, 7 P.M.
Abdomen.
Hypochondria.
Bilious affections appear, with their numerous tormenting sufferings, common under a tropical sky; obstinate constipation, jaundice, headache, debility, emaciation Intense pain in region of liver; biliary affection; gallstones frequent and severe.
General Abdomen.
Abdomen distended, tense, tympanitic. Abdomen very much distended (eleventh day). Abdomen very much distended, in the evening (third day). Rumbling in the abdomen, with passage of flatus after five minutes, and continuing more or less throughout the day (second day). Repeated rumbling in the abdomen, as from flatulence, with eructations without taste or odor (two hours and a half). Gurgling in the ileum, extending after ten minutes to the ascending and descending colon (after twenty minutes).
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.