Heartburn at night. Heartburn, for two hours after eating.
Heartburn, while walking after smoking. Heartburn, with eructations of almost corrosive fluid. Severe heartburn, and pressure in the stomach, after wine.
Nausea.
Nausea. Nausea in the stomach. Nausea, with eructations of air.
Nausea, with inclination to vomit, in the morning (tenth day).
Nausea, with cramp in the stomach, and sensation of hunger.
Nausea, especially after a violent paroxysm of coughing, which brings water to the eyes. Constant rising towards the stomach, causing nausea (fourth day). Some nausea (after 20 drops). Slight nausea in the morning, after taking. Sensation of general nausea, in the morning on waking (second day). The thought of drinking causes nausea and tendency to vomit. Inclination to vomit.
Inclination vomit, caused by slight griping sensation in the throat. Slight inclination to vomit, relieved by some weak wine.
Retching. Frequent retching.
Excessive retching with great nausea and accumulation of saliva, in the morning on waking (fifth day).
Stomach.
Distension of the stomach. Distension in the stomach, immediately after rising, with retching rising up to the throat.
Flatulent distension of the stomach, after eating. Emptiness of the stomach. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach. The sensation of crumbs in the throat seemed to frequently descend toward the stomach, and then to rise again, lasting the whole day. Sensation as though a stone of the size of the fist were lying in the stomach. Heaviness and pressure in the stomach. Pain in the stomach. Pain in the stomach, with a sensation as if a great ball were lying in it. Several attacks of pain in the stomach, with commencing nausea and almost vomiting. Indefinite slight pain in the pit of the stomach and left hypochondrium. Burning and pressure in the stomach. Stomachache and flatulence (fifth day).
Fullness and sensation of pressure in the stomach, with pressing upward, and choking as far up as the fauces.
Sensation as though the stomach were too full, though he had eaten nothing, and as though it would be relieved by vomiting.
Sensation as though the stomach were swollen, after eating less than usual (first day). Transient pain in the stomach, like a commencing cramp.
Cramp like aching in the stomach (first day). Griping and sticking in the stomach (first day). Slight griping, beginning in the stomach and extending to the cecal region, at times intermitting (fifth day).
Oppressive gnawing sensation in the stomach, soon after taking a drink. Pressure in the stomach (first day). Pressure in the stomach, as from indigestion, the whole day. Pressure in the stomach after a light dinner, as if it were overloaded with food; with a sensation as if this pressure extended upward to the fauces, lasting during the rest of the day until going to sleep.
Pressure in the stomach as after drinking mineral water; for several moments I thought I would vomit, then the stomach became glowing hot, which was frequently repeated for several hours, followed by a sensation as though I had drank too much water, which lasted the whole forenoon (first day). Pinching pressure in the stomach. Pressive painful sensation in the epigastric region.
Sticking pain in the pit of the stomach, on every inspiration, which however, completely disappeared on expiration.
Violent sticking pain in stomach, on lying down in the afternoon, so severe that it brought tears, at last was obliged to sit, and remained sitting until overpowered by sleep (second day). Two dull stitches in quick succession, first in the fundus of the stomach, then in the cecal region (first day). Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to pressure (fourth day). Sensitiveness of the epigastric region, especially the pit of the stomach, to pressure. Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach and the whole abdomen to pressure (eighth day). Great sensitiveness to pressure in the pit of the stomach, afterwards extending over the whole abdomen. Epigastric region painful to touch.
Abdomen.
Hypochondria.
Burrowing, tensive, dragging, and drawing pain in the hypochondriac, pubic and inguinal regions. Pains in the left hypochondrium, as from incarcerated flatulence; the pains extended to the left side of the back and lumbar vertebrae (sixth day).
Burning drawing in the left hypochondrium, waking him a night, relieved by application of the warm hand, so that he fell asleep (third day). Dragging in the hypochondriac and pubic regions, with discharge from the vagina. Slight transient stitches in the left hypochondrium, extending up into the thorax of that side, in the forenoon, while walking (second day). Burning drawing in the region of the spleen, and extending up into the left side of the chest, with frequent, constant, violent stitches (third day).
Dull stitches in the spleen, which gradually change to a sensation of fullness in the left hypochondrium (second day).
Transient severe stitches at times in the region of the spleen (sixth day).
Umbilical and Flanks.
Transient griping in the umbilical region.
Cutting pain in the umbilicus, on account of which she dreaded every motion, because the pain was aggravated thereby (after 3D trit. fifth day). Pain about the navel, at times extending towards the ilium and its vicinity. Digging pain about the navel.
Pain in the navel, and deep in the cecal region. Sticking pain in the right flank, extending from the border of the false ribs to the right side of the back, aggravated by pressure with the hand, relieved by passage of flatus.
General Abdomen.
Distension of the abdomen, with sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to touch (first day). Flatulent distension of the abdomen. Noises and movements of flatus in the bowels, relieved by short passages of flatus (first day). Rumbling in bowels.
Rumbling in the intestines. Rumbling in the abdomen, with pain in the loins and small of the back (fourth day). Continual rumbling in the abdomen, beneath the right short ribs. Constant rumbling and gurgling of the bowels (fourth day).
Painless rumbling in the intestines after eating. Painless, long continued, annoying rumbling and gurgling in the intestines.
Audible rumbling in the intestines, constantly troublesome, so that I was obliged to forego my midday nap; while walking up and down the room these borborygmi were relieved by short and slight passages of flatus (second day). Flatulence, while eating (first day). Much flatulence. Profuse passage of flatus. Passage of odorless flatus. Pain in the abdomen followed by pasty stool, accompanied by chilliness. Fullness of the abdomen, as if he had eaten too much (fifth day). Griping in the abdomen, above the pelvic region, as from incarcerated flatus, relieved by passage of flatus. Griping in the abdomen and pasty evacuation. Griping in the abdomen, followed by diarrhoea, on waking in the morning (second day). Slight griping in the intestines after eating.
Slight griping in the bowels, with frequent ineffectual urging to stool (second day). Slight griping in the abdomen, followed by liquid stool, after dinner. Severe griping in the bowels on waking, relieved after stool (third day). Violent griping in the abdomen, in the morning, followed by some liquid stools, repeated three times during the day. Violent griping in the abdomen, with headache. Twisting pain deep in the abdomen, on the left side of the vertebral column, whether in the kidneys or uterus (?), (sixth day). Cutting pains in the abdomen. Pains in the abdomen, extending towards the hypochondriac region (apparently to the bladder); not a sensation as though menstruation would occur, but sticking pains, here and there (fifth day).
Hypogastrium.
Audible moving in the lower abdomen towards the genitals; followed by fine sticking as with needles, from the bladder along the whole urethra to the glans penis, while sitting, frequently recurring during three minutes. Sensation of fullness in the abdomen, mostly in the hypogastric region (fourth day). Sticking drawing and dragging pains in the inguinal, hypochondriac, and public regions.
Dragging downward, as during the first day of menstruation, with frequent urinating (ninth day). Cutting in the lower abdomen, with passage of much odorless flatus. Stitches in the left groin (second day).
Rectum and Anus.
Rectum.
Burning pain in the rectum, following the stool (first day).
Sticking in the rectum. Sticking pains in the rectum with every stool, for several days, much worse on the ninth day, with great exertion to stool, when it lasted several hours, always aggravated on walking (ninth day). Violent jerking and boring stitches in the rectum, constantly jumping to the neck of the bladder and along the ureters to the kidneys, and at last disappearing (fifth day).
Anus.
Much secretion of moisture in the fissure between the nates and anus. Slight burning in the anus. Severe twinges in the anus, after moderate exercise. Slight crawling in the anus. Rather severe itching in the anus.
Urging.
Urging to stool, followed by hard faeces. Urging to stool, frequently ineffectual. Frequent urging to stool, without result (fourth day). Frequent ineffectual urging to stool, followed by three evacuations, relieving the pains in the lumbar and sacral regions (ninth 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.