Internal.
Something comes before the ears on blowing the nose; they feel stopped. Sudden sharp pressure in the ears, almost like twinges.
Drawings within the left ear. Sticking in both ears.
Pinching sticking in the ear, while drinking. Sharp pain shoots out at the ear, especially violent while swallowing (after three quarters of an hour). Pain in the ears, as if the inner ear would be torn asunder.
Throbbing of blood in the ears.
Hearing.
Painful sensitiveness of hearing, so that noise frightens one.
Intolerance of noise, with longing for quiet and rest (first days). Noises in the right ear, as from a waterfall (after fourteen hours). Bubbling and humming in both ears. Bubbling and humming in the right ear. Ringing in the right ear, with dull hearing, three times in succession. Loud ringing in the ear.
Roaring in the right ear. Roaring in the left ear, with difficult hearing, worse while eating. Roaring in the ears, like a storm of wind, more after eating dinner, lasting until going to sleep; and on exerting the head while sitting, but mostly lying in bed; even at night on waking.
Noises in the ears as if blood were rushing through the brain. A crash heard within right ear at 10 p. m. after sunset (third day). (* The only symptom of the proving. *).
Nose.
Objective.
Frequent sneezing. Frequent sneezing without coryza.
He blows watery fluid from his nose. Clear water drops from the nose.
Profuse discharge of nasal mucus for several days, as in catarrh.
Nosebleed at night; and then in the morning, on rising, vertigo.
Profuse bleeding of the nose, without heat. Epistaxis.
Epistaxis, when sneezing. Frequent epistaxis.
Subjective.
Burning in the nostrils. Stitches beneath the skin, on the septum of the nose. Tearing in the nasal bones. Stinging soreness and itching at tip and inside of the nose. Sticking sore pain in the septum of the nose on pressing upon it, as if a pimple were there. Stitch like itching irritation in the right side of the nose, as from a foreign substance. Twitching in the nose.
Momentary twitching at the root of the nose. Itching crawling in the nose. Itching in the nose. Frequent itching in the nose (second day).
Smell.
Excessively fine sense of smell. A kind of animal smell in the back of the nose, which he seems also to taste.
Face.
Objective.
Expression of countenance calm but like a figure of wax.
Face very red and flushed, looking like erysipelas. Blueness of the face. (Face blue, swollen). (* See not to S. 488.– HUGHES.
*). Face bluish, turgid with blood.
Face livid. Color of the face sickly and pale (seventh day).
Great paleness of the face, in the morning. Face pallid.
(Swelling of the face). (* In a man convalescing from suppurative pneumonia, and treated by Conium for splenic cancer, with S. 537, 754, 771, 1024, shortly before death.–HUGHES. *) The facial muscles seemed to me somewhat contracted, slight risus sardonicus. Frequent convulsions of the muscles of the face, so that the face remained with a frightful expression, together with frequent contractions of other muscles, especially of the extensors of the back and flexors of the extremities, with peculiar motions of the thumb and index finger, as if they were unwinding a skein of thread.
Subjective.
Pain in the face at night. Pain extending from the head to the jaws and thence to the left side of the chest, with some sticking.
Cheek.
Swelling on the malar bone and upper gum, with tensive pain (third day). Visible twitching of the muscles of the left cheek.
Feeling as if a cobweb were on the right cheek. Burning and biting on the inner surface of the left cheek. Drawing on the right zygoma. Drawing and tearing on the zygoma. Tearing sticking pain in the face, just in front of the ear, in the evening.
Violent stitches through the right side of the face about the malar bone (after two hours). Fine stitches through the right cheek, extending to the corner of the mouth.
Lip.
Lips slightly cyanotic. (Trembling of the lower lip). ( * See note to S. 488.– HUGHES. *).Burning and redness on the upper lip, first on the left and after a few hours on the right side.
Burning on the inner surface of the lower lip.
Much burning of the lips and tongue. Stitches in the tips and tongue.
China
Drawing through the chin towards the ear and to the head, though not painful, soon after drinking. Fine stitches on the chin, extending upward through the jaw. Trismus. It seemed as though she could not open the jaws; she became very anxious on account of this condition, so much like lockjaw; the next day a constant aching soreness in the jaws. Feeling of stiffness in the right masseter muscles. Pressure in the masseter muscles.
Mouth.
Teeth.
Looseness of the back teeth as if they would fall out.
Bleeding of the gum of the back teeth. Pain in the teeth as from looseness while chewing. (Gnashing of the teeth). ( * See note to S. 32.– HUGHES. *). Drawing boring in the left back teeth. Drawings in the hollow teeth on eating, not on drinking cold things, extending through the temples (after three hours).
Drawing pain from the lower right teeth into the malar bone.
Violent drawing toothache; the teeth feel loose; the toothache is so severe she feels she must have the tooth out. Boring needle like stitches between the left teeth on moving the lower jaw.
Pressive toothache. Sensation in the lower incisors as if they were pushed up. Toothache (tearing), extending to one eye and cheek bone, only on eating. Jerking and gnawing in the teeth.
Gums.
Gum swollen, bluish red, as if injected with blood. Slight bleeding of the gum. Painful burning of the gum.
Tongue.
Tongue red, mottled. Felt as if her tongue stuck to the roof of the mouth, and she could not move it. Tongue covered over its upper surface, as well as over a large portion of lower surface, with dirty mucus, and dry. Tongue stiff, swollen, painful. ( * When touching the tongue with the juice of the root.–HUGHES. *).
Pain in the tongue.
Dry tongue. Dry, reddish tongue. Burning on the tongue and in the hands. Burning as from pepper on the tip of the tongue. Boring pain in the tongue at night (second night).
Sticking and burning in the left side of the tip of the tongue.
Sticking and biting on the tip of the tongue. Stitches on the tip of the tongue.
General Mouth.
Dryness of the mouth. Dryness in the mouth and on the lips.
Dryness of the mouth, with sour sensation in it. Dryness of the mouth alternating with accumulation of much watery saliva; with the latter there was a sensation of dryness in the fauces, frequently repeated.
Saliva.
Accumulation of saliva. (Accumulation of saliva). (* In cases of cancrum oris.–HUGHES. *) Profuse salivation. The whole mouth becomes full of sour water after eating.
Taste.
Bad taste in the mouth while eating and on swallowing. Strong saline taste on the tongue, particularly in hawking up mucus, less so in the saliva (from 100 drops); this continued several days, but was almost gone on taking the pen ultimate dose of 160 drops; noticed occasionally for a fortnight after the last dose.
Sourish taste in the mouth. Bitter sour taste after breakfast.
The mouth is quite acid after eating. Bitterness in the mouth and throat. Bitterness in throat. Bitter taste at times in the throat, without cause. Metallic taste on the tip of the tongue.
Coppery taste in the mouth, with a sensation on the tip of the tongue as through it had just been touched with copper. Taste of coryza from the posterior nares to the mouth. Peculiar taste of the food.
Speech.
Difficult speech. Speech difficult (one hour and a half); unable to articulate (two hours). Speech thickening (half an hour). When attempting to speak, was unable to articulate. On attempting to call some one she was unable to articulate a loud word; it seemed as though the tongue were glued to the palate.
Loss of speech. ( * In Storck’s case as with S. 373.–HUGHES. *).
Throat.
Objective.
Spasm of the throat. Frequent hawking of mucus.
Subjective.
Constant desire to hawk. Strange rising in the throat, with a sense of stuffing, as if something was lodged there. Dryness of throat and constriction. Sensation as of a large body in the throat. Constriction of the throat. Feeling as if something were coming up in the throat to choke her. As often as she bows the head the throat becomes constricted and she chokes, a sensation as though the neck band were too tight, so that she is obliged to grasp her throat, with blackness before the eyes and dark redness of the face. Fullness in the throat (one hour and a half); almost to suffocation (two hours). Drawings in the muscles of the throat and chest. Sticking in the throat, especially on empty swallowing, soon after taking, lasting an hour. Sore throat; a sore pain on swallowing. Scraping in the throat. Scraping in the throat with cough at night. Much tickling in the throat, with provocation to dry cough while sitting. Itching in the throat, with irritation to a hacking cough.
Tonsils.
During the dose, from 55 to 85 drops, there was shooting drawing pain in the tonsils, without any abnormal appearance about them and burning in the gullet. These symptoms continued in greater intensity from 100 to 200 drops. This was felt a fortnight after the last dose.
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.