Common names: Penny wort, Navel wort or Kidney wort; Le nombril de Venus.
Introduction
Cotyledon umbilicus, L. (Umbilicus pendulinus, D. C., Pl. Grass, tab. 156).
Natural order: Crassulaceae.
Preparation: Tincture of the plant.
Mind.
Emotional.
After a light sleep, awoke in the middle of the night in a wild, half-unconscious state, with a disagreeable sensation running down the back of the thigh and leg, with a feeling as if there was no foot. The head felt exceedingly light, as if there were no solid head, and she could not articulate for some time, although she endeavored to do so. This left a severe pressing headache on the vertex, passing forward over the eyes, with pulsating pain in the temples, removed by a cup of tea (seventh day). Awoke early in the morning, in a state in which she felt as if she were going out of her mind. It was not disagreeable, as she felt as in an elevated careless state. This lasted about five minutes and was followed by tickling, as of blood, down the left arm, from the shoulder to the finger-points (fourth day). Great liveliness, inclination to sing and be happy.
Strong desire for company and excitement. Extraordinarily good spirits and energy (sixteenth day). Spirits extremely low (third day). Anxiety with pain in the abdomen and flatulent distension (eighteenth day).
Intellectual.
Apprehension very obtuse (disappearing almost immediately on taking 5 drops of mother tincture), (seventh day).
Great difficulty in collecting her ideas. He cannot think (tenth day). Feels silly and lost (tenth day). Absence of mind (ninth day).
Feels lost before the headache comes on. After taking the medicine, she feels lost; cannot collect herself; forgets what she is doing and saying; difficulty in expressing herself (sixth day). Head clear on getting up, but towards midday it became very obtuse, so that I had to make an effort to collect myself (ninth day). She has to make an effort to discover where she is and to whom she is talking. Forgets the subject of discourse.
Head.
Vertigo.
Occasional dizziness in the forehead (third day).
General Head.
Head feels dull (fourth day). Heaviness of the head, with dulness of the eyes, inducing closing of them (disappearing after 15 drops of the tincture), (second day). Headache occurs every ten minutes. General headache (seventh day). General headache in the morning on getting up (fifth day). Slight general headache with confusion (after 10 drops of the mother tincture). Dull headache in front and to the right side; worse on shaking the head (after two hours) (first day). A weight on the brain (disappearing almost immediately on taking 5 drops of the mother tincture) (seventh day). During the headache, great inclination to go out into the open air, with relief by going out.
Forehead.
Dull, heavy, stupefying pain in the forehead and vertex, shifting suddenly between these. Slight aching in the forehead (fifth day). Sharp headache over the left eye (nineteenth day).
Occasional beating headache over the left eye (eighth day).
Temples.
Darting through the temples (twenty-third day). Darting pain through each temple; the darts meet in the center of the head; worst on stooping (twenty-first day). Painless beating occasionally, lasting about a minute, in the left temple (first day).
Parietals.
Pain in the right side of the head (sixteenth day).
Pain in the left side of the head (third day). Awoke with headache in the right half of the brain in the morning (third day). Dull pain in the right parietal region, which lasted half an hour (after a few minutes), (first, second and third days).
Darting in the side of the head, aggravated by stooping (fourth day). Shooting pain from behind forward, in both sides of the head, in the open air (sixteenth day). Stinging through the right half of the head, from before backward (twelfth day).
Occiput.
Aching pain in the occiput (seventeenth day).
External Head.
Scalp was slightly tender over the right parietal region, and remained so an hour or two after the pain had disappeared (second and third days).
Eye.
Fullness and itching in the eyes (third day). Sudden, extremely acute smarting in the right eye while reading, soon gone, but leaving a smarting in the external canthus, some redness of the conjunctiva (after four hours). In half an hour the same sensation in the left eye followed by aching in the right occiput. Itching in the eyes (second day).
Brow and Orbit.
Aching in the left infraorbital region (seventh day). Slow drawing over the left eye and in the left occiput (seventeenth day). Slight dartings over the left eye (seventh day).
Shooting pain over the left eye in the morning (third day).
Slight stinging pain over the left eye (fourth day).
Ball.
Stinging in the upper part of the right eyeball (seventh day).
Vision.
Dimness of sight; had to rub the eyes frequently (ninth day).
Dimness of sight and itching of the eyes, during the headache, with great coldness of the feet. A yellow patch follows the eye when he reads (tenth day); a red patch on the letter as he reads (fourteenth day).
Ear.
Right ear feels somewhat stuffed (sixth day). Eustachian tube of the left side felt as though it were stuffed with mucus; it was extremely painful and caused great deafness (first day); it was still clogged the next day and there was little deafness.
Hearing.
Stinging in the left ear (after half an hour, fifteenth day).
Disagreeable singing noise in the left ear (second day).
Face.
Flushing of the face, with confusion of the head (after half an hour, fifteenth day).
Mouth.
Running of clear water from the mouth (tenth day). Sour taste in the mouth (fifty day).
Throat.
Constant choking in the throat-pit and feeling as if he would burst into tears (twelfth to fourteenth days). Back part of the pharynx feels as if covered with thick mucus (fourth day).
Difficulty in swallowing, with sense of fullness in the right side of the pharynx (eleventh day).
Stomach.
Appetite.
Want of appetite (twenty-first day). No appetite till evening (twenty-second day).
Eructations.
After tea, slight regurgitation with dull pushing pain in the region of the spleen, recurring at intervals (after 50 drops), recurrence (after 20 drops), (fifteenth day).
Nausea.
Slight nausea with headache (second and third days).
Excessive nausea (fifth day). Sick and dizzy (eighth day).
Stomach.
Pain at the epigastrium through to the shoulders, with nausea (fourth day). Fullness and pricking at the cardiac extremity of the stomach, after a moderate dinner (first day). Pain in the epigastrium, as from excessive tightness (fifty day). On swallowing, the morsel seems to pass and press against some swelling in the cardiac region, in the evening (twentieth day), recurring during the proving. Uneasy pricking at the stomach (sixth day). Soreness of the epigastrium (after 10 drops of mother tincture). Soreness, tightness and distension in the epigastric region (fifth day). Beating at the epigastrium (eighth day). The symptoms in the epigastrium are not to be relied on, as the prover was subject to slight dyspepsia.
Abdomen.
Hypochondria.
Bloating fullness in the right hypochondrium (twenty-second day).
Dull pain in the left hypochondrium. A long stitch in the left hypochondrium on taking a deep breath (after 10 drops of mother tincture). Pricking and fullness in the right hypochondrium after dinner (eleventh day).
General Abdomen.
Abdomen distended (seventh day). Bowels much distended with flatulence; no relief can be obtained at stool (fifth day).
Flatulent distension of the abdomen (disappearing after 15 drops of the tincture), (second day). Borborygmus (after 10 drops of mother tincture). Flatus (eleventh day). Griping in the bowels, before falling asleep (fifteenth day). Bellyache all the evening, increased immediately after eating even a little bread (eleventh day). Twitching about the bowels, followed by a loose stool (after half an hour, first day).
Stool.
Diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea with sickness (ninth day). During the proving the bowels were occasionally loose, the stools large and without pain. Bowels more open than usual; stools large, fluid and bilious (twenty-second day). Bowels, which are generally confined, freely opened; stools large and fluid (third day); bowels opened twice (fourth day); stools large, liquid and bilious (sixth day); bowels opened three times (ninth day); stools loose, large and bilious (twenty-second day); bowels very loose (twenty-third day).
Constipation.
Bowels confined three days (secondary), (eighth day).
Urinary Organs.
Frequent calls to urinate, urine profuse and limpid (eighth day); frequent micturition, nine times more than natural (tenth day); urine profuse and limpid (twenty-second day). Increased quantity of clear urine (eleventh day). For a few days the urine continued to be increased in quantity and smelled strongly of sweet brier; there was a white sediment.
Respiratory Organs.
Bronchi.
Tightness and raw sensation about the bifurcation of the bronchi (two hours after 10 drops), (fourth day). Throbbing with pain and soreness at the root of the bronchi on coughing (eighth 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.