Introduction
Datura arborea, Linn. Natural order: Solanaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the flowers (?).
General symptoms
A very strange effect upon the cerebrum, as if my forehead was expanded and my ideas were floating outside of the brain (from the perfume). A very strange feeling of pleasant and easy comfort, and as if I scarcely touched the earth with my feet, and had to gather my ideas from afar, as it they were floating in the clouds (from the perfume). Slight vertigo (from the perfume). Found myself involved in a most beautiful atmosphere, bright and calm as the sunlight at noon (from the perfume). I felt a sensible confusion of ideas across the cerebrum, with drawing nervous irritation back to the cerebellum, and a spinal irritation or depletion of nervous circulation in the medulla oblongata, during the process of handling and cutting them. Buchner’s Toxicologie, 1827, states that the odor of the flowers readily causes spasms. In Froriep’s Notiz, iii, it is said that the juice, put into the eye, causes amaurosis.
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.