Mouth
Teeth. It causes affections of the teeth. (* Add “from its acridity.”-HUGHES. *) (Looseness of the teeth). Cold sensation in the crown of an incisor (after fifty-six hours). Sticking toothache in the morning (after warm drinks). Tongue. A small, round, painless swelling in the middle of the tongue (after forty-eight hours). A whitish ulcer on the tip of the tongue. Sticking, biting pain in the right side and tip of the tongue. Fine picking stitches on the dorsum of the tongue (after twenty- five hours). Saliva. Profuse discharge of watery saliva (water brash). Taste. Bitter taste in the throat in the morning till dinner. Bread tastes bitter. Food has no taste.
Throat
Burning, raw sensation deep in the throat immediately after dinner (after twenty-nine hours). Rough, scraping, dry sensation in the soft palate and low down in the fauces, causing hacking cough. Crawling, biting sensation in the right side of the fauces when not swallowing (after thirty-five hours).
Stomach
Appetite. Ravenous hunger, without appetite, frequently during the day; when he thinks he has been satisfied it returns after one and a half or two hours. Thirst. Eructations and Hiccough. Bitter eructations from the stomach into the mouth. Butter and acid eructations from the stomach into the mouth. Frequent hiccough (after twenty-eight hours). Nausea and Vomiting. (Nausea on thinking of it). Nausea, with pressive stupefying headache, especially in the forehead (after four hours). Qualmish nausea after eating. When coughing he comes near vomiting. Vomiting at night. Vomiting before dinner. During the febrile chill, vomiting, at last of bile. On coughing be vomits water, mucus, and food. Vomiting, in the morning, mostly bile. Vomiting of blood. Stomach. Pinching tension in the pit of the stomach as if everything would the drawn inward, especially on deep inspiration (after ten hours). Fine, transient clawing together in the pit of the stomach (after four hours). Stitching and throbbing in the pit of the stomach.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Constrictive pain in both hypochondria, which impedes the coughing; he is unable to cough, on account of the pain, unless he presses the hand upon the pit of the stomach.
Pain in the hypochondria, on coughing, as if they would be forcibly constricted. Hypochondria are painful to touch and on coughing, and he is obliged to press upon them with the hand while coughing in order to mitigate the pain. General Abdomen. Tensive pain in the upper part of the abdomen before and after a stool, if he holds the breath; not felt during inspiration or expiration; very violent while sitting and stooping; stool softer than usual (after fifty hours). When he does not expectorate easily, the cough affects the abdomen like a constriction and an effort to vomit. Pinching and scraping in the abdomen, with diarrhoea. Twitching, cutting-pinching in the abdomen, as if caused by incarcerated flatus (after thirteen hours). Twisting pain in the abdomen. Boring stitches in the right side of the parietes of the abdomen (after thirteen hours). Dull drawing stitch extending transversely from the right side of the abdomen to the left, almost taking away the breath, while walking (fifth day). Cutting in the abdomen (after three hours). Cutting shoots in the muscles of the abdomen and chest worse while sitting than while moving (after eight hours). Sticking in the right side of the abdomen, while sitting. Colic, without subsequent stool (after five hours). Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. A sudden contraction of the lower abdomen as though he were about to vomit, causing cough, on expiration in the evening, while lying in bed. Dull stitches in the right groin (after fifty-one hour). Drawing stitch from the left loin into the penis (after six hours). Sticking-tearing from the spine to the anterior spine of the left ilium, while sitting (after eight hours).
Rectum
A pressing-out pain in the rectum when not as stool (after six hours).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Frequent stools, with colic. Stools become continually softer (after one hour). Stool, consisting of much pasty faeces (after fourteen hours). Thin stools during the first days, afterwards harder stools; after the discharge there remains an ineffectual urging. Passage of bloody mucus with the stools, followed by pains in the abdomen, and in the small of the back. Constipation. Stool consisting of scanty hard faeces, with pressing (after thirty-eight hours).
Urinary organs
Urethra. Frequent urging to urinate, with very scanty urine, often passing only by a few drops (after two hours). Micturition. Profuse secretion of urine. Frequent, copious micturition the whole day (after forty-eight hours). Urine. Urine watery, odorless, with white slimy offensive stools (after twenty-four hours).
Sexual organs
Itching, dull stitch in the glans penis, lasting several minutes (after thirty-three hours).
Respiratory organs
Larynx. Crawling in the larynx, which provokes hacking cough, with sensation as if a soft substance were in it, with fine stitches extending thence to the right side of the pharynx (after four days). A bruised feeling in the larynx while inhaling, lasting one and a half hours. Cough and Expectoration. Cough coming from very deep in the chest. Cough; the paroxysms follow each other so violently that he is scarcely able to get his breath. Cough, in the evening, immediately after lying down. Cough at night. He awakes at night about two o’clock, coughs for a short time and then falls asleep again. Cough in the morning, with expectoration. Rough scraping dry sensation deep in the fauces (and in the soft palate), causing a hacking cough, with a yellow mucous expectoration and hoarseness, so that he speaks only with exertion in a deep bass voice, together with oppression of the chest, as if the air was withheld on talking and coughing, so that the breath could not be expired, lasting several days. (* This condition must be very similar to some forms of the so- called laryngeal phthisis, for which Drosera is the only remedy (provided there is no specific basis, syphilis, psora, etc.).
This herb is said to cause very violent cough, even in sheep; (see Borrichius in Act Hafn., vol. 4 S. 162). Several older physicians have indeed cured some malignant coughs with this remedy, and found it curative power in these diseases; later modern physicians (for example, Murray, Apparat., Medorrhinum, Tom. III, p. 501), on account of their antipathic theories, advise against it, because of its alleged acridity.-HAHNEMANN. *) Cough, with bloody expectoration. The morning expectoration has a nauseous taste (not during the day). The morning expectoration tastes bitter. (Salty taste of the matter expectorated by coughing or hawking). Respiration. When coughing the breath from the lungs has a burnt odor. Deep respiration. Difficult respiration. Dyspnoea, especially on talking, even with every word, the throat becomes constricted; there is no dyspnoea while walking.
Chest
Pain across the lower portion of the chest and hypochondria. Burning sensation in the middle of the chest, without thirst (after four hours). Tensive pain in the pectoral muscles, continuing several hours, during inspiration and expiration (after eight hours). A constrictive feeling in both lungs, while inhaling, lasting one and a half hours. Severe aching pains in and below both clavicles, over a small space in both lungs, while inhaling; the infraclavicular pain afterwards extended round to the scapulae; lasting one and a half hours. Violent pain transversely across the chest, even when not coughing, while sitting; the pain is more pressive than sticking, and disappears on moving about; there is also a pressive pain when touched. Sticking in the chest while coughing. Stitches in the pectoral muscles, on coughing and breathing. Intolerable stitches while coughing or breathing deeply, in the upper part of the chest near the axilla, only somewhat relieved by pressing the hand upon the painful spot, with purulent expectoration, intimately mixed with blood and colored red; the spot was not painful to external touch; lasting form the morning through the day (after twenty- four hours). Dull stitches in the left intercostal muscles, so violent that they almost take away the breath, continuing during inspiration and expiration (third day). A hot dull stitch in the muscles of the right true ribs, continuing during inspiration and expiration. Crawling sensation in the left intercostal muscles, with pressing headache in both temples, especially in the right (after eight hours and a half).
Neck and Back
Neck. Nape of the neck is stiff and painful on motion. Back. Painful cramp in the muscles of the back and abdomen, on turning the head and body to look around, continuing a long time.
Drawing pain in the back and shoulders, during rest and motion (after six hours). Dull stitch in the muscles of the left side of the back (after twelve hours). Pain here and there in the back as if bruised. The back pains as if bruised (strained) in the morning (after twelve hours). Dorsal. Rheumatism felt between the scapulae, on moving, extending down to the small of the back. Lumbar. Grasping pinching in the left lumbar region, on walking rapidly; it impedes respiration, is relieved by pressure with the hand (after one hour). Sacral. Itching stitching in the coccyx, while sitting (after twenty-nine hours). Violent sharp stitch in the ischia, on rising form sitting (after fifty-five hours).
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.