Common names: Joe Pye Weed, Trumpet Weed (Queen of the Meadow).
Introduction
Eupatorium purpureum, Linn. Natural order: Compositae. Preparation: Tincture of the root.
Mind
The mind is acted upon in a very singular manner, being encompassed by various delusions. Delusion of sight and bearing. Talkative, exclamations. Extremely depressed. Homesick, though occupying her own home and surrounded by her own family. Has a great fear of sickness.
Head
Vertigo. Dizziness of the head, with a sensation as if falling to the left side. Dizzy, with deep, dull, aching pain through the temporal region on the left side. Light and dizzy, as though flying round and round. Light, dizzy sensation, in which the whole body seems to participate. Lightness of head; worse in the morning, disappearing at 12 o’clock. Sensation as if her head was moving in all directions. General Head. Head feels as though she had a bad cold. Dull heavy pain in the head, most severe in the forehead. Vertex full, pressing as though lifting up from adjoining parts; confused, heavy. Occiput. Hard thumping pain in the left occipital bone. External Head. Soreness of the scalp. Tenderness of the scalp. Itching of the scalp.
Eye
Staring, looking with fixed eyes, wide open; eyes fastened with an earnest look upon some object. Weeping; copious flow of tears. Weeping, filling the lids with tears, causing constant wiping of the eyes. Cannot see as far as usual.
Ear
Ears feeling as though they were full, filled up. Reports in the ears. Squeaking sound in the ears. Crackling in the ears like the burning of birch bark, very much aggravated by swallowing anything.
Nose
Nose discharges abundant, thin, watery fluid. Constant discharge from a sore, from continued wiping of the nose.
Face
Shining appearance of the face, as when having used a large quantity of soap in washing. Rush of blood to the face. Congestion of the face. Burning heat of the face. Face burning, red, dry, hot to touch.
Mouth
Gums. Gums red and hot. Tongue. Numb feeling of the tongue, as if caused by Aconite. Pricking and stinging in the end of the tongue. Fine prickly sensation of the posterior part of the tongue. Saliva. Abundance of saliva in the mouth; increased action of all the glands in the mouth.
Throat
Sensation in the throat as if having swallowed tobacco. Burning smarting in the throat, as if it had been scalded by swallowing some hot substance. Disagreeable fullness in the throat; can hardly prevent crying. Choking fullness of the throat, compelling her to swallow every few minutes. Soreness of the throat. Smarting in the posterior part of the throat. Continued smarting and burning in the throat, most severe in the posterior part, during the entire proving. Roughness and dryness in the throat. Fluttering in the throat-pit.
Stomach
Eructations. Eructation was an almost constant symptom, particularly immediately after taking the medicine; most violent twenty minutes after 40 drops. Nausea. Great nausea. Sickness of the stomach, came near vomiting. Swelling and fullness of the stomach, mostly on the left side. Stomach. Great quantity of wind in the stomach. Crampy pain in stomach. Griping crampy pain in pit of stomach (after 40 drops). Gnawing at the stomach.
Abdomen
Bowels as hard as a rock. Rolling, rumbling in the bowels. Feeling as though the bowels must be moved immediately, without being able to do so. Pain and soreness of the whole abdomen, but much the worse on the left side. Pain and suffering, as if from diarrhoea, although the passages were not much altered. Fullness of the bowels. Fullness and pain in the bowels. Crampy, windy bowels. Rumbling, rolling, twisting pain in the bowels. Severe colic pain, occupying the whole extent of the abdomen. Deep dull pain in the ossa innominata.
Rectum
Heavy pressure all day on the rectum.
Urinary organs
Bladder and Kidneys. Deep dull pain in the left kidney. A dull deep pain in the kidneys, also another cutting pain, very severe, in the kidneys; the two pains seem to be separate and distinct, on from the other. Fullness of the bladder. Dull aching pain in the bladder. Hard aching pressure upon the bladder. Cutting pain, pressure, fullness, in the bladder. Smarting and burning very intense in the bladder and urethra, so much so that she could not stand. Feeling as though a continual voiding of urine all the time. Urethra. Feeling as though having retained the urine a long time. Dull heavy pain in the urethra. Smarting burning in the urethra on voiding urine. Most severe cutting pain in the urethra, which comes and goes in from five to ten minutes, lasting many hours. Smarting of the urethra upon voiding urine. Burning-smarting pain in the water passage. Desire to void urine; cannot get rid of the sensation (one hour after 10 drops); strong desire to pass water, having ten minutes previously evacuated the bladder; constant urging to urinate all day; has passed twice as much urine during the day as usual; having evacuated the bladder every half hour during the day still the bladder is full and tense; uncontrollable desire to void the urine (twenty minutes after 40 drops); obliged to evacuate the bladder four times within one hour, as much in quantity each time as when not under the influence of medicine; constant desire to pass water, accompanied by a cutting-aching pain in bladder; scalding upon passing urine, at 5 P.M.; voiding urine as often as once an hour during the day; the stream does not seem as large as usual; feeling as though having retained the urine a long time without voiding it. Symptoms of the urethra began the third day of the proving; after that time they were continuous. Urine. Evacuation of urine 14 ounces; specific gravity 1015, measured by the gravimeter; color not varying from that of healthy urine (after half an hour); 10 ounces, which had a more aromatic smell than the former passage (after one hour); 10 ounces, having a pale color, specific gravity same as in the previous examination; first observed a white, flaky, or flocculent substance, which I collected in a filter for examination; this proved to be mucus, the result, undoubtedly, of inflammation, caused by the action of the medicine upon the urinary organs (after two hours and fifty minutes); 12 ounces (after four hours); 7 ounces (after six hours); 5 ounces (after six hours and three-quarters); the characteristic constituents are not changed; we have an addition of mucus in amount, a considerable quantity, 1/2 ounce in all during the day, or up to 7 o’clock, the whole amount of urine voided during the first twelve hours of the proving being 58 ounces; it certainly has the appearance of diabetic urine; specific gravity during the day has been 1015; upon applying the test, to see if there was any sugar or not, not the smallest trace could be discovered; after the first twelve hours from the beginning of the proving there has been much less in quantity than at first, though the frequency in voiding it, and the urgency by which it is impelled, has increased in intensity (first day). Many of the symptoms of yesterday repeated; the desire to-day to void urine has been almost uninterrupted, nevertheless the quantity has been small; the prover has felt impelled to make frequent efforts to void urine without being able to void more than 1/2 ounce to 2 ounces at each evacuation; the effort to empty the bladder was made as often as once in an hour, and sometimes much oftener; the urine presents a higher color, and has a greater density, specific gravity averaging 1026, though it has during the day presented different densities; the characteristic constituents have not been changed, except by the addition of mucus, which has been increased (second day). Condition of urine today has been almost exactly represented in the record of the preceding day, its specific gravity averaging 1028; upon examination it was found to be neutral (third day). During the three days the frequent and tormenting desire to pass urine, with occasional spasmodic action of the bladder, could not long be borne.
Sexual organs
Heavy pressure during the day directly above the left ovary. Tense cutting pain two inches above the left ovary. Smart, quick jerking motion in the left ovary, also immediately above it (half an hour after 10 drops). The external generative organs feel as though wet; this symptom was constant all through the proving, though a delusion. Leucorrhoea quite abundant, which continued during the whole time that the proving lasted; simple, leaving no stain upon the linen.
Respiratory organs
Sighing every few minutes. Strong desire to inflate and lungs, which she continued to do from time to time, without noticing particularly that she was doing so.
Heart and Pulse
Fluttering of the heart and throat. Violent palpitation of the heart, immediately after each dose. Pulse ranged from 80 to 100; it was full and bounding.
Neck and Back
Stiff, wry neck. Lame feeling in the nape of the neck. Lame week feeling of the neck. Cutting pain in the neck, running from the left shoulder to the occiput. Sore pain directly without the spine, its whole extent, from below upwards. Dull aching pain in the sacrum, running upward into the kidneys.
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.