Common name: Spurge.
Introduction
Euphorbia amygdaloides, Linn. Natural order: Euphorbiaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the plant.
Mind.
Out of humor with everything from 6 to 10 P.M.; after eating a few mouthfuls of supper (in which were onions), it suddenly passed off (twenty-sixth day).
Head
Hard headache, seeming to affect both sides of the head independently; not felt at the vertex, at 6 P.M.; gradually decreasing towards morning, at the same time seething sensation, backward and forward in the head, and extending down the back, lasting some time, and going off during sleep (twenty-fifth day); on rising the next morning a dull, stupid headache, chiefly in the forehead and sides of the head, as if from drinking spirits, going off soon after breakfast.
Nose.
A strong odor of mice. On one occasion a strong odor of mice; not noticed by others (therefore subjective). She awoke in the night, perceiving a strong odor of mice, the smell not being noticed by others.
Face
Boring pain in the left antrum, extending up to the floor of the orbit, passing outward with the orbit as far round as the supraorbital canal, slightly felt in the eye, and extending straight up into the head, for a quarter of an hour, at 5 P.M. (seventeenth day).
Mouth
Increased saliva (part of S. 23).
Throat
Slight burning in the back of the throat (after ten minutes, first day); relieved by cold water (after ten minutes, seventh day); for some minutes (after three minutes, eighth day); lasting some time, in a few minutes, relieved by breakfast (ninth day); for a few minutes (twelfth day), following by a sensation of heat in the chest, soon (thirteenth day); in a few minutes followed by feeling of heat all over the chest, and an oppression of the chest there from, afterwards the heat was chiefly on the right side of the chest (fourteenth day); burning in the back of the throat soon after the dose (fifteenth day); followed by a feeling of oppression in the right chest, causing an inclination to take a deep breath frequently, which relieved the oppression (sixteenth day); burning in the throat in a few minutes (seventeenth day). Stinging at the back of the pharynx, as before, very soon after the dose, followed by a very slight warmth of the chest (twelfth day). Slight peppery, stinging pains were felt at the back of the pharynx in a few minutes (first and seventh days); less (eleventh day). Warm, peppery feeling in the pharynx and anterior mediastinum, followed by warmth of the stomach radiating through the chest (after ten minutes); it passed off in about half an hour, ending with a feeling as if the liver were excited, which proceeded to a sensation as if the bowels were about to act, like that which is often felt after breakfast, a meal which he had not taken (ninth day).
Stomach.
Poor appetite for breakfast (eighth day). Qualmishness, in the evening, removed by supper (twenty-third day). Qualmishness, when moving about indoors, relieved by sitting still; afterwards, when writing, it recurred now and then, at 11 A.M., again at 8.15 P.M.; relieved by eating a plum (fourteenth day). Feeling of qualmishness when walking, lasting some time, about noon (seventh day). Sick feeling at 3 P.M. (dinner being delayed), (ninth day).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Severe stitches in the liver, for five minutes, at 9.30 A.M. (thirteenth day). Violent stitch in the liver when walking uphill in the evening (tenth and seventeenth days); when walking in the room (twelfth day). Tightness of the region of the spleen, about 9.15 A.M., for half an hour (twenty-third day). Slight stitch in the region of the spleen when rising from sitting, followed by some feeling of uneasiness, then; at 10 A.M. (ninth day). General Abdomen. On one occasion he had a sensation as if a long worm were writhing in the region of the transverse colon or transverse duodenum (he felt this before, when proving Caladium seguinum). Iliac Region. Throbbing in the left groin for two or three minutes, about 2 or 3 P.M. (fifth day); in the right for half a minute, at 6.30 P.M. (ninth day); in both, chiefly in the right, at various times, mostly in the afternoon and evening (ninth and tenth days).
Stool.
Difficult stool, arising from painful spasm of the anus, which was continued during and after the evacuation; faeces small, lumpy, slimy at 7 P.M. (seventh day); (think he noticed the same three days before). Small, lumpy stool, with prolapsus, for ten minutes, though there had been no straining, at 11 P.M. (ninth day). Slight prolapsus after the stool in the morning; offensive diarrhoea, preceded by considerable griping, first in the upper, then in lower abdomen, followed by slight prolapsus, rendering sitting uneasy, and going off gradually in a short time, between 9 and 10 P.M. (sixteenth day). Feeling of action of the liver, followed in a short time by griping and a considerable amount of offensive flatus, then offensive diarrhoea, after which the feeling of the liver passes of, followed by slight prolapsus, rendering sitting uneasy, and going off gradually in a short time, between 11 and 12 P.M. (seventeenth day). Offensive diarrhoeic stool, followed by prolapsus as yesterday, at 10 A.M. (eighteenth day). Offensive diarrhoeic stool about 11 P.M., preceded by uneasiness of the abdomen, followed by slight prolapsus as before; in half an hour the uneasiness returned, but was not followed by stool, she expected it would be (twenty- second day). Offensive diarrhoeic stool, preceded by slight griping, and followed by prolapsus as before, at 10 and 11 A.M. (twenty-third day). Very offensive diarrhoeic stool, of dark liver color, preceded by some uneasiness in the abdomen, but no prolapsus, at 6 and 8.30 P.M. (twenty-fifth day). Feeling as if diarrhoea would come on, followed by a very small diarrhoeic stool, at 9 and 11 A.M.(twenty-sixth day). Very scanty, diarrhoeic stool, with slight prolapsus, at 8 A.M.; moderate diarrhoeic stool, no prolapsus, at 2.15 P.M.; scanty, diarrhoeic stool, followed by slight prolapsus, at 5 P.M.; occasional feeling as if diarrhoea would come on all the evening (twenty- seventh day). Feeling for some minutes as if diarrhoea would come on, but no stool occurred at day (twenty-eighth day). Slight diarrhoeic stool, no prolapsus, at 8 P.M. (twenty-ninth day). Ordinary stool, followed by prolapsus, for an hour in the evening (fortieth day). Daily diarrhoea, with prolapsus, weakening him very much (after two months). Diarrhoea returns at lengthened intervals (for five months). At uncertain periods he had an inclination to diarrhoea, as though it was coming on rather suddenly, with a sympathetic sick feeling and increased saliva; at times, also, a peculiar seething sensation in the region of the spine, sometimes from the occiput to the loins, sometimes to a less extent; sometimes this goes off without diarrhoea, but rarely; usually it is followed by dark-brown, watery, mucous discharges, sometimes mixed with solid faeces, sometimes offensive, sometimes with blood, mostly in the afternoon from 4 to 10 P.M., sometimes more or less griping before stool. If it lasts two or three days there is prolapsus, which goes back very gradually, returning with the next diarrhoea; if replaced within half an hour, the bowel generally prolapsus again. If diarrhoea lasts three or four days, and sometimes even less, external piles appear, not returning with the prolapsus for the last two or three months (after ten months). Slight tendency to constipation for the last three or four days (thirty-ninth day).
Urinary organs
Urine hot during micturition (ninth and tenth days); slight heat of the urine in the evening (sixteenth day); heat of urine more in the forenoon (seventeenth day). Considerable increase of urine from noon till midnight (seventeenth day).
Respiratory organs.
Hoarse voice thirteenth day); (also noticed early in the proving). Hoarse voice soon after the dose (thirteenth day).
Chest
Feeling of warmth, which seemed to radiate from the stomach through the chest, gradually subsiding in ten or fifteen minutes (seventh day). Sensation of heat in the chest when riding in an open carriage in the evening (first day); also (part of S. 8). Feeling in the chest as if the lungs remained partly inflated, causing a sensation of fullness; worse in the evening (ninth and tenth days), (this occurred before, early in the proving); same fullness all day (twelfth and thirteenth days). Feeling of constriction in the left side, about the upper part of the heart or arch of the aorta, as if the part were constricted into a smaller bulk; worse on walking, about 3 or 4 A.M., and gradually going off in the course of the morning; this symptom has been present for about six days (twenty-third day); worse at 3 to 4 A.M. (twenty-six and twenty-seventh days). Slight constriction in the left chest on walking at 7 A.M. (twenty-ninth day). Same at 7 A.M. (thirtieth day). Extending across to the corresponding part of the right side; latterly, a feeling of tenderness on pressure has been added to the constriction, becoming more and more painful each day (thirtieth day). It appeared again in the left chest; worse in the early morning before daylight; after rising, it went off in the course of the morning, reappearing now and then in the evening (thirty-ninth day). Worse in the early morning, going off after rising; the part felt tender to pressure; in the evening it returned, but without the tenderness; soon after lying down in bed it increased, almost amounting to a pain (fortieth day). It went off in the course of the morning (forty-first day). While writing, a pressing pain occurred at irregular intervals in the right chest, just above the nipple; worse on stooping or bending forward, lasting about an hour, at 3.15 P.M.; in the evening a similar, very slight sensation in the left chest (N. B. Right-left), (twelfth day). Oppression of the chest (part of S.2).
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.