Throat
In the morning, much white, bad-tasting mucus in the throat, expectorated after slight paroxysms of cough. Sensation of mucus in the throat, without being able to expectorate. Sensation of dryness on the uvula, without thirst.
Stomach
Thirst. Increased thirst. Eructation. Eructations after sardines taken a few hours before, and great appetite. Eructations and vomiting and throwing up of food, in the evening after eleven hours). Immediately after taking the drug, frequent empty eructations, tasting like Eupion, for five hours. Sweet-sour eructations in the evening in bed (after eleven hours). Eructations tasting of the food, and sensation as if the breath were retained in the pit of the stomach. At night, nausea until 3 A.M., followed by sleep and dreaming; she awakes frightened, but falls back into her dreams again; for several nights. Nausea on becoming erect, with much thirst and very copious menstruation and trembling through all the limbs; lancinating pains under the right breast, aggravated by breathing (third day of the menses). Nausea, with eructations and taste of the drug, the whole day. Vomiturition, emanating from the lower part of the abdomen. Twice in succession, dark-green, tasteless vomiting of mucus, followed by trembling of all extremities (after two drops of 1st cent). Stomach. Bloatedness and sensation of fullness in the stomach, with internal chilliness in the evening (after twelve hours). A bruised pain transversely across the stomach, beginning in the evening between 9 to 10, continuing up to 11, when she falls asleep, and only awakes at 4 A.M., copiously perspiring, and her menses setting in five days too soon.
Abdomen
Several consecutive stitches around the umbilicus. Gurgling in the intestines, without any other trouble. Frequent borborygmi. Flatulency; after passing flatus the pains cease. She cannot walk straight on account of inflammatory pains in the abdomen; the pains are aggravated by coughing, sneezing, or blowing the nose, even though she puts on foot over the other. In the muscles of the left side of the abdomen, from the pelvic bones obliquely downwards, a painful tension, similar to what she formerly felt during pregnancy. Contracting pains in abdomen, so that she has to bend over, which gives relief; one day before menstruation. On the left side of the abdomen, a pinching pain, as if a small part were pinched with a nail (after one hour). O the right side of the abdomen, a dumb aching pain, with sensation of ulcerating when touching the spot with her hand. Pressing pain deep in the abdomen, continuing for over a week. Cutting pains in the intestines, ceasing after passing flatus (after fourteen hours). Cutting pains in abdomen during menstruation; when the pains cease the discharge is always very copious; the blood looks red, and is very thin. A twisting pain in the abdomen, continuing five minutes, and recurring every quarter of an hour, only ameliorated by crouching down (after a few days). A very painful twisting and griping (cramps) in abdomen, relieved by crouching down, followed by chill and nausea, finally vomiting of dark-green mucus; she became warm, followed by two stools; after evacuation upwards and downwards the abdominal cramps decrease, but a still pain and malaise remain for a long time, continuing an hour and a half before breakfast. Colic, with sensation as if diarrhoea would follow (after five hours). Colic, frequently intermitting and recurring; after continuing three hours, copious white discharge from the vagina, continuing for several hours, but the colic ceased and did not return (after thirty-two hours). The abdomen pains during motion, as if ulcerated and inflamed (after several days). A painful movement in the right side of the abdomen, as from confined flatus (after a quarter of an hour). Iliac Regions. In the left side of the abdomen, immediately over the crista ilii, when walking, raising the arm, or coughing, a severe pain, nearly taking her breath away; she feels nothing when at rest; after a few hours the pains move low down into the abdomen, and then pass off. Stitches on the left anterior crest of the ilium when walking (after two hours). In left inguinal region a squeezing, pressing pain, when quiet (after four hours).
Rectum and Anus
Spasmodic pains a few inches up in the rectum, radiating upwards and downwards, extending downwards into the labia, with such severity that she cannot sit down; they pass off during the night, but return in the morning as soon as she gets up; she has to lie down at 10 P.M. of the third day; after sleeping for an hour, she awakes free from the pains, but complains of severe backache with nausea, and the abdominal muscles pain on touch as if ulcerated, which continues for several days. A spasmodic, periodically returning pain an inch up in the rectum, extending to the vagina, and producing there also a spasmodic contracting pain. Drawing and tearing in the rectum, aggravated during stool, which is natural. After a natural stool, itching in the rectum (after twenty-four hours). Inclination to stool, with great straining, but she passes nothing (second day). Tenesmus; only a few tablespoonfuls of blood are passed per anum, when the tenesmus ceases. In the morning frequent tenesmus, but no stool follows, only each time about a cupful of blood is discharged, which weakens her greatly.
Stool
Diarrhoea. Three to four times daily, bloody stool. Four times daily, hard and dry stools, with great straining each time. Bloody stools. Dark blood in the painlessness stools. Constipation. Stool hard; she has to strain a great deal. Stool every three to four days, with great straining and prolapsus uteri. No stool for three days.
Urinary organs
Urethra. Frequent inclination to urinate, but she passes only a little; worse when standing than when sitting. Micturition. Frequent and copious micturition, the urine of a lemon color in several persons. Copious micturition. Urine. Urine chestnut- brown, a few days before the menses. Hot urine, passed without pain.
Sexual organs
During urination, a sore pain between the labia. A burning, stinging, itching, and swelling between the labia, momentarily relieved by rubbing, afterwards the burning becomes more severe; after washing with cold water the external genitals feel stiff and numb, with sensation of rawness and soreness (compare 109, 110, 135, 137, 232; these are curative effects). Pruritus pudendi is worse in the evening, with pain in the sternum, as if it were raw; when she touches it or turns over the bed she can hardly bear the pain. Painless, soft discharge through the vagina. During her backache, some blood passed the vagina, although she had her courses only two weeks ago. Leucorrhoea, eight days after her courses, coloring the linen yellow, and forming stains of the size of a sixpence on her chemise, with great lassitude, emaciation of the whole body, stitching pains in the soles of her feet when walking, and trembling all over the whole body, felt only during rest (as if the whole body consisted of jelly), continuing several days (after fourteen days). Leucorrhoea in connection with backache; when this ceases, the discharge gushes out abruptly, with stitching pains in the forehead (after four days). Copious leucorrhoea; it runs from her (after ten hours); continues for twelve hours; remits in the evening; returns again after twenty-four hours in the morning, and only continues for a few hours. Menses a few days too soon, without the leucorrhoea which usually precedes them a few days. Menses set in four days too soon and too copious; it is rather a flooding (it was just the contrary before, slight on the first day and copious on the second and third days); at the same time, bruised sensation in the chest; when breathing, stitches in the middle of the chest and in the heart, which also take away her breath; on the third day the pains decreases. Copious menstrual discharge on the third day, with severe backache, painless pulsating in the head, pressing towards the forehead, with a sensation as if the head were too full. Copious and thin fluid menstrual discharge. During menstruation, deep in the abdomen a painful twisting, extending to the rectum, intermitting and returning; as soon as the pains cease, the flooding sets in again (second day). Menses stopped for twenty-four hours; returned and kept on for two hours and a quarter, with the sensation as if the whole upper part of her body were wabbling from the short ribs to the head; she had slightly the same soaring sensation in her feet. On the third day her courses cease, and she suffers from severe headache and chilliness; on the fourth day the flow returns copiously for a few hours, and the headache and chilliness cease. The menses nearly cease on the third day; on the fourth day, at 9 A.M., she has nausea with salivation; she is very irritable, has no inclination to speak; this continues for ten minutes, then her courses appear again copiously for a few hours, and then all her troubles cease. Scanty menses, the drawing abdominal pains towards the genital organs which she usually had did not appear. A young woman who had not menstruated for nineteen weeks, took Eupion 9th; after twenty-four hours severe cutting abdominal pains emanating from the sacrum, as if something would press out of the genital parts; they passed over, and returned at intervals; after twenty-four hours she was well again, and the following night her courses appeared without any trouble.
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.