Common names: Male Fern; (Germ)., Farnwurzel; (Fr)., Fougere male.
Introduction
Aspidium Filix mas, Swartz. (Nephrodium Filix mas, Rich.; Polypodium Filix mas, Linn). Natural order: Filices. Preparation: Tincture of the inner part of the root.
General Symptoms
Painless hiccough, starts ten minutes after meal, lasting from fifteen to thirty minutes (first day). Tightness in left hypochondrium, extending forward to middle line, causing difficulty of breathing, in a warm room, in the evening after sunset; better when walking in the open air; it kept her awake in bed till 1 A.M.; on awaking the next morning, the same; better after a Turkish bath (second and third days). Numbness of back of right wrist, extending up radial side of arm to just above elbow; felt as if the use of the limb would go (after half an hour); then the same feeling in left wrist, but transient and slighter; afterwards the same (transient) in a small spot on right vertex, rather anteriorly; afterward the same (transient) in anterior portion of right shoulder; the numbness seemed to be in the bone in every case; that in the right arm lasted till she took coffee, which removed it.
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.