Common names: Orange-root, Yellow Puccoon.
Introduction
Hydrastis Canadensis, Linn. Natural order: Ranunculaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the root.
Mind
Emotional. Affections active. Exhilaration of spirits and a feeling of lightness and happiness (second day). Felt high- spirited and good-natured (nineteenth day). In high spirits; everything looked bright; felt happy, and wanted to sing (third day). During proving, more cheerful than usual. Felt cheerful on getting up (second day). Unusual cheerfulness and hopefulness, several days. Felt very cheerful and good-natured (second day). Very sanguine and contented (second day). Unusual buoyancy (second day). Very good-humored (second day). Felt despondent; better after “quiz,” in the evening (seventh day). Began to grow gloomy, taciturn, and disagreeable towards his acquaintances at 10 A.M. (second day). Felt fretful and low-spirited (fifth day). Ill-humor; vindictiveness; at 8 A.M. (second day). Spiteful, angry disposition, with desire to snub any one who differed in anything with me; lasting all day (third day). Spitefulness and disposition to hit and knock things in general; disappeared towards evening (second day). Intellectual. Dislike to go out, to read, to write, to do anything (fifth day). Aversion to mental occupation (second day). Constant aversion to the application of the mind (fourth day). Aversion to study (third day). Absent-minded (fourteenth day). In writing, make wrong letters; have never been so absent- minded before (fourteenth day). Memory seems deficient (fourth day). Dulness of memory (second day). Forgetfulness (while writing); if I want anything and raise my hand to pick it up, or go after it, will forget, for a few seconds, what was wanted, which would make me very angry and feel like damning and cursing everything and anybody who bothered me in the least (second day). While reading, forget what I am reading about (third day). Very forgetful, losing myself in a conversation repeatedly; cannot keep a steady train of thought (fourteenth day).
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Head confused (fourth day). Feeling as if intoxicated (second morning). General Head. Immediate feeling as if the brain was partially narcotized, soon followed by sharp cutting pain darting through the temples (after 1st dose). Head feeling very hot, but cold to touch (fifth day). Remarkable heat and confusion in the head, with a loss of memory of recent things; palliation of the heat and confusion by pressing the cool hand across the forehead (second day). Head ached severely till I went to sleep (eleventh day). Headache on rising (fourth day). Headache all the afternoon (fifth day). After breakfast, head commenced to ache; first it felt extremely full, then dull pain in temples; on every step or sudden movement of body, felt pain more (eleventh day). Headache of a nervous, gastric character up to 12 M. (second day). Dull headache (fifth day). Dull headache, with some sharp stitches through the temples (third day); headache increased (fourth day); did not feel quite easy for a week. Dull pain in head on getting up (second day). Head feels full (fourth day). On going upstairs, or on sudden stooping, seems as though head would burst; coughing makes head worse (eleventh day). Dull, heavy feeling in the head, amounting to pressure over root of nose (second day). Headache bounding and throbbing (fourth day). Forehead. Heaviness and sensation of fullness in forehead, most over left eye; constant in warm room; passed off after walking in open air; at 9 A.M. (second day). Severe pain in forehead and stinging pains in chest, lasting some time, at 8.30 A.M. (sixth day). Sensation of fullness on the forepart of the head, lasting perhaps ten minutes; pressing the temples removes the sensation momentarily (second day).Sneezing caused fulness of head between temples and forehead at 11 A.M. and 7 P.M. (I seldom ever sneeze when I have cold, and I can scarcely attribute this to anything but the medicine), (third day). Bursting feeling in head on waking at 9 A.M. very severe and almost stupefying; the pain was in the frontal part; ameliorated by pressing the skin towards the temporal bone, on pressing in the forehead, and on wearing a light hat or a loose hat drawn tightly; rather better while in motion and while the mind was engaged (fifth day). A little headache across forehead on getting up at 6.30 A.M. (third day).
Severe frontal headache (fifth day). Headache, with sensation of the brain being pressed against the frontal bones, after breakfast (second day). Soreness in forehead at 9 A.M. (fifth day). Head began to ache right across frontal sinuses, the pain being dull and lazy, and slightly throbbing (second day); at night, head continued to ache all over forehead and into temples (third day). Temples. Pain in temporal region, both sides, and also pain over top of head (seventh day). Pain in left temple, extending into left nostril, 8 A.M. (fifth day). Pain in temple over left eye, lasting some time, at 11 A.M. (third day). Slight headache, lasting only a few moments, first on right side, mainly in the temporal region, then passing to the left temporal region; leaving the left, returning to the right, at 8.45 A.M. (second day). Severe headache in temples, relieved by pressure; on going into the open air about an hour afterwards, this headache disappeared; seemed to have been excited by emotion; about 9 P.M. (eighth day). Sharp, cutting pains through the temples, with dimness of vision. Stinging, sharp pains in the temples, but dull in the vertex and over the eyes (after first dose). Constant throbbing headache all day in both sides of the head in the anterior temporal region (third day). Vertex. Headache; dull, pressing pain on top of head, pressing outward from ears, 10.30 A.M. (eighth day). Parietals. Dulness of right side of head (second day). Heaviness of right side of head, with drowsiness (first day). Pain from center of brain, extending to parietal protuberance on right side. Pain in right parietal protuberance, while going upstairs, at 8.30 A.M. (fourth day). Unusual dull, heavy aching in left side of head all day (fourth day). Pressing pain over the protuberance of the left parietal bone; the pain was confined to a spot about three inches in circumference; lasted but a few minutes; at 12 M. (second day). Severe neuralgic pain in the right side of the head, extending from the occiput to the temple over the ear; it undulates, or comes and goes, never had such a pain before; at 4 P.M. (second day). Occiput. Pain, dull and heavy, in left occipital region, with pale face, much heat in the head, and pressing from within outwards in region of temporal fossa; relieved by the pressure of a cool hand and cool open air (third day). Aching pain in cerebellum, first in right, later in left side (second day).
Eye
Brow and Orbit. Pain over left eye, at 9 A.M. ceasing on walking into open air (fifth day). Pain above left eye, which appeared several times, but was always relieved by laying the hand on the part, at 10 A.M. (second day). Pain in both supraorbital regions at 8 A.M. (fourth day). Lids. Eyes somewhat agglutinated (unusual), (second day). On waking in morning, eyes considerably agglutinated (third day). Both eyes completely stuck together; has no cold, and knows of no cause that would produce it, except the remedy (fourth day). Lachrymal Apparatus. Burning sensation in lachrymal duct, on right side, at 3 P.M. (fourth day). Vision. Flickering before the eyes in bright-yellow light; streaks in squares, always making three sides of a square, at 7 P.M. (seventh day). Sneezing in the sun caused flickering before the eyes at 11 A.M. (I have been troubled with this flickering for many years, when exerting myself or standing long in the sun), (second day).
Ear
Partial stoppage of Eustachian tube. Left ear feels as if it has cotton in it, impeding hearing, at 9 A.M. (Am not sure that this was the effect of the medicine, as my ear had a little wax in it, but this feeling did not go off for some minutes after the wax was extracted), (second day). Pain in right ear; when that disappeared, it was immediately followed by fullness in the forehead and pain over left eye, immediately after supper, at 6.30 P.M. (third day). Transient tensive aching in right ear, once in morning and once in afternoon (second day). Sharp pain behind right ear for one moment (in mastoid process of temporal bone), passing down to right shoulder, back of clavicle, about midway between arm and neck; the entire symptom lasted only a few moments; pain, however, very severe; at 9.30 A.M. (third day). Hearing. A noise in the ears (after five minutes, seventeenth day). Noise in the ears on waking at night, and trembling in the bowels (twelfth and thirteenth nights). Roaring in the ears at 9 P.M. (eleventh day). Roaring in the ears like a partridge on waking in the night (ninth night); the waking is habitual. Ringing in the ears, with slight pain in the anus (fourteenth day). Noise in ears, as from the turning of a machine in a machine shop, at 2 P.M. (seventh day). A noise in the ears as of cogwheels (tenth and fourteenth nights).
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.