Introduction
Hydrocotyle Asiatica, Linn.
Natural order: Umbelliferae.
Preparation: Tincture of the whole plant.
Mind
Gayety (effect of reaction). Loquacity (effect of reaction). Unreserved, communicative disposition (effect of reaction). Confidence in the future (effect of reaction). Gloomy thoughts. Inclination for solitude. Misanthropy. Indifference.
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo. Vertigo and dizziness. Vertigo and giddiness. Vertigo, and torpor. Dizziness. General Head. Congestion of blood to the head. Heaviness of the head. Heaviness of the head. Head- ache. Painful drawing in almost all the cranial nerves (25 drops tinct.; medical student of 24). Forehead. Neuralgic pains in the external frontal nerve (“supraorbital stitch” of Valeix), (25 drops tinct). Similar pains in a youth of 17 (10 drops, 6th dil). Occiput. Intense pain, with some tumefaction, in the posterior portion of the skull. Constriction of the back part of the skull. The occiput is acutely sensitive, especially to touch. External Head. Painful constriction of the posterior and superior integuments of the skull.
Eye
Look more or less unsteady. Pricking in the eye (10 drops mother tincture). Slight injection of the palpebral conjunctiva. Dimness of vision. Dazzling.
Ear
Very severe pain left internal auditory meatus (10 drops mother tincture). Throbbing in the right ear (10 drops mother tincture). Hearing. Confused noise in left ear (10 drops mother tincture). Ringing in the ears (10 drops of mother tincture ). Ringing in the left ear which seems stopped up (10 drops mother tincture). Blowing sound in the ears (10 drops mother tincture).
Nose
Objective. Swelling of the nose. Coryza. Dry coryza. Slight epistaxis. Subjective. Stoppage of the nose. Feeling as if epistaxis were coming on. Tickling in the nose. Tickling in the nostrils, especially the left.
Face
Expression of face more or less as if intoxicated. Very severe intermittent pain in the left cheek-bone (lady of 25; 3 drops 4th dil).
Mouth
Four whitish places on the left side of the tongue, three on its upper, and one, about as large as a two-cent piece, on its under surface (3 dil). Slight hyperaemia of the buccal mucous membrane. Increased action of the salivary glands. Insipid or bitter taste (3D dil). Slight impediment in speech.
Throat
Objective. Bright redness of the velum palati, with pain on swallowing saliva, and especially on swallowing food (3D dil). Redness of the tonsils. Subjective. Slight disorder of the constrictor muscles of the pharynx (6th dil). Pricking in the pharynx (6th dil). Dryness and roughness in the oesophagus (6th dil). Burning and pricking in the oesophagus.
Stomach
Appetite. Anorexia, sometimes followed by very strong appetite (6th dil). Loathing of food, for fifteen days. Aversion to tobacco smoking (3D dil). Eructations. Frequent inodorous eructations (immediately), (6th dil). Acid eructations (6th dil). Eructations tasting of the drug (after six hours), (6th dil). Nausea. Nausea (6th dil). Stomach. Swelling of stomach (6th dil). Sensation as if gases were collected into a ball in the stomach (6th dil). Anxiety and weight in the gastric region (6th dil). Heat spreading out like a bar in the gastric region (6th dil). Slight contraction of the stomach. Cramp like pains in the stomach, but without nausea (6th dil).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Obstruction in the whole hepatic region. Slight pain in the upper portion of the liver. General Abdomen. Borborygmus in different parts of the abdomen (12 drops mother tincture). Flatus. Sensation as if all the abdominal organs were in motion (12 drops of mother tincture). Very severe pain in all the bowels (12 drops mother tincture). Very severe pain in the bowels, especially in the transverse colon (12 drops mother tincture). Constriction in the whole abdomen. Violent contractions in the intestines. Colic coming on every five minutes, without stool (12 drops mother tincture). Severe colic with borborygmi (12 drops mother tincture).
Rectum and Anus
Weight in the rectum. Burning at the anus. Slight itching of the anus.
Stool
Increased evacuations, without colic. Easier stools.
Urinary Organs
Kidneys and Bladder. Slight formication in the kidneys. Sense of constriction in the bladder. Irritation of the neck of the bladder. Urethra. Irritation of the urethra. Feeling of weight in the prostate gland. Frequent desire to urinate. Micturition. More abundant urination. Increased secretion of urine. Urine. Urine becomes brown on cooling. Turbid urine, but without sediment.
Sexual Organs
Male. Impotence for fifteen days. Relaxation of the scrotum. Slight drawing in the spermatic cords, especially the left. Indifference to sexual intercourse. Female. Dull pain in the ovarian region (in a woman of 25). Redness of the cervix uteri, disappearing when the medicine is left off, and returning on taking it again. Heavy feeling in the uterus. Pain in the whole uterus, especially the left side (lady of 35, from 4 drops of 3d dil). Exceedingly severe pains in the uterus and appendages, compared by the prover to those of labor (lady of 35, from 4 drops 3d dil). Redness of the vulva and vagina. Considerable increase of leucorrhoea. Heat in the bottom of the vagina; pricking and itching at its orifice.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx. Slight irritation of all the air-passages. Dryness of the whole windpipe. Sensation of dryness in the ventricles of the larynx. Intolerable pricking in the vicinity of the glottis. Voice. Weak voice. Speaking soon becomes fatiguing. Expectoration. Easy expectoration of bronchial mucus (secondary effect). Difficulty in expectorating the bronchial mucus. Respiration. Respiration easier (secondary effect). Respiration easier and deeper (secondary effect). Short breathing.
Chest
Wandering pains in the muscles of the chest and legs. Some oppression of the chest, which ceases suddenly and then returns, at longer or shorter interval.
Heart and Pulse
Precordium. Constriction of the heart, coinciding with a quiet and regular pulse, or with a few separate beats in certain arteries, or with hot flushes in different parts of the face (20 drops of mother tincture, by a man, aet. 30 years). Pressive constriction of the heart (young man, aet. 18, mother tincture 10 drops). Heart’s Action. Irregular beating of the heart (girl, aet. 19). Cardiac spasm (a man of 25, 6 drops 3D dil). Pulse. Pulse stronger and fuller (Hunter).
Neck and Back
Small red spots, covered with whitish scales, on the left side of the neck (3d dil). Renewal of old rheumatic pains in the left rhomboid; they are aggravated by pressure. Bruised pain in the loins. Obstruction and heaviness in the region of the kidneys.
Extremities in General
Irresistible inclination to stretch the limbs. Pains in all the joints. Pains in several joints, especially those on the left side. Dull pain in all the muscles of the extremities. Sensation as if hot water was running through the marrow of the bones.
Superior Extremities
Painful weariness in all the muscles of the shoulders (deltoid, supraspinatus, infraspinatus, subscapularis, teres minor). Contractions in the forearms and legs. Crampy numbness in the right forearm, and also in the right hand and fingers. Pains in the finger-joints.
Inferior Extremities
Objective. Unsteady gait. Tottering of the limbs. Inability to stand. Subjective. Pretty sharp pain in the hip-joints. Weariness in the muscles of the thighs, with crampy movements in the calves. Burning in the left tibia.
General Symptoms
Objective. Depression, heaviness, and dull feeling throughout the system generally. General lassitude. General weariness. Profound ennui. Debility. Lasting prostration of strength. Subjective. Excessive heaviness, dulness, and unfitness for everything. General malaise. Drawings in several muscles. Bruised sensation on waking. Bruised feeling in all the muscles.
Skin
Objective. Erysipelatous redness. Erythema with much itching (girl of 22; 2 drops 30th dil). Erythema, with copious sweat.
Three spots, almost completely circular, with slightly raised, scaly edges. (They appeared after taking 8 drops daily of the 6th dilution for six weeks, in a subject aged 19 years; as soon as the medicine was stopped they began to diminish, and disappeared entirely in fourteen days). Small red points on the eyelids, the left side of the neck, and both hands (10 drops tincture). Yellowish spots on both legs. Spot of a light lilac color and shaped like an ear, on the sole of the right foot. The skin all over it is slightly depressed, and walking makes it quite painful (10 drops tincture). Spot of like shape and color on the left sole (in a different prover). Slight erythema on the face, neck, back, chest, arms, and thighs (10 drops tincture, 6 drops 6th dil., and 2 drops 30th dil).
Papular eruption on the face (10 drops, 6th dil). Miliary eruptions on the neck, back, and chest. Sudamina on the abdomen.
Two small pustules on the chest. Subjective. Pricking on different parts (10 drops tincture). Intolerable itching in several places. Very smart itching at the tip of the nose (in a lady who had a chilblain there every year), (with 3 drops of 24th dil).
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.