Stomach.
Appetite. Appetite increased (sixth day). Increased sensation of hunger.-No desire for anything at noon, though there was no aversion; daily.-Thirst. On the second, third, and fourth days, he drinks almost nothing.-Constant inclination to eructate, with a distressing sensation in the stomach, lasting a long time. Eructation and Hiccough. Eructations and loss of appetite, towards noon.-Frequent empty eructations. Ineffectual eructations (after two hours). Sour eructations (after three hours).-Bitter eructations (after two hours.-Eructations tasting like ink, which she was unable to get out of her mouth for a long time (soon). Sweet uprisings in the stomach.-Hiccough.-Hiccough after dinner (first day). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea, soon after breakfast (soon).-Nausea, after the early breakfast (second day).-Nausea, inclination to vomit, etc., with delicate persons even vomiting; at times the retching is so violent as to preclude the further use of the remedy, whilst in the other cases the nausea continues for two or three days, and then gradually subsides; the retching and vomiting differ somewhat from those produced by common emetics, the contractions of the abdominal muscles and of the diaphragm being less violent, and the act not being succeeded by the usual feeling of distress and prostration; the ejecta present no peculiarity, except a blue color. Nausea, vertigo, and headache, at noon (second day). Nausea, with the headache and vertigo, lasting the whole afternoon, and only disappearing in the evening, after being a long time in the open air (second day).-Nausea, with weakness (second day).-Nausea and eructations, with frequent inclination to vomit, without effect, and rumbling in the bowels (after two hours). Great nausea, followed by vomiting, consisting of much mucus colored with indigo (second day. Inclination to vomit (fourth day). Frequent inclination to vomit, with eructations of a very great deal of gas. Vomiting. The vomiting takes place without much strain, suffering, or fatigue. At first the patient vomited freely, without any straining or derangement of the digestive organs. Vomiting, with diarrhoea. Vomiting of mucus. Women vomit more easily than men. Stomach. Gastritis, with loss of appetite, pressure in the head, vertigo, and sometimes cloudiness of vision. Moving back and forth in the stomach, with burning (after one hour and a half). Uncomfortable feeling in the stomach, with nausea and eructations, of air, lasting a long time (seventeenth day). Cardialgia, with intestinal colic. Feeling of fasting in the stomach (after two hours). Stomach feels as after complete fasting, with uprisings of heat from time to time, while sitting (after three hours). Pressure in the stomach (soon,); (first day), Pressure and cutting pain in the stomach, as yesterday, after a cup of bouillon (fifth day). Violent pressure in the stomach, aggravated by external pressure, with distension in the epigastric region (even while fasting); the pain lasted half an hour, and then extended to the back and into the left scapula, afterwards into the left arm; a bruised sensation remained in the pit of the stomach; a reminder of pain aggravated by external pressure (fifteenth day).-A clawing pain in the pit of the stomach, extending down into the umbilical region (first day). Sudden cutting pain and pressure in the stomach, after a cup of bouillon; the stomach does not seem to tolerate broth (fourth day). Severe cutting pain in the stomach, with excessive flatulence, in the evening (second day).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Pain in the left hypochondrium (seventeenth day).-Pressive pain in the right hypochondrium (after a quarter of an hour). Painful stitch in the right hypochondriac region, as large as the palm of the hand, with a stitch extending to the front of the shoulder joint; while sitting, disappearing on moving about. Umbilical. Intermitting gurgling extending from the stomach into the abdomen in the umbilical region, while sitting (after two hours). Pain in the umbilical region; (fifth day). Pain in the umbilical region, which feels hard to the touch, aggravated by pressure and inspiration, as well as by fasting, and also in the evening, only however, while sitting (first day).-Violent cutting pains at the umbilicus (second day).-Griping about the umbilicus and urging to stool, followed by diarrhoea, with griping in the abdomen; after the stool the griping ceases (after one our). General Abdomen. Rumbling and moving about in the abdomen. Flatulence (soon); (after half an hour). Emission of much flatulence (second day). Unusual flatulence and urging to stool (after one hour, second day). Frequent emission of offensive flatus, in the evening, night, and morning (second and third days). Slight gastro-enteric pains during nausea and retching, and during the diarrhoea, in rare instances so violent as to prescribe the further use of the remedy. Pain in the upper abdomen, with nausea and anxiety, lasting an hour, at 2 A.M. (first day). Painful tension about the upper abdomen; afterwards griping, followed by at first hard then liquid stool, in the afternoon (first day). Fullness in the abdomen, with much flatulence (second day). Sensation of fullness and moving of flatulence in the abdomen. Griping and rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would follow; afterwards a soft stool, with emission of much flatus (fourth day). Violent griping in the whole abdomen, about 5 A.M., so that she is awakened by the pain, followed by urging to stool, and a profuse semi liquid stool, with cessation of the pain.-Uncomfortable, oppressed sensation in the upper abdomen, on waking unusually early in the morning (second day). Cutting pains wandering about the whole abdomen, aggravated by pressure, worse in the rectum (twenty- second day). Constant cutting pain in the abdomen, increased by retracting the walls of the abdomen and by pressure, momentarily relieved by holding oneself erect; the abdomen is fully of gas (the pains last two hours), (third day). Violent colic, with flatulence and urging to stool (third day). Twining in the abdomen in the morning in bed, followed by the usual stool and cessation of the pain (third day). Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. Griping in the right lower abdomen, lasting a minute, at 7 P. M., soon followed by a soft stool and disappearance of the pain. Pain almost like a drawing in the right groin near the ilium, immediately afterwards a griping in it, and afterwards a stitch from within outward above the female breast. Pinching- sticking cutting, or rather a long stitch, as with a knife in the right groin (after second day). Violent stitch in the left groin, so that she was obliged to stand still while walking at 1 P. M. (second day). Twining in the left groin, extending to beneath the ribs, while sitting, after dinner. Biting in the left groin (after one hour and a half).
Rectum and Anus
Dull sticking in the rectum (twenty-third day).-Urging to stool, followed by liquid evacuation (after half an hour).-Great urging to stool, at 6 P. M. (second day).
Stool
Diarrhoea. It seems to promote the stool in its primary action.- Slight diarrhoea, which however, causes spontaneously when the Ind. begins to be more easily assimilated with the digestive organs. Constant diarrhoea.-After all inclination to vomit has ceased a diarrhoea usually takes its place, increases rather than diminished as the treatment proceeds, and lasts during the whole time that the Ind. is administered; from four to six stools of a semifluid consistency and a blue-back color are produced daily, with accompaniment of slight gastro-enteric pains.-At first the patients vomited frequently, without any straining or derangement of the digestive organs; after a few days this ceased, and they had six or eight stools a day, sometimes accompanied by slight colicky pains; after a short time the purging diminished, the matter passed assumed a fluid character, and this state continued as long as the drug was administered, without the appetite or digestive organs being injured. Four to six soft stools daily. Two evacuations in the morning, followed by tenesmus, without pain in the abdomen (after second day). Stool with violent pressure, though it was soft, and after a quarter of an hour a loose stool. Liquid stool, without any symptoms either before or after. Urging to stool, followed by liquid evacuation (although he had had a stool shortly before taking the drug), soon. Stool softer than usual (fourth day). Hard stool daily. Constipation. Bowels remained obstinately constipated instead of being relaxed (one or two cases). Stool indolent during the whole proving. Stool delayed, scanty, hard, for several days (ninth day). Stool withheld (first day). Stool retained (second and third days).
Urinary organs
Bladder. Pain in the bladder, during micturition (second day). Urethra. Sticking in the urethra (fourth day). Peculiar itching in the urethra and on the scrotum (second day). Micturition. Constant desire to urinate; the urine is turbid (second day). Constant desire to urinate, he is obliged to go every hour regularly, without, however, having drunk more than two cups of coffee; urine turbid (second and third day). Secretion of urine decidedly increased, so that he was obliged to pass it twenty- four times during the day; however, he had respite during the night; during the night; during micturition a decided sensation of contraction of the urethra, with pain in the region of the bladder; urine very slimy and turbid (fourth day); symptoms somewhat relieved, urine much clearer and passed with less tension (fifth day). Great desire to urinate, at an unusual time (first day).- Great desire to urinate (after one hour); Urinating four or five times during the hour. Frequent urging to urinate with burning in the base of the bladder (after fourteen days). Excessive and frequent urging to urinate in the afternoon, and especially at night; only a little turbid urine was passed each time, and micturition was painful (first day). Frequent micturition, with pressure in the abdomen, urine clear, throughout the first day. Increased emission of urine. Increased flow of urine, in the afternoon (second day).-Burning micturition (third day). Urine. Urine increased (third and fourth day).- Urine increased and passed more frequently than usual (second day).-Secretion of urine increased (second day),;in afternoon.- Urine of a dark violet hue; that secreted at night paler than that of the morning. Urine colorless, very thin (first day). Urine turbid (second day).
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.