Introduction
Potassium Carbonate, K2OcO2. Preparation for administration, triturations with sugar of milk.
Generalities
OBJECTIVE. Perceptible beating of all the arteries. Violent trembling. Sudden trembling. Indolence (2nd day). Tremulous fatigue while walking, first in the knees, followed by trembling in the abdominal muscles and in the arms. Lassitude, weakness and nausea, after the afternoon nap. After eating, weariness with throbbing in the pit of the stomach and headache. Great weariness on waking in the morning relieved after rising returning in an increased degree in the afternoon. After eating very weary and sleepy. Great weakness in the evening. Attack of weakness on returning from a moderate walk, so violent that she could with difficulty reach the house, therewith she became warm in the stomach, drops of sweat stood upon the forehead (in winter) and the limbs trembled; After a short rest all weakness passed off. Attack of sudden weakness, in the evening on lying down, with an aching sensation, nausea, warmth and weakness in the pit of the stomach, vertigo and vanishing of ideas from the head; also 2 similar attacks in the morning, followed by great weariness. A child 4 years old, constantly desires to be carried. Exhaustion and weariness in the evening, almost amounting to nausea. Frequent exhaustion and weariness (1st day). Attack of exhaustion of the whole body, especially in the small of the back, the cervical muscles seem relaxed, the arms and legs relaxed as if they would sink down together with weakness about the heart like a faintness (after a few hours).. Attack of faintness as soon as he moves but little. A week before the occurrence of menstruation, restlessness as if the menses would appear (16th day). SUBJECTIVE. The whole body is very sensitive; whenever touched or moved it hurts (3rd and 4th days). Great dread of the open air. Takes cold easily (3rd day). Very much inclined to take cold. Easily takes cold while walking in the open air in the evening, followed by sweat at night, and restlessness and heaviness in the neck as from a weight (4th day). Takes cold very easily after becoming heated on moving about; he loses his appetite and is attacked with febrile shivering diarrhoea, with gripping pain in the abdomen, restless sleep etc. Symptom of taking cold from every draught of air. Her flesh feels numb to her. Her flesh all over feels swelled to her if she looks down without bending her head down, she feels weak and trembling. Feeling of weakness very morning, as if he would become faint or attacked by vertigo (1st six days). Feeling of emptiness over the whole body as if hollow. Heaviness, especially of the feet; walking becomes irksome. Heaviness of the body in the morning in bed, disappearing after rising. Heaviness and prostration of the whole body, as if worn out. A kind of tension within the body, which extends to the head and eyes. Drawing pain in the whole body, now in one place, now in another, in the nape of the neck, scapulae, the hands and knees (after 10 days). Twitching here and there in the muscles for several days. Uneasy sleep at night, on account of pressive pain in the side of the body upon which he lies. Oppression and anxiety at night if she lies upon the right side, is obliged to sit up in bed until she has eructations. Sticking is the most characteristic pain of Kali. Itching Stitches here and there in the body. Flesh feels tender all over as if the skin were crushed. Bruised pain in all the muscles of the body. Pain as if suppurating, and pressing upon any part of the body. Painful throbbing in the clavicle, shoulders, sides of the abdomen, etc. Excessive pain in the whole body, like the beating of a hammer at night. The rheumatic pains get worse when the neck symptoms increase. The pains recur in the morning, at 2 or 3 a. m. so that he is unable to remain lying, and are worse than during the day while moving about. Remaining in the open air aggravates the trouble especially the febrile condition. After the usual stool the pains are renewed in the morning (2nd day). Much talking affects her. Great emaciation, with paleness, sunken eyes, dim vision, for six weeks. Greatly agitated (second day). Constant trembling and convulsive movements of the limbs. Lips, tongue, and fauces swollen, soft, and red; breathing labored, and a rattling in the trachea and large tubes; pulse quick and feeble, and the surface generally cold (in one hour and a half).
Mind
EMOTIONAL. Delirium, day and night. Dread of being alone. Weeping mood; she could at any time burst in to tears (after 20th day). Very much depressed; she was obliged to weep much, because it was constantly in her thoughts that she must die. Great sadness; is obliged to weep without causes, in the evening. Sad, weeping mood after physical fatigue in the open air. Sad, lonely; she seeks society in order to enliven herself. Despondency (1st day). Great despondency without anxiety. Uneasy in mind. Anxiety every day. Anxiety, breaking out in to tears (1st day). He has anxious presentiments, in the evening. Sad presentiments of the future. At night after lying down, sad forebodings overtake him, on account of which he is unable to sleep. Fearfulness in the evening in bed. Fearful and anxious her disease. Full of fears. Fears that she cannot recovers. Apprehensiveness and aversion to society. Apprehensiveness and great sadness. Faint hearted and despondent to an excessive degree. Easily frightened, especially on touching the body lightly. Very easily frightened. She is frightened with a loud cry, by an imaginary apparition (for e. g. of a bird flying to the window). Unusually out of humor, which can be noticed in his expression, even before he himself remarks it. Very much out of humor, in the evening on falling asleep, and in the morning on waking. Fretful without cause (5th day). Fretful mood, as if she could not content herself. During dinner, fretful, peevish mode, withdrawing pain in the head (13th Day). He frets himself about everything and is constantly out of humor. Irritable mood. Irritable, peevish mood. Very irritable as after a vexation. Acutely irritable. Peevish, angry thoughts in the morning after walking, so that he gnashes his teeth (after 4th day). Peevish, morose; every trifle vexes and every noise is unpleasant; worse at noon and in the evening. Becomes easily peevish. Very peevish, has no joy in anything. Extremely peevish (1st eleven days). Impatient with her children. Easily aroused to anger. She easily becomes very violent. Disagreeable mood; He is obstinate and frequently does not himself know what he wishes. Disagreeable mood; she longs for things with impetuosity; is contented with nothing, is beside herself, and gets in to a rage if everything does not go according to her wishes, and frequently does not herself what she really wishes to have. She is constantly in antagonism with herself, she does not know what she wishes, and feels extremely unhappy. Alternating mood; at one time and quiet, at another time excited and angry trifles; frequently hopeful, frequently despondent. Disinclined to everything and indifferent. INTELLECTUAL. Excessive hurry in thought and action. Dread of the work. Distracted in mind it is difficult for him to fix his attention upon given object. Want of presence of the mind, he cannot quickly see his way in his business (after 15 hours). Irresolute mood. She springs up in bed at night while sleeping says all sorts of senseless things to her husband, and for long time cannot collect her senses, and does not know that she was talking with him. Sensation as if his thoughts vanished for moment. At times a sensation as if his thoughts vanished, with whizzing in the head. Frequently he is unable to find the required word right expression; often makes mistakes in speaking. Loss of consciousness for a few minutes; often makes mistakes in speaking. Loss of consciousness for few minutes, so violent that all his senses disappear and he would down as if he did not hold onto something (after 18 days). Loss of consciousness as if in the occiput, after speaking much, disappearing on pressing the eyes together. Constant anxiety.
Head
CONFUSION AND VERTIGO. Confusion of the whole head, as if screwed in, with sticking the brain, with frequent pauses. Confusion of the head, as after intoxication, and as if the ears were stopped, with nausea, almost amounting to vomiting (after 8 days). Frequent confusion of the head. Frequent confusion of the head in the morning, and heaviness in the region of the eyebrows. Confused feeling in the head, as if he had not slept enough, in the morning after rising and a feeling as if befogged, with loss of liveliness. In the evening after falling asleep and waking and again, she was confused in her head, had no ideas, did not know where she was, and then was seized with frightful anxiety, after which again became quiet. Feeling as if intoxicated (4th day). Vertigo on suddenly turning the body and head. Vertigo on turning around. An attack of vertigo as often as he rises from his chair and turns around. Vertigo as if there was depth behind him and he would fall down, on turning around, after looking into the mirror and after reading. Vertigo immediately on rising as if the head were to light; she is obliged to hold it. Vertigo, especially after eating. Vertigo while sitting, like swaying to and fro (before eating) Vertigo while sitting so that he does not rise for fear of falling, Vertigo, as if intoxicated, while walking so that he staggered from side to side. Vertigo while writing and in the open air; everything turns around with him. Dizziness in the head, mostly in the morning and evening. Very dizzy, even while sitting (after 30 hours). Giddiness in forehead, as if she would fall forwards, on holding the head down. Giddiness in forehead while rising from lying to sit up in the bed; she then opens her eyes wide as if to see, for she does not reach far enough forward if she tries to grasp anything; the same giddiness is felt during the act of lying down again and she then also feels as if she were descending a great way; the giddiness is not felt at rest, whether sitting or lying. Frontal lightness and giddiness on moving, as if all things in the room were going round ( not as if room revolving), when talking or being talked to; feels as if she must lean head on hand, as it seems to head still, and relieves the giddiness and lightness. GENERAL HEAD. A constant sensation in the head as though something in it were loose, and turned and twisted towards the forehead. Painful turning and twisting within the head. The head several times jerks towards the left side, without loss of consciousness, whereupon the nape of the neck feels stiff. Dullness and confusion in the head. Weakness of the head. Great warmth in the head, especially in the right side of the face, frequently (fifth day). Taking cold in the head is followed by pain the head and teeth. Violent pain in the whole head, with throbbing and sticking in the knees, disappearing on moving about; in the evening. Burning painful sensation of heat in the head. Rising heat in the head, in the evening, before lying down; disappearing in bed. Headache in the morning on waking, lasting a quarter of an hour, for several mornings. During the menses, headache in the morning, with great heaviness. Headache relieved by sitting up in the bed, aggravated by lying down. During the menses, great headache on the second day, from morning till evening. Violent headache for several hours, from walking in the open air. A feeling fullness in the head, as if the brain pressed hard against the skull. Rush of the blood to the head, and a feeling of intoxication therefore. Rush of blood to the head at while lying in the bed; at times it seemed as though sense would vanish. Warm rush of blood to the head with orgasm of blood in the body, and after some hours slight headache (immediately). After dinner constriction in the head like band about it. Violent pressure from within onward, as if the brain would press forward. Violent pressive pain in the head with shivering chill over the whole body, especially in the forenoon. Violent pressure over the whole skull, extending down the nape of the neck, throbbing in the head and whole body; the pain does not tolerate the slightest touch and is aggravated in paroxysms, with excessive nausea and vomiting of bile. Pressive headache. Pressive headache for several nights, disappearing on wrapping up the head. Shattering headache. Dull sticking in the head (1st day). Stitches through the whole head. Jerking-tearing pains in the head. Ulcerative pain in the head, after dinner; she was obliged to lying down, when it became better. Painful throbbing in the head when she writes. Jerking headache the whole day. A painful sensations of something moving in the head, worse moving of the head. Weakness in the head just over the eyes, after walking rapidly (seventh day) FOREHEAD. Heaviness and pain in the sinciput. A sensation of stooping as if something were sinking from the occiput to the forehead. A feeling in the forehead as if a hot body were lying before it, frequently repeated while stooping and writing disappearing or rising. Terrible headache through the eyes. A feeling in the forehead as if it would burst, in frequent short paroxysms. Drawing in the forehead, in the forenoon and at midnight (2nd and 30th days). Pressure and drawing and tearing in the forehead, extending into the eyes and root of the nose (14th, 17th, and 21st days). Pressure in the forehead, in the evening, on going to sleep, with qualmish nausea, as if in the stomach were disordered; relieved by rest, aggravated by walking. Pressure in the forehead and with photophobia. Severe pressure and drawing in the forehead in the evening. Violent pressure from within outward, in the whole frontal region, while writing. Pressive pain in the forehead, like a confusion. Pressive pain in the forehead, with vomiting of mucus and acids. Pressive headache in the forehead, in the afternoon, while walking, with peevishness (13,19 and 20th days). Sticking in the forepart of the head. Violent sticking in the forehead the whole day, and at times also in the left side of the head; together with severe pain in the chest and icy coldness of the limbs. Stitches in the forehead like needles. Stitches in the forehead, in the morning. Stitches in the upper part of the forehead and above the temples, on moving the lower jaw. Tearing in the left frontal eminence (25th day). Throbbing and beating in the forehead, and especially in the sides of the head, frequently intermitting; also after dinner, while walking and standing. A digging throbbing in the frontal bone, above the left eye. Throbbing pain in the forehead. Crawling pain above the forehead. TEMPLES. Pain in temples, especially in the right one, as if proceeding from the stiff neck. Pinching pain in the left temple at intervals; also tearings. Pressure in the right temple, from morning till noon (after 11 days). Pressure and pressing in the right temple (11,19 and 20th days). A sticking pressure inward in the left temple. Pressive pain from within outward, in the right temple. A sharp pressive pain in the temple, externally. Pressive headache in the left temple (6th day). Pressive headache from both temples towards the middle. Sticking in the temples. Sticking in the temples, even to starting up and crying out, in the right temple, with tearing. A stitch above the left temple, and immediately afterwards in the middle of the forehead, extending from within outward. Some tearing stitches in the left temple, extending into the zygoma. Tearing in the right and left temple, also in the left parietal bone. Beating vibration in the right temple. Jerking in the left temple. Painless bubbling-like twitching of the muscles in the right temple. VERTEX. Headache in the vertex, when pressing upon the head. Pinching pain in the whole upper part of the head, especially in the left side. Drawing and tearing on the vertex (33rd and 34th days). Pressure upon the top of the head, in the evening. PARIETALS. A severe heavy sensation in the left half of the head. After taking cold, headache in the right side and heat in the eyes. Paroxysms of one-sided headache, right and left, with weakness and exhaustion, almost amounting to nausea, in the evening. A tearing drawing in the left half of the head, above, in front of, and in the temple (12th 19th and 25th days). Pressure from without inward, on the right side of the skull, on rising up from stooping. A stitch through the right side of the head, from behind forward. Beating (throbbing) pain in the upper part of the left side of the head; on pressure the pain becomes more violent and sticking; more externally. OCCIPUT. Heaviness in the occiput, like a confusion. Heaviness in the occiput, as if it were filed with lead, the head constantly falls backward, with stiffness of the nape of the neck, extending to between the shoulder-blades. Aching and heaviness in the occiput, worse on swallowing. Drawing in the occiput and nape of the neck, especially in the right side, with stiffness. Pressure and burning low down in the occiput, with heaviness of the head, even to falling forward. Violent pressure in occiput, with rush of blood in the head and a feeling of heaviness, while standing. Pressive pain in the occiput, extending to the nape of the neck, disappearing in the open air. Stitches extending from the nape of the neck into the occiput. Stitches in the occiput, on stepping and on stooping, as if upon the surface of the brain. Tearing, now in the right, now in the left side of the occiput, and now in the forehead (1st day). Throbbing tearing in the right side of the occiput, close to the nape of the neck (16th day). EXTERNAL HEAD. Dryness of the hair. Falling of the hair. Pimples on the scalp. Painful pimple on the right side of the head, as if a boil would form (6th day). Sticking pain externally on the head and in the nape of the neck, with a sticking swelling of the cheek, and sticking in the teeth. Fine stitches externally in various parts of the head. Violent tearing externally on one side of the head, while walking in the open air. Itching on the scalp. Itching on the scalp, with sore pain when scratched. Frequent itching on the head, especially on the occiput.
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.