Common names: Dead-Nettle; (Germ)., Taube-Nessel; (Fr)., L’Ortie blanche.
Introduction
Lamium album, Linn. Natural order: Labiatae.
Preparation: Tincture of (leaves and) flowers.
Mind.
Weeping mood; she wept as if she had been abandoned. Extraordinary sadness; he thought he had been blamed for reverses for which he was blameless, and in consequence was obliged to suffer; though not without desire for work. Anxiety during the chill; she could find rest neither while sitting, standing, nor walking. Discontented with his work (after four days). One or another text recurs constantly in her thoughts numberless times in succession, and she is unable to prevent its repetition in her mind, so that at last she becomes sad about it, and thinks she shall lose her reason.
Head
Confusion. Confusion of the head; he cannot perfectly collect his senses, and is obliged to make an effort in talking. General Head. Great mobility of the head, especially from before backward. Headache in the morning on waking and on walking in the open air. Headache, worse on rising from a chair, better while sitting. An indescribable headache deep in the brain, like the beginning of a very violent headache, and as if she was about to be very sick, worse when rising up after stooping (it disappeared at night during sleep); (after two hours). Headache in the morning in bed, worse while lying down, a confusion as after a night’s debauch; the head feels as though constricted with a cord; it disappears on rising. Headache like a compression of the brain from all sides, so that the most violent pain is in the middle of the brain (immediately). Headache about 10 p. m.; at first some stitches here and there, and then throbbing and violent shaking chill in bed. Headache (like a tearing lasting from 6 p. m. till midnight. Temples. Pressive pain in the right temporal region (after one hour). Drawing, needlelike stitches in the left temple. Very acute pain in the temples, as if internally sore. Occiput. Pain in the occiput, as if it were lying upon a stone, and as if the bed were too hard, when lying upon either side. External Head. The scalp is very tense, especially in the region of the coronal suture (after six hours).
Eye.
Itching in the canthi at various times, especially in the evening; is obliged to rub them (after twelve hours). Itching on the lower lid which compels rubbing (after one hour). Pressure on the eyeball, and dim indistinct vision, especially in the evening. Pupils extremely dilated (after seventeen hours). Contraction of the pupils (after three hours and a half).
Ear.
Deafness.
Nose
Sneezing from time to time; several drops of water flow from the nose at times (after a quarter of an hour). Violent coryza (after a few hours). She blows blood from the nose. Bruised pain in the soft parts on both sides of the nose, but not painful to touch.
Face.
Stitches in the right side of the lower jaw, behind the ear.
Throat.
Thick mucus, which has a very sour taste, is raised from the Fauces by hawking (after one hour). Sore throat internally when swallowing (after a chill), as if lump were in the throat; next morning there was not only the same pain on swallowing, but also a pain in the tonsils on moving the neck, on swallowing, and feeling of it. Scraping in the throat.
Stomach
Thirst. Constant thirst, though not during the chill. Eructation. Empty eructations (immediately). Acid eructations. Waterbrash, two evenings in succession. Nausea and vomiting. Nausea and vomiting of food eaten an hour and a half previously, preceded by unusual heat great weariness and exhaustion; therewith, it became black before the eyes. Stomach. Pressure beneath the pit of the stomach while eating, during which he was qualmish and nauseated, almost as in waterbrash, but no liquid came into the mouth. Stitches in the pit of the stomach. He feels the pulse in the pit of the stomach, and even sees it externally. Crawling in the stomach, with qualmishness.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Rumbling in the hypochondriac region (after to ten hours). A dull uneasy pain in the hepatic region, which could only be relieved by laying the hand upon it. Bruised pain in the abdominal muscles beneath the false ribs. General Abdomen. Unusual distension of the abdomen, for several days. Sensation in the abdomen as if diarrhoea would come on, followed by a pasty stool (after a few hours). Colic as from incarcerated flatus (after three-quarters of an hour). Griping colic, as from incarceration of flatus, which, after a subsequent stool with emission of much flatus, still continues for some time (after twelve hours). Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. A griping in the lower abdomen, and most violent excitement, as if menstruation would come on, lasting two days (after three hours). (* In a woman who had been for some time free from menstruation on account of her age. *) A dragging in the left side of the abdomen down into the pubic region, as if a hernia would protrude there.
Stool
A dragging and pressure, as if for stool, though only in the rectum; soon followed by a hard stool. Stool pasty, hard, with the passage of some blood.
Urinary Organs
Urethra. Some moisture flows through the urethra (after two days). Sensation in the urethra as though a drop of water were flowing through it, though no moisture was noticed at the orifice (after six to ten hours). Painless sensation, like a burning, in the middle of the urethra when not urinating (after four hours). Micturition. Urging to urinate, with extremely little discharge (after one hour and a half). Frequent urging to urinate, with more scanty discharge than usual (after two hours). Frequent micturition.
Sexual Organs
Male. Tickling in the glans penis (after half an hour). Female. Great excitement in the uterus (in the lower abdomen), but especially a cutting above the hips, as if menstruation would suddenly appear, though it had just ceased. Discharge of leucorrhoea, with a biting sensation of the parts (after one hour). A few drops of leucorrhoea frequently from the vagina. Profuse leucorrhoea, without sensation (after ten hours). Menstruation some days too early and very scanty (after five days). Menstruation eleven days too early, at the new moon (after seven days).
Respiratory Organs
The voice is very weak and unsteady, as in one who feels anxious. When speaking, he cannot get his breath; his chest feels quite weak.
Chest
A feeling of pressure on the chest and nausea which make him very anxious. Burning in the middle of the chest or in the oesophagus, always after eating or drinking. A pressive pain above the left nipple, most violent while slumbering; noticed while partly waking from sleep, but not when awake. Pain from the left breast to the shoulder as if beaten and strained.
Back.
Pain in the small of the back, as if it had been beaten. Dull stitches in the right kidney on taking a deep breath (after ten hours).
Extremities in General.
A drawing tearing here and there in the upper and lower limbs (after twenty-four hours).
Superior Extremities.
Heaviness and weakness of the right arm, especially during rest (after four hours). Bruised pain on the inner surface of the arm, especially at the bend of the elbow, mostly noticed on stretching out the arm. Crawling numbness, and feeling as if asleep, of the back of the hand and ball of the thumb (sensitive to touch), with a painfulness of the skin of these parts, only on moving the hand, and a fine sticking smarting as if they had been switched. Cramplike tearing in the muscle of the right thumb (after three hours). Drawing tearing in the first phalanx of the index finger (after three hours). Drawing tearing on the first joint of the two last fingers of the right hand (after six hours).
Inferior Extremities.
Intermitting, drawing, pressive tearing on the lower posterior muscles of the right thigh (while sitting), (after fourteen hours). Pain in the bend of the thigh as if bruised, or as if he had walked a long distance (on moving about and when sitting), (after eight hours). Tension across the middle of the calves while walking, as if they were unyielding. A cramplike pain and a bruised sensation externally in the right fibula. Gnawing, pressive pain in the lower portion of the tibia and in the ankle, with a sensation of heat and a feeling as if part were swollen. Cramplike pressive pain on the ball of the left great toe, while sitting (after two hours and three-quarters).
General Symptoms
Uneasiness of mind and body, so that he took up a book and laid it down again, sat now here, now there; always according to involuntary fancies (after two to ten hours). Great uneasiness and anxiety; they did not allow him to remain in any place; with trembling of the limbs. General weakness of the body (after eight hours). General weakness, mostly in the hands, during the chill.
Skin
A Pimple in the fold near the right wing of the nose, which itches and is painfully sore when touched. A blister forms on the heel from slight rubbing while walking, which breaks and becomes a long-lasting ulcer, superficial, with a red and swollen areola, and painful like a smarting and fine sticking and afterwards a biting; in the morning in bed; it is painful in the evening, smarting and sticking, worse while lying (after twenty-four hours). A corroding, fine sticking-itching on the arms, hands, and neck.
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.