Stool
Diarrhoea. Rumbling and cutting in the abdomen, followed by two attacks of diarrhoea, with subsequent tenesmus (third day). Two stools in the forenoon, and two in the evening (fifth day). Stool very soft, succeeded by some smarting (third day). Stool rather soft than hard (fourth day after a new dose). The whitish grayish-green soft stool became yellowish-brown, and was repeated in the afternoon (second day); stool occurred in the forenoon instead of in the afternoon, (third and fourth days); small soft stools, in the forenoon instead of in the afternoon and two stools daily for a week, afterwards a hard stool in the morning. Constipation. Stool omitted (third and fourth days).
Urinary Organs
Micturition. Constant desire to urinate, urine very copious (third day). Urine frequently voided, red and scanty (second day). Urine. Urine darker-colored than usual. It causes haematuria.
Sexual Organs
He has known women produce abortion by the decoction of this plant. Leucorrhoea. Some leucorrhoea (third day). Anomalies of menstruation, sometimes too scanty, sometimes too profuse. It causes suppression of the menses, if used too long for haemorrhoidal flux.
Respiratory Organs
Secretion of mucus in the larynx (soon), (first day). Cough and vomiting (third day). Cough with frothy expectoration (third day). Oppression; dyspnoea (second day).
Chest
Some fulness in the chest. Jerking sticking in the left false ribs (after four hours). Stitches in the chest (second day). Coarse stitches in the lowest right ribs (after two hours and a half). Painful coarse stitches in the left chest, beneath the arm, without affecting respiration (after four hours). A jerking stitch in the left false rib (after four hours). Bruised sensation in the chest (third day). Sticking sensation in the right side of the chest, beneath the fourth rib. Transient stitches in the right side of the chest (second day). Transient dull stitches in the left side of the chest (second day).
Heart and Pulse
Pulse accelerated (soon), (third day). Pulse frequent, in the evening in bed (third day).
Back and Neck
Frequent though not very painful, drawings in the back (third day). Dorsal. Sticking-drawing pain just beneath the left scapula, while sitting, lasting several seconds (third day). Stitches between the scapulae. A violent stitch in the middle of the left scapula (after three hours). A fine stitch in the left scapula during inspiration, while standing; after stretching, and again bending the body together, a violent stitch in the right scapula (after three hours). Lumbar. Stitches in the small of the back (after three hours). Slight transient stitches in the right lumbar region, near the spine.
Extremities in General
Malaise in all the limbs (third day).
Superior Extremities
Frequent attacks, as if the left arm would fall asleep (first week). Falling asleep, pricking in the left arm, in the forenoon (second day). Bone-pains in the left arm (after one hour). Shoulder. Sticking and burning in the left shoulder, towards the forepart (after four hours). A stitch in the left shoulder (after four hours). Arm. Violent sticking pressure in the upper part of the right upper arm, after 9 A.M. (second day). Elbow. Sticking and burning externally in the right elbow (after two hours and a half). Forearm. Pains above the left wrist (third day). Two stitches in succession on the inner surface of the right forearm, followed by itching that disappears after scratching (after four hours). Hand. A fine stitch on the outer margin of the right hand, above the little finger (after two hours). Pressive-throbbing pains in the metacarpal bone of the left index finger and thumb, in the evening (fourth day). Fingers. Burning and a sensation as of a fleabite on the inner surface of the right little finger (after three hours and a half). Suppurating pain beneath the nail of the right thumb, afterwards of the left, as if bruised (tenth day); entirely disappearing (eleventh day).
Inferior Extremities
Thigh. Tearing and pressure in the left nates, during rest and motion, though worse while walking, in the forenoon (third day). The right nates is painful as if he had fallen upon it, in the evening (thirteenth day), and in the morning (fourteenth day); worse from pressure, and making tense the gluteal muscles, worse on the right side, at the insertion of the insertion of the gluteus major into the sacrum (fourteenth day). Knee. Violent pain above the left knee, while sitting, at 11 P.M. (first day). A fine stitch in the bend of the left knee (after two hours). Tearing in the right knee. The tendons in the hollow of the right knee became painful as the tendo Achillis had been, only in a less degree (first day). Leg. Drawing in the legs, while lying down. Drawing in the left tibia, lasting several seconds (third day). Tearing extending downward in the right tibia, while walking in the afternoon (second day). The right tendo Achillis is painful as after a blow or sprain; very acute and persistent; increasing and decreasing at intervals; not while walking or ascending steps, lasting all day (after one hour). Ankle. Violent pains in the right external malleolus, at 3 P.M., disappearing in the evening (first day). Foot. Sensation as though the left foot would fall asleep, not disappearing on rising (after three hours). Frequent falling asleep of the right foot, while sitting, not disappearing on rising after dinner. Violent pains in the whole of the right foot, as if in the bones (first day). Intermitting throbbing- pressive pains in the left foot, in the joints of the last toes, and in the metatarsus (fourth day). Crawling in the forepart of the right foot, as from falling asleep (after three hours).
Generalities
Objective. Congestion of the head, face, lungs, heart, etc. It causes hemorrhage. Stretching followed by a comfortable feeling, in the forenoon. Prostration (third day). Subjective. No desire to do anything, without feeling sick. While lying in bed asleep before midnight, a paroxysm as though a frightful gust of wind seized him and raised him upward in bed (extending from the chest to the head, with a feeling as though a storm were howling through the head and out of the right side of the upper part of the head like a flame); therewith the right arm seemed paralyzed; after this attack he thought in sleep that he was awake, and dreaded a second similar attack; but when this occurred with redoubled violence, and made him cry out, as he supposed, he woke (twenty-fifth day). General Oppression and uneasiness. Slow coarse stitches or throbbing pains, always near the bone and not far from the joints, mostly on the left side, and more in the hands and feet, for several weeks. (The symptoms were not aggravated but rather relieved by a glass of wine).
Skin
Itching and itching pimples on the back (after seven days). A raw sensation, as from a coarse brush, on the inner surface of the left forearm, in a spot as large as the hand. Itching on both shoulders.
Sleep
Yawning, at noon, while riding in the open air. Yawning and stretching as if she had not slept enough (after two hours and a half). Very excessive yawning, without fatigue, especially in the evening (first week). Sleepy; she yawns from time to time (after three-quarters of an hour). Slept longer than usual, and was very sleepy for a week. He fell asleep only after 3 A.M. (third day).
Fever
Sensation of increased warmth, especially in the face. Fever with rigors, internal and external heat, for four hours (second day). Hot fever (third day). Sensation of increased heat in the face, as if the blood rushed to the head; even in the eyes and nose there was a feeling as if congested with blood (first day). Hot feet and hands (third day).
Condition Aggravation
(Evening), Head dull, etc.; from 9 to 10 o’clock, sore throat. (Night), Streaming through head, etc. (Coffee), Confusion of mind etc.,; rush of blood to head etc. (After eating), Dull sensation in head; drawing in occiput. (Slight motion), When walking, vertigo. (Stooping), Nausea; relieved by rising, rush of blood to head; headache. (Walking), Tearing etc., in nates; tearing in tibia. (Wine), Confusion of mind, etc.
Amelioration
(Ascending steps), Pain in tendo Achillis. (Wine), The symptoms. (Walking), Pain in tendo Achillis.
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.