Throat
Objective. Much mucus in the throat. Much secretion of mucus from the posterior nares, on going out in the morning, provoking constant hawking (fourth day). Hawking of much mucus in the morning after waking. Frequent hawking of mucus. Constant hawking of mucus when smoking (fourteenth day). (Much hawking of mucus, with qualmish nausea, while smoking as usual), (seventh day). Great hawking of mucus in the morning. Hawking of mucus, that is more easily expectorated than usual (tenth day). Much hawking of watery mucus (fourth day). Frequent slight hawking of gray, lumpy, compact mucus, during the whole proving. Frequent hawking of bitter hawking of bitter mucus in the evening. Hawking of salty tasting mucus (eighteenth day). Frequent hawking of salty mucus (eighteenth day); after the proving. Subjective. Dry sensation in the posterior nares. Sensation of a plug and sore pain in the throat, especially at night waking from sleep, with an anxious sensation as if the throat would be closed by swelling. Sensation as of a plug in the throat, also when not swallowing with rawness and burning pain, and an anxious sensation as if everything would be closed by the swelling. On coughing the pain in the throat and chest. Sticking in the left side of the throat, on empty swallowing, and on swallowing food. Sticking and burning in the throat, like an inflammation; with elongation of the uvula and impeded swallowing. Sticking pain in the throat on swallowing at night. Sticking, at times pinching, pains in the throat, extending from the larynx into he ear. Sore throat, worse in the morning and evening. Sore throat, in the morning, and worse in the evening (after twelve days). Sore throat like a plug in the throat, when swallowing. Sore throat, as from swelling of the submaxillary glands, without swelling. Feeling of rawness in the throat (third day). Scraping in the throat in the evening. Scraping in the throat, much accumulation of saliva, hawking of blood, and sleepiness, at night. Like a scraping heartburn in the throat. Uvula and Tonsils. The Uvula is much swollen and elongated, and forms a loop, by contact with the right tonsil; the vessels of the throat are much congested; no ulcers are visible. Stitches in the uvula (sixteenth day). Great redness of the tonsils, root of the palate, and uvula (sixth day). Slow drawing in the left tonsil, together with cramp like pain and roaring in the left ear (third day). A stitch behind the right tonsil, extending to the ear, when yawning. Fine stitches in the right tonsil (after 10th dil.). Fauces, Pharynx, and Oesophagus. Green mucus is raised from the fauces two mornings in succession. Sourish scraping in the fauces. Ulcerated spots in the pharynx, with sore throat, with angry inflammation and dark red swelling of the gums. Sensation of dryness in the pharynx posteriorly, after eating (third day). A feeling of heat in the pharynx; warm drinks seemed cold when swallowed. Feeling of tightness in the pharynx; swallowing was difficult. A pressing sensation extending from the stomach towards the pharynx Scraping sensation in the pharynx (third day). Biting in the pharynx, as from inflammation and tightness, on swallowing. Cramp in the oesophagus; on swallowing she could neither get the morsels down nor bring them up, so that it seemed as though she would soon be suffocated. Easily chokes on swallowing. External throat. The submaxillary glands are swollen, and are stiff and painful. Continued swelling of the left cervical glands, after the proving. When coughing, pain in the cervical glands, and low down in the chest. The submaxillary glands are painful on stooping. Pain in the submaxillary glands, as if they are swollen, pressed, or crushed (after thirty hours). Tension and a sensation of stiffness in the left sternocleidomastoid muscle (after 5th dil.). Tension of the left sternocleidomastoid muscle, with roaring in the ears, after a walk (after 1st trit). Drawing pain in the neck in the region of the larynx. Hard tearing pain about the parotid glands painful to touch. Painful rhythmical throbbings in the right cervical muscles, lasting several minutes (twenty-third day). A jerking when drinking (not when eating) in region of thyroid cartilage, which is even painful to touch, as if a plug were sticking there.
Stomach
Appetite. Increased appetite (first day). Food is again relished and the appetite returns, after drinking wine several times. A relish in the mouth on eating, but without hunger. Good appetite, at noon (seventeenth day) Much appetite (first day). Much appetite, though little taste to food (first day). Great appetite at noon (fourteenth and twentieth days). Very great appetite; he eats twice as much as usual (fifth day). Excessive appetite, and desire for something good, at 10 A.M. (twentieth day). Feeling of hunger, several times during the day (seventh day). Hunger, with relish for coffee, in the morning (nineteenth day). Frequent hunger; he eats much more than usual (tenth day). Much hunger all day; though he usually ate very little, now he was obliged to eat often and much, and became hungry again after an hour (eight day). Excessive hunger; she ate much during the day (fifth day). Violent hunger, so that he was obliged to eat much throughout the day. (third day). Sensation of hunger in the stomach, though without appetite, in th afternoon after drinking. Violent sensation of hunger, like emptiness, with restlessness, woke him in the morning. Painful sensation of hunger in the stomach, but satiated immediately on eating. Great desire to eat, almost amounting to ravenous hunger towards noon; after eating, great weariness and sleepiness (third day). Canine hunger, especially for supper, with weakness of body and depressed mind; the longer he sat, the more hungry he seemed; stronger after eating. Unusual hunger, alternating with loss of appetite. Inclination to eat, without remarkable appetite, followed by fullness. Too much desire to eat, in the evening. Constant craving for food; is unable to eat more than a few mouthfuls. Particular desire for fish, in the evening; at the first morsel, nausea, so that he was unable to eat any more; he had appetite for white bread, which he relished; the aversion to fish disappeared after drinking black coffee (thirteenth day). Desire for bread; he ate four pieces, with constant drinking and involuntary motion of the masticatory muscles, with great appetite; distension and swelling of the abdomen prevented further eating; but he still had a good appetite, though only for bread; this was followed by great sleepiness; he slept soundly, and woke about 1 A.M. with a pasty taste in the mouth, and much thirst; he drank two glasses of water, returned and slept quietly till morning. Appetite for sweets (at a time when she usually wanted beer, which today she disliked), (twenty-seventh day). Great desire for salt for two or three days; took a little at dinner today (sixth day). Great desire for cold things, in the afternoon (fourteenth day). Diminished appetite (first day). Appetite indifferent (after about six months), little appetite; (thirty-first day); at noon (seventh day). Little appetite; with a thickly coated tongue, flat, pasty taste, and disordered digestion. Very little appetite. Very little appetite, which, however, returns while eating. Loss of appetite, (sixteenth day), (twenty-seventh day), Loss of appetite in the evening, with nausea and disgusting taste. Loss of appetite, and aversion to eating. Complete loss of appetite. No appetite in the evening. No appetite and no real hunger, without bad taste. No appetite; she seems too full, though she relishes food when she eats. Feeling of satiety, in the afternoon. Aversion to food; (after 21st dil.). No appetite for coffee after rising (seventh day). No desire for meat and other food. Aversion to meat, and also to bread (thirty-second day). Aversion to black bread. Very indifferent to salt in food; for several weeks it was not easy to find anything too little salted; things much salted were remarkably distasteful; a very small piece of herring that I once ate in the evening caused moving and distension in the abdomen, loss of appetite, and restless sleep, frequently interrupted by drinking. He became so averse to salt that he could not think of it without nausea. No relish for tobacco (thirteenth to sixteenth day). Aversion to smoking. Complete loss of desire for smoking, to which he was accustomed; he could not smoke at all. Thirst. Thirst (usually there was a complete absence of thirst). Thirst; yet scarcely any desire to drink. Increased thirst; (after 23s to 15th dil.). Thirst constant Much thirst (first, third, and fourth days); (after 21st dil.), etc. Much thirst in the morning on rising, and also all day (ninth day). Much thirst, especially for wine (fifth day). Great thirst, relieved by drinking water (soon), (eleventh day). Became very thirsty during the following night, and drank large quantities of water, passing also a great quantity of urine. These symptoms have ever since uninterruptedly continued, and instead of showing any signs of remission have rather gradually increased; the quantity of water consumed in the twenty-four hours was about one gallon and one pint (2 kannen, Sw.), and the quantity of urine in the same space of time was somewhat less than one gallon (1 3/4 kan, Sw.); one night, instead of water, she drank two pint bottles of Bavarian beer and two pint bottles of porter. Excessive thirst (immediately after a large dose), (eighteenth day). Violent, almost unquenchable thirst, with frequent profuse micturition (eighteenth day). Very violent thirst. Unquenchable thirst. Extraordinary desire for wine (eight day). Much thirst all day, for neither water nor beer, only for wine (fourteenth day). Much thirst for beer (twenty-eight day). Great thirst for wine; all wine seems sour, though other things do not (sixth day) No desire for coffee, but for wine, soup (seventh day). Special desire for wine (third day).Desire for wine, could scarcely wait to get to the bar; in a few minutes he drank a pint with two pints of water. Great desire for wine, after which the appetite increased. Desire for coffee (sixteenth day). Loss of thirst (fifth day). Aversion to beer and wine though she was thirsty; beer had a flat watery taste (twenty-third day). Aversion to beer and tobacco, in the evening. No relish for beer (sixteenth day). Little relish for coffee (fourteenth day). No desire for coffee, and after qualmishness, in the morning (twentieth day). No desire for coffee, and after drinking it, cutting pain in the left side, in the region of the spleen (eighteenth day). Aversion to coffee. Eructation and Hiccough. Eructation. Eructation after eating, even after several hours. Eructation for twenty-four hours after eating bread. Eructations with rancid heartburn. Frequent eructations. Many eructations. Incomplete eructations. Empty eructations repeated from time to time (first day). Empty eructations, in the morning (twenty-third days). Empty eructations, after every meal, or in the open air. Frequently empty eructations, with a feeling of discomfort in the stomach (in the forenoon). Eructations of odorless and tasteless gas. Frequent empty and odorless eructations. Eructations of beer, so that it comes through the nose, though without hops (third day). Sour scraping eructations of food. Sour risings of food. Sour risings of liquids, late in he evening. Bilious risings. Water brash after eating, at times repeated, nearly everyday. Water brash, following pressure in the stomach from eating; then nausea, then vomiting, at first of food, at last of bile, with colic. Acidity in the mouth, for half a hour after eating. Acidity in the mouth, and dryness in the throat, after every meal. Burning rising from the stomach, and sour eructations, after dinner, two afternoons. Heartburn; (1st trit); (4th trit. and 8th dil.);in the evening, after the proving, etc. Heartburn and water brash, daily. Hiccough (first day). Hiccough for several days (after twenty-five days). Hiccough, yawning, and nausea, while in bed in the evening. Hiccough after eating. Hiccough, alternating with yawning; at last yawning alone, lasting a quarter of an hour. Violent hic- cough. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea; (soon after 1 drachm), etc. Nausea in the stomach., even to faintness (1st trit). Sensation of nausea, as from an empty stomach (after 5th trit). Nausea in the morning, so that she could scarcely endure it (twenty eight day). Nausea with vertigo and empty eructations, in the morning after rising (sixteenth day). Nausea with burrowing in the pit of the stomach, every day, at 8 A.M., lasting two hours. Nausea, as from ravenous hunger, towards noon. Nausea so great towards noon that she was obliged to go to bed (thirty-first day). Nausea and qualmishness in the pit of the stomach; every day, from 7 A.M. till noon. Nausea and qualmishness, with empty eructations, towards 4 P.M.; after she had drunk a little coffee (thirty- second day). Nausea and qualmishness, with increased accumulation of saliva (after half an hour, fifth day). Nausea in several paroxysms, immediately after eating; with heaviness in the head and frequent eructations, lasting two hours. After eating without appetite, nausea and an attack of cramp in chest. Nausea, for half an hour after dinner. Nausea after dinner, after walking in the open air; it commenced in the stomach and lasted an hour; was associated with frequent yawning, thirst, emission of saliva from the mouth, and mental and physical exhaustion (after 1st trit). Nausea as soon as she presses on the painful spot. Nausea with vertigo (tenth day). Sensation of nausea, with frequent yawning (after 2d trit). Nausea with inclination to vomit, and accumulation of water in the mouth;the nausea frequently reappeared during the day (after 1 1/2 drachm). Nausea with inclination to vomit, and tendency to diarrhoea. Nausea and inclination to vomit; with complete exhaustion and weakness. Nausea and frequent inclination to vomit, all the forenoon. Nausea, heartburn, and pressure in the stomach; the pressure extends to the back; aggravated by inspiration (after 9th dil.) Attacks of nausea in the morning, with weakness and deathly paleness of the face; he was obliged to lie down (fourth day). Attacks of nausea, in the morning (after drinking milk), with trembling of the limbs for an hour; she became dizzy, and it turned black before her eyes; she was obliged to steady herself to prevent falling. Attack of nausea at supper time (before she had eaten anything), with violent chill during every attack; after lying down in bed she soon became warm, without subsequent heat; during the night, twice walking, with acute drawing pain back and forth in the forehead, and slight throbbing between the attacks. Transient nausea (after a quarter of an hour). Transient nausea, with a feeling of fullness and tension in the lower abdomen. Frequent nausea at various times, not preventing eating. Constant nausea while yawning. Excessive nausea after a very pleasant drink, so that she was obliged to lie down on the right side, which gave relief. Qualmish nausea for several minutes, in he morning. Qualmish nausea, and twisting and turning in the stomach. Shuddering nausea, repeated whenever he thought of the drug (eight day). Shuddering nausea, with rumbling in the abdomen, and frequent yawning (immediately), (fourth day). Qualmishness (soon), (third day), (fourth day), (soon after 3d trit). Qualmishness and empty eructations (twenty-first day). Qualmishness and frequent yawning (immediately). In the forenoon, attack of qualmishness, with vertigo, burrowing in the pit of the stomach, and chilliness as if dashed with cold water; wherever she looked, everything seemed to turn around in a circle with her, as if she would fall forward; the head was so heavy that she could scarcely walk, and it seemed heavier than the rest of the body. Qualmishness, with eructations of air and some accumulation of water in the mouth; the qualmishness lasted half an hour, and vomiting could with difficulty be avoided (immediately, fourth day). Qualmishness in the stomach, and some eructations (eight day). Feeling of qualmishness in the stomach (first day). Inclination to vomit (after breakfast), (third day). Reaching in the throat (fourth day). Retching with nausea and complete loss of power; after warm pleasant drink in the morning; without vomiting. Occasionally empty vomitings. Nausea amounting to vomiting, with dryness of the mouth, and burning in the stomach (after a few minutes). Violent nausea, so that he immediately vomited. Felt very sick; slight vomiting; in the evening (sixteenth day). Stomach. Great distension of the epigastric region of the whole abdomen, with rumbling, lasting half an hour (eighteenth day). Trembling of the stomach (thirty-second day). Disturbed digestion, coated tongue, bitter flat taste (especially in the morning). Weakness of the stomach (1st trit). Feeling of weakness and trembling in the stomach (twenty- first day). Faintness at the stomach, in the forenoon (fourth day). Emptiness of the stomach (seventeenth day). Emptiness of the stomach came on an hour after a dose, ceased in half an hour, with discharge of flatus upward, but more downward (second day). Sensation of emptiness in the stomach, as if he were hungry; though he had no appetite (first day). Feeling of emptiness in the stomach, in the morning (twentieth day). Anxious sensation in the pit of the stomach. Sensation of flatulence about the stomach (after 8th dil.). Sensation as if the stomach were hanging by a thread, lasting a short time; an emptiness in the stomach continued till towards noon (after two hours). Feeling of coldness and emptiness in the stomach (twenty- seventh day); in the forenoon (twenty- fifth day) Feeling of coldness and pressure in the stomach (immediately), (third day); (twenty-fifth and twenty-seventh day). Feeling of coldness in the stomach, and four diarrhoea-like stools (twenty-sixth day). Burning warmth and fullness in the stomach (after 1 1/2 drachm) Burning in the stomach (apparently in the external parietes of the abdomen), in the evening (twenty third day). Burning by paroxysms, in the pit of the stomach (after 1 drachm). Burning in the pit of the stomach (seeming to be between the stomach and the parietes of the abdomen), in the evening in bed (twenty first day). Burning in the stomach, with oppression of the chest (after two hours, fourth day). Burning in the stomach, together with chilliness over the surface of the body (immediately), (first day). A cooling burning in the stomach, for a quarter of an hour, gradually ceasing (after 2d trit). The stomach seems too full (twenty-first day). Fullness of the stomach always comes on an hour after a dose; is soon followed by a slight tension, that lasts two hours, with very great, almost ravenous, appetite (thirteenth day). Fullness and distension in the stomach and abdomen (after 1t trit). Fullness and distension in the epigastric region, after eating and drinking. After a meal, feels distended almost to suffocate. Sensation of a hard swelling in the pit of the stomach, with tightness transversely across the hypochondria, in the afternoon. Heaviness and tightness transversely across below the pit of the stomach. Constriction of the stomach, in the evening (first day). Violent constriction of the stomach (twenty-first day). Violent constriction in the stomach and chest. Spasmodic constriction of the stomach (twenty-third day). Constrictive pain in the stomach, followed by cutting and rumbling in the abdomen, in the morning (twenty-second day). Constricting and cutting pain in the stomach, accompanied by a sensation of pressure before dinner, lasting several minutes, and frequently recurring till evening (sixteenth day). Constrictive pain by paroxysms, in the cardiac orifice of the stomach. Cramp in the stomach towards the evening, lasting through the night till next morning. Constrictive cramp in the stomach, at 5P.M. with a feeling of coldness in the back and stomach, towards evening (fourth day). Griping in the pit of the stomach, after eating. Dull disagreeable sensation in the stomach, relieved by stooping. Pressure in the stomach (3d trit), (5th trit). Pressure in the stomach impeding respiration (after 6th trit). Pressure in the stomach and hepatic region, with constant rumbling in the upper abdomen (eight day) Pressure in the stomach and hepatic region, with tightness of the chest and profuse emission of saliva from the mouth (third day). Pressure in the stomach, lasting several minutes and returning at short intervals; this pressive pain extended from the stomach to the back, and caused a slight constriction in the pharynx (third day). Pressure in the stomach as after taking cold, in the morning. Pressure in the stomach after eating; (after 10th dil.). Pressure and fullness in the stomach after dinner. Pressure in the stomach after dinner. Pressure in the stomach, with frequent need of yawning to obtain relief. Pressure in the stomach and frequent loud rumbling in the abdomen (after 10th dil.). Pressure in the stomach, with attacks of nausea and loud rumbling, lasting five minutes (after 2d trit). Pressure in the stomach extending into the chest, lasting a quarter of an hour; four and six hours after dinner. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as if something hard were lying in it, causing the pressure; it frequently obliges deep inspiration (after five minutes ) Pressure as from a stone in the stomach (after 8th dil.). Pressure as from a stone in the stomach, with a sensation of nausea (after 30th dil.). Pressure as from a stone in the stomach, with much yawning (two hours and a half after 13th dil.). Pressure in the pit of the stomach, with sensitiveness to touch (after 6th dil.). Pressure and scraping in the stomach, as if it were disordered, followed by heartburn as from glowing coals (after 6th trit). Pressure in the epigastric region; (eighteenth day). Pressure in the epigastric region, in a spot as large as the palm of the hand, lasting a quarter of an hour (first day). Slight pressure in the stomach, in the forenoon (fourth day). Disagreeable pressure in the pit of the stomach, for a few hours in the forenoon (fifth day). Painful pressure in the stomach, that impedes breathing, and lasts one or two minutes, then intermits for four or five minutes and then returns, the whole forenoon (after 4th trit) Painful pressure in the stomach in the evening, with tightness of breath and a sensation as if the diaphragm pressed against the lungs and prevented their expansion; with frequent yawning and rumbling in the abdomen (seventh day). Cramp like pressure in the stomach; the pain extends across the hypochondriac region to the back and shoulders, with frequent yawning; lasting all the evening, and felt even the next day (after 3d trit). Pressive heaviness and a griping sensation in the stomach, like beginning heartburn; with nausea and qualmishness (23s to 15th dil.). Pressive sensation in the stomach (seventh day); (thirteenth day). Pressive sensation in the stomach, with emptiness and yawning, lasting till towards noon (eight day). Pressive pain in the stomach with repeated attacks of nausea, in the evening (first day). Pressive pain in the stomach, as if something heavy were lying in it, with trembling of the hands and feet, in the morning (twenty third day). Pressive pain in the liver; the pressure was aggravated periodically, and was felt through the whole back; on the following days, this pressure in the liver and back near the spine became very painful; the urine became black as if saturated with burnt coffee, and was completely opaque (urina ictericorum); but there was no change in the color of the skin (after nine days). Pressive pain below the pit of the stomach, above the navel; relieved by pressure. Pressive dull sticking pain in the pit of the stomach, extending downward. Sore pressive sensation in the stomach, after eating. Sensation as if a foreign body were sticking in the cardiac orifice of the stomach, and behind the sternum. Sticking pain, and a sensation of coldness in the pit of the stomach, from which spot the stitches extended upward and backward in the chest, at 7 P.M. (third day). Stitches in the pit of the stomach (tenth day); (thirty- first day, and in morning, twenty-third day); worse on motion (1st trit). Transient stitches in the region of the pylorus. Small stitches in the right side of the stomach every day at 2 or 3 P.M. Colic pain in the stomach, with nausea; in the morning on waking. Pain as from a blow in the left side, near the pit of the stomach, perceptible to touch. Scraping in the stomach, as if he had eaten something indigestible (after 20th dil.). Scraping sensation and pressure in the stomach (after 5 minutes). Scraping sensation in the stomach, with a dry tongue, without thirst, all day (after 15th dil.). Throbbing like the beating of the heart, in the pit of the stomach. Throbbing in the pit of the stomach, especially after eating. Pulsation in the pit of the stomach (eight day). Pulsation in the pit of the stomach while eating, lasting several minutes (third day). Very acute pricking in the stomach.
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.