Throat
Dryness of the throat posteriorly; it feels stiffened (as with braces), without thirst. Sensation of dryness in the throat and much thirst, with a white mucous coating on the tongue and slimy mouth (first day). Scraping dryness in the throat. Sharp scraping sensation in the throat, especially on swallowing.
Scraping, dry, scratching sensation in the throat, immediately.
Stitches in the throat that provoke hawking, but that are not relieved thereby (after a quarter of an hour). Fauces, Esophagus, and swallowing. Velum palati and fauces slightly red; blood vessels injected, but the mucous membrane between them white, with a sensation of rawness (fifth day). Sensation of dryness in the fauces and choanae, extending forward, with an inclination to swallow, but without thirst (after twenty-four hours). Pressive pain in the region of the arch of the palate and in the left tonsil, as though he had swallowed a hard substance, and it still continued to cause pain; but slight redness could be seen (third day). (* From the flowers. *) In the afternoon, on going into the street, in spells, during a quarter of an hour, burning in the oesophagus (after one day). Paralysis of the organs of deglutition, making it difficult to swallow saliva. So great dryness in the throat that he could not swallow a bite of an apple (first day).
Stomach
Appetite. Never felt so hungry in my life; could scarcely control my appetite nor control myself (first evening). Very great hunger at noon; he ate with great haste, and although it oppressed the stomach he could have eaten still more (first day).
Appetite very much increased, immediately. Increased appetite, that was scarcely satisfied when it returned (first day).
Appetite much increased on the first days, subsequently diminished. Increased appetite (first, second, and third days).
Rather excessive hunger. (* From inunction of the tincture. *) Increased hunger; he eats very much, and the abdomen is much distended. He has little appetite and is soon satisfied. Appetite gone; he could, however, eat his dinner; victuals tasted like sawdust (after six hours). The preserved nuts, eaten too often, weaken the appetite. Aversion to tobacco smoke, all day (first day). Thirst. Drinks very much (first day). Much thirst for an hour; it then disappears, soon. (* From rubbing the tincture on the abdomen. *) He drinks much (after one day). Remarkable absence of thirst in one usually inclined to be very thirsty (first day). Eructations and Nausea. Eructations as of pine oil (after five minutes). Scraping eructations, always a short time after eating (second, third, and fourth days). Emission of offensive flatus (first day). Violent nausea (after a few hours).
Nausea, with shuddering aversion to food; vomiting. Nausea and collection of water in the mouth, with great inclination to sleep (that, however, was not sound), although in the morning. (* From the flowers. *) Nausea (after two hours and a half). Slight nausea a few times in the forenoon, at times alternating with increased appetite (first day). Slight nausea, as if I had been smoking inordinately (after one hour and a half). At different times throughout the night the patient made fruitless efforts to vomit; there was much retching. Stomach in General. Stomach was very much distended and swollen. Sickness at stomach, but no vomiting, at 2 P.M. Warmth in the stomach, immediately. Sensation of warmth in the stomach (after half an hour). Slight burning in the stomach, like a sensation of fasting. Burning and pressure in the stomach, from which a burning extends upward, soon. Pressure in pit of stomach. Slight oppression in the pit of the stomach.
Pains in the stomach (after a few hours). Painful sensation, as if laced at the stomach, as if she had to vomit (drawn up as if it would break). Was seized while ascending the stairs with a sense of much weight and oppression in the stomach. The daily use of nutmeg coats the stomach with mucus and causes vapors in the head, so that lethargy easily occurs. The sugared nuts disturb the stomach, make digestion difficult, impair the appetite, and produce a tendency to inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach. It frequently distresses the stomach and weakens the digestion. Impaired digestion; after each meal patient complains of a sense of weight over epigastric region, followed with at times gulping up of wind, prior to which a feeling as though there was a lump in the throat (globus hystericus), which disappears in part as soon as the stomach is relieved of wind; Lachesis 2C. relieves this condition usually.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Constriction in the right side of the upper abdomen, like a forcing outward, while walking (after one hour).
A slight jerk in the right side below the liver, soon. Sensation as if the region of the liver was being scorched (first day); next day passed blood with the stool, without pain, but at the same time constipation and nausea around the region of the scrobiculum. Plucking sensation in the upper part of the abdomen and liver, as if the parts should be lengthened, stretched; as it were, a heaving motion in these parts; it felt as if the liver were being pulled down or twisted around; in the afternoon (first day). Pressure in the liver, as from something sharp, as if stones were pressing out or would cut their way out, as though it caused a tearing; this was accompanied by diarrhoeic stools, always preceded by an agreeable sensation in the stomach; the relief was such that it seemed as though the evacuations came down from the liver (in a woman suffering from enlargement of the liver), (second day). Umbilical and Sides. Colic in the umbilical region, relieved by pressure (after a quarter of an hour).
Griping in the umbilical region, at night, in bed (first day).
Griping at the umbilicus, in the evening, in bed, after the febrile chill (eighth day). Cutting in the middle of the abdomen, with inclination to flatulence and diarrhoea, with aching in the temples, in the evening (first day). Cutting commencing in the navel, and seeming to extend in two rays towards both sides, downward and backward, at night (first day). Repeated shooting in abdomen, about level of umbilicus, from right side to left (after fifteen minutes, first and second days, and on the fourth day, without repetition of dose). To the right of the umbilicus, pain like stitches in the spleen, which made him bend up double (first day). A constrictive kind of pain, a kind of griping, confined to a small spot in the right side, not far from the navel (after two hours). Pain like spleen stitches in the right side, near the navel, drawing him together (first day). General Abdomen.
Distension of the abdomen, as from flatus (after five hours).
Distension of the abdomen, with nausea; twisting about the navel, that extends now to the heart, now downward; towards evening; together with discharge of threadworms with the stool. The abdominal muscles were drawn up very much, as in chorea, during the spasms. Rumbling in the abdomen, immediately. Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, as from the movement of gas (after half an hour). Flatulent troubles; pressing outward in the left groin (after three hours). Flatulent troubles in the evening; griping colic, with emission of much flatus that affords relief. Although he constantly experienced slight colic, with inclination to flatulence and diarrhoea, and a sensation as if diarrhoea would result, yet he was obliged to make great exertion to evacuate a stool of normal consistence; this was bright yellow, with pieces of undigested fruit (after twenty-one hours). Pain in the belly, as if it were full of knots, with chilliness, little appetite, and feeling of fullness, lasting the entire day. Next day more cutting in the belly; she had to sit down; could scarcely walk on account of weakness; some diarrhoea. Jerking here and there in the abdomen. A qualmish sensation in the abdomen, that is full and distended, with pain in the small of the back. Discomfort in the abdomen, as though he had eaten too much and the abdomen were over-distended (first day). (A pressure upward from both sides of the abdomen, towards the pit of the stomach, like that he usually experienced before a hemorrhoidal flow, at night), (first day).
(Cutting and pressure in the abdomen, especially across the bladder, as though diarrhoea would come on, in the evening (second day); stool more difficult than usual), (third day).
(Pressure and troubles in the abdomen, as before the appearance of a hemorrhoidal flow), (first day). Moving about the abdomen, as though he would have colic (first day). Feeling as though colic would occur (after one hour). Commencement of colic beginning in the left side of the abdomen and extending towards the right and downward (second day). Attacks of colic in the upper abdomen and distension of it (first day). A kind of griping below the stomach, with a feeling as though it would change to real colic (second and third days). Colic; a kind of griping in the lower abdomen, for several days in succession, in the morning after breakfast (of cocoa); relieved on keeping quiet.
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.