Food and drink have a sour taste in the mouth. Sour taste, especially in the morning. Sour taste and sour odor from the mouth. Sour taste after drinking milk. Bitter taste in the mouth in the morning, though food and drink have a natural taste. Sour taste in the mouth, immediately after swallowing food that had a natural taste. Bitter taste on spitting out saliva. The mouth has a bitter taste, but not the food. Bitter taste low down in the throat, on expectorating the mucus from the chest. (Salty taste in the mouth). Hawking up salty mucus from the fauces. Coppery taste (after several days). (He notices a sweetish offensive taste and odor about himself). Beer has an herby taste. A nauseous herby taste in the throat, almost like that of carrots (after one hour). A putrid taste in the mouth. A disagreeable, almost sulphurous, odor and taste in the mouth and nose. A bad, slimy taste, composed of an herby and metallic taste, with ill- humor and laxity, in the morning. Taste in mouth as from a disordered stomach. Bread has a smoky taste. Bread or rolls have a sour taste, but not other food. The taste of milk in the morning is disgusting, as if spoiled. He has but little or no taste from eating; food seems to have no taste at all. She has to taste for milk, in the morning. He has no taste for coffee (after three hours). He has no taste for meat. Speech. Speech is difficult. Speech difficult, lisping with the tongue. Unable to articulate any sound (after half an hour). Speech constantly interrupted by sighs, weak, monosyllabic, often quite unintelligible. Speech very much interrupted by the frequent spasms of the extremities and spine (opisthotonos).
Throat
Throat rough from catarrh. Pressive-sticking sore throat, as if a plug were sticking in it, noticed even more when not that when swallowing. The throat is painful as if raw and sore, at the palate. Rawness in the throat that provokes cough. Pain in the throat, like a rawness, while swallowing (without sticking). Sore throat; a sore rawness in the fauces, only noticed on drawing in cold air, and on swallowing. Sore throat, as from swelling on the palate, not perceptible while drinking. Sore throat; a pressure in the throat, only noticed on swallowing saliva, not noticed on swallowing food. Sore throat; a sensation of swelling in the pharynx, even in the morning, in bed, more when swallowing than when not. Scraped feeling in the throat, as after heartburn.
Scraping and scratching in the throat, as if the skin were scratched off with a sharp instrument, not noticed on swallowing.
Scraping in the throat and orifice of the larynx, as after rancid heartburn (after eight hours). Such sharpness in the throat, only while coughing, that there is a pain in the pit of the throat (after two hours). Tickling in the region of the roof of the palate, that provokes dry cough (after forty-eight hours).
Crawling from below upward, in the pharynx, in the evening after lying down, during the menses. Great dryness posteriorly in the throat, after dinner. A rising up and burning, extending into the throat. Burning in the throat, at night; she was obliged to sit; on lying down it was worse. Burning sensation about throat and stomach (after half an hour). Burning and suffocating sensation about throat and chest (after three hours). Stitches in the upper part of the throat, in the afternoon (after seven hours).
Itching stitches in the throat, extending to the ears, on swallowing or moving the jaws. Some stitches in the sides of the throat, when not swallowing, especially noticed on stooping and going upstairs (after one hour, and twenty-four hours). Drawing pain in the muscles of the throat. Uvula and Fauces. Stitches in the uvula and in the submaxillary gland, when swallowing, with shivering during the day, perspiration at night and headache. He woke in the morning with very dry fauces, and after rising he noticed a very bad odor from the throat. Burning in the fauces, like a heartburn. Pharynx and Oesophagus. Pharynx constricted.
Burning sensation in the pharynx (after a quarter of an hour).
Burning in the oesophagus, extending to the mouth. Swallowing impeded.
Stomach
Appetite. Great hunger, also in the morning (after fifteen hours). Hunger; but after eating ever so little he was immediately satisfied and filled up (after three hours). Hunger, though with aversion to food. Periodic ravenous hunger, in the afternoon, especially after drinking Weiss beer, after a small swallow of which he became hungry; if the hunger passed away without eating, he felt quite full and satisfied. His appetite disappears after walking (for half an hour). Constant loss of appetite. Diminished appetite. Want of appetite and constant nausea (after several days). No relish for food; soon satisfied (fifth day). He eats without appetite. Desire for sauces with my food; usually I do not care for them, but live very plainly; this desire lasted several weeks, than ceased. Longing for tobacco, during the first hours. Aversion to the usual food and drink, and the customary tobacco and coffee. Food disgusts him. After eating, aversion to the food just eaten, especially if she does not lie down. Aversion to food (immediately). Special aversion to bread. Aversion to rye bread; it causes a collection of water in the mouth. He is averse to sour (black) bread. Thirst. Excessive thirst. Tormented with incessant thirst. Excessive thirst for small beer, after the morning sweat. Thirst ardent. Much thirst (second day). She called frequently for drink. Thirst in the afternoon and evening. Thirst, without heat of the body, and yet drink distresses the stomach (after six hours). Thirst for beer during a chill (after twenty-four hours). Thirst for small beer, with shivering (after two hours). (Thirst for milk). Thirsty, yet averse to water and beer. Thirst and good relish for drink, but drinking is soon followed by qualmishness, nausea, in the evening (after twelve hours). Eructations. Frequent eructations. Painful eructations. Eructations of a sour taste and odor, with yawning (three hours after eating), (after eight hours). Eructations after eating and drinking. Sour eructations all day (second day).
Sour eructations, coming as far forward as the tongue, after walking in the morning. Eructations of bitter and sour liquid (after six hours). Eructations of bitter sour liquid, at night (after twelve hours). Bitter eructations while fasting. Offensive exhalations from mouth, and vertigo on stooping. It frequently seems as if she would eructate, but she does not; it then seems as if the oesophagus were constricted by a spasm. Rising of water into the mouth, after eating. Hiccough and Heartburn. Frequent hiccough, without cause. Hiccough before dinner (after twenty- four hours). Heartburn. Rancid heartburn, as after overloading the stomach with rancid fat (after six hours). Nausea and Vomiting. Constant nausea and want of appetite (after several days). Nausea. Nausea, even in the morning. Nausea in the morning, affecting the body here and there, as if everything were fermenting (after twelve hours). Nausea, an hour before dinner (after sixteen hours). Nausea after dinner (after forty hours).
Qualmish nausea after eating (qualmishness). Nausea (about 5 P.M.), (after twenty hours). Nausea in the pit of the stomach, in the afternoon, though not amounting to vomiting (after three days). After anxiety nausea, and rapid respiration, then dry cough caused by the nausea, with qualmishness and vomiting.
Nausea after dinner and drink, followed by thirst, and after drinking abdomen distended, as if swollen. Nausea, and efforts to vomit, without vomiting (after one hour). When she wishes to eat she is attacked with nausea. A kind of faintness during dinner, with nausea and flushes of heat, all of which disappear on lying down. Smoking makes him nauseated and qualmish (after three hours, and eight hours). Qualmishness immediately after eating.
Qualmishness about the heart, with nausea, and accumulation of saliva, in the morning; in the afternoon, shivering. Qualmishness about the heart. A feeling after eating as if he were sick, and had, notwithstanding his sickness, overloaded himself with food.
Qualmishness during the morning sweat. Qualmishness for an hour after dinner (after three hours). Qualmishness with a clean tongue after palpitation. After dinner he suddenly became qualmish and nauseated; followed by vertigo and attacks of faintness, after many eructations without taste or odor (after thirteen days). After a meal he is qualmish, anxious, nauseated, and sick, as after a violent purge; the sensation rises up from the pit of the stomach. Complained of being very sick, made many attempts to vomit. Inclination to vomit (soon). Violent vomiting.
Vomiting. Copious vomiting, after large quantities of milk.
Vomiting, several times (after one hour). Vomiting of sour- smelling and sour-tasting mucus, towards evening, with headache like a tearing (?) around about the lower portion of the skull (after nine hours). Vomiting of sour mucus, in the forenoon (after twenty hours). Retching, as if to vomit, while hawking the mucus from the fauces (after four hours). Efforts at vomiting. (* Original revised by hughes. *) Efforts to vomit. Hematemesis.
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.