Ostrya



Extremities.

Arms an legs ache (after five hours). Dull pains in the arms and legs (after seven hours). Fine drawing rheumatic pains in the first joint of the left forefinger and little finger, lasting ten minutes (after five hours). Fine drawing pains in the fingers (second day). Frequent drawing pains in the fingers in the morning (third day). Awoke several times with a cramp like pain in the lower extremities (first day). Drawing pains in the right ankle (first day).

Generalities

Very nervous, with dull headache, and dull pains in the right hypochondrium, aggravated by walking (after five hours). Feeling nervous (first day). Numb, prickling feeling of the head, face and hands, the head is especially affected, with the dull headache (after three hours) better feeling very languid (after ten hours). Feeling languid, with constant pain in the lumbar and sacral region (after eleven hours). Feeling of weakness or debility, with gentle perspiration covering the entire surface (after eleven hours, third day). Uneasy feeling throughout the system, with slight headache (half an hour after second dose, second day). Slept well, but feeling as though I had not slept any (second morning). The system feels as though it had been acted upon by an active or drastic purgative (after eleven hours, third day). A slight tonic effect.

Sleep

Constant disposition to yawn (after ten hours). Rested and slept much better than the previous night (twenty-second day). Slept well and sound (twenty-third night). Slept well night (third night). Did not sleep well, was very restless, as if produced by strong tea (fourth night). Slept but little, was not sleepy (twentieth night).

Fever

Cold, chilly sensations about the shoulders (second day). Gentle perspiration covering the entire surface, with a feeling of weakness of debility (after eleven hours, third day).

Conditions.-

Aggravation.

(Morning), 6 A.M., headache; right lateral headache; loss of appetite; dull distress in umbilicus; drawing pain in fingers.

(Afternoon), Sickening pain in epigastrium; 3 P.M., pain at umbilicus; mushy stool with burning at the anus.

(Evening), Sharp pain back of mastoid process of temple; sour stomach; sickening pain at epigastrium; pain in umbilicus.

(Night), Cutting pain in epigastric region.

(Moving), Distress in bowels. (Stooping), Throbbing pain in forehead; pain in lumbar region.

(Walking), Throbbing pain in forehead; pain in head; pain in right hypochondrium; pain in lumbar region; pain in lower extremities.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.