Bitterness in the mouth, after breakfast, with scraping in the throat and eructations. Insipidity and saliva in the mouth, as from a disordered stomach. Dryness in the mouth, in the morning.
Violent burning in the mouth, throat, and stomach, immediately.
Saliva and Taste. Profuse accumulation of saliva in the mouth always after eating; was obliged to spit a great deal. Great accumulation of mucus in the mouth and nose. Slimy taste in the mouth, with a white tongue. Acid, slimy taste in the mouth. Bad taste. Bad taste in mouth (second day). Taste as of a disordered stomach and heaviness in the head. Sour taste in the mouth.
Bitter sour taste, in the morning. Rancid taste in the throat.
Foul taste, as of spoiled meat.
Throat.
Constant hawking of mucus, in the morning, with headache. He was constantly obliged to hawk up thick mucus, especially in the morning. Throat covered with mucus. Swelling of the throat and dryness in the mouth. Inflammation of the throat, immediately.
Great dryness in the throat, causing much cough. Dryness of the throat (after a few hours). Dryness sin the throat, with eructations and loss of power. Dryness in the mouth and throat, in the morning, so violent that it took away her breath. Stopped sensation in the posterior nares. Violent tickling in the throat, extending to the ear, on swallowing. Violent burning in the throat, immediately. Sore pain in the throat, and a feeling as if ulcerating. Sticking pain in the throat on only on swallowing.
The throat seems swollen internally. Fauces and Pharynx. Burning in the fauces, oesophagus, and upper part of the thorax (after twelve hours). Constriction of the pharynx (after half an hour).
Sensation of rawness in the pharynx, extending to the stomach (after six days). Rawness in the pharynx on swallowing. Scraping and scratching in the pharynx. Crawling in the pharynx and nose, as from snuff. Swallowing. When swallowing, a portion is forced up into the choanae. External Throat. Swelling of the submaxillary glands. Violent painful swelling of the submaxillary glands.
Stomach.
Appetite and Thirst. Ravenous hunger frequently, so that she became quite sick on account of it, and was also frequently awakened at night by it. Ravenous hunger, but speedy satiety after a stool. Insatiability at dinner. During this trial the appetite was variable, at time could not eat, at others relished a hearty meal. A nibbling appetite. No appetite and no thirst.
Violent unquenchable thirst (second day). Excessive thirst; (after thirty minutes); (after two hours). Much thirst all day.
Thirst (second day). Much thirst for beer, for a whole week.
Eructations. Frequent eructations (second day). Repeated hot, sharp, sour eructations an uprisings. Scraping eructations, even after a light meal (after four days). Eructations, with pressure in the stomach, after a glass of milk (third day). Eructations, with pressure in the abdomen. Eructations, all the afternoon, after eating. Eructations, tasting like bad eggs, in the morning (after twenty-four hours). Scrap sour eructations, after dinner.
Sour eructations, with weak vision. Sour eructations, that set the teeth on edge. Uprisings of sour water into the mouth, after breakfast. Tasteless eructations all day. Unpleasant eructations.
Hiccough and Heartburn. Violent hiccough, as many as three times a day, for several days. Violent hiccough twice in the evening, followed by much sneezing (after thirty-six hours). Heartburn, in the morning. Heartburn, towards evening, and eructations. Rancid heartburn. Nausea. After a normal (second) stool, qualmishness and a feeling of weakness (after twenty-four hours). Qualmish sensation in the stomach (after twenty-four hours) Qualmishness on coughing. Violent nausea, with cold sweat hand sticking in the right side of the abdomen. Incessant nausea (after two hours).
Sudden nausea on walking, with accumulation of water in the mouth; sudden heat of the face and vertigo, lasting a quarter of an hour (after fourteen days). Nausea every morning, immediately after waking; she could not eat breakfast. Nausea, in the morning, in the morning on waking, lasting an hour, till breakfast. Momentary nausea, in the morning or evening, with efforts to vomit. Nausea, in the morning, with accumulation of water in the mouth. Nausea and qualmishness all day (after six, and ten days). Nausea all day, often so violent that it takes away the breath, without vomiting. Nausea, all day, with loss of appetite, sour taste in th mouth, and dry white tongue. Nausea, with eructations (after twenty-four hours). Slight nausea, which increased (before two hours and a half); before 7 A.M. the sickness of the stomach had increased, so that at one time I thought I should vomit; so great during the day that several times I was obliged to lie down; the attacks came on every ten or twenty minutes, and lasted from three to five; they extended up into the throat, and the parts about the larynx seemed constricted. Vomiting. Violent vomiting (after one hour).
Constant vomiting of bile and blood. Whenever she swallowed liquids, it was followed by violent efforts to vomit; vomiting of bile at times mixed with blood (second day). General Stomach. The epigastric region was so distended that he was obliged to press the hands, tightly upon it, in spite of the great sensitiveness (after two hours). Distension of the stomach, in the afternoon.
Stomach and abdomen very sensitive to touch (second day). Stomach and abdomen frequently painful; at one time they seem constricted, at another distended. Violent burning in the stomach (second day). Burning in the throat, stomach and right side of the abdomen. Burning in the pit of the stomach (first night).
Stomach and pharynx seemed to be on fire (after two hours).
Sensation of constriction of the diaphragm (after half an hour).
Feeling of great emptiness in the stomach, as after long hunger.
Feeling of emptiness in the stomach, with stupefaction in the head. Fullness, with pressure, in the pit of the stomach, after a very moderate dinner (after three days). Pressure in the stomach and diarrhoea, in the afternoon, preceded by colic. Pressure in the stomach, fasting, removed by eating. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, two mornings in succession, fasting, with nausea.
Violent pains in the stomach. Violent pain in the pit of the stomach, as if something would be torn away. Pain in the stomach, in the morning. Pinching in the pit of the stomach (after two days). Clawing in the stomach, as from taking cold; woke her very early in the morning. Clawing in the stomach, as after taking cold, with anxiety, in the evening, lasting a quarter of an hour.
Cutting about the stomach, with desire for stool (after four days). Stitches in the pit of the stomach, in the afternoon.
Intolerable heaviness in the stomach, relieved by violent exercise on foot. The stomach feels relaxed. Very bad feeling in stomach and bowels at intervals. Much insipidity and uneasiness after eating. Discomfort after supper. A little food, especially sour-krout, “braun-krout.” etc., disorders his stomach and digestion, especially in stormy weather, so that he has diarrhoea day and night. All food, even the slightest, disorders her stomach; she cannot tolerate anything. A little food causes fulness and apprehension (second day). It seems apparent that Petroleum at first causes complete paralysis of the stomach and oesophagus, so that emetics had no effect, and only after irritating the epigastric region with friction was it possible to induce vomiting.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Pressure in the left hypochondrium (after twelve days). Pressure in the hepatic region. Stitches in both hypochondria, disappearing without emission of flatus. Stitches in the hepatic region, on some physical exertion. Umbilicus and Sides. Violent constrictive pain about the navel and in the pit of the stomach. Awoke at 5 A.M. with pain below umbilicus; on movement the pain became sharp and cutting, and increased the desire to have a passage from the bowels (second day). Clawing and biting about the umbilicus, in frequent paroxysms. Clawing in the umbilical region (first night). Clawing in both sides of the abdomen, from below upward, with heaviness in the lower extremities and great sleepiness,. Stitches in the right side of the abdomen, with nausea. General Abdomen. Abdomen swelled (after thirty minutes). Distension of the abdomen, for two days (after three days). Abdomen wonderfully distended or bloated. Abdomen very much distended, from drinking a little (after four days).
Abdomen very much distended, in the evening, on going to sleep.
Distension of the abdomen, especially after a meal, with pressure below the pit of the stomach. Abdomen distended by flatus.
Flatulent distension, after a stool. Rumbling in bowels, at 5 A.M. (second day). Griping and rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening. Rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening. Emission of much very offensive flatus, for many days. Very offensive flatus, before thin stool. Belching of wind. Accumulation and moving about of flatus in the abdomen (immediately). Violent cutting colic for two days, with clawing, in the abdomen, followed by many eructations, vomiting of clear water, diarrhoea, and headache (after a few hours). Violent colic, with efforts to vomit (immediately). Cutting colic, late in the evening; she was obliged to bend up. Cutting colic, several times in the morning, followed by diarrhea of a very offensive camphorated odor, with ineffectual urging after the evacuation. Colic, as from taking cold. Colic, with pressive pain. Colic (after two hours). Painful tension across the whole abdomen, with pain in the lower portion of the left side of the abdomen, as if something would break through, or as from an internal sore, in paroxysms for two or three hours. Tension and cramps in the abdomen (after three days). Griping in the abdomen, every ten minutes; she was always obliged to bend together (after thirteen days). Griping in the abdomen, several evenings (after forty-eight hours). Griping in the abdomen and diarrhoea, the whole day (after twenty-four hours). Pressure and griping in the abdomen, as after taking cold, woke him about midnight. Cutting in the abdomen (immediately, and again after seventy-two hours, in the morning on walking, and several times during the day). Cutting in the upper abdomen, with nausea and diarrhoea, woke him 4 a. m. (after forty-eight hours). Much cutting in the abdomen, for two days, and evacuations, at first fecal, afterwards of bloody mucus, with little faeces. Cutting in the abdomen, as from taking cold, followed by diarrhea, with pressure (after thirty-six hours).
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.