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(Forenoon), Pain in arms, chest, and back; chill, with headache; 10 A.M., violent chill.

(Noon), Sleepiness.

(Afternoon) Sticking in left side of occiput; after eating, eructations; distension of the stomach; pressure in the stomach and diarrhoea; stitches in the stomach; abdomen distended; hoarseness; pressure and tightness in the chest; 3 or 4 P.M., chilliness; febrile coldness and blue nails.

(Toward evening), Sneezing, with;sleepiness; heartburn; eructations; burning pain in urethra; cough.

(Evening), Vertigo, with roaring in the ear; in bed, vertigo and nausea after walking in the open air, headache; tearing headache; pain in right side of vertex; stitches in vertex, followed by pressure; pressure in the eyes; twitching before eyes; roaring in left ear; tearing in a hollow tooth; sticking in teeth; hiccough; clawing in stomach; on going to sleep, abdomen much distended; griping and rumbling in abdomen; cutting colic; griping in abdomen; feeling of diarrhoea in the abdomen, without stool; in bed, rattling in trachea; dyspnoea; while sitting still, palpitation; orgasm of blood, with bitter taste; weariness and stiffness in small of back and coccyx; bruised sensation in limbs; stiffness of fingers and arms; picking in a wart on the finger; in bed, pain in warts; tearing in left knee; while walking and lying down, sticking in right knee-joint; swelling and heat in sole of foot; on lying down, heaviness and bruised sensation in limbs; in bed, whole body jerked together; while sitting still, sleepiness; chilliness; 10 P.M., internal shaking chill; shaking chill; coldness; cold feet; 5 to 6 P.M., heat; after lying down, perspiration on head.

(Night), Sticking toothache; much micturition; cough; oppression of chest; pressure upon upper part of sternum; heaviness in the limbs, and weariness in the back; gouty pain in hip, knee, and ankle-joints’ cramp in the calves; cramp in tendo Achilles; cramp in soles of feet; restless seep; dreamy slumber’ coldness in right lower extremity; feet cold; heat.

(Before midnight), Heat, with burning pain in mouth.

(About midnight), Awakened by pressure and griping in abdomen.

(After midnight), Chilliness.

(Acid and salt things), Smarting on tongue.

(Open air), Lachrymation; entering teeth, pain.

(Bending arm), Stitches up and down arm.

(Bending body to left), Cutting pain in right side of chest.

(After breakfast), Toothache; bitterness in mouth; uprisings of sour water.

(During caress), Emission.

(When chewing), Gum sore.

(Coughing), Stitching in chest, and pain in head; nausea.

(Paroxysms of cough), Pain in groin.

(After dinner), Dizziness; heat of the face; sour eructations; moderate one, fulness, with pressure in the stomach.

(Eating a little food), Disorders his stomach, and causes fulness and oppression.

(After eating), Head seems befogged; rush of blood to head; rising of heat into left side of head, with red cheeks; accumulation of saliva; in the morning and at noon, cramp like spasm in chest; insipidity and uneasiness; heat and perspiration on head.

(Following nocturnal emission), Sticking in the right groin.

(Incomplete eructations), Painful jerk in back.

(Exerting eyes), Burning and cutting in them.

(Physical exertions), Stitches in hepatic region.

(Flexion of arm), Pain in axillary fossa.

(Going upstairs), Violent pulse.

(Keeping quiet), Throbbing in soles of feet.

(Lying upon part), Pulsation in occiput.

(During menses), Singing and roaring in ears; tearing in thigh; places in knee painful to touch; weakness and prostration; heat in soles and hands.

(Menstrual blood), Itching on genitals.

(During micturition), Constriction in region; neck of bladder; cutting in neck of bladder; burning pain.

(After micturition), Dribbling of urine.

(After a glass of milk), Eructations, with pressure in the stomach.

(Motion), Rapid, feeling of a rush of blood to brain; slight, violent circulation of blood; pressive pain in nape of neck; cramp in upper arm; pain in hips; pain in left thigh.

(Moving about), Cutting pain in small of back.

(Moving foot), Cramp in ankle and sole. (Pressure), Painfulness of bone above right eye; lower jaw painful.

(Pronation of the arm), Pain in arm.

(Putting right foot to ground in walking), Pain in hip and knee.

(Raising eyes), vertigo.

(Raising arm), Shoulder-joint painful.

(During rest), Stitches up and down arm.

(Riding in a wagon), Spine painful.

(Rising from a seat, Vertigo; pain in small of back.

(Rising up from lying down), Vertigo.

(Sewing), Fullness and heat in head.

(Sitting in cold air), Oppression of chest.

(While sitting), Crawling; falling asleep of the abdominal muscles; cramp like pain in both groins; pain in small of back; coccyx painful; pressure in the hip; sticking sensation from above knee to foot.

(On going to sleep), Itching in anus.

(During sleep), Noon and night, twitchings.

(Smoking), Befogs him; cough.

(Stepping), Pain in first joint of toe.

(After stool), Dizziness; ravenous hunger.

(Stooping), Vertigo and nausea; pressure in head; sticking and jerking in head; sensation of fullness and heat in head; pain above right eyebrow; lower jaw painful; cutting pain in small of back.

(Stormy weather), Diarrhoea, with disordered stomach.

(Before an approaching storm), Faintness.

(Swallowing), Sticking pain in throat; rawness in pharynx; liquid, vomiting; painful jerk in back.

(After supper), Discomfort.

(Tough), Finger-mails painful.

(On urinating), Itching in the female urethra; stitch in penis.

(Walking), In open air, hypochondriac; vertigo; sticking jerking in head; sudden nausea; violent pulse; stitches in body; rapidly, muscles of left thigh felt stiff; weakness of right knee; cramp in left knee; painful jerking in right leg, from knee-joint; pain in tibia; pain in muscles of right lower leg; sticking sensation from above knee to foot; thighs stiff and heavy; tension in foot; burning over the whole body.

(After walking), Weakness; nervous weakness of whole body; weakness in small back.

(Warm room), Shivering in the back and loins.

(Wine taken at dinner), Goes to his head and makes him stupid.

Amelioration

(Bending backward), Drawing in back.

(Eating), Pressure in stomach.

(After eating), Weakness.

(Exercise on foot), Heaviness in stomach.

(After eructations), Pressure upon sternum.

(Hemorrhage from nose), Headache.

(Lying down), Vertigo.

(Motion), Pulsating roaring in forehead.

(Stooping), Cramp like spasm in chest. (Walking rapidly in open air), Stiffness in fingers and arm.

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.