Common names (G.), Wasser-fenchel, Pferde-kuemmel, Ross-fenchel.
Introduction
Oenanthe phellandrium, Lamk. (Phellandrium aquaticum, Linn.).
Natural order: Umbelliferae.
Mind
Sensation of intoxication in the open air, that disappears in the house. Intoxication. Very much excited and joyous, in the evening (second day). Lively mood, with facile movements of the body, with agreeable warmth. Apprehension, with tightness about the chest, an hour and a half after dinner. She was apprehensive, and everything that she thought about fretted her, although she continued active at her work (after four hours). Depressed mood and sadness the whole forenoon. Sad, depressed, taking no pleasure in anything (after a quarter of an hour). Sad mood and fear the whole day, as from impending misfortune; she wept, and was prone to think upon sad subjects (third day). Everything fretted her; she had a morose expression (after one hour). Very ill-humored and sad (after two hours and a half). Ill-humored all day. Ill-humored, peevish. Deeply absorbed in herself and in thought (after four hours).
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo, so that she could scarcely open the eyes.
Vertigo, both while sitting and moving about. Vertigo, even to falling backward. The vertigo is worse in the open air; gradually disappears (after half an hour). Vertigo, so that she easily falls forward, backward, and to the side, in the house; better in the open air; worse while lying down (after five minutes).
Vertigo, that is worse when walking; it seems as though something projected from the forehead, so that she could not see over it (after eight minutes). Vertigo and dulness of the head (after a quarter of an hour). Vertigo and heaviness of the head; it threatens to fall to the side to which he turns it (after eight minutes). General Head. The head falls back an forth, while walking. Head dizzy and confused, as after intoxication, at 1 P.M. Obscuration of the head, as if intoxicated. Remarkable sensation of weight in the head, accompanied with giddiness, intoxication, etc. Heaviness of the head. Great heaviness of the head, that continued a long time, so that she thought she would be obliged to lie down (after ten minutes). Sensation of heaviness of the head, as if the head would be drawn backward to the nape of the neck (after half an hour). The head seems heavy, as if a weight were in it (after a quarter of an hour). The head seems large, full, and heavy (after half an hour). Sensation of fulness and heaviness in the head, so that she did not know how to hold it (after half an hour). Dulness of the head. dulness and headache the whole forenoon (after a quarter of an hour).
Headache, with perspiration on the top of the head as far as the forehead, a quarter of an hour after dinner, soon followed by coldness of the head. A sound in the brain, as if one were beating on metal that was freely swinging, which woke him, after which the sound gradually died away, at 5 A.M. (eighth day). The dull headache and most of the head troubles disappear during dinner. The head symptoms seem relieved in the open air.
Forehead. A back-and-forth movement in the forehead, almost as if the head were moving back and forth (after a quarter of an hour).
Pressive sensation in the left frontal region, with a sensation of warmth in it (after two hours and a half). Sticking in the right frontal region, that lasted a long time. Tearing in the forehead (after one hour and a half). Pressive tearing extending to the right frontal region, while standing, three-quarters of an hour after dinner. A dizzy headache in the left frontal region, with increased warmth of the head and hands, without perspiration (after a quarter of an hour). Temples. Pressure in right temple.
Fine sticking in front of the left temple, the soon disappears (after a quarter of an hour). A sticking burning in the left temple, at 9 P.M. Intermitting burrowing in the left frontal region (after two hours and a half). Vertigo. Painful heaviness of the vertex, as if a hard body were lying upon it (after two hours). A burrowing pressure on the top of the head, more to the left side (after three hours). An almost burning constrictive sensation on the top of the head, more towards the forepart and left side. A constrictive sensation extending from the vertex to the sinciput (after one hour and a half). Painful throbbing and sticking on the vertex, that lasted a long time, at 3 P.M. A sudden painful stitch in the vertex, so that it drew the head backward (after one hour and a half). Two tearing and a stitch in the right side of the vertex, after eating (after two hours). A hot orgasm extending from the occiput to the vertex, and a slight dull stitch in the left side of the vertex, a quarter of an hour after dinner. Parietals. Compressive pain in both sides of the head, with dull headache (after one hour). Tearing in the upper part of the right side of the head, on shaking the head (after three hours). Painful tearing in the right side of the head, extending downwards (after one hour). Occiput and External Head.
Very distressing intermitting pressure in the occiput (after two hours and a quarter). An almost burning constrictive sensation in the occiput, lasting three-quarters of an hour. Pressive dulness in the occiput, that lasted a long time (after half an hour).
Dull headache, especially in the sinciput. Painful tearing in the occiput (after two hours and a quarter). A slight burrowing in the left occipital protuberance (after eight minutes). Some sharp stitches in the right side of the occiput (after one hour).
Itching on the scalp, relieved by scratching (after three- quarters of an hour). Itching above the right side of the forehead, relieved by scratching, at 9.30 P.M. Itching on the left temple, relieved by scratching, but returning, and only entirely relieved after repeated scratching, at 2.30 P.M. Itching on the right side of the head, relieved by scratching, an hour and a half after dinner. Itching on the right side of the occiput, relieved by scratching (after two hours and three quarters). Biting, like fleabites, in a small spot on the upper part of the right side of the head, relieved by rubbing (after three- quarters of an hour). Two stitches, like fleabites, on the right side of the occiput, followed by sore smarting on the spot (after two hours and a half).
Eye.
Sensation of dryness and burning in the eyes, lasting half an hour (after three-quarters of an hour). Dryness of the eyes, with sticking in them, in the house and in the open air (after a quarter of an hour). Intermitting pressure about both eyes (after three hours). Frequent biting in the left eye, as from something corrosive. Sticking itching in both eyes, that disappears on rubbing (after half an hour). Itching in the right eye, that disappears on rubbing, at 8 P.M. Itching in the left eye, disappearing on rubbing, after dinner. Orbit and Lid. Frequent tearing in the right upper orbital margin, in the bone (after four hours). The eyelids close from heaviness and sleepiness (after five minutes). Frequent twitching of the left lids (after two hours and a half). Tearing in the right lower lid, near the outer canthus, after dinner. A tension and burning in a very small spot on the left lower lid (after three-quarters of an hour). The lids burn, in the morning, during and after rising (second day). Itching-sticking biting in the inner canthus (after one hour). Biting on the left lid, lasting a long time (after two hours and a quarter). Biting burning in the left upper lid, almost like that caused by horseradish or Mezereum, at 9.30. p.m.
Biting itching on the left lid, at 3 P.M. (third day). Itching in the left lower lid, that disappears after rubbing. Itching in the right inner canthus, that disappears on rubbing. Lachrymal Apparatus. Increased lachrymation in both eyes, with biting (after one hour). Watering of the eyes in the house and in the open air (after one hour). Watering of the eyes in the house and in the open air (after two hours and a half). The eyes are very watery, in the morning, but not agglutinated (second day). Vision Dimness of vision, with and without the vertigo, while sewing (after a quarter of an hour). Dimness, like a mist, before the eyes, that lasts three hours, while sewing (after half an hour).
Ear.
Itching tearing behind the left ear, that frequently returns (after one hour and a half). Painful tearing behind the left ear, at 3 P.M. Painful boring deep in the left ear, that extends to the left jaw (after three hours and a half). Painful boring within the left ear, soon disappearing (after three hours and a half). Frequent painful tearing in the right ear, half an hour after dinner. A fine tearing in the right external meatus (after one hour). Itching biting within the right ear, that extends still deeper on boring in with the finger (after three hours and a half). Crawling itching externally and within the right ear, that disappears on boring in with the finger and on rubbing, half and hour after dinner. Singing and noises in the right ear, at 8 A.M. (second day).
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.