Common names: Plantain, Wegerich.
Introduction
Plantago major, Linn.
Natural order: Plantaginaceae.
Preparation: Tincture of the whole plant, or of the root.
Mind
Great nervous excitability and trembling of the whole body, with pulse at 120 (fourteenth day). Highest degree of excitability (twenty-first day). General depression and despondency, though the weather is bright and beautiful (fourteenth day). Feel very much out of sorts; low-spirited, with inclination to do a lot of work, but get tired and irritated as soon as I begin (eighty- fourth day). Feeling of suppressed irritability (after one hour and twenty minutes, second day). Very irritable and easily vexed, with an excitement of the nervous system (tenth day). Irritable and vexed mood, with utter inability for any mental exercise (twelfth day). Great feeling of irritation; cannot bear to be spoken to (fifth day). Irritable feeling, with slight headache in the right temple (sixth day). Low-spirits; irritable; disinclination to work (seventeenth day). Great irritation with the severe headache; cannot bear to be spoken to (fourth day).
Rather irritable (twentieth day). Irritable, with nausea and giddiness, with trembling sensation in the right arm (twenty- ninth day). Irritable feeling, with slight headache (fifty-third day). Impatient to get anything finished (second day). Impatient and restless mood, with a dull, stupid, or muddled feeling in the brain; very irritable and morose temper, worse in the evening (third day); very irritable and restless mood; easily vexed (fourth day). Restless disposition, and dull feeling over the sinciput (eleventh day). Desire to do several things at once, but no inclination to move and do one, with the loss of appetite (sixteenth day). Feeling great desire to be at home when abroad (twenty-ninth day). Meditative mood or internal revery, and unable to associate my mind with any external object, with the feeling of great prostration (eleventh day). Inability to think, with restlessness at night (seventh night). From the fifteenth to the twenty-first day I have ceased to take notes, for the reason that my mind has been in such a confused state, and a disrelish as well as a great difficulty for any abstract reflection or mental exercise of any kind, that I have found it too difficult.
I might say, however, that the symptoms, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first day, were, in their general features, the same as on the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth; if any difference, the nervous and cerebral continued to increased in their severity until the twenty-first day, which, as well as during the whole proving, were worse in the evening, and gradually increased in severity until next morning, with some exceptions; but whether these exceptions assumed the same regularity as I find on examining my notes of the first six or eight days, namely, worse two successive nights and better the third, I am not able to say.
On the thirtieth day, my mind is still confused, making study, for any length of time, impossible. Mind confused, and entirely unable to listen to the lectures; feeling of great prostration, with utter inability to think; attempting to exercise the mental faculties, would increase the depression, and rapid respiration would ensue, with a feeling of great anxiety; at 12 M., was obliged to leave the college and lie down (fourteenth day). Mind somewhat confused (first day). Mind inactive, with a dull, muddled feeling in the head (fifth day); very inactive all day, worse in afternoon and evening, with shifting pains in various parts (fifth day). Aversion to study or thinking (third day). Bad memory (seventeenth day).
Head.
Giddiness with the irritable mood (twenty-ninth day). Violent irritation of the brain; bruised, maddening feeling; cannot bear the slightest contradiction (sixteenth day). Feeling of irritability about the head, in different parts; fine stitches (eleventh day). Irritable feeling in the head, with soreness of the eyes, at 9 A.M. (second day). After dinner, I had a dull, painful, stupid feeling in my head, with considerable fever (seventh day). Dull feeling of the head or slight headache, during the day (fourth day). Dull feeling in the head (first day). Muddled and confused feeling in the head, with inability to think, which lasted all day, and worse in the evening (second day). Dull, stupid, or muddled feeling in the brain, with the impatient and restless mood (third day). Dull, muddled feeling in the head, with the inactivity of mind (fourth day). Head is clouded, heavy, and dull (fourteenth day). Heaviness and weariness in the head, in the evening, relieved by holding the head backwards, with slight stiffness of the neck (nineteenth day). Pain now in the head, then in dorsum of big toe (sixth day). Dull stupefying pain in the whole head, relieved by motion and aggravated by study (eighth day). Pain in the head, relieved by pressure, for a few seconds, or from contact with anything cold (fifth day). Pain over the left eyebrow, and deep in the scalp; bruised, dull aching, relieved by shutting the eyes, at 9 A.M. (second day). Occasional pains in the head, during the evening (sixth day). Twinges of pain in different parts of the head; now in the right temple, extending backward; then through the occiput from ear to ear; then in other parts of the head more or less severe (seventh day). Pains in the head, most in the left temporal region, all the time, or with but little intermission (fourteenth day). Pain in the head, on turning round, as if the brain were stretched (eighteenth day). All the pains at times in the head, but very slight (nineteenth day). Occasional darting pains in the head (fourth day). Shooting pains in the head, occurring frequently during the day, mostly in the right parietal region, sometimes in the left (seventh day). Pains in the head, continuing all day, not so bad in the afternoon (ninth day).
Pains in the head and various parts of the body, at different times throughout the day (tenth day); still felt, but at longer intervals, and with diminished intensity (eleventh day). Pains in the head continue at irregular intervals (after five hours, fourteenth day). Pains in the head (seventeenth day). Severe headache over the left eye and side of the head, with great irritation (fourth day). Violent, bruised sort of headache (on waking in the morning) over the scalp and back of the head; unable to rest long in one place on the pillow; relief for a time by resting on the part in pain (tenth day). Headache as usual (thirty-ninth day). Slight headache, with irritable feeling (fifty-third day). Awoke in the morning with headache in the left half of head, principally in the temple; bruised sensation; midday, bruised sensation all over the head, as if beaten, with pain extending to the top of nose (fifth day). Stupid headache, etc. (thirtieth day). Slight headache, a heavy sensation in the head and inclination to drowse (five hours after first dose, third day); same kind of headache in the forehead (eighth day).
Slight headache and some chilliness (sixth day). Slight headache (sixth day). Oppression deep in the head, and sense of something lying in the head, through from one ear to the other (second night). Feeling of swelling about the head (fifth day). Fullness of the head, and sore feeling in the temples (twenty- fourth day). The whole front half of the head, face, jaws, and gums feel sore and bruised (twenty-sixth day). Fine stitches, before and above the ear, feeling as if the bone were swollen, with stiffness (twenty-sixth day). Forehead. Feeling of irritation in the forehead (second day). Dull oppressive feeling through the forehead, with sometimes a dull pain extending across form the temporal bones, apparently at the base of the brain. I thought probably this might be the effect of a cold. Dull pains over the frontal region and extending over the eyes (sixth day). Pain in the forehead over the eyes, with tenderness on pressure (eighth day). Aching pain in the left frontal protuberance, lasting a few minutes and occurring frequently, and tenderness on pressure (ninth day). Boring pain in the left frontal eminence (tenth day). Transient boring pains in the right frontal eminence (eleventh day). Dull pain over the eyes, relieved by exercise and motion (twelfth day). Headache in forehead and over the right eye and temple; worse on movement, with pressure over the eye (twenty-ninth day). Headache over the right eye, in the evening (forty-third day). Headache over left eye, same as before, passing off after eating (seventy-sixth day). Pain or fullness over the eyes, with the stuffed-up nose (thirty-fifth day).
Bruised feeling of forehead, with dimness of the eyes (thirty- sixth day). Bruised sensation in the forehead and temples (twenty-sixth day). Temples. (A stupid sort of feeling in the left temple towards the eye, relieved by the free use of the finger; liable to such pains in east winds; generally confined to left side; occasionally in the right; dull, stupefying pain with sleepy feeling and mistiness, causing me to wipe a supposed film from the eye, feeling as if a hair were hanging over the eye; sleep often moves the headache; the other parts of the brain seem to think clear enough, but the affected part unfit for use; when this headache comes on, spit a quantity of brown, dirty-tasting saliva; pain relieved by pressing my hand on anything hard behind the left neck at base of occiput, on any part of the left side of the head between cheek-bone and occiput), (twenty-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.