Common names, Larch agaric.
Introduction
Polyporus officinalis, Fries. Natural order, Fungi. Preparation, Tincture of the fresh plant.
Mind
Mind gloomy and desponding (second day). Gloomy and desponding, and even morose (ninth day). Very sad and gloomy. Low spirited and irritable (sixth day). Very dull and depressed all day. Feel dull and indisposed to exertion (seventh day); for five days succeeding this I had not my usual appetite or spirits; suffered from a general feeling of not being quite well, but without any special describable pains or symptoms; it was precisely the feeling of one who is said to be bilious.
Head
My head is feeling very light and hollow, with deep frontal headache, in the morning (sixth day). Head feeling light (seventh day). Light dizzy feeling in the head (third day). Slight feeling of fulness in the head (sixth day). Awoke with a dull pain in the head, which continued all day; thought it might be due to a glass of ale drank the evening before (third day); awoke with a dull pain in the head, with sensation of soreness in the brain, increased by stooping or shaking the head; this headache is precisely similar to that experienced on the third, which I attributed to the glass of ale; I now believe that the pain at that time was caused by the Polyporus (seventh day). Dull headache (third day). Dull feeling in head (tenth day). Dull aching pain in the head (after ten hours, sixth day). Severe headache, aggravated by motion (after seven hours, third day).
Pain in the head, jaws, and teeth (fifth day). Head ached severely all night (third night). Headache, qualmishness, relieved by eructations (third day). Most of the head symptoms greatly aggravated (after four hours, fourth day). Severe semilateral headache (ninth day). Forehead. Dull frontal headache, lasting all day (after half an hour). Continued dulness of the forehead, with slight aching (first day). Dull frontal headache (third day),; (tenth day). Dull frontal headache (fourth day); in the evening (fifth day). Dulness of the forehead (second day). Dull, heavy pain in the forehead, worse on motion (second night). Heaviness of the forehead (fourth day). A 8 A.M., violent frontal headache; very much aggravated by waling; head feels light and hollow (fourth day). Hard frontal headache (fifth day).
Violent frontal headache, with an extremely light, hollow feeling of the head; the headache is greatly aggravated by walking (sixth day). Deep frontal headache for the last forty-eight hours (seventh day). Frontal headache, aggravated by motion (second day). Continuous oppressive headache in forehead and temples, all day (sixth day). In the evening tight feeling in the forehead, with slight headache (second day); tightness of the forehead as yesterday (third day). Tightness across the forehead, with dull headache (fifth day). Momentary twinge over the left eyebrow (sixth day). Temples. Dull pains through temples (second day).
Dull, heavy pains through temples and in forehead (ninth day).
Aching soreness through temples (seventh day). Lacerating pain in the right temple, at 9.40 P.M. Neuralgic pain in the temples (second day). Neuralgic pains in the temples, face, and teeth, lasting four hours (fourth day). Some pain in the temples (ninth day). Frequent neuralgic pains in the temples (second day).
Frequent cutting pain in the temples (after ten hours). Severe pain in the left temple, of a neuralgic character (third day). A few sharp pains through temples (first day). Sharp pains in the temples (after four hours, sixth day). Occiput. A little soreness in the occipital region followed the shooting pain up the back (third day).
Eye
Eyeballs ache severally (sixth day). Deep drawing pain in the eyeballs (second day).
Face
Face of a bluish color (fourth day). Pain in the jaws, teeth, and head (fifth day).
Mouth
Teeth and Gums. Teeth feel as if they were being forced out of their sockets (fourth day). Teeth and gums became very sore. Gums and teeth are all sore (seventh day). Gums sore (fourth day).
Tongue. Tongue coated white (third day). Yellow tinge of tongue (ninth day). Yellow coating of tongue (tenth day),; (eight day).
Tongue is coated thickly, yellow (sixth and seventh day). Tongue coated light brown (fourth day). Tongue red at the tip, and coated yellow at the base (fifth day). Prickling in the end of the tongue, which soon passed away (after one hour). Taste.
Bitter taste in the mouth (sixth day),; (eight day). Bitter, coppery taste in the mouth (seventh day). Flat, metallic, or coppery taste in the mouth and throat (after four hours, fourth day). Flat, bitter taste in the mouth (fifth day),; (third day).
Sweet and bitter taste in the mouth (fifth day). Sweetish, nauseous taste (tenth day).
Throat
Rawness and scraping in the throat, all the afternoon and evening (sixth day). Feeling in the fauces as if I would vomit, but no nausea (third day).
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Appetite invigorated (fourth day). Very little appetite (ninth day); little appetite (tenth day). Not so much appetite for breakfast as common (fourth day). No appetite for supper, which is contrary to my usual habit (sixth day). At 1 P.M., poor appetite for dinner (eleventh day); slight diminution of appetite for forty-eight hours. Loss of appetite.
Desire for sour things, which have always relieved the symptoms (tenth day). Much thirst (third day). Eructations and Heartburn.
Eructations (third day). Heartburn, with acid risings (sixth day). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea (after twenty minutes, sixth day). Frequent spells of nausea, lasting but a moment (third day). Nausea at the stomach (after four hours). Nausea and slight vomiting of a sour watery fluid, intensely bitter (after four hours, fourth day). Some nausea, particularly in throat (second day); nausea at times (third day); particularly in throat and fauces (sixth day). Felt sick at stomach (ninth day).
Qualmishness, with the loose stool (second day); qualmishness, headache, relieved by eructations (third day). Stomach. Tonic effects, invigorated digestion (third, fourth, and fifth days).
Effects decidedly tonic (fifth day); instead of being tonic as before, its effects were now enervating (ninth day). Deep distress in the epigastrium, lasting all day, with dull pains in the right hypochondrium, and sharp pains in the epigastrium; aggravated by walking (after half an hour). Dull, aching burning distress in the epigastrium and whole right hypochondrium (third day). Dull, aching distress in the epigastric and umbilical regions (third night). Great burning distress in the region of the stomach and liver, extending down to the umbilicus, with urgent desire for stool; the same distress after a stool; at 10 A.M. it is very severe, with urgent desire for stool; continues after a stool (fourth day). The most terrible distress between the stomach and navel, lasted all the afternoon; could not get relief in any position; accompanied by great faintness and high fever (fifth day). Burning pain in the stomach, with dragging pain in the hypochondrium (first and second days). Burning in the epigastrium (after four hours, sixth day). In evening, feeling as if lump in stomach (sixth day). Coldness of stomach, followed by burning (after several hours, seventh day). Dull aching pain in the stomach and bowels (ninth day). Pain in the epigastrium (after four hours). Pain in the stomach (after four hours, and eight day),; (fourth day). Pain in the stomach and liver (third day). Pain in the stomach and bowels, almost unbearable (after four hours, fourth day). Woke at midnight with hard, cutting pain in the epigastrium (second night); at 5 A.M., awoke with the same cutting pains in the epigastric region, and distress in the umbilicus, with great desire for stool (third morning). Severe sharp cutting pains in stomach and bowels (sixth day). During the day very sharp pains in the stomach, almost constant borborygmus (seventh day). Sharp, cutting, lancinating pains in the stomach (ninth day).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Dull, heavy, aching pains in the region of the right lobe of the liver, after the morning stool (third day).
Dull, heavy, drawing pains in the region of the right lobe of the liver, extending through to the dorsal region (third day). Heavy dragging pains in the right lobe of the liver (third night). 1 P.M., have had constant and severe aching distress in the right lobe of the liver, lower part of the epigastrium and upper part of the umbilicus (fifth day). Distress in the right hypochondrium and umbilicus (fifth day). A full inspiration produces sharp, stabbing pains in the right lobe of the liver and lower dorsal region (fifth day). Great distress in the region of the liver and small intestines, with the stool, at 9 A.M. (sixth day). Dull aching distress in the right lobe of liver and umbilicus, with great desire for stool (sixth day). Dull dragging pains in the region of the right lobe of the liver (seventh day). Pain in the liver and stomach (third day). Dragging pain in the hypochondrium, with burning pain in the stomach (first and second days). Dragging in the right hypochondrium (after four hours, sixth day). Dull aching pain in the liver (after ten hours, sixth day). Dragging pain in the liver (sixth day). Severe pain in the liver (sixth day). Pain in the liver (eight day). Hard pain in the region of spleen and left epigastric region (after three hours, fourth day). Sharp pain in the spleen, liver, and bowels (third and fifth days). Sharp pain in the region of spleen (after four hours, sixth day). Frequent sharp pains in the spleen (after ten hours, sixth day). Umbilicus. Severe distress in the umbilical and hypogastric region, with great desire for stool (third day). Slight uneasiness in subumbilical region, which gradually increased, with inclination to go to stool, having about an hour previously had my usual morning stool; during the stool which followed, a shooting pain extended upon each side of the umbilicus, towards the iliac, and then seemed to extend to the floor of the pelvis, in a ring around the rectum; these pains were not very severe, abated somewhat, but did not entirely disappear after stool (third day). Distress in the region of the umbilicus (after six hours, second day). Dull pain in the region of the umbilicus for the last forty-eight hours (seventh 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.