Common name, Pine agaric.
Introduction
Polyporus pinicola, Fries. Natural order, Fungi. Preparation, Tincture of the fresh plant.
Mind
Great despondency, with the pains, for ten days. Spells of great depression of spirits (eleventh day). Very gloomy all day (second day).
Head
For two hours after the third dose had severe congestion of the head and face; vertigo when walking; face greatly flushed, with a prickling sensation all over it (sixth day). Vertigo when walking (seventh day). Light feeling of the head, with dull pains in it (fifth and sixth days). Light feeling of the head, with dull pains in the forehead; worse on moving (third day). All day have had a fullness of the head, with a hot feeling in the face and eyes (fourth and fifth days). Fullness of the had, with face hot and flushed (after second dose, sixth day). Head ached (after one hour). 9 P.M. dull headache, with frequent eructations of sour air (first and second days). Dull headache (after one hour). Heavy, dull headache. Severe headache all day, aggravated by reading or walking (third day). Severe headache and soreness over the eyes (after two hours, second day). Forehead and Temples. Dull frontal headache (half an hour after doses, third day). Deep frontal headache (fourth day). Severe frontal headache, while in bed (sixth morning). Frequent neuralgic pains in the temples (third day); (second day). Neuralgic pains in the temples (fifth day). For four hours had frequent sharp pains in the temples, with dull frontal headache (after one hour). Frequent cutting pains in the temple, in the afternoon (first, fifth, and sixth days).
Eye
Smarting of the eyes (after one hour). For two hours smarting of the eyes (third day). Severe smarting of the eyes (sixth morning). Eyes smart constantly (after third dose, sixth day).
Eyelids agglutinated (sixth and seventh and mornings). Dull pains in the eyeballs (third day).
Nose
For the last four days the nostrils are constantly filled with a thick yellow mucus (eleventh day).
Face
Face congested (seventh day). Severe aching distress in the right malar bone, with neuralgic pains in the temple (after one hour).
Mouth
Tongue. Tongue coated white, in the morning (seventh day).
Tongue coated white (eighth day); (third day). Tongue coated yellow (fourth, fifth, and sixth days); (second, fourth, and eleventh days). Tongue coated thickly yellow (third day). Taste.
Sweet, flat taste (eighth day); (fifth and sixth days). Sweet, flat taste in the mouth, in the morning (seventh day). Flat, rough taste in the mouth (fifth day). Slimy, coppery taste in mouth (second and third days). Bitter taste (fourth day).
Flat, bitter taste (eleventh day).
Throat
Throat troubled me greatly all night (seventh night). Throat feeling very sore, with dryness of the fauces and frequent inclination to swallow (ninth day). Very sore throat, with frequent inclination to swallow (after second dose, third day).
Tonsils. Tonsils are congested; frequent efforts to swallow, that are quite painful, in the morning (seventh day). Tonsils congested slightly (eighth day). Tonsils and fauces feeling very sore and stiff, with great dryness and frequent inclination to swallow, for two hours in the morning, and then in the evening (tenth day). Tonsils very much congested and enlarged; the soft palate and fauces are also greatly congested (eleventh day).
Fauces. Great dryness of the fauces, lasting all day, with constant inclination to swallow (after one hour). Great dryness of the fauces, for the first half hour, in the morning, then all passed away (second day). Great dryness of the fauces (after third dose, sixth day). Pressing distress in the fauces (after second dose, sixth day). Distress in the fauces, with frequent inclination to swallow (after third dose, sixth day).
Deglutition quite painful (eleventh day).
Stomach
Appetite. Could eat no supper (second day). Eructations. Frequent eructations of sour air, with dull headache, at 9 P.M. (first and second days). Nausea. Constant nausea for the first half hour (after second dose, sixth day). Sickness at the stomach (second day). Stomach. Burning in the stomach, with a dragging sensation in the right hypochondrium (first, second, fifth, and sixth days). Burning distress in the epigastrium, with dragging pains in the right hypochondrium (first and second days).
Distress in epigastrium (fifth day, and after first dose, sixth day). Frequent pains in the epigastrium, with rumbling in the bowels (after second dose, sixth day). By spells great distress in the epigastrium (after third dose, sixth day). Dull, aching distress in the epigastrium, in the morning (seventh day). There is a constant very severe distress in the lower part of the epigastrium that produces great faintness; if I press on it or walk, it is greatly aggravated. This awful distress lasted until noon, when it became quite easy (eighth day). Severe pains in the epigastrium all the morning (eleventh day).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Dull pains in the right hypochondrium (fourth and fifth days); (fourth day). Dragging sensation in the right hypochondrium, with burning in the stomach (first, second, fifth, and sixth days). Dragging pain in the liver followed stool (fifth day). Dragging pain in the right hypochondrium, with burning distress in the epigastrium (first and second days).
Frequent drawing pains in the right hypochondrium (first day); (first, second, fifth, and sixth days). Drawing pains in the right hypochondrium (after second dose, sixth day). The aching distress in the liver was much more severe; extended over the whole dorsal region (second day). Dull, heavy, drawing, aching pains in the whole liver and spleen (third day). Burning, aching pains in the liver (fourth day). Walking produce sharp pains in the liver (after second dose, third day). Severe pulling pains in the liver (after second dose, third day). Severe drawing pains in the left hypochondrium (fifth day). Hard, drawing pains in the region of the spleen and left epigastrium, all day (fourth day). All the forenoon have had frequent drawing pains in the region of the spleen (first, second, fifth, and sixth days).
Frequent sharp pains in the region of the spleen (first and second days). Frequent sharp pains in the region of the spleen (third day). Sharp pains in the region of the spleen (fourth and fifth days). Umbilicus. Distress in the umbilicus, with frequent drawing pains in the same region (first day). Frequent pain and distress in the umbilical and hypochondriac regions, all day (third day). Sharp colicky pains in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, all the evening, every five minutes (first and second days). General Abdomen. Frequent dull rumbling in the bowels (fourth and fifth days). Distress in the small intestines (after one hour). Frequent dull pains in the bowels, all the afternoon (first day). Dull pains in the bowels (after first dose, sixth day). Following stool, dull pains in bowels, aggravated by walking, with distress in the liver (seventh day).
Slight distress in bowels (seventh evening) Frequent pains in bowels (eighth, ninth, and tenth days). Several times had a feeling as if the small intestines were being tied in knots (first day). Occasional sharp pains in the bowels (third day).
Frequent cutting pains in the bowels (first, second, fifth, and sixth day). Slight pains in the bowels (fifth and sixth days).
Frequent drawing pains in the abdomen (first and second days).
Rheumatic pains in bowels (eleventh day). Hypogastrium.
Very suddenly had severe distress in the hypogastric region, with great desire for stool (first day); same distress at 7 A.M.
(second day). At 9 A.M. distress in the hypogastric region, for ten minutes, followed by stool, first part dry and lumpy, last part mushy (seventh day). Five or six hard distressing pains in the hypogastrium, followed by a hard, dry, lumpy stool (after third dose, sixth day). For the first three hours had hard, sickening pains in the hypogastric regions; then remained quite easy for two hours, when those hard pains came on again every for minutes; the pains would last from five to ten minutes at a time, and produce great faintness (seventh day). Drawing pains in the right groin (after one hour).
Stool
Loose stool at 8 P.M. (after nine hours, third day); loose stool (fourth day). Hard, lumpy stool (fifth day). Hard, dry, lumpy stool (after third dose, sixth day). Stool first part dry and lumpy, last part mushy, followed the distress in the hypogastric region (seventh day). Stool that ran from my bowels a stream of a deep yellow color; the last part was frothy and mixed with bile (after six hours, seventh day). No stool (eighth day).
Stool at 8 A.M. first part natural, last part mushy and exceedingly yellow (ninth day). No stool (third day); lumpy stool at 7 A.M. (fourth day); stool, first part dry and lumpy, last part mushy, very yellow, and mixed with bile (seventh day); was costive for three days. Light-colored papescent stool (first and second days). Papescent, light-colored stool, with great relief of all the pains, at 7 A.M.; profuse papescent stool at noon (second day). Soft papescent, very light-colored stool (fourth day). Bowels have been very costive; stools of a dark color, and in hard, dry lumps (tenth day). The stools are so hard that it has brought on a slight attack of piles, which pain me all the time, with slight prolapsus ani (eleventh 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.