Common names, Hop Tree, Wafer Ash, etc.
Introduction
Ptelea trifoliata, L. Natural order, Rutaceae. Preparation, Tincture of the bark of the root.
Mind
Emotional. After eating, in the morning, a feeling of liveliness and activity for one hour; next hour, gradual passing off of cheerfulness, amounting to sadness, and a disposition to be displeased with every body and everything (third day); feeling, as before, of liveliness after eating, followed by great depression of spirits (fourth day). Depression of spirits, and a feeling of anxiety about some unknown thing, with the severe headache, in the afternoon (eighth day). Disposition to worry about something, he hardly knows what (ninth day). General depression of spirits (ninth day). Lowness of spirits during the forenoon (second day). Great lowness of spirits (first and second days). Despondency (sixth day). Very irritable and desponding (fifth day). Unusually irritably all day (fourth day). Irritable mood; a very slight annoyance keeps recurring to his mind, impelling to speak about it (fifth day). Irritable and intolerant of noise, with feverish feeling (fourth day). Wanted to be let alone (after second dose). Unsteadiness and nervous irritability, at 11 A.M. (third day). Ordinary conversation in the room greatly annoys (after thirty-five minutes). Unusually annoyed by noise (third day). Nervousness; an unexpected noise startles and causes a shooting pain over the eyes (seventh day). During the day would be startled at slight unusual sounds (sixth day). Nervousness (fourth and fifth days). Intellectual. (Unusual energy to work, in fact feels better than before commencing the (proving), (fifth day). In writing a letter, felt a curious and unusual disposition to hurry through with it as quickly as possible, hardly taking time to write the words (first day). Able to examine papers, but inclined to hurry with it, and in selecting the remedy, inclined to follow Fred Humphrey’s rule, “First impressions are the best’ (fifth day). Better able to study than on previous day, but difficult to concentrate his thoughts (fifth day). Sudden shrinking from any mental work, with sickness and faintness (soon). Disinclination for mental labor (fourth day).
Disinclination for mental exertion (second day). Marked indisposition for mental work (after seven hours and a half).
During the whole day, unusual indisposition to a mental or physical exertion (second day); malaise of body and mind; desire to lie on the lounge and “think of nothing at all” (third day).
Lassitude and weariness, with disposition to hurry (fourth day); mental lassitude (fifth day); continued (seventh day). Confusion of thought, with hurriedness of manner (soon). A little ordinary writing difficult, and confusion of the mind and vertigo (after one hour). Lassitude of mind, with disinclination to study; tasks performed in a performed in a perfunctory manner (after seven hours). Extreme lassitude; disinclination for mental labor or bodily exertion (third day). Thoughts chased each other through the mind; it seemed impossible to fix the attention upon any one object; from 1 till 5 A.M. (fifth day). Brain seems agitated, mind confused (after second dose, third day). A feeling of mental uneasiness, wandering form one subject to another (after second dose, second day). Could not concentrate his thoughts, in the forenoon (third day). Mind feels dazed and languid (second day). Weakness of mind very marked (fifth day).
Unfit for mental exertion all day, and toward the afternoon had to give up exertion of every kind (tenth day). Was weighing out a trituration, and the mental confusion was so great that he had some difficulty in telling what was the tenth part of 150 grains (after twelve hours and a quarter, second day). Mind confused (four hours and a half after fourth dose). Confusion of ideas (one hour after third dose). Unable to follow the train of thought when reading what is by no means difficult (after six hours and two-thirds, third day). Goes about his professional duties in a perfunctory manner, very unlike the fiery zeal with which he usually combats disease and his allopathic step-brethren (second day). Dulness, in the afternoon (sixth day). Severe prostration of mind (fourth day). Memory. His intellectual powers moved slowly and heavily, and had difficulty in recalling familiar things to mind (after thirteen hours, third day).
Extraordinary weakness of memory; was unable to recall the names of familiar people (fourth day). Forgetfulness, writing one familiar word for another of similar sound (soon). Extreme forgetfulness (after two hours and five minutes). Marked forgetfulness, with increase of the headache (after eight hours); more marked (second day); more forgetful than before the proving, and yet, by collecting the thoughts, able to recall things read many years ago; able to supply some additional items to a professional paper, intended to be exhaustive (fifth day); forgetfulness continued (seventh day), Fretfulness and irritability, without the slightest exciting cause (sixth day).
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head, with the rising of the bitter fluid (fifth day). Head confused and giddy when retiring to bed at 10.30 (eleventh day). Head weak and confused (twelfth day). Slight vertigo accompanying the rumbling and swelling in the umbilical region (after six hours); increase of the vertigo, with straining at stool (after seven hours and a half); vertigo, aggravated by even a moderate warmth of the room (first day); an attack of vertigo, without any exciting cause other than the Ptelea, so violent as to compel discontinuance of writing and the bow the head on the hands, closing the eyes; it was preceded and accompanied by mild nausea, with slight griping pains in the stomach (after eight hours, second day). Fits of vertigo, lasting three to five minutes, relieved by moving about, but worse on sudden motion; sensation as if all objects about him were in quick violent agitation (after two hours, second day); fits of vertigo not so frequent but more decided; worse on sudden motion and bending forward (after four hours); vertigo only when stooping (after six hours, second day). Vertigo, aggravated by even turning the head gradually (after half an hour). Attempting to walk aggravated the vertigo very much; unable to stand alone (after forty-five minutes). Vertigo, aggravated by rising from a chair (after forty-five minutes). A sudden attack of vertigo, lasting about one minute, at 11 P.M. (second day).
Slight vertigo, with choking feeling in the pharynx (after thirteen hours, third day). Dizziness when walking (seventh day).
On turning the head to look at the clock, taken with sudden giddiness and with faint feeling (after twenty minutes); too giddy to sit up (after thirty-five minutes); rising aggravates the giddiness. Transient giddiness, with heat of the head and face, especially on the forehead (second day). On rising, giddiness, with piercing pain through the brain, accompanied by severe aching pain in the stomach (seventh day). Giddiness, with vertigo, at 5 P.M.; vertigo long continued, and after it increase of abdominal tenderness (eighth day). Giddiness, with the persistent nausea (tenth day). The giddiness of head and reeling in walking much increased (eleventh day). Attacked with too much giddiness and vertigo to keep up (twelfth day). Giddiness (after second dose). Giddiness, dulness, and languor, in the afternoon (third day). Head in General. Head feels light (four hours and a half after fourth dose). Heaviness of the head, with a muddled feeling, and dull aching pain in forehead (third day).
Sensation of fullness in brain (tenth day). When coughing, head feels as if it would burst (twenty-first day). Head languid and heavy (after six hours and a half, third day). Dull heavy feeling in the head (sixth day). Dull pain through the head, in the afternoon (second day). Severe dull headache all day, aggravated by walking (third day). Severe dull headache, aggravated by walking upstairs (after three hours, third day). Dull headache set in about 10 A.M.; continues through the afternoon (second day). Dull headache, pressing from within outwards. The headache does not incapacitate for mental exertion, but causes a languor and indisposition to work (after one hour and a quarter); increase of headache, with marked forgetfulness (after eight hours); headache aggravated by even a moderate warmth of the room (first day); headache persistent, during the morning (second day); headache a little better before dinner; an hour and a half after much worse, and aggravated by mental exertion (second day).
Dull headache, with a feeling as if he had fever (after two hours, second day). A little dull headache (ninth day). Rose with a dull headache, which wore away after an hour or two (fourth morning); dull headache in morning (fifth day); rose with headache (sixth, seventh, and tenth mornings). Headache, a stunning pressing pain, in the frontal region, closely resembling a chronic headache, which he had had for many years, and which his master in the institute of homoeopathy, Dr. Constantine Hering, cured with one prescription of Rhus toxicodendron (third day). Dull oppressive headache came on, while reading, about 9 P.M. (third day). Dull pressive headache, with distress in the umbilicus and nausea (after eight hours). Constant pressive headache all the forenoon (fourth day). Pressive feeling at the base of the brain, closely resembling the well-known Ipecac symptom. “Headache, as if the hair and skull were bruised, penetrating through the bones down to the root of the tongue, with nausea (first day). Splitting headache, incapacitating for mental exertion, with nausea (fifth day). Splitting headache, aggravated by stooping, moving the eyes, and reading (fifth 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.