Throat
Frequent inclination to clear the throat (seventh day). After eating, slight irritation in throat, with expectoration of white, tough mucus, which is raised with ease throughout the forenoon (third day); slight irritation in throat, occasionally with trifling expectoration, raised without much effort (fourth day); irritation of throat, with slight expectoration (fifteenth day).
Throat is dry, smarts n waking, and contains much tough mucus, which is very hard to dislodge (sixth day). Slight sensation of scratching and huskiness (immediately, second day). Husky feeling in throat until noon, and at intervals throughout the afternoon (after one hour and half). Slight huskiness and dryness of throat for an hour, after taking medicine (third day). At 6 P.M., a sensation as if there was a plug in the lower part of the throat, remaining until retiring (third day); in the morning it had disappeared; but reappeared, following a raw, tickling sensation in the throat (fourth day).
Stomach
Appetite. Increased appetite, while eating; one hour after eating very hungry all the evening, particularly at bedtime (after second dose). Increased appetite. Great desire to eat, although directly after breakfast (soon). Very great hunger before usual time; could scarcely eat enough to satisfy appetite (second day).
In the evening, great hunger; not to be relieved by eating; the hunger increased with eating (third day); no appetite for breakfast, food relished however (fourth day); good appetite for dinner, which I took about 1 o’clock, away from home; ate a sufficient quantity, without being satisfied. Hungry after eating; arriving home in about an hour and a half, found dinner waiting, and ate again as much as if I had eaten nothing all day; could have eaten more, felt hungry again after eating. Concluded not to eat supper; but while driving in the evening felt very hungry; had to go home, when I ate two slices of bread with a tumbler of mild. Desired to eat more but abstained; decided desire to eat, at 10 P.M. (fifth day). Felt renewed appetite after hearty breakfast; hunger and emptiness of stomach, an hour after breakfast, lasting till dinner (seventh day); great feeling of hunger and emptiness (eighth day). Indifferent appetite, with a feeling as if I were going to have fever; anxious, miserable feeling (second day). Very little appetite, in the morning (fifth day). Indisposition to eat (fourth day). But little appetite (fourth day). No appetite for dinner (fifth day); (first day).
Not the least appetite for breakfast, notwithstanding exercises in the open air (sixth day). Loss of appetite, could not eat breakfast, do not want any dinner (fourth day). Thirst. For two days afterward, more thirst for cold water than usual; the same feeling during the three following days, with four or five discharges each day. More thirst than usual, in the morning (sixth day). During the evening very frequent thirst, drank freely of cold water, which was extremely grateful (fifth day).
Unusual thirst for cold water, in the evening (fifth day).
Eructations. Eructation with taste of medicine (third day). While riding, belching up of food, hot and tasteless, followed by frequent eructations of wind (second day). Eructation of hot tasteless wind, several times, in the forenoon (second day).
Frequent eructations of sour air, with a sad, gloomy state of mind (after fifteen hours). In two hours after eating, eructation with taste of food (after second dose). Thick gulping (first day). Heartburn. One hour after supper, slight heartburn and hot tasteless eructations, several times (fifth day). Nausea. During the afternoon, an intense nausea was felt after each dose, for half an hour but she could not vomit (second day). Nausea, lasting about one minute, at two different times (second day).
Nausea and dull headache till about 11 o’clock; after that faintness at the stomach; uncomfortable sensation in the stomach all day, with nausea, like that after taking tartar emetic (second day). Nausea in the stomach, in the morning (fourth day).
Slight nausea, all the forenoon (third day). Slight nausea, and dull headache, nearly all day (second day). Inclination to nausea on entering the house, after being out in the open air (sixth day). Stomach. (Before taking pulsatilla, I had been troubled with wind in the stomach, feeling bloated; had a good appetite, or rather wanted to eat, but could not eat much for this fullness in the stomach; it has disappeared, and has not returned up to the present time), (after two weeks). Fullness in epigastrium and abdomen, in consequence of eating too much; relieved by loosening clothes, at 8 P.M. (fifth day). Fullness of the stomach, like a great weight, with faintness all over, but particularly referable to the stomach (second day). Full and uncomfortable feeling in stomach, with chilliness (first night). Painful emptiness, gradually increased to pressure (after five minutes); pressure increased after breakfast (after one hour); some sensation (second day); for five days subsequently at various times, painful pressure in the stomach. While riding, in the forenoon, emptiness and coldness in stomach, extending to abdomen, with sensation as if diarrhoea was about to set in; also while sitting. Painful emptiness, pressure, and then rising in stomach towards oesophagus, like heartburn (after thirty minutes); same feeling as last night, repeated at intervals of an hour, throughout the day, gradually increasing in severity, amounting to a cramp like sensation, running up to the fauces from cardiac orifice of stomach (second day). Great emptiness of stomach, in the afternoon (first day). Feeling of emptiness in the stomach, after operation of bowels (after fifteen minutes); same feeling after eating, which continued all the afternoon (first day).
Heavy sensation in stomach; faint at stomach (sixth day). Weight and pressure in the stomach (third night). Slight heaviness of food after meals, with sour eructations (third day). Pressure from food after each meal, with cramp like rising, preceded by painful emptiness, for about two days (after one day). Painful pressure in stomach, while riding (half an hour after first dose, second day). Painful pressure in left portion of epigastric region, with frequent eructations, lasting about two hours (immediately after first dose); same painful pressure like heartburn, in epigastrium (after first dose, second day); same for half an hour (after second dose, second day). In the afternoon, the painful pressure in the stomach extends all over the abdomen (second day). Slight gastric pressure several times during the day (third day). Feeling of weakness with the emptiness in the stomach, all the afternoon (first day). Slight weakness in stomach; an emptiness at periods throughout the day (first day). Distress in the whole epigastrium, with severe cutting pains passing through the stomach to the spine, lasting half an hour (after three hours). Constant dull distress in the lower part of the epigastrium, all the afternoon and evening (fourth day). Dull distress in the lower portion of the epigastrium, all day (sixth day). Frequent spell of distress in the lower part of the stomach (seventh day). A number of spells of severe distress in the epigastrium, with dull pains in the right hypochondrium (eighth day). Distress in the epigastrium (after six hours, ninth day). Constant distress in the epigastrium, with frequent, hard, drawing pains in the left side, just below the stomach (first day). Constant distress in the epigastrium, in the morning (second day). Frequent spells of dull drawing pains in the epigastrium, and right hypochondrium (third day). Dull pains, by spells, in the hypogastrium (fourth day).
After sleeping in the afternoon, awoke with dull pressing pain in stomach, and vinegar-like acidity in the mouth. Dull pain in epigastrium, with dull frontal headache (first day). Hard pains in the epigastrium with the mushy stool, at 6 A.M. (fifth day). A number of times through the day had hard cutting pains in the lower part of the epigastrium (fifth day). Hard colicky pains after midnight in the epigastrium (fourth night). Severe pain in the lower portion of the epigastrium, at 7 A.M., followed by a mushy stool (sixth day). The pain in the lower part of the epigastrium has been very severe, all the evening (first day).
Pinching pain in great curvature of stomach, repeated several times (after fifteen minutes). Pain in stomach, while eating (fifth day). Painful feeling in epigastrium, while sitting (after four hours). Slight pains, by spells, in the epigastrium, all the afternoon (third day). Severe cutting pains in the lower part of the epigastrium and right hypochondrium, (Second day), -Severe, sharp, cutting pains in the epigastrium, with slight frontal headache (after one hour, second day). Sharp pains in the stomach every few moments, for the last two hours (after six hours). A number of times have had sharp pains in the stomach (after five hours, second day). Uneasy sensation in stomach (ten minutes after first dose, third day). Gnawing empty sensation in stomach (second day). Feeling as if needles were being pressed through the stomach (after six hours). Heat in the stomach, gradually increasing to pain; most severe in one spot under the sternum (a few minutes after first dose, fifth day). Severe burning in the stomach (after one hour). For the last half hour have had a pricking burning sensation in the center of the epigastrium, with a feeling of distension in the abdomen, accompanied by a slight dull frontal headache (after two hours).
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.