Common names, Radish, Rettich (R. Raph. charlock).
Introduction
Raphanus sativus, L. (and R. Raphanistrum, L.). Natural order, Cruciferae. Preparation, Tincture of fresh root of R. sativus.
Mind
Feeling of aversion towards all women; she is provoked by seeing women going and coming about her; their approach threw her into a fury; the mere contact with a woman’s dress caused intolerable distress; if even a female, to whom she was much attached, took her by the hand, she felt weariness, disgust, and a degree of rage which almost consumed her. She is attracted towards all men without distinction; when she gives her hand to a man, she feels great agitation, which she is scarcely able to control; these symptoms increase even to furious delirium.
When left alone for an hour in the evening, she gave herself a very deep wound in the lips with a penknife, in hopes to put and end to this condition. Moral feeling was completely extinct, the physical nature alone ruled and threw her into a frightful state. From morning to noon she would not have been able to resist the advances even of a man for whom she had not the least friendly feeling; from noon to 6 P.M. she could not have held out against any man whatsoever; from 8 to 11 the demands of sense were so importunate as to silence the voice of shame and reason; she even furiously delirious, and would have thrown;herself into the arms of the first man she met. In the course of the day she recovered reason enough to recognize her condition; she was deeply affected by it, but she was still unable to control her impulses; in the evening there was no more of it; constant less voluptuous ideas (seventh day).
Capricious mania, stupefaction, sadness and tears, alternating with hopefulness; she fears she will become a burden to every one (second day). Very great excitement of the brain; the night passes without sleep; excessive activity of the brain (fifth day). A great deal of agitation until half-past one; she then begins to be calm and sleeps heavily (third day).
Sensation of intoxication in the morning, on waking. After dinner, at which she drank only water, she feels as if intoxicated (second day). Great tension of the nervous system; much nervous distension, and sometimes nervous attacks; extraordinary activity of the head; strange ideas, she forgets what she has to do every day, and some dangerous fancies assail her, but she restrains herself from putting them into exertion (after fifth day). She was nervous in the morning; aversion to children, especially little girls (seventh day). Great physical and moral inactivity; loss of memory she tries all day to recall an idea or a thought which had occurred to her; she is constantly wishing to recover her memory, and this state of mind fatigues her very much; she is beside herself, and at every turn forgets what she was going to do (sixth day). She was nervous, sad; everything at first enrages her, and finally depresses her (third day); great sadness (fourth day). Sadness and irrepressible tears; the voice has a sound of melancholy, and the eyes a similar expression (first day). Melancholy and numbness (second day). Less melancholy and capricious than yesterday, inactivity and dulness of mind (third day). After a quarter of an hour very deep melancholy, drawing, and throbbing pains running over the head, body, and limbs; when these pains are felt in the abdomen or in the chest they make her weep. Sadness on waking, with impulse to weep; afterwards apathy, indolence of mind; she takes no interest in what she is engaged in, nor in anything else (second day). Her condition troubles her, and for a moment she cannot believe it to be owing to the medicine; she forgets it entirely, and believes she has a disease which is not recognized (fourth day). Extreme anxiety, she thought she would die. Apprehension and fear of death. Great fatigue of body and mind, loss of memory; she is obliged to make a great effort, and only remembers with difficulty that which happens to be said; great indolence and indifference; horror of noise (third day). Excessive fatigue of the intellect, which is almost asleep (fourth day). Great indolence and indifference (third day). Dulness and inclination to weep at the least word (second day). When the prover wishes to pursue a train of thought, her head becomes, confused, she grows stupefied, can think of nothing, and looks at things without seeing them (third day). Complete inactivity; it seems to her as if she was carried somewhere else, and conversed with another person; very calm and indifferent, it was also like a picture (second day). She begins to lose her memory through inactivity of the brain (third day). Memory returns, she is very livery; quick intelligence; everything disturbs her, even things apparently most insignificant (third day).
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head, with pressure in the forehead (second day). Vertigo, in the evening; the head feels as if tightly bandaged (sixth day). Some vertigo, with dimness of vision (third day). General Head. Woke between 3 and 4 A.M., complained of headache, and drank much water (second night). Headache, on waking form sleep. Headache; pressure on the eyes from without inward, extending to behind the ear (second day). General headache after dinner (fourth day). 11 A.M., violent rush of blood to the head and chest, causing vertigo and cough, preceded by burning (second day). When writing, the prover feels a shock in the brain, as when sitting down suddenly, and a sensation in the ears, as when diving (third day). Headache, in the morning; confusion in the head, on the vertex, and in the forehead, succeeded by flushes of heat, which terminate in external coolness of the whole body (second day). Headache; head stupefied (second day). In the morning, very bad headache in the eyes, the temples, and the root of the nose; great fatigue, as from being bruised (fifth day). Sensation in the head, throat, and chest, as at the commencement of a bad cold (third day). Brain feels tender and sore from the least jar, when walking (third day). Forehead and Temples. Violent headache in the forehead in the forehead and occiput, in the morning. Violent pain in the forehead. Headache in the forepart of the head, on waking, at night. Dull headache, especially in the skin of the frontal eminences, particularly on the left side, in the open air, ceasing in the house. Pain in the left upper side of the forehead, like a pressure. Violent pressure in the forehead, especially over the eyes, that almost prevented vision. Constant dull pressure in the forehead over the eyes (third day). Frequent dull pressure and sticking in the region of the frontal eminence. Dull pressure in the forehead, above the root of the nose. Slight pressure in the forehead, at the root of the nose. When she turns her eye in the direction of the ear, she feels a pain in the temple, the ear, and the parietal bone (third day). Vertex. Sharp sticking on the vertex.
Burning in a small spot on the vertex. A kind of tightness in the skin of the vertex. Occiput. Headache; dull pain in the occiput, relieved by throwing the head back; when leaning the head to one side, sensation of a sharp substance inside, which pricks into the temple, near the ear, ceasing on lifting the head again (second day). In the evening, headache, especially in the occiput; the head is excessively fatigued (third day). In the morning, headache, especially in the occiput, when she presses her hand on the occiput, the pain in the head becomes general; when placing the finger on the middle of the occiput, sensation of tickling, or rather shudderings in the back, the chest, and the arms, with loss of thought; appearance as of a sheet of water before her eyes (third day). Pain in the occiput, a kind of uneasiness, of fatigue; some drawing sensation behind the head and in the neck (fourth day). Gnawing pains in the occiput, followed by numbness (second day).
Eye
The eyes are surrounded by blue rings; she is pale (sixth day).
Eyes red. Eyes sunken (sixth day). Fatigue of the eyes (third day). Coldness on the eyes; something which presses upon the eyes (third day). The eyes smart and weep a little (third day).
The eyes smart; they are red in the morning, and a very little agglutinated; when she shuts the eyes she can scarcely open them, owing to her nervous condition; she winks when looking at anything (sixth day). Pricking in the eyes; heat when shutting them; feeling of coldness when opening them; every moment it seems to her that she sees double, that she squints (fourth day). Itching of the left eye, with deep stitches. Lid.
Lower lids somewhat oedematous (seventh day). Lachrymal Apparatus. Tobacco causes weeping, and pains in the nasal bones at the root and in the ear (second day). Pupil. Pupils dilated (sixth day). Vision. Vision very acute. Congestion, with dimness of vision, on waking, in the morning. Weak sight; short-sightedness (sixth day). Very weak sight; it is completely lost in the right eye (third day). She lost her vision and hearing just before vomiting, followed by vomiting with great effort. Far-sighted.
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.