Common names: Yellow Dock; (G.), Krause Ampfer.
Introduction
Rumex crispus, Linn. Natural order: Polygonacae. Preparation: Tincture of the root.
Mind
Irritability of temper (ninth day). Temper more irritable than usual (second day); great irritability of temper (after three hours, fourth day). Irritability and restlessness (fifteenth day). Depression, as if some evil was impending (eight day).
Indifference to surrounding persons and things (third day).
Stagnation of ideas, with great lassitude and uneasiness, in the evening (third day).
Head
Vertigo (with in half an hour). Vertigo with the nausea (tenth day). Dizziness several times (first day)10. Rose in the morning with slight feeling of oppression in head (third day).
A heavy feeling in head, during the evening (first day). Fullness in the head, with the feeling of languor (second day). Feeling of languor and universal heaviness, with fullness in the head and chest (half an hour after second dose, second day). Dull heavy headache, accompanied with deep seated soreness of eyes, during the day, worse in the forenoon (fourteenth and fifteenth days).
Dull heavy headache, from 10 A.M. until night; not so severe after 2 P.M.; disappeared at night (second day); dull heavy headache during the day (third day). A dull heavy headache, with deep seated soreness of the eyes most of the day (second day).
Dull headache during the forenoon (seventh, eighteenth, and twenty-fifth days). A great deal of dull heavy headache during the day (tenth day). Dull heavy headache through the day (fourteenth day); during the forenoon (fifteenth day). Dull headache followed the sharp pain and rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening (twenty-fourth). Some headache accompanied the pain in the lungs. The headache mentioned in Rumex crispus is increased by motion. Headache all the forenoon (tenth day).
Slight headache after retiring late at night (seventh day).
Slight headache; (third, thirteenth, and twenty-third days); (fourth day). Pain in the head on movement (tenth day). Headache, with coryza. Slight pain in head before breakfast (second day).
The head began to ache, and ached severely until going to sleep, towards midnight (after three hours); the headache returned on waking, and continued until noon, next day; it was dull (third day); very severe (fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth days); continued the whole forenoon (tenth day); affects most frequently the temples; is felt in the occiput (sixth and eighth days); over the right eye (sixth and seventh day); in the forehead (twelfth day).] Awoke with a bruised sensation in the brain, increased by moving, stooping, and by any sudden movement of the head. This bruised sensation continued until noon, and suddenly disappeared after dinner (seventh day).
Forehead. Dull bruised feeling in the forehead, most severe in the right side of the forehead, worse when moving the head, when it feels as if the brain were loose for a few minutes (first day); continued until morning, when it was worse than last evening (second morning). Dull headache and slight bruised feeling in the forehead, nearly all day (fourth day). Dull headache in the forehead, with heat and redness of the face, after singing, in the evening (fifth day); entirely relieved, after sixth dose. Dull aching pain through the whole forepart of the head, at 11 A.M. (fourth day). Dull aching in the forehead attended the toothache (after three hours, second day). Slight dull pain in the frontal region, with indisposition to thought (after one hour, fourth day). Frontal headache, with the feverish symptoms (tenth morning). Fullness and aching through the front part of the head and temples (three hours after second dose, second day). Headache in forehead, increased soon after fourth dose, connected with a pungent tingling sensation in the occiput, where phrenologists locate philoprogenitive. Pain over right eyebrow, with sensation of stoppage in left ear (after one hour and a quarter). Sensation across the forehead, as if the brain were loose, when moving the head, and as if it were bruised; this continued until after breakfast, next morning (after two minutes). Pain over right eyebrow (after one hour); (sixth day). Pain on the right side of the forehead in the region of causality (after one hour and fifty minutes, seventeenth day). Slight frontal headache, with shooting pains, at 7.30 P.M. (tenth day); slight frontal headache (twelfth day). Slight frontal headache, increased by (second day). A sharp pain in the forepart of the head, in the open air (sixth day). Temples. Pain in right temple, then in the left (fifth day). Pain in the right temple (seventh day); in the morning (eighth day). Severe pain for an hour in right temple (twelfth day). Dull aching pain in the left temple (one hour after second dose, second day). Pain in left temple (after one hour); in the afternoon. Vertex and Parietals. Aching and pressure in the top of the head (one hour after second dose, second day). Sharp pain, piercing, in the left side of the head, for a short time (after three hours, second day). A darting pain in left side of head, for about half an hour, at 11 A.M. and 8 P.M. (third day). Occiput. Dull aching pain low in the occiput (one hour after second dose, second day). A dull aching pain in the occiput, which comes and goes, in the afternoon (eleventh day). Pungent drawing pain in the left side of the occiput, with a similar pain in the left nostril, and a feeling as if coryza would ensue (eighteen hours after second dose).
Eyes
Pains in both eyes, more severe in the right (after three hours). Pains in both eyes, heavy and dull (second day). Pains over the left and in both eyes, with soreness to the touch over left (fourth day). Pains in or over either or both eyes (fifth and sixth days). Pains in either eye (seventh day). Pains in the right eye, and in both (ninth and tenth days). Pains in the right eyes all the forenoon (tenth day). Pains in the right eye, deep seated (third day). Pains in the right eye (eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh days). Pains dull and steady in the right eye (after three hours). Pains sharp, shooting, in the left eye, running to the right jaw and arm (after three hours). Pain over the left eye, with soreness to touch (fifth day). For several nights eyes have felt somewhat sore, as if the eyelids were inflamed and dry, particularly in evening, though no external signs of inflammation present themselves (fifteenth day).
Lachrymation (sixth day).
Ears
Pain in both ears (seventh day). Pain in right ear (third and sixth days); repeatedly (seventh day). Pain in the right ear, in the morning (eighth, ninth, and eleventh days). Pain in the left ear and running to the shoulder (fourth day). Pain in left ear (fifth day). Pain in the left ear, in the afternoon (eighth day). Boring pain just behind the base of the left ear (two hours after second dose, second day). Heavy throbbing in the ears, synchronous with the pulsations of the heart, attended the stinging, almost itching, pain in the left side of the chest (after one hour, fourth day). Sensation of stoppage in left ear, with pain over right eyebrow (after one hour and a quarter). Sensation as if the ears were obstructed, especially the left one; the prover’s own voice (as well as the voices of others) sounds strangely to him, producing a kind of titillation in the ear, and having a peculiar ringing confusing sound, and yet the sense of hearing is as acute as ever; continued eighteen hours (after six hours, sixth day); still continues, but not to so great a degree; attended by slight ringing in the ears, at 10 P.M. (eighth day). Constant roaring in the left ear, as if a conch-shell were held before it, the whole day, attended by a feeling as if a fine thread were tied tightly around the neck just below the ears; the roaring is not relieved by pressing the finger into the ear; this continued for a week, and then gradually disappeared (after nine days).
Ringing in the ears.
Nose
Sneezing. Epistaxis from the slightest picking of the nose (tenth day). Epistaxis from picking the nose was quite frequent during the proving. Epistaxis (thirteenth day). Coryza, with yellow expectoration from posterior nares (seventh day).
Coryza with headache. Some coryza, and obstruction of voice (fifth day); a slight coryza (sixth day). Slight coryza (seventh day). Great desire to pick the nose, was quite frequent during the proving. Sensation of great dryness in the nose, the whole day and night (fifth day). Dull pain in the nose (fifth day).
Pungent drawing pain in the left nostril, with a similar pain in th left side of the occiput, and a feeling as if coryza would ensure (eighteen hours after second dose). Suddenly seized with a sharp tingling sensation in the Schneiderian membrane, followed by violent and rapid sneezing, five or six times in succession, with a watery discharge from the nostrils (after half an hour, third day).
Face
Great paleness of face while standing (tenth day). Pain in the side of the face, including the right temple and ear; also left side of the upper lip (first day). Pain in left side of the face (third day). Pain in right jaw, in the morning (eighth day). Pain in the right jaw and molar teeth (first day). After retiring late at night had lancinating pains in law jaw, at root of left canine tooth (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.