Common names: Saving; (G.) Sadebaum; (Fr.), Genevrier savinier.
Introduction
Juniperus Sabina, Linn. Natural order: Coniferae. Preparation: Tincture of the stems.
Mind
Great anxiety, as if he apprehended some evil. He is desponding and hypochondriac. Great ill-humor; not disposed to talk. Ill- humored; indifferent to a jest. Irritable nerves; music was intolerable, it penetrated marrow and bone, with aching pain in the occiput, feeling of weakness, debility, and inclination to sweat, especially on the back; these symptoms disappeared in half an hour, when taking continuous exercise in the open air (after one hour). Out of humor several days; she is not disposed to speak; she is desponding, joyless, with a sense of debility in all the limbs. Ill-humor, with sensation as if he had taken cold.
Vexed she weeps aloud. Indifferent, but not ill-humored; un solicitous, but not dissatisfied (after several days).
Disinclined to talk, in the morning, while walking. Confusion of ideas (after five minutes). Ideas slightly confused, as if from several drinks of whisky (after ten minutes). Weakness of memory; he could not recollect what he had done during the day. Perfectly insensible.
Head
Vertigo. Violent vertigo, when, standing, as if he would fall forward. Violent vertigo, even when sitting, with great weakness, as if he would fall over, and as if his eyes would close.
Continual vertigo, with mist before the eyes (after two hours).
Vertigo on rising, she was obliged to lie down again. Vertigo, as if he would fall. Vertigo, with obscuration of vision. Vertigo, with stupefaction. Dizzy, with orgasm and heat in the head.
General Head. Stimulant effect of brain, evinced by semi- intoxication (after twenty-minutes). Dulness of the whole head, especially in the forehead, extending down towards the nose, in which it became a sort of drawing, causing a sensation as if blood would flow from the left nostril (after one hour). Dulness of the head after dinner. Pressure and dulness in the head, especially in the forehead, as after intoxication (after one hour). Oppressive heaviness in the head, as if she had taken much spirits; all the forenoon. Feeling of heaviness and pressure in the left side of the head; shooting stitches sometimes dart through the left hemisphere (after one hour). Oppressive and painful heaviness in the whole head, continuing until she goes to bed (after six hours). Most severe headache the following day, with slightly congested conjunctiva. Intense headache (after two hours and ten minutes). Severe headache through the day (second day). Headache (after five minutes); (after one hour). Headache early in the morning, as if the mastoid processes were pressed towards one another (after two days). Pressive pain in the whole head, from within outward, resembling a wind, which rushes in suddenly, and disappears again slowly. Drawing headache.
Stitching pressure darting into the left hemisphere of the head.
Sticking pain through the brain, with pressure. Tearing in the whole of the right hemisphere, from the occiput to the forehead.
Digging-boring headache. Beating headache, with heaviness and stupefaction. Forehead. Boring pain behind the right frontal eminence, in the coronal suture. Raging pain in the forepart of the head. Painful sensation in the right frontal eminence and in the right temple, as if the parts were pressed asunder; it comes suddenly, disappears gradually, and recurs frequently. Drawing headache, first in the forehead, afterwards in the occiput.
Drawing headache in the forehead and temples, only in the daytime. Pressing in the left side of the forehead. Sudden pressure in the left frontal eminence, from without inward.
Sunshine of pressure in the forehead, it stupefies him. Painful pressure in the left frontal eminence, affecting the eyeball, which feels compressed. Tearing, with pressure in the right frontal eminence. The forehead was painful on motion, she could scarcely wrinkle it; a pain as if the skin had grown fast to the skull. Smarting-stabbing pain, as if a sharp knife were plunged several times into the right frontal eminence, deep into the brain (after seventy-two hours). Temples. Aching pain in the region of the left temporal bone, from within outward. Aching pain in the region of the right and left temporal bone (third hour). Transient aching above the right temple (after three hours). Transient pressive pain over the right temple (after three hours). Sensation in the right temple, as of a weight pressing inward, with frequently an acute sticking in the left frontal eminence, coming and going suddenly. Painful pressing sensation in the right temple to the forehead (after four hours).
Painful drawing in the left temple, when closing the eyes, accompanied with a painful pressure on the left upper eyelid (after one hour). Sense of painful stricture over the temples (after twenty-minutes). Circumscribed pain in each temporal region (after ten minutes). Vertex. The vertex is sensitive to touch, and when touched as aching pain in felt in the head.
Aching pain in the right sinciput. Pressure under the vertex, at dinner. Occiput. Heaviness of the occiput and nape of the neck, descending along the whole of the back down to the small of the back. Pressing heaviness in the occiput, acutely painful, and relieved by strong pressure upon a hard cushion. Dull pressure on both sides of the occiput (after half an hour). Painful pressing sensation in the right occiput, appearing and disappearing gradually (after three-quarters of an hour). Pressive-tearing pain externally in the left occipital bone, as far as the left side of the frontal bone, in a curved direction across the left temporal bone, more violent when touched. Sensation in the left side of the occiput, as if a sharp wind penetrated it, after which the sensation changes to a pressing-boring pain.
Eyes
Blue rings around the eyes. Eyes shut. Tensive pain in the eyes; sensation when looking up, as if the internal and inferior muscles were too short. Pain in the eyes, and discharge of smarting water. Feeling of heat in the eyes. Pressive tearing in the left eyebrow. Twitching in the upper eyelid. Pricking below the cartilage of the lower lid (after seven hours). Conjunctiva congested (after two hours and ten minutes). Pupils of the eyes slightly dilated, but contracted readily on a candle being placed near them. Pupils much contracted. Tremulousness and sensation as if clouds were rising before the eyes, disappearing in the open air.
Ears
Pressure externally above the right ear. Stitches behind the ear, even during rest. Burning sensation in the border of the left ear and lobule, which looks a little redder than the other, but is not warmer to touch (after one hour and a half). Tearing in the left ear, almost like otalgia (after one hour and a half).
Pinching deep in the ear. Hardness of hearing.
Nose
Frequent sneezing (the first three days). Dry coryza. Dry coryza in the right nostril.
Face
Face painfully flushed and congested (after forty minutes).
Countenance turgid. Pale face, with lusterless eyes, as on recovery from severe illness, continuing several days (after one hour). Dryness of the lower lip for several days. Aching in the left malar bone, aggravated by touch. Paralytic pain in the right malar bone. Pain in a small spot behind the angle of the lower jaw, when touched and pressed the masseter muscles, aggravated by touch (after two hours). Single jerks through the left lower jaw into a hollow tooth, when walking in the open air, after a meal.
Dull sticking pain the left side of the lower jaw (after four hours). Stitches from the lower jaw into the malar bone.
Mouth
Teeth. Toothache, excited almost only by chewing; it commenced in a hollow tooth, and afterwards spread to other teeth; lasting five or six minutes. Toothache evening and night, which wakes him, as if the tooth would be shattered; pressure form within outward, relieved after rising, aggravated by drinking and smoking; he is unable to bear the warmth of the bed two evenings in succession. Front teeth on edge. Drawing pain in all the teeth. Drawing in the root of a hollow tooth, when drinking or eating either cold or warm things, and when breathing through the open mouth. Pain in the lower row of teeth, when eating or chewing, but especially afterwards, as if the gum were swollen, and as if the teeth were elongated and loose. Tearing pain in the roots of the molars, near the gums. Gums. Swelling of the gum around a hollow tooth, whitish, painful to touch, early in the morning, when waking; accompanied with heaviness in the tooth and jaw (eighth day). Ulcer on the gum of a front tooth, painful on touch. The gum around the roots of a broken-off hollow tooth is painful when touched. Tongue. White and brownish coating yellow, especially posteriorly (twelfth day). Fine pricking in the tip of the tongue. General Mouth. Foaming at the mouth. Peculiar odor of drug very evident in breath. Putrid smell from the mouth, not noticed by herself. Scraping sensation in the palate and uvula, aggravated by swallowing saliva (after half an hour). Dryness of the mouth and throat. Saliva. Accumulation of water in the mouth, with frequent yawning. Increased secretion of saliva. The saliva is quite white, and becomes frothy while talking. Taste.
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.