Common names: Pitcher plant, Sidesaddle flower, Huntsman’s cup, Flytrap, etc.
Introduction
Natural order: Sarraceniaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the root.
Mind
Feel remarkably cheerful (first day). Spirits buoyant (fourth day). 12 M., mind despondent (third day). Dulness of mind, at 7.30 A.M. (third day). Brain very dull and memory poor, at 9 P.M.
(third day); brain feels clearer (fourth day). Find it difficult to concentrate the attention; forgetful (fifth day). Alternate apathy and intellectual activity, with heaviness of the head.
Frequent delirium. Madness, with wickedness and fury, or good humor and extreme complacency. Dementia, with disposition to injure and to destroy himself. Idiotism. Laughing and involuntary crying. Good heartedness, or impatience and irritability.
Disposition for excesses, to get angry and to speak injurious words. Despair with sorrow and crying and snuffling. Melancholy and mournfulness, with great anxiety about everything. He is afraid, and reproaches himself; thinks he has committed something wrong, or disgraced the family or his absent friends. Rancorous character, with great punctiliousness, especially as he feels sick. Capricious humor, sometimes good-natured, then irritable.
Invidious, distrustful, and suspicious character. Indifference and feeling of annihilation, he tolerates offences without saying anything. Great disposition to word at architecture. Affluence of ideas, hindering sleep during the night, with sweat, heat, intense thirst, and restlessness.
Head
Heaviness of the head, with alternate apathy and intellectual activity. 3 A.M., head feels dull and heavy (third day). Dull heavy ache in the head, especially in the frontal region, at 7.30 A.M. (third day). Head dull, and aches at the coronal region (fourth day). Feeling of congestion about the head, with irregularity of the heart’s action, lasting several days. 12 M., dull feeling through the head, just above the ears (first day).
Head hot and sore, with a full feeling, at 2 P.M. (third day).
Head is hot and aches, in the morning; headache continues, at 12 M. (third day). Slight headache (third day); severe headache in the afternoon for about two hours (sixth day); no headache (seventh day). Headache for an hour (fifth day); slight headache (seventh day). Dull heavy feeling in the forehead for about two hours, causing great desperation of spirits (second day). 4 P.M., a soreness of the frontal bone for half an hour (second day).
Some frontal headache (second day). General Head. He drops his head and supports it on his arms. Heaviness of the head, with great difficulty of thinking; excessive debility of the intellectual faculties. Dulness of the head, with loss of memory, insensibility of the right side, loss of hearing and smell. Rush of blood, pulsations, and burning heat of the;head, with sensation as if it would split. Excessive headache, with constant desire to sleep. Headache with chills, nausea vomiting, dimness of sight, and buzzing in ears. Periodical pulsative headache with desire to recline. Aggravation of the headache, in the evening, at night, and in bed, or in the morning when waking up, in fresh air and in great heat. Sensation as if the head were bound by an iron band, with contractive pains in the temples. Sensation as if he had received a knock on the head, with vertigo, stupor, and vacillating gait; he is obliged to support himself and to lie down. Sensation as if the head would be crushed on a wheel, especially the neck, with abolition of venereal desire and impotence. Pressive and lancinating pains, as in tuberculous meningitis, with sensation as if the head were full of water.
Sensation as if the right temple were pierced by a sharp-pointed instrument, changing to the left ear, with spasmodic pains and deafness. Intense neuralgic pains, spreading from the temples to the jaws. External Head. The hair changes color and falls out.
The hair feels stiff and as it were a foreign body. The hair entangles and feels like wool. Inflammation and swelling of the scalp. Eruption like stings of insects, and ulcers on the scalp.
Herpes with dark thick scabs, which fall off easily and leave the scalp of a bright-red color; the same on forehead. Pruritus and heat of the scalp during the whole afternoon. The skin of the head painful and full of scales. Vertigo. Vertigo, with cramps in the neck, spreading to the forehead, especially in the evening.
Vertigo, dulness, with sensation of intoxication; he does not know how to keep himself straight. Vertigo, with dulness in the head and contractions in the spinal column. Frequent dizziness, especially in the afternoon, after eating.
Eyes
Pain in the left eye, as if congested, for about ten minutes (second day). Eyes feel swollen and sore, at 7.30 A.M. (third day). Passive pains in the orbits, so that he could not keep his head erect. A soreness of right optic nerve, just behind the eyeball, for about ten minutes (fourth day). Objective.
Inflammation of the eyes and lids, with great injection of the conjunctiva and sclerotica. Eyes congested with vesicles on the conjunctiva. In the cornea a spot like a cataract. The crystalline lens appears opaque and whitish. Subjective.
Difficulty of moving the eyes and impossibility to discern objects. Excessive dryness of the eyes and lids, with great difficulty in opening them. Burning in the eyes, as if sand were in them. Excessive itching in the eyes, especially in the afternoon and night. Pricking and pulsations in the eyes, as if congested. Orbit. Cutting-penetrating pains in the orbits. Lids.
Swelling and redness of the lids. Scabs and thick tumors on the borders of the eyelids. Lachrymal Apparatus. Very abundant lachrymation, especially in open air. Acrid and corrosive lachrymation. Abundant secretion of mucus of the eyes. Pupils.
The pupils frequently contracted. Vision. Mistiness of the sight and paroxysms of blindness, with malaise and desire to vomit.
Great weakness of sight. Objects are seen too far off or nearer than they really are. A strong light is necessary to distinguish objects. Great photophobia. Myopia and presbyopia. Objects appear multiplied. Looking at the light he sees a multitude of rays, which spread out. All objects appear covered by a white veil.
Ears
Sticking pains deep in the right ear; they are transient, but recur very often for a few hours; the same pains appeared in the left ear (second day). Inflammation and swelling of the auditory canal, yellowish otorrhoea, thick and frequently bloody. Ulcers and fissures in the interior of the ear. Lancinating and spasmodic pains in the ears, with a sensation as if a pointed instrument were stuck in the parotids. Spasmodic pains in the ears, spreading to the;brain, with heaviness and pressure on the vertex. Frequent spasms in the ears, with headache. Cramps in the ears, with sensation as if they were pulled off. Heat and sensation of numbness in the ears., Sensation as if a firm body or a tumor were in the ear. Intense otalgia, so that he is afraid of losing his senses. Hearing excessively sensitive; any great noise produces headache and desire to vomit. Momentary deafness.
Noise of confused music and resonance of the pulse in the ears.
Noise of waves, tingling, buzzing, and sometimes detonations in the ears.
Nose
Swollen red nose, with pressure and pulsation at the root. Small tumors, showing a chancrous character in the nostrils. Nasal discharge of green-yellowish, bloody, black, and foul-smelling matter. Fluent coryza, with cold chills and loss of smell.
Coryza, with abundant mucous discharge, tickling and burning in the nostrils. Dry coryza, with occlusion of the nostrils, especially night and mornings. Epistaxis, nearly producing fainting. Frequent sneezing, with jerking in the brain and stupefaction. Sensation of evulsion and torsion in the nose, with excoriation of the skin. Burning, pulsative, and pressive pains in the nose, with swelling of the nostrils on the same side. Fetid smell.
Face
6 P.M., my face feels flushed (second day). Erysipelatous swelling of the face. The face swollen, red, and inflamed. The skin of the face tense, with impossibility to smile or open the mouth. Yellowing-green face, with black circles round the eyes.
Great paleness of the face, with heat and chill alternating.
Sensation as if he had a leaden mask on his face. Smarting, heat, or coldness on one side of the face, or on the other. Lips. Lips swollen, hard, and chapped. Small indurated tumor upon the upper lip. Ulcers like chancres on the lips. Jaw. Spasmodic and contractive pains in the lower jaw.
Mouth
Bad odor from the mouth, with bitter saliva and efforts to vomit.
Inflammation of the whole mouth and gum, with burning and great difficulty in chewing. Numerous small white-great ulcers surrounded by a red areola, mostly on the palate and isthmus faucium. Inflammatory swelling of the palate. Mouth dry and parched, as if lined with plaster. Taste. Bitter burning taste, especially after liquid food, flat and sweet. Taste putrid, flat, bloody, with dry and pasty throat. Food, bread and wine have a bitter taste. Tongue brownish white, coated (fourth day). Tongue dry (third day). 3 A.M., lips and mouth parched (third 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.