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Soreness of the throat, as if he swallowed over a sore spot, with at times stitches in it. Pressive soreness on the left side of the throat when swallowing. Swelling and tensive pain in the left side of the throat; fauces red and irritated (seventh day).

Scraping sore throat in the morning; sticking in it in the evening. Roughness and scraping in the throat at night while lying on the right side in bed, on account of which she coughed for half an hour, with expectoration of mucus, several nights.

Scratching in the throat, that provokes hacking cough, with a sensation of rawness in the bronchi, most distressing in the morning, on waking, and in the evening after lying down, for four days. Scraping, sensation low down in the throat, in the evening (seventh day). Sticking sore throat only on swallowing, with pain in the throat, even to touch. Sticking in the throat when coughing. Feeling as of a lump in the left side of the throat; she could only swallow with great difficulty. Pricking in the throat, as from a pin or needle, causing her to cough. Burning in the throat and chest (after six days). Burning and stinging in the throat, especially when yawning and swallowing. Burning in the throat. Violent tickling in the throat provokes cough.

Tickling itching in the region of the pit of the throat, that threatens suffocation until a deep shattering cough breaks out, which continues uninterruptedly for several hours, and causes pain in the lower abdomen and throat. Bitter taste in the throat, as if coming from the stomach. Nauseous sensation in the throat, in the afternoon. On swallowing, food gets into the choanae.

Sensation as if pieces of food were in the choanae. Sensation of great dryness in the choanae. Uvula. Elongation of the uvula, with dryness of the throat. Uvula swollen. Pharynx. Soreness in the pharynx from singing. Swallowing difficult; food descends only slowly; at first a gurgling in the pharynx, that gradually descends to the stomach, three seconds after which the food descends. External Throat. Hard swelling of both parotid glands, with tensive pain on moving the head and on touch. Swelling of a parotid gland, with sticking pain. Swelling of the submaxillary glands, painful when touched, with drawing pain in them, and with sore throat on swallowing, as from an internal swelling (after twenty-four hours). (There recommenced a discharge from an old abscess in the submaxillary gland that had discharged years before, but was now covered with a scab). (Third day). Swelling of the cervical glands (after five, and twenty-five days).

Swelling of the glands of the neck and nape of the neck (after nine days). Swollen cervical glands. The cervical muscles of the right side are swollen. The submaxillary glands are painful to touch but not swollen. Stitches in the swollen submaxillary glands (after three days). Violent contractive pain in the submaxillary glands (forty-first day).

Stomach

Appetite. Great appetite; desire for bread and warm food; immediately after eating, the appetite and thirst returned (tenth day). Ravenous hunger, so that it was difficult to fall asleep (fourteenth day). Ravenous hunger before supper, with complete loss of appetite and trembling in all the limbs, followed by chilliness and coldness over the whole body, with heat in the chest (second day). Ravenous hunger, in the morning. Ravenous hunger towards evening, and after eating, a slight sensation of nausea in the pit of the stomach. Ravenous hunger, with collection of water in the mouth. Ravenous hunger appeased only by lying still a short time. Excessive hunger. Constant hunger, and after eating, fulness in the stomach, and even then hunger.

Gnawing hunger, that is for only a short time relieved by a bite of bread. She is hungry, but will swallow no food. Hunger in the evening; he ate more than usual and then was not satisfied, but after a quarter of an hour there was a feeling of fullness in the stomach (after fifteen days). Is very hungry; eats as usual, and then complains that everything seems to be up in the throat.

Appetite for he does not know what, with accumulation of water in the mouth. Appetite for only cold, raw food,. She ate very little, immediately became averse to everything. Aversion to meat. Appetite bad (sixteenth day). Diminished appetite; (sixteenth day). Loss of appetite, with clean tongue (fourth, fifth, and sixth days). Sense of appetite and taste became defective. Loss of appetite and taste. Complete loss of appetite.

Thirst. *Thirst Increased thirst, Drinks more than usual. Very great thirst and dryness in the throat (after ten days).

Excessive thirst, without desire to drink, even during the chill (third and fourth days). Much thirst (after five days). Much thirst at night; the mouth was constantly dry (after forty-eight hours). Eructations. Eructations; (thirty-fifth day). Frequent eructations of gas (after forty-eight hours). Frequent not disagreeable eructations (third day). Uprisings of water into the mouth, which she was obliged to spit out (fourth day).

Eructations tasting of the food always after eating, for many days,. *Acid eructations, with burning in the throat, after a meal. Acid eructations, in the evening. Sour and bitter eructations, in the morning, as from a disordered stomach.

Eructations, acidity, and a horrible taste coming up from the stomach always after eating, and lasting till eating again.

Constant belching up of wind from the stomach. Loud uprisings.

Loud, uncontrollable belchings of wind, lasting for nearly half an hour, and attended by much nausea. Violent eructation after supper. Violent eructation (twentieth day). Hiccough. Hiccough for twenty-five minutes, between 12 and 12.30 (third day).

Hiccough before and after eating. Hiccough, in the evening in bed. Heartburn. Warm uprisings from the stomach to the throat.

Heartburn rising up from the stomach after every meal; water collects in the mouth, and she must spit a great deal (after seven, and twenty days). Intense heartburn, with sense of load at epigastrium. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea; (first day). Nausea at night (first night). Nausea on rising in the morning (tenth day).

Nausea, with belchings of wind. Nausea, with pressure in the stomach (thirty-sixth day). Nausea, as after an emetic. A kind of nausea while walking in the open air. Nausea, as if in the lower abdomen, that at one time rises, at another descends, several days in succession. Nauseated, faint, and tremulous suddenly while smoking (his usual tobacco). Nausea and qualmishness in the morning for several days. Nausea after eating, that disappears after lying down. Nausea in the stomach and discomfort over the whole body, so that she was obliged to lie down, after which she felt better, at 5 P.M., during the supper (seventh day). Great nausea during dinner (second day).

Very frequent nausea without vomiting, even when fasting in the morning, as if in the pit of the stomach, with good appetite and natural taste to the food (after twenty days). Transient nausea in the morning, followed by weakness and chilliness, lasting till noon. She is attacked with nausea during coition (after twenty-one days). Constant nausea and sense of emptiness at stomach. Nausea, with painfulness in the epigastric region and inclination to eructate, which she could not, in the forenoon (seventh day). Nausea and efforts to vomit (seventh day). Nausea, even to vomiting, immediately after eating; he scarcely dared to eat thin soup. Ineffectual retching, waterbrash, with nausea.

Inclination to vomit (twentieth day); (fourth day). She vomited the food, at 9 A.M. (fourth day). Stomach. Fulness for two hours after eating, relieved only by eructations. Discomfort after eating (tenth day). He frequently woke at night on account of pain in the stomach, at first pressive, afterwards pinching.

Paroxysms of spasmodic pain in the stomach after eating. Pain in the pit of the stomach after violent cough. Pain in the pit of the stomach (first day). Violent pain, heavy weight, and crampy sensation at pit of stomach. Attacks of twisting in the pit of the stomach, followed by nausea rising up, with violent palpitations and violent pressure in the sternum, extending up to the throat; she was obliged to gulp up bitter water; relieved by eating, food was not vomited; in the morning, worse on rising from bed. Drawing griping and sticking in and about the pit of the stomach and in both hypochondria, extending to the hip- joints. Griping and gnawing in the stomach, with nausea and cold creeping over the back and neck, with audible rumbling in the abdomen, disappearing on lying down with the legs drawn up.

Griping and clawing in the stomach (after one hour). Griping, pinching, and pressure above the stomach and in the hypochondria, in frequent paroxysms, for a week. A screwing-together sensation in the epigastric region, not very painful, frequently, soon followed by a soft stool in the fore-noon (fifth day).

Melancholic anxiety in the pit of the stomach during the menses, so that she wished to drown herself. Sticking in the stomach (first day). Sensation as if a stone were lying in the stomach, with a feeling of fullness. Flatulent food presses like a lump in the stomach; is obliged to vomit. Heaviness like lead in the stomach. Sensation of heaviness in the stomach, with loss of appetite. Pressure in the stomach after eating. Pressure in the stomach (first day); (forty-second day). Much pressure in the stomach (after fourteen days). Pressive pain in the pit of the stomach (fifth day). Pressure, then pinching pain, in the stomach, followed by a single eructation. Pressure in the stomach and cutting in the intestines, for half an hour. Pressure in the stomach, aggravated by walking in the open air, with frequent empty eructations. Pressure and nausea in the stomach, with aversion to all food, in the evening (third day). Pressure in the stomach, as from something heavy, after dinner (tenth day).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.