Introduction
Common name: Black mustard.
Brassica nigra, Boiss. (Sinapis nigra, Linn.) Natural order: Cruciferae.
Preparation: Triturations.
Mind
Irritable disposition; don’t wish to be spoken to; unfitness for mental exertion; difficult to think or study. Disposition cross and dissatisfied; provoked at least unpleasant thing, or wholly without cause; answers short and snappish; I realize how unreasonably cross I am, but unless I am constantly on my guard, I am as cross as ever. Mind worked rapidly at night; could study easier, perception clearer; during day about as usual.
Head
Vertigo (first and second days). Giddiness (first and second days). Dull, heavy headache all morning in forehead and temples, relieved by shutting eyes; disappeared on eating a hearty meal about 2 o’clock (eighth day). Dull feeling in the head, in the forenoon (second day). During the day dull, heavy headache, while was forgotten when busy or when at study, but immediately returned when stopping; was somewhat better in open air (second day). Head as yesterday till 11 A.M., when it was replaced by burning prickling in face, with full, moderate pulse and dull feeling on top of head, as if empty, this lasting all day, with marked clearness of perception (third day). One of the most marked symptoms, while the medicine was continued, was the headache, which was dull and heavy. A dull feeling in the head was never entirely absent, though much relieved by lying down and in the open air; it was forgotten when the mind was occupied, never interfered with study or mental labor, and was always worse on thinking of it, also worse in a warm, especially a very narrow room; this feeling was a dull dragging-down or heavy feeling, more marked in the forehead, close over the eyes, and in the temples, just in front of and a little above the ear; never felt in back part of head and only occasionally on vertex; occasionally it amounted to a decided pain, but seldom. Sensation as if the scalp were adherent to the bones of the head, in the afternoon (third day). Forehead. About noon my head commenced to ache; dull pain across forehead, commencing at about outer angle of each eye, and not only extending across forehead, but seemed especially to be more severe around the edges of the orbits to the inner angles and over the bridge of the nose; appears to be more intense over the bridge of the nose; forehead quite hot and dry; headache worse in warm room, and relieved in cold open air; headache partly relieved while eating, but coming back after eating (third day). Towards evening felt a dull pain in the forehead, principally over the left eye, which disappeared soon after retiring (second day); perceived again on rising (third morning); somewhat increased (third day); soon after waking in the morning grows worse, with qualmishness about the stomach; was soon relieved after retiring (fourth day). Dull frontal headache, as if I had taken cold, with tired feeling all over, and a slight backache in the small of the back; symptoms all growing worse towards night (fourth day); headache (fifth day).
Dull heavy feeling in anterior part of the head, without decided ache, not interfering with mental exertion, and in fact forgotten during it; worse on thinking of it (ninth day). Headache over and through the forehead and temples and around the edges of the orbits; relieved by cold air; worse in warm room. Headache growing worse on right side and over right eye; worse on stooping and on the slightest motion, even of opening and closing the eye; better on lying still in bed (fifth night). Pain over left eye, sharp, and passing over the eye from left to right (third, fourth, and fifth days). Heavy feeling in forepart of head (eighth day). Some pressing pain above the eyes (fourth day).
Temples. Heavy dragging-down sensation in the temples (second day); same heaviness, with some dull pain, which was worse on thinking of it, and forgotten during close study or mental application (third day). A heavy drawing pain in the right temple towards night and in the evening (fifth day). Vertex and Parietals. Heavy headache in top and sides of the head (fourth day). Pain on the left side of the head (sixth day).
Eyes
Eyes sore, weak; when pressing slightly upon the eyeball, it felt as if pins were sticking into it (fourth day). Eyes feel tired, in the afternoon (second day). Pain in left eye, with smarting (first and second days). Sticking pain in left eye, lasting but a few moments, in the afternoon (second day). Eyes smart, with profuse lachrymation. Tears run from eyes. Eyeballs feel as if pressed from above, with tired feeling of eyes and some dull pain; hard work to keep eyes open; eye symptoms relieved by shutting the eyes; disappeared on eating a hearty meal about 2 o’clock (eighth day).
Nose
Catarrhal symptoms began to develop themselves, and thinking I had caught a severe cold, I stopped the proving; had for two or three nights a hacking cough, with slight expectoration of mucus in small lumps; cough only appeared in the evening, and c eased on retiring (after ten days). Immediately on touching the tongue to it, a pungent odor went up through the nostrils to the eyes, making me sneeze, as well as starting tears (first and second days). Dryness in both nostrils, the left is the worse, tender to pressure, and discharged some dried mucus (fifth day). Left nostril stopped up, in the afternoon and evening (fifth day).
Left nostril stopped all day; scanty discharges from anterior nares, acrid, causing smarting of skin (sixth day).
Face
Shrunken features. Redness around mouth, with smarting of lip (sixth day). Sensation as if the cheek were bulged outward by a bubble of air, just below the malar bone, in the afternoon (second day). Lips dry, and feel as if the integument were stiff (sixth day) Burning prickling in the face (third day).
Mouth
Teeth. Teeth are sensitive to warm drinks and to cold air, especially those that have been filled (eighth day). Tongue. A fissure along the median line of the tongue at the point where I was in the habit of taking the drug from the bottle, did not disappear on taking the drug in a different manner. Tongue coated a dirty white in the middle, more towards the back part, the edges and tip being natural. It made my tongue feel very sore, raw, and could hardly bear weight of teeth on it; in twenty-four hours the gums were very sore and tender to touch, so that I could not bear to eat anything hard, it hurt them so; this lasted nearly a week. Burning, scalded feeling on the tongue. Tongue on forepart very sore; feels as if I had a small blister on the tip of the tongue (third day). Tongue feels dry and sticky. General Mouth. Breath offensive, smelling as a person’s breath does after eating onions; worse shortly after taking the drug. Great dryness of the mucous membrane of the mouth Burning in mouth, extending to stomach (after first dose, second day). On tasting it, was quite sure it was horseradish; it turned my mouth so that I had to hold my hand up to prevent spitting it out; made my tongue feel as though it had been scalded with hot tea, a rough, scalded feeling (first and second days). Saliva. Profuse salivary secretion. Taste. Am very fond of mustard, but during whole proving it had a very unpleasant taste, and once or twice nauseated me. Garlic taste in mouth, tingling of tongue, in the morning, followed by nausea in the evening (first day); constant taste of garlic all day (third and following days). Taste of horseradish in his mouth.
Throat
Dry sensation in the posterior nares and pharynx, which is relieved by swallowing or by partial efforts to cough, which causes a little mucus, white and tenacious, not easily raised, and coming up in small lumps, to be brought up (sixth day ).
Rough scraping sensation in my throat, appearing to be in the larynx and extending to the trachea; this sensation is constant, causing a desire to make and effort to relieve this sensation; it is so severe as to cause a hacking cough; it is worse this evening (eighth day); throat is better; have had considerable secretion of mucus; throat symptoms were worse between 7 and 9 P.M., not so bad as last evening (ninth day). (Throat is somewhat better (second day); very much relieved, no soreness, less secretion, and feeling much better in every respect (third day); nearly well (fourth day); am feeling well in every respect; have not felt as well in three months (fifth day); throat begins to feel a little sore (sixth day); better (eighth day); feeling the best I have for a long time; have gained flesh), (ninth day).
Throat commenced feeling sore on left side (fifth day); felt only on swallowing saliva and on forcing mucus from the posterior nares; whole throat much injected behind the uvula palati, light-red color; soreness felt only slightly on drinking or eating (sixth day) Slight soreness of the throat on the right side, soon extending to the left (third day); the throat is worse (fourth day); continued (fifth 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.