Common names: Squills; (G.), Meerzwiebel; (F.) Ognon marin.
Introduction
Urginea maritima, Baker. (Scilla maritima, Linn.) Natural order: Liliaceae.
Preparation: Tincture of the bulbs.
Mind.
Lively, joyous mood. (* Probably curative action.- HAHNEMANN.*) Courage firmness. Anxiety. Anxious mood; fear of death. Great anxiety. Ill-humored at every work; he was cool to people and did not answer. Great ill-humor. Fretful and averse to mental work.
Whining. (* On account of pain of S. 124.-HUGHES.*) Vexed about trifles. Indolence, with aversion to all kinds of mental work, in the morning. Disinclined to think and write. Disinclination to think and depression (after one hour).
Head.-Confusion and Vertigo.
Confused feeling and heaviness in the head, with quiet sleep without dreams, in the morning (after seventy-two hours).
Vertigo, as if he would fall sideways, in the morning on rising from bed (after forty-eight hours). Vertigo, with nausea, as if he had been turning in a circle a long time. Cloudy dizziness in the head (after two minutes). General Head. Heaviness in the whole upper part of the head, in the morning after waking.
Unusual heaviness in the whole head, as if he could not hold it still, only while sitting. Weak and dreamy in the head (after six to twelve hours). Flattening pressure over the whole head, as from a weight (after twelve hours). (Pressive-tearing headache, which does not prevent mental work), (after twelve hours). Dull tingling headache, in the morning after rising. Swashing in the head on shaking it. Forehead. Pressive-drawing pain in the forehead. Pressive pain in a small spot in the left frontal eminence. Burrowing headache in the forehead. A painful piercing thrust in the left frontal eminence (after one hour). Drawing stitch from the forehead into the right ear. Some painful stitches in the forehead, from the left to the right side, associated with drawing. Some slow stitches extending into the right side of the forehead. Stitches in the right frontal eminence, extending down to the nose. Dulness in the sinciput and occiput, as after intoxication, with pressure anteriorly and posteriorly in the head. Temple. Contractive pain in both temples. Violent drawing stitches in the right temple; they seem to constrict half of the brain. Drawing ending in a stitch in the right temple (after half an hour). Stitch in the right temple, extending to the forehead. Vertex and Parietals. Painful sensitiveness in the top of the head. Painful sensitiveness on the top of the head and stupefaction within the head, every morning. Pinching headache in the sides of the head (after half an hour). Occiput. Transient pressure in the occiput. Sudden transient drawing pain in the occiput, from the left side to the right. Drawing, sticking, long-continued pain in the occiput while sitting. Tearing pain in the occiput.
Eye.
The left eye is visibly smaller than the right; the left upper lid seems swollen and hangs down perceptibly and makes the eye smaller. Staring look. The eyes seem swimming in cold water, for several minutes. Violent tearing in both eyes, at the same time also behind the eyeballs. Contractive sensation in the right eye. Itching of the left eye (after twenty-four hours). Lids. Tickling in the left external canthus. A swarm of fine stitches in the left external canthus. Fine burning in the external canthi.
Lachrymation. Lachrymation and sneezing. Pupil. Dilatation of the pupils. Great dilatation of the pupils (after two minutes).
Contraction of the pupils (after five hours); (after half an hour); (after one hour). Great contraction of the pupils (immediately).
Ear.
Tearing pain behind the left ear. (Tearing pains within both ears).
Nose.
Violent constant sneezing and fluent coryza (immediately). She sneezes a few times, at night). Attack of violent fluent coryza, in the morning (after six days). Very violent coryza; the eyes have a dim weak look, and are full of water, in the forenoon (after seven days). Coryza, with ulcerated nostrils. Biting coryza, with frequent sneezing (after forty-eight hours). Acrid mucus in the nose. (Discharge of mucus from the nose). Dry coryza. Sensation of soreness on the margins of the nostrils.
Face.
The expression of the face varies, at one time very much sunken, at another lively, without heat or chilliness. Features drawn, tense, with large eyes and dilated pupils, staring looks, and redness of the cheeks, without thirst. Face red and burning (after twenty-four hours).
Mouth.-Tongue.
Vesicles on the tongue. General Mouth. Roughness and scraping far back in the upper part of the palate. Burning on the palate and in the throat. Scraping burning in the palate, similar to heartburn (after five and six days). Stitches extending upward in both canine teeth, as if a sharp cold air penetrated the teeth, when eating and drinking either cold or warm things. Mouth seems sticky and slimy. Saliva. Increased secretion of saliva (immediately). Taste. An unpleasant taste, with a whitish-yellow tongue (fifth day). Bitter taste. (Everything tastes sour and bitter). Burnt taste in the mouth, even while chewing foot, which remained after eating, and was noticed only while swallowing foot. Disgusting sweetish taste of all food, especially meat and broth (after forty-eight hours). Taste is diminished and seems blunted. Tastelessness, when smoking tobacco.
Throat.
In ten minutes is produced irritation in throat, with heat and tickling, causing constant coughing, for one hour and a half.
Slight irritation to cough, in the pit of the throat, in the upper part of the trachea; he hawks a few times (after one hour). Pain in the submaxillary glands (after three hours).
Stomach.-Appetite and Thirst.
Ravenous hunger (after a few hours). Insatiability, while eating what tastes good; the stomach seems full and yet he is hungry.
Diminished appetite. Weak appetite. Prostrates the appetite Loss of appetite. (* Revised by Hughes. *) Loss of appetite, partly on account of sensation of fulness, partly because the food has a burnt taste, partly because some food has no taste, for example, broth and meat also on account of disgusting sweetish taste, as bread and butter. Complete loss of appetite. (* Not found- HUGHES.*) Complete loss of appetite, could eat nothing, and yet taste was unimpaired. Increased thirst. Thirst, with chilliness, in the evening, without internal or external heat.
Eructations. Frequent eructations. Frequent eructations of a sour taste rising into the mouth. Eructations tasting of the food and qualmishness, after dinner. Eructations of a disgusting taste.
Short eructations. Tasteless and odorless eructations. Empty eructations. Empty eructations, for several hours (after one hour). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea, with eructations. Excessive nausea. Nausea, in the back of the throat, almost constant accumulation of saliva in the mouth (after forty-eight hours).
Constant alternations between qualmishness in the pit of the stomach and symptoms of diarrhoea in the lower abdomen; when one is present the other is absent, though there are are more indications of diarrhoea. Nausea and inclination to vomit.
Retching. Excessive efforts to vomit. Inclination to vomit, in the epigastric region. Vomiting. Stomach. It spoils the power of digestion. Enervates forces of the stomach. (* Revised by Hughes.*) Pressure in the stomach. Pressure as from a stone, in the stomach. (* Not found.-HUGHES.*) Intermittent pressure in the stomach (after half an hour). Excessive pain in the stomach.
Cardialgia. (* Original revised by Hughes. *) Painful pinching in the pit of the stomach below the chest. Fine stitches in the left side of the pit of the stomach (after thirty-two hours).
Sensation of warmth in the stomach. Discomfort in the stomach. Symptoms of a moderate gastric and intestinal catarrh.
Abdomen.-Umbilicus and Sides.
Griping in the umbilical region. Pain in the side of the abdomen, as if the intestines were forcing though, when coughing and walking. Pressive stinging pain in the abdominal muscles of the left side (after twenty-four hours). Bubbling sensation in the muscles of the right side of the abdomen. General Abdomen.
Abdomen distended. Flatulence. Profuse emission of very offensive flatus (after one hour). Incessant emission of noisy, very offensive flatus, which only momentarily relieved the abdomen.
Loud flatus always passed immediately on touching the abdomen, even frequently. Frequent emissions of flatus (after twenty- four hours). Short abrupt emission of flatus. Painful rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen. Enteritis. Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, as if one were hungry. Abdomen so tender that the slightest covering could not be borne (after twenty-four hours).
Acute painfulness in the abdomen, which was greatly distended though soft. Pains in the abdomen. Griping in the abdomen.
Griping and rumbling in the abdomen, as from flatus, which passed (after fourteen hours). Griping and rumbling from gas, in the abdomen. Colic. Violent colic. Tension in the abdomen, which, however, feels soft. Tension in the abdomen. Drawing pain in the abdomen, worse when walking, and not relieved by pressure (after twenty-eight hours). Tearing through the abdomen below the umbilicus (after four hours). Increased warmth in the abdomen.
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.