Common names: Yew; (G.), Eibe; (Fr.), L’If.
Introduction
Taxus baccata, Linn.
Natural order: Coniferae.
Mind
Died delirious. Remained imbecile during two months that the skin was diseased (after one month). She was as if intoxicated for two days. Anxiety. Impatient disposition, which scarcely allows of the least intellectual contest (thirteenth day).
Oppression only in the daytime, especially when the stomach is empty or full (first day). Disinclination to metal work. Fell on the bed she was making. Partial unconsciousness (after six hours). State of profound stupor and helplessness. There was very marked improvement after the stomach was washed out, though even then she was prone to relapse into her former lethargic condition, and necessity arose for more active measures to keep her awake, though these again were soon able to be discontinued (after seven hours and a half). The patient’s memory was a blank from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M.; she did not even recollect the stomach- pump (after three hours). Insensible. Coma (after six hours).
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo, etc. Momentary vertigo. Giddiness. General Head. Dulness of the head. Headache; (after fourteen hours and a half). The gardeners at Pisa could not remain more than half an hour at work trimming the trees without suffering violent headache. Slight headache with vertigo. Burning headache.
Forehead. Frontal headache, extending to the face, with tearing in the eyes and slight lachrymation (third day). Supraorbital and temporal headache on the right side, with lachrymation on the same side (after two hours and a half); aggravation at the slightest shaking from the cough (after five, six, seven to ten hours). Supraorbital headache, with appearance of brilliant revolving circles constantly before the left eye especially, together with a feeling of emptiness in the stomach at the approach of mealtime, mostly ceasing after eating. Fine sticking pains in the frontal region. Headache under the left orbit (after one hour and a half), with increased lachrymation some hours later. Temple. Pressure in the left temporal region.
Parietals. Twinging headache in both sides. The pain in the head passed from the right to the left side in the same position and with the same characteristics (second day).
Eye
Eyes shut. Orbit. Pressive pain over the eyes. Pressive pain in the orbital region. Lids. Eyelids fell, and turned of a very dark color. Appearance of a small dry scab with red base, with very acute itching in a space about three lines in diameter, towards the outer canthus of the left eye (after eight hours).
Smarting itching in both eyelids, relieved by rubbing (after one hour); this symptom occurred with all the provers, without redness or signs of inflammation. Very troublesome itching in the left outer canthus (first day). Lachrymation. Copious lachrymation on using the eyes in the least, whether in the open air or indoors. Lachrymation of the left eye without pain (after one hour). Pupils. Pupils very dilated. Pupils widely dilated, though they acted slightly to light (after six hours). Dilated pupils. Vision. Obscurity of vision.
Face
Looked ill. Face puffy and pale. Countenance pale.
Countenance pale and depressed. Pallor of face; lividity of lips and eyelids (after six hours). Facial muscles convulsed, chiefly on the left side, the head itself being drawn to that side; the eyes were thrown up and the pupils contracted; the arms were also drawn up and there was great restlessness; the facial convulsions were similar to those in an epileptic fit, and ended in a few minutes in frothing at the mouth and stertorous breathing.
Purplish lips. Lips, especially the upper, blackish brown.
Mouth
Teeth. Coldness in the upper incisors. Tongue. Tongue coated. Tongue excoriated. Tongue moist and tremulous, strained of a uniform brown color (after six hours); the straining lasted four days. Biting heat of the tongue at the part in contact with the substance (immediately). General Mouth. Dry mouth with the fever (after twenty-four hours). Saliva. Sensation of saliva increased, and afterwards, especially from large doses, diminished. Increased secretion of saliva; he spits a great deal more than usual, and the saliva is extremely viscid. Thick saliva, salter than usual. Saliva sometimes so acrid as to make the mouth smart. Copious secretion of hot saliva, with the sickness at the stomach (third day). Taste. Bitter taste like that of Quinine, but much less persistent (first day).
Stomach
Appetite. Two hours after breakfast unwonted hunger, which, when satisfied, returns in an hour and a half (after five hours); this symptom, accompanied by general weakness and by uneasiness, with great weakness or sinking feeling in the region of the stomach, was especially troublesome during the last two days.
Loss of appetite. Thirst. Intense thirst (after eleven hours).
Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea, followed sometimes by mucous and saburral vomiting, rarely mingled with bile. Nausea and efforts to vomit. Retching, and complained of feeling ill. Sickness at the stomach, with copious secretion of hot saliva (third day).
Began to feel sick (after one hour); vomited for the first time (one hour and a half); vomited three or four times between 9 and 10 A.M. (after two hours); vomiting from time to time (after six hours); 9.30 P.M., the vomited matter had become duodenal in character, being more tenacious, and containing bile and food as well as leaves, the sharp points of which were well imbedded in mucus; she had vomited four times since 6 P.M. (after fourteen hours and a half); the vomited matter was neutral to test-paper.
Vomiting, etc. The oldest vomited a little. Vomitings, which ended in death. Vomiting, purging, and tenesmus. Vomiting of mucus and of curdled grease. Stomach. Greater activity of the digestive functions, and in consequence, frequent need of eating.
Feeling of emptiness in the stomach without hunger (after about an hour, second day). Pain in epigastrium. Pain in the pit of the stomach felt only on pressure (but that pressure the very
slightest), which increases the oppression and excites a little short cough without expectoration (second day). Very distressing dull sensation in the stomach and abdomen, lasting several hours, with rumbling. Pinching and burning pressure in the epigastric region.
Abdomen
Borborygmi when fasting, and sometimes rumblings rising from the hypogastrium to the umbilicus (thirteenth day). Slight dull pain in the umbilicus (after one hour and a half). Pressure above the umbilicus. Uncomfortable distension as from eating too much. Rumbling in the abdomen, with dull pain, followed by an evacuation quite unusual at this hour (after half an hour, second day). Twinging and tension across the abdomen. Gripings in the belly of the oldest.
Stool
Purging. Diarrhoea, which is usually rather small in quantity, and often accompanied with tenesmus. Slight diarrhoea without colic (from eating the berries of the yew). Looseness of the bowels, with tenesmus and insupportable smarting, during and after each stool or attempt at one (thirteenth day). Slight purging. Increased stools. Two stools (first day). Soft stool at very unaccustomed hour (after a quarter of an hour). Soft stool (after half an hour). Stools partly pasty, partly liquid, usually painful. Natural stool, but at a very unaccustomed hour (after four hours). Hard and scanty stools all the time the remedy was acting (after eight hours). Hard difficult evacuation.
Urinary organs
Cutting pain at the base of the kidneys, which allows him neither to sit still nor stand up, and even prevents him from turning himself in bed; it lasted thus two days, ceasing by degrees in about five days (after one hour). In the evening, and especially the next day, tenesmus of the bladder, with slightly smarting pain in the line of the frenum, in the urethra (second day). Frequent urging to urinate, the urine being emitted with difficulty in very feeble jets, though natural in color (fifteenth day). Difficult urination, frequently alternating with limpid urine. Great increase of urine. Increased secretion of urine, with increased desire to urinate. Strangury, urine red. She held her urine all day and until 6 the next morning; the urine, which measured 4 pints in the twenty-fours on the fourth day, varied in specific gravity from 1011 to 1017, contained uric acid in abundance, with large crystals resembling cystin in appearance, as well as lozenge and halbert-shaped ones of all sizes; there were variable amounts of albumen and phosphates during the eight days it was examined.
Sexual organs
Increased discharge from the genitals. Extreme excitement during an embrace, without stronger desire or any repetition of the act (fifteenth day).
Respiratory organs
Cough excited by a deep respiration, with slight oppression, soon after dinner (after ten hours). Violent fatiguing cough.
Increased expectoration from the bronchi. Respiration frequent.
Breathing very hard. Breathing laborious and frequent.
Breathing difficult. Respirations shallow, irregular, often sighing (after six hours).
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.