Common name: Tea.
Introduction
Thea chinesis.
Natural order: Camelliaceae.
Preparation: Tincture or trituration of the leaves.
Mind
Delirium. Symptoms of delirium. Delirium with great ecstasy; the patient laughed incessantly, talked constantly in rhyme, showed us that he felt extraordinarily well. Sensation as if impelled by some uncontrollable power to commit suicide, to jump out of the window, to put her baby in the boiler with the clothes, to cut its throat while cutting bread, to throw it downstairs (in a woman who kept a pot of tea boiling on the stove and drank several bowlfuls every day; cured with Thea cm., Fincke).
Temporary exaltation of mind; has greater confidence in himself (after Thein, 14 grains). An exciting, and subsequently a debilitating, influence upon the nervous system in general and the lumbar portion of the spinal marrow. At first a genial cordiality, a brilliancy of intellect, with conversation fluent, interesting, and sparkling with wit; then the opposite state supervenes, with great irritability and sensitiveness, so that there is a disposition to quarrel at the most harmless speech or act (Oo). Feeling of great ease. Great nervous excitability, with clearness of the intellectual faculties. A most uncomfortable state of nervousness and want of confidence, relieved by beer (after an hour or so). The sound of the “night bell” made me terribly nervous. Taciturn and peevish. Morose, taciturn; he is unwilling to utter a word. Gloomy, heavy, and dizzy in the forehead. Weeps easily. Feeling of anxiety and trembling. Uneasy state of mind, characterized by Lehmann as mental anguish (after Thein, 12 grains). The mind is an excessively uncomfortable and anxious state, which admits not the slightest rest, whether seated, lying, or reading (after Thein, 12 grains). Appeared to be actuated by the greatest terror, and said: “I have called upon you to request you would let me in and allow me to die in your house. Nocturnal fright; sinister thoughts; invincible propensity to analyze his life, to look at it on the dark side, and to resolve it into its most hopeless realities. Peevishness, with great aversion to everything and to the least fatigue.
Excessively ill-humored; everything became unpleasant to her, whereas she had been very cheerful previously; she was disinclined to think or write. Dislike to conversation. Very bad temper; disposition entirely changed; usually cheerful, she becomes morose; all mental exertion, even writing, is disagreeable to her. Is irritable and cross. Excessively irritable and weak, complaining chiefly of empty gone feeling at the epigastrium. Marked increase of intellectual aptitude without special exaltation of the imagination; he is conscious of greater aptitude for study, and the mind is unusually capable of sustained attention. It increases the power of receiving impressions; it disposes to pensive meditation, and causes greater activity and flow of ideas; the attention easily becomes fixed upon any subject; it causes a general sensation of health and gayety. After an hour, there succeeds to these agreeable sensation general nervous troubles, such as yawning, irritability, pains in the epigastrium, palpitation of the heart, trembling of the limbs, and general sadness. With these symptoms, there is associated a distressing and insupportable insomnia, with great, prolonged, nervous excitation, followed by lassitude and headache. During the sleepless night, the mind was in a state of most active and persistent thinking, in spite of all attempts at forgetfulness (Thein, 12 grains). Mind obscured. Weakness of memory. In the evening fits of insensibility, lasting three or four hours.
Head
Vertigo. Great vertigo, with darkness before the eyes (in a tea- drinker, cured with Thea 1, 200). Intoxication. Giddiness. When walking in the open air, she suddenly feels giddy, as if about to lose consciousness (in the evening). General Head. Determination of blood to the head, with sensation of fullness, especially in the forehead over the eyes. Congestion of brain. Headache.
Excessively disagreeable headache, with throbbing of the carotids. Violent pain in the head. A prolific cause of sick headache. Sick headache occurring every week, so violent that nothing afforded relief; great soreness of the head, and weakness when the acute pain subsided. Has either headache or backache.
For more than three years, she was subject to sick-headache; these came on chiefly at the catamenial period, and also frequently in the intervals; the pains seem to begin in the left ovary and stomach, whence it seems to pass to the head. Neuralgic pain commencing in the nape of the neck, and on both sides of the base of cerebellum comparatively like a cold flat-iron introduced between the skin and the skull, thence passing up over the whole cranium, descending over the forehead down to the eyes, with excruciating suffering. Frequent headaches. Severe headache in the morning and in the evening, often with nausea. Forehead.
Heaviness and compression in the forehead, principally when walking. Heaviness, vertigo in the forehead, especially when walking. Intense pain in forehead. Temples. Pains through the temples, throbbing, shooting extending down to the nose. Attacks attended with great acuteness of the olfactory organs. Vertex.
Vertex; heat and vertex vertigo, with sensation of pulsation at vertex, can feel every heart-throb there. Occiput. She suddenly feels a tensive pain in the lowest portion of the occiput, almost in the nape of the neck (in half an hour). From the beginning of the third day, neuralgic pain, with feeling of damp coldness in the occiput. The fixed seat of this pain, which consists of very sharp and rapid twitchings like electric shocks, is the right occipital protuberance. It extends more slowly to the nape of the neck, to the right shoulder, and even the arm of the same side. It was relieved by the application of the hand, or of a warm cloth. External Head. Skin of the head and scalp tender and painful to the touch (Oo.). Great tenderness of the scalp on vertex; can scarcely cob the hair.
Eye
Bright eye. Eyes unusually bright, with dilated pupils. Eyes glittering. Dryness of the eyes from much mental exercise during a sleepless night, followed by neuralgia of the eyes (Oo.). After awhile the eyes became dry, and resulted in neuralgia of the eyes (Thein 12 grs.). Pupils dilated. Dimness of sight. Darkness before the eyes, with vertigo. Flashing, fiery lines darting from the eyes and radiating outward from the axis of vision. Sparks before the eyes.
Ear
Neuralgic pains in the cartilage of the ears, with icy coldness of the parts, seeming almost impossible to restore warmth to them (Oo.). The pains extent to the molar teeth and cheek-bones (Oo.).
Roaring in the ears. Hallucinations of the sense of hearing. For five nights in succession he though he heard the door-bell very distinctly. This hallucination, which was renewed at different hours, followed me even into my sleep, and awakened me frequently with a start.
Nose
Generally has nosebleed before the menses set in. Soreness of the internal edge of the nose (Oo.). Constant desire to pick the nose (Oo.). Sensation at root of nose, as if epistaxis would occur.
Face
Wild and distressed expression of countenance. Pale face. Face pale, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks. Face flushed.
Cheeks easily flushed.
Mouth
The teeth are frequently diseased. Tongue clean and somewhat pale. Tongue red, with white slime (Oo.). Tongue suffers from stings like blisters on the top of the tongue; exceedingly painful, as if scalded with boiling hot liquid (Oo.). Intolerably offensive breath on waking in the morning. Sensation of scraping at the soft palate. The whole buccal cavity feels dry and sensitive (Oo.). A great deal of saliva in the mouth, during the first hours, with sensation of hunger. Six hours after, unpleasant dryness of the mouth, scanty, viscid saliva, with feeling of satiety, although he had eaten very little, with a little thirst. After drinking, the mouth is filled with viscid saliva. Bitter taste in mouth.
Throat
Diphtheritic sore throat. Painless swelling of the mucous membrane of the pharynx. Uneasy feeling in the pharynx, as if it was obstructed by a foreign body.
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. The appetite is not so good. Sometimes I feel as if very hungry, but a little satisfies me, with a feeling of satiety quickly succeeds (sixth day). Appetite returns in two hours earlier than common. There is an empty feeling in the stomach, and a sort of faintness at the habitual dinner hour, although he had eaten as hearty a breakfast as usual. He lost his appetite for dinner if he drank a cup of tea previous to his meal. Bad appetite. Complete loss of appetite for many days.
Loathing of food until noon; then she eats, but very sparingly.
She is thirsty, but cannot bear cold water, every mouthful affects her head like a shock. Extreme thirst, or rather craving for acids, especially for lemon. She often felt a loathing against tea, but still could not resist it. No thirst, but craving for acids. Dislikes cold water. She never feels thirsty, and never drinks cold water. Heartburn. Occasionally a slight degree of heartburn. Pyrosis. Nausea and vomiting. Distressing nausea. Slight nausea lasting two hours. Nausea and vomiting after eating; cured. Vomiting of bile occurs, but never of food, when the pain has reached its height. Exertion produces vomiting during the headache. Generally vomited the meal which she had lately taken. Disposition to vomit; a double dose increases this inclination, the sick feeling, and the disagreeable feeling in the stomach. Stomach. Digestion is sensibly accelerated, without noticeable disturbance. Sensation in the pit of the stomach as if one would vomit. Exceedingly unpleasant feeling of weakness of the stomach; sense of disgust, with nausea and accumulation of the saliva in the mouth. His stomach seems to hang in his body like an empty bag; sensation such as results from cleaning out the stomach by an emetic. Sensation of emptiness and nervous excitability, with constriction preventing a deep-drawn breath (Oo.). The feeling of emptiness in the stomach is more decided than the distress caused by night-watching at dinner time (second day). Frequent attacks of spasms of the stomach, ant slight exertion would suffice to bring on the attack, so that she could scarcely walk without being seized with a great sense of sinking and oppression at the stomach. In a quarter of an hour she was tossing about, groaning loudly with every breath, occasionally rubbing her stomach with great violence. She described the pain as a dull aching, benumbed feel, with an extreme sense of sinking and oppression. Sinking and craving in the stomach, with fluttering in the left side. Great emptiness and craving in the pit of the stomach. Complained of a faint, gone feeling, which had troubled her for years; these sensations had recently assumed the character of intolerable dull pain after every meal, cramp like and pressing, reaching up into the throat, and often waking her from sleep at night. Complaining chiefly of empty, gone feeling at epigastrium. Slight pressure in the epigastrium (in a quarter of an hour). Sudden and oft-repeated pressure at the epi- gastrium. Pain after eating, with sinking and emptiness at the pit of the stomach. Pain in the epigastrium and umbilical regions, not of an acutely spasmodic, but of severely aching character; this pain came on at irregular intervals, but principally a short interval after eating, and was on some days scarcely ever absent, except before breakfast; there was no abdominal nor spinal tenderness, nor there were any neuralgic foci. Tickling in the pit of the stomach, causing presently a dry cough which increases in violence till it shakes the whole digestive organization, bringing on neuralgic head-symptoms described above, with excruciating pains, seemingly unendurable (Oo.).
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.