Shortness of breath, associated or alternating with gripping colic (second day). Shortness of breath and whistling in the throat, after every rapid movement and on going upstairs. Short breath, at night; necessity to assist by breathing deeply.
Difficult almost panting respiration (eighteenth day); shorter breath than usual, with weight on the chest (twenty-second and twenty-third days); respiration very short on walking (twenty- fourth day). Constant difficult breathing. Difficult breathing, in the evening; on going upstairs he lost his breath (after three months). Difficult breathing (seventy-eighth day); with feeling of anxiety (eighty-fourth day). Difficulty of breathing when going upstairs, which lasted some time (seventeenth day). Before bedtime difficult respiration, with pressure on the chest, by reason of which she could not get to sleep for a long while (twelfth day). The respiration is not altogether free; the thorax is raised during inspiration with somewhat more difficulty than usual (seventy- first day); troublesome breathing (seventy- second day). Heavy oppressed respiration, with great desire for water and much anxiety. Oppression of breath, in the morning, with wavelike movements in the whole precordial region. Sudden arrest of breath; she jumps up on account of suffocative anxiety; the eyes protrude; she cries constantly “Ah! ah!” and will not say anything else; after awhile it passed off. Constant suffocative anxiety, with much desire to urinate and incessant yawning. ( Asthma, from which he had formerly suffered, returned in renewed paroxysms), (after three days after a dose of Thuja).
Asthma, pressure, and heaviness beneath the sternum, worse when walking, an hour after dinner (seventy-ninth day). (In an old nightly asthmatic person the dyspnoea became less severe and more transient on account of the speedy appearance of cough and expectoration, so that the patient, who hitherto, in her paroxysms, could only sit up, could not lie down), (second month). Awoke at night from a quiet sleep of three hours, with a suffocating whistling, tightness of breath, which lasted an hour (sixth month). (The asthma of a boy, nine years old, was at first, for two days, more violent and frequent, then became better and easier, until it entirely disappeared after three weeks; thereupon there followed, in the fourth week, swelling of the cervical glands, frequent colic, headache, cough, and a sore nose, then return to health). Asthma; at first he feels as if the breath were confined to the stomach, as if it would be twisted about; then, with every respiration, the abdomen is deeply retracted between the pit of the stomach and the navel, with suffocative pressure, loss of all power, and loss of breath, while, at the same time, the trachea seems filled with firmly adherent tenacious mucus, which cannot be raised by a spasmodic cough; these attacks become constantly more frequent, more violent, and more persistent, and during the first few weeks reach a hitherto unknown severity, with icy coldness of the feet and general weakness; after the fifth week improvement begins, the paroxysms being shorter, easier, and more infrequent, the expectoration and cough loosen, the sleep becomes quiet, and the strength returns; only at times more or less violent paroxysms alternate with freedom therefrom, until after four weeks more there occurs an unusually violent coryza, with fever and catarrhal cough, after the cessation of which the asthma seems to have disappeared entirely; since that time a slight attack has occurred only occasionally, though every evening, from 5 to 6 and from 10 to 11, and at 3 A.M., there returns difficulty of breath- ing, with whistling rattling in the trachea, but always very transient, and when coughing, anxiety, until, in the twelfth week, the glans penis and the urethra become red, inflamed, and swollen, with burning, itching, and sticking, and with the appearance of small, sore, white, superficial, suppurating spots and condylomatous growths, with a gonorrhoeal discharge, without having been exposed to contagion; this latter trouble returns again and again, at times for six months, disappearing of itself, at first in nine days, then in five to three days, and at last in twelve to twenty-four hours; and keeping exact pace with this gonorrhoeal attack (only interrupted by two coryzas), the asthma, which had been most severe, and had proved intractable to every effort and incurable, and apparently nearly killing the patient disappeared, with uninterrupted improvement, until the patient became perfectly well and the health was permanently restored.
Chest.
(In far-advanced tuberculosis of the lungs a dose of Thuja gives great relief, by the evacuation of large masses of pus, by means of cough, diminishes the night sweats, and restores the lost appetite). (The tuberculous ulcers discharged from the lungs by means of paroxysmally recurring vomiting of their contents), (fourth month). Orgasm of blood to the chest, with anxiety preventing falling asleep, as in a threatened hemorrhage, at night, and repeated the following day, together with flatulent distension of the abdomen (third day). An anxious uneasiness deep in the chest, between the heart and the liver, as from blood rushing through the large vessels (third month). A peculiar feeling of weakness in the lungs. Feeling of weakness in the chest (eleventh day); (sixteenth day). Weak feeling in the chest, with pressure under the sternum and difficulty of breathing, especially when going upstairs (seventeenth day). On deep breathing it seems very difficult to expand the chest, especially in the lower portion, in the region of the stomach, with an itching irritation through the whole trachea. Tension from the first false ribs to the left axilla, especially on raising the arm (after one hour). Painful tension in the whole chest, when inspiring deeply. Tightness now in the left chest, now in the left hypochondrium, which provokes a hacking cough. Tightness of the chest, frequently obliging to take a deep breath.
Constriction of the whole chest, so that she weeps. Feeling, when laughing moderately, as though the thorax were strongly compressed, with shortness of breath (fourth day). All the diameters of the chest seem shorter. In some spots a feeling as if the thorax from without, and the corresponding portions of the lungs from within, were strongly and durably constricted, a feeling which returned frequently and strongly especially during rest, induced frequent deep sighing, and annoyed me not a little.
Slight constriction and compression of the lower half of the chest (seventy-first day). Sensation as if the lower part of the thorax were surrounded by a bandage at noon, disappearing in the afternoon (sixty-fourth day). Sensation as if the chest were distended from within. Sensation of want of pliability of the thorax and of insufficiency in the inspired air. Oppression of the chest; (eighth day). Compressive oppression of the chest, extending even into the throat, and arresting the breath.
Oppression, with heaviness of the chest, and a sensation as of an inner voice calling “Woe, woe!”. Oppression of the chest, as from an internal adhesion (after a few hours). Oppression under the sternum, with a bruised sensation in the chest (fifteenth day). Oppression of the chest, with difficult respiration, and slight pain in the anterior surface of the stomach on taking a deep inspiration, as though from external pressure, at noon, before dinner; symptoms gone in the afternoon (seventeenth day).
Oppression in the lower part of the thorax (sixty-eighth day); oppression of the chest (after one hour, seventy-second day).
Slight oppression of the chest, with inclination to cough (fifteenth day); oppression of the chest, with some pain on inspiring (fortieth day). With the cough, oppression of the chest, which seemed somewhat to embarrass the breathing (sixteenth day).
Heaviness on the chest (soon). Heaviness of the chest, so that he was scarcely able to talk (soon). Feeling of weight and frequent cramp like constriction in the chest. Weight on the chest (thirteenth day). A feeling of fullness and of being bruised in the chest under the sternum, in the forenoon; he had observed this for several days in the past (seventh day). Soreness all about the whole thorax, is constantly obliged to take a deep breath. Soreness in the chest, externally, like bruised spots (purpura). Sensation of soreness in the chest, with increased coryza (forty-first day). Sensitiveness of isolated spots on the thorax. Spots here and there on the thorax and extremities, painful as from a thrust, and especially during movement. Painful as if the parts were sore, in the region of the ribs, on touching them (thirteenth day). Cramp in the chest, extending from the toes along the whole right side up to the chest, and there interrupting the breathing for a longer or shorter time. Pain in the chest, with now and then a taste of blood. General pain in the chest, at night, provokes loud groans. Violent pain in the chest, arresting the breath and preventing motion, with cough and coryza (third month). Pressure upon the chest (thirty-ninth day); after eating; transitory (nineteenth day). Attacks of pressure on the chest about the axillae. Pressing on the chest, with difficult breathing and sticking in the side, on going to bed (seventeenth day). Pressing towards the back, in the chest, with oppressed breathing, in the evening (fourteenth day). Pressive, tensive feeling in the lungs, that became more perceptible and sticking, on taking a deep inspiration (twenty-ninth, thirtieth, and thirty-first days). Pressing pain in the whole upper part of the chest, much more violent on pressure. Violent pressure as from a heavy weight in the middle of the chest, not impeding respiration (while sitting), (after a quarter of an hour).
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.