Sudden cramp like pain in the small of the back if he moves his feet after standing a long time at one spot; he threatens to fall down (after six days). Pressive aching transversely across the back between the hips. Pressing in the small of the back (third day). Pressive sensation of heaviness extending down from the back to the malleoli, making it difficult to walk. Pressing pain in the small of the back on stooping. Dull pressive pain, like a bruised sensation, in the small of the back and lumbar region, in the morning after rising from bed, aggravated while standing and on turning the body, relieved while walking (after fifteen days).
Drawing pressing pain in the left lumbar region (after half an hour). Drawing in the small of the back. Drawing in the small of the back (aggravated while seated), (eighteenth day). Drawing in the lumbar muscles while walking, at noon (forty-seventh day); drawing again in the loins, at noon (forty-eighth day); drawing from the loins towards the nates, in the morning on rising (fiftieth day); slight drawing in the small of the back, at noon (seventy-sixth day). Tensive pain in the small of the back.
Burning in the lower portion of the back increasing to a sensation as if pierced with fine needles, frequently associated with a sensation in the thighs while walking, as if all the tendons from the small of the back to the knee were too short (fourth month). Sensation of burning heat in the lumbar region (after one hour). Burning pains ascending from the ischii through the whole spinal column to the shoulders. Sensation of formication in paroxysms commencing in the small of the back.
Pains in the lower half of the spinal column and in the sacrum, continuing and aggravated by bending the body (twenty-fourth day). Very violent cutting in both loins when walking (second day). Frequent attacks of a painless twitching in the back, towards the left loin, like a muscular twitch, at 2 P.M. (twelfth day). While standing and leaning sideways he feels a dull sticking pain, as with a needle, over the hips, in the lumbar region, close to the spine (after a quarter of an hour). Sacral.
Spasmodic drawing from the coccyx into the genitals, preventing the discharge of urine. Painful drawing in the sacrum, coccyx, and thighs while sitting, which, after sitting a long time, prevents his standing erect (after four hours). Violent drawing and pressure in the sacral region for two hours in the forenoon (seventh day). Uncommonly violent stitch between the coccyx and anus, at 7 P.M., when walking (ninth day). Sticking pain on the left side, from the sacrum to the left testicle (fifth day). A jerk like burning sticking in the right side, close to the sacrum, entirely removed by violent rubbing (after three hours and three-quarters). Pressing stitches from the sacral bones into the side of the pelvis (after seven hours). A burning rubbing on the coccyx, more while sitting than walking, with a constant feeling of coldness in the right foot, mostly in the sole, last- ing eight days, followed by general weakness (second month).
Violent itching in the lower part of the sacral region (sixteenth day). Annoyed by an itching-burning pain in the hollow below the os coccyges, soon after waking, and lasting all day; it recurred after the dose in the evening (third and seventh days).
Extremities
The nails of the toes and fingers become wavy and dry, so that they partly crumble, alternating from time to time with a healthy growth until the latter becomes permanent. Numerous hangnails (after fifteen months). (The paralyzed right arm and foot felt more vigorous and muscular, with generally increased vigor).
General uneasiness and stretching of the limbs, soon after the dose (twenty-fourth day). Jerking of the limbs before falling asleep and during rest. Trembles in hand and foot (twenty-fourth day). Stiffness and heaviness of all the limbs. Great weakness in all the limbs, in the afternoon while sitting (after thirteen hours). The shoulders and thighs are very weary; these parts seemed bruised, as after great fatigue. Debility of the limbs, as from weariness (twentieth day). Cracking in the joints of the elbows, knees, and ankles when stretching out the limbs.
Heaviness of the limbs (fourth day). Falling asleep of the upper and lower extremities, at night on waking. Falling asleep and feeling of paralysis wandering about the limbs. Burning and swelling of all joints. Every day feels a pain as if bruised, at times in the shoulders, at times in the thighs (forty-fourth day). Feeling in the extremities as if bruised (forty-first day).
Occasional drawing in the limbs (after twelve days). Extremely painful drawing aching of the articular extremities of all the bones, with a sensation of swelling, without swelling and without change in the color of the skin, with loss of appetite, bitter taste, and emaciation, lasting three months, with cessation of the previous tuberculous cough. Drawing tearing in the hands and feet. Sudden drawing in the limbs (eleventh day); drawing in the limbs (twelfth day); drawing, now here now there, in the extremities (fourteenth day); drawing in the extremities, especially on the inner surface of the upper part of the left thigh and forearm (only while at rest), (fifteenth day); drawing in different parts of the extremities, not lasting long, but frequently quite troublesome (sixteenth day). Drawing in both hands and feet, afterwards only in the forearm as far as the wrist-joints (first day). Drawing in the joints of the hands and feet (tenth day). Short accesses of drawing in the right arm and leg, at 10 A.M. (fifty-eighth day). Tension in the extensor muscles of the extremities and trunk, now here, now there; subsequently heat, in the evening (twentieth day). Drawing and sensation of weariness, with apparent dulness of feeling, in the limbs, especially in the upper and in the forearm, near the wrist, in the evening (twenty-first day). Drawing in the limbs, particularly in the right forearm, aggravated by movement of the limb (fifty-seventh day). Drawing pains in the arms and feet, and especially in the small of the back (sixth night); frequent accesses of drawing pains in different parts of the body annoyed him (seventh day); drawing and tearing pains in the hands and feet, afterwards in the epigastrium, hypochondria, on the chest, but worst in the small of the back, ending in slight perspiration (seventh night); drawing pains in the hands and feet, in the sacral region, and between the shoulders, daily, for six weeks.
Drawing from the right wrist-joint as far as the tips of the fingers, and from the right calf as far as the malleoli, with the sensation as if the foot were lame; afterwards a drawing from the right elbow as far as the wrist-joint; then a transient paralytic feeling in both thighs as far as the knees (second day); drawing sticking in the right upper arm as far as the elbow-joint, and in the right thigh as far as the knee (seventh to twelfth day); drawing in the left calf, afterwards in the right forearm from the elbow as far as the wrist-joint (sixteenth and seventeenth days); the same drawing and sticking in various parts of the limbs (twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-ninth days).
Pains, at one time drawing, at another tearing, were repeatedly felt, especially in the extremities, for the most part while at rest, but in the right tibia also while walking, so as to make me limp (after twenty-six days). At times drawing pains in the hands and feet, which still continued even after eight days, growing, however, weaker and weaker (after thirty-five days). Tearing pressing in the upper part of the right thigh and the right arm, which greatly resembled the effects of Bryonia, with this difference, that the pain produced by Thuja seized the middle of the affected member, was confined to a small spot, and was mostly in the muscles, while that produced by Bryonia seemed to prefer the joints and tendons (first day). Tearing in the left upper arm, afterwards in the left leg (sixteenth and seventeenth days).
Tearing through the long bones of the upper and lower extremities, even under the heels. Tearing and sticking pain in all the joints. Sticking and tearing in the ankles, with swelling of them, and in the soles of the feet, and digging and sticking as from needles in them, as if they were all sore, worse in the morning, so that she could step only with difficulty, with constant pain in the small of the back, then the back between the shoulders becomes affected, and the hands, together with the fingers, pain most violently. At times the pains leave the limbs, and then the abdomen becomes painful, with diarrhoea, always preceded by griping in the intestines and shivering, with heat and thirst, vertigo, and jerking in the limbs and abdomen, with scraping in the throat, and a pungent salt taste to the mucus, and a sour taste in the mouth after eating, together with profuse sour-smelling sweat (sixth month). Sticking in the external malleolus, hip-joint, metacarpal bone of the middle finger, on the inner edge of the foot, in the heel. Stitches in the sole and in the palm. Sticking in the shoulders and in the right knee (second 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.