Introduction
Tilia Europea, Linn. Natural order: Tiliacae. Common names: Linden, Linde. Preparation: Tincture of the fresh blossoms.
Generalities
Tremulousness (first day). Weakness (fourth day). Weakness, with easy perspiration, from walking (third day). Great weakness, after walking (first day). Loss of power, with trembling and giving way of the knees (first day). Great weariness, while walking in the evening (first day). Lassitude and tremulous weakness. General lassitude and weariness of the limbs (second day). Disinclination to work. Unrefreshed feeling and weariness after rising, in the morning (second day). Great prostration (third day). Exhaustion (first day). Great exhaustion (third day). Great malaise (first day). Prostration (first day). General prostration. Faintness (first day). General sick feeling (first and second days). General sick feeling and tremulousness (first day). Seems very sick, will not take any thing from the hand, not even cold water (third day). Heaviness of the whole body, with a feeling as if she would be obliged to sink down (second day). The whole body seemed bruised, in the morning, on waking (second day). The whole body feels weary and bruised, in the morning (second day). Tearing pains, here and there (second day). A pulsation extending from the right index finger along the whole arm and neck, to the right side of the lower jaw (second day). In the morning the usual cold bath caused only a transient vigor (second day). Symptoms generally removed by moving about in the open air (third day).
Mind
Towards morning she was tormented by a rush of pleasant thoughts, which changed to a weeping mood; through the next day she peculiarly irritable, and inclined to quarrel, with confusion of the head, with a tense accelerated pulse and increased warmth of the body, especially of the cheeks. Love sick; all his thoughts centered upon an ideal woman; in this revery he was possessed by a sweet melancholy, which it was impossible to describe; every earthly sense seemed far away. Earnest, reflective mood (first day). Sad, weeping mood (first day). Sad, melancholy mood (second day). Apprehensive mood (second day). He cannot remain in the house on account of sensation of apprehension and anxiety; the room seems to close, he is obliged to go in open air, in the evening, when he feels better (first day). Extremely depressed after dinner (second day). Great depression of spirits the whole forenoon. Despondent (first day). Despondency after dinner (second day). Depression of spirits. Dread of society (second day). Discontented with his condition (first day). Unusually fretful mood (second day). Fretful quarrelsome, peevish (third day). Irritable mood, inclined to get angry, in the morning (second day). Irritable quarrelsome mood after dinner (third day). Irritable critical mood, inclined to quarrel and get angry, even from the slightest difference of opinion (first day). Disinclination to work (fourth day). Thoughtfulness (second day). Stupidity. An intoxicated and stupid condition, with mental oppression (second day).
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head, which seemed too large, in the morning (second day). Dizzy confusion of the head, with dimness of vision (after a few hours). Dizzy confusion of the head, with slight drawing pain in the right half of the forehead (third day). Confusion, heaviness, and Obscuration of the head, so that he could think and speak clearly only with great effort (third day). Violent dizzy confusion of the head, with pressure on the chest. Confusion of the head, and so great dizziness he feared that he would lose his consciousness. Dizzy intoxicated confusion of the head, with heat of the face, with redness of the cheeks, soon. Persistent intoxication of the head, with tearing drawing or sticking pains, here and there. Intoxication and nausea in the stomach. A feeling of intoxication in the head (first day). Vertigo, as if intoxicated, during which she seemed to turn in a circle, so that she was obliged to sit down (soon). Dizziness. Vertigo, all objects seems to waver (third day). Paroxysms of vertigo, with heat of the face. Vertigo with dimness of vision by paroxysms. Vertigo, with such great exhaustion that he was obliged to take hold of objects to steady himself (second day). Transient vertigo, with vanishing of vision, in the evening; in order to see distinctly she was obliged to wink repeatedly, in the evening (first day). Transient vertigo and obscuration of the head. Slight vertigo while walking in the open air, with obscuration of the eyes (soon). She seems to lose the freedom and steadiness of her movements, and staggers on attempting to stand up; as vertigo passes of a painful dullness of the head comes on (first day). General Head. Dullness of the head. Dullness of the head, the whole forenoon (second day). Dullness of the head in the morning, increased by warmth of the room to a pressive pain (third day). Dullness of the head, in the morning (third day). Painful dullness of the head, at times in the occiput, at times in forehead (first day). Dizzy, confused of the head at 10 A.M. (third day). Painful dullness of the head. Fullness and heaviness of the head (third day). Stupefaction and painful dullness of the head, after dinner (second day). Heaviness of the head. Heaviness at night, and dullness of the head (first day). Heaviness at night, and dullness of the head at times (third day). Headache increased in the evening, with a dull confusion in the frontal region, stoppage of the nose, and roaring in the ears (second day). The head feels heavy, and as if screwed in. The head felt hot and heavy, on walking at night (first night). Woke about 5 P.M., from a sleep of three hours, free from the morning headache, with the exception of some fullness in the forehead, and slight dizziness and obscuration of vision (second day). Headache, accompanied by heat of the face, lasting through the night, till noon of the next day. Painful pressive-drawing in the head, extending to wards forehead (first day). Violent drawing-cutting pain in the head, with photophobia and qualmishness, aggravated by the slight movement, intolerable on making any effort, relieved by closing the eyes, and by cold application, and by rest (third day). Tearing pains through the brain (first day). Tearing pains, here and there in the head, face, and ears. Cutting drawing, here and there, in the left of the brain towards the forehead (second day). Violent sticking pain over the whole head, with heat of the whole body. Extreme sensitiveness of the head to a draft of air; even while walking in the house the current air caused slight drawing and shivering in the scalp on the vertex. Amelioration of the head troubles from coffee (third day). Forehead. The forehead feels obscured, as if constricted (third day). Pressure in the forehead (third day). Pressive pain in the frontal region (second day). Painful pressure in the forehead, soon. Pressive pinching pain in the sinciput (forehead and vertex), in the evening; this continued into the night, and was felt Whenever awakened from sleep, by restless dreams (first night). Pain of the forehead, just above the nose, a pressing inward, as from a dull instrument (first day). Slow wavelike drawings in the left half of the forehead, extending towards the frontal eminence (second day). Fullness and tearing in the forehead, lasting till evening, then associated with great heat of the face. Tearing pain in the forehead, with dizziness in the morning on walking, increasing after rising relieved by washing with cold water. Dull sticking burrowing in the frontal eminence (second day). Tearing sticking pain in the right side of the forehead. Temples. Temporal veins very much distended (second day). Pressive pain in the temples, worse in a warm room, better in the open air; this headache reached its height about 1 o’clock;the pressure in the temples amounted to an acute pressing pain; the whole head was painful, heavy, dull, and confused (second day). Drawing in the left temple and side of the face (first day). Transient tearing in the right temple. Tearing in the right temple, and at the same time extending down the upper arm (first day). Sticking pains from without inward, in both temples (first day). Vertex and parietals. Tearing in the right side of vertex, transversely across the forehead, and along the left side of the face (first day). Painful drawing in the left half of the head, rather towards the occiput, and down towards the face (second day). Occiput. Heaviness of the occiput;it seemed as though a weight were seated in it;when the head is inclined forward this weight seems to sink lower down in the nape of the neck (first day). A peculiar aching pain in the occiput, extending up towards the back of the head, after dinner (first day). Pressure in the occiput from within outward, at the mastoid process (second day). Broad pressure in the occiput. Pressure and burrowing pain in the occiput. Drawing pain in the fold between the occiput and the nape of the neck (first day). Drawing in the occiput into the head and to the forehead, where it becomes a pressure. External Head. Eruption of small gritty vesicles on the scalp, which itch excessively, with burning soreness after scratching (first day). Itching on the scalp, obliging scratching (first day). Itching on the scalp (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.