Back and neck
The dorsal symptoms are painful, perhaps sympathetic with the uterine sphere; they begin to be felt on the second day of the proving, increase in severity until the seventh evening, and are still felt on the thirteenth day. They are ordinary with her at any time when her vitality is depressed, as by prolonged nervous headaches or other causes; she has no reason to expect them from any such cause before commencing the Zizia proving. There seat is at the posterior lateral margins of the scapula, generally worst on the left side; during the inhalations it was the right side which chiefly suffered; since leaving off it is the left. The pains are aching, smarting, and stinging, when worst there is also aching in the small of the back. Dull pains in the loins, increased by movement. Smarting burning pain in the small of the back.
Upper Limbs
Lameness in the muscles of both arms, from the shoulders to the elbows. Pricking sensation in the right arm, with slight diminished sensibility of the part.
Lower Limbs
Dragging sensation in both hips. Unusually tired feeling of the legs, after the slightest muscular exertion.
Sleep
Drowsiness, 4; (first day). Drowsiness, with a sense of lassitude and fatigue. The sleep is sound until the sixth night, when it is prevented by pains. Spasmodic twitching during sleep. Talking during sleep. Sleep disturbed by unpleasant dreams.
Fever
Chilliness. Chilliness and heat, alternating with faintness, nausea, pain in the right temple, redness of the eyeballs, dry and red tongue, and thirst for cold water. Chilliness, accompanied with spasmodic twitchings of the muscles of the face and upper extremities, followed by fever. 5 Heat. Fever, with headache, pain in the back, thirst. Feverish symptoms, accompanying severe stitching pains in the chest. Severe sense of heat and fullness in both cheeks. Flushed cheeks, hot head, visible pulsations of the carotid and temporal arteries, coldness of the hands and feet, drowsiness and irritability. Redness and heat of the cheeks (after 1 drop of 3d dil.). Hot flushes in the face and head, followed by perspiration.
Skin
Itching pimples upon the forehead, wrists, and legs.
Aggravation
Aggravation, ( Evening), Headache; symptoms. Aggravation, ( Coughing), Pleuritic stitches in right side. Aggravation, ( Deep breath), Pleuritic stitches in right side. Aggravation, ( Light), Pain in left side of head; pains. Aggravation, ( Motion), Pain in loins; pains. Aggravation, ( Moving eyes), Pain in right orbit. Aggravation, ( Sleeping), Pain in right orbit. Aggravation, ( Stooping), Pain in right orbit.
Sexual organs
Male. Involuntary emission for two nights in succession, while taking the drug. Excitement of the male genital organs. In one instance, where great lassitude and prostration had long been habitual after connection, the drug appeared to effect an entire change for the better. Sexual power enhanced. Female. Uterine affections characterized by increased vascular and nervous excitement. Bland and profuse Leucorrhoea. Acrid leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea commences on the second day and continues, slight as to quantity, and at first acrid; afterwards more bland and copious; this is a constitutional disorder, and was observed during both provings; it ceased on the seventh day. Profuse menstrual discharge for one day, followed by an acrid leucorrhoea. The catamenia appeared in due time, but ceased after only twelve hours; this is altogether unusual with the prover. Sudden suppression of the menses.
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.