Clinical The nervous invalid who requires Agaricus usually passes little urine (unlike Ignatia), though the bladder may be irritable.
Sexual Organs
Irritation. No pleasurable sensation in an embrace in spite of strong excitement. Erections in morning; frequent, also at night; continual at night; no erection in evening when he desired an embrace, in the ensuing night several emissions. Testicles retracted. Drawing in testicles in evening, with uneasiness, awkwardness and sleepiness; spasmodic, in l. testicle and spermatic cord. Desire excessive; in morning; after a nap after dinner; with relaxed penis. Aversion to sexual intercourse. Desire diminished. Emission; copious during an embrace; at night; at night without lascivious dreams; tardy emission during embrace; insufficient. Menses increased; and earlier, with violent tearing pressive pain in back and abdomen and itching of external genitals.
Clinical Violent spasmodic dysmenorrhoea, with terrible bearing-down pains. Itching of genitals, neuralgic pains in pudenda.
Respiratory organs
Larynx, constriction; with oppression; aching in r. side, with irritation to cough; tickling, causing cough. Saliva runs into trachea, (<) raising head, and causes hawking. Scratching irritation in windpipe, causing dry cough. Voice husky, with piercing pains in chest; rough, with sticking in larynx on deep breathing.
Cough; in morning; in morning, then sneezing; in forenoon, with sneezing; in afternoon, with vomiting; at night; at night, with sweat; on waking, with expectoration; after dinner, with sneezing; (<) towards evening; with sneezing; with gagging; with lachrymation and nausea. Frequent; after eating. Fatiguing, frequent at night on waking, with thick expectoration. Labored, frequent, mostly dry, during the day. Labored, on waking, mostly dry, with expectoration of thick, white mucus. Convulsive cough; during the day; in morning, with expectoration of mucus; in forenoon; waking from sleep, with tickling in upper part of larynx and extending down throat. Deep, almost wheezing inspiration, then short, clear-sounding shocks of cough, often with doubling up of body, nausea and lachrymation. Paroxysmal, with a kind of confusion of whole body and thick mucous expectoration, the cough so sudden and violent that he was obliged to double up, contract his legs and move his arms, but the later attacks were not so violent, brought no expectoration, and associated with soreness of chest. Shaking the whole body, at night, from tickling in trachea, seldom with expectoration. At night obliging him to sit up in bed. Sudden, violent attacks during the day. Violent and isolated attacks, ending with repeated sneezing. Violent during the day; in morning, also on waking; at noon, with repeated sneezing; violent cough in afternoon; at night; night and morning, with expectoration of mucus. Inclination to violent cough during the day, (<) when smoking tobacco. Constant irritation to cough, which can be mostly suppressed, but if not there are painful shocks, mostly of dry cough. Dry; forenoon; after eating; after dinner; disturbing his nap while sitting; with wheezing under sternum, causing burning; mostly dry, sometimes with rattling of mucus in afternoon and evening, with blowing of much mucus from nose, and in morning coughing up of mucus. Hacking in forenoon; after dinner; convulsive, with oppressive sweat. Loose, labored from irritation on windpipe. Coughing up mucus in morning; in morning on waking; forenoon; lumpy mucus during the day; large brown flakes of mucus, (<) morning.
Expectoration – Mucous; of ball of mucus, almost without cough; small gelatinous, transparent, moulded lumps of mucus, with great relief to lungs, by forcible expiration, without cough. Like coagulated starch-paste.
Respiration.- Suffocative attack. Short, when walking slowly, and asthmatic. Difficult; towards 11 A.M.; noisy; is obliged to stand still several times when walking to take breath; as if chest were too full, he is obliged to breathe deeper, which cases sticking in pit of stomach. Deep; frequent sighing; with rapid pulse. Superficial. Noisy at night, with wheezing in chest. Accelerated; oh rising from a seat; and catarrhal, with oppressed chest, not (>) by deep breathing and involuntary bursts of cough. As if chest were filled with blood.
Clinical Spasmodic, convulsive, nervous cough, which may provoke a secondary haemorrhage.
Chest
Twitching of pectoral muscles; r. pectoral; l. intercostals. Catarrh. Rattling of mucus; in morning then cough; when lying on back.
Stitches; towards noon, with tension; in l. axilla; in muscles of anterior wall of r. axilla; in l. side from dry cough; i region of lungs; in one or other lung, (<) bending forward or backward; in r. lung; in r. lung or walking; in middle of r. lung, (<) every respiration; in r. lung while sitting, arresting breathing, (>) pressure of hand; in l. lung; in l. lung, between fifth and sixth ribs, (<) breathing; in l. muscles; in r. muscles; in muscles near l. nipple; in intercostals below r. nipple; in r. muscles, then r. ribs; below nipples; between l. nipple and sternum, (<) every respiration; in ribs; l. ribs; near lower ribs; where l. ribs end, during inspiration; where l. ribs end, when sitting with chest bent forward; behind sternum, also (<) at end of expiration; behind sternum, impeding respiration; in centre of chest, also with pressure and fulness; through upper part of l.; in upper chest, with pressure, like a burning pain; in chest and back, especially under scapulae and corresponding parts in front, inducing deep breathing. Sudden stitches in l. lung; sudden in l. chest; sudden in region of borders of dorsal vertebrae, evenings when sitting. Jerking stitches in r. lung. Heavy stitches in chest; stitches extending from behind forward; extending outward in lower half in forenoon when walking; outward from l. nipple, seemingly more in muscles. Feeling of motion in muscles of chest and neck on deep breathing, almost a sticking.
Tearing; in region of l. clavicle; in anterior wall of l. lower rib region; in l. lower wall; in l. side, extending over surface of nearly whole body; piercing tearing in small spots. Pinching from l. mamma to umbilicus. Sprained feeling internally in evening, (<) deep inspiration; burning piercing under r. nipple, arresting breathing, caused by a leap. Bruised pain in l. side; in front wall, with difficult breathing.
Aching; at night; after breakfast, also with tension; after convulsive cough; after rising; here and there in afternoon; aching in some parts of chest and abdomen, on deep breathing, with feeling as if something dislocated itself; in r. chest, also after rising; aching near r. nipple in evening; near r. nipple when walking, with sensation as if deep breathing would remove the cause; intercostals of upper part of l. breast; l. intercostals, with drawing; in centre, with burning; along sternum; behind sternum, also (<) at end of expiration; under sternum when coughing; on upper half of sternum; in middle of sternum, (<) inspiration; to l. of lower third of sternum; in l. lower rib region. Drawing pain; behind r. margin of sternum; burning drawing pain from without inward in r., with oppression. Tensive pain. Burning pain in l. half; below sternum after breakfast. Burning; after dinner; under sternum; in sternal region, with roughness; fine burning in different places, especially upon sternum, with prickling.
Horrible shuddering within chest and throat, walking him, with crying out; this shuddering seemed to begin in diaphragm and extended along oesophagus or trachea, in posterior mediastinum, and pushed forcibly against larynx, which produced a shrill cry.
Anxiety; (<) rising from a seat; causing unsteadiness of hand when writing; with rapid and audible breathing; suffocative, under sternum at night, with stopped sensation in nose. Anxious restlessness, as when expecting something unusual.
Constriction obliging frequent and deep inspiration, (<) walking. Contracted feeling of sternum. Tension across; after breakfast; anterior walls, also with short breath; both sides, from behind forward, after dinner, with backache; lower part taking away breath, when moving and sitting. Pain in lower part, especially in region of pit of stomach, as if contents of thorax were compressed, (<) after dinner. Oppression; forenoon sitting, with stitches; after supper, with distention of abdomen; with throbbing of arteries; with burning inside; behind sternum at rest, with palpitation; in upper part, with deep inspirations on walking and sitting, with pressure behind sternum and at sides of it, coming and going, with sensation of a load on chest; in region of diaphragm, with drawing pain, especially behind borders of sternum, with visible beating of heart; compelling deep breathing; preventing slow and deep inspiration; in cardiac region, as if chest were narrowed. Anxious feeling of oppression, which in reality did not exist. Heaviness; on chest. Rawness, with indications of cough in morning. Sore pain on anterior surface, (<) r. near sternum, seemingly under ribs, (>) stool; below sternum, also after breakfast; pulsative; in places, (<) r. half.
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.