Clinical Most of the sensations are of neuralgic character, but many seem to be dependent on the abnormal circulation in the lungs, caused by Agaricus., (Dyspnoea caused by contracted blood vessels and unoxygenized blood.) The pain are mostly aggravated by exercise and after eating. Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep. (Night-sweats in phthisis. Laryngeal catarrh, wit expectoration of small hard lumps (Stannum) and soreness in larynx.)
Heart
Stitches in region; with intermittent pulse, the stitches obstructing breathing; in region, with rapid pulse; burning, from region of heart to l. scapula, on deep inspiration, (<) couching, sneezing and hiccough. Aching near; 4 P.M. till evening. Burning aching, with palpitation; intermittent burning, in region at noon. Anxiety. Compressed feeling. Oppression and violent beating on stooping; anxious, with irregular violent action, also (<) sitting. Blows at night on lying down an and morning on waking, at slightest noise, with trembling in pit of stomach and anxiety. Painful shocks at night, with anxiety; twitching shocks. Palpitation; morning on waking; 3 to 5 P.M.; evening; in evening, with anxiousness, that ended in restless drowsiness; on least motion; when standing; when vexed. Increased pulsation, with red face. Violent pulsation, perceptible even in coccyx. Irregular strong beats, on sitting down, with oppression. Visible strong beats. Trembling of heat on waking; trembling, with anxiety.
Clinical A valuable remedy for irregular tumultuous palpitation, especially for the irritable heart of tea and coffee drinkers and of tobacco-smokers (compare Arsenic and Spigelia).
Pulse
Double. Full and rapid. Rapid and hard; rapid, also sighing, Intermittent; (>) morning; (>) drinking coffee. Irregular. Imperceptible. Small; and hard; and quick, in morning. Tremulous. Slow; (>) drinking coffee; and weak.
Neck
Twitching of muscles from l. side to l. side of throat. Chirping in occipital region, as if a cricket were in cervical canal, mornings in bed. Stitches in cervical vertebrae; when stooping. Sudden aching between neck and shoulders. Tensive aching in occipital region and on both sides of atlas. Bruised feeling in l. neck and shoulder region; feeling in region of posterior cervical muscles in morning in bed and afterwards when sitting, with a feeling on bending forward as if too short. Sprained feeling in muscles; no turning backwards towards the l. Tension of nape. Tensive drawing in sterno-cleido mastoid muscles, ceasing stiffness in nape. Stiffness of nape (Ignatia). With heat and pain, (<) moving head to side, especially to r. side.
Back
Coarse stitches between skin and flesh. Tearing when walking, extending now to r., now to l. side of lumbar vertebrae. Aching; in evening; at night, and across chest, loins and r. thigh; after dinner; after garden work, and in small of back; (<) motion; after dinner, especially in a spot in middle, with sensitiveness on touch and motions. Spasmodic and drawing pain, extending to middle of chest and into oesophagus, in afternoon. Pain as after continual stopping. Twitching pain in l. side Bruised feeling in muscles; with a feeling as if too short on bending forward; with sprained pain and disposition to stretch the back. Drawing towards evening, and in loins. Stiffness; on rising from a seat and righting body, (>) sitting, with violent pain in l. loin. Weakness; of muscles; convulsive shock, extending to entire r. side of body.
Spine.- Stitches; deep-seated burning. Aching along spine and limbs; along spine in bed; in several places on increased motion; along spinal cord when stooping; (<) turning body; on turning, especially in region of last dorsal and first and second lumbar vertebrae which become pulsative on increased motion; drawing tensive along, with occasional flying pain in cord. Pain when stooping as if too weak to support the body. Dragging, crackling and creaking along spine during increased motion of body, especially at or near atlas-joint on more rapid motion of body. Soreness, on touch; in spots; mornings, so that- leaning against a chair is painful; when washing with a sponge. Sensitiveness, then pain all along spine, especially dorsal vertebrae, and it seems as if the cough had its origin in the spine. Pulsation in spinal canal. Prickling along spine and occiput.
Scapulae.- Twitching between; rhythmical in l. and in l. deltoid. Stitches between; coarse on surface below r.; sudden below l.; gnawing stitches under. Tearing between. Drawing between. Sore pain at lower angle of l. as if chapped. Weakness between, extending who neck, with stiffness.
Dorsal region.- Stitches in vertebrae; at night on waking; in dorsal and lumbar vertebrae; between dorsal and lumbar vertebrae, then the well-known feeling as if the spinal marrow were touched with an icy object, then sticking in cervical vertebrae. Aching in muscles on sitting; between eighth and ninth vertebrae on turning trunk; in twelfth dorsal and first and second lumbar vertebrae, with coldness in gluteal muscles and formication of feet. Drawing pain between eighth and ninth dorsal vertebrae, extending periodically to hyoid bone. Boring in middle of back. Soreness between eighth and ninth dorsal vertebrae on touch, and pulsation pushing downward, synchronous with pulse, (>) pressure.
Lumbar region.- Crackling in vertebrae on stooping, and in neck. Electric shock in an upper vertebra, extending to lower part of body. Shivering shock in vertebra, extending to whole body. Twitching; l.; r. in evening; in muscles and tendons extending from an upper vertebra, with convulsive shuddering in lower part of body. Stitches in region of r. kidney; in small of back on raising thigh when sitting; in r. loin, also during day; in superior anterior process of iliac bones; darting from spinal marrow of sacro-lumbar region towards r. gluteal muscle; sudden in small of back at noon while walking in open air, with dizzy nausea, the knees gave way and he leaned against a wall to prevent falling. Tearing in lumbar muscles on walking or sitting. Lumbago extending along spine to nape. Aching in loins; with weakness of feet when walking out of doors; on rising from a seat, preventing righting body and moving thighs; when sitting or lying, (>) motion. Aching in l., (<) standing, walking and touch; in region of r. kidney, disturbing sleep; after exertion at stool, soon extending to lower limbs; as from haemorrhoids; tensive drawing aching; tensive in sacro-lumbar vertebrae, mornings when lying on l. side, moving into region of l. hip, and (>) lying on r. side. Painful tension in tendons and ligaments of r. sacro-lumbar region, extending to great trochanter, (>) lying on l. side. Cramplike pain from ilium down towards muscles of anterior surface of r. thigh. Pain in pelvic bones as if separated from sacrum, (<) morning in bed. Bruised feeling in loins; (<) standing; (<) lying and sitting. Sprained feeling in l. loin. Drawing in loins; internal from pelvic muscles into legs, becoming an external trembling. Dragging. Fulness in loins, with heaviness. Tension in vertebrae, (<) stopping; across always on stooping, extending into sides of abdomen, where it resembled a sprained pain in abdominal muscles. Urging in l. loin. Weakness in loins on descending stairs and walking in open air, extending to feet; in loins, with pressive tensive pain. Heaviness. Paralytic pain in back part of loins, (<) walking and standing. Paralyzed feeling near vertebrae, above border of r. ilium.
Sacrum.- Twitching, and in lower limbs. Stitches. Crick in l. Tearing like growing pain in sacrum and hip, increasing and decreasing. Aching; when leaning against seat while at stool; in both sides; (<) evenings and walking; with weakness when walking; aching as if it would burst; bruised feeling when sitting.
Clinical Symptoms of spinal irritation, with pains, often dull but usually sharp, sticking, with excessive sensitiveness of the spine of touch, most severe in upper dorsal region, have been repeatedly verified. Lumbago, with a host of severe muscular pains, all worse on walking in the open air.
Extremities
Stretching. Trembling. Shocks; sometimes in l. hip, sometimes in r. hand, originating in corresponding joints; electric, and in different fingers. Twitching of muscles; with jerking up of one thumb, then another, and of separate fingers; electric. Restlessness and quivering trembling of l. upper arm and thigh muscles, with shocks in those limbs and jumping of muscles in different positions of body. Pain, in every part, here, there and everybody. Pain, in every part, here, there and everywhere; mostly sharp stitches, tearing, also aching, drawing, piercing, bruised; (<) walking or after motion; (>) after continued motion; with crawling, as after freezing. Soreness of muscles; weakness, with sensitiveness, trembling, restlessness. Extremities fall asleep.
Clinical Neuralgic pains, sharp, shooting, as if under the skin, often shifting from place to place, worse on motion. Sensations as if a part (especially of feet) had been frozen and was burning on being restored. Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia.
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.