Alumen, the common potash alum, a double sulphate of Aluminum and Potassium, K2, Al2, (SO4)4, 24 H2O, is triturated with sugar of milk for use.
General Action
It has a strong chemical affinity for albumen, so that it uses contraction, paleness and dryness of tissues; it contracts capillaries; In large doses it is an emetic, and produces a general gastro-enteritis.
Relationship.– Alumina, Tannin.
Generalities
Convulsive movements (Gallic acid). Trembling of muscles. Nervous tremor and excitability, as from unpleasant news. Wandering cramps. Bruised pain in whole body. Rheumatic pain in whole body. Ebullition of blood going upward. Pulsation through whole body when standing long on one spot, with palpitation. Restlessness; with fever. Faintness; with dim vision; F., as from hunger. Weakness; morning after rising; W. from short walk, then pain in lumbar region. Amelioration when walking.
Mind
Excitement,; morning g after rising. Agitation. Anguish. Anxiety. Sadness from 9 A.M. till noon.
Head
Rush of blood to. Aching; at night on walking, (>) cold water, with nausea; heavy, especially in occiput; intermittent wandering aching in forenoon; (<) morning on walking, at one time shooting from one temple to the other, at another heavy on vertex, as from a weight, with intermittent nausea, with chilliness and feeling as if cold water were poured down back, at another time great heat through body, in fact feeling exactly as when attacked by smallpox.
Vertigo; in evening, (>) lying, with headache; as if he would fall forwards, when looking down; sensation as if vertigo were coming on in evening when lying on back, (>) opening eyes and turning on r. side, with weakness in pit of stomach. Aching in r. side of forehead; over eyes in morning; over l. eye; over eyes on walking, till 10 A.M., (>) cold water, reappeared next morning and at 9.30 P.M., (>) after lying down, with vertigo; jerking in l. side of forehead at 8 A.M. Stinging in vertex, when stooping, afternoon till evening. Aching on vertex. Aching in occiput.
Eyes
Burning, itching on r. lower lid. Itching, burning on border of lower lid, r. then l. Bruised feeling on inferior edge of l. orbit on pressure and on moving lids. Watery discharge, afterwards glutinous and watery. Burning in r. external canthus, with itching.
Ears
Heat in both and in l. side of face at midnight, (>) going to bed. Hears everything in sleep. Ringing in r.
Nose
Dryness; D. in choanae, from throat, Sneezing; when out of doors.
Face
Expression animated, with fever. Pain in l. articulation of jaw close to ear. Twitching of lower lip.
Mouth
Tongue, stitches,(<) tip; rough and as if scraped, in morning; burning also on r. side; dry feeling in morning, (<) fore part, with sufficient saliva; burning on tongue. Roof coated with phlegm. Pain in mouth, burning pain. Burning. Contraction. Dryness. Salivation, with a dry feeling on tongue. Taste metallic; T. sourish; sourish on r. side of tongue; disgusting, sweetish.
Throat
Thick mucus, and on palate. Scraping with the cough. Pain. Soreness; in both sides, when talking, and when swallowing, with dryness,. Pricking in both sides, with dryness, which extended to posterior nares and rose into throat, with constant desire to drink. Dryness. Heat; and in larynx. Burning pain down the oesophagus. Tickling, causing cough. Swallowing impossible. Acute pain in gullet.
Stomach
Appetite increased; lost; none for breakfast; loathing of food. Thirst, with fever. Eructations; tasteless. Nausea; at night on walking and in morning; in morning, with faintness; in morning, with weakness; with headache, with chilliness; with cold sweat; in morning, with pain and convulsive bearing in stomach like the deathly sickness of pregnancy; sudden. Retching. Easy vomiting; without previous nausea. Vomiting of blood only.
Distention after breakfast; D., with good appetite; of epigastrium; of epigastrium and stomach after eating; of pit, also after eating; of pit, urging him to take a deep breath, which he cannot do. Gas. Inflammation, and of bowels. Griping. Pain in epigastrium; in pit in evening when lying on back, them pulsation; pain to left of pit, at 8.P.M., when walking in open air,(>) standing still and pressing, disappearing by bending double, when continuing to walk the pain returned a little lower, (<) by every step. Burning pain. Sudden pain at noon, with pallor, blue lips, knees drawn up against breast, then vertigo, nausea, coldness, weakness, and headache, which last all the afternoon. Sudden jerking pain up into swallow at 3 P.M. when sitting, (>). walking, with twitching of lower lip and weak feeling in pit of stomach. Sharp pain at 4 P.M. while sitting in church, with deathlike Faintness, sickness, weakness, cold sweat, rush of blood to head, then sensation as if blood left the head and extremities, cold limbs, dim vision, feeling as if pain in stomach would draw her double, then heat, rush of blood to head, so that she could hardly hold it up or keep her eyes open, then weakness, especially in back, in evening when taking a long breath it seemed to come form a spot on each side of spine, on a line with inferior angles of scapulae. Cramplike drawing in epigastric region.
Burning. Heat in morning, (>) cold water; H. in pit, with full feeling. WArm creeps from pit down over abdomen. Dry and burning sensation. Contracted feeling. Heaviness; with throbbing as in an ulcer, also after eating. Throbbing at 11 A.M., after eating; after eating; at pit, in evening when lying on back; in epigastrium, extending to heart, with palpitation. Sinking, (>) eating; 11 A.M., (>) eating. Weakness in pit; in pit when sitting, has to rise; in pit, as during pregnancy. Uneasiness in pit, with rapid short breathing.
Abdomen
Distention. Flatulence; shifting. Stitching down median line, into penis, as if it followed a thread. Griping. Pain; burning P. in small intestines. Burning in lower part, and in small of back, can scarcely get up, with feeling as if back would break. Inflammation of intestinal canal. Contractions of muscles from sides towards linea alba; in evening; jerking C. of muscles. Weakness.
Rectum and Anus
Urging to stool, with much borborygmus. Smarting and burning in rectum after a solid stool. Haemorrhoids after a hard stool; H., with aching within anus; haemorrhoidal irritation. Beating in anus; after a stool. Itching in anus all the evening.
Stool
Diarrhoea; yellow, like an infant’s; afterwards constipation. Constipation. Hard, bloody. Copious, solid. Frequent. Rare, scanty. Difficult. Blood with stool.
Urinary organs
Urging to urinate. Frequent micturition. Metallic sensation about orifice of urethra, with feeling in clitoris as if urethra lay there, and as if urine could not be retained on account of pressure on clitoris. Itching in orifice of urethra; in evening, and on scrotum. Urine, brown, muddy; bluish, iridescent film; looks as if cheesy milk had been stirred into it; increased; acid; free and watery, afterwards scanty and dark.
Sexual organs
Cutting in l. side of penis. Erections during dinner. Emission of thick semen at night. Menses watery.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx, tickling from talking, causing cough; heat. Voice hoarse,(<) talking; hoarse and shrill, cannot talk loud, varying, sometimes high, sometimes low; lost, with sore throat; partially lost; feeling as if she had lost her voice. Windpipe contracted. Cough when exercising; from tickling in throat; slight irritative, dry, in evening after lying down (Nux v.); tickling, morning after rising; irritation to C. in morning after rising. Expectoration; of coagulated blood in morning, after rising. Respiration rapid.
Chest
Stitching down middle, later in r. side. Pain; in clavicle, when inhaling; under r. clavicle and r. shoulder, when inhaling; on sides; l., in morning; l., when sitting, (<) bending forward; in l., near middle of sternum, when washing and dressing, lasting till 9 A.M.; in breast, (<) r., or a binding sensation, (>) lying; as if distended, in afternoon,(<) after supper; rheumatic, in r. side; sore, under r. nipple in morning, (<) bending double. Rawness. Scraping, scratching to middle of sternum. Anxiety, heaviness like a stone, with inclination to take a long breath. Fulness. Tightness; across upper part, with heat. Warmth inside, opposite l. shoulder. Weakness in lower part, and in abdomen.
Heart
Pain shooting to lower part of r. lung. Palpitation; when standing long on one spot, with pulsation through whole body; rapid and violent,(<) lying on r. side, and lying long in one position. Throbbing; like the heavy blows of a hammer, with long intervals. Intermittent beating. Pulse rapid; intermittent; small and rapid, afterwards intermittent and thready.
Neck
Pain on side; r. side. Cramplike drawing, and stiffness.
Back
Stinging between scapulae. Tearing at lower angles of scapulae from 2 P.M. till evening, when sitting still, (>) moving. Pain at edge or r. scapula, near spine; on a line with inferior angles of scapulae all the evening, on every deep inspiration; rheumatic, under l. scapula; on both sides, near middle, on deep inspiration. Breaking sensation. Cramp in back, just below hips, in morning, extending up l. side with warm ebullitions. Weakness; in region of scapulae. (>) stooping.
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.