Aching in side below pit of stomach when coughing. Pressure below pit of stomach, (>) eructation, with burning. P. below pit of stomach and in hypogastrium, from time to time and at night. Stitches around umbilicus when moving abdomen, (<) retracting abdomen. Pressure in umbilical region when coughing; P. in umbilical region, (>) eructations, with heartburn. Coldness of one side. Aching in region of liver; (>) touch.
Hypogastrium.– Flatulent distention after midnight, with pressure downward. Stitches when retracting abdomen and on pressure; S. over hips. Pinching in r.; P. morning in bed, (>) rising, renewed by lying down, especially lying on back, with fermentation and gurgling, especially in epigastrium; P., (<) r. side, after ineffectual urging. Pressure; deep in after stool; over r. hip; sharp, over r. hip, or a dull stitch.
Rectum
Tenesmus. Frequent ineffectual urging to stool with anxiety and intolerance of the presence of people. Tickling (Drawing.) Itching and biting, (>) rubbing. Stitches in anus. Itching in anus.
Stool
Soft, copious, light-brown. Much blood, with a soft stool. Constipation. Frequent. Scanty.
Urinary Organs
Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time. Urging to urinate early after rising, so that often he cannot retain the urine. Feeling in urethra as if a few drops passed out. Burning in orifice of U. and in anus. (Twitchings in U.)
Urine copious; at night; (<) morning, then dull pain in kidney region. Scanty; with reddish sediment. Brown; dark B. and turbid during emission. Turbid even during emission, yellow-brown, forming a brown sediment, while the clear urine above it was yellow. Bloody. Reddish cloud, Wheyey. Of penetrating odor after standing.
Sexual Organs
Tearing in glans, Pain in glans as from ulceration. Violent erections early on walking, without desire, the parts being externally numb, after the erection subsides tingling-tearing in fore part of urethra. Twitching in testicles. Burning internally in region of vesiculae seminales. Voluptuously delightful feelings internally without external irritation.
Female.– Burning, (<) after a walk and after a hard stool, with discharge of a little blood. Itching of pudendum; with soreness and swelling. Burning, biting, tickling and itching on vulva when urinating, and in urethra. (Profuse leucorrhoea at night); (of thick mucus, increasing from day to day, with a stitch in vagina before each discharge). (Mucus in bluish-white clots from vagina.) Haemorrhage from uterus, Menses too early.
Respiratory Organs
Burning and itching titillation from larynx down to abdomen. Hoarse, rough voice, with tenacious mucus in throat; rough, deep voice alternating with thick mucus in larynx, which he easily throws up when clearing throat or by a slight cough. Cough, every evening with pain under l. ribs as if something were torn loose; only at night, from irritation in throat; from tickling in throat; violent, convulsive, with frequent eructations and hoarseness; a kind of whooping; deep, dry, with salivation, then scraping in throat. Salt expectoration when coughing.
Clinical Nervous spasmodic cough, with frequent eructations, distress about the heart, etc. These coughs are of a nervous kind, paroxysmal, cough especially on walking in the morning, ending with violent eructations; the chest becomes very sore to external touch; the cough is aggravated by the presence of the people; it may be hollow and barking, but the eructations are particularly characteristic.
Chest
Wheezing. Stitch extending to back; dull S. in r., interrupting respiration. Tearing in l. Pressure on upper part; below (in?) l. half; deep in r. half during strong expiration; paroxysmal, in upper part. Bruised pain over pit of stomach,. eructations; B. pain in last true r. rib, more towards back. Rheumatic pain below r. arm. Burning pain near one r. rib, (<) pressure, then in l. chest. Burning; in external parts. Raw feeling. Oppression (phos.); in chest and back, between scapulae, (>) after eating; with uneasiness. Tension. Tightness so that she cannot breathe deeply nor yawn fully.
Heart
Pressure in praecordial region. Anxiety; even to arrest of breathing, with heat. Palpitation; when walking in open air, with pale face; with pressure in chest as from a lump lodged there, or as if chest were obstructed (Phosphorus).
Neck
Drawing ache in nape. Pressive drawing ascending from nape and extending through head towards forehead, considerable pressure remaining, especially occiput.
Back
Pain as if intestines were compressed, with heaviness in back as if not able to right himself. Oppression extending to chest. Weight extending from spinal marrow to abdomen, with sprained sensation. Stitches in l. scapula. Rheumatic pain on r. scapula; in r. side of back. Stitches in loins when sitting; in loins, (<) motion. Pressure in lower part of loins. Painful tension in muscles of loins.
Extremities
Twitching; at night, with coldness of body. Uneasiness like a formication, only by day, with anguish.
Upper Extremities
Shoulder, dull stitch on r. tearing; tearing in l. joint; drawing in evening, with a sprained and paralyzed feeling. Arms, twitching; tearing in r. in morning; sense of clucking. Falling asleep of arms when lying on them; l. at rest during the day; r. at night, with a numb feeling. (Paralysis of r. upper arm.) Tearing in r. elbow; on r.; r. elbow and forearm. Drawing aching in r. forearm as far as elbow.
Hands. Cramp. Stinging as from fleas, and in fingers. Tearing in interior of middle of r. Asleep at night. Paralysis.
Fingers.– Drawn inward in evening. Paroxysmal trembling of thumb in evening. Stitches at times in r. index, at times in r. thumb. Tearing in r. index; in lowest joint of l. index; under nail or r. middle; in tip of r. little; in two last, in evening before sleep; in muscles of thumb. Lancinating pain in tip of l. thumb, and when touched lightly feeling as of a splinter under nail, (>) hard pressure. Rheumatic pain in lowest joint of thumb, through metacarpal bone to wrist. Drawing in F. and thumb. Weakness at night. (Stiffness in lowest joints in evening, (<) after not exercising them, with swelling of lowest joint of thumb and pain on bending it.).
Lower Extremities
Stretching and relaxation. Cramp, and almost every night cramp in calves. tearing in l. in morning; rheumatic in r. Heaviness. Sensation as if asleep, step not firm. Tearing in r. natis; l. hip, then r.; T in front of thigh, just below l. hip; clucking T. under l. natis. Sprained pain above knee, (<) after sitting. Tension in thigh as if tendons were too short, when walking.
Tearing on r. knee. Drawing in knees and ankles. Soreness of bend of knee, (<) evening. Stiffness in bend of knee in morning. Paralysis of knee. Swelling of legs, especially feet. Tearing in upper part of l. tibia; in lower part of l. leg; intermittent, on l. calf. Painful spots on shins. Sense of grumbling in calves and feet. Weakness of legs in morning. Swelling of l. inner malleolus with pain only on walking, (>) continued walking. Tearing in ankles.
Foot.–Stitches in l.; in heel. Tearing in external border of l.; in l., with stitches. Pain in joint of l. when walking; in heel when walking; in corns, with a sore feeling, arthritic in joints. Weakness, with insensibility. Tingling, with numbness, after rising he felt faint, it became dark before his eyes, had to vomit bile and lie down again. Tension in l. at noon. Stiffness.
Toes.– Stitch in ball of big. Tearing in l. middle. Arthritic pain in ball of big.
Skin
Blueness of leg from distended veins during menses, with aching. Wrinkling on finger-tips in morning. Tetter reproduced; itching T. between thumb and index. Itch eruption reproduced, with much itching. Pimples on face; in whiskers, with itching; red P. on forehead close to hair, with soreness on touch; painful P. on forehead; itching P. above male parts of generation.
Soreness of a wart on finger. Itching nearly all over, even on abdomen; of glans; in palms; finger-tips; knees; ankles; inside of sole; toes; I. above malleoli in evening when lying down, and after rubbing a sore and bruised feeling; gnawing and tingling, on face. Tickling in tip of great toe; itching T. around eyes. Formication in tip of finger as if asleep, (>) pressure. Insensibility as far as knee early on waking, the hands have an indistinct sensation, the skin seems asleep.
Sleep
Sleepiness by day. Sleeplessness; before midnight; at night, without knowing the cause; S. nights with slumber early in morning full of fantasies.
Falls asleep late, afterwards uneasy sleep, owing to pressure in epigastrium, (<) r. side; falls asleep late, afterwards has anxious dreams as if he were abused and too weak to defend himself, on waking he is weak in upper part of body, with pinching pressure under pit of stomach and nausea, then symptoms reappear when lying down and falling asleep again and are then accompanied by pressure in l. side of abdomen, the symptoms (>) when wide awake, sitting up and moving about, ending with emission Flatus, fermentation in abdomen and eructation. Starts in fright when falling asleep in evening, imagines the room is too light and jumps out of with anguish. Uneasy sleep at night; on account of coldness of body and twitchings in limbs; anxious dreams, with talking and desire to drink. Sleeps at night on his back with bent knees, the occiput being supported by both hands, and has vivid dreams.
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.