Rawness at 8 P.M. Sticking crawling in l. when sitting. Burning spot when walking in open air; burning spot on r. side. Beating after dinner, extending to pharynx, with heat in face and uneasy mood; B. like a pulse in a spot in l. cavity, morning when standing.
Clinical In catarrhal pneumonia of children, with ropy, tenacious expectoration.
Heart and Pulse
Tearing in praecordial region, extending suddenly into l. forearm. Pulse intermittent; weak, irregular, rapid; small, soft, rapid.
Neck
Swelling of cervical glands. Tearing stitches in neck and l. clavicle on moving head. Tearing in cords of l. side; intermittent, in cords of r. side, during menses; in sides in evening, alternating with tearing in cheeks. Throbbing in glands, with flushes of heat and want of air in throat. Stiffness, with pain on turning it, from nape to between shoulders. Tension in nape at 10 P.M., (>) after lying down, with stiffness. Drawing in tendons of nape.
Back
Aching at 10 A.M. during menses, then weakness of thighs. Pain when sitting, (>) motion, with compression as from a vise. Bruised pain, (<) lying upon it; bruised pain at night, (<) lying upon it. Strained and bruised pain in r. side, extending to middle ribs and axilla, waking at night, on turning the body, stretching arms, sneezing, yawning and breathing. Tension, preceded by itching of l. scapula.
Stitches in l. scapula during rest; S. in l. scapula, (<) lowering shoulder and turning the trunk to the left. Pinching in flesh of r. scapula. Pain between scapulae as from a wrench or bruise, or as if muscles were stretched asunder. Drawing and pressing inward in middle lumbar vertebrae, forcing him to stretch the abdomen forward.
Small of Back – Pain when rising after stooping; waking at night; when walking, so that she could not walk straight; with incarceration of flatus; from 1 till 4 A.M., with paralytic pain in hips and in external surface above knee, and the parts were still painful to touch the next forenoon. Pain as if shattered; as if beaten and shattered, waking between 11 and 12 P.M., with necessity to turn constantly, the pain lasting till 1 P.M. next day. Bruised pain at night; at night, so that she can hardly lie; in afternoon while spinning, (>) after motion. Painful stiffness, even when sitting, (<) raising the body erect. Sensation as if something elastic like air were pressing out, in forenoon, after yawning. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting, (<) when slumbering.
Extremities
Shooting and tearing in tips of fingers and toes, then in r. upper arm, now here, now there, 6 to 10 P.M., (>) after lying down, with anxiety. Tearing in l. arm and foot; in fingers and toes at 8 P.M. on spinning, (>) by lying; now here, now there, evening when sitting, (>) after lying down. Stinging in tips of fingers and toes in afternoon when walking in open air. Stinging, jerking and crawling in tips of fingers and toes from 1 to 2 P.M. Burning crawling when standing, now in tips of fingers, now in tips of toes, as if they would go to sleep. Weakness. R. more affected than l.
Clinical This drug has been used in the treatment of chronic sprains. It is one of the remedies when there is contraction of the hamstring tendons, which seem tight when walking, (>) by continued motion. Cures sciatica; the pains (<) by sitting, somewhat (>) by walking, entirely (>) by lying. It has been used for the neuralgic pains in stumps of amputated limbs. It is useful for tearing, stitching pains from ulceration in heels, (<) at night in bed, (>) by rubbing.
Upper Extremities
Shoulder. Tearing on waking before midnight. Rheumatic pain in joint on motion, r., then l. Burning in r., with pressure. Throbbing in r., as with a finger, morning in bed, and during the day. Drawing in joint, as after a cold, in afternoon at rest.
Axilla – Swollen gland, resembling a hard, red ulcer, which separated constantly into parts, like a large pimple. Rapid intermittent throbbing in l., while sitting.
Arm – Tearing in l., as if in tendons, extending into fingers, (>) motion. Heaviness and rigid feeling in r. in evening when spinning.
Upper Arm – Tearing in middle, in afternoon, with sensitiveness of arm to pressure; T., below shoulder-joint, as if in the marrow, as far as wrist, in afternoon. Compression in l. when leaning it against the table, (>) motion of arm. R. seems paralyzed and rigid in morning.
Forearm – Pressure in l., in bed, (>) motion, renewed by leaning arm upon the table when writing. Drawing from r. elbow to little finger, in afternoon, becoming a tearing, (>) motion. Heaviness and feeling as if asleep in r., in afternoon.
Wrist – Tearing in tendons of internal surface of l., in afternoon; in tendons of internal surface of l., with twitching.
Hand – Stitches in l., (<) motion, with beating. Lancination through hollow of r., while walking in open air. Twitching, tearing behind l. thumb, with swelling. Sprained pain in dorsa, at lower ends of metacarpal bones, especially on last thumb- joint, when seizing something, afternoons, (>) extending hand, when pressing on the thumb-joint the pain passes off with a cracking sound. Beating in r. palm, as with a little hammer, (>) motion. Feeling of paralysis in r., and in first phalanx of r. middle finger, when sitting and knitting.
Fingers – Twitching. Tearing and stitches in various places, here and there, (>) pressure and rubbing. Cramplike pain in middle phalanx of r. middle finger, as if in tendons, on bending fingers inward. Painful throbbing under l. thumb-nail from 1 to 5 P.M. Aching in first joint of l. index on stretching it out while knitting, (>) bending it. Crawling in tip of r. thumb and index, as if going to sleep, in evening when sitting.
Lower Extremities
Boring. Thigh. Twitching in l. popliteal region, on walking the cords seem too short, (>) long walking. Tearing in front of thigh when sitting; in external surface of r. in evening when sitting down; intermittent in l. hip, extending down thigh in afternoon when sitting, at first (>) by rising. Sticking on external surface of l. hip, at night from 12.30 till 2, (>) pressure, with copious passage of flatus, and it seems as if the pain were caused by flatus. Pain in l. hip as if tendons were too short, in forenoon, so that she limps, when sitting there is gnawing pain in bone. Hamstrings painful, as if too short when walking. Contraction about popliteal region, as if dried up or too short, morning on rising, so that she could not descend stairs, (>) by long and violent exercise.
Knee – Stitches at 9 P.M. when sitting. Stinging in l. when walking in forenoon, then tearing.
Leg – Trembling of l., with sensitiveness to touch. Slow fine stitches in inner surface below l. knee while sitting; stitches in l. calf when sitting; stinging in l. calf during rest after walking. Drawing tension when sitting or lying, obliging him to walk crooked, after which the symptoms pass off. Tension in tendons, with traction so that walking was difficult, with lassitude in legs. Spasmodic contraction around lower part of l. in forenoon. Weakness, (>) night. Insensibility of l. in afternoon when sitting (dead feeling).
Malleolus – Spasmodic contraction or tearing below and around r. inner, when sitting. Throbbing as from an ulcer in l. outer; on walking, and in r. foot.
Foot – Tearing in external border when standing, (>) motion. Heel, ulcerative pain in r., (>) vigorous rubbing; tearing in r. heel at 3 A.M., in bed, with ulcerative pain; sticking tearing in l. heel, and ulcerative pain; pain in bones of heels as if bruised and contracted when walking; spasmodic, painful contraction in r. heel evening in bed. Asleep sensation in r. foot at night, in l. next forenoon.
Toes – Sticking in l. great, afternoon, slowly increasing and decreasing; fine S. in r. little on standing and walking. Tearing in l. great, while standing; in r. great, in afternoon while sitting; in external surface of r. great, while sitting.
Skin
Red spots on l. side of chest, with burning itching, turning pale on pressure. Desquamation between thumbs and index fingers. Eruptions on face. Dry and tettery herpes on face. Rash over whole body. Miliary eruption (sudamina) after profuse sweat. Psoric eruption over greater part of back and lower limbs.
Deep-seated nodes around and below r. wrist, with itching, after scratching they burn, become inflamed and seem about to suppurate, but do not, with swelling, a reddish brown scurf on those which are much scratched. Pimples after itching and scratching, on fore part of forehead; on inner side of l. forearm. Itching pimple on external concha of r. ear; on r. forearm; on r. side of neck and on l. hand, in evening; on dorsa of hands in evening and at night, with desquamation of the itching places the next morning. Painful pimple on antihelix of r. ear. Sensitive and inflamed pimple on top of r. scapula.
Boil on r. side of abdomen; on l. shoulder with tensive pain. Vesicle on l. side of face. Vesicles, with itching, then burning, on r. wrist; on front of chest and on l. leg. Tensive burning vesicles on r. shoulder, forming scurf. Vesicles on a hard base, on and about r. wrist, mostly on its upper surface, with itching, then burning, some becoming scurfy from scratching, inflamed for a long time, new ones appearing daily.
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.