A tincture is prepared from the seeds of this plant (the common celery: Nat. order, Umbelliferae).
Generalities
Bruised sensation in flesh after scratching, with sometimes a raw sensation. Inability to sit still or lie still, from feeling of “fidgets,” cannot keep from thinking. Weakness; in evening. Remission of symptoms in morning and forenoon.
Head
Aching all day,(>) when eating and in open air; frontal; sharp, over r. eye and temple on going to bed and lasting all night, (>) during breakfast; in r. temple from noon till evening, with nausea chronic headache always began in l. temple); in l. temple, spreading over l. side of face and to top of head; (<) deep in l.; temple, as from a jar, almost throbbing, (<) by light, must keep eyes partly closed, reading tires head, the headache afterwards distinctly throbbing deep in and through temples and somewhat in forehead, most of the time can count the beats in the head, the pain (<) by stooping, moving head and eating, (>) by complete rest and quiet, but the throbbing continued when at rest, expiration through nose makes the throbbing painful, afterwards the pain (>) for some minutes by three mouthfuls of cold water, also (>) by hot compresses to forehead till he began to move, (>) on waking if he waked without moving, stopped short on eating Indian meal gruel. Sore feeling over whole top. Scalp sore to touch.
Eyes and Nose
Eyes feel sunken. Ticking in nose in forenoon, with desire to sneeze. Nose stuffed; with pain in forehead. Sneezing in morning, with watery discharge from nose and tickling in r. nostril.
Lips, Mouth and Throat
Itching if lips and desire to rub them with the teeth. Sore pain in l., teeth. Sore pain in l. teeth. Sore spot on tip of tongue, feeling like a canker sore. Soft palate red and sore; soft palate and fauces swollen and dark red. Back part of throat hurt by air rushing down posterior nares. Throat sore.
Stomach
Appetite lost; ate nothing from Sunday morning till Wednesday night. Nausea. Spitting up food. Unpleasant sensation, with belching tasting of celery. Heartburn. Gone feeling in pit, partially (>) by eating.
Stool and Urine
Two urgent, well-formed stools in the day, preceded by pain in abdomen going directly into rectum, with feeling as if she could not retain the stool a moment, next day three stools of the same kind. urine retained.
Respiratory organs and Heart
Tickling in top of windpipe at night, causing dry cough. Cough. wheezing at night. Heart’s beats can be counted by hearing or feeling in chest.
Neck, Back and Extremities
Muscles of nape pain on motion and seem sore from severity of headache. Sacral pain, with bellyache, the S. pain. after getting out of bed, (<) on lying down again; S. pain. (<) after lying down,(>) by moving about, with pain in lower abdomen on first lying down,(>) after continued lying, the same S. pain afterwards on rising, but extending further up back and more on l. side. Growing pain in r. leg before going to bed and lasting most of the night.
Skin
Itching blotches on l. sacral region. Red. itching eruption on upper inner part of thighs, (<) l., extending to groins, toward night. Itching on different parts, (<) after undressing and at night; and as soon as it was allayed in one place it appeared in another. Itching leaving burning after scratching about face; on l. jaw, extending to whole. side of fade and nose. Itching of l. cheek and jaw in evening, after scratching red blotches, then burning; I on l. lower jaw, then after scratching red blotches, then itching red blotches on l. instep and outside of l. ankle; l. on l. buttock at night, after scratching felt a blotch like an insect bite; I like the bite of an insect in different parts, causing shuddering or trembling of the apart, then little red elevated itching pimples, the I. somewhat (>) by scratching, then burning creeping sensation.
Sleep
Broken. Sleepless all night; till 4.30 A.M.; from Sunday till Wednesday. Could not go to sleep without great exertion and then would wake unrefreshed in ten minutes.
Fever
Chill from any change of temperature, (<) in back or where the lower temperature strikes the body. Hot feeling on vertex. Intermittent burning inside thighs, which look like a raw surface, extending to groins, (<) on l., with itching, which is (<) at night. Sweat on forehead on waking at 4 A.M.
Clinical Profuse discharge from granulating ulcers, intense constriction fever sternum, with drawing feeling though to back on lying down.
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.