Gums. – Loose, bleeding readily. Inflamed and standing off from teeth in the shape of white indentations, especially painful when touched. Tender and disposed to bleed (Mercurius, Zincum met.).
Tongue – Red tip, with pain and prominent papillae. White; and slimy. Dirty brown. Dark-bluish spots. Yellowish-gray. Yellow coat at base and dry feeling though it was moist. Swelling, with ulcerative pain. Prominence of papillae of l. side; prominence and soreness of papillae. Roughness. Stitches deep in; in tip. Burning; in fore part; in tip at 10 P.M., with bitter taste; warmth in tip, then in oesophagus; warmth in tip alternating with warmth in pharynx. Pain as if burnt, with papillae of l. margin becoming erect and forming reddish, painful pimples. Dryness; morning; evening; with slimy mouth.
Mucus in mouth and fauces in morning, obliging him to hawk and spit (Acid nitricum); watery, and in posterior nares. Ulcerated crusts on mucous membrane, especially of i. cheek. Astringent sensation, and in tongue and regions of lips. Tension in palate, with prickling, then a swelling with a wart-shaped excrescence on middle of soft palate, impeding deglutition. Dryness; of palate and fauces. Warmth. Salivation; thin, with a taste bitter or like soap-suds; drooling in sleep (Mercurius). Fetor in morning (Mercurius).
Taste. – Inky. Metallic; and astringent, (<) by warm tea. Sweetish. Astringent, with watery saliva; bitter, metallic; as of verdigris, with nausea. Bitter, with warmth on tip of tongue and then in pharynx; pappy, with viscid mouth; sweetish. Clayish; morning after rising, the tip of tongue being white and the root yellow. Pappy, chalklike, with mucous coat on the reddish-white tongue.
Throat
Redness of velum palati, posterior nares and isthmus; pharynx; dark R. of uvula and fauces. Congestion, especially posteriorly, with heat; with burning soreness on r. side. White patch at back of pharynx; on posterior pillars of fauces. Palate white, swollen and sore. Mucus in morning fasting, and in posterior nares, sinking deeper into throat and forming lumps, which cause retching and hawking (Acid nitricum); thick, tenacious M., obliging him to hawk; causing hawking and hoarseness; in posterior nares, obliging him to hawk (Acid nitricum), also in forenoon. Hawking up yellow-brown, muddy mucus. Cramps and choking.
Pricking, making r. eye water. Pain suddenly at night in bed, with short dry cough; burning pain in region of velum palati and posterior nares. Ulcerative pain in spot of velum pendulum palati; in posterior wall of pharynx, changing to an aching pain when inspiring deeply and yawning; in r. side, with drawing and tension upward and downward, sensation of a splinter when swallowing (Acid nitricum), eructating, stretching and moving neck, and sometimes undulating jerking and pulsating. Rawness and soreness. Roughness; at night, with dryness and ulcerative pain (Mercurius); causing hawking. Scraping; causing hawking and cough. Cauterized feeling in uvula. Soreness morning on waking. (Hydrastis); at night on waking; when drinking cold water and during empty swallowing; when swallowing as from a swelling or splinter (Nit. ac). Swollen feeling in velum pendulum palati when moving tongue and swallowing. Burning. Dryness; at night, with strangulation and shortness of breath. Tickling causing cough; evening and morning; several days before dinner; in throat and palate at noon, causing lachrymation and fatiguing hacking cough; as from a feather, obliging hawking. Catarrhal feeling, and in larynx. Styptic sensation.
OEsophagus. – Cramp at 10.30 A.M. Feeling in Oesophagus and stomach as if full of food. Soreness and burning.
Clinical Acute and chronic sore throat, with much thick mucus and a feeling of a splinter lodged in the throat (Acid nitricum), sometimes with burning and dryness, generally with dark redness of all internal parts of throat. Catarrh of smokers, with sensation of a hair causing cough, (>) again by smoking.
Stomach
Appetite increased; irresistible for sugar in evening; insatiable in morning and evening; desire for acrid cheese; diminished; lost for breakfast; lost, with a acrid cheese; diminished; lost for breakfast; lost, with a strawlike taste to food. Aversion to food. Thirst increased. Eructations; in morning; with most of the gastric derangements; in morning after rising, with sick feeling and pain in abdomen; violent; insipid; tasting of ingesta.
Nausea; after each meal, (<) during and after dinner and in evening; (>) eating; with troublesome efforts to vomit; with warmth in stomach, both (>) eating; with burning and pain in stomach; with gnawing in stomach; with heaviness in S.; with pressure in S.; with gurgling in abdomen; with discomfort and emptiness in abdomen; with stiffness of legs, chilliness and shuddering; faintish N. in afternoon, with palpitation; resembling hunger. Retching. Vomiting; with diarrhoea and colic; with anxiety in praecordial region; V substances which tinge the clothes black; violent.
Shifting of flatus and twisting, with eructations. Painful swelling of pit, with anxiety. Fulness in pit (Nit. d. s.); in epigastric region at noon after bread and milk. Cramp at 4.30 A.M.; before breakfast. Pain; afternoon; (>) towards evening; (>) diarrhoea; in attacks; in pit at 8.30 A.M.; on r. side near pit, (<) deep inspiration; at r. of epigastrium, with tenderness; ulcerative P. after dinner; stinging ulcerative P. below l. short ribs, (<) touch and deep inspiration. Griping, with burning. Inflammation; gastro-enteritis. Gnawing on l. side; wild G., a sort of hunger, with nausea. Cardialgia; before breakfast, with nausea; before breakfast, with internal chilliness and bad appearance; waking her at night, with twisting in stomach, which extends into abdomen. Burning; and on chest; ascending from S.; with nausea; with rumbling in intestines and emission of flatus. Coolness. Compression, aggravated periodically, (>) diarrhoea. Constriction; periodical.
Feeling as if it would burst after yawning, with sensation as if oesophagus were spasmodically closed, hence ineffectual effort to eructate, with strangulation, pressing pain in S., faintish nausea, salivation and inability to stir, all (>) by empty eructations. Tension and pressure causing anxiety and sensation as if filled unto bursting. Sensation of a lump in pit, waking her at midnight, vomiting of glairy mucus, which can be drawn into threads, in morning, then nausea in forenoon, with tremulous weakness and sensation as if head were in a vise. Oppression; from food and dragging downward. Heaviness and dragged-down sensation. Trembling and throbbing. Warmth in epigastrium.
Clinical Great craving for sweets. Well-marked gastritis characterized by enormous distention, or therewith free eructations of gas. For the gastritis of drunkards it is unrivalled. Ulceration of the stomach; the pain extends from the stomach to the chest and shoulders and down to abdomen; the greatest distress from water or food, often associated with enlargement of the liver and cutting pain in the region of the liver. Sometimes severe cardialgia as from a stone in stomach, with ineffectual efforts to eructate, becomes strangulated, face becomes purple, followed by almost unconsciousness. Disordered stomachs of children from sweets, with distention, nausea, eructations, violent cramps in bowels, tongue thickly coated white, dark redness of the face, headache etc.
Abdomen
Distention (Carbo vegetabilis); after supper, with heaviness, anxiety and impeded respiration; with oppression. Flatulence. Emission of flatus; after dinner. Shifting of flatus in morning, then diarrhoea; in morning; waking him, with rumbling and urging to stool. Rumbling; at night. Pain; at night, waking from uneasy slumber, then sixteen evacuation of greenish fetid mucus, with noisy emissions of flatus; P. before diarrhoea. Cramp after catarrh. Sore pain, with hunger, (>) eating, then trembling in that place. Feeling of a ball rising into throat (Ignatia). Tensions, (<) towards evening; painful T. and pressure as if sore and ulcerated. Uneasiness. Coldness in A., with painful irritation. Feeling of looseness, with pain in hypogastrium.
Feeling below umbilicus as if distended, or as if a weight were on it, (>) emission of flatus. Pain around umbilicus. Stitches like electric sparks through l. side, (<) sudden transition from rest to motion. Stitches in spleen evenings; intermittent S. in spleen. Pain in hypochondria; l. Drawing down l. side when standing, with heaviness.
Liver. – Stitches; beginning with a jerk; periodical, in anterior surface. Cutting. Painful fulness, with occasional drawing and stinging, (<) walking, often reaching into chest.
Lower A. – Flatulent distention, (>) emissions of flatus, with heaviness. Intermittent pressure in transversalis muscle, near rest of ilium, as from from a foreign body. Aching, in groins, (<) touch; in groin when walking, and below and in front of l. trochanter, causing bending of knees. Drawing in one or other groin, with pressure; oppressive painful D. down to groin, with tension, as in ascites. Dragging and weight, at times amounting to burning pain, (>) micturition. Oppression.
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.