For use one part of the crystals is dissolved in nine parts of distilled water. Clinical Application-This soluble salt of gold has been preferred by some to triturations of the metal; the indications for its use do not vary essentially from those of the metal, and we may refer in a general way to the different clinical paragraphs under Aurum met.
Generalities and Mind
Drawing tearing in various parts, especially in limbs. General erethism. Aversion to work.. Weariness. Excitement. Disgust for life, inclination to suicide. Sadness; with frequent weeping; as if a misfortune impeded. Unreasonable contrariety. Excessive cheerfulness, carelessness. In disposition of or mental work. Memory weak.
Head
Shaking frequently. Aching on rising after a restless night; throbbing A., with heavy dreams. Confusion. Heaviness. Vertigo; on every motion, with whirling before eyes and tearing over eyes, (<) stooping, (>) open air and ongoing to bed at night. Pressure on brain along sagittal suture. Tearing beginning above I. eye and extending towards r. ear, (>) lying down. Pain in I. frontal eminence, like a toothache, extending towards supraorbital foramen, next day in r. side. Drawing pain in forehead. Beating in I. forehead. Tearing in r. temple; in I.; I. all day, extending to r., (>) in bed from I. towards ear. with vertigo and tearing over eye. Drawing pain in I. temple. extending to vertex. Throbbing pain in I. temple after rising, (>) applying cold water, returning in after noon.
Eyes
Tearing in I. Pressure in open air, with tearing and blindness. Burning, with pricking and itching. Dryness. Symptoms appear periodically. Symptoms (>) covering eyes with hands. Lids red and swollen; lids agglutinated in morning; difficult to keep shut; burning, with sticking and smarting. Biting in r. external canthus, with itching. Burning of conjunctiva. Vision weak. The paper appeared white, as if not printed, when reading by candle light.
Ears
Sticking in I. Drawing pain in r. Sensation of a plug in I. Ringing. Deafness after the ringing in ears, as if the ears were wide internally and hollow, and so nothing could be heard distinctly.
Nose
Redness, with swelling; with itching inflammation, then desquamation. Red swelling of I. side, the cavity is ulcerated deep in, with dry, yellowish scurf and sense of obstruction, though air pass through it. Red swelling in and beneath r. nostril, with a crust of ulcers internally and sense of obstruction, though air passes through it. Burning and itching pain externally on upper part. Burning, with itching. Crawling internally. Sneezing, then tearing in I. nasal bone towards eye, with heat of eye, injection of conjunctiva and spurting lachrymation. Coryza, with tickling in throat; fluent, nights; fluent, with sore throat and irritation to cough; thick, yellow. Offensive watery discharge, irritating to lip. Discharge of yellow-greenish matter. Crusts in nose, with inclination to pick at them.
Face and Mouth
Face red. Pimples on lips, with smarting and itching. Twitches in. upper jaw. Jerking toothache in anterior and upper teeth; jerking partly on one side, partly in upper incisors. Gums red, (<) at night, and swollen. Aphthae all over mouth. Burning in mouth, with itching and smarting. Taste flat, (>) at night in bed, with nausea. Taste metallic, with salivation, frequent desire to swallow and sensation of a plug in throat.
Throat
Painful swelling of submaxillary glands. Sore throat, with red fauces. Scratching, with pricking. Swallowing difficult.
Stomach
Appetite lost. Thirst. Putrid eructations. Nausea in morning, (<) after breakfast; after eating; with vomiting of the water drunk and a trace of clear blood. Vomiting, with violent retching, f foul eructations, then cutting colic and four watery stools. digestion slow. Gastritis. Distress after eating. Burning, with stitching, gnawing and cutting. Eruptions. Painful paroxysms drawing in pit, extending to middle of sternum, as if a hard body were pressed into cavity, (<) stooping, eating and drinking.
Abdomen
Distention. Rumbling and gurgling. Emission of flatus. Flatulence, with colic and fluid stool. Colic; constrictive, obliging her to bend up, (>) in bed. Tenderness on touch. Drawing. Drawing pain in small intestines, intermittent, (>) fluid stools, eating, drinking and motion. Redness at umbilicus, with heat, itching and smarting. Hypochondrium, stitch in I. as from running too fast; disagreeable feeling in r.; burning in r. Heat in Hypogastrium, with pricking.
Rectum and Stool
Haemorrhoids, with discharge of blood during stool. Continual urging, with rumbling, but no satisfactory stool. Diarrhoea; (<) at night, gray whitish; frequent with burning at anus; frequent, with tenesmus. Watery stools.
Urinary Organs
Constant desire to urinate. Urethra, sticking through whole length on standing; burning while urinating, with smarting; heat, with ischuria, with the urine feels hot; heat in canal of urethra, with itching. Urine increased; scant, red, thick, containing sand; burning and acrid; decomposes rapidly.
Sexual Organs
Itching on penis wakes at night. Exhausting erections. Swelling of testicles, with tension. Paroxysmal painful drawing in I. testicle, extending towards inguinal ring. Drawing along spermatic cords. Labia red and swollen. Red pimples on labia majora before menses. Itching of pudenda. Heat in vagina (Merc c.) with itching (Kreo). burning in vulva, vagina (Merc c.) with itching (Kre) Burning in vulva, with itching. Constant running from vulva. Light-yellow leucorrhoea, (<) in morning. Leucorrhoea returned, acrid with itching of genitals (Pulsatilla, Kre). Menses too early, profuse and acrid, preceded by leucorrhoea, which she formerly had had after menses. Menses too early, short, blood bright.
Respiratory organs
Speech difficult, rough, hoarse voice. Tickling in trachea, with dry cough as from inspired dust. Cough loud: short, dry, paroxysmal, (<) at night, then heat in throat; frequent C., (<) at night; frequent, hard, with white expectoration mingled with threads of blood; constant thick, with think yellow expectoration. Sensation of suffocation. Suffocative attacks at night. Heavy deep breathing on standing, as if a stone lay on chest. Heavy deep breathing short, with apparent obstruction in larynx. Breathing difficult.
Chest
Sticking in r. pectoral muscles, (<) deep inspiration and motion of upper part of body. Tearing in r., from middle of sternum towards r. shoulder joint, (<) every inspiration. Sticking tearing in intercostal muscles, r. then I. Sprained feeling in r. side on standing up, with pain in pectoral muscles on touch. Burning pains in I. clavicle. Drawing pains in both sides. Spasmodic drawing between sixth and seventh ribs, with sensation as if some one attempted to stretch out the heart. Oppression.
Heart
Stitches immediately over; in region, extending towards middle of sternum, (<) motion and deep inspiration. Sticking boring at point of impulse of apex, waking at night, (>) hard pressure on praecordial region, the Lancinations extending from this place to I. hypochondrium, (>) deep inspiration. Burning, with pricking. Drawing and cutting pain. Oppression, compelling deep breathing, which relies. palpitation.
Neck and Back
Stiffness of neck. Burning in back, with pricking, cutting and tensive pain. Pricking in loins. Bruised pain in loins, (<) stooping. Fatigue in loins.
Extremities
Bruised feeling. Weakness. Shoulder, tearing in I., then sensitiveness to touch; drawing pain in r. joint; lame feeling in r. after arising; pain in S. and arms. Arms, shocks; sprained feeling in I.; stiffness; burning and lancinations in A, and forearms. Drawing in middle of r. upper arm, with boring. Intermittent drawing in elbows, as if in a tendon. Tearing in r. forearm from elbow to tip of little finger Drawing in balls of r. hand. Hands difficult to clench. Finger-joints stiff. Tearing in middle finger after dinner.
Lower Extremities
Drawing tearing in muscles of hips. Paroxysmal lancinations in front and middle of thighs, extending towards patellae. Tension in below hollow of knee, extending to middle of calf. Bruised reeling in lower third of r. leg, (<) walking, and more to the great toe and would go off the end of swollen. Tearing in 1. metatarsus. Tearing in r. great toe and on inner side of r. knee. Cutting in toes when walking. Intermittent drawing burning pain in I. great toe, (<) walking.
Skin
Redness of toes. Swelling in wrist, with tensive pain on bending hand backward, and stitches in wrist on flexing anything. Red pimples above pubis. Boils on buttocks and thighs. Petechiae-like exanthema on legs, with a pimple in centre. Crusts behind the ears. Tickling itching of forehead.
Sleep
Yawning after eating; (>) after eating, but it returns. Sleepiness in daytime. Deep sleep. Waking, with a start. Sleeplessness. Restless sleep, with frightful dreams. Heavy dreams of impending unhappiness. Troublesome 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.