For use triturate the precipitated metal with sugar of milk.
General Action
A general destructive action on tissues, especially on connective tissue in parenchymatous organs; on bones, etc.
Relationships-Mercury, nitricum acidum, Platina, Iodium, Phosphorus, Rhododendron, Pulsatilla, Ignatia
Generalities
Tremulous agitation of nerves, as in joyous hope. Trembling when he cannot express his anger. (Makes small motions without knowing it when thinking of a motion) Cannot lie on either side at night. Simple pain or bruised pain in morning in bed, in all joints, especially in small of back and knees, (<) lying still, (>) rising. Bruised pain in head and all limbs morning in bed, (<) rest, (>) rising; B. pain in all joints in morning and forenoon. Pain full drawing in veins in afternoon, with weakness. Sensitiveness of whole body, when thinking of pain he imagines that he already feels it, and everything is disagreeable to him. All sensations fine and acute.
General indisposition, as before an illness. Sensation in joints and muscles as after unwanted exercise, feel very strong, going up stairs I. involuntary take two steps at a time and run in and out of houses. Constant inclination to be in motion. Internal emptiness and weakness of whole body. Weakness in morning on waking; in morning, with aching in legs, so that she desired to lie down immediately; in evening but inability to sleep; from mental labor; with no inclination for rest or sleep; with causeless vexation; sudden, in afternoon when sitting or reading, (>) sleep. Feels well in open air.
Clinical A remedy frequently indicted in secondary syphilis and affects of mercurial poisoning, by its mental symptoms, nocturnal aggravation of pains, etc. It is always to be thought of in interstitial changes of heart, liver and kidneys and in gouty diathesis. Especially suited to old people.
Great oppression of heart, cardiac difficulty in breathing, weak pulse and great depression of spirits; the skin showed large brown patches and again patches like albugo. Severe attacks of oppression at heart at night, with palpitation and with great debility.
Mind
Awoke at 3 A.M. and said rapidly in a strong voice and with red face, ” Mother, thou art my jewel of a daughter! What sort of a dog is that? What sort of a head is that on the wall? What is running about there is the room? and asked many other such foolish questions. Says something absurd in a reverie. Religious excitement. Howls and screams and imagines herself lost.
Disgust for life, suicidal tendency (Arsen., Nit-ac). Anguish, increasing unto self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction, with spasmodic contraction of abdomen; A. with palpitation, weariness of limbs and sleepiness; with weakness and appearance as if near death (ARsen). peevish and vehement wrath at least contradiction (Bry). Silent peevishness alternating with cheerfulness. Sullen mood and taciturnity. If left alone he sits still in a corner, taciturn, melancholy, but the slightest contradiction excites his wrath, which he manifests by disputing and talking much, afterwards by a few detached words. Anger and vehemence; when thinking of absent persons. Quarrelsome (Veratrum, Plat); and abusive. Impatience. Some persons are offensive to him. Melancholy (Cimicif., Sulphur, Plat).; imagines that he is unfit for this world and longs for death, which he contemplates with delight; imagines he can succeed in nothing;’ and he seeks solitude (Conium, Natrum mur.). Weeping; because he imagines he has lost the affections of his friends (Puls); alternating with laughter, as if unconscious of herself (Ignatia, Plat).
Discouraged at least trifle; and out of humor with himself. Dissatisfied with everything, imagines obstacles everywhere, partly occasioned by adverse fate, partly by himself, the late making him morbidly depressed. Apprehension, anxiety from a noise at the door, and fear lest some one would come in, anthropophobia (Nat-m). Anxiety (>) while eating (Mez). Timidity. Uneasiness; he imagines that he neglects something and deserves reproaches, which deprives him to energy and perseverance. Cheerful, with constant desire to converse.? Anxious to reflect deeply about this or that subject, but this makes her weak, tremulous, cold and damp over whole body. Intellectual faculties more active and memory more faithful (reaction). Memory sharp, afterwards bad; impaired.
Clinical Settled melancholy, with suicidal mania, (it has not proved so valuable for suicidal mania as might have been expected from its symptomatology; in non syphilitic cases Arsenic seems more efficacious). Most valuable for the melancholy of syphilitics, with longing for death, disgust for life, but without attempts to commit suicide. Melancholy, with weeping. Religious melancholia, with weeping and crying. Mental derangements, with constant rapid questioning, without waiting for replies.
Head
Shaking sideways and up and down (Merc-v) Tearing here and there, especially in forehead, with vertigo. Aching from mental effort (Phosphorus) before lying down in evening, then shivering and chills after lying down; stunning, as from a violent wind; as from an incipient cold; bruised, ever since morning, (<) reflecting, reading, talking or writing, when the ideas are confused, (>) 7 P.M.; as from a confusion, sometimes with a pressure in one part of the brain, sometimes like a tearing, (<) since morning (>) 3 P.M.; in bones on lying down, as if broken, so that all his vital energy seemed affected.
Confusion; morning on risings with heaviness in occiput. Hypochondriacal intoxication, head feels full of compressed air, especially towards nape. Rush of blood; while stooping. Vertigo when standing; when stooping (Sulph), as if turning in a circle, (>) rising head; as if he would fall to the left when walking in open air, forcing him to lie down, but returning even then on slightest motion.
Forehead-Stitch in centre where hair begins; externally; in bone like a slow drawing. Tearing; in 1., (<) during motion; deep seated in F. and temples, (>) in open air. Aching in I. externally. tingling in forepart of head. Bony tumor on upper part of I. side (Sarsap).
Tearings in I. temple. Aching in temples: on I., touch; on I. temple externally. Tearing in r. vertex; in I.; I., (<) during motion; cutting T. in r vertex. Bony tumor on r. vertex, with boring pain, (<) touch.
Megrim returning every three or four days, with stitching, burning and beating in one side of forehead. heartburn, nausea and bilious vomiting. One-sided in morning after waking, (<) cough and bending head backward. Tearing in r. occiput; through brain to forehead, also (<) during motion (Bry). One-sided drawing in occiput. White pimples all over hairy scalp, with heat and itching.
Clinical Most violent in the head, with symptoms of exostosis of the cranial bones, pains (<) night, pressure outward, roaring in the head, sparks before the eyes, longing for death.
Eyes
Protruding. Red sclerotica. Tension making vision difficult; (<) fixing eyes, (>) closing them, with diminished vision. Feeling of sand. Pressure as from a foreign body; P. inward upon I. Heat; when looking, as if blood pressed upon optic nerve. Feeling of weakness and pressure. Constant lachrymation. Ball, pressive pain from above downward in r.; pressive pain inward in r., during motion; pressing out in internal and superior angle of I. ball.
Lids agglutinated in morning; lids red at approach of menses; lower lids swollen; burning in lids, with stitching and itching; biting pain in I. upper lid. Inner canthi bluish; stitches in I. Inner canthus and itching; itching in r. canthus, with burning. Stitch outward in lower part of Orbit; l tearing in r. O. close to external canthus; spasmodic pressure in posterior segment of I.O.
Vision double (Gelsemium, nitricum acidum, Conium), and one object is seen mixed with another, with tension in eyes. Half-sighted, as if the upper half of vision were covered with a dark body (Gelsemium), can only see lower objects with the inferior half, upper objects invisible. Fiery sparks. V. indistinct, as through a black veil. Momentary loss.
Clinical A most valuable remedy for very acute inflammations, particularly characterized by, tendency to ulceration of the cornea; extreme photophobia, the patient very sensitive. In iritis, with intolerable pain in the bones, extruding down into the face and nose, with great soreness all about the eye (Asafoetida)
Ears
Tearing in I. meatus auditorius externus. Burning, with stitches. Tension. Hardness of hearing. Crackling on I. Roaring in morning in bed. Raging and roaring as if close to roaring water. Humming, with whistling and ringing; H. before I.
Nose
Nostrils ulcerated, agglutinated (nitricum acidum, Thuja, Phosphorus), painful, so that he cannot breathe through the nose. Swelling of r. nostril and beneath it with redness. Swelling in hours after walking in open air; S., with redness. Shootings downward in septum. Sore feeling internally, (<) touch (Graph). r. bone and adjoining part of upper jaw painful to touch (Mercurius), especially where infraorbital nerve comes out. Appears obstructed though air passes through it. Burning in (Nit-ac), with itching, sticking and smarting. Biting pain in lower part; so that tears came into this eyes, as when desiring to sneeze, excited by strong sunlight, or exalted, pious grief or highest degree of pity. Itching in nostrils. Itching titillation in wings, as in a cold, sometimes with a desire to scratch Sneezing. Coryza; fluent; with thick discourage like discharge like the white of an egg. Crusts in; in r. nostrils, as from ulcers (K. bi.) yellowish, almost painless and dry. Smell acute (Graph), the smoke of the lamp is offensive; putrid S. in nose when blowing it (K bi,) sweetish; smell of brandy in nose, with dyspnoea.
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.