To follow the symptomatology use the drug as prepared by Hahnemann, a solution of clean broken oyster-shells in dilute Acetic acid.
General Action
Compare Calcarea carb. and Acetic acid; but note the brilliant clinic results in inflammations of mucous membranes characterized by a membranous exudation, (uterus, bronchi, etc.).
Generalities
Weary from want of sleep during the day, but unable to sleep.
Clinical A valuable remedy for inflammation of mucous membranes; see under Respiratory and Genital Organs.
Mind
Anxiety as if he had committed a crime or feared reproaches, with constant inclination to work; A. about the present and future, with deep thought and with indifference to anything not concerned with himself, though not without inclination to work; intermittent, in evening before sleep, (>) emission of flatus, with which objects seemed like different objects and with dread of darkness; the first part of the day, liveliness and contentment the last part. Apprehensive, sad mood, as if awaiting depressing news. Sadness, almost to weeping, with solicitous for the present and future.
Fretfulness as soon as he left the open air, where he felt better, with disinclination to talk and with increased headache; F. as soon as he was quiet and thoughtful, with sleepiness and aversion to everything; with indifference to most important objects, he did all his work with aversion; all day, but good humor and talkativeness in the evening. Disinclination to talk, without moroseness. Liveliness and desire to be with people and to talk. Loss of will power though he feels strong.
Head
Aching, especially in temples; A. while standing after stooping, with heaviness in head and with pressure outward in forehead, especially over l. eye; drawing and at times tearing, now in forehead, now in occiput, now in temples, (>) pressure or on exerting mind. Shattering in brain on stepping, like an echo in the head. Heaviness on stooping, (>) rising, with jerks in temples and with pain in whole head. Stupid feeling from 3 A.M. till 4 P.M., as if he had turned in a circle. Vertigo; on walking in open air; on walking in open air, as if he would fall to the right; stupefying, the head inclines forward to the left, as if his body did not stand firmly.
Forehead – Stitches on walking, which especially affect l. side of forehead, (>) continuing to walk; intermittent, in l.; boring in l. when sitting, (>) walking, standing and touch; boring, in middle, extending into brain. Aching on walking in open-air, especially above l. eyebrow; in r. eminence, extending to r. eye and compelling him to close it; stupefying, with confusion of senses and obscuration of head while reading, and he did not know where he was; stupefying, in r., stooping, stupefying in morning after rising, as if he had not slept enough or had been dissipating; drawing, above r. eye on exerting mind, and in occiput; drawing and pressive A. in l. supraorbital region or in temporal bone.
Temples – Stitches penetrating T.; digging, near l. eyebrow on moving jaw; rhythmical, intermittent, boring outward, extending upward into l., (>) touch and when sitting. Drawing aching in r. muscle, also in evening, at times with pressure on upper teeth, on pressing upon the temple the pain changes into aching in the forehead; the drawing aching always, (<) after eating and even while eating; with sensitiveness of teeth while chewing as if they were loose and would be bent over. Cramplike pain in r.; in l. Pressure as from something hard, close to r. eye; in l. bone as if it would be pressed in, internally and externally; outward in l., and on whole l. side of head and on r. occiput.
Stitches in vertex externally. Pressure on V., extending into eye. Throbbing in V. as in an artery, with cutting shocks extending outward. Jerking stitches in r. half of brain, which often return and leave a pressive bursting sensation. Pulsating stitches in l. parietal bone. Feeling in r. side of head on stooping as if headache would begin.
Pain suddenly shooting through occiput; sore pain in O. on touch, as if suppurating; drawing pain in l. side of O., with stiff feeling in neck; jerklike pressing-outward in l. side of O., extending into neck; feeling as if O. would be pressed asunder. Whole scalp sensitive on moving frontal muscles back and froth; l crawling and itching on S. not (>) rubbing; tickling- itching on S. with pain at roots of hair on touch.
Eyes
Inflammation, the white entirely red, with much matter in eyes, especially in external canthi, and ulceration of external canthi. Tearing-stitching in r., as if inflamed. Itching. Pupils dilated, then contracted. Agglutination in mornings on waking. Stickiness of lids on moving them, with pressure in canthi, especially external one. Burning in l. upper lid, extending to internal canthus. Hardened matter in canthi. Sticking in canthi; itching in inner, (>) rubbing. Itching in canthi; tickling in r. external canthus. Boring-stitching on upper margin of orbit. Twitching on upper margin of orbit, extending to nose. Far-sightedness in one naturally near-sighed.
Ears
Twitching in cartilage. Cramplike feeling on back of concha. Stitches. Feeling as if something were before r. drum, without diminished hearing. Sensitiveness to noise in evening on falling asleep. Whizzing, with confusion of head.
Nose
Pimples in nostrils, with scabs. Gnawing pain in root. Frequent sneezing without coryza. Coryza, with sensitiveness of nose and internal heat in head; fluent, with headache; fluent, with much sneezing; stopped, with frequent sneezing.
Face
Yellow. Pain in muscles of l. cheek. Tension in r. cheek as if swollen. Throbbing on cheek-bones. Tearing in r. upper jaw. Aching in r. upper jaw when chewing. Moist scurf below r. angle of mouth. Roughness of lips, especially of upper, with dryness, as if they would crack. Itching- crawling on upper lip, which, after rubbing, appears on another spot near by.
Mouth
Stitches in teeth. Gnawing pain in r. upper molars, as if they would be hollow. Throbbing toothache, with sensitiveness of teeth to touch and with swelling of gum, which pained when touched. Stitches in upper gum. Boring in r. upper gum, then swelling, with pressive drawing in r. temporal muscles. Blisters on tongue, with burning pain and heat in mouth. Rawness on tongue, with soreness and white coat; R. on back of tongue, with scraping, provoking cough. Dry sensation on tongue. Dryness in mouth as from chalk. Mucus, which he could not swallow fast enough. Milk tastes sour, and he is averse to it. Little taste to food, especially to meat.
Throat
Submaxillary glands swollen, with a pressive sensation in them. Throat hoarse and rough. Sensation of much mucus in fauces on swallowing, with dryness in mouth. Sticking on r. upper part of oesophagus when not swallowing.
Stomach
Thirst in morning; T., with dryness of throat; for cold drinks, especially for water. Eructations sour; and offensive; empty E. Hiccough. Woke at midnight from nausea, cough and a kind of heart-burn. Nausea, with eructations, accumulation of water in mouth and a kind of vertigo, N. after drinking milk in morning, as from a sour stomach. Pinching-retching just below pit. Anxiety at pit. Anxiety as if it arose from the pit, when sitting, (>) walking or standing, with burning in abdomen.
Abdomen
Rumbling and gurgling, as from emptiness; R. in r. side, as before diarrhoea; audible, and crawling in r. side, extending outward, as from flatus, which is passed. Tearing in muscles, (<) inspiration. Cutting every morning, and in evening and night, (>) after eating, leaving a gurgling. Pinching, almost cramplike pain in walls in r. groin, in a spot, when speaking, with pain on pressure.
Griping in hypochondriac region, below pit of stomach., with chilliness over whole body. Tensive pinching in hypochondrium and in pit of stomach. Pinching in H. and in chest, which here and there ends in stitches. Griping-twinging in H., extending to beneath sternum, where if becomes sticking and causes eructations. Griping in a spot below umbilicus which becomes a gurgling, in rubbing; frequent in region of bladder, always with emission of flatus. Pressure in hypogastrium, causing confusion of head. Pinching of crest of ilium. Swelling of glands of l. groin. Treating in inguinal glands when witting and walking. Sore pain in groins as if glands would swell, (<) walking, with slight swelling of glands. Pressive tension in region of l. groin.
Rectum and Stool
Twinging in end of R. when at stool, with rumbling and gurgling in abdomen. Itching in anus. Pressure in anus. Frequent diarrhoea. Frequent stools, first solid, afterwards pasty, then thin, with difficulty, then constipation. Constipation. No stool.
Urinary and Sexual Organs
Frequent urgings to urinate, with profuse discharge; frequent desire, with scanty discharge. Urine turbid, like gruel, after standing. Tickling itching at end of glans; tickling I. on prepuce. L. testicles spasmodically drawn up to abdomen, with pain on touch and with pain in l. groin. Emissions at night; with voluptuous dreams; without voluptuous dreams; frequent. Itching of pudenda. Discharge of blood from uterus in the last quarter of the moon, in a woman who had not menstruated for years.
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.