Neck of Bladder. Sticking; in forepart during urging, then micturition of a few drops. Tearing. Burning cutting, extending to navicular fossa (comp., Berberis), (<) before and after micturition. Pain. Paralysis.
Tenesmus (Merc-c., Prunus-sp., etc.) Urging, waking at 3.30 A.M., after discharge of some urine burning in urethra changing into all the torments of gonorrhoea, (>) sitting, painful micturition every three or four minutes, the pain (>) after drinking three glasses of water by copious micturition; (<) standing and walking; (>) lying quietly on back; with burning in urethra; with copious urine, priapism, pain in stomach and dysuria; with discharge of two spoonfuls of dirty tenacious mucus with cutting. Frequent U.; always preceded by pain at penis, urine scalding, turbid at penis, urine scalding, turbid, tinged with blood; with scanty urine and towards end of micturition pressing pain in base of urethra, extending to orifice. Constant urging, micturition painful, in drops; C. urging, and always but one spoonful, also in morning; with passage of a few drops, causing smarting and burning along urethra, especially near fossa navicularis, finally, after long straining to pass a few drops of bloody and albuminous urine, a convulsive tremor of all limbs, cold sweat on forehead and chest, sinking back in bed half- exhausted, no rest on account of immediate return of these sufferings. Ineffectual urging; then several drops with bloody streaks and pain.
Dysuria. Painful micturition; towards the close, (>) when there is much urine; with scanty and bloody urine (Terebintha); with pain in kidneys; with constant urging; and continual; as if cut with knives, with frequent urging, but always emission of only a few drops; as if a red-hot iron passed along urethra, with a few drops of bloody urine, the pain worse at membranous portion of canal and in meatus urinarius; as if it were impossible to evacuate the urine, with pressure in region of bladder. Strangury; and urine passed in small quantities; with pain in back; with disagreeable smell in nostrils. Micturition by drops; with cutting; by drops, urine reddish, sometimes mixed with blood; painful dribbling of albuminous urine, with membranous pieces, which are rolled up, grayish-red, covered with bloodstreaked mucus, and large pieces, white on one side, red on the other, firm and elastic.
Micturition in a thin, divided stream and difficult, (<) 9 A.M. Ischuria. Urine retained; on account of too great fulness of bladder; retained, causing pain. Micturition rarer, but urine increased. Involuntary micturition; and dribbling. Frequent micturition; at night; with copious urine; but not increased; of scanty watery urine, at first with pain and towards the end with cutting, at last by drops or in a weak, intermitting stream.
Urethra. Swollen internally. Contracted internally, hence micturition in a thin stream. Passage of blood; bright, with urging to urinate and cutting burning pains through whole urethra; a few drops of watery B. after the urine. Bloody gonorrhoea; yellowish G., staining linen yellow. Discharge of pasty colorless liquid. Urinary flatulence. Sticking, with burning during micturition. Cutting before, during and after micturition in afternoon, so that she must double herself up; burning, at end of scanty micturition. Pain; with the gonorrhoeal discharge; in base towards end of micturition, extending to external meatus. Twitching and burning pain on urinating. Burning; at night, with passage of a few drops of blood; urine scalds him and is passed drop by drop; ( before and during micturition); during micturition; during micturition before menses, with white sediment in urine; after micturition; with constriction at prostate. Soreness; on urinating. Biting pain while urinating. Smarting while urinating. Tensive sensation in morning on urinating, as if urine were checked in its course. Tickling, with voluptuous warmth. Itching; after urinating, with crawling.
Orifice of urethra, agglutination; inflammation; stitches, also in evening and night, extending to anus; itching, at times almost a cutting. Burning in and near orifice; during micturition; B. in excretory ducts of vesiculae seminales during and after coition; B. in forepart, as if a drop of urine remained there. Sensation in forepart, at tip of glans, on urinating as if the urine were retained at that point, with aching there, but the urine passes freely.
Urine. Increased. Scanty; in morning; with cutting in urethra, especially in forepart; and high-colored; and bloody; and turbid. Suppressed. Dark. Red as if mixed with blood. White. Pale yellow; during the chill, with pain in evening. Acrid. Albuminuria (Apis., Merc-c., etc.) Mucus in urine; floating threads of M. Bloody urine (Terebintha); passed with pain and in drops; and hot urine contained coagulated blood; urine contained bloody filaments then blackish, coagulated masses of blood, at last much mucus. Urine contained blood-corpuscles mixed with mucus, pus- corpuscles, epithelia of bladder and kidneys, spheroidal cells from tubuli uriniferi and pelvis of kidney, considerable sediment after standing, reaction alkaline, after some days mucus mixed with large quantities of urates and some crystals of carbonate of ammonia, afterwards cloudiness, (<) towards noon. Specific gravity high. Turbid when discharged; immediately, frequently depositing a fine while sediment adhering to glass, sometimes an iridescent film; during the night, like mealy water, with white sediment. Loaded with sediment and fibrinous matter.
Clinical Most violent cystitis, with intense tenesmus, constant desire to urinate, the urine is bloody, scanty, etc. The cystitis calling for Cantharis is of most highly inflammatory character it may be associated with general fever, chill, always with most terrible distress in the neck of the bladder. Acute nephritis, with extreme distress in the bladder, urine scanty, bloody, albuminous, etc. (Compare Terebintha). In renal calculi, with the acute bladder symptoms of the drug, haematuria, etc. Gravel in children, constant pulling at the penis. In gonorrhoea, with most intense suffering pulling at the penis. In gonorrhoea, with most intense suffering, sexual excitement, chordee, with constant distress in bladder, discharge of blood.
Sexual Organs
Inflammation. Weak feeling. Itching. Heat; with itching. Sweat. Drawing pain in spermatic cord while urinating. Brown cheesy accumulation about corona glandis in morning. Absence of the usual smegma preputii.
Penis.-Gangrene. Inflammation. Swelling; with pain even to external pressure; with heat, without erection and without desire; of fraenum of prepuce; red, hot and diaphanous swelling of prepuce, with phimosis and discharge of purulent secretion from beneath it. Discharge of blood from the rigid penis and from the anus. Pain; before micturition; drawing, and in back and thighs,(>) passing flatus upward and downward; burning, especially at tip of glans, with frequent urging to urinate. Pruritus. Lax; and drooping. Priapism (Terebintha, Copaib.); with swollen genitals; with pain about bladder and wild delirium. Erections; every morning on rising; with emission; painful erection; severe, at night, with contraction and sore pain in whole of urethra; strong, persistent, painless, without voluptuous sensation.
Swelling of scrotum; painful, of r. testicle. Satyriasis. Desire disturbing sleep; absence of D. Emission in morning while awake in bed, from relaxed penis, almost without sensation; E. at night. Blood flows instead of semen (Tarent.).
Female. Swelling of vulva, with irritation. Vagina; itching; burning; burning, with a thick white discharge; bloody mucous discharge after menses. Swelling of neck of uterus, with tenesmus; S. of neck of uterus, with burning in bladder, abdominal pains, vomiting and fever. Pregnancy. Miscarriage; after irritation of bowels and urinary organs. Menstruation, too early, with nausea and colic; too early, but scanty; M. which had ceased one day reappeared in forenoon, with pain, and lasted till noon; too late; short profuse and painful.
Clinical Constant discharge from uterus, (<) false step, with discharge from bladder. Inflammation of the ovaries, with burning pain, especially worse during menstruation, ovaries extremely sensitive. Puerperal metritis, especially mania of a sexual character, with inflamed bladder, etc. Pruritis of vagina. Menstruation too early and dark, with great soreness of breasts, etc.
Respiratory Organs
Pain in larynx. Burning in larynx. Hawking of tenacious mucus from larynx. Inability to speak. Hoarseness. Voice feeble. Voice low, with sensation of weakness of vocal organs. On deep respiration and on speaking she dares not exert herself on account of weakness of respiratory organs, hence a weak, frightened tone. Contraction of trachea.
Cough; caused by tickling; hacking; paroxysms of dry, from irritation in larynx, with rapid respiration and tightness in chest; in morning on rising, with difficult expectoration. Expectoration bloody after short cough. Bloody and frothy sputa. Expectoration of pink-mucus.
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.