A tincture is prepared from the seeds of St. Mary’s Thistle, Carduus Marianus, L.
General Action
Its chief (and only prominent) action is on the liver, causing soreness, pain, jaundice, etc.
Allies. Chelidonium, Iodium, Mercurius
Generalities
Discomfort, with drawing pain in r. scapula and l. side of chest. Weariness; in morning on waking, with sweat and erection; at 7 A.M., with yawning; at 4 P.M., with sleep for ten minutes; at 5 P.M., with sleep for some minutes; after dinner.
Clinical Diseases of miners associated with asthma, despondency, sallow skin, orange urine, yellow stools (disturbed function of liver). Numerous cases of varicose veins have been cured.
Mind
Sadness, with inclination to weep. Forgetfulness.
Head
Aching before dinner, (>) dinner, with empty feeling in stomach; A. like commencing catarrh. Heaviness. Dullness; all day; in forenoon, with disposition to anger; with tensive pain in suture of l. parietal bone. Frontal pain; above orbits; over l. eye; in sinciput; before dinner, (>) eating (Chelidonium), with pain in eyes and occiput and sweat on forehead and back; and pain in eyeballs; intermittent, and temporal. Contractive feeling above brows. Drawing pain in lambdoidal suture. Tensive pain in sagittal suture as if something contracted around skull. Pain in temples; r. temple; on inner surface of skull at coronal suture; in l. parietal bone; in occiput.
Eyes
Pain in r.; as if balls would be pressed into orbits. Burning in balls; lids; edges of upper lids; pressive, in lids in morning, with swelling and weight of them, (<) l. eye, which is difficult to open. Lids heavy.
Ears and Nose
Pain in r. concha around orifice. Tickling in l. nostril; then r.; in outer orifice of nostrils. Burning in l. nostril; with watery discharge; B at 3.15 A.M. Fluid in nose towards external orifice; watery discharge in morning on waking.
Mouth
Carious tooth aches on touch of tongue. Drawing pain in carious tooth. Tongue coated white in middle, red at tip and edges. Tongue feels rough. Dry feeling in lips and palate. Salivation (Iodium, Mercurius); after coffee and milk. Taste bitter; astringent, metallic, on palate and fauces, with smooth feeling as if greased; flat to moderately salt soup, good taste to well-salted soup, but repugnance to salted meat.
Throat
Pain in region of so hyoides on l. side, when speaking and swallowing, with swollen feeling, (<) pressure. Roughness in fauces, but palate feels smooth and greasy; R. in palate and fauces, with dryness, causing dry cough. Scraping causing cough; S. in oesophagus. Burning pain; in pharynx.
Stomach
Appetite small; lost; ravenous, with pressure in hepatic region (Iodium). Empty eructations, with burning in oesophagus like heart- burn; E., with burning in mouth of stomach, as from acidity; tasting of food taken against the inclination. Nausea; with eructation; with flow of water into mouth; ending in an inflated feeling in stomach, a horseback ride in afternoon increased the inflated feeling in abdomen. Retching and vomiting of acid, green fluid. Shooting on l. side, (<) inspiration. Griping, with pain in bowels, here and there. Pain; externally in pit; (<) by bread and milk; drawing, through pit and epigastrium from l. to r. Burning, as from acidity. Uneasiness in epigastric region. Empty feeling; at 3.15 A.M.
Abdomen
Discharge of flatus. Feeling as if bowels moved on expiration. Inflated feeling, (<) r. side, with pain in hepatic region on pressure (Mercurius, Chelidonium). Shooting in hepatic region, with moist skin (Mercurius). Pain in r. hypochondrium (Chelidonium, Mercurius); between r. ribs and hip when driving; in hepatic and gastric regions, (<) pressure; occasionally in liver and sacrum; tensive, in r. hypochondrium. Full feeling in hypochondrium, (>) after stool, still obliging me to draw a long breath. Tension in liver when lying on l. side, with pressure. Crawling, as if a body of the size of a pea moved in a narrow channel on posterior side of liver, from r. to l., in pit of stomach, at the level of edge of ribs, three times after a minute’s pause, each time lasting three seconds. Shooting a hand’s breadth from r. hip. Pinching on l. side. Pain in r. side; r. side, (<) pressure, lasting till sleep; r. side when body is stretched out, with hot feeling. Drawing in r. side when urinating. Drawing pain between navel and pit of stomach, in peritoneum, from r. to l., then burning pain, with hot feeling in a spot midway between navel and l. groin. Sensation for a hand’s breadth around navel, as if bowels moved when breathing. Ilium, flatulent distention; rumbling; stitches (>) pressure; pressure in l.; pain near r. so ilii on waking and on walking in open air. Drawing pain through hypogastrium; through r. groin. Burning pain in hypogastrium.
Clinical Hyperaemia of the liver, with sluggish action of that organ, with jaundice, constipation, heavy, stupid head, foul tongue, fulness and soreness over the region of the liver, sometimes with cough (Chelidonium, etc.); the tongue is usually furred, there are usually nausea and vomiting of green fluid.
Rectum and Anus
Burning in A. at 3.15 A.M. Itching in A. Urging, as from diarrhoea, after a glass of small beer, stool normal; ineffectual U., with pressure on bladder, causing urine to dribble.
Stool
Pappy, loamy, destitute of bilious coloring. Hard, unsatisfactory; and difficult, brown, knotty, after dinner; H. and lumpy; and difficult; and scanty at. 10 A.M., at 11 a copious, pappy one, of chocolate color, preceded by rumbling and pain in abdomen. Delayed. Omitted; but inclination to one.
Clinical Constipation alternates with diarrhoea.
Urinary Organs
Drawing pain in bladder and testicles when sitting; D. pain in bladder, with burning. Call to urinate, with burning in urethra and rectum, preventing her sitting. Burning in urethra; in orifice at 2 A.M., after micturition; with swollen feeling. Urine cloudy, without sediment, golden, acid. Urine when, yellowish- brown, diminished in quantity, acid, also depositing a sediment consisting chiefly of salt and lime and with traces of coloring matter of bile. Scanty, brownish, containing coloring matter of bile (Chelidonium). Copious, with drawing in sides of hypogastrium.
Sexual Organs
Pressure in urethral part of glans. Contractive pain in vagina.
Respiratory Organs
Dry feeling in larynx, with irritation to cough in back of larynx. Cough in morning on waking, from irritation in fauces, with burning in palate; C. from roughness in larynx; roughness in fauces and oesophagus; from raw feeling in pharynx. Short dry cough; from irritation in pit of throat. Frequent urging to deep breathing, then undefined pain in abdomen.
Chest
Stitches behind l. short ribs; to r. of and downward from l. nipple; a hand’s breadth above r. nipple on bending backward and on raising r. arm; anteriorly in lower borders of ribs at every inspiration; in r. sixth rib between linea mammalis and axillaris when inspiring; anteriorly in region of r. seventh rib on deep inspiration; in region of fifth rib during expiration after supper, with drawing, in a spot on sixth l. rib, in linea axillaris, with continual drawing pain in that line, afterwards the S. affected the breathing and gradually forged forward, later S. only during expiration and deep inspiration; in region of seventh r. rib when stooping, afterwards the pains spread all over front of chest and made movement of arms, walking and stopping almost impossible (Chelidonium). Pain in r. pectoralis muscle; in C. and abdomen on sudden and violent motion of body; as from flatulence under border of l. ribs, then on r. side spreading to the right and backward, when the pressure on l. side goes backward.
Drawing pain in l.; through l. pectoralis muscle, also in l. intercostal muscles below axilla; through r. pectoralis and on inner border of r. scapula; in borders of ribs, with stitches on breathing, (<) expiration; from l. side of C. to back, then towards l. pectoralis; in l. side up to axilla when driving. Tightness in l.; in l., (<) deep inspiration, with pain.
Heart and Pulse
Stitches in cardiac region. Pressure in praecordium. Drawing pain in cardiac region at A.M.; D. pain, with tightness on deep breathing. Pulse slow.
Neck
Pressure in nape. Pain in nape at a level with mastoid process, l., soon afterwards in r.; rheumatic, extending to shoulders.
Back
Burning pain. Drawing pain; through B. and hypogastrium; in morning on waking; on inside of l. scapula; in inner border of r. scapula; from r. scapula down back when driving; from r. scapula to loin, changing from one place to another after one minute, also on outer border of l. scapula and through muscle of r. or i. radius. Shooting in inner border of l. scapula. Tearing in l. scapula when inspiring, (<) pressure and leaning. Pressure on back below scapula. Drawing pain in lumbar muscles.
Extremities
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.