A tincture is prepared from the dry-powdered seeds of Slimaba Cedron, Planchon.
General Action
Too little is positively known to enable one to judge of its general sphere of action, but it seems to produce well-marked symptoms of intermittent neuralgia, and indeed of regularly recurring febrile attacks. It has proved curative in marsh malaria characterized by severe pains recurring periodically. It may be compared (remotely) with Arsenic.
Generalities
Neuralgic pains, then general numbness, with smarting and burning in nose. Sharp pain in occiput, then in abdomen, then in lower limbs. Sharp flying pains in all parts on getting warm in bed, keeping him awake most of the night (Mercurius, Sulphur), in limbs the pains seemed to be in cartilages of joints, (<) first joint of great toe and streaking up bones, in abdomen the pain was (<) in region of ascending, colon, liver and spleen the pains of head were dull, except in occiput and in facial and optic nerves. Contused feeling. Restlessness; and anguish; and nervousness. Malaise. Weakness; of body and mind after waking. Dullness of senses. Periodicity, often clocklike, is a characteristic of Cedron. Aggravation in provers of voluptuous disposition and of nervous temperament, (<) in women.
Clinical It is often found curative in acute malarial poisoning, with enlarged spleen and liver, general anaemia and dropsy. It has cured puerperal convulsions recurring at regular intervals beginning with severe pains in l. temple, with albuminuria. Hysterical spasms recurring regularly night and morning. Recurring attacks of chorea in a women after coition.
Mind
Excitement. Weeping mood. Gloomy. Dread of friends, especially in women. Torpor, with uneasiness. Symptoms mostly repeated in morning and (<) night.
Head
Bending backward, with pressure on occiput and parietal regions as if those parts would burst. Headache (<) open air; (<) deep in orbits, obliging him to shut his eyes, and extending to occiput. Dullness in morning, with heaviness. Distensive headache, (<) night. Swollen feeling; (<) r. side, and heavy. Vertigo at 11 A.M.; on rising from bed, could not see to light a candle, could not tell when it was lighted, did not know her acquaintances. Shooting over l. eye (Arum-tr.). Pain above eyes as from a band.
Temples.- Arteries enlarged. Pain; from T. to T. across eyes; passing from one side to the other; throbbing, extending around forehead. Pressure at r., causing dull pain in whole r. side of head, (>) towards noon. Throbbing; 10 A.M.; increasing to pain, extending around and over eyes; increasing to pain and extending over ears. Pulsating sensation, with twisting pain behind r. ear, changing to dull pain and extending to temples.
Aching in vertex at 10 P.M.; 10 A.M.; on waking; on late waking after sound sleep. Pressure at vertex, (<) when the shivering begins. Sharp pain in occiput; sharp jerking pain at 10.30 A.M. Pain in occiput and forehead. Pressure in occiput in morning.
Eyes
Redness, with itching of inner and outer surfaces of lids; R. and protrusion, with aching extending to forehead. Smarting during fever, (<) closing them; S. and burning, with lachrymation. Alternate dryness and smarting, with moisture. Swollen feeling. Itching. Lachrymation; acrid. Redness of white at 11 A.M., with dry feeling in eye when exposed to air. Pupils dilated; and fixed. Enlargement of Meibomian glands and conjunctiva. Redness of lid, with pain on pressure. Twitching of levator palpebrae superioris. L. lid seems dried to ball, conjunctiva is inflamed and dry. Burning of lids. Vision misty. Objects seem red; at night, yellowish during the day.,
Clinical Ciliary neuralgia. Neuralgia of the supraorbital nerve and also in the whole r. side of the face, coming on every day, generally about 9 A.M., and lasting a few hours. Numerous cases of chills and fever characterized by the regular recurrence of supraorbital neuralgia are reported cured, also many cases of supraorbital neuralgia without malarial symptoms. Several pain in eyeball, with radiating pains all around eye, shooting into nose, causing flow of scalding water from eyes and nose, the pain in head across forehead caused a crazy feeling, coming suddenly after working on black.
Ears
Pain over. Hard hearing at night. Buzzing towards noon. Singing as of crickets.
Nose
Discharge of much glassy mucus; of much clear, thin, acrid mucus.
Face
Puffy, Red; cheeks red and burning at night, pale and cold in morning. Pressing or tearing pain in one or both cheeks, with shooting under orbits. Lips dry.
Mouth
Pain in a decayed tooth. Tongue coated yellow; in morning on rising; at back; pricking in morning, (>) after eating; P. at 5.30 P.M.; pricking-itching at 5 P.M. Smarting, and in fauces. Tingling as from shock of galvanic, battery. Burning, and in throat and stomach; with scraping and profuse, thin saliva; as if raw, and in fauces, oesophagus and stomach. Dryness, with tick, viscid saliva; D., with viscid saliva when talking. Saliva sour at night; white and thick after talking; profuse, metallic tasting. Taste metallic; of iron, causing acid salivation; sour; sickish, bitter; slimy; bad.
Throat
Pricking in fauces, extending down oesophagus, with tingling. Swallowing difficult.
Stomach
Appetite lost. Thirst; at night and during febrile symptoms; for cold water at noon and for warm at night; for only warm drinks during fever; no T. during chill. Aversion to cold water in evening. Gulping up of bitter wind in morning on rising;l in morning before rising, with pains in temples. Nausea. Distention and nausea, generally (<) rest, (>) walking and eating. Sensation of a stone on. Rolling pain. Heat and fulness.
Abdomen
Distention; towards evening, and hardness. Flatulence in morning, with colic and fetid flatus. Pain dinner; flatulent, in morning, with fetid flatus; P. in small intestines, also with cramps. Borborygmi in l. side. Sharp pain at noon, alternating in caecum, liver and spleen, running from one to other. Stitches in spleen and liver. Pain in hepatic region on rising; griping- cutting in lower.
Stool
Ineffectual urging. Loose, yellowish. Whitish, mixed with fragments like clotted milk. Copious; with tenesmus. Constipation.
Urinary Organs
Frequent ineffectual urging. Frequent micturition of much pale urine. Discharge like gonorrhoea; thin, gleety D., with formication over body. Feeling as if a drop of urine were in urethra or a constant dropping from it. Pain in urethra when not urinating, with burning. Burning in urethra; and along ureters. Urine profuse; and light-colored; with numb, uneasy feeling in urethra; scanty; scanty, and deep-colored; red; dark, with sediment; high-colored, with branlike sediment.
Sexual Organs
Erections in morning; all night, with frequent waking from dreams of pleasant social interviews with female acquaintances; E., with desire. Excitement at daybreak, with discharge like leucorrhoea, and swollen mammae, with pain.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx constricted and tender. Much clear, thin mucus in bronchi. Difficult respiration, with partial loss of voice.
Chest
Darting-cutting under ribs. Pain under floating ribs and under r. scapula; in r. side; oppressive, extending now and then to back, with inclination to sigh and draw a deep breath. Oppression.
Heart
Throbbing. Palpitation during fever, with hurried breathing and headache. Pulse rapid; in morning; increased, firm, full.
Back
Pain in morning up rising, and in loins; P. under scapula and in pelvis. Pain in kidneys; with profuse urine, smarting and burning in urethra; then profuse micturition of clear urine; with burning, and along ureters, as if boiling water were poured through them. Uneasy feeling in lumbar region, with sensation as if a drop of urine were in penis.
Extremities
Lancinations in joints, (<) r. elbow. Sharp flying pains in all joints at 10 P.M., (<) feet, (<) first great toe-joint. Rheumatic pains in all joints. Rheumatic flying pains, (<) night, (<) feet and hands, some in elbows, more in knees and hips, most trouble-some in first joint of great toes, pains (>) motion and cold before soreness came on, when they were (<) by motion and cold. Pains (when not febrile concomitants) (>) friction. Numbness of hands, arms and legs.
Upper Extremities
Weariness in shoulders. Cutting in elbows. Pain towards noon in elbows and forearms, with cold sensation, extending to hands. Bruised feeling in elbow and r. forearm. Numbness of r. hand and forearm, and head feeling.
Clinical Sudden acute pain in ball of r. thumb, extending up arm to shoulder; 2d dil. cured like magic.
Lower Extremities
Lancinations in knees. Twitching of tendons of legs, tendo- achillis and r. foot. Contracting pain in legs as from contusion in evening. Legs feel enlarged. Numbness of r. leg. Sharp lame pain in r. ankle. Swelling of feet, with pain in all joints. Pain in heel as if ulcerating in forenoon while walking.
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.