A tincture is prepared by digesting the live insects, Coccinella Septempunctata (L,), (the common “lady-bug”), in Alcohol.
Tensive pressure in head. Vertigo. Tearing sticking in one side of forepart of head. Aching in temples and occiput as if brain would become enlarged or distended. Redness of cheeks, (<) r., with heat. Rushes of blood to face like flushes of heat. Tearing rhythmical with pulse, extending from r. upper jaw to lobule of ear. jerking and tearing in one and tearing in the other teeth, with stitches extending towards occiput and warmth through the whole head. Pulselike jerking in molars. Throbbing pain in upper molars. Knitting pain in molars. Pain in molars as if hollow and as if air were forced into them. drawing in appear molars, extending towards r. ear, when sitting rhythmical D. in teeth when eating. Paroxysmal drawing or tearing, as if a tooth would be torn out; in teeth, with hacking in them. Cold sensation in all teeth; pleasant, in one tooth on touch of finger. Gum swollen. Tobacco bite the tongue severely. Coldness in mouth.
Clinical Neuralgic headaches, beginning in forehead over r. eye, which is very sensitive to touch (red); neuralgia of teeth, etc. Effects of cold in the region of the kidneys, pain in loins. Hiccough and burning in stomach, but particularly pain in region of kidneys (compare with Doryphora and Cantharis).
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.