Filled with aphthae, becoming gangrenous, so that the soft parts of mouth were destroyed and the teeth fell out. (Contraction when speaking, and she must speak slowly.) Sensation as if there were a smell from it. Burning in palate. Dryness in night, with out thirst; D. sensation, with frothy saliva and thirst. Sensation as if water collected in it. salivation. Metallic taste, with loss of appetite (Nux-v.); M. at root of tongue. Bitter taste; at root of tongue; to tobacco when smoking. Coppery T. Salt T. anteriorly on r. side of tongue, (>) gingerbread. Sour T. after eating; S. on coughing. Slimy T. though food has a natural taste. Nauseous T. T. as if he had fasted long. Food tasteless and seems unsalted.
Throat
Swollen glands beneath chin; beneath lower jaw, and hard, with nodes on forearm, which are painful on passing hand over them; S. of parotid gland. Violent beating of carotids. Sticking in outer parts. Choking contraction in upper part of pharynx, impeding breathing and causing cough. Sensation in pit as if something arrested the breathing, constriction of glottis. Scraping, (>) swallowing. Sensitiveness, food seems as sharp as if excessively salted and peppered. Pain in tonsils worse on swallowing saliva than on swallowing food; P. in upper part of pharynx, with sensation of swelling at root of tongue, which makes swallowing painful. Heat, and in stomach; afterwards extending over abdomen; H. in evening, extending into palate, with shivering about head. Dryness; in upper and back part, as if it and the tongue were rough; in fauces and oesophagus, (<) swallowing with roughness, without thirst. Paralysis (Rhus-t.).
Stomach
Aversion to food (Nux-v., Rhus t.), even the smell of food causes it (colch,), but hunger; averse to eating and drinking; to sour things, bread tastes sour. Appetite lost, food has no taste; A. lost for breakfast, he feels full. Hunger in pit of stomach, little (>) eating. Thirst, (<) eating; T. for cold drinks, especially beer; unquenchable. Eructations; bitter (Nux-v.); putrid (Nux- v.); in forenoon; empty; empty, leaving bitter taste in mouth and throat; of musty air; tasting of food; sharp scraping, (<) evening; incomplete, ineffectual, instead of which there is hiccough. Hiccough (Nux-v.).; inclination to. nausea; in morning so that she can scarcely rise (Nux-v.); in afternoon after every drink, scarcely rise (Nux-v.); in afternoon after every drink, mostly in mouth; when riding in a wagon (compare Sepia); if he become cold or look cold, causing salivation; on eating; with headache and bruised sensation in abdomen; as from overloading stomach. Vomiting; during the accustomed smoking; frequent; frequent of greenish fluid; (of food and mucus towards midnight with bitter and sour taste in throat, and attacks of suffocation).
Gurgling beneath pit. Pricking beneath pit, with gnawing. griping. Pinching. Constrictive pain, preventing sleep. Squeezing in pit when walking, and tension. Pain in pit; beneath S., after eating; in S. after eating; several hours after a meal, or at night in bed, and in pit and hypochondria; on attempting to eructate; almost a stitching in pit on eructation; on touch; in pit, impending breathing. Bruised pain in pit on eructation. Sensation as if a worm were moving in it. Sensation as if he had not eaten for a long time and the hunger had passed away. Burning, and in abdomen, (<) about navel.
Clinical Nausea and even vomiting are almost constant concomitants of a Cocculus conditions. Nausea and vomiting from riding in the cars. Extreme aversion to food, with persistent, slightly qualmish, bitter taste, metallic taste, putrid taste. Nausea associated with vertigo, (<) talking anything into the stomach, with faintness, etc. Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.
Abdomen
Distention; by flatulence, waking about midnight, causing oppressive pain here and there, some flatus passed without remarkable relief, new flatus collected for hours, (>) lying on one side and the other; with heat and pain. Emission of hot flatus before diarrhoea. Flatus presses upward; moves here and there after supper, and is passed with difficulty. Stitches through to lower part of back, morning in bed; S. in several parts on stooping. Tearing. Cutting when walking after dinner, with chilly sensation and vertigo. Pinching. Drawing pain. Constrictive pain, with pressure towards female genitals, nausea in pit of stomach and inclination to waterbrash. Empty feeling, as she had no intestines. Burning. (Compare flatulence with Nux-v., Carbo-v., Chamomilla, Lycopodium and Plumb.).
Griping in upper (epigastrium), taking away the breath. Pinching constriction in upper, after eating, extending to l. side if abdomen and chest. Pain in upper; beneath last true ribs of r. side, (<) bending forward, coughing or inspiration. Bruised pain in hypochondria. Stitches in r. side; l. side; intermittent, in l. side near navel. Twinges in r. side above navel. Pinching in l. muscles. Drawing pain from r. to l. side. Nausea extending from r. side towards navel, without inclination to vomit.
Hypogastrium. Rumbling. Stitches in r. inguinal region. Cutting extending to upper, (>) standing. Painful inclination to inguinal hernia, (<) rising from a seat. R. ring dilated, a hernia inclines to protrude, and sore pain. Internal feeling in groins as if stuffed, (<) stepping forward, when it seems as if the thickness pushed forward and everything would fall out. Paralytic pain in r. ring as if something would force its way through (Nux-v.), when sing, (>) rising. Drawing pain in groins as before menstruation.
Clinical Flatulent colic only slightly (>) evacuating gas, attacks come at night, associated with feeling of emptiness, nausea, vertigo, etc. Gastralgia from suppression of menses. Excessive flatulent distention of abdomen and dysmenorrhoea. A valuable remedy in hernias, both umbilical and inguinal; is particularly indicated when the abdominal muscles are weak and it seems as if a hernia would easily take place. Flatulent colic in pregnancy etc.
Rectum and Anus
Urging to stool, with offensive diarrhoea; U. to stool and to pass flatus at the same time, then frequent, sudden diarrhoea, in small portions, with emission of flatus; U. after stool, causing faintness; desire for stool, but the stool is delayed by want of peristaltic motion in upper abdomen; ineffectual U., with constipation for three days, then hard, difficult stool (Plumb.). Crawling and itching in rectum, as from ascarides. Contractive pain in anus (Plumb.) in afternoon preventing sitting. Burning itching in anus.
Stool
Thin. Fluid, frequent, whitish-yellow. Soft. (Slimy). Constipation. Hard, difficult, only every other day. Putrid, Frequent, small; (frequent and pale).
Clinical Diarrhoea brought on by riding in cars or carriage, (<) drinking cold water, with flatulent distention, colic, feeling as of sharp stones rubbing together in abdomen, numbness of legs, vertigo, nausea, etc.
Urinary Organs
Sticking in urethra. Pain in urethra on urging to urinate. Tensive pain in orifice of urethra when not urinating. Sticking- itching in forepart of urethra. Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge; (constant U., with frequent copious discharge of watery urine). (Retention of urine for ten minutes.) Urine watery. Urine red, without sediment.
Sexual Organs
Relaxation in night, with retraction of prepuce behind glans. Sensitiveness. Sticking in end of prepuce; in one testicle. Itching of scrotum. Itching-burning of scrotum. Bruised pain in testicles, (<) touch. Drawing pain in testicles. Excitement, with desire. Emissions at night.
Menstruation too early, with distention of abdomen and cutting- contracting pain in abdomen on every motion and every breath (Chamomilla, Nux-v.), with contraction of rectum (Nux-v.); M. too early, with distention of abdomen and pain in upper abdomen on every motion and when sitting, as from sharp pressure of a stone, with pain on touch as from an internal ulcer. (Metrorrhagia.) Leucorrhoea.
Clinical Menses too profuse, gushing very exhausting, with menstrual colic as from sharp stones rubbing together, flatulent distention and dysmenorrhoea and suppressed menstruation, with numbness, remote symptoms, vertigo, nausea, flatulent colic, numbness of extremities, etc. Suppression of menses, with purulent gushing leucorrhoea and flatulent abdomen.
Respiratory Organs
Touch mucus hangs in larynx and obliges hacking and hawking. Irritation to cough high up in larynx; I. to cough posteriorly in larynx in evening in bed, the cough always in two paroxysms. Cough every fourth night, waking at 12 and 2 O’clock, with dryness of mouth, and on coughing sensation as if the glottis were not wide enough; C., with great exertion on account of oppression of chest, which only appears on coughing. Suffocative sensation provoking cough. Dyspnoea. Whistling-snoring, threatening suffocation, (<) inspiration, slow breathing alternates with suppressed breathing, with face distended as in apoplexy. Breathing quick; and difficult. Short breath.
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.