A tincture is made of the dried insects, Coccinella Indica (Coccus Cacti, L.); Cochineal.
General Action
The most marked (verified) action of this substance is on the fauces and larynx, great irritability, with profuse secretion of ropy mucus, and on the urinary organs.
Allies. Iodine, Kali-bi., Kali-iod., Cantharis
Generalities
Sticking alternately in finger-tips, temples and soles. tearing or drawing sticking, (<) warm bed, in evening and night at rest, sometimes from slight exercise of certain muscles, for example, holding a book caused them in upper arm. Sticking tearing here and there in muscles, (<) r. hip-joint, (<) rising or sudden motion. Drawings and tearings here and there, (<) neck, between shoulders and in forearms. Drawing spasmodic pain in r. calf, shoulder, foot, etc.
Fulness of whole body, with heaviness, as if stuffed. Swollen sensation in whole body when half awake at night, sensation as if the body were adherent to a woolen sack, everything he touched seemed thicker than natural. Sudden sensation as if something were distending within me, with sticking in rectum (?), after the distended feeling increased warmth extended over the whole abdomen. Uneasiness, (>) open air. General excitement in morning on waking, the pulses beating so violently that it seemed as if he heard them; mental and physical E., then half-stupid condition. Indolence. Disinclination to rise and after rising weariness. Weakness; in morning, with sleepiness; in afternoon; in evening, with yawning; after a nap after dinner, with irritability; after a moderate walk; with yawning. Aggravation in afternoon. Amelioration of head and chest symptoms in forenoon after lying down; A. of headache, symptoms of chest and cough after a drive.
Mind
Joyous. Lively in evening; L. and clear in mind. Talkative. Excitement after beer, (>) walking, with heat and sensation as if pulses beat violently. Apprehensive; in evening. Anxious and uneasy. Irritable; morning and evening; then in evening lively. Gloomy. Less active than usual.
Head
Stitches through brain. Aching; in morning on waking, frequently returning; in forenoon, (<) violent motion of it; in evening; from his accustomed beer; (<) stepping hard; in brain, (<) at bridge of nose; with such weakness that she must sit down frequently during a hurried walk; in morning after waking, as from drinking too much, (>) rising; as from a disordered stomach; consisting of fulness, with heat and stupefaction. Painful fulness. Swollen sensation. Confusion; in morning, with vertigo in evening; in evening when walking, (<) in vertex; in evening and lasting into the night, with pain in vertex and burning in skin of forehead; after breakfast; as after drinking too much; as before violent coryza, (>) in open air; dizzy C.; dizzy C. in morning on waking. Intoxicated obscuration; in morning on waking. Rush of blood; in forenoon on entering warm room after a walk. Vertigo; after eating, as after intoxication.
Forehead. Tearing in bones. Burrowing. Pain; at breakfast, which was eaten without remarkable appetite; above r. eye in morning on waking; above arch of nose and in frontal sinuses; in r. side, sometimes extending to occiput; indefinite, after supper, (<) shaking or burning head or moving hands. Confusion in morning on rising, with heaviness and Dullness; C., with pain extending across l. eminence, involving a small part of l. half of forehead, parietal bone and temple, extending to zygomatic part of r. jaw, leaving in all those parts tearing or cutting.
Temples. Sticking; in l., (>) during pressure. Pain; in r.; in l. after rising, lasting all day, frequently extending to l. eye; extending forwards vertex, (>) washing with cold water; throbbing and pressive, often alternating with heat and redness of face. Sensation as if too narrow.
Pressure in vertex in morning on waking, with burning pain. Confusion of vertex. Sensitiveness of vertex. Sticking near r. coronal suture. Paroxysmal burrowing in posterior part of r. parietal bone in morning in bed.
Occiput. Stitches as from the bite of a leech, waking and causing scratching. Boring in l. towards ear. Pressing pain extending to l. cheek and side of nose, with sensation as if scalp were swollen. Pressure in it at 6 P.M. in a warm room, with warmth in it. Sensation as if a hot constricting band extended from one mastoid process to the other, at last affecting the whole scalp, and it seemed as if the bones were drawn closer and closer together. Indefinite drawing and pressing, and in temples and r. eye.
Scalp. Painful elevation on vertex. Feeling as if drawn tightly over skull. Crawling pain in morning on waking, obliging scratching. Creeping at roots of hair and bristling of hair.
Eyes
Inclination to stare. Tearing from l. into forehead in evening after lying drown. Raging pain in r., extending along squamous bone, on its inner side to the occiput, it seems as if a fluid were injected paroxysmally into a small bloodvessel. Pressure upon l., (<) inner canthus. Sensation of a foreign body between lids and balls. Smarting as if a hair were between ball and lid; morning on waking. Burning in evening. Consistent tears, (<) open air. Pressure in l. ball. Agglutination of lids. Jerking of l. lower lid. Margins of lids feel swollen. Burning in margins of lids. Pain in orbital regions; in superciliary ridges. Vision weak.
Ears
Sticking in l.; in r.; then aching in r. upper back teeth; deep in front of l., between antitragus and zygoma; above and behind l., increasing to burrowing congestion that seldom remitted, and when worst extended to l. side of neck and clavicular region, last l. lower molar and l. side of occiput. Biting sticking in l. antitragus; in r. meatus and r. temple. Drawing tearing above and behind l. then roaring in it. Drawing twinging in l. Pain in region of r. parotid, then in submaxillary glands and salivation; suddenly in r. Eustachian tube before dinner, (<) turning head to right and on swallowing, suddenly (>) warm soup. Tensive pain in mastoid process; in bones above and behind l. ear, (<) mastoid process, with salivation. Drawing pain in r.; at times becoming sticking, with roaring in l.; on convex surface of l. concha, (<) touch; cramplike, on r. Drawings; in r. meatus in evening. Throbbing pain in l.; in l. mastoid process, at times increasing to a burrowing outward, before midnight in bed, when most severe it extends into l. ear, l. occipital region and nape, last l. lower molar and along sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle to l. claviculo-pectoral region, and on touch pain in the parts as if suppurating. Rhythmical throbbing in ear upon which he was lying.
Stoppage, with pressure in meatus; stopped feeling in l. so that hearing is indistinct; S. feeling in external passages on snapping fingers in front of r.; internal S. feeling in l., (<) lying upon ear, with sensation as if fluid wax were pushing outward, tensive pain in l. mastoid process, extending to l. clavicle and last lower molar. Tickling from external canal through inner ear to mouth, with voluptuous itching; in l. meatus, with itching, afterwards becoming a pressure in concha. Itching in l.; with roaring; in l. external meatus; in r. external meatus; in r. external concha and external meatus; (<) going from cold air into a warm room.
Ringing in l., with bruised sensation about l. external ear, (<) mastoid process, the pain extending down l. side of neck to clavicular and pectoral regions. Cracking in l. on empty swallowing; in l. on spitting, and sensation as if wax would flow from it. Roaring in l.; periodical; seething, in l.; as of a storm in a forest. Impaired hearing; as if ears were stopped with cotton.
Nose
Redness of nostrils, with soreness in them. Crusts on outer margin of nostrils. Yellowish pulverulent substance on margin of nostrils. Dryness; and of throat, (>) water; of posterior nares, so that he drew water through nostrils, then blew out hard masses of mucous. Stopped; sensation, but watery discharge. Itching internally, then violent sneezing. Sneezing; in evening; with cough and expectoration; violent; violent, in morning, with discharge of mucus; in violent paroxysms, with burning in mucous membrane of nose and on margins of wings. Coryza, with sticking mucus; thin, white.
Face
Crawling in malar-bones; in l., extending across back of nose to r. cheek; extending across back of nose to l. cheek in evening; in l. side of face and nose, corresponding to plexus anserinus, with drawing, resembling prosopalgia. Pain in l. articulation of jaw on chewing, with cracking in it on empty swallowing. Longish bluish-red spot on upper lip. Cracks in lips, which seem covered with meal. Dry lips. Skin of lower lip feels contracted. Sensation of lower lip as if drawn from both sides towards the middle, often alternating with pulsating beats of heart.
Mouth
Teeth. Tearing in a r. hollow molar interrupting the morning sleep. Burrowing in r. upper posterior molars in morning on waking. Pain in last l. lower; in hollow roots of third l. upper molar (which was broken a year before), with sensitiveness to touch. Jerking pain in l. lower canine after smoking; J. toothache in morning after waking, (<) l. upper incisors and canine, with sensation of a cold wind on teeth, increasing next day, (<) inspiration or holding a pipe between teeth, next day teeth very painful on biting them firmly together. Drawing in l.; in r. back; in r. lower incisors; in l. back, in forenoon; sudden; sudden, in incisors and in r. meatus auditorius. Sensation as if a lateral incisor were grasped by a cold finger and forcibly drawn upward. Sore pain in l. teeth and gum waking him when lying on l. side, (>) changing the position, with sensitiveness to touch. Sensitiveness of lower, with sensation as if too long; S. to cold things; to cold air; to cold water; to cold water in morning.
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.