A tincture is made of the fresh root.
General Action
In moderate doses it acts as a ‘tonic,” increases the appetite and lower of digestion, stimulates the heart and raises the temperature. Its prolonged sue enfeebles digestion and depresses the heart.
Allies – Cinchona, Erythrea.
Generalities
Dullness; with morose mood. Weakness. Aggravation in afternoon.
Head
Confusion; when writing, with heaviness; with heaviness, and with tensive pain in sinciput; with heaviness and fulness as if enlarged. Fulness, with throbbing pressure, especially a pressure upward towards sinciput. Feeling as after drinking liquors. vertigo. Sticking in middle of sinciput. Pressure in sinciput after 12, O’clock; P. in forehead, with dragging; P. outward in forehead. Confusion of sinciput. Pain in temples; in occiput in afternoon.
Eyes and Nose
Pain in eyes: at 4 P.M., with redness of conjunctiva; in balls. Sticking in I. upper lid. Vision obscured. Nose stopped. Irritability of nostrils as from coryza, then watery discharge.
Mouth and Throat
Dryness. Saliva consistent. Taste bitter; T. earthy. Frequent hawking on account of tenacious mucus. Swelling of throat, (<) posterior part of palate, with sticking and constriction. Rawness of throat.
Stomach
Appetite ravenous in evening; diminished. Eructations; violent; acid. Nausea; in evening; in attacks after the simplest meals; with lachrymation; with anxious pressure. Wind. Tension and fulness; T. in epigastric region, with pressure; T. in stomach and external epigastric region, with distention, pressure upon it causes nausea, then dragging nausea and difficult, full respiration. Constriction. Faintness; and emptiness.
Abdomen
Distention, with tension; and offensive flatus; and pain in lower abdomen, (<) about umbilicus. Rumbling and gurgling; with distention, heaviness and fulness; R., it seems as if bubbles rose. Cutting in morning, so that he must bend up, then heat extending from lumbar vertebrae; sleep delayed, waking about midnight with aggravation of the heat,. cutting in A., rapid breathing, the pain prevented sleep and obliged him to toss about, lying on back with feet drawn up, constant passage of wind upward and downward, distention of A., even above transverse colon, except epigastric region, and pain on touched, (<) from public region to transverse colon necessity to walk slowly because A. was painful on motion or a hard step. Twinging, then scanty, yellow diarrhoea twice in quick succession. Pain; with pressure in umbilical region and urging to stool; in walls; especially tensive pain in r. side, (<) posteriorly, with tension in lower A. Tension, (<) towards evening with shortness of breath. General sick feeling with dragging towards anus. Discomfort in I. hypochondrium, with pressure. Pressure in umbilical region; with tension, inward, pain like a drawing inwards. Umbilical region sensitive to touch and pressure; pain below U. region on touch.
Stool and Urine
Dragging anus, with tenesmus. Sudden urging, then copious stool; constant U; with frequent consistent stools. Bilious diarrhoea in afternoon. Soft stool; twice soon after rising; and light yellow, preceded increased by cutting. Pasty, frequent, yellow stools. Urine increased.
Voice, Chest and Pulse
Hoarseness; in forenoon, Pressure in middle to l. of sternum; upon chest on motion. Tightness of C. Fulness of C. in morning, with pressure and with difficult breathing. Pulse rapid in evening.
Back and Extremities
Pain in B. and abdomen, (<) motion, (>) sitting; P. in small of B., with heaviness; in r. hip near small of B.; in hips and smell of B. on stooping, as from a girdle about hips. Prostration and tension in limbs. Sprained pain in l. knee. Crawling in knees. Sticking and tearing in soles on bending toes when walking.
Sleep and Fever
Yawning. Uneasy sleep. Three times shivering spreading over back like an electric shock, then exhaustion. Heat; of head, (<) cheeks; of head, with confusion of it.
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.