A tincture is made of the fresh root of Helonias dioica, Pursh.
General Action
It produces depression, mental and physical, and is indicated in atonic conditions. It acts upon the kidneys, increasing the flow of urine and the excretion of urea.
Allies.- Sepia, Nat-ars., Nat-mur., Terebintha, Cimicif.
Generalities
“Bilious” sleepy during the day, head dull and stupid, poor appetite, no taste to food, etc. Restless. Weak at noon; W. on walking a mile. Sensations as from great fatigue, (>) the work of walking. Amelioration when moving about and when doing something which absorbs the whole attention.
Clinical Effects of excessive is fatigue, especially in women, with tired aching in back and legs. Sometimes useful in debility following exhausting diseases, such as diphtheria.
Mind
Despair after a feeling of general wellness. Discouraged. Irritability during headache; I., all conversation unpleasant, desire to be let alone.
Clinical Profound melancholia, intolerance of contradiction (associated with uterine derangements, “consciousness of a womb”).
Head
Darting pain. Aching, with dim vision and vertigo on sudden motion of head. Fulness, with pressure up to vertex, the latter (<) looking steadily at one point. Vertigo. Frontal pain extending towards vertex; P. as from a band an inch wide from temple to temple. Fulness all through forehead between temples. Pain through temples, with fulness in head and vertigo; P. in temples and forehead every day at 4 or 5 P.M. or between 8 and 9 P.M., with pressure over root of nose, feeling as if I had caught cold, internal heat and irritability; P. in vertex, (<) stooping. Pressure on vertex every afternoon; P. outward in vertex and occiput, (>) reading earnestly, concentrating attention, (<) turning attention from the book to my hand, with burning in scalp.
Clinical Headaches associated with uterine derangements, especially burning on top of head or fulness and pressure on vertex.
Eyes
Sensation much light; with dim vision, and on sudden motion of head almost blind. Blind from much exertion; B. from walking.
Clinical Inflammation of the optic nerve and retina, with albuminous urine, boring pain in lumbar region extending down the legs, feeling as if the head were bandaged.
Mouth
Tongue and fauces dry on waking at 5 A.M. (unusually early), with bitter taste. Dryness and bitter taste.
Clinical Salivation of pregnant women. Nursing sore mouth.
Stomach
Appetite not as usual. Tasteless eructations. Nausea; when at supper. Vomiting; of dinner which was fermented. Irritability. Cramp. Pain partially (>) empty eructations, with tightness. Indescribable sensation in epigastrium. Indescribable distress in epigastrium. Vague distress in forenoon. Burning; griping, in epigastrium, with salivation; glow, with flashes of heat through system. Heat and cold in region.
Abdomen
Full of flatus and each eructations caused nausea (?). “Bellyache” before stool. Feeling before stool as before diarrhoea; feeling at supper as before diarrhoea. Distended feeling in spleen, causing pain. Intermittent pain in hypogastrium. Frequent pangs of pain like electric shocks deep in r. groin when walking, causing limping, (>) pressure with finger- tips. Burning in lower third, as if pelvis and to midway between umbilicus and pubis were filled with warm water.
Anus and Stool
Burning in A. after stool. Purging, with burning in bowels. S. loose and in an hour another and mushlike. First half hard, dark brown, the second soft and light yellow. Two S.; and small, brown. S. in our lumps, in quick succession, sensation as if anus were distended and then a lump shaped like a Minnie bullet, the big end first, was shot out.
Urinary Organs
Spurting of urine after micturition. Irritation of urethra. (Scalding when urine passed over the denuded mucous membrane.) Urine copious; then scanty; C. and clear, light-colored. Urine neutral, then acid (formerly faintly alkaline). Urea increased. Specific gravity lowered. (Amorphous phosphates the exception after the proving, and not, as previously, the rule.)
Clinical Diabetes insipidus, urine very profuse, light-colored, with great debility and emaciation. Diabetes mellitus, restlessness, melancholia, etc. Constant aching and tenderness over the kidneys, which seem excessively active. Acute and chronic inflammation of the kidneys, with great restlessness, frequent micturition, weakness, etc. Albuminuria during pregnancy, urine very scanty, with soreness and pain in region of kidneys, restlessness, etc.
Sexual Organs
Uterine haemorrhage. (External labia and pudendum puffed, hot, red and itching, so that she scratched till the surface bled, every morning thin, transparent exfoliations, the mucous membrane of labia red, swollen, covered with a white, curdy deposit, like aphthae, the inflammation reaching to one-third of vagina.)
Clinical This drug seems to have proved valuable in atonic conditions of the female organs, prolapsus with general mal-nutrition; prolapsus following parturition, this local condition being associated with general debility, mental depression and particularly with a feeling of soreness or sensitiveness of uterus, the patient “is conscious that she was a womb.” Menorrhagia, atonic, (<) moving body. Menorrhagia, with ulceration of the cervix, dark, offensive blood, great debility. Offensive leucorrhoea, with ulceration of the cervix, which occasionally causes haemorrhage. With the local uterine symptoms of displacement or of chronic inflammation, etc., there are generally pain in the lumbar region, dull aching, sometimes weight on the chest, pressure on head, etc. Pruritus of vulva and vagina, which are hot and swollen and exfoliate, with aphthous patches. Indurations of uterus.
Respiration and Chest
Feeling as if respiration were about to cease. Breasts swollen, nipples tender and painful. Tired aching in chest when walking, as if front of C., and especially in a strip four inches wide down sternum, had been compressed in a vise. Sensitiveness to cold the length of sternum and as wide apart as nipples.
Pulse
84 in evening, and full, irregular. Weak; and slow. Slow and small; and weak.
Back
Lameness and aching. Sharp, Spasmodic pain running to crest of l. ilium. Piercing drawing pain in lower part through to uterus, like inflammation. Kidney region, aching at 10 P.M.; A., then albuminuria, urine copious, with increased specific gravity; sudden. A. at night on undressing, as if short; weariness and weight, also in afternoon and evening, with general fatigue; sensation as of kidneys were two bags of hot water. Lumbar and dorsal regions, aching and burning. Lower lumbar and sacral regions, aching; and lameness; A. in spine; tired A. in spine on sitting down at 3.30 P.M., with burning; tired after resting. Sacrum, aching in afternoon; at 4.45 P.M., extending into each buttock; A. in upper part and in pelvis, (<) night; dull feeling in morning; weakness, tired aching, and in lumbar region.
Clinical Effects of fatigue, with burning and heat in dorsal region.
Extremities
Rheumatic pain in r. hip. Burning, or rather warm numbness streaming up from both tendo-achilles, (<) over region of gastrocnemius and in knees. Pain as if a wedge were driven into r. ankle, till asleep. Feet numb when sitting still.
Sleep
Waking every morning at 5, an unusual hour.
Fever
Coldness alternating with heat, (<) epigastric region. Chill radiating from solar plexus all over body, on motion of arms. Cold limbs. Heat in flushes on every movement in the room. Internal heat during headache. Burning in upper dorsal spine; B. in dorsal region when sitting; reading at night, (<) between lower half of scapulae; between scapulae, with tired aching in lower lumbar and sacral regions; in sacral region. Heat in renal region.
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.