Stool
Frequent, watery, with burning in anus (Bryonia), disposition to strain and bear down (Sulphur), pain in epigastric and umbilical regions, rumbling in abdomen, faintness, knees weak and trembling, sometimes with blood and mucus, once with water and undigested food, at last mucous membrane of anus prolapsed and smarting, abdomen tender to pressure, flying pains through abdomen. Watery, through the day. Six dysenteric, at night, with pain and rumbling in lower abdomen (Sulphur). Diarrhoea; after breakfast, then pain in epigastrium; then pain in umbilical region; with colic; with rumbling and cutting in hypogastrium; sudden, after supper. Mushy, copious, light-colored. Papescent; with rumbling in abdomen; with pain in umbilical region; painless, with rumbling; yellow, painless, with rumbling, also large. Constipation. Hard, lumpy. Greenish-black, twice in one day.
Clinical Diarrhoea, with burning in anus as if on fire and burning all through the gastro-intestinal tract, the stools are generally very thin, preceded by colic. A very valuable remedy for constipation, especially with recurring sick headaches and gastric symptoms.
Urinary Organs
Cutting in urethra at beginning of micturition; C. during micturition, with sticking and with coldness and itching of genitals, the I. (<) scratching. Strangury. Micturition frequent, copious, limpid; M. twice in the day. Urine high-colored. Urine thick, of strong odor, deep amber-colored (from excess of uric acid), discharged with effort, but without pain. Copious U.; and offensive. Scanty U., with burning in urethra after micturition; afterwards frequent and copious micturition; scanty and high- colored; S., red, then burning along urethra; S. and of strong odor, dark and thick in morning, passed without force and after straining.
Sexual Organs
Glans swollen and red. Emission at night; with amorous dreams. Menses three days late and scanty.
Respiratory Organs
Much hawking and clearing of larynx; frequent and painful H. of tough mucus from larynx. A lump of mucus rattled up and down trachea, it was expectorated with a sweetish, offensive taste at 10 A.M., obstruction and catarrhal soreness of air-passages, frequent hawking, cough, with soreness in trachea and tickling. Hoarseness; with sharp, acrid feeling near epiglottis. Short, dry cough from tickling in larynx; hacking C. in morning without expectoration, with soreness in larynx anteriorly. Expectoration of phlegm in morning. Short breath.
Chest
Rattling of mucus not to be raised by hawking. Cramp in l. side under ribs; in l. side like a knife, then darting pain in abdomen. Pain in l.; as if ribs were pressing upon lower part of lung, inability to take a long breath for the sticking cutting in l. lung; P. in pectoralis major, (<) during motion and in evening. Constriction; about sternum. at middle of sternum. Soreness from nipple to nipple in morning, with tender painful spot on r. border of sternum and pain on inspiration. Tickling under top of sternum, waking at night, with cough dry and distressing, because nothing could be raised nor the tickling be reached, rattling of phlegm low in oesophagus.
Heart and Pulse
Heart’s action increased in force, and frequency. Pulse rapid; and feeble. Pulse slow and labored.
Neck
Soreness of muscles, with harshness.
Back
Pain; (<) walking. Stiffness in morning, (<) on sitting down. Weariness. Pain behind l. scapula. Stiffness of trapezius; all forenoon, causing constant shrugging of shoulders and desire to twist head from side to side; S. of r. latissimus dorsi on motion. Tearing in lumbar region on rising, so that he can become erect only gradually. Crampy pain in r. loin in evening, causing sweat. Pain in r. kidney. Pain in lumbar region all day while sewing; P. in lumbar region, (<) motion; and in sacral region, so that it is almost impossible to walk; heavy P. Weakness in lower part of back.
Extremities
Tearing in r. hip, knee and shoulders. Pain through the day; neuralgic P. like constriction around l. upper arm, forearm and thigh; rheumatic, in r. arm and r. knee, (<) motion; stinging, rheumatic, in elbows, forearms and knees; tensive, in all joints, mostly, the smaller, shifting about rapidly, (<) from superior till bed-time.
Upper Extremities
Stinging in r. shoulder; during motion, (<) raising arm, with tension. Rheumatic pain in r. shoulder, (<) motion, especially raising arm. Sharp pains in shoulders, arms, (<) l. index. Sharp pain near outside of l. arm on moving it. Lameness of upper arm, with soreness to touch, the L. soon extended to shoulders and nape, like rheumatism after taking cold, the L. and stiffness (>) night. Cutting in elbows and biceps, with contusive lame feeling. Heaviness of hands and elbows as after wine; H. of hands and elbows, with pains between shoulders, which settle in r. upper arm. Pain in metacarpal joints of hand and in muscles of r. arm, (<) motion and evening.
Fingers.- Shifting shooting in phalangeal and metacarpo- phalangeal joints, (<) evening and motion. Cutting in metacarpo- phalangeal joint of r. thumb. Sharp pain along l. side of first. Sharp pain along l. side of first phalanx of r. middle, then in l. middle fingers, then in l.axilla, occurring frequently. Pain; in last joint of l. middle; in r. phalanges when writing, and in end of r. index.
Lower Extremities
Weakness and pain so that walking was almost impossible. Sciatic pain; frequent, as if l. hip were wrenched or forced to remain long in an awkward position; S. twinges as if hip were wrenched, then burning aching; S. twinges behind l. trochanter in morning when writing, with lameness. Coxalgia in l. hip in evening on walking. Pain in l. hip; when walking; in l. thigh. Painful drawing and lameness behind l. trochanter, extending to popliteal space in evening, causing limping. Sudden rheumatic lameness in femoral region posteriorly in morning when exercising, causing limping, then shooting posteriorly down thigh to foot on every motion, (<) walking, (>) 4 P.M., next morning pain in l. sciatic nerve only on walking, with increased soreness and with weakness of l. leg, violent exercise does not increase the pain more than moderate exertion. Pain when walking in r., then l. knee. Knees weak and trembling. Pain in calves when walking, (<) r. Sticking in r. foot. Sharp pain in first joint of r. great toe when walking.
Clinical Sciatica of the l. side, of a burning character, shooting down to the foot, greatly (<) motion (Bryonia).
Skin
Pimples like mosquito-bites; pimple on l. middle finger, next day the inflammation extended over hand, then great pain, it was opened but on pus found, but it afterwards formed and discharged through the opening, which penetrated as far as bone, a fungous growth around edges had taken place meanwhile, pain extended up arm, appearance of a malignant boil, disposition to a similar formation on index, sweat with the pain in finger. Boils on back, face and hand. Vesicles on r. wrist, which formed into pustules, depressed in centre, then crusts. Itching of face, (<) warmth from exercise.
Clinical Herpes zoster of r. side; psoriasis, eczema; impetigo of the head; all these symptoms associated with the gastric degrangements and other symptoms of the drug.
Sleep
Sleepiness; with chills down back; with Dullness and dizziness; in daytime, fell asleep when reading, dreamed of dissecting a woman who was hanging by the heels in my office, woke frightened, tried to get up to shut the door but could not, real nightmare. Night restless; with dreams of fighting, etc.; with awful dreams of the dead; with dreams of digging up corposes, and finally fell into a grave which woke me in fright; with dreams of snakes and everything bad; with amorous dreams and emissions. Sleep disturbed by startings. Early waking; with dry mouth and general depression. Frightful dreams. Dreams of suffocation.
Fever
General chill at night. Heat; with itching in various parts; general, then chill, with cold hands and feet; of skin; of head, with flushing of face; of hands all day, with dryness of them; of palms. General sweat, (<) in groins.
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.