A tincture of the dried root of Ipomoea purga, Hayne, is used.
General Action
An active hydragogue cathartic.
Allies.- Jatropha, Rheum, Coloc.
Uneasiness, with tossing about of limbs. Weakness. Fainting fits. Headache. Humming in ears. Stinging in tongue and fauces. Nausea and vomiting. Increased motion of stomach, sometimes with nausea, succeeded by increased activity of small intestines as far as region of caecum, where there is seated illness, then motion in colon and its flexions till there is desire for stool, which occurs without great irritation and is not succeeded by any other irritation or desire, even if there be another looser stool. Pain in small intestines as if they would be cut to pieces. Inflammation of intestines. Anus sore. The first stool is always thick, reddish and sour. Violent, excessive stools. Bloody stools. Several watery stools, then decreases of temperature; several watery S., then weak pulse. Pulsations slower. Pain in thighs. Febrile attacks.
Clinical Coryza in an infant, violent attacks of crying and intense pain, quiet during the day, but screaming all night. Chronic diarrhoea, stools six or eight times a day dark, offensive, like gruel, with much griping and some tenesmus; it is reported to have cured a diarrhoea that had lasted twenty years, stools sudden, watery, very offensive, generally with a little blood, much gas, tongue smooth, glazed and dry.
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.