Gums.- Swelling above upper molars, with swelling of l. tonsil and cervical glands. Red. Loosened and fell off in pieces. Ulcer; on r. lower outer. Painful inflammation of front. Tearing about first incisors. Tickling and bleeding after sucking it with the tongue. Soreness of incisors.
Tongue.- Destruction of T., gum and fauces, the cuticle appearing as if destroyed with a hot iron, while inside of cheeks, roof of mouth and velum were inflamed. Swelling, with painful blisters upon it. Painful blisters, and on gum. Painful pimple on tip. Soreness of tip; of fraenum. Dry in morning, and white as from an acid; D. in morning on waking, and almost insensible. Burning; on tip, as if raw or covered with blisters.
Mouth and fauces covered with, a dirty brown slough, which made the surface almost insensible, heat in fauces and gullet as soon as the slough began to separate, during the next week large portions of tough matter, sometimes firm like leather, were brought up by coughing, hawking or vomiting, then a raw surface, with burning and pain on swallowing. Painful blisters in all parts, with burning pain (K-chl.). Offensive odor like old cheese every morning (see K. brom.). Sticking in back part of palate in morning and evening, before outbreak of catarrh, (<) swallowing, with biting, as from dryness. Soreness. Raw feeling as from something acrid, and on tongue. Itching on hard palate. Numbness in morning after waking, as if burnt. Burning in morning, with thirst.
Dryness waking him in morning; D. in morning after rising; in evening without thirst; dry sticky sensation; dry sensation, with salivation. Salivation; every night, waking her at 3 A.M. Insipid, glutinous saliva. Offensive-tasting saliva. Taste bad; and mouth slimy. Bitter taste; in morning; with nausea; in throat; bitter, sour after breakfast. Taste sour; at night. T. sweetish. T. of blood in morning after waking. T. lost in morning after waking.
Clinical Toothache of a sticking, tearing character, extending into the head.
Throat
Submaxillary gland painful to touch. Elongation of uvula, with stiffness of nape. Mucus; (<) morning; in back, only loosened by much hawking; tenacious, in back part in morning, which can neither be completely swallowed nor hawked up (K-bi.). Hawking in morning, with expectoration. Sticking in pharynx as from a fish- bone (Hepar), if he becomes cold. Anxious pressure. Sore pain; in palate on swallowing. Soreness, with difficult swallowing and difficult opening of mouth. Sensation of a plug, which is loosened by cough. Feeling of a lump; on l. side, with sticking on empty swallowing; about root of tongue, (<) swallowing saliva, which makes it smart, (<) singing in evening, (>) swallowing food, which makes it go lower.
Smarting on swallowing. Scraping; with dryness and roughness. Roughness, with cough; R., with sneezing; R. on uncovering body. Crawling, morning and evening, provoking hawking and cough, with feeling of adherent mucus. Dryness far back. Swallowing difficult, food descends oesophagus very slowly; S. painful; S. of dry or cold things impossible. Oesophagus sensitive, she can swallow only lukewarm food. Pressure and tearing in oesophagus.
Clinical Pharyngeal catarrh, with constant need to hawk. Catarrhal stricture of oesophagus, feeling of a lump which cannot be swallowed, or of a stick extending into the stomach. Pharyngeal catarrh, with constant clearing of the throat, sharp stinging pains, (<) cold (Hepar).
Stomach
Appetite increased; longing for acids; little; little, with insipid taste, though food tastes good. Aversion of food, especially meat; to black bread. Disgust for everything. Thirst; in forenoon; in evening; at night. Eructations; in morning; of water after midnight; loud, with salivation; tasting of food; at night of food eaten at noon. Sour eructations (Nux-v., Lycopodium, Na. c.); in morning; in afternoon, with nausea; after eating; of sour, bitter water. Water-brash. Hiccough; at noon; before midnight.
Nausea; in morning, with violent yawning, eructations, twisting about stomach, heat and anxiety; in forenoon; at night in bed; on every inward emotion, but when fasting there is only retching; during cough; on eating fried fish, amounting to vomiting; after eating during menses, with fulness, then vomiting; before and after dinner, with vertigo, eructations, weakness of limbs and coldness of hands and feet, not without appetite; on pressure over epigastric region; (<) eating; with waterbrash; with salivation and diarrhoea; with trembling of hands and feet; with vomiting and with bruised pain in abdomen, (<) pressure, prostration, confusion of head, sleepiness and watery stools, then constipation. Nausea as if to faintness; in forenoon, (>) lying down.
Retching; evenings; with short breath. Vomiting; on coughing; after eating or drinking, with pain; (<) drinking warm water; without an overloaded or disordered stomach, next day weakness and loss of appetite; with faintlike sinking of strength; of food and acids; incessant; sour, at the time menses should come on but did not, with swelling of cheeks and gums and stitches in cheeks.
Rumbling; gurgling and movings. Jerking in r. side of pit. Cramp; beginning at stool, so that she doubled herself up and could not speak, micturition, nausea, eructations, vomiting of water, retching, before the vomiting shivering, during it reeling, with shaking of hands and feet, then anxiety and general heat, relief of the pain and pallor, at last the usual stool; intermittent C. in morning, (>) walking; jerklike, at night after falling asleep, with anxiety, groaning, coldness of tip of nose, hands and feet then vomiting of food and acids and eructations of air.
Sticking returning after dinner, with sensation as if everything were turned about; S. extending towards, l. axilla, afterwards into small of back. Feeling as if cut to pieces in morning, with external sensitiveness of epigastric region; cutting towards evening; in pit during and after breakfast. Acute pain. Digging in pit in afternoon, then eructations of bitter water; D., with painful contraction and sensation as if everything would be turned about, with rising of water, all (>) during dinner, but returning with burning extending into throat. Digging burrowing. Spasmodic pain, with oppression at pit. Sore pain in pit during inspiration an expiration. Epigastric region sensitive externally to touch, eating and talking.
Pain obliging lying down. Paroxysmal screwing together pains, (<) night, extending into chest and intestines, impeding respiration and speech. Painful contraction from both sides, (>) vomiting clear water, with fulness. Constriction extending towards pharynx; C. even at 1 A.M., in attacks till morning, extending into chest and under shoulders, where it becomes sticking, with choking in throat and oppression of breath, then anxiety, sweat and eructations, which relieved. Constrictive spasmodic pains from least food or drink, especially cold. Spasmodic contraction in pit and transversely across chest; S. C., then eructations, which often relieve, or chilliness and shivering, (<) hands, back and head, and the usual stool.
Feeling as if full of water. Pressure in pit; P. in morning on waking; below pit in morning and afternoon, (>) bending backward and after eating; P. across above S. and beneath hypochondria in evening in bed; beneath pit at night, with cough; at night, with burning; in pit and lower part of chest, (>) eructations, with difficult breathing and rising of heat to head; in attacks, extending into chest, with suffocation, nausea, prostration, necessity to lie down, trembling of hands and feet, then vomiting of bitter water with relief; as from a stone in morning in bed, (>) hawking. Heaviness; after eating, (<) breakfast. Oppression after bread. Swollen feeling in epigastric region. Fulness in pit; in epigastric region, with pressure; F. after eating, during menstruation, with nausea, then vomiting. Ineffectual desire to eructate in morning and afternoon, then spasmodic constriction.
Uneasiness in epigastric region on pressure; U. starting from pit, then eructations of food and acids. Throbbing in epigastric region, with sensitiveness to touch; T. in pit, (<) morning, whereby the pit rise visibly. Flatulent feeling. Drawing transversely in morning after rising, with cutting. Sudden shock, changing to eructations of air or hiccough. Burning acidity rising from stomach, with spasmodic constriction. Heartburn; after supper; after eating vegetables, extending into pharynx. Burning; in forenoon after eructations; as soon as fluids reach it, then vomiting; extending to mouth, with constriction. Emptiness. Milk does not agree with her.
Clinical The gastric symptoms indicating this drug are indigestion, with bloating, sour eructations, heartburn and a weak feeling, or a feeling of a lump in the pit of the stomach, or a feeling of pulsation; after eating there are generally pressure, belching of gas, bloating and soreness. (Lycopodium, Carb-v.). Gastralgia, sharp cutting or sticking, (<) motion or eating. Dyspepsia of old people. Gastric disorders from drinking ice-water.
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.