Triturations of pure nitrate of Potassium are used.
General Action
Like the chlorate this salt is a violent irritant to the mucous membranes, causing gastro-intestinal inflammation and ulceration and catarrh of the bronchi with asthmatic breathing. In its action on the kidneys and heart it is similar to the other salts of Potash.
Generalities
Lying on back in collapse, with legs drawn up, as in peritonitis. Swelling of whole body, neck and legs. Twitchings; here and there; as in chorea, (<) l. arm and leg. Trembling of whole body; of one half of body; of all nerves, with restlessness. Stinging through whole body, causing acute pain on every inspiration. Tearing in evening after eating, high up in inner side of l. thigh ( apparently in pectineus and triceps), then in l. upper arm, then in middle of outer part of l. thigh, then on anterior surface of leg (tibialis anticus), then on and behind external malleolus, then between l. scapula and spine ( in rhomboideus, serratus posticus superior); T. in r. side of chin when sitting, then beneath r. external malleolus; intermittent, day and night, transiently (>) rubbing. Jerking pain in occiput bone, then also in hip-bone, at last alternating with tension behind r. ear and continuing all night. (Bruised feeling became worse). Chronic illness. Pulsations here and there after midday nap.
Weakness; in morning; in morning after mental labor; in afternoon; with pallor; with heaviness of head and stumbling over everything; with numbness of lower limbs; sudden, with sleepiness, necessity to lie down and inability to open eyes; tremulous, in morning, with frequent, hard pulse and rapid respiration; paralytic muscular. Faintness; at 10 P.M., when blowing on an instrument with tight clothes, it seemed as if everything in the room turned around, he caught himself while sinking, head at one time hot, at another cold, unsteady standing and sensation as if the attack would return; dizzy F. in morning when standing, (>) sitting down, then blackness before eyes, weakness, sleepiness, pain in small of back, constriction in abdomen, repeated three times in forenoon, then pain down leg to malleoli, where it remained all day, in afternoon coldness and thirst, (<) in bed, lasting till midnight. Collapse. Rheumatic, painful stiffness of almost whole body, (<) arms, neck and back, (<) cold, (>) warmth. Paralysis of organs of sense. Aggravation from swelling camphor. (Amelioration, especially of headache, by smelling sweet spirits of nitre.)
Mind
Delirium; mild, then restlessness and wakefulness. Excitement after a glass of wine. Anxiety; frequently in afternoon; in afternoon, with sweat at pit of stomach and weakness; with general sweat; with internal coldness, then faintness. Depression of spirits; thinks she must die. Ennui, lachrymose mood. Fretfulness; in evening; with uneasiness, apprehension and sensitiveness; and perverseness, discontentment with himself and the world and disinclination to mental labor. Disinclination for work; D. to think in morning, with heat in face and forehead and exhaustion. Meditative and solicitous. Partly stupefied as in intoxication; half stupor unless aroused. Unconsciousness.
Head
Hacking and sticking; with pressure about eyes and sleepiness. Aching; in morning, afterwards it extended to occiput, in evening increase of heat in head; towards noon, (<) r. side, (<) 1 to 4 P.M., (>) a nap; in afternoon; in evening; towards evening, (<) r. side of sinciput, with sudden stitches; on waking, with fulness of abdomen, diarrhoea and chilliness; on turning head; after dinner; (<) towards evening, lasting till 10 P.M., with heat; so that she could not eat; and in neck, (<) l. side; with stitches in forehead; preventing sleep all night and lasting in morning; in morning as after a debauch; bursting, with stitches in l. ear and clavicles, whence the pain extends into elbows; tensive, deep in head after dinner. Pressure towards middle and towards l. temple in morning. Drawing in middle from morning till evening, extending towards r. temple. Loose feeling in brain, with sticking.
Heaviness. Confusion; in morning; towards evening, with drawing in side of head and forehead; in evening, with oppression of chest; on waking; with frequent tearing drawing in parietal bones and in forehead; with drawing; with difficult thought, everything is immediately forgotten; almost like intoxication after Madeira. Stupefaction in morning, with heaviness, as after intoxication. Vertigo; with weakness of head; in morning, as after intoxication; as if he would fall forward, on stooping; in attacks, as if he would fall to the right and backward, on walking in evening ( after a glass of strong beer.).
Forehead.- Sticking in l. side on stooping, with pressing asunder; S. behind eyes, with rhythmical intermissions in afternoon and evening, (<) walking. Tearing behind r. eye in open air, extending towards occiput, (>) coffee, also rhythmical sticking when walking, (>) riding in a wagon. Aching; in sinuses; in sinciput; over r. eye; deep behind l. eye in morning after rising, (<) over r. eye and headache all day; in sinciput in morning, at times sticking; in sinciput and occiput towards noon, (<) towards evening, at noon, with congestion to head; in region of superciliary arch after dinner; in F. and vertex, rather to l. side, (>) 10 A. M., returned after dinner and lasted till evening; A., with heaviness; above root of nose, with tension in skin of forehead; in sinciput, with stitches; in sinciput, with l. eating in occiput and temples; in r. sinus, with stopped catarrh; in sinciput, extending to eyes. Contractive pains in F. and eyes, that unite at tip of nose, where there is digging pinching. Pressure all day, as if eyes would spring out of head and as if stones were lying about them. Drawing through F. in evening. Confusion; and throbbing; and heaviness.
Temples.- Sticking, (<) l.; in l. after dinner; drawing,, l. Intermittent tearing in l.; T. in r. all night, (>) pressure. Pain in r.; in l. and frontal region, with vertigo, staggering, anxiety and sweat. Drawing in l. and on l. eye.
Vertex.- Stitches, on l. side; S. and tearing in V. and occiput, with cutting in abdomen, then stool, at first soft, then only of mucus, at 9 and 10 P.M. Acute pain in r. side in bed, as if there would be a tearing there. Pain in r. side; P. only in morning on rising; in r. side as from a draught of air; (>) open air; bruised; like pulling of hair; in a spot on r. side like a contraction in scalp, in morning after rising. Sensitiveness to touch. Pressure, (<) lying hand on it; P. as from a stone on it. Constriction; in afternoon and night, with heaviness of head.
Temples.- Sticking, (<) l.; after dinner; drawing, (<) l. Intermittent tearing in l.; T. in r. all night, (>) pressure. Pain in r.; in l. and frontal region, with vertigo, staggering, anxiety and sweat. Drawing in l. and on l. eye.
Vertex.- Stitches, on l. side; and tearing in V. and occiput, with cutting in abdomen, then stool at first soft, then only of mucus, at 9 and 10 P.M. Acute pain in r. side in bed, as if there would be a tearing there. Pain in r. side; P. only in morning on rising; in r. side as from a draught of air; (>) open air; bruised; like pulling of hair; in a spot on r. side like a contraction in scalp, in morning after rising. Sensitiveness to touch. Pressure, (<) laying hand on it; P. as from a stone on it. Constriction; in afternoon and night, with heaviness of head.
Sides.- Sticking deep behind r. ear. Pain in region of l. parietal bone towards midnight, (>) taking off the nightcap; in a spot on r. side near crown, with external heat, the P. (>) laying the hand on it.
Occiput.- Stitch in l. side during menstruation. Sharp, almost tearing pain in r. Drawing and tearing so that she could not move the head, with stiffness in nape, then drawing and tearing in scapulae, with weakness, she could scarcely lift the feet, with coldness, then heat at night, all without thirst or sweat. Pain; in evening, with stitches; (>) binding up hair; gradually changing to rhythmical stitches,, touch; and heaviness. Compression from 11 A.M. to 4 P.M., so that everything became stiff, then pain in nape like a pulling on hairs, extending to shoulders, with tension and stitches over face and neck, impairment of swallowing, anxiety and arrest of breath. Burning throbbing on l. side in evening.
Scalp.- Profuse falling of hair. Scurfy spots, with itching. Pain on pressure. Sudden pain in r. side of sinciput when walking, soon extending to vertex, thence into occiput and temples, first felt only on shaking head, as when coughing, walking etc., afterwards more violent and felt on turning head and during rest, with painful pulsation in occiput and temples, when worst the scalp of occiput was painful as if bruised, the pain (>) firm pressure and in evening. Itching, then after scratching till it bled burning and pain.
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.