Clinical Neuralgia of the orbit, (<) l., the eye feels as if it had been squeezed. It is particularly useful for affections of the optic nerve and retina, rarely indicated in external inflammatory diseases. Particularly valuable for haemorrhages of the optic nerve and retina, with consequent dimness of vision; this apoplexy may occur in persons who have no albuminuria. Retinitis haemorrhagica (idiopathic). Cellulitis of orbit (compare with Rhus-t.). Asthenopia following diphtheria, a paralysis of accommodation, necessity to wear far-sighted glasses (Gelsemium).
Ears
The white cerumen is changed and becomes like paste. Tearing extending to temples. Cutting in upper part of l. outer in evening, (<) night and on touch. Pain in r.; deep in l. in evening when walking, or between ear and throat, (<) putting temporal and masseter muscles on tension; in a spot in petrous bone behind E. on touch; P., with sore throat; with nasal catarrh; with headache; (with sticking). Constrictive pain deep in l., on inserting ear spoon it is painful as if swollen. Throbbing in bones behind r. Intolerance of wind. Biting in lobule, then a pimple. Itching; sticking. Numbness of concha, and on pressure it is also felt in inner parts, then generally painful pressure and heat.
Whizzing as of insects; extending back into head; with ringing and tearing. Singing in r., then feeling as if closed. Cracking in front of E.; (in ears, with poor hearing). Roaring with the pains; R. with cold feet. Thundering in both. Growling in l.; drumming, in attacks in r. (the hearing ear) in morning after waking, (>) shaking finger in ear, but returning, (<) evening. Sensitive to noises, frightened. Hearing diminished; lost during catarrh.
Clinical Pain in ears, generally extending from the throat and zygoma into the ear; it has been found useful for inspissated cerumen, in deafness with great sensitiveness; these symptoms are usually associated with diseases of the throat or of other parts of the body.
Nose
(Inflammation of mucous follicles in outer skin). L. nostril internally swollen and painful, then scab on the spot. A bleeding sore spot beneath N. Soreness in inner angle at tip after catarrh, with redness. Spot beneath l. wing painful to touch. (Drawing pain in bones about union of cartilages at night, sticking on pressure, stoppage of nose and discharge of dry mucus and watery pus). Drawing in bones. Tensive burrowing beneath r. nostril, then biting across under nose. Feeling as in fluent catarrh, with red sore margins of nostrils and lachrymation, without coryza. Itching in N. in evening; I. on eating; on sitting down to eat. Dryness. Stoppage in morning, (>) blowing out membranous pieces, (<) 10 A.M., (>) evening. Sneezing, with mucus in throat; violent S.
Influenza, with fever. Catarrh; (>) morning on waking, with soreness of nose; with red, sore and erysipelatous margins of nostrils; with burning of upper lip; with sticking in head and stiffness of nape; with crawling in tip of nose; with full and hard pulse, headache and drawing in legs; with cough, easily loosened expectoration, heat of head and hands, dim eyes, palpitation, rash over whole body in small spots without being elevated, restless sleep at night and sweat; incomplete. Stopped catarrh; beginning in evening; in evening, (>) morning on waking, with burning in upper lip; with cough and sneezing; at one time stopped, at another only on one side, then fluent, with sneezing. Fluent catarrh morning and evening, relieving the headache, lachrymation and stoppage of nose; F. late in evening, with sneezing; suddenly in evening, with crawling in tip of nose, lachrymation and pressure in inner canthi. Discharge of mucus when coughing; D. of thin water in morning; painful D. of watery clots, sometimes a scab. Catarrh, with, dropping of water, margins and tip of nose inflamed, (>) morning, returning with fever, pain in head, ears and teeth. Many symptoms end with catarrh.
Bleeding; of thick, dark blood; discharge of blood and matter, with plug in trachea. Dropping of blood; from l. nostril after boring in with finger. Trickling of blood on blowing. Blowing out of blood in evening; B. of blood and pus in afternoon; B. of blood and bloody streaks in mucus.
Clinical Coryza and ozaena, when the general symptoms indicate the drug. Sometimes in low forms of typhoid indicating Lachesis there may be dark haemorrhage, also dark haemorrhage in amenorrhoea. With the sore throat there may be obstruction of the posterior nares and discharge of bloody matter from the nostrils, and often soreness of the nostrils and lips.
Face
Swelling; with heat and redness; of cheeks, with redness of face; erysipelatous, r. eye almost closed; (bluish-red, of cheek, with sticking and throbbing and toothache, it discharges matter). Earthy, gray, with abdominal troubles. Pale. Yellow during the fever. Bad color and general discomfort. Expression of pain, with coma. Suffering look, sunken and as if he had been up all night. Distortion, with jerks in small of back. Tearing in zygoma, extending into ear. Screwing in r. zygoma and in flesh, with burrowing. Burrowing beneath l. ear, near angle of jaw and in sterno-cleido-mastoid, as in erysipelas, in evening, then on the other side. Pain on r. malar-bone, more towards eye; in side of F., upper jaw and head. Burning pain. Drawing in bones of cheek and lower jaw; in bones and in teeth during fever.
Lips; eruption on l. side of upper. Pimples, with whiter pus on upper and on face. Swelling of upper and gum. (Thickness of upper). Dryness. Heat.
Clinical Facial erysipelas, with great swelling and purplish appearance. Neuralgia of the face. Flushes of heat, especially at the climacteric.
Mouth
Teeth. Crumbling of hollow. A piece breaks off a hollow molar. Sticking in incisors. Raging in roots of lower, periodic, always after waking, after eating and from warm and cold drinks, often extending through upper jaw to ear, with jerking, tearing, sticking. Pain in r. upper and in l. limbs, next day in l. lower teeth and in limbs, (<) r.; P., with swelling of cheek; with catarrh; with cold ear; extending through jaw to ear. Drawing in some; in sound second r. upper molar; itching, in some of l. Feeling as if too long when biting them together; in last, partly broken molar, with boring extending into jaw, (<) after eating, the gum around it is swollen and painful down into throat, the pain (>) discharge of pus from tooth. Crawling in a r. upper.
Gums. Bleeding. Swollen; and spongy; bluish-red, swollen and painful; painful swelling of anterior lower incisors; swelling of G. of upper incisors, with throbbing pain and burning; G. of lower incisors swollen internally and externally, as if it would be loosened, in r. molars feeling as if something were between them, a piece of the gum is grown out, the whole gum bleeds on rubbing. Swollen feeling. Pain, with toothache; P. from warmth in mouth; in G. of the two l. lower molars.
Tongue. Coated. Swelling of l. half, feeling as of the effects of mercury, soon after rheumatic pains; (thick in forepart, with disgusting taste). Sticking and tearing, and on palate, with ulcerated fauces. Prickling. Constriction on l. side of root. Feeling as of pepper-dust, with salivation. Burning on l. side; B. from water, then, hoarseness and rawness in throat. Speech stronger and more distinct than usual.
Tearing and sticking in palate. Burning pain and rawness, then aphthous and denuded spots. Pain on curtain of palate when yawning. Pressure on palate, as if it came from stomach. Burning on palate after acids, with dryness and thirst; B. and throbbing pain in mouth. Soreness and dryness, mucous membrane cracked and bleeding, tongue swollen and covered with blisters on each side. Dryness and thirst; D. and constriction. Scraping burning posteriorly on palate. Rawness. Salivation; when thinking about the sensation in throat; with burning in throat; with stretching; with biting on tongue; as if it came from stomach. Water runs from M. during violent cough.
Taste sweetish; in back of throat and to mucus. Salt, like Glauber’s salts. Nauseating; with headache, nausea and hawking of mucus; as from stale fat. Coppery, causing nausea, making teeth dull, (<) forepart of tongue, which seems thicker there, (<) during eructations (in a hysterical woman). Like meal or paste.
Clinical Toothache, with swollen bleeding gums; gums sometimes dark purplish. The tongue in usually red, dry and tremulous, or the tip is red and the centre brown, sometimes there is a red stripe through the centre (Veratrum v.). It is often indicated in canker sore on the tongue and in aphthae of the mouth. Gangrene of the mouth. Paralysis of tongue, it cannot be protruded, it catches in the teeth.
Throat
External. Sensitiveness to external pressure; in evening on lying down, with suffocative sensation; even to touch of the linen, during evening fever; sometimes with nausea; and neck, no position is comfortable; extending to nape, with sticking on swallowing and scraping on swallowing bread, as if everything were raw, dryness of throat, without actual dryness of tongue; (of an aneurism of r. carotid, the sensation extending to pit of stomach). Throbbing in glands, afterwards extending into malar- bones, which feel stiff.
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.