Ulceration, with soreness and difficult swallowing (tonsillitis); U., with hawking of mucus, and cough. Swelling. (Inflammation). Mucus; with hoarseness, then stopped catarrh, then yellow mucus from nose and throat; tenacious; in back part, mostly sweetish, then in nose. Hawking of mucus after a nap in daytime, with rawness in throat; H, of mucus only in evening after tea instead of in the morning as if an abscess had broken; of mucus more from fauces, less from larynx; tasting like saltpetre; salt.
Sensation as if a crumb stuck; obliging her to swallow, (>) hawking. Feeling as if closed by something sticking in pharynx after supper, lasting all night and next day, with difficult swallowing of saliva, but not of food and drink. Intermittent pinching in a spot on r. side of pharynx, (<) pressure, (<) evening, when it affects larynx. Twisting in pit. Ulcerated feeling on swallowing.
Pain; (on turning it); on r. side; posteriorly at side of larynx; in r. side, (<) pressure; (>) eating, which caused an agreeable tickling; in r. side, extending to ear; extending to root of tongue and into hyoid bone; in pit, extending to root of tongue and into hyoid bone and to l. tragus, behind which it shoots out, with pain on touch; in l. side, extending to tongue, jaw and into ear, (<) breakfast, tongue sore on l. side, with sticking here and there, gum inflamed, all teeth painful, L. side of face and lower jaw swollen and sensitive to touch, with sticking in spots in thighs and legs, disagreeable taste, loss of appetite and bad sleep. Pressure on both sides; intermittent P.; as from something astringent; in r. side as from external pressure; as from a plug (after acids); low down, causing salivation if he thinks of it.
Soreness; in pit; on both sides in morning; (<) evening, with pain in l. side; in children, with tossing about and moaning; with fever, much spitting, tossing about at night, groaning, and eyes surrounded by brown rings; with feeling in pit as if something were swollen and would suffocate him, it cannot be swallowed. Feeling of a painful lump on swallowing; painful lump in pit, (>) hawking mucus. Swollen feeling on swallowing; on empty swallowing, (>) when eating. It seemed as if something should be hawked up which could not be loosened.
Rawness; (on deep breathing); with swelling, painful on swallowing, (<) drinking; as after exerting it. Feeling as if tendons were drawing it up to palate, with pressure as after astringent pears. Dryness; at night on waking, without thirst, with suffocative sticking. Burning in l. side and pit; B., with hoarseness. Crawling in the ulcer, causing hacking cough; C. in morning (in a pregnant woman) causing nausea, then prickling and sticking and vomiting; at night, causing hacking cough, during the day aggravation of the soreness. Bubbling above r. clavicle. Swallowing difficult; more of liquids than of solids; of saliva, not of food; with feeling as if something in it obliged swallowing; of food and drink, as from a hindrance in region of cardiac orifice. Pain on empty swallowing, not on swallowing food. Troubles on alternate days. T. and chest troubles (<) after rising, lasting till noon.
Oesophagus. (Feeling as if a morsel of food stuck in it the sensation extending in afternoon to stomach, causing pressure, (>) lying down, inability to sleep in evening, at one time it extended up to r. side across chest to shoulders, then towards umbilicus, with burning, in morning sensation in abdomen as before violent diarrhoea, in evening violent cough, with horribly tasting expectoration, next day again the sensation about umbilicus).
Clinical Swelling of submaxillary and salivary glands. One of the most frequent uses of Lachesis is for sore throat; in all the ulcers and diseases of the throat requiring this remedy there is extreme sensitiveness externally to the slightest touch, which causes a feeling of suffocation, all bands around the throat must be loosened; internally the throat is swollen and suffocation threatens. A feeling of a lump in the throat wakens out of sleep. There is great difficulty in swallowing, especially when not swallowing food; liquids are apt to regurgitate through the nose. The l. side of the throat is chiefly affected, or the trouble has extended from l. to r. It is called for in various phases of disease from simple tonsillitis and pharyngitis to the most terrible and destructive diphtheritic process; in the latter disease, and indeed in nearly all cases requiring the drug, the throat is purple (not bright red and oedematous like Apis). It is not only indicated in diphtheritic and ulcerative diseases, but in certain phases of scarlet fever, with gangrenous throat; it has also proved useful in syphilitic ulceration of the throat. In all the diseases of the throat indicating Lachesis there is usually pain, sometimes sharp, which is apt to extend from throat into the ear, on l. side. Elongation of uvula, with constant efforts to clear the throat.
Stomach
Appetite increased; at one time good, at another lost. Longing for oysters evenings; L. for wine; for something he knew not what, at last he took a swallow of water. Food is relished without real hunger, it is swallowed hastily. Feeling as when obliged to wait for food, without real hunger. Hunger, with aversion of food. Appetite lost in morning; in evening, with discomfort in abdomen; with discomfort in abdomen at meal-time; for bread; for rolls, the usual milk causes nausea; for food, wine and tobacco. Thirst; in evening after beer, with loss of appetite; before the chill; before the fever; with dry tongue and skin; insatiable. Eructations; after eating; during fever, in an infant; amounting to vomiting; of food after eating; of sour water after dinner; sour and bitter after meat fried in butter; violent, evenings, with cramp in stomach. Empty eructations; when fasting; after dinner; dry, burning. Hiccough in evening after smoking tobacco.
Nausea, waking at 2 A.M., with oppression of chest and pressure in stomach, at 3 violent vomiting, then colic, then spasmodic vomiting, at last vomiting of bile, with vertigo and profuse sweat, then diarrhoea four times between 6 and 9, burning on urinating, then weakness and headache; N. in morning; in forenoon; in afternoon, with feeling as if poisoned; at night on waking, with vomiting and diarrhoea; from anything tight on throat; after dinner; after dinner and in afternoon; on swallowing; after milk; from smoking tobacco; (from drinking water); (<) thinking about it; ((>) open air?), with aversion to food and headache; with pain in stomach; with pain in pit of stomach and also with diarrhoea; with risings in oesophagus, but only mucus is expectorated, with dyspnoea; with anxiety and oppression of chest; with faintness; with aching in abdomen and stomach as if he would faint, necessity to loosen his clothes; as if in a single place in stomach, from the sight or thought of sugar of milk; sudden, in afternoon after drinking tea, with hiccough and eructations, at last amounting to vomiting air; paroxysmal, in forenoon and afternoon.
Retching every evening, with vomiting and cramp in stomach; R., with vomiting of mucus and cramp in stomach; constant R., with commotion and anxiety in chest.
Vomiting; at night, then diarrhoea; in nightly attacks, with oppression of chest; in nightly attacks, with pressure in stomach; in nightly attacks, with diarrhoea, then burning in urethra when urinating; of blood; spasmodic, bilious; of food; forcible, of all food, with pain in head and abdomen.
Sticking extending to chest; to vicinity of breasts. Cramp every day at 6 A.M., with violent eructations, retching, vomiting of mucus. Burrowing as from a worm; B. in forepart of r. side, extending towards l. side, then a stitch upward between flesh and bones in middle of chest to the vicinity of breasts. Pain in pit on pressure; P. in l. side near pit in spring; P. causing faint feeling; flatulent, in pit, extending into chest.
Pressure; at night and in morning so that he must stand up, (>) emissions of flatus; in pit in morning; after eating; in pit when lying, (>) moving; in pit, (<) touch, with drawing towards umbilicus and warmth in chest; with weakness in knees; then clawing in anus extending inward; extending towards heart; in epigastric region, extending towards heart; as of a load, (>) eructations and emissions of flatus. Drawing pressure from pit to umbilicus. Feeling in S. and intestines as if something were drawn up into a ball. Tension beneath pit in afternoon, extending towards umbilicus. Painless gnawing, then gnawing in sides, extending across under ribs deep in abdomen. (Sensitiveness and feeling as if something were turning about in it, with heart troubles). Throbbing in pit; jumping, extending up under ribs, then sensation as if something pressed from pit towards heart.
Coldness; in pit alternating with heat; alternations of C. and heat, with want of breath. Feeling as if heartburn would occur. Heartburn in evening after smoking; H., with headache. Burning in S. and hepatic region, distention of stomach, itching in epigastric region, abdomen distended and hard, when walking necessity to stand still, feeling as if a stone pressed downward in upper abdomen and in pit of stomach and would break away, so that he must step carefully, feet swollen when sitting and cold though burning, with offensive odor from mouth. Emptiness in afternoon; at night.
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.