Tickling itching from thighs into genitals, which swelled, with desire and tickling, then cramplike contraction in uterus, extending into r. side of abdomen, thence into breast (in a circular direction), with heat and apprehension, with these symptoms, tickling in anus extending into region of kidneys, thence to between shoulders, as if between skin and flesh (she had had a similar sensation years before). Menses recurred after three weeks.
Clinical It has been found useful in venereal ulcers (chancroid), when the sore tends to become gangrenous, with the general peculiarities of the drug. Membranous dysmenorrhoea (<) alcoholic stimulants, with great pain in l. ovary darting upward. A valuable remedy for inflammation of the ovaries, (<) l., with violent pain and sensitiveness to weight of clothes, especially if the menstrual flow is offensive, sometimes general relief on the free appearance of the menses. Puerperal metritis, metro- peritonitis and fetid lochia. Valuable for a great variety of troubles at the climacteric, especially for metrorrhagia, fainting turns, hot flushes, hot vertex, flatulent distention, pain in ovaries, exhaustion from sleep, etc. The most frequent indications for Lachesis in all diseases of the uterus and ovaries are the intolerance of the weight of the clothing and the tendency of the disease to extend from l. to r., with these conditions it has cured almost every pathological condition of the female organs, tumors, inflammations, displacements, indurations, neuralgias, etc.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx. Swollen, raw, scraping, with necessary to swallow. Paroxysmal rattling low down at night in sleep. Painful to touch; and whole throat. Painful on bending head backward, and throat. Pressure. Seems tensively swollen, and swallowing difficult. Feels obstructed by a foreign substance. Feeling as of a plug moving up and down, with short cough, inability to lie down, blowing of bloody and purulent matter from nose. (Peculiar spasmodic sensation extending downwards). Dryness in epiglottis and vicinity, with scraping.
Hoarseness; with cough; and constant necessity to hawk; the voice will not come because something in larynx prevents, which cannot be hawked loose, though mucus is brought up; with much mucus in back of throat and sweetish taste, afterwards mucus is loosened and there is a discharge from nose, (<) morning, next morning almost stopped catarrh, afterwards whitish-yellow mucus in nose and throat.
Trachea. Stitching through it, with irritation to cough, and dry cough. Feeling of an inflamed, painful lump by sternum, (>) violent hawking of mucus. Seemed narrowed, no mucus could be loosened as usual.
Cough; in evening; from pressure on larynx; during sleep; during sleep, of which the patient knows nothing; from increased fluid in larynx; from tickling in chest; (during or after drinking); (<) after sleep. Dry cough; in evening and always with the first irritation to cough a stitch through trachea; violent, in evening, with pain in trachea and horrible taste to the expectoration, as after eating salt fish. Dry, hacking from touching throat, also in morning, and from smoking, with stopped catarrh, with much blowing of nose and sneezing. Cough without expectoration in a child in evening on lying down and in sleep, sometimes awakened thereby, sometimes causing vomiting. Hacking C.; at night from crawling in throat; when riding in a wagon, from pain in chest and tickling in larynx; and violent, from crawling in the ulcer in throat; and fatiguing (in phthisis mucosa) only during the day, (<) after sleep, walking and talking (as the throat thereby becomes dry), (<) eating fish and in damp weather, sometimes causing vomiting, expectoration scanty, difficult, mingled with harder, heavier lumps of mucus, and with pain in pit of stomach, so that he must hold it. Racking C. if lungs are irritated (as, for example, by tobacco-smoke) and all the blood is driven to head and face. Fluttering, nervous C. every evening, from about 9 O’clock, from tickling in larynx, (>) going to sleep. Tickling C., the tickling at one time in larynx, at another in chest, at another in cardiac orifice of stomach, the mucus at one time round and gray, at another tenacious and yellow, at another watery, rarely at night, always with nasal mucus; violent tickling, from contact with open air; with expectoration of mucus.
Expectoration of blood; difficult E. becomes loose; (E. of lumps of gray mucus on coughing and on sneezing).
Suffocative sensation if anything reaches larynx; S. sensation, with the throat troubles; when coughing. Inability to breathe, with necessity to sit up, then rattling of mucus like peas boiling, with alternations of cold and heat in stomach, general chill and flushes of heat, risings into oesophagus, with nausea, whereby only mucus is raised. Respiration difficult; in evening after eating a little; constantly obliged to take a deep breath, (<) sitting. Sighing during fever, with pressure in chest. Short breath; with depression of spirits. Paroxysmal rattling at night in sleep.
Clinical Various forms of laryngitis, aphonia, catarrhal or paralytic; laryngitis, catarrhal, croupous or diphtheritic; in all these forms of disease there is extreme sensitiveness of the larynx to external touch, and especially a feeling of suffocations and constriction, so that the patient cannot bear anything tight about the throat; the cough is spasmodic, suffocative and wakens from sleep, the pain extending from l. side of larynx into ear. In diphtheritic croup there is a purplish hue of the face, with suffocation, extreme fetor of the exhalations, albuminuria, great prostration, etc. Whooping cough, the fits repeatedly awaken the child out of sleep. Asthmatic attacks preventing sleep, intolerance of the least pressure about the neck or chest, (>) expectoration. The chest symptoms point to the use of the drug in bronchial catarrh and pneumonia of the subacute or chronic form; in these diseases the cough is suffocative and wakens from sleep. In pneumonia when there is threatening abscess, with muttering delirium. In threatening paralysis of the lungs, with albuminuria, the patient is unable to sleep on account of great distress for breath, or if he falls asleep he is immediately awakened by the necessity to breathe. Dyspnoea so great that the patient has to sit up, cannot lie down on account of suffocative fulness in chest, and cannot bear anything tight about neck or chest. Frequently indicated in coughs of nervous or reflex origin, for instance, from inflammation of ovaries or of pelvic viscera, or nervous cough at the climacteric without symptoms of local inflammation. Emphysema. Hydrothorax.
Chest
Jerks. Sticking; in l.; in l. nipple; through C. on coughing; in l., (<) coughing and breathing, with sticking in l. knee, drawing in fibula and down into foot, and sticking in r. ankle; through l. breast, not much (<) inspiration and cough; in lower forepart, extending inward; making respiration difficult. Feeling as if labor-pains extended into breasts. Pain; in l.; in sternum; beneath l. breast; beneath breast and drawing extending upward; all the afternoon, and in night, in evening frequent pulse; in sternum at night; with burning in chest; beneath short ribs on breathing; extending inward in lower part of ribs. Pain at night, so that he could not touch it; with a swollen feeling. Soreness; extending to between shoulders, (<) eating.
Pressure upon it as if full of wind. Feeling as if wind rose into it and became fixed, (>) eructations. Heavy pressure in the whole. Tightness; suffocative, in evening after lying down. Oppression in evening; O. in sleep; on becoming heated; after getting feet cold; suddenly disappearing; alternating with clawing in anus. Throbbing; and in abdomen. Bubbling. Orgasm. Heat externally; H. in r. lower part, afterwards extending to axilla, with pressure in pit of stomach. Stiffness and pain on pressure at insertion of sterno-cleido-mastoid. Affections at night.
Clinical Inflammation of breasts, with suppuration and bluish appearance, extreme sensitiveness of the nipples.
Heart and Pulse
Cramplike pain in praecordial region, causing palpitation, with anxiety. Pressure about heart during fever. Constriction of heart. Palpitation; causing anxiety. She feels the beat of the heart, with weakness, even to sinking down. Pulse rapid and small, and skin hot; P. increased in evening after moderate exercise, full and hard, with profuse sweat.
Clinical It is not infrequently indicated in all the inflammatory diseases of the heart, with the symptoms of palpitation, suffocation, intolerance of pressure about the heart, with pain and numbness in l. arm, and a feeling as if the heart were growing up and suffocating him; it is extremely useful in atheromatous arteries and in chronic aortitis, with terrible dyspnoea. Nervous affections of the heart, palpitations; feeling as if the heart turned over, and very irregular action of the heart. Hypertrophy of the heart. Angina pectoris.
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.