Ovarian Region. Shooting in l. and bearing down when standing, (>) sitting down. Stinging darting pain all day. Tearing extending down sides of hypogastrium. Cutting in l. in evening and night, extending across lower part of abdomen, (>) gentle rubbing with a warm hand. Sharp pain. Grasping pain in l. and in l. groin, with pain in r. hip extending down thigh. Pain in r. and in back; P. when walking, (<) l., extending down anterior and inner aspect of l. thigh, as if it would be impossible to step, with constant necessity to extend and flex the limb on account of restlessness, at length she went to sleep on back with knees and thighs flexed; aching and burning pain (<) r. (Apis); P. and feeling like coals, afterwards the pain in r. increased till it seemed as if a knife were inserted into the ovary and ripped down groin and anterior part of thigh, the pain extended over lumbo-sacral region and to r. hypochondrium, (>) pressure on ovary; oppressive P. in r., (<) deep inspiration and motion (Pallad.). Drawing pain in l., (>) 10 A.M. by gentle pressure. Gnawing dragging in r., (<) walking (Podophyllum), with feeling as if something were shaking loose whenever the r. foot was planted firmly. Weight in l. Soreness on pressure, (<) r. (Podophyllum, Pallad.); l., with at times darting to groin and to pubes in front; l., the pain grasping and extending across lower part of abdomen, the pain (>) rubbing and moderate pressure. Constant irritation.
Menstruation. Freer than usual, relieving the headache, after flowing twenty-four hours ceased for twelve, then recurred. Not one-fourth as much as usual, then profuse, acrid, bright yellow leucorrhoea. Delayed, scanty and of short duration. Ceased as soon as she ceased to move. Recurred after two weeks, a slight, dark, thick discharge, smelling like lochia. Discharge of bright blood from vagina (for the first time in two years), with heavy pain and weakness in loins.
Desire increased (in a woman); (>) during physical effort, increasing until suddenly ended by an orgasm, during these attacks a hurried feeling as of imperative duties and inability to perform them, afterwards mental depression and apprehension of moral obliquity, then sudden return of the sexual excitement, this alternation lasted more than four months; sudden excitement, with disposition to use obscene language, then sluggishness and despondency, then hurried feeling of being impelled to work without herself desiring to work.
Clinical Most of the symptoms of this drug seem to be referred to the sexual organs of women; it causes severe uterine neuralgia and feeling of heaviness and pressure in pelvis, especially pressure against the rectum with ineffectual efforts to evacuate the bowels; these symptoms have repeatedly pointed to its use in retroversion of the uterus. It has proved valuable, at least as a palliative, in some cases of chronic metritis, and curative in many cases of prolapsus and of both anteversion and retroversion, particularly with the pressure against the rectum. With the rectal symptoms it has been prescribed for dysentery, with tenderness over the ovarian region, etc., it is also valuable for troubles in the bladder with the same symptoms. The desire to press upward against the vulva or to hold up the abdominal walls is similar to the symptoms of Sepia, but in Lilium there is generally much more tenderness and more shooting pains. Very free leucorrhoea, often excoriating, with distress on urinating. With the uterine displacements and ovarian pains we very commonly find palpitation and numerous nervous symptoms about the heart, as if the heart were grasped, as if it contained too much blood, tremulous feeling, etc., etc., sometimes terrible pain running up the back to the vertex, spasmodic contractions of muscles, etc., etc. The ovarian symptoms should be compared with those of Palladium, Podophyllum and Apis.
Respiratory Organs
Voice could not be controlled when singing. A single dry cough. Dry hacking cough in evening, (>) open air. Short breath; after 2 P.M., with oppression; in evening and night, with frequent inclination to sigh; when walking, (<) ascending stairs. Hard breathing at night, with frequent desire to take a long breath. Desire to take a long breath, with frequent sighing, which seems to come from lower part of abdomen.
Chest
Sticking in l. mamma, with drawing extending to shoulder and neck. Sharp and quick pain in l., with fluttering of heart; S. pain in l. mamma. Sharp twinges in l. in morning, then drawing extending to clavicle. Cutting in mammae at night, (>) change of position, extending from l. M. to scapula and to spine; C. in l. mamma at night, extending to scapula, (<) lying on that side. Crampy pain in l. mamma and shoulder. Sharp pains through r. lung, (<) open air. Fine pains in r., sometimes gnawing, with lameness and soreness of muscles and desire to stretch the parts, the lameness extending through to r. scapula, next day the gnawing and fine pains increased and extended over to the side. Pain in l.; and at shoulder; in l. mamma in morning; in l. mamma and under l. scapula in evening and night; in mamma at 10 P.M. after lying on l. side, with heaviness in it and grasping sensation extending to l. scapula and down that side to lumbar region; in l. mamma and side, (<) lying down, with constriction and oppressed breathing; under sternum, towards middle lobe of r. lung, (>) pressure and sighing; in l. mamma, with drawing in l. axilla and shoulder; in l. mamma, passing under scapula to spine. Sore pain in upper part of breast.
Constriction; a hand’s breadth below l. mamma; in l. at 2 A.M., extending to r. side, (>) change of position, but lasting till after rising in morning, with sharp pain running to throat, clavicle and l. axilla; in l. at 6 P.M., (<) lying down; in lower third, (<) towards morning, with oppressed breathing; with feeling as if he would suffocate, but as if it would be relieved if the blood shut up in the heart could be discharged, slightly (>) deep sighing; under l. floating ribs, extending to neck and l. scapula. Oppression at 8 A.M., with heat, a kind of ebullition, must go into the open air for relief; O. (<) in evening, with congested feeling; in lower third at night, with oppressed breathing towards morning; (>) sighing. Tightness; of l. in evening. Weight. Full feeling, and in abdomen. Congestion in afternoon; during the chills, with constriction and feeling as if it might be relieved by letting out blood; feeling of C. if the desire to urinate is not attended to. Hot, congested feeling. Nervous feeling in l.
Heart
Twitchings around; in forenoon. Pain; (<) exercise; (<) stooping, leaning forward or bowing, in afternoon, (<) lying down at night, (>) morning and forenoon; sharp pain; paroxysmal sharp pain, leaving general weakness; sharp pain in apex, (>) rest, with a hurried, forcing feeling, faintness and fluttering, as if she must sit still, feeling as if she must breathe quickly, yet she does not; quick pain, with labored breathing when walking rapidly or ascending steps. Pain as if grasped, waking him suddenly (Cact.); the grasping gradually relaxed, interrupting pulsations of heart and breathing, (>) rubbing and pressure. Heavy pain. Heaviness; all afternoon;(<)night in bed, with palpitation when lying on l. side. Fluttering sensation after walking, this with other symptoms (>) busying herself.
Fluttering, with sharp and quick pain in l. chest. Weak action in afternoon. Palpitation; from slight exercise; in bed or during siesta, with beating of arteries. Intermittent action, after every intermission a violent throbbing, causing involuntary catching of breath, at the same time rush of blood through carotids to head, causing heat and crowded feeling in head and face.
Pulse
Rapid. Small and weak. Irregular, increased by slight motion. Circulation weak, P. at wrist imperceptible on slight compression, sphygmographic tracings very low, but regular.
Neck
Pain in nape, with constriction. Soreness in cervical and occipital muscles, (<) thirst.
Back
Pain; in evening, (>) after midnight; with nausea; between scapulae; sore, in region of scapula; in lower dorsal vertebrae as if back would break. Soreness of spine, with stiffness; (<) lumbar region.
Lumbar Region. Shooting across. Gnawing at night, (<) bed. Sharp pain at night, extending over r. hip to umbilical region, temporarily (>) rubbing. Pain; in sacrum; in lower part of sacrum; in sacrum all day; in morning on rising, (>) evening; in afternoon and evening, and in sacrum; at night, occasionally transferred to between scapulae in morning; in sacrum, (<) standing, with pressure downward in hypogastrium; between hips, not much (>) lying, with pressure downward at anus; across lumbo-sacral region, with pressure upon rectum; in spine, spreading to kidneys; as if it would break, on bending forward. Heavy pain and weakness. Drawing pain in sacrum in morning, (<) moving; D. pain near r. hip on changing position in bed, (<) rising up. Pulling upward and forward from tip of os coccygis.
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.