Sadness (Natrum mur., Ignatia); all day, with weeping and discontent; in evening (Pulsatilla); with confusion, of head. Despair (Ignatia). Despondent and weak. Hypochondriac, complaining. Apprehension when walking in open air, with attacks of vertigo. Anxiety; in forenoon, with internal chilliness like internal trembling; in evening (Pulsatilla), with semi-confusion before eyes; on walking after midnight, so that she could not get her breath; on falling asleep; as if about to die, in morning after deep sleep; then inclination to laugh at trifles, then weeping. Fear; all day; of going to bed in the evening; in the evening in the dark, when a door that he wishes to open moves with difficulty; in evening, of fancied images, and lachrymose mood during the day; in evening on entering a room, as if he saw someone, even during the day he believes that he hears some one in the room; frightened easily, starting up. Sensitive, cried about being thanked. Weeping with the chill. Cries and howls about past, then about future troubles. Disinclined to talk; and inclined to weep. Indecision and loss of confidence. Loss of confidence in his own vigor. Listlessness.
Speaks wrong words and syllabus. Difficulty in expressing himself, (<) evening. Confusion about everyday things (Sepia), but rational talking on abstract subjects; C. of ideas when reading; C. of thought and difficulty in reflecting, causing Dullness of head and dimness of vision. Thoughts stand still, mind helpless, like a confusion, without obscuration of mind. Inability to read because he does not recognized letters, he can copy them, but has no idea of their significance, he knows that Z is the last letter of the alphabet, but has forgotten its name, writes whatever he wishes, but cannot read what he has written. Distraction; frequently during earnest conversation after dinner; as in beginning of fever. (Thoughts difficult to fix, (<) when reading). Inability to comprehend or remember what is read. Dull in evening after a cup of milk, and without thought. Stupefaction (Opium, Ph. ac., Sepia); in morning, as if intoxicated, difficulty in keeping erect, tottering, weakness of feet and vertigo; towards evening, with heat in temples and ears, and it seems as if everything would vanish from her; on reading, with heaviness of head, sleepiness, falling asleep. Memory weak. (Anacardium); forgets words (Belladonna, K-brom.). Disinclination for work; for mental work; D. to work or think in afternoon. Inclination for mental work.
Clinical A remedy of great value in mental torpor, especially valuable for old people, for forgetfulness of words and syllables, and confusion of ideas generally. Lack of mental steadiness; want of self-confidence. Great mental and nervous weakness, with physical relaxation. Melancholia. Hypochondriasis, often misanthropic and irritable. Very easily frightened and startled.
Head
Turned involuntarily to the left. Involuntary nodding, now to r., now to l.; I. nodding, slow at first, then constantly more rapid. Involuntary shaking, making him dizzy; shaking head on stepping hard; S. and jerking in H. Sticking jerking during cough. Sticking; in forenoon, (<) occiput; (<) evening; in brain; (<) parietal eminences; intermittent, after menstruation; with seething sensation. Tearing; in afternoon, then toothache at night; (>) appearance of painless swelling of cheek; rheumatic. Every step is felt in H., and a shock in brain on every motion.
Aching; in morning; towards noon; in afternoon; in afternoon, (<) stooping; in afternoon, (<) l. frontal sinus and in region of l. malar-bone; at 1. P.M., with heat; from 4 to 8 P.M., with tearing in temples; till 7 P.M., with great appetite and increased sweat; in evening; during ravenous hunger, (>) eating; on waking, with pain in abdomen; on stooping; when reading; when reading while sitting, with pulsation; after stool, with heat in it and weariness of thighs; during cough, with pain in sides of abdomen; (<) shaking and turning head; (<) lying; worse during rest than when walking in open air; with stupefaction; with heat of face; with heat of face and hands; almost like a tearing, during menstruation; like a clang through head, as from the snapping of a piano-string; jerking, at night, preventing sleep; as if head would be forced asunder and as if brain were swashing to and fro, (<) walking, ascending steps and rising from stooping; so that he cold not work and could scarcely step without having a kind of vertigo; more pressive than constrictive, in morning on rising; throbbing, after every paroxysm of cough (Natrum mur.); undulating, with burning of face; wandering, at night, making the head heavy, she does not know where to lay it on account of the pain; at night, as from lying in an unnatural position.
Confusion; on waking at 3 A.M.; in morning; in morning, with heaviness and also with heat in it; in morning on waking, with heat in it; in afternoon, with pain in l. frontal region; in evening, (<) in and above eyes; in evening, with heat of it and weariness of limbs, ill humor and sleepiness; after being much in open air; on waking; on waking, with pressure upon chest, (>) expectoration of consistent, purulent mucus; (>) sneezing; with feeling as if a board were before it; with pressure in forehead as from suppressed catarrh, with dryness of mouth and lips, and thirst; with nausea; periodic; as from a disordered stomach; as from intoxication; so that she cannot express her ideas, with internal tension; dizzy, (<) reading; dizzy, in forenoon, with sensation as if eyes were lying deep, with difficult thought and understanding.
Heaviness; in morning on waking, as if stupid and sleepy; in evening after mental exertion, with weakness. Stupefaction in afternoon; in morning, as if intoxicated. Empty feeling when thinking, with inability to fix his thoughts. Throbbing in brain during the day on leaning head backward; T. in brain, with heat in head; in evening after lying down; during cough; like a chopping (with sour eructations). Rush of blood; in morning on waking. Vertigo; in morning; in morning during and after rising (Bryonia, Pul.); in morning, with heaviness in eyes; towards evening; towards evening, with anxiety; at night on waking, with nausea; on drinking; after breakfast; in a hot room; on rising from a seat; as if everything would turn about with her, in forenoon, with nausea; as if he would fall forward at noon; so that he was in danger of falling forward, at 1 P.M., when standing and talking. As soon as she sees anything turning about she feels as if her body were turning about.
Forehead. Sticking; in region of eye; in l. side; in l. eminence; and in temples and l. ear; (on reading and reflecting); above r. eye, in temple and occiput at night, with tearing; constant, on eating, then on moving isolated stitches; in eminences at 6 P.M., alternating with throbbing; outward, by paroxysms, during the day. Tearing at 7 P.M., with thirst and heat; T. in r. eminence and brow at 2 P.M., with heat in these places and in eye; above eyes and extending into them, in morning; jerking, in r. bone, extending to root of nose and eyebrow; radiating, in and over l. eminence, extending to l. side. Boring in l. side, extending to root of nose. Aching; between eyes; in l. side; in morning; on rising and all the forenoon, with weakness; in forenoon, with heat of head; in afternoon; in afternoon when riding in a carriage, with pressure in stomach; at 9 P.M., with heat and redness of face; in evening, (<) l. side; on waking; above eyes after breakfast; on eating; beginning when writing; when riding in a carriage, with vertigo, stupefaction and heat of head, as after a night of debauchery; (>) open air; with heat; with heat of face; with desire to lie down; in sinciput, with inclination to eructations; frequent, sudden, with nausea and weakness; extending down nose, in morning; externally on touch; sore, (<) stooping; alternating with sticking, in morning; superficial, in upper part, extending to vertex, bones of cheeks, ear and jaw, (>) afternoon, returning in evening; as from a nail in middle above hairy part; contractive, in muscles of F. and face; as if head were compressed from both sides; (heavy, in F. and vertex in forenoon after reading and reflecting). Throbbing pain in middle from 3 A.M. till evening; T. pain in forenoon, with heat in face; at noon; at 3 P.M.; in afternoon, with heat and redness of face; in l. sinus and eminence in evening; with heat of face; tearing, in r. eminence and brow in evening. Throbbing in sinciput in evening, which afterwards is tensive and extends across occiput to nape. Pressure outward, with drawing through r. side of face, over shoulder and arm. Pressing asunder in F. and above eyes, extending to vertex, with nausea and trembling in limbs. Painful confusion; in morning. Heaviness in l. half. Swollen feeling. Drawing up of skin, with enlarged opening of lids, then drawing down of skin, with closing of eyes.
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.