Temples. Shattering in T. and chest during cough. Sticking; at 11 A.M.; from 7 to 8 P.M., (<) behind mastoid processes; in l. T. and in r. side of occiput; in l., extending to l. side of forehead. Thrust during difficult stool. Jerking tearing radiating into r. half of head. Aching; at night, with dreams of it; on every step, not during rest, now r., now l.; screwing together, as if forehead would burst, during menstruation; drawing, in l., extending into forehead; paralytic.
Vertex. Sticking; at night, with pressure; in V. and sides of head when reading; deep inward. Tearing from noon till 7 P.M., extending to l. shoulder; in upper part and sides of head in evening. Pain during moderate pressure at stool, with roaring in front of ears; P. extending to l. temple, in afternoon, when riding in a carriage; as in coryza. Throbbing.
Sides. Tearing through l. into ear; T. in l., with heaviness. Pain in r. side of brain; P. in l. side externally, extending into ear and teeth, (<) evening, reading, writing and pressure on temples, as, for example, from the spectacles; drawing in r. extending to nape. Attacks of throbbing in r. in afternoon.
Occiput. Sticking; at night, with throbbing; with slow pulse. Tearing; in a spot near l. side of nape. Pinching behind ear. Aching; and throbbing; in r. half extending towards ear; as if scalp were inflamed, in morning; jerking, extending to vertex, in evening; burning, in eminences. Heaviness; (<) motion, with confused pain in forehead. Fills with blood after stooping.
Skull. Pain; jerking.
Scalp. Hair became very gray (compare Arsen.). Great falling of hair (Graphites, Sepia, Sul.); but in other parts of the body it increases. Eruption, with swelling of cervical glands. Boil on occiput; and scurf over whole scalp, which the child scratches raw at night and which then bleeds. Suppuration. Twitching in places. Shocks. Tearing stitches. Tearing in upper part of r. side of forehead; T. when walking in open air. Cutting from a little cold air, takes cold easily in head; C. transversely across between forehead and vertex. Spasmodic constriction. Contracted sensation, with feeling as if the hair would be pulled up; feeling in upper part of l. side like a drawing on a single hair. Painful tension, (<) above forehead, with painful drawing about root of nose. Sensitiveness. Itching; and on face as far as beard. Corrosion, necessity to scratch. Formication in forenoon when walking in open air, with feeling as if hair were drawn gently upward.
Clinical It has been used in tubercular meningitis, sleep with half-open eyes and moaning. Chronic hydrocephalus, with screaming out in sleep, but without general Apis symptoms.
Eyes
Surrounded by blue rings. Sunken. Swelling of r., with hard mucus in inner canthus, pain and lachrymation. Inflammation, with itching in canthi, with redness and swelling of r. lids, distressing pain on eyes getting dry, with nightly aggravations (Sulphur); I. of whites; I., with burning pain and mucus, and with redness and dimness of whites and redness and swelling of lids; with redness of whites, swelling of lids, sticking, photophobia, lachrymation and nightly agglutination; with redness and sticking from 5 till 10 P.M. Redness and pain; in white; R. of white, with biting lachrymation. Dimness; in morning; in evening; and weakness. Mucus; and she must wipe them to see more clearly (Euphras.); purulent, with smarting; dry, with pain, lachrymation and pale face.
Sticking; (<) morning, without redness; in l. Tearing about E., extending into forehead and cheeks. Scraping in l. as from a foreign body. Smarting when writing on dark paper. Pain; in forenoon, with sleepiness; in l. in evening, with sensation as if a veil were before it; so that she could scarcely open them in evening; in l., (<) moving it and fixing eyes on an object, especially if of variegated colors, it began to tremble; tensive, in l.; as if dust were in them, also in morning, with difficulty in opening them; as if something were in r. Bruised pain; as if they would fall out, so that he cannot look sharply, after 1. P.M., (<) evening. Constriction. Feeling as if pressed into orbits. Compression, with tense skin over cheek-bones. Dryness; in morning, with difficulty in opening, and also with smarting (Sepia, Silicea); beneath lids, as from dust, in morning on waking; with necessity to close them. Heaviness and weariness, as if sleepy from looking. Biting in r. as from smoke, with drawing together of lids. Itching. Coldness in evening. Burning (Zn.); in l.; if she closes them; after dinner, with disinclination to talk and dim vision; and itching; and lachrymation.
Lachrymation; of r. in afternoon; in open air; in a raw wind. Pupils dilated a few days before and during menstruation. Ball, tearing in r.; pain in r., causing lachrymation; prickling, now in one, now in the other; burning in l. Throbbing pain about outer part of orbits. Brows, sticking; sudden sticking tearing in r. at noon; tearing drawing pain in l. Canthi, dry mucus in inner in morning; pressure in internal; itching; biting in external, at twilight, with lachrymation as from smoke.
Lids. Ulceration and redness, with smarting lachrymation; styes (Pulsatilla); towards inner canthus. Pustules. Inflammation, with pain and nightly agglutination of external canthi. Swelling of l.; S. and pain, with nightly agglutination of canthi. Agglutination in morning; of l.; A., (<) night, especially of external canthi. Mucus in lashes. Twitching; of r. upper; of l. lower, towards inner canthus. Trembling of upper in forenoon; spasmodic, of l. upper, with at times sticking in l. eye. Sticking on margin of r. upper. Pain on touch. Smarting and burning; S. and dryness, they cannot be opened in morning (Sulphur, Zincum met.); (S., with burning and biting). Pressure on r. upper. Heaviness; during the day, (<) bright light; of l. upper in evening, with burning. Agglutinated feeling in morning. Itching of r. upper. Burning in evening on closing them, (<) l.
Vision. Blinded by the evening light, he sees nothing upon the table. Sees only l. half of an object. (Lithium carb., r.), especially with r. eye. Vanishes on reading or exerting eyes. Sensitiveness to daylight. Weak; in evening by the light, with pain on turning eyes; with necessity to press eyes on account of pain. Flickering (Cyclamen, Sulphur); after afternoon nap, and dim; on going to sleep; like air in summer heat. Trembling of objects at which he looks intently in evening by the light, especially the light itself. Letters run together when reading. Letters indistinct when writing. Dim, as through a fine lattice; D., he is obliged to hold the print sometimes near, sometimes far off; as from a glutinous moisture in eyes, which he cannot wipe away. (As through a cobweb or fog, in morning). Far-sighted. Of black floating spots at a short distance from eyes (Cyclamen, Sulphur); of black spots after a meal, (<) shaking head, with pain (<) l. Of sparks in the dark; of S., (<) open air.
Clinical Polypus in external canthus. Hordeolum. Catarrhal conjunctivitis. Purulent ophthalmia, with associated inflammation of the cornea in the chronic stage. Many cases of hemeralopia dependent upon chronic degenerative changes in the retina. Cataract has been arrested. Asthenopia.
Ears
Suppuration and discharge. Discharge from l., which had been dry many years. Sticking; on blowing nose, with difficult speech; behind E., extending into jaws; outward in l. on swallowing; tearing, twinging, forcing-asunder, with feeling as if too narrow and as if it would burst. Tearing on r.; behind l.; in meatus; in l. concha. Aching in open air; A. behind ears, obliging him to walk bent over. Sensation as if it had been scraped. Jerking in middle. Pressure on back of r. concha. Feeling as if something were forced into middle. Dragging towards E. Feeling of forcing of hot blood. Rush of blood. Throbbing in front of E. in morning and evening; T., with tension, and with spasmodic tension of skin behind ears, extending obliquely into muscles of nape. Bubbling; in front of E. during the day. Biting behind r. and on side of it, with sore feeling. Itching in E.
Hearing. Sensitiveness to noise (Silicea); when walking. Diminished. Hissing. Ringing in r., every noise had a peculiar echo deep in ear. Whistling on blowing nose; W. in front of E. evenings. Roaring; and humming; with obstruction and hardness of hearing. Humming in front of r.; in front of E., with roaring; H. in l.; internally in head, with heat. Whirring, with obstruction. Noises. Hears in the evening the music that she heard played during the day.
Clinical Numerous cases of chronic deafness, with and without otorrhoea, especially after scarlet fever. Polypus. Eczema of external ear, especially behind ear (compare Graphites).
Nose
Ulceration of inner surface, covered with a scab, which when removed speedily formed again; painful U. inside. Swelling of tip, with pain on touch; S. at tip, with pain, and red spot as if a pustule would form. Throbbing jerking in r. wing. Cutting soreness high up in r. side of septum in evening in bed. Tearing in r. side extending to canthus. Pain on pressure, as if in mucous membrane, (<) towards root; corrosive P. in l. nostril on moving nose or putting finger into it; biting, corrosive P. in r. nostril. Pressure in bone close to r. eye. Stoppage; towards morning; in evening (Pulsatilla); and the child’s breath is often stopped in sleep for fifteen seconds, even when the mouth is open; with inclination to sneeze; of upper part. Dryness; in morning; in morning, with stoppage; in evening, with stoppage; with stoppage at root (K-bi.). Drawing in r. side. Tension in r. wing. Muscles feel at first as if stretched, afterwards contracted. Tickling, without ability to sneeze. Itching in nostrils. Heat.
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.