Sensitiveness to pressure (Bryonia); in pit; S. of epigastric region to touch (Bryonia); S. of epigastric region after dinner. Digestion slow. Digestion slow. Discomfort after eating a little. Heaviness two hours after breakfast. Sensation as if disordered. Constriction extending into chest, all day, with cramp. Tension in s. and hypochondria, with fulness; T. beneath stomach, as if everything were too tight, with soreness on chest; sticking T. in pit on breathing. Anxiety in pit (Arsenicum); in pit of people come near her; in pit, as in rapid passive motion, for instance, swinging. Throbbing in pit; on straightening upper part of body. Emptiness before dinner, causing yawning. Sensation as after long fasting, after dinner, but without hunger. Burning, and in abdomen; B. in afternoon; at 9 P.M.; extending to pharynx. Heartburn; in morning when smoking as usual, with nausea, so that he must lie down; after smoking; after eating, (<) tobacco-smoke; after every meal, with sour eructations and burning in pit of stomach, which almost takes away the breath and makes him weak; after cold roast mutton, with pressure upon chest as from a stone; rising into chest, then acidity in mouth; causing acidity in mouth.
Clinical Canine hunger, but the attempt to eat is followed by flatulent distention and inability to take more food, or sometimes the flatulent distention immediately takes away the appetite; or sometimes a feeling of constant satiety, he feels too full before he has eaten anything, and cannot eat. Acid dyspepsia (Mag-c.), the region of the stomach becomes distended and extremely sensitive to touch. Gastralgia. Chronic dyspepsia, solid food causes excruciating pain and sometimes vomiting. Atonic dyspepsia, with bloating. Chronic gastritis, with burning pain and waterbrash. Scirrhus indurations of pyloric orifice of the stomach, with vomiting of blood, burning and extreme flatulence.
Abdomen
Distention (Carbo-v., Graphites, Mag-c., Sul.); in afternoon from 4 P.M. on; towards evening, with incarceration of flatus; towards evening, with much movement of flatus, colic in consequence and easy discharge of odorless flatus; after eating (Carb-v.), till evening, with tension, no desire to walk and he remains sitting; after eating, with heaviness; after eating to satiety; after a light meal, with pressure; after dinner, with tension in head; before menstruation; (<) evening, with urging to stool; (>) emission of flatus (Mag-c.), with rumbling; with hunger; with dragging towards rectum; with rumbling and pain, then diarrhoea; with cold feet. Flatulent distention; after stool (Carb-v.); after dinner, with burning pain in stomach and umbilical region, salivation, metallic taste, eructations of food, heartburn and frequent yawning; with frequent diarrhoea.
Flatulence; in evening, only a part of which is passed, with pressure in umbilical region; after eating, with empty eructations; here and there, in hypochondria, even in back in region of ribs and chest, causing tension and bubbling, (>) empty eructations; here and there, and most of the pains seemed caused thereby; with rumbling and tearing; with tension, pinching and dragging towards groins. Rumbling; in evening, with gurgling; at night on motion, with movements; after stool; when walking, with gurgling, also with eructations; with gurgling; with movements. REtention of flatus after sitting two hours; R., then bad feelings. Emissions of flatus. Offensive flatus; in morning; in morning, with relief; in evening; at night; sulphurous. Sinking in, clothing too loose. Jerks. Cramplike contraction. Cramp; in muscles at night, with hardness and pain.
Sticking in viscera, (<) r. side; S. extending through l. groin to thigh at noon; about abdomen like a ring, with pain in small of back. Twinging as before diarrhoea. Pinching after eating. Griping; all day; in morning; in morning, with desire for stool; from 3 till 10 P.M. (after a good stool), with nausea; on frequent waking; after eating; after breakfast; after a glass of wine and two eggs, with diarrhoea and sore pain, and during the night brown diarrhoea twice, with colic and urging, became warm after midnight and slept till 5 A.M., when there was diarrhoea again; (>) emission of flatus; with frequent diarrhoea, with several greenish stools without tenesmus; then diarrhoea; as in diarrhoea. Cutting about midnight, with vomiting and diarrhoea; C. before stool; before dinner, with pressure; on inspiration and when lying on back; then discharge of flatus; extending into genitals; extending into sides and hips, towards evening; paroxysmal, at night.
Pain; all day; all day, even in bed; in morning; in morning on waking; in morning on waking, with desire for stool, two stools, with griping, nausea, retching and aversion to food; at 4 A.M., with ineffectual urging to stool; after midday meal; in afternoon when walking; after rising; before dinner; from a glass of wine, with disturbance in chest; (<) region of transverse colon (Sepia, Petrol.), also during a long walk, and lasting into the night; (<) 9 A.M. by the usual coffee, with milk; (<) eating; (>) a carriage ride from 10 to 12 A.M., but distressing fulness remained, and after a moderate meal griping in abdomen, pain in stomach and anger at every trifle; frequently, (>) bending together, with offensive flatus, then watery diarrhoea; with diarrhoea; with sensitiveness of walls, extending to inguinal region, as after a long walk; as after taking cold; sore, in afternoon, (<) cool air, even the hernia is sensitive and not easy to reduce. Flatulent pain; (>) walking, with tension, eructations and scanty emissions of flatus. Drawing pain; extending into calves.
Tension; and incarceration of flatus; (<) evening, with desire for stool. Sensitiveness of skin; S. to pressure, (<) epigastric region (Bryonia); S. to touch in morning. Pulsation, with anxiety as from cramp. Heaviness. Rising of heat to head, with burning in l. side of face, anxiety, cold sweat on face, necessity to go into open air, with weakness.
Hypochondria. – Gurgling in l. Painless jerking in surface of liver on coughing. Sticking in region of spleen; in hepatic region; in hepatic region in evening; in l. at 8 A.M., also in r. at 3 P.M., lasting till next afternoon; pinching, in r. Pinching in hepatic region. Griping in hepatic region when coughing or turning body. Sharp pressure beneath last r. ribs on deep inspiration and on bending sideways, also pressing on r. side of lower abdomen. Cramplike pain in hepatic region and diaphragm on stooping and from any other slight cause, as if liver were wrenched. Bruised pain in r., (<) touch. Pain; in l. in afternoon. Pain in hepatic region; on touch; on breathing; with natural stool; in r. hypochondrium, at times (<) breathing and becoming sticking; raw P. in liver. Pressure outward in hepatic region. Constriction taking away the breath. Painful tension in l.; T. in lower hepatic region, with pressure. Unpleasant and distended feeling in hepatic region if she eats to satiety. Itching within liver.
Rumbling in l. side. Pressure in r. side; in middle of l.; drawing, in l. at night. Weight in l. when walking, sitting and lying, not affecting breathing. Cutting in upper abdomen in morning in bed, lasting till afternoon, (<) walking. Intermittent bubbling, tearing in a spot in middle of upper, extending towards l. side. Sharp pressure on a spot in middle of upper. Pain in upper, as from flatulence,, retracting abdomen, (>) empty eructations.
Umbilical Region. – Burning stitches in r. side; tearing S. below U. region on waking at 2 A.M. Cutting towards 4 P.M. Griping; even in morning in bed, with pinching; waking at 2 A.M. from a restless sleep full of frightful dreams, with ineffectual urging to diarrhoea; in forenoon; with urging to stool; below umbilicus, with urging to stool, (>) soft stool; outward from r. side, extending towards hips and somewhat lower down. Pain; in morning, with yellowish, watery stool; at 2 P.M.; below umbilicus after midnight, so that he must bend together; (<) cough and deep inspiration; obliging her to bend double; with emission of offensive flatus; and in hypochondria; extending towards spine, so that she can scarcely bear her clothing, (<) bending backward, at times rising to pit of stomach, where it is a pressure; pulling pain below umbilicus before, during and after stool, with intolerance of hard pressure. Sensitiveness to pressure, with pain in umbilicus as if a worm rose to pit of stomach.
Hypogastrium. – Glandular swelling in groins; red S. in r. groin, with suppurative pain on motion and touch. Inguinal hernia protrudes after menstruation, with tearing; (hernia easier to reduce than usual, though constantly protruding). Rumbling, in afternoon, with gurgling. Cramp transversely across H. and in uterus after stool, (<) soft stool. Sticking in r. groin; in groins in evening; in l. iliac region, next day also in r.; in r. groin, with pressure; low down in r. side, extending to pelvis, on every breath and when turning body, (<) evening and night; extending to pelvic and inguinal regions, with dragging; extending into H. and groins at 2 A.M., with twinging; tearing, in locality of hernia; boring, above l. groin. Pulsating tearing outward near r. flank. Cutting at night; C. after dinner, then sticking extending into tip of glans penis; in groins in evening. Intermittent pinching in l. Pain in groin; P. in locality of hernia; near now r. now l. hip; in r. side all day, obliging him to walk bent over and to lie down, with short breath; in groins and back on waking; on touch and on purposely taking short, rapid breaths, which also shake the body; in region of l. groin. Drawing in groins as if menstruation would occur, in one too old; pinching D. low down. Dragging towards groins; towards l. G. after a glass of wine, with swelling as if a hernia would form; as before menstruation, sixteen days after previous menstruation. Pressure outward in r. groin; in l. G., then bubbling in inguinal ring. Sensation as if water were running through r. inguinal ring into scrotum. Pulsation deep in r. groin.
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.