Anxiety; beneath heart after violent exertion, on stretching body, with pressure and tendency to pass into sadness. Distress, (>) excessive eructations, with nausea and ability to speak only in a low tone. Pulsation towards evening when lying; P., with sweetish taste in mouth. Burning beneath sternum in forenoon; B. below lower third of sternum when reading.
Heart
Sticking in praecordial region; taking away the breath. Pulsating tearing in praecordial region. Pressure in praecordial region. Pressure in praecordial region after eating, with sticking extending to middle of chest and pit of stomach. Pulsation in P. region, or bubbling internally, not associated with beating of heart. Palpitation; from 4 till 5 A.M.; in morning, (>) a glass of water with salt in it; in evening in bed; on ascending steps, with cough; with rapid pulse; tremulous; anxious, at night on turning over; sudden, after exhaustion, with yawning.
Clinical Carotid aneurism is reported to have been cured (Baryta carb.)
Pulse
Rapid; at 10 A.M., with very cheerful mood; and full; with coldness of face and hands.
Neck
Swollen glands; internally and externally; hard on sides. Involuntary stretching now forward, now backward; at one time I. stretching, at another contraction of muscles. Twitching of muscles and constriction, almost taking away the breath; in morning. Sticking in glands on swallowing extending into ears; jerking S. from N. to r. foot. Tearing extending into r. shoulder, only in evening in bed and at night; extending into shoulder-joint during rest and ar night when lying, preventing sleep, (>) lying on painful side, (<) during the day if the parts are cold, (>) motion. Drawing pinching griping up sides.
Pain; in nape; in a spot in nape; on outer side towards nape; in nape on bending head backward; jerking, extending up r. muscles. Drawing pain in l. muscles; in outer muscles, extending to shoulders and elbows. sprained pain in nape; with sensitiveness to touch. Spasmodic constriction in nape after dinner. Tensive pain in N. and shoulders on walking in open air, with stiffness; T. pain in N. and occiput when writing. Tension in muscles; T. in nape and sides of neck. Nape feels too short on stooping. Stiffness (Zn.); of nape; of l. side; with confusion of head. A king of paralysis of muscles, head sinks forward, with dizziness (Gels), without inclination to lie down.
Back
Curvature of spine in a child. Shock extending towards vertex, so that he must hold on to head, when sitting after eating to satiety. Sticking in middle; S. on r. side in afternoon when walking, (<) deep inspiration; in l. side on breathing; extending to r. scapula; when sitting, extending in to small of back; paroxysmal, cramplike, in middle, preventing motion. Tearing near r. side of spine. Pinching; in r. side, with pain. Attacks of clawing and squeezing, then sticking in side, with blackness before eyes and necessity to lie down wherever she was. Pain when standing; P. extending to shoulders and small of back; in morning when sitting writing, sometimes over whole extents, sometimes in one place, as if a fist pressed against lower dorsal vertebrae, when there was a similar pressure on lower end of sternum, so I must hold my breath; sprained, in l. side extending into l. hypochondrium. Drawing pain; when sitting. Painful drawing in evening. Tension in B. and hips at noon; sticking, deep in; rheumatic, in B. and r. side of chest, (<) inspiration. Throbbing. Weariness when writing.
Scapulae. Twitching in l. Sticking between S.; beneath; beneath., beneath r., extending to small of back and head; posteriorly in region of r., corresponding to the sticking in forepart of chest; near inner margin, taking away the breath. Tearing below, near spine. Pain beneath; beneath r.; P. then burning on r.; rheumatic, in l., so that he could not raise arm to the head; drawing, between. Drawing between; in evening; D. in and near r. in evening. Tension in l. as from a drawing plaster. Bubbling beneath l. Stiffness extending down back.
Lumbar Region. Sticking; in region of l. Kidney; above region of r. kidney; in kidney region, (<) pressure; extending into rectum. Tearing in region of r. kidney; T. transversely across when sitting erect. Cramp at night (in a puerperal woman), extending to epigastric region, then to chest, making breathing difficult and causing anxiety. Pain; above hips; in region of r. kidney; in region of l. kidney; in morning on rising during menses, so that she could not move; at night, with sticking in hips and l. chest; when lying upon it with weakness; in first dorsal and lumbar vertebrae on touch and motion; (<) stooping and rising again; so that he cannot sit up straight; so that it draws the chest together, with pressure in stomach and constriction in abdomen; extending to hips; extending to feet; as if flesh were loosened; as if it would break, with hard stool and colic as if intestines would burst; bruised, when busy in the garden; drawing; tensive, when walking and standing. and in hips. Tension as from a hard substance. Constriction when sitting. Gurgling to left of, extending across it. Stiffness; after some exertions, as horseback-riding, walking and stooping, and in back.
Clinical In lumbago it especially useful after Bryonia
Extremities
Unsteadiness as in intoxication. Trembling; drawing. Movements almost as in chorea. Spasmodic contraction and extension almost without pain. Sticking now in r., now in l. elbow now in r., now in l. wrist and in knees; in last joint of r. index in afternoon, then suddenly in l. malleolus; S. and tearing in morning, now in l., now in r. shoulder, now suddenly into r. knee and r. wrist; sudden S. in l. great toe at 6 P.M., then tearing in l. fingers. Tearing here and there; T. in l. knee and r. wrist; in various joints, (<) finger-joints; in morning after a restless night full of dreams; sudden, in l. index at 7 P.M., then in r. knee.
Pain in limbs and shoulders in morning; P. on touch; in joints on motion. Drawing pain in wrists, l. fingers and l. knee, in evening; in second joints of l. index and middle fingers, at 7 P.M., then in l. knee. Drawing; in joints, (<) knees; in l.. hand and ankle in morning; with stretching; intermittent cramplike, in knees, forearms, hands and fingers.. Drawing tension in wrists and ankles in morning in bed. Weariness; of hands and feet; arms and feet; in morning on waking, (>) rising; arms and legs when walking; with heaviness, so that; he dreaded to ride horseback; sudden, at times, with fretfulness.. Heaviness; of arms and feet; at 4 A.M., with bruised sensation. Stiffness of all joints (Zincum met.). Asleep at night; fingers and toes A.; arms, hands and feet, with crawling. All affected.
Clinical A valuable remedy in chronic rheumatism, always worse till evening and in warmth, pains (<) r. side. Chronic gout, with chalky deposits in joints. Chronic rheumatism of hands; hands and fingers swollen and stiff, etc.
Upper Extremities
Axillary glands swollen. Pulsating tearing beneath r. axilla.
Shoulder. Jerking upward of one or other. Sticking, and in l. forearm; in region of S.; in l. S., elbow and wrist all day, with intermittent tearing; in l. when walking about while dressing; on r., repeated when writing after breakfast; with tearing in arm; sudden, in l. in afternoon when writing and from l. elbow alone inner surface of forearm to fingers. Tearing; in l.; in l. and in wrist; in r. in morning, and in l. elbow; in l. in morning, with feeling as of a wind upon it; in joints in evening; during rest, and in elbows.. Sharp pressure backward in a spot on l. near neck. Pain sudden, from joint alone ulna to wrist in evening, with external sensitiveness of the part. Sprained pain in joint; in r. joint; sudden; in l., then in r. Bruised feeling in r. joint, scapula and upper arm. Paralytic pain in joint, so that he could not raise the arm. Drawing pain in S. and elbows in forenoon; D. pain from l. to hand, at times like electric shocks. Drawing in l. in evening in bed; D. now in r., now in l., with tearing; painful, in r. Rheumatic tension in r. joint.
Arm. Flexed at elbow (in a child), it cannot be stretched nor touched on account of pain. Jerking; at night, with weakness of it. Tearing in l. extending to thumb and dorsal surface of metacarpal bone, with sensation of dryness and heat in arm; intermittent T. in r. all day. Muscles sensitive to touch. Drawing pain in l. in forenoon, extending to wrist; D. pain in l. extending to fingers; in bones extending into fingers. Drawing in l., as if in nerves. Weakness, (<) r.; W. in morning; during work; when at rest, with paralysis of them. Heaviness, with pain alone inner surfaces and sensitiveness to touch. Falling asleep of the one whose axillary glands are swollen. Sudden paralysis of r. in evening.
Upper Arm. Jerking; of l.; cramplike, of extensor muscles of l. Sticking in r. extending to elbow. Tearing; at insertion of deltoids; on l. in evening, and on wrist; in muscles, with coldness of fingers; drawing, on inner surface. Drawing pain; alone inner surface in morning; on inner surface in evening in bed.; in inner surface, in morning, extending alone forearms and wrists; beginning inn posterior surface of l. and extending to palm, where it become a sticking, in evening. Drawing in l.; increasing to tearing, then also in shoulder and fossa above clavicle. Heaviness.
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.