Muriate of Magnesium is triturated for use.
General Action
Similar to Magnes. Carb., but decidedly modified by Acid Muriaticum
Allies. Mag-c., Mur-ac., Natrum mur., Nat-c., Silicea, Conium
Generalities
Jerking from heel through whole body as from an electric shock, in morning when awake. Tearing here and there at night; T. in small of back, in r. shoulder and down outer side of back. Cramp- like nervous pain here and there, now a boring, now a constriction, (<) scapulae and chest, with nervous headache beginning in forehead, with drawings in ears and at times sticking tearing in head. Bruised pain in whole body; in evening after lying down. Drawing here and there externally in head, also in ears, teeth and half of face, with confusion of head, the pains (>) sneezing. Burning tension here and there.
Intolerance of fresh air. Uneasiness in bed as soon as she closes the eyes. Weakness; in morning, with vertigo; in morning, with bruised sensation, as from insufficient sleep; in forenoon, with fretfulness; in forenoon, even to falling down, with bruised pain in all limbs; after a sea bath of five minutes; on walking, and when at rest pain in hips as if dislocated; even to faintness the first two days of menstruation, with weariness in limbs and late falling asleep. Faintness during dinner, (>) eructations, with anxiety, nausea, pallor, red and green vision and general trembling. Heaviness in different parts; general sensation as if everything were too heavy. Most symptoms arise when sitting and are usually (>) motion (see Mag-c.). Amelioration in open air, except of pains in chest.
Mind
Illusion of fantasy, it seemed as if some one were reading a book after her and she must read faster, with humming and buzzing before her ear, on rising it seemed as if she were looking over great clouds and rocks above her, then anxiety, apprehension and uneasiness, these illusions (>) farther looking about, but returned twice on beginning to read again, till she was diverted by several persons coming to her (she had had a similar illusion in her early youth, over which she wept violently and could not be quieted). Excitement the day before menstruation.
Lively during the day, but fretful in evening. Fretful; in morning after rising; and restless internally; and taciturn, disinclined to work. Unfriendly mood. Anxiety in morning, with vertigo, then soft stool, with cutting in abdomen; A. in morning, (>) open air; towards evening, with apprehension and ennui. Apprehension, despondency, homesickness and weeping; A. after dinner, with lachrymose mood. Cheerless, disinclined to mental labor. Joyless in morning and suffering, everything she looks at is repugnant, she does not wish any one to talk to her, lest she should have to answer. It was irksome to talk, he wished to be alone and busy with his own thoughts. Disinclination to work. Irresolute. Apathy and distraction, as from loss of sleep, in morning.
Head
Stitches here and there. Pressure, also sharp and pinching, (<) on vertex and in occiput. Aching, (>) wrapping up head; A. after dinner, with sensitiveness of scalp to touch and sore burning in eyes; A. in morning as if he had not slept enough, with weariness of feet; as if whole brain pressed against forehead. Sensitiveness in morning, even from listening to reading, from talking, every step, etc., with little appetite, diminished taste and smell. fulness in morning. Compression from both sides when pressing upon forehead, with heat and throbbing. Dullness in forenoon, with heaviness; D., with stupefaction and with sensitiveness of l. thigh. Heaviness; in morning; with confusion. Painful orgasm, (>) open air, but recurring in house, with pressure in occiput. Vertigo; in morning after rising; in morning, (>) moving about; even to falling forward, in morning or rising; at dinner, (>) open air, with dullness of head, and after returning to the house heat in head; even when walking in the room and if she hangs the head a little.
Forehead. Stitches in middle in evening; S. behind r. eminence and out of r. ear; jerking S. deep in F., then also in r. side of occiput. Tearing in evening, with heaviness; T. in forepart in evening on motion, with sticking; at one time T. on stooping when sitting, at another T. and sticking together; T. in l. side, and farther back stitches; T. and sticking in F. and temples, with sensitiveness of vertex as if the hair had been pulled, with feeling of heat, and cold forehead. Pressure; in F. and sinciput all the forenoon, (<) on waking, with confusion in head; in sinuses, extending into forehead, where there is burrowing, (>) sweat, which was caused by violent motion; as if brain would fall out, at 6 P.M. on stooping. Heaviness in forepart in afternoon. Numbness.
Griping in temples in evening after lying down, (>) pressing head with both hands (compare Mur-ac.), with raging in them, feeling as if he would become dizzy and unconscious. Tearing in l. temple. Stitches in r side of vertex. Soreness of vertex.
Sides. Stitches in r.; in l. and in occiput; in upper part of l.; all day, with tearing; in l. parietal bone on bending trunk towards r. side, with boring in front of l. ear; in upper part of r. during menstruation; in l. with ill humor; outward in l; in r. extending to eye, with tearing and necessity to press eye together. Tearing in l; in r. extending to eye. Boring in l. in evening. Throbbing in l. in evening, with heat and heaviness in forehead.
Occiput. Stitches in r protuberance; in r side, then burning. Tearing extending to vertex; T. at last extending to whole head, entering house and sitting, with throbbing; jerking tearing in r; throbbing tearing extending to vertex. Throbbing pain in morning after rising, during menstruation, with heaviness. Throbbing after rising from stooping, soon involving whole head. Pressure. Heaviness.
Scalp. Pain on touch and stooping. Pimple on l. side of occiput, with pain (<) touch, with tearing about it. Boils on top of head. Itching.
Clinical Neuralgia of the head and around the eyes, as if the skull would burst, (<) motion and fresh air, (>) pressure (Mur-ac., Conium), associated with very obstinate constipation, with small gray faecal masses, and also with soreness in the region of the liver, which is sensitive to pressure. Neuralgic headaches (>) tight bandages (Silicea).
Eyes
Inflammation, with pressure, biting, burning, (<) looking at a bright light, and lachrymation evening, they are full of purulent mucus by day, lids swollen and red, and nightly agglutination. Pain, and in canthi; P. as from dust, with dim vision; as from sand, (<) l., (>) rubbing, but returning. Burning; in evening on looking at the fire, with dryness; (<) looking at anything bright; so that she must close them, with sensitiveness; and sticking. Itching; in morning after rising, (>) violent rubbing.
Red vessels in white if l., then of r. Agglutination in morning; with burning on opening them. Twitching of upper lids, which seem swollen, heavy and half closed. Stitches in r. inner canthus, causing lachrymation. Dryness of lids, (<) morning and after mid- day nap. Itching of l. upper lid; in r. inner canthus, (>) rubbing, but recurring in l. eye. Bruised pain in lower margin of l. orbit. Vision dim; and on looking at near objects it vanishes. Vision of a green halo about the light in evening during inflammation of eyes.
Ears
Stitches; now in one, now in the other; in l. on bending to the right, with tearing. Tearing in r. and externally in front of it; jerking T. in l. Sticking boring. Painful jerking in r. Pain in r., with pulse-like throbbing. Tickling, (>) boring in with fingers; T. in r., with agreeable warmth. Obstructed feeling all day, with burning, buzzing and diminished hearing; O. feeling during menstruation, transiently (>) boring in with finger, without impairment of hearing. Fluttering in r. Roaring; in l. upon which he was lying in morning, or as if water were boiling. Deafness, (<) l., decreasing and returning.
Nose
R. wing red. swollen and painful to touch. Ulceration of nostrils. Scab in each nostril, that pains on touch, with loss of smell (Natrum mur.). Nostrils sore and painful. Tearing in upper part of nostrils, causing lachrymation. Feeling as if she would have coryza, with increased mucus in nose. Tickling, with lachrymation; T., with sneezing and sensation of coryza. Burning in nostrils as if sore. Stoppage; of l. nostril; in morning; in evening. Sneezing, whereby water flows from nose. Coryza, with stoppage of nose and talking through nose; C., with hoarseness and stopped sensation in nose, from which water often flowed. Alternately stopped and fluent coryza, with Dullness of head and loss of smell and taste. Fluent coryza; C., with yellow mucus and diminished smell and taste (Natrum mur.), with inability to lie down or to sleep and necessity to breathe through the mouth. Discharge of offensive purulent mucus. Blowing out of much mucus without coryza. Mucus specked with blood. Blowing out of blood. Smell blunted.
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.