Clinical Nasal catarrh, with itching and burning, nose red and painful, and frequent headache ( (>) open air), or constipation; there is general aggravation from lying on r. side. Ozaena, with ulceration of nostrils and fetid discharge.
Face
Pale; during menstruation, and sad and irritable; and yellow. Yellow, (<) white of eye and about mouth. Sickly, suffering look. Twitching on chin. Stitch in r. cheek. Tearing from l. zygoma to l. side of head; T. in sides of lower jaw and in roots of teeth, extending to front of ear, where it was a jerking. Paralytic pain in bones. Tensive pain in r. zygoma. Pain beneath l. lower jaw as if a gland were swollen, which was not the case. Lips cracked; white pimples on inside of upper; vesicle on margin of lower, itching, then burning; suddenly tense, burning clear vesicles in red of upper (Natrum mur.); inside of upper feels rough to touch of tongue during coryza.
Clinical Vesicular eruption on lips, followed by soreness, with soreness in nostrils and formation of scabs.
Mouth
Teeth. Tearing in sound during dinner; T. in a lower molar, (>) biting upon it; in r. eye-tooth, extending into zygoma, (>) pressure; sudden T. in upper incisors. Jerking in r. from 8 till 12 P.M., with feeling as if cheek would swell. Throbbing in a root. Boring in molars transiently (>) biting upon them; B. in hollow molar all day, (>) cold and open air, (<) warmth, with tearing and on touching cheek sticking in the tooth; intermittent B. or digging in next to last molar in morning and after dinner, (<) cold, touch of food and pressure, (>) warmth, sometimes tearing. Digging in last molar, (>) pressure, then tearing in a hollow molar. Pain, causing restless sleep. Upper incisors seem too long and sensitive.
Gum. Bleeding. Painful swelling of lower and of cheek; of upper, (<) eating, with throbbing in it.
Tongue. Coated white in morning. Stitches during coryza, then burning. Burnt feeling with the coryza. Burning, with fissures; B. of whole in morning, of tip in afternoon.
Mucus in mouth and on tongue in morning; M. in mouth and on teeth, with slimy taste. Stitches in palate. Dryness, with feeling as if M. and tongue were covered with mucus; D. of M. and throat, night and morning, without thirst. Heat comes from M. Numb and burnt feeling in morning during menstruation. Salivation before and during the dryness; clear S. that she could not sufficiently expectorate in afternoon.
Taste. Bitter in morning; at first to the breakfast, (>) continuing to eat; B. on back part of palate. Sourish in throat in afternoon; S. or slimy to various kinds of food. Salt, and salt salivation. Putrid in morning, with coated tongue. Pasty in morning. Watery, with spitting of water.
Throat
Hawking of acid mucus; mucus mixed with blood in morning; tenacious mucus in morning; thick, tenacious mucus, that draws itself out in long threads, in morning. Stitches in l. side in forenoon, (<) swallowing; S. in upper part of pharynx in evening and night, on breathing and talking. Sore pain during coryza, (<) swallowing. Soreness at entrance of fauces, (<) evening, with rawness, and when coughing and swallowing saliva sticking extending into ear. Dryness, with rawness and hoarseness; D., with heat.
Stomach
Appetite increased; ravenous, then nausea; A. for dainties, he slyly breaks off some cake to eat; A., but knew not for what, did not desire her usual food; soon satisfied at dinner; A. lost all day, only in evening she ate with relish; no A. in evening. Thirst in morning, with dryness of mouth; at 3 A.M., with dryness of mouth and throat; T. in forenoon; in evening; before and after midnight; after dinner and in afternoon, with coryza.
Eructations of water, with nausea; E. of white froth; bitter- acid; of sour water in morning after rising, with nausea; acid, of food, (<) milk taken in afternoon, after dinner, (<) walking; tasting of food; of food when walking after dinner; tasting of onions, after a spasm. Empty eructations after dinner; E. in afternoon; E., then stitch above ensiform cartilage. Violent hiccough after dinner; during dinner, making stomach sore. Nausea in morning after rising; from morning till noon, with salivation; all the forenoon; after stool, with salivation; (>) breakfast, with rumbling in abdomen; with salivation. Faintlike nausea; in morning, then coldness and weakness of stomach, with eructations of water.
Grumbling in pit, (>) rubbing and pressure. Movings about epigastric region in forenoon, then in hypogastrium, (>) emission of flatus. Stitches in l. side; S. transversely across epigastric region. Cutting in r. side, with pain on pressure. Ulcerative pain in afternoon. Pressure in forenoon, (>) eructations; P., with nausea; P. in epigastric region on stepping and talking, with shuddering in it; intermittent, in forenoon, extending to throat and back; flatulent, extending into chest and throat, transiently (>) eructations. Bruised pain; on bending forward, on stretching it tension in stomach. Tension in epigastric region, with ulcerative pain, (<) touch and evening after lying down then good sleep till 1 A.M., when she awoke with cutting in bowels, on stretching the body in pain extended over the whole abdomen and into groins, with rush of heat in head, at least it rose into throat like a ball and almost took away the breath, with at first tossing about the bed, then about the floor, the paroxysm (>) eructation and emission of flatus, during the pain necessity to lie bent and intolerance of covering. Epigastric region sensitive to pressure. Throbbing in pit, with vertigo. Acidity after dinner. Fasting sensation in morning. Heat.
Clinical Indigestion, especially in children from taking milk, which passes undigested. It has cured many obstinate cases of gastralgia, that have lasted for months.
Abdomen
Distention; in afternoon, (>) emission of flatus; after eating; after dinner; here and there; with hardness and with sticking in l. groin; in afternoon, extending into throat, so that it took away her breath, with anxiety. Hardness, with pain on touch and distressing pressure towards anus. Rumbling before eating; R. at every inspiration after soft stool, with gurgling; with griping, then soft stool; with dragging towards small of back. Fermentation. Incarcerations of flatus. Incessant emission of flatus.
Cramps evening, (>) sleep, with tearing; C., with pressure upon rectum and genitals and with peevish depression of spirits. Tearing in forenoon; from 9.30 P.M. till sleep; with pinching. Cutting; after breakfast, with profuse emission of flatus, then ineffectual desire for stool, then soft stool with cessation of pain. Griping in morning after rising, then diarrhoea accompanied and followed by burning in anus, then repeated diarrhoea mixed with thick blood; G. as in menstruation. Burrowing and feeling as before diarrhoea.
Pain in morning, with desire for stool, which was hard and crumbly, with burning in anus; P. at 4 P.M.; P. after normal stool, with itching in anus; on every motion after stool. Drawing pain at night, and during the day on every motion, as if something were loose. Drawing at night on waking; with tearing; spasmodic D. and tearing from 5 till 6 P.M., extending from below as far as r. side of chest, where there was spasmodic constrictive griping, with oppression of breath, (<) eating cherries, (>) pressure of hand, next day a similar attack at 5.30 P.M. Weak feeling. Feeling of looseness and upturning, as if intestines had lost their hold. Heat in walls, with burning in anus and sensitiveness in rectum after stool.
Pressure in l. side. Upper A., movings about; cutting in morning, extending to small of back; griping cutting, with feeling as if something hard were lying upon stomach; pinching, (>) emission of flatus, then urging to stool, but emission of only flatus.
Hypochondria. Sticking in l.; in afternoon when walking, during menstruation, (<) inspiration, (>) sitting; burning and tensive S. in r., (>) pressure. Cutting in a spot in l. in morning. Sharp drawings in hepatic region.
Umbilicus. Attacks of cutting below U. in afternoon. Pinching below U. at 1 P.M., with cutting and with shivering over back, then heat in head and desire for stool; P. about U. after dinner, extending towards stomach, (>) emission of flatus. Griping about U., with dragging towards small of back, then sudden desire for stool, and soft stool with yellow mucus and piece of a tapeworm, then continued urging. Constriction in region.
Hypogastrium. Movings of flatus low down in abdomen. Stitches in l. groin; in r. groin, then bruised pain, (<) pressure; in r. ilium, extending towards small of back. Cutting, waking at 2 P.M., then sticking in pit of stomach, then in praecordial region, (<) inspiration; C. in morning in bed, with desire for stool, but only emission of flatus with cessation of pain; sudden C. So that she must sit bent over. Pain in forepart during menstruation; P. in afternoon, with dragging towards rectum, then soft stool covered with white mucus, repeated after an hour.
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.