A tincture is made of the fresh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, L. Allies. – Natrum mur., Cact., Aranea.
Generalities
Twitching of small portions of muscles in various parts (Nat- m.); T. in various parts all the same time, not exactly painful, (<) rest. Sticking pinching here and there. Increase of vitality, hastiness in all movements. Weakness; when walking, with general chilliness; of whole body, with pain above sacrum when standing; (with heat and headache).
Mind
Joyous. Keeps aloof from amusements, afterwards inclined to joke. Prefers to be alone, though not ill-humored, because he would rather be quiet than talk. Weeping mood. Despondent, inclined to think of past sad, disagreeable subjects. Apprehensive about heart, as of impeding evil and as if he had to endure some calamity. Fretful and gloomy; F., discontented with himself and his circumstances and anxiety driving him from place to place. Disinclined to work.
Head
Aching on leaning head to one side; A. (<) open air; (<) eating; (<) ascending or descending steps, when it seemed as if there were a weight upon brain and pressing outward at forehead; (>) laying head upon one side, with heaviness and intermittent stitches in l. frontal eminence; stupefying, (<) forehead; like a pressure from both sides, with stitches in occiput. Pressure from above downward, (>) hard pressure of hand, but returning. Confusion; in the house, thought difficult though he could readily remember. Heaviness. Emptiness after eating. (Vertigo on stooping and rising again.)
Forehead. – Stitches extending towards vertex; burning S., less on scalp, with heat in face. Stitchlike tearing near r. temple. Pain on r. side, (>) applying palm. Drawing pain; in r. side; above root of nose; internally along l. bone. Pressure outward; in forepart.
Temples – Pressure in l., with stitches. Compression, (>) pressure but returning. Sore feeling in skin of l. when touched.
Vertex – Compression from sides, with sensation on ascending steps as if at every step a weight pressed upon brain (compare Cact.). Tensive pain. Gnawing pain externally. Jerking pain, (<) stooping.
Stitches in l. side of brain extending towards vertex. Pain in r. side. Drawing in occiput when sitting; pinching D. on side of O. Drawing upward pain in r. half of cerebrum, ending in occiput. Hair stands on end, without chilliness.
Clinical Violent neuralgic headache beginning in r. side of nape and extending over whole brain to forehead, (>) sitting, stooping or pressure (Silicea). Neuralgic headache pressing from above downward, (>) pressure of hand, (<) going up and down-stairs, with feeling of a heavy weight on the brain pressing it outward at the forehead.
Eyes
Pressure on a spot, as if in lens, when sitting, with sensation like vertigo or vanishing of sight or of squinting, but without obscuration of vision. Lachrymation. Pupils dilated; contracted. Stitches in balls. Twitching of lids, (>) eating, with pressure in balls. Stiffness in one or other lid like a tonic cramp. Tearing stitches in inner canthi, with lachrymation. Sensation internally on l. lower lid as if a not very hard body were lying under it. On holding lids still sensation in them as if swollen or as in a stye. Burning tension above l. upper lid, (>) touch. Vision dim in open air; V. vanishes on reflecting when reading; V. flickering.
Ears
Stitches in r., then l.; in l. inner; extending into head, and in muscles below eye of same side. Sticking tearing posteriorly in cartilage and in mastoid process. Pinching. Itching within r. Coldness internally as if water were in it. Ringing in r.; (>) rubbing ear internally, but returning. chirping as from crickets in front of ears. Roaring in l. on blowing nose, as if air rushed out through it.
Nose
Tension in root. Sneezing without coryza. Involuntary running. Fluent coryza, with stopped sensation, though he could draw air thorough it as usual. Blowing out of blood in morning. Odor like bad eggs, causing nausea.
Face
Twitching of muscles, (<) r., (<) rest. Painful cramp in muscles of r. cheek during rest. Stitchlike tearing in l. upper jaw. Tension in jaws. Lips dry and cracked.
Mouth
Grumbling in upper teeth. Stitches on under surface of tongue, (>) moving it. Pressure in upper part of palate. Dryness of palate causing sticking when swallowing, without thirst and with ordinary saliva. Paralyzed feeling in l. side of palate on yawning and coughing. Salivation; with nausea. Bitter-sweetish taste. No taste to bread and butter, he has appetite and relish for meat only.
Throat
Sticking in r. side. Dryness; with roughness of oesophagus, so that swallowing of saliva was difficult; of oesophagus.
Stomach
Sudden ravenous hunger, (>) eating a little. Although not hungry, he relishes food as usual and eats more than usual. Empty eructations. Hiccough. Nausea; with painful retching and constriction in stomach. Rumbling in epigastric region. Pinching in region slowly descending towards rectum, (>) emission of flatus, but returning, (>) stool. Pressure, then nausea, with coldness extending up oesophagus. Constriction. Sudden heat, then excessive hunger.
Abdomen
Distention, then emission of flatus; D. as if overloaded with food, with undiminished appetite, sensation of incarcerated flatus and ineffectual efforts to emit flatus, in evening the D. (<) smoking tobacco. Rumbling after eating. Flatus moves about making him qualmish. Griping, then hard stool. Tension in a part, with pressure. Coldness, (<) pressure of hand; C. in morning on rising, with creeping coldness over back and sides, like a shivering when listening to a horrible tale.
Parietes sore to touch and to rubbing of clothes, as if covered with pimples. Painful soreness of skin of upper A. when lying and on moving about,, (<) stooping. Sticking beneath short ribs when sitting, transiently (>) pressure. Cutting in hypochondria. Gurgling in r. side, with heat over whole abdomen and sensation as before diarrhoea. Griping in umbilical region, sinking like a weight towards hypogastrium, (>) emission of flatus.
Hypogastrium. – Sticking in l. side when walking, then on standing sudden jerklike stitches; sudden jerking S. in l. when sitting, causing shuddering; sudden S. in sides when sitting, (>) touch, but returning. Griping; with urging to stool. Pressure in glands about rings on bending forward; P. in groin, as if in spermatic cord, with pain on touch.
Rectum and Stool
Itching in rectum. Twitching in anus. Constipation. Stool hard and delayed. Stool retained; and next day hard, difficult, with drawing griping in hypogastrium.
Urinary Organs
Frequent desire, with scanty discharge.
Sexual Organs
Retraction of testicles, (<) r. Painful jerking in r. testicle, (<) rest. Stitches in l. scrotum; burning S. in scrotum and symphysis pubis. Drawing cutting in r. scrotum or feeling as if one side were squeezed. (Tensive, pressive pain in mons veneris when walking and sitting). Great desire without sexual phantasy or erections.
Respiratory Organs
Sticking anteriorly in larynx on swallowing. Frequent crawling tickling in larynx. Spasmodic constriction of larynx, with cough from exertion of drawing in air. Hoarseness. Voice rough; with stoppage of ears. Dyspnoea. Respiration accelerated, even when standing, with increased pulse and redness and heat of face.
Chest
Stitches in r.; S. on moving; close to l. clavicle on inspiration; in sides, (<) inspiration, with pressure on them; in region of heart and in corresponding spot on r. side, (<) pressure and making parts tense; in sternum, with pressure; boring, in l., when sitting and on moving about, (<) inspiration and expiration; itching, in l. false ribs during inspiration and expiration. Grasping from both sides, with stitches. Aching after dinner. Drawing pain in r., extending towards axilla. Soreness as if beaten on sitting bent. Pressure on l. side, as from flatulence; P. upon l., with stitches, alike on inspiration and expiration. Anxious compression when sitting, walking and standing. Throbbing in l. during inspiration and expiration only when lying.
Heart and Pulse
Sticking in region of heart, (<) holding breath. Drawing pain in region after eating. Pulse slow.
Neck
Tearing in nape. Cramplike pain in r. muscles ending in a stitch, (>) touch, but returning. Pain in muscles as if sprained, paralyzed and tense, as after long bending backward, on walking in open air. Heaviness of muscle, s obliging him to bend neck backward. Stiff, drawing sensation in nape, with Dullness in occiput. Stiffness of nape; in evening.
Back
Shooting cutting from spine out through abdomen. Twitching of r. dorsal muscles. Boring sticking in l. scapula, extending across spine. Tearing between scapulae, extending downward, (<) deep breathing, (>) sitting, but returning, then during rest soreness. Pinching between scapulae near spine. Drawing pain near lower dorsal vertebrae on bending forward when sitting. Heaviness between scapulae, (>) bending backward and forward when walking. Twitching in r. lumbar region when sitting.
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.