Sticking posteriorly in palate. Drawing from palate into brain, where there is bruised pain, in morning after living in an uncomfortable position. Soreness; and swollen feeling. Burning at night. Dryness; of palate, as from heat. Salivation (Iodium); at 1 A.M., with nausea that wakes her and obliges her to vomit a bitter substance; caused by smoking; offensive (Iodium); soapy, often rather slimy and drawn out in strings; acid. Saliva bloody (K. iod.); S. slimy; tenacious, offensive, (<) certain hours in night and evening. Bad odor; sweetish (Pulsatilla, Aurum, N-ac.); more noticed by others at a distance than by himself.
Taste. Sweet (Iodium, Pulsatilla); to bread; at tip of tongue; and sensation as if body were made up of sweets. Salt; on lips; to soup; S. and slimy to all food and drink. Slimy. Sour; in morning, (>) eating; during and between meals; to hop-beer. Putrid; in throat. As of bad eggs on moving tongue, then involuntary swallowing. Of matter in throat. Feculent, with salt saliva. Metallic (Nux-v.); almost causing vomiting. Bitter; in morning; after drinking coffee; before and after eating; on lips and tongue during and between meals; (<) between meals and when she has eaten and drunk nothing; to rye bread; constantly, with sour eructations from bread. Bad; to butter. Of food as in intermittent fever. Lost to food, with loss of appetite.
Clinical A remedy of prime importance for dental periostitis, with great soreness and elongation of the teeth, pain (<) night in warmth of bed, teeth loose, salivation offensive. Gums unhealthy, bleeding, spongy, pale, receding from teeth, with offensive odor from the mouth. Valuable for patients who habitually suffer from receding gums, followed by decay of the teeth. Ulcers and pustules on the gums and mouth. The Mercurius tongue is almost always swollen, flabby, taking the imprint of the teeth, sometimes watery, as if oedematous, sometimes covered with whitish fur. It has proved valuable in interstitial inflammation of the substance of the tongue. Inflammation of the salivary glands, very free secretion, with swelling of the glands, and soreness leading to suppuration. Aphthous stomatitis, with ptyalism, bad odor, etc. Salivation of pregnancy.
Throat
Parotid gland hard. Swelling of submaxillary glands (Iodium); (<) l.; r. side of thyroid gland; lymphatic glands, with hardness; of parotid, with burning pain, (>) cold, returning in warmth, if he applies wool to it he is constantly inclined to cough; of mucous membrane of pharynx in spots; tonsils; l. tonsil; uvula, with elongation; tonsils, with redness; circumscribed, of mucous membrane of pharynx. Redness of tonsils; of fauces, and streaks of mucus; coppery, of soft palate and (<) uvula, and on l. side a long superficial ulcer. Suppuration of tonsils, with sticking in fauces on swallowing (Hepar). Ulcers on posterior walls of pharynx; on r. side of soft palate; in fauces, in all workers not salivated. Tonsillitis; and formation of an abscess (Hepar, Bar- c.). Chronic angina in fauces; and at root of palate, uvula and tonsils; dark red angina in fauces; coppery red A. in fauces. Hawking up of mucus that had passed through posterior nares. Something hot comes into it. Blood rises into it and comes out of mouth without vomiting or cough.
Sticking in pharynx; in tonsils on swallowing; posteriorly on swallowing, extending to ear. Sensation as if something were sticking in it; which he must swallow; dependent upon voluntary contraction of muscles of pharynx; as of an apple-core (N-ac.). Sensation of a worm rising in it, so that he must swallow constantly. Pain in side on blowing nose, with pain and swollen sensation internally in pharynx; P. like a pressure. Pain as from dryness; at back. Soreness in r. side of pharynx. Dryness; and pain as if tight posteriorly, with pressure in it on swallowing, yet he is obliged to swallow constantly because the mouth is always full of saliva; of pharynx, so that he must swallow constantly; posteriorly, but forepart slimy; in fauces, with constriction.
Inability to swallow a liquid below region of larynx, it returns through the nose. Swallowing was convulsive and often almost caused suffocation. Swallowing painful, with hoarseness; S. or speaking painful; painful, as if he had been burnt low down in throat or had swallowed boiling oil. Swallowing difficult. Paroxysmal pain in oesophagus as if an ulcer would form; pain in O. in region of larynx, (<) eating, as if she swallowed over raw flesh, with burning pain. Burning extending down oesophagus, later in abdomen.
Clinical Useful in various forms of sore throat, catarrhal, follicular, ulcerative, rarely diphtheritic; in all these forms there is free salivation, with swelling of glands, aggravation at night, offensive breath. When there is ulceration of the throat it tends to spread rapidly and superficially. The pains on swallowing are sharp sticking (nitricum acidum). Parotitis (Baryta carb.).
Stomach
Appetite. Ravenous; she feels that it is not a genuine hunger (Iodium); excessive A., yet he could eat but little because he had no relish for food and everything was tasteless. Satisfied by a few morsels. The smell of food is more agreeable than eating. Little; during salivation, but ravenous when she had no salivation; but much hunger. No longing for food, but it is relished when it is set before him. Lost; (<) morning; for wine and brandy, to which he is accustomed; for dry food; for warm food, A. only for cold bread and butter; etc. Aversion to butter; to coffee; to sweets; to beef; meat; meat, afterwards vomiting.
Thirst; during the day; day and night; for water towards evening; for ice-water; for cold drinks, especially fresh water. Thirst greater than hunger, with constant chilliness. Eructations; after eating and drinking; after dinner, with putrid exhalation from mouth; (<) eating, also with pressure in stomach; empty; sour; as of freshly-baked bread; bilious, in afternoon; of bitter taste and putrid odor; of bitter water; of acrid liquid while eating; of acrid liquid like brandy into throat. Hiccough; (<) forenoon; after eating; like eructations, during dinner.
Nausea; in morning, with heaviness of lower limbs, weakness and sleepiness; all day, with shivering; when coughing; after eating, also with pressure in pit of stomach; when urinating; with sweetness in throat; with eructations and diarrhoea; with vertigo obscuring vision, and flushing heat; with cutting in chest and stitches here and there (towards sides of chest) and cutting in abdomen and pit of stomach; as from something sweet; so that hearing and sight vanished; high up in throat, not in stomach, so that he could not vomit, (<) eating; in pit of stomach, then eructations, which at times take away the breath; extending almost from pit of stomach to pit of throat, caused by smoking, with oppression, with oppression and cutting; in epigastric region, afterwards bruised sensation above r. hip, (<) motion and touch; in chest, with cutting there and with anxiety driving him hither and thither.
Vomiting; frequent, of saliva and bile after eating; violent of bitter mucus; of bile and food, with constipation, coated tongue and vertigo.
Fulness and constriction; F. in pit, with tension restricting respiration, with diminished appetite. Constrictive tearing in pit, afterwards extending into chest. Griping in pit in evening, then soft stool, then griping and rumbling in abdomen. Ulcerative pain in S. and abdomen. Acute pain, (<) deep breathing and on touch. Pain; in epigastric region, with tightness; in epigastric region, with constriction; on walking, from l. side of pit to thyroid cartilage, where there is severe pain; as after violent vomiting; in pit like a scarification; burning, in pit (Arsenicum). Drawing down S. if he eats a little, with cramp in it. Contraction in epigastrium, (<) during a sleepless night, with dyspnoea, hiccough and cough, then vomiting.
Digestion difficult; disturbed; impeded on bending forward; bread lies heavy; food lies like a stone in pit, as if collected into a ball, when sitting; he cannot tolerate the most easily digested food, even a little bread lies in stomach and drags it downward, though he is very hungry, if he eats a little more he is ill-humored. Heartburn; rancid, scraping, after supper. Heat in pit when sitting on a low seat with blackness before eyes.
Clinical Chronic gastritis, with burning pain, etc.
Abdomen
Parietes tense; muscles tense. Distention; from gas; and hardness. Retraction. Rumbling after drinking; R. before stool, with gurgling. Emission of flatus. Flatulence in evening before lying down and on urinating, A. distended, then emission of odorless flatus. Tearing in muscles. Cutting on urinating; C. before stool; C., with twisting and nausea; at night, or rather tearing, with external coldness of it. Griping; with constant desire for stool, but little is evacuated (Nux-v.); with twisting, then stool; waking at midnight two nights in succession.
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.