A tincture is made of the fresh bark of Daphne Mezereum, L.
General Action
It produces violent inflammation of all mucous membranes and of the skin; internally the inflammation is characterized by burning, externally by violent itching. In addition, its neuralgias are very marked, they attack principally the face, but occasionally other parts. The periosteum of the jaw and of the long bones becomes the seat of an inflammatory process which is followed by its legitimate results.
Allies. Mercury, Rhus-t., Arsenicum, nitricum acidum, Iodium, Phyto., Nux-v., Zincum met.
Generalities
Flesh dried and shrivelled. Stretching. Tremulous condition as after too much wine. Stitches over whole body; in various parts; in evening. (<) l. chest; in various parts, with crawling; hot, jerking. on various parts. Tearing in different parts when sitting. Boring in knees, tibiae, wrists and behind ears, all day when walking and sitting; drawing B. in arms, knees, skull, bones of feet and ankles, (<) above ankle and wrist. Pain in l. upper arm, r. thumb-joint, l. ankle and r. temple, in morning after waking, with boring; P. in tibiae and other parts of body, even when walking; shifting P., inclined to returns to original spot; rheumatic, in nape, throat and occiput. Drawing pain through whole l. side of body, even when walking; shifting P., inclined to return to original spot; rheumatic, in nape, throat and occiput. Drawing pain through whole l. side of body, even when walking; shifting P., inclined to return to original spot rheumatic in nape, throat and occiput. Drawing pain through whole l. side of body, with sensation of falling asleep, (<) hand and shoulders, flesh of things and in various parts of head. Drawing or jerking, now there then aching. Cramplike constriction across lower pectoral muscles, lower part of back and upper arms, when walking in open air.
Oppression. Feeling of great lightness of body. General sick feeling; amounting to nausea on going into a close room, (>) open air. Discomfort, (>) towards noon; D., with yawning, stretching, pain in abdomen and eructations. Swollen feeling in affected parts on touch, without swelling. Sensitiveness to cold air (Arsenicum, Kali, Dulcamara, Mosch., Nux-v., Rhus); (<) head, and sensation when sitting in the house as of a cold wind on head. Sensitiveness to cold water in morning when washing and in teeth when drinking. Desire to walk in open air alternating with dread of open air. When walking inclination to go with upper part of body bent forward to hurry and to sing, though everything is performed with difficulty. Restlessness (Arsenicum, Rhus-t.). Indolence; after deep sleep, with weakness. Weakness; in morning on rising; in afternoon in afternoon, and sleep for four hours, with agreeable dreams( with faceache, which never quite woke her); in evening without ability to sleep; when walking; (>) a short nap; with inclination to sleep; at least to lie outstretched; with mental depression bordering on idiocy. Aggravation in l. half of body; of pains, by rest (Rhus-t.); (of effects of wine). Pains rarely appeared in bed, did not disturb sleep, but reappeared after waking.
Mind
Delirium. Feels intoxicated, speaks with out reflection, but very lively. Merry after dinner, inclined to sing, dances, jokes and laughs, as if intoxicated by wine; M. mood changing to depression. Cheerfulness and desire to work. Hypochondriac. everything seems dead, nothing makes a vivid impression on his mind. Sad (Ignatia, Natrum mur.); and every trifle affects him disagreeably, indifferent to the whole world, disinclined to work. Weeping mood. Anxiety; at noon before eating with palpitation and necessity to lie down; in evening with trembling; in attacks in evening, with palpitation, coldness over whole body and weakness of limbs.
Anger, with desire to say vexatious things; A. which he soon regrets. Quarrelsome. Inclined to reproach others. Ill humor; after sleep; with sensitiveness; with desire to run away; with restlessness and redness and heat of face and forehead. Discontented with himself and his surroundings. A verse to talking. No rest when alone, desires company. Indifferent. Quiet and contemplative, longing for death. Frightened easily then palpitation.
Distraction. Dullness. Difficult to make a resolution. Thought difficult, with pressive Dullness of head. Thoughts vanish; when talking; as soon as he began to think of anything, inability to repeat anything fro, memory, confusion, with pressure in sinciput. He looked out of the window for hours without thought and without knowing what he was looking at. Forgot what he had recently heard, every intercurrent remark of others confused his ideas. Stupefaction on waking from a sound sleep. Coma, with convulsive movements of eyes and upper extremities, dilatation and insensibility of pupils.
Head
Tearing. Boring in several parts; (<) motion. Acute pains as if everything would fall out at forehead. Aching; here and there; in morning on waking; in afternoon; in afternoon, with pain on slightest touch (after a vexation); after moving about and talking much, (<) temples and sides of vertex; (<) towards evening; (<) open air; (<) warm room, (<) forehead and sinciput; (>) stopping low; with shivering; sudden with inclination top close eyes, discomfort in stomach and vertigo; just beneath skull, as if brain pressed hard against bones; as if brains were shaken, all the afternoon on suddenly moving head; as if brain hung loose against skull, hit against bone hear and there on moving head. Dullness; all day, with pressure in temples; towards evening; (>) eating; dizzy, with difficult thought; as if intoxicated, (>) work; as if intoxicated, and as if he had been up all night (Nux-v.), as after excessive emission. Heaviness; with inclination to support it. Numbness Intoxicated sensation. Vertigo; with flickering before eyes; with contracted pupils; he would fall to the left; faintlike.
Forehead.- Stitches, and in vertex; S. in l. upper part in morning in bed; tearing, in all eminence. Tearing; in r. side; above eyes; in morning when sitting; in forepart, with jerking stitches. Burrowing superficially in middle. Pinching in F. and temples with pressure on eyes and jaws, as before violent coryza. Boring in l.; in various places in bones; in l. bone; above l. eye and in nasal bone; frequently in l. side, extending towards temple, with tearing afternoon wards extending to occiput; burning and drawing, in cranial and frontal bones. Boring drawing pain in bones; B. drawing pain in l. side and temple; above eyes, (<) l. Pain; r. eminence; above eyes; in upper part; in sinciput in morning on waking with drawing ‘ in afternoon; in bone on pressure extending to feet; beneath bones, extending into nasal bones; transversely through forepart of head; in morning as if brain became hard, with inability to collect his thoughts; pressing asunder, in forepart of head. Pressive throbbing. Confusion. Stupefaction in sinciput and occiput in evening.
Temples. Stitches in l., with tearing. Tearing from one to other through head; (T. in evening when sitting). Boring; (<) r. Boring drawing pain. Compressive griping, extending into forehead and nose. Pain; and in supraorbital region. Pressure outward in l.; in ward on l. extending to above orbits when sitting reading, (>) motion. Compression from both sides after violent motion whereby he forgot the word he was about to speak and could hardly collect his thoughts.
Vertex. Stitches in region; S. extending to forehead, with heat of face.
Sides. Stitches in l. half of brain. Tearing in l.; r. side of skull; r. at night when awakened; in l. as if broken, then on vertex and in l. ear. Boring in r. side of skull. Pain beneath l. parietal bone; on l. P. bone, (>) pressure, (<) removing pressure; as if a plug were driven in or r. side of vertex, then also in l. side of forehead then external to and above r. eye in r. parietal bones as if suppurating, (<) walking with sensation as if bone must be painful to pressure, which was not the case; remittent P. in r. parietal region as if brain pressed against bone, (<) bending head to right; drawing pain in bone above r. ear returning at night, noticed on every step. Drawing in bone above r. ear.
Occiput. Tearing; back and forth in bones. Tearing throbbing in spot above nape. Boring in bones. Sharp pain in l. side, with tension. Pain on entering house; P. in O. and nape on moving head; sore pain; stupefying P. through r. hemisphere of brain to forehead. Drawing pain in r. side. Pressure outward in l. side in evening. Heaviness.
Skull. Tearing on waking in night and morning, with pressure. Boring; in various places; in shock-like paroxysms, (<)vertex. Pain; (<)touch. Drawing.
Scalp. Dry scurf; scurf; was whiter, more profuse and drier than usual. Covered with thick, leather-like crust, under which thick and white pus collects here and there and hair is glued together (compare N-ac.). Elevated white scabs, under which ichor collects and which is offensive and breeds vermin. Scabs look chalky and extend to brows and nape. Hair hangs soft; H. inclined to bristle; the long hairs were troublesome to him, to they seemed rough the hair became curly and grew rapidly. Pain on touch of hair; P. on both sides of vertex on touch. Biting as form lice in evening, (>) scratching, but always recurring in another place. Itching on vertex and occiput; near r. side of vertex,(>) touch sticking I. (>) scratching.
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.