Pure Sodium arsenate is triturated for use. Allies. More related to Natrum mur. than to Arsen.
Generalities
Weight diminished. Embonpoint, then emaciation. Venous trunks full when seen on surface. Takes cold easily. Miserable feeling at 8 A.M. on rising. Indisposition, (>) in the country. Restless; and nervous. Weakness; during the day; in morning on rising, with bruised sensation; on waking; easy, from walking; with sensation as if I should get out of breath if I walked fast; with desire to lie or sit; with listlessness and desire to sit still; with malaise, so that I could not eat dinner. Aggravation after eating. Amelioration of all symptoms on waking in open air, but Dullness returned on sitting down in the house.
Mind
Irritability; and no desire to study; and feeling of taciturnity. Anxiety about everything. Feeling as if something were impending, causing him to move about. Depression; and desire to sit quietly. Listless. Stupid feeling all day. Dull; all day, and languid. Do not wish to read, think or exercise, feel better doing nothing. No disposition to attend to his accustomed business. Forgetful. Inability to concentrate mind; during afternoon headaches, unable to recall names, indisposed to study or speak; when reading; with confusion. Difficult to concentrate mind. Inability to think, and restlessness; I. to think readily, (>) afternoon. Studying is easy, reconciled to circumstances, feel like working hard, no undertaking too large for me.
Head
Aching every time he woke; intermittent A. in morning. Sore feeling. Brain jarred by every motion. Throbbing on ascending stairs. Dullness; from 6 till 9 P.M., with heaviness;in evening, with heaviness of it and nausea; (<) vertex, increasing till I went to bed, (<) stooping and moving head; (>) afternoon, with heaviness; with heaviness, then aching, (<) every motion, taking away the appetite, (>) 3 P.M., by tying a handkerchief tightly around it; as if he had taken cold. Fulness; in morning; at 3 P.M., by tying a handkerchief tightly around it; as if he had taken cold. Fulness; in morning; at 8 P.M., with heat in it. Vacant feeling. Heaviness. Wavering, floating sensation on turning head quickly.
Forehead. Shooting through F.; and r. temple; S. above r. eye. Aching; and in temples, (<) in and above orbits; over r. eye; during the day; all day till 4 P.M.; in morning on waking; from morning on waking till 1 P.M., and in temples, (<) from temple to temple; in morning on waking, (<) during the day, aching across brow, over orbits and in eyeballs; in afternoon, with sweat; in F. and temples from between 2 and 3 till 5 P.M., with soreness to touch, listlessness and absent-mindedness; every day from 3 till 9 or 10 P.M., with Dullness and indisposition to study or speak; above orbits, reaching into temple; heavy, in ethmoid bone. Dullness in F. and root of nose; at top, with heaviness, and occasionally sharp pain in side and top of head. Heaviness. Fulness in afternoon, with throbbing in vertex. Numbness in evening.
Temples. Boring outward, (<) r. and extending to l. in afternoon, with nausea, internal heat in head, but external coldness of forehead, the pain (<) heat, pressure and tobacco-smoke. Pain; from one to other over orbits all day; in r. in morning on rising; in T. and supraorbital regions in morning on waking, passing at 4 or 5 P.M. into orbit posterior to and in eyeball, also with photophobia, pain (<) orbit, compelling him to lie down; in r. at 8 A.M.; through r. during breakfast; in r. at 5 P.M., (<) evening by stooping, pain shifted to orbital region, two days later (>) noon by eating, returned on walking in hot sun, (>) next day at 6 P.M.; through, across and above T. and in superciliary ridge, (<) forenoon. Drawing pain in r. Throbbing in artery.
Vertex. Aching; all day, and above eyes; at 9.30 A.M.; in afternoon and evening, and above eyes, (<) above r. eye; at 8 P.M.; till after dinner, and in sides of head; intermittent.
Occiput. Pressure on sides of posterior inferior part, as if in a photographer’s rest.
Eyes
Red; in morning on waking; and watery. Swollen; in morning on waking, and sore; eyes and orbital region S. in morning on waking, and agglutination; (<) l., and inflamed; (<) rising, and painful. Dim at 8 A.M.; D. on looking long at an object. Pain; in morning; at 8 P.M. when reading and writing; on looking at anything; when reading and writing, and tired feeling all day; (<) light; (<) sunlight, with tired feeling; (<) just after rising, with soreness. Sore all day, (<) 7 P.M. by reading; at 9.30 A.M., with full feeling; on rising; on pressure; on moving them, with aching; l., (<) light, with scratching beneath lids on rolling ball; and sticky. Smarting; on reading; in open air, with lachrymation; as from wood-smoke. Swollen feeling; in morning; and inflamed feeling, with pasty matter in canthus and on lashes. Burning; all days, as from wood-smoke. Discomfort in open air; on reading by lamp or gaslight. Heaviness; in morning, (<) r., in evening. Feeling as from loss of sleep. Irritable. Symptoms (<) open air.
Lachrymation; in morning after waking; at 9 A.M. at 9.30 A.M. when reading; on looking steadily at an object; in open air; in open, (<) morning. Pain deep in balls after reading, (<) opening eyes widely, (>) closing and resting them. Balls sore on pressure all days; S. at 12 P.M., (<) pressure; or touch; on closing lids; and smarting. Balls seem too large in morning on waking, when closing lids. Balls and inside of lids are full, causing feeling on moving ball as of something granular between them. Balls stiff. Pupils dilated; l.; in morning; l. at 5 and 11 P.M.; l., (>) 1 P.M. when walking, with misty vision.
Lids. Agglutinated in morning. Inside of lower granular. Swollen; (<) lower; lower looked and felt like a bag, livid circles around eyes; lining thick and red, and as eyes are rolled the lining gathers in folds between balls and lids, l. eye worse. Swollen feeling, (<) r.; (<) r., and (<) outer canthus, in morning, r. lower feels S. and itchy, as before a stye. Disposed to close; and unable to open as wide as usual. Stiff. Burning in morning; B. on edges, with itching.
Gum in external canthus; whitish, in external C. in morning. Inner canthus red and sore. Inner canthus itches in morning and feels pasty. Sclerotica congested. Conjunctive congested; in morning on waking; from slight exposure to cold or wind; and jaundiced; and white of eye yellow. Orbital region swollen; (<) r.; in morning on waking; supraorbital; infraorbital. Aching across orbits; through O. and brow; in supraorbital region, with Dullness; in supraorbital region, extending up forehead, (<) just above orbits. Aching across brows in morning on waking, with vertigo on moving about, and lightness or largeness of head when sitting. Heavy, full feeling in orbital region, reaching to temples.
Vision. Blurred. Dim; at noon on rising from a seat; for long distances. Flickering before eyes when they are closed, at 8 A.M. Photophobia. Eyes feel weak, as if lids must be closed to protect balls, conjunctive dry and painful, vision blurred after looking at an object a short time, eyes sensitive to light, eye symptoms (<) morning, (>) towards evening.
Clinical Chronic conjunctivitis, membrane very rough, eye dry and painful; granular lids.
Ears
Shooting over r. in afternoon. Hearing dull.
Nose
Redness of r. side and bridge, with sore and indurated pimple on r. side. Nostrils indurated and sore; nostrils l. and inflamed. Mucous membrane thick and nostrils obstructed. Pain at root; compressive, at root. Nostrils tender on touch. Dryness. Stoppage; of r. nostril; in morning; in morning on waking; in morning on rising; (<) night and morning, little discharge during the day, but feeling as if mucous membrane were swollen, hard bluish mucus blown out in morning, then mucous membrane feels sore and raw; of r. nostril, with dryness; of r. nostril, with blowing of thick yellowish mucus from it; but air can be drawn through freely. Sneezing; through the day; in morning on inspiring cool air, with free watery or semi-mucous discharge, S. always renewed on inspiring cool air; paroxysmal, by day.
Fluent coryza; in evening. Discharge less in afternoon; D. whitish and thick; thick, yellowish; of tenacious whitish mucus; of yellowish mucus; tough and yellowish; tough, hard, sometimes when dislodged it causes bleeding, dropping from posterior nares of mucus which collects in a tough and tenacious mass, causing considerable hawking to dislodge it. Watery discharge; from l. nostril in morning on rising, (>) after 10 A.M.; in afternoon and evening; (<) l. nostril; or semi-mucous; from l. nostril, more gluey from r., with chafing from frequent use of handkerchief; becoming tough and yellow. Bleeding in evening. Sense of smell defective; lost (Nat-m).
Clinical Nasal catarrh, with supraorbital headache, burning in eyes, watery discharge, dry throat, (<) morning. Nasal catarrh, with pain at root of nose, the discharge passes into the throat and has to be hawked up. Nasal catarrh, the nose constantly feels stuffed, with more or less affection of the eyes.
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.