A tincture is made of the dried root. Stool hard and urine dark.
Clinical
Cystitis, constant urging to urinate, with violent pain and straining, (<) from midnight till morning. Cystitis, with strangury, ability to urinate only when on the knee and pressing the head against the floor, the urine scalds the whole length of the urethra. Cystitis, the urine very strongly ammoniacal, containing large quantities of thick, white mucus, (<) early morning hours. With the cystitis severe pain in the thigh (Berberis in the hip). Feeling as if the bladder were distended, with pain (<) after micturition, and neuralgic pains in anterior crural region going downward, urine always clear. of high specific gravity, rather strongly urinous in odor, without a trace of pus, at times increase of mucus.
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.