A saturated solution of Phosphorus in alcohol corresponds to the 3d decimal dilution.
General Action
A tissue drug of first rank as well as a most virulent poison. It inflames and causes degeneration of the mucous membrane of the entire alimentary canal, causing gastritis, entero-colitis and dysentery, all characterized by destructive processes and haemorrhage. It inflames the kidneys. It causes acute yellow atrophy of liver as well as a subacute hepatitis. It causes inflammation of the whole respiratory tract and pleuro-pneumonia. It produces an inveterate myelitis of the spinal cord and other nerves, with consequent paralysis. It destroys bone, particularly attacking the jaw and tibiae. It disorganizes the blood and produces haematogenous jaundice. It causes fatty degeneration of every tissue and organ in the body, predisposing to haemorrhage.
Allies – Arsen., Pic-ac., Crotal., Apis; Pulsatilla, Lycopodium, Nat-sulf., Ferrum; Podophyllum, Mercurius; Sec-c., Hamamelis; Nux-v.
Generalities
Mucous membranes pale. Muscular system lax. Lay always on r. side at night (Pulsatilla, Nat-sulf.); always on r. side, throwing about upper part of body, (<) head; on back; on back at night, with l. hand under occiput; on l. side, with feet drawn up. Emaciation (Iodium). Ataxia and adynamia. Anaemia. Consumption, with hectic fever, bad digestion, cardialgia and constipation. Appearance as in typhoid fever, depression and prostration, difficulty in raising herself in bed. Swelling of body; (<) lids and face, so that the depression from pressure of finger was but slowly obliterated, on other parts the relaxed tissues, when pinched, but slowly regained their smoothness (Arsenicum, Apis.). Soft parts detach themselves from the bone and leave a bony, gray, rough, but solid surface, and a gray, fetid suppuration exhales, after an uncertain period this separates without any new bone being formed.
Much bleeding of small wounds. Haemorrhages from free surface and from tissues (compare Crotal.). blood when drawn was pale and had only about twice as many red as white corpuscles. Regurgitation, without effort of nearly pure blood, with epistaxis and oozing of blood from ears, the blood of these haemorrhages very fluid and difficult to coagulate, next day a little blood from throat, with these haemorrhages return of nervous symptoms, pain and numbness of l. arm, then of other limbs, pain in region of throat, stricture of throat, suffocative sensation, as the haemorrhages return of nervous symptoms, pain and numbness of l. arm, then of other limbs, pain in region of throat, stricture of throat, suffocative sensation, as the haemorrhages diminished the skin was more deeply jaundiced, after a month the H. returned, with pure blood in stools, epistaxis, haematuria, then prostration, almost complete loss of voice, feeble pulse, cold limbs, bruit de souffle with first sound of heart, later the H. with pain in r. iliac fossa and r. thigh nd weakness of limbs, afterwards profuse uterine H., but miscarriage was prevented, she was delivered without accident, afterwards diarrhoea, not bloody, which could not be stopped and which ended her life eight months after the poisoning.
Stretching of limbs and chest in morning in bed. Motions involuntary and uncertain, as in palsy. Trembling; in morning, with jerking of limbs; in morning on waking, with feeling as if teeth were chattering; of chest and hands, as if he had drunk too much coffee. Tremulous sensation in lower part of spine, in jaws and fingers; in whole body, like a pulsation. Twitching of all muscles, (<) limbs, during rest and on contact. Convulsions; and hands clenched, eyeballs fixed; clonic; hysterical; tonic (the post-mortem showed spinal arachnitis and partial softening of spinal cord.).
Sticking; here and there; at times in joints or bones, or pain; in chest, back and r. arm on motion, (<) night in bed. Tearing over whole body. Pain; while eating, at noon and in evening; on slightest motion; before change of weather; in muscles, (<) calves; in r. side, with occasional stitches; fugitive, during the night; assuming the form of cramps as soon as the bowels begin to move; burning and boring, (<) bones of skull, palate, nasal bones and teeth, (<) night; drawing, in bones of l. arm and in lower jaw, and rheumatic P. in other parts; numb and drawing, here and there, (<) r. side. Rheumatic feeling in knees and small of back. Bruised feeling. Soreness of whole body. Pressure on scalp, in face and on throat. Tensive drawing in glands, even on neck.
Hyperaesthesia of all senses, (<) hearing and smell. Discomfort, (<) stomach. General sick feeling, with weakness in joints, (<) knees; S. feeling, preventing sleep till 2 A.M. Inability to assume an upright position when walking. Takes cold easily in open air, which causes Griping in abdomen, pain in nape, stiffness of arms, toothache, lachrymation, hiccough, cutting and sticking in and above pit of stomach, Dullness of head, or at last coldness and moist coldness of feet and hands, with a hot cheek, etc.; takes cold on rising after slight night-sweat, with toothache and jerking in teeth; feeling of taking cold in whole body, with chilliness and sleepiness (Nux-v.).
Sensation as if a fluid ran from trunk into limbs, (<) into knees, elbows and wrists. Rush of blood into hands and head, as if from stomach, with injected veins on back of hands. Restlessness; at night, from pressure in stomach and nausea; during a storm; in bed; with anxiety; with rolling about of head and moaning; in blood after eating a little, with anxiety. Nervous (<) symptoms in afternoon and evening. Nervous sensitiveness, with weakness, (<) region of last vertebra and in sacrum, every exertion fatigued and the carrying of a small basket caused pain in whole back. Increase of muscular power; of muscular activity; of vigor; of feeling of vigor, next day exhaustion.
Weakness; all day, oppression; all day, then at night sweat and turbid urine; of mind and body in morning; in morning, with feeling as if he had not slept enough (Nux-v.); in morning on rising; in morning after micturition, so that he had to lie down; in morning on rising, and during the day general sick feeling and heart burn, and after rapid motion ravenous hunger and trembling of limbs; in morning, (>) rising; towards noon, with sickness; towards noon, (>) afternoon; in afternoon after a little wine, so that he must sleep a few hours, then a sleepless night; during evening fever; after eating, (<) affected parts; from walking; from a short walk, with headache; during menses, (<) evening, with pain in back as if beaten and torn, drawing in whole body, palpitation, anxiety, griping above stomach, with constrictive pain and inability to keep up on account of nausea; at times (>) walking, (<) lower limbs and knees, with loose feeling in knees; with depression and no desire to attend to ordinary business; with ability to lie only on his back; and on ascending stairs muscles of lower limbs refused to act, so that she was in danger of falling; and almost speechlessness; with evening fever; sudden; sudden, with heat of face; similar to that of typhus; hysterical, so that she could scarcely move the leg, with constant yawning, uprisings and distress and pressure on chest. Nervous exhaustion, with general heaviness, desire to keep the bed and dread of motion.
Faintness; incomplete, towards evening, when drinking a glass of cider. Collapse. Heaviness of whole body; with fulness; of upper part of body all day, with sensation as if everything about chest were too tight; of limbs and back in morning on waking; of head, spine and limbs towards evening, increased in paroxysms, with ill humor. Paralyzed feeling; mental and physical, all day; in morning after rising, with bruised feeling; with tremulous sensation; in whole r. side, with nausea. Symptoms of paresis of r. side, of face and r. r. arm, then paralysis of facial and hypoglossal nerves. Numbness of whole body (Pic-ac., Platina); with pricking as if encompassed by needles that just touched and on slightest motion entered the body; of lower limbs and up as far as chest. Hands, feet and nose seem stiffened. Symptoms manifest themselves first upon alimentary tract, then upon respiratory organs, then upon skin. Aggravation in morning after sleep; of pains from 5 or 6 P.M. till towards morning; in afternoon; in a warm room; from onanism and emissions. Amelioration in afternoon after eating; after dinner; after supper; after supper and a glass of beer; from rest; after sleeping half an hour; in open air; in cold, open air.
Clinical General tendency to fatty degeneration of organs. General tubercular diathesis. Haemorrhagic diathesis. Exostoses, especially of the skull. Cancerous ulcerations with profuse bleeding, burning, etc. Vascular growths. Rickets. Chorea. Marasmus. Chlorosis. Paralysis, face and extremities generally hemiplegic. Post-diphtheritic paralysis, with numbness of the extremities. Pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis; with nosebleed, diarrhoea, numbness, inability to grasp objects etc. General aggravation from sweets; from wetting hands and feet; in cool, damp weather; in hot weather.
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.