Sacrum. Sticking in S. and abdomen, with cutting colic, impeding respiration; S. in loins in morning in bed, on bending forward; afterwards extending to abdomen, where it became a cutting and sticking and took away the breath, later he crawling in head, heaviness and drawing, with vanishing of sight and hearing, then chilliness as if dashed with cold water. Sprained pain on motion. Labor-like pain, as if a band passed through S. and everything were constricted, taking away her breath, (<) morning. Pain as if suppurating or as from a band, when lying, with stiffness. Pain after sitting, can scarcely rise; after sitting, can stoop; in fourth lumbar vertebra, (<) walking; on stooping, (>) rising or bending backward; on rising and on bending backward, (>) bending forward; as from fatigue in evening; pressing out, in evening; drawing tensive, in loins; drawing, in loins on inspiration, extending to pit of stomach, where it became a sticking; as from long stoping in evening, (<) standing and sitting, (>) banding backward and walking, with weariness in feet forcing him to sit down.
Clinical The backache of Pulsatilla generally involves the sacrum and hips, and extends towards the small of back, (<) lying on back, (>) lying on sides, but it usually (>) change of position, this occurs during many affections calling for the drug, and especially is a symptom during pregnancy. Spinal irritation, stiffness, small of the back feels bandaged.
Extremities
Trembling and tearing; of l. arm and foot; (trembling of hands and feet on moving about); anxious tremulous sensation. Drawing sticking, (<) joints, which are painful to touch as if beaten. Drawing tearing in one or another, with chilliness. Pain in morning in bed, (<)joints, forcing him to stretch, with general heat. Feeling as if beaten. Bursting pain in muscles of thigh and upper arm. Heaviness and drawing in legs, less in arms. Weakness; in morning after rising, with relaxation, without feeling weary. Stiffness of knee and second joint of thumb as if they had been sprained and as if cracking would ensue. Falling asleep of these upon which he lies in sleep, with crawling on waking; crawling falling asleep of forearms, hands and legs when lying, (>) motion.
Upper Extremities
Hard glandular swelling in r. axilla, painful and throbbing. Stitches in r. deltoid; (in axilla when sitting).
Shoulder. Sticking caused by cough; S. in joint on rapid motion of arm. Sticking rheumatic pain in joint on morning on moving arm or bending head sideways. Tearing in joint obliging him to bend arm, in morning on waking and half an hour later, then disappearing of itself or on lying on painful arm. Pinching in joint, with heaviness. Sprained feeling from r. joint to wrist, except in elbow; in joint on bending arm backward. Pain in r. joint; in joints in evening; on attempting to raise arm; in joints so that she could not hold a cup; drawing, extending into fingers all night, with falling asleep of fingers; intermittent drawing, to wrist; jerking, in joint. Jerking sensation in joint. Bubbling, a kind of trembling sensation on r. in afternoon. Weight in joint on attempting to raise arm, with paralyzed sensation.
Arm. (Cramps of muscles on A. and hands during night-sweat.). (Sticking here and there in a case of rheumatic paralysis of l.) Jerking tearing. Feels broken and dislocated, (<) pressure and movement. When she raises the arm she cannot get it down in the same way, it is a sickening pain. Tearing drawing at night, (<) fingers. Drawing tensive pain in inner part, extending to wrists. Burning pain in evening, with dry sensation in fingers. Heaviness during the day, with tearing in elbow on bending it; H. on raising it while holding anything with it or working with it, with numbness. (Feeling as if it would fall asleep on holding anything in hand.)
Pain as if beaten in middle of humerus, extending into thumb, so that she could not use it. Upper arm, sticking; tearing in muscles; pain on touch. Elbow, pain on moving it; on stretching it; tensive, in tendons of bend on moving arm; bruised, in morning on motion, with dilated pupils. Shooting low down in r. arm when coughing. Forearm, swollen veins; attacks of drawing tearing in bones during the day and evening; pressure in l.; jerking sensation extending to wrist,(<) morning after waking. Wrist, sprained pain in bones in evening, (<) motion, then in arm; on motion pain like stiffness, with sprained feeling in hand; stiffness of r. even if hand is not moved.
Fingers. Sticking in tips of r. Sprained pain in second joint of thumb on motion. Tearing in extensor tendons. Pressure between l. Pain in first joint of l. index at 5 P.M., (>) moving fingers; in index, as if a panaritium would form on side of nail; drawing, in thumb on moving it, with stiffness. Tension in last joints in morning. Falling asleep in morning in bed; at night.
Lower Extremities
Reeling in evening when walking, as if head were dizzy, without dizziness; dizzy, (<) evening, with internal heat in head and pallor; as from the side. Trembling in morning. He must lie with l. bent or else he has no rest. Bruised feeling. Drawing as far as knees in evening, with more chilliness than during the day. Stiffness when walking in open air.
Thigh. Twitching of some muscle-fibres in evening in bed. Sticking anteriorly in l. extending to knee and from r. calf to heel, when lying. Pain in hip-joint as if dislocated. Drawing pain in muscles at night, forcing him to move, with sleeplessness, tossing about, even when there is no pain, and general coldness. Pain in hip at noon on bending back. Bruised sensation in bones and muscles; in femora when pressing upon thighs, inability to bend knee, it seemed as if bone would break; in gluteals, or pain as from internal suppuration, after sitting. Jerking, almost sore pain extending from hip-joints to knees in morning in bed, (>) walking. Drawing in T. and legs in evening, with tension. (Tension when walking and stooping.) Soreness externally on nates where the fissure begins, with smarting. Sudden paralytic weakness on beginning to walk after long sitting. Stiffness in r., but on grasping it soreness like a sticking.
Knee. Painless swelling; swelling, with tearing. Cracking. Trembling, with weakness of legs. Tremulous sensation in K. and legs in evening after lying down. Tearing pain-like jerks. Tearing and drawing pain; T. extending to hip when sitting. Bruised pain in a spot on one side; in and below K. at night if she moved the affected thigh and leg. Tension in hollow. Paralytic pain in K. and heel on beginning to walk after sitting. Pressure on inner side of r. Weariness on rising from a seat. Give way when walking. Stiffness of. r. when walking, whenever thigh is stretched out straight.
Leg. Swelling, and of feet; of calves, with pain. Bleeding of varicose veins. Cramp in evening after lying down, with chilliness. Jerking in one part of r. calf in morning in bed, not without an agreeable sensation. Stitches upward in shaft of tibia, with external burning pain and erysipelatous redness. Tearing in forepart of r. Pain; in bones; in l. tibia; in tibia on touch; if he allows it to hand down; in bones, like pressure upon a suppurating spot, on long walking, (<) afternoon, (>) pressure and sitting, but most by resting at night; in flesh, as if suppurating, (<) evening after lying down, (>) pressure; in calves, like a cramp, when walking; paralytic on rising from a seat, (>) walking. Bruised pain in tibia; in T. in afternoon; in T., (<) lifting foot. Tensive pain in calves; drawing, in calves. Drawing pain in evening. Drawing in l. calf; on inner side of calves on sitting down in the house after a long walk. Heaviness during the day; H.(<) forenoon. Weariness on rising from a seat. Seem asleep on rising from a seat.
Ankle. Sticking in r. internal malleolus all day when walking, with drawing pain. Tearing in morning on moving foot, with dilated pupils; in internal malleolus, (<) walking. Boring above r. internal malleolus. Sudden sprained pain when walking. Intermittent pain in r. external malleolus when sitting.
Foot. Swelling; of back; above malleoli, not below; of one in evening; and varicose veins swell up; of back, with tensive pain; hot, as far as calves; red, hot, with tensive burning pain, which on standing changes to sticking; red, hot, with itching crawling as if frozen. Red, inflamed, painful. Tearing across back to heel in morning and evening. Burning pain on back. Bruised feeling, as after a long walk. Sensitiveness in morning on first stepping on it, with crawling, as from accumulation of blood. Drawing pain to knees as after a long walk, (>) morning. Drawing downward into F. in evening in bed. Tension after slight overloading of stomach at breakfast. Tingling when standing, (>) walking, with grumbling. Inclination to stretch during the day when sitting. Weakness. Seem insensible towards evening, yet heavy, they tremble when walking.
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.