Cracking in joint of jaw on moving it, even when drinking; on moving it back and forth in morning. Cramplike pain in joint of jaw; close to ear, (>) hard pressure and by warm food. Pain in joint as if it would be dislocated in evening during spasmodic yawning. Pain in joint as if bruised or as if it would break on moving it. Lips dry, cracked and covered with a red crust (Ailanth.). Clusters of vesicles filled at first with watery substance, on lower lip, near corners, with salty biting and soreness to touch. Soreness in corners. Pinching point in r. side of lower lip in morning on rising, with sensation as, if bleeding.
Clinical Facial neuralgia, with chilliness, (<) evening. Rheumatism of the jaws, feeling as though they would break or crack always on chewing; the jaw dislocates easily. Facial erysipelas.
Mouth
Teeth. Looseness, with intermittent painful crawling in them, as in a limb asleep; L. of lower incisors, she cannot bite upon them; of lower incisors, the gum recedes, it can be pushed off and touched without pain except while the teeth are painful; of incisors, with pain from cold and warm drinks; of lower incisors, two first molars and canines, with crawling pain in gums. Tearing, (>) hot applications. Sticking digging. Cutting and sore pain. Sharp pressure in lower molars, with dull pain in them and with sensation of a mouldy smell in mouth. Pain in lower molars; in incisors on touch of tongue; in evening in a hollow tooth, which became elongated and loose, then also in other teeth pain partly sticking and partly crawling; as if too long and loose on biting and chewing; drawing, after dinner; in r. upper as if they were drawn into their sockets by the roots. Jerking pain in hollow; J. Pain in canine in evening, with sticking; at night (about 10 P.M.), extending into head, (>) cold had; upward in a nerve, transiently (>) a cold hand. Sensation of a tenacious substance between r. Numb sensation in upper molars.
Gum. Pinching on both sides of lower, with musty taste. Sore pain at 2.30 A.M., with burning extending into roots of molars, forcing him to sit up in bed, with heat in body, (<) head, with sweat on forehead. Pressure on outer part, over lower molars; P. moving here and there on inner side of incisors, and in periosteum of teeth.
Tongue. Soreness, with redness at apex (Phyto.). Blisters. Yellowish-white at root. Coated; reddish-brown, except near edges, in morning on rising. brown mucus, except on edges, in morning on rising. Dark brown mucus on it one morning, coated yellow another. Salt mucus in morning. Burning and smarting, with increase of saliva. Dryness on waking at 8 A.M.; D., provoking drinking; dry sensation at tip without visible dryness.
Mouth in General. Inflammation and vesicles Mucus; grayish, in morning. Cutting throbbing pain as from an ulcer posteriorly on palate where teeth end, and on touch sticking as in an ulcer. Soreness of upper and back part of palate. Dryness and thirst. Coldness as from a wind, when closed, with roaring in l. ear. Sudden heat, and in gullet. Inclination to spit, as from salivation. Salivation; in morning, with nausea and hunger; during afternoon nap; running from mouth during afternoon nap when sitting; after the customary smoke; with burning pricking in tongue and sore feeling at tip of tongue; salt, in morning in bed. Spitting of saliva and mucus all day, with sour eructations; spitting of tenacious mucus. Breath fetid.
Taste. Bitter (all day, even to food); in morning, (>) eating; waking her at night, with dryness in mouth; (to acids); (to bread); and rough to bread; and acrid, sour. Bloody when coughing; B. in nose and mouth, then bilious, bitter taste. As of bad meat in forenoon, (>) eating. Sour; after milk. Coppery, with scraping extending into throat. Slimy, mouth seems coated with mucus; S., forcing her to spit much. Fatty, but natural to food. Flat. Bad, in morning after waking and after eating.
Clinical Toothache, (<) cold, (>) warmth; (occasionally relieves a jumping toothache, momentarily (>) a cold hand). Sometimes useful for inflammation at root of a tooth, with pain, (<) night from cold. The tongue is dry, red and cracked, in fever.
Throat
Hard swelling of submaxillary and parotid glands. Swelling of submaxillary glands, with sticking on swallowing. Mucus, and in posterior nares; M., (<)rinsing mouth; hawking of M. in morning; tenacious, (>) hawking, but leaving roughness. Sticking on swallowing and yawning; on swallowing if throat is dry, but when moist pressure in it on swallowing; near epiglottis, beginning dull and ending sharp, (>) swallowing.
Pressure on swallowing. (<) empty swallowing. Throbbing pain posteriorly. Soreness, with burning extending to stomach; S. and apparent smallness, causing difficulty in swallowing. Swollen sensation, with bruised pain, and on swallowing swollen pain and sticking. Sensation in pit as if stopped and constricted in trachea, transiently (>) eating and drinking. Rawness in l. tonsil on swallowing, with soreness. Roughness provoking hacking cough; R. in throat and trachea as if chest were raw and sore. Dryness; after getting into bed. Coldness on expiration, as if a cold breath were exhaled. Burning; about noon, and in chest near oesophagus, with burning pain in back. Inability to swallow drink, on every swallow the drink chokes her as if epiglottis were paralyzed, with dryness posteriorly in throat. Pricking low down in oesophagus behind sternum. Burning in oesophagus in forenoon.
Clinical Sometimes used for sore throat, with oedema of the fauces, great restlessness, swelling of the parotid glands. Occasionally useful in diphtheria, with bloody saliva, swollen parotids, restlessness, etc. Mumps.
Stomach
Appetite, in morning, but on going to the table indifference to food. Great. ravenous, (>) sitting, with emptiness in stomach, with loss of appetite in palate and throat; ravenous, yet mouth seemed soapy, everything tasted like straw and was eructated, appetite disappeared after slightest food and he felt full. Frequent, sudden, for dainties. Desire for cold milk, he swallowed it hastily; D. for raw oysters; for cheese, sometimes for hearty food. Food is relished in evening, except bread, that seems rough, dry and scrapy; F. was relished though he ate without desire; ate with relish at noon, though he was indifferent to food; food is relished tolerably, but she has no real desire for it and her stomach seems constantly full (Lycopodium). Little appetite, yet a hunger, with a sensation as if hunger affected chest. Satiety if he eats a little, yet hunger (Lycopodium); S. after a glass wine, aversion to wine, with heaviness of head. Lost; at noon; with flat, slimy salivation; with constipation; and after swallowing a morsel a putrid taste; for tobacco; beer is not relished; and neither food, drink nor tobacco tastes good. Aversion to meat and broth; to bread and to eating generally; to coffee.
Thirst; in morning; from 2 till 5 A.M., then sweat; in afternoon and after midnight from dryness in mouth; at night, without desire to drink, with slimy mouth; for water or beer.
Eructations. At 1 P.M., with shooting in r. side of epigastrium and in r. axilla; whenever urinating. Empty, in evening, then hiccough; E. towards evening, with bloating of abdomen; after eating and drinking; tasting of food. Burning; rising from pit of stomach into pit of throat, almost taking away her breath, in evening; remaining in r. side of chest.
Nausea; in throat; in chest in morning after rising; in morning after rising. (>) open air, with anxiety; in morning after rising, with warmth, N. (>) lying down; in evening on lying down, with tossing about; in chest and stomach in evening g in bed, (>) sleep; after eating and drinking; after eating and after coffee, with salivation; when sitting; (<) stooping; in chest, (>) eating, with ravenous hunger; (>) eating, returned with hunger, without appetite; with pain at l. quadratus lumborum; with burning pain in stomach, dizziness, feeling as if stomach were too large and hanging down, then chills running from feet to head, then flashes of heat, chill from 2 till 3 A.M. every day during the inflammatory stage. pulse full; rapid; beneath short ribs, impeding respiration; causing shivering.
Vomiting; of the partially digested fruit, later of a tenacious wine-colored fluid.
Sticking in r. side towards stomach; in pit; in pit near r. hypochondrium; in region, impeding deep breathing. Rending pain in diaphragm, (<) lying. Cramp in pit like a fulness. Griping above stomach, below diaphragm, later lower down in stomach; in pit and thence suddenly in a spot in hypogastrium. Pain; in epigastrium; in pit; at 7.15 P.M., and in abdomen, lasting in abdomen through the evening and remaining next morning; on coughing; in pit on moving about; when about to fall asleep; then loose dark brown stool, be fore the stool pain at symphysis pubis, and during it burning in anus and procidentia ani; in pit and diaphragm so that he could not lie in bed; (in pit during dinner, delaying sleep); in pit as if everything were swollen, making breathing difficult; after eating as from undigested food; in pit, as from swallowing too large a morsel; pressive and burning, on swallowing cold water; as if closed and being split open with a knife, preventing lying. Contractive pain in r. side, extending towards stomach.
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.