Vesicles below lower end of r. ulna; on fingers, wrists bare arms and back of hand; in centre of red spots; between fingers, then over whole hand, with swelling; on cheeks, with itching burning; on hands and wrists and about eyes, with itching burning of skin, (<) morning, with smarting and redness of eyes, photophobia obscured vision, headache through eyes and temples, Dullness, sleepiness, urine copious and pale, next day tongue furred, appetite not good, and after midnight colic, rumbling and griping during repose, with sulphuretted eructations and discharge of flatus, rheumatic pain in lumbar region and through hips, nausea, loathing of food in morning on rising, amelioration after moving about during the day, later new spots of eruption while the rest was drying up; on different parts, then desquamation; on inner sides of knees, with red burning spots and stripes; some containing milky, others clear fluid, becoming confluent, then desquamation; containing yellowish serous fluid on r. cheek with swelling, inflammation, itching and burning repeated next spring; yellowish on palm, with itching, then soreness to touch; watery, below border of lower lip, with smarting and prickling around mouth; watery, on l. hand with swelling; as in chicken-pox, after too hot a bath; filled with opaque matter, on r. hand; dark, with thick cover, on back of a finger, next day one on l. wrist, later burning and itching, afterwards one of irregular shape on back of a finger, next day one on l. wrist, later burning and itching, afterwards one of irregular shape on back of last phalanx of r. thumb, with so thick a roof as to be almost transparent, as if the effusion had taken place in lowest layer of rete mucosum, later vesicle on other parts of hands and fingers, all itching and burning, in flat, dark brown patches; exuding a turbid serum, beginning at r. mastoid process, spreading over face, neck and upper part of chest, then on hands and fingers, with burning and itching, (<) scratching, and with swelling, not pitting on pressure; in a thick mass, on a pale red base, on r. wrist, some brownish, glistening from the dried exudations that were pressed out as limpid water; discharging a clear lymph that dried to a yellow glistening pellicle, in a band around arm, the V. more isolated towards hand, some on outer margin of hand were clear and without areola; V. and papules in a red stripe above and below knee, a group of papules on chin, a few of which had reached the vesicular stage, skin beneath one eye puffed and red; burning, about mouth and nostrils; burning, filled with water with redness of whole body, except scalp, palms and soles; itching, on chest; itching, on an elevation in l. palm, discharging serum.
Pustule in l. mammary region; on side of chin, and when touched burning and pain; between fingers and on parts of hands touched by the stems, with itching, extending over whole body, with inflammation and itching; (in fold of cheeks, with sticking on touch); itching. Boil on edge of l. upper eyelid, then in groins, legs and abdomen; on hypogastrium, groins and inner part of thighs; on pubes; on abdomen, thighs and groins, with soreness and redness on pubes and abdomen, with smarting, throbbing and burning pain.
Sticking externally on leg; in outer anterior part of leg; in region of a scab in morning on waking; at lower part of cervical and upper part of dorsal spine and at two corresponding points of neck, at clavicular parts of sterno-mastoid, at 5.45 P.M. when walking in house after drinking cool water; in different parts of neck at 6 P.M. on walking in open air after drinking cold water, oftener over sterno-mastoid opposite lower part of larynx, next day at lower part of neck about 6 P.M. when walking after drinking cool water; itching, in nape.
Contraction on l. scapula. (Pain in an ulcer as if beaten.) Crawling; in an ulcer; on last knuckles of l. second and third fingers; on feet in morning; across forehead and nose when sitting upright, (>) stooping; burning, in forehead. Burning biting in an ulcer, with weeping and moaning.
Itching; in various parts, with burning; with burning, later (<) touching or moving the affected parts, as if pierced by hot needles, swelling and white transparent vesicle on the inflamed skin; with stinging; sometimes with dryness and cracking of the skin; it occurs in different places and at different times, is generally (<) heat and (>) cold, and if always violent and almost intolerable. (The skin symptoms of Rhus t. may be compared with Anacard., Ailanthus and other poisonous Anacardiaceae.)
Clinical Acne rosacea. Indicated in numerous vesicular and pustular affection of the skin, with symptoms characteristic of the drug. Facial erysipelas, with formation of vesicles, burning tearing pain, great restlessness. Urticaria. Erythema. Valuable when glandular inflammations threaten to suppurate. It is indicated in skin eruptions of a vesicular type, especially when the vesicle tends to from scabs, intense itching, (<) warmth. Eczema, which tends to assume an erysipelatous condition. Boils, carbuncles, abscesses, in short, all sorts and conditions of skin diseases which threaten to suppurate or which are characterized by the general restless fever and prostration of the drug. Particularly valuable in the typhoid forms of scarlatina, with enlarged glands, mild delirium, restlessness, etc.; the eruption calling for Rhus is usually not uniform, and causes great irritability. Smallpox, the pustules are blackish or bloody, with diarrhoea. Purpura haemorrhagica, with dry tongue, tremulous pulse, numbness of the extremities, restlessness.
Sleep
Yawning; in morning on rising; morning and evening; with lachrymation; spasmodic threatening to dislocate jaws. Sleepiness; by day, with sleeplessness and restless at night; during the day, with constant desire to lie down, anxiety, sadness and dryness of lips; during day and evening; in morning in bed; in forenoon, with headache; at 11 A.M., with yawning and indisposition to labor; in afternoon, with languor; when sitting after walking; after eating, he could not keep awake; with stupidity; sudden, at 6 P.M., with paralyzed feeling in limbs.
Sleeplessness; in evening on account of mental activity, heat without thirst, but chilliness on uncovering, orgasm of blood, throbbing in vessels and dark clouds moving before his vision, after midnight he became quiet and slept well; half the night, with anguish at heart and apprehension; before midnight, with or without sweat; after 3 A.M., then vivid dreams and on waking it seemed as if he had not slept at all; after 3 A.M., she rose anxious, restless, weak and trembling, (<) knees (with sweat on back); with inability to remain in bed; with restlessness.
Late falling asleep and tossing about. Restless sleep after midnight, filled with fretful, disagreeable thoughts; R. after midnight on account of burning in whole body, without thirst, with dreams full of anxious agitation; R. during the day, he moves his hands back and forth and plays with his fingers and hands; on account of burning in the eruption; with raising and throwing off of the covers; and interrupted, with much turning over. Slept with open mouth. Expiration light and blowing, inspiration inaudible. She often rises at night in sleep and heaves as if she would vomit, but nothing comes of it. Starting up every quarter of an hour in sleep in forenoon; S. up in fright on falling asleep, as if he had let something important fall. Loud weeping. Talking aloud in morning; talking about his business, wishes to throw everything away, and desires this and that; talking half aloud of the business of the day, when asleep in evening. Woke early, with fretful mood. Waked at 6 A.M. by an allusion to sleep in a gentle voice.
Dreams – Anxious, of his business as soon as he fell asleep. Of subjects that had been listened to or talked about the previous evening. Of accomplishing the plans projected the previous day, associated with the subject whence they were derived. Light of what had been considered or accomplished the previous day. Fearful, for example, that the world was on fire, with palpitation on waking. Of fire. Interrupted, full of difficulties. That her head was hanging out of bed and she could hear the blood flowing into it, and that she was could here the blood flowing into it, and that she was obliged to accompany a horrible image, in morning after falling asleep a second time. Incubus, with inability to move, pressure on r. upper part of chest, superstitious fear connected with the supposed presence and agency of some invisible, sly and malicious being.
Fever
Chilliness; on waking, (<) rising and till afternoon; in afternoon, alternating with heat, with malaise; towards evening; in evening, with heat, face seemed hot, though cheeks were cold to touch and pale, breath hot; at 7 P.M., with inability to drink anything cold without suffering, as soon as he lies down external heat, which does not permit him to uncover, without thirst, with watery mouth and dry lips, about midnight sweat during a half slumber, after midnight sweat on face, then on scalp and neck to chest; at 8 P.M., then in bed dry heat, with thirst, cutting in abdomen and diarrhoea, in morning again diarrhoea, at 6 P.M., chill in limbs, then dry heat, then heat with sweat for three hours and thirst diarrhoea of only mucus, with colic, followed by tenesmus and accompanied by headache, a pressure from temples towards middle and rush of blood and heat in head; in open air; sensitive to cold, open air, sometimes it causes pain in skin, also without aversion to open air; with dry lips and less thirst than hunger.
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.