Clinical Neuralgic toothache.
Throat
Swelling of uvula. Mucus before breakfast. Hawking of bright blood from posterior nares. Tensive clawing in parotid gland, with salivation on same side. Scraping and pain; S., with accumulation of water in mouth; with roughness and sensation as if a morsel were lodged there, provoking cough; with roughness and constant hawking; and when swallowing feeling as if uvula rested on tongue, the insipidity in throat obliged him to hawk a sweet, flat-tasting mucus; with tightness, causing sticking, he has to hawk in order to breathe freely; as from something acrid, with dryness where nose opens into throat. Constant necessity to swallow, with pain in mouth and behind larynx as if something lodged there, with scratching roughness, he hawks constantly, (<) morning, afterwards all day, also when eating, (<) after eating.
Sensation of a lump, which it was necessary to swallow. Sensation of a soft lodged there, (<) deglutition. Sore on swallowing. Swollen feeling. Constriction as from a string; in fauces as after an astringent drink. Dryness; when swallowing. Burning, with pressure as from internal swelling; B. and during empty deglutition pressure as from a plug; in fauces and about uvula, with pungent taste, he had to spit much. Sensation of a vapor rising in it, with bitterness, almost life heartburn.
Clinical Tonsillitis beginning in l. side, (>) warm drinks.
Stomach
He eats more breakfast than usual, and with haste. Appetite-lost all day, then canine in evening; lost for dinner; lost, the first mouthful of food tastes of the drug. Aversion to food; and coffee; to meat; with appetite. Thirst; after the chilliness; for cold water in morning; for cold water, (<) towards evening. Eructations; rancid; sour; bitter, pungent; empty, with shuddering; painful, often ascending only to middle of chest. Hiccough.
Nausea; when eating; as soon as she sees cooked food; after eating, with anxiety; (>) dinner; (>) bitter eructations; (>) tasteless eructations; with constant spitting of insipid water; with bitter taste; with discomfort and coldness in stomach; with pain, weakness fort and coldness in stomach; with pain, weakness and feeling as if she would sink down; with retching, then vertigo unto falling, then, headache; with retching, the R. (<) coughing; with gulping up of bitter mucus, leaving behind a greasy substance, as if he had eaten tallow; causing shuddering.
Vomiting of a clear, slimy liquid. Sticking in l. side of pit. Digging on l. side above pit, with pain on touch. Intermittent pinching in middle of epigastrium, between pit of S. and vertebrae. Pain, with bloated sensation; P. as if a sore spot were pressed, below pit, on pressure and inspiration. Sensitiveness of epigastric region to touch, with pressure as from a stone. Pain in S. and abdomen as from a stone, with digging in abdomen. Tightness in pit and chest, (<) inspiration. Sensation just below pit as if S. were turning inside out. Indication of heartburn. Burning pain; corrosive, when walking. Burning; in region of S. and liver; after waking, with suffocative breathing, she thought she was relieved by pressing chest with hands, but she was not; extending to pit of throat. Emptiness.
Clinical Cardialgia, with distention. The gastric symptoms are generally characterized by absence of thirst and longing for sweats, general relief after eating. Cutting colic, especially from worms. Vomiting of round worms, feeling of worm in pharynx.
Abdomen
Rumbling; with movements; with emission of flatus, then urging and stool, in half an hour another stool; with urging, then scanty, difficult stool, after half an hour a copious, painless stool; with burning in it an tip of tongue and throat, then stool mixed with blood and burning in anus, then weakness and slumber for quarter of an hour, upon waking he felt extremely well; with pinching and stitches in region of bladder; then loose stool, after ten minutes again R., then copious loose stool; as if empty; intermittent R. and grunting. Pinching, then urging, but only flatus passes. Pain, and in anus. Burning; after stool, and in rectum; with ineffectual desire for stool; extending to mouth, with ptyalism, the saliva appearing to be as hot as the heat in A., but it is not. Shuddering.
Hypochondria. Sticking in r., (<). deep inspiration; sudden, in r. in afternoon when sitting, with lachrymation, he rises and twists in every direction, when the pain suddenly attacks l. side and the pains meet in the middle of the abdomen, (>) sitting down, stretching, bending the back forward and pressing hands into sides. Digging in r. lobe of liver, extending to l., with paroxysms of painful drawing transversely, and when pressing upon it pain as in an old sore, at the same time digging in forehead, (>) pressure. Scraping in hepatic region. Warmth in r. not far from pit of stomach.
Spasmodic contractions of l. side, with burning pain, he bent towards l. side. Sticking in l. side when sitting; S. in. r. side, (<) hepatic region; in l. side as from a sore. Pinching around umbilicus, then sudden copious stool, which was soon followed by another, later fetid flatus. Burning around umbilicus., Intermittent sticking in l. groin in evening. Boring in hypogastrium, (<) one place in r hip.
Rectum
Punching tearing. Crawling as from ascarides. Urging, then scanty difficult stool, then headache; U., with jerking drawing in pubic region, as if coming from spermatic cords and extending to hollow between thigh and scrotum, later noiseless emission of flatus, then shuddering across back; with croaking like frogs, after sitting a long time emission of much flatus, then enormous stool, then a second mixed with blood, then burning pain in abdomen for eight days, then itching which on rubbing changes into burning’ sudden ineffectual.
Clinical Thread-worms. Numerous symptoms of worms, especially in children with irritation of the external genitals.
Anus
Burning pain before stool. Itching, then burning after scratching.
Stool
Fermented and brown diarrhoea. Frequent after a large dose, none for four days after a small dose. Difficult. Delayed. Omitted for several days, then first part hard, difficult, at first, afterward scanty.
Urinary Organs
Urethra, dragging as far as tip when urinating; scalding when urinating; burning between micturitions, with urging. Constant desire to urinate, with burning in urethra, the urging (<) emission of a few drops, with drawing backward in urethra, this symptoms (>) Pulsatilla. Urine like muddy water. Urine increased, mixed with blood. U. scanty.
Sexual Organs
Drawing, beating, sticking, intermittent pain towards tip of penis. Painful erections in morning, without desire. Slow undulating motion in testicles all day, sometimes tingling from thighs to testicles, after which the undulation begins again and is more violent. Intermittent bruised pain in l. testicle towards evening. Insensible to excitement, he is nauseated by amorous caresses. Desire lost, later he can scarcely rid himself of voluptuous thoughts though the penis is relaxed.
Menses one day late, profuse and lasting one day longer than usual, three or four days before they appeared bearing down as if they would come on; M. which had just begun decreased, they reappear irregularly and more or less profusely.
Clinical Ovaritis, with cutting pain (Coloc).
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness. Wheezing in trachea during inspiration when lying. Cough dry, at night, leaving him no rest, with heat and sweat; short, dry, from scraping in throat; short, in paroxysms, with lachrymation; violent. Breathing rapid; suddenly oppressed in pit of stomach, with anxiety; short, all day; short, difficult, (<) afternoon.
Clinical Has been used for cough, (<) lying down. Cough, associated with coryza and lachrymation. Reflex cough from worms.
Chest
Sticking in l. side; in r. side between third and fourth ribs; above ensiform cartilage; externally in r. side during expiration; in l. side, at first more in upper part, then in lower, (<) cough and deep inspiration; in forepart of middle of r. side during inspiration and cough, waking him at night, necessity to lie on back, cough with expectoration; pinching, behind heart towards l. side, (<) inspiration. Pricking borings outwards in r. side during expiration when sitting. Oppression; when sitting or lying; with anguish about heart. Painful pressure in middle. Burning pain in l. side. Burning, with bitterish-sourish taste rising from oesophagus into posterior part of mouth; B. in r. side as if he had swallowed hot water.
Hear and Pulse
Praecordial anxiety, with tossing about and groaning. Praecordial warmth. Palpitation and sensation as if all arteries of body were beating. Pulse rapid and irregular; P. small, spasmodic, with coldness of limbs.
Neck
Pain in nape on moving it.
Back
Sticking in r. side. Bruised pain in spine when sitting. Intermittent pain as from weariness in forenoon and afternoon, beginning when walking, (>) sitting, making his back hollow and leaning firmly against anything. Burning-tingling stinging between scapulae. Pain in region of l. sacro-iliac symphysis when walking; P. in lumbar region, with chilliness; in upper border of os ilium, not far from superior spinous process, (>) walking and pressure, (<) sitting.
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.