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Generalities and Mind
Discomfort as from a severe cold, affecting whole body, at 9.30 P.M., awoke frequently with dry mouth and throat from breathing with open mouth, nose being obstructed, woke at 6 A.M., in sweat, feeling better. Irritable.
Head
Pain, with soreness. Fulness and inclination to ache. Fulness, waking him in morning, (>) discharge of thick, yellow mucus. Vertigo. Discomfort, (<) night. Pain in forehead and eyes, partially (>) discharge of mixed watery, clear, stringy, thick, yellow mucus from nose tinged with blood; burning pain in forehead and root of nose. Fulness in forehead and over eyes and at root of nose. Pain in l. temple. Drawing in l. temple. Pain in l. side of head, with heat extending to parietal ridge and mastoid process, with stiffness of muscles of l. side of neck and top of l. shoulder as from exposure to a draught of cold or damp, raw air.
Eyes
Swollen, red and painful to touch. Smarting. Aching. Burning; and sore pain. Lachrymation, tears flow down r. cheek. Pain in l. ball extending over orbit and l. side of head. Sore pain in balls; (<) pressure; in l., extending to supraorbital region, then across forehead and deep above root of nose. Burning in balls, (>) night, with pressure, leaving fulness and soreness, as in ordinary catarrh. Lids and conjunctiva red; conjunctiva red, with smarting and burning at l. inner canthus, eye sore to touch. Aching, in orbits, extending into forehead and to l. side of head.
Nose
Sensation as if he had taken horse-radish, causing gush of tears from eyes, which soon became blurred as from a film of mucus. Dryness of nostrils, forehead and bronchia, with soreness and rawness. Obstruction. Burning; extending into forehead and probably frontal sinuses; in l. nostril, later extending to r. nostril, forehead and eyes, with smarting of eyes, lachrymation and pain in eyes, the pain (>) sneezing, then watery mucus from r. nostril, then heat and fulness through nasal passages, woke at 3 A.M. with pressure, heat and fulness in forehead, extending to root of nose, restlessness and but little sleep till morning, on rising nostrils plugged with mucus, which on moving about was discharged, was thick, yellowish, that from r. nostril tinged with blood, after discharging for ten days it left posterior nares and soft palate feeling still, sore and cracked. Sneezing.
Discharge of sweetish yellow mucus; D. thick, yellow, tinged with blood; from posterior nares, (<) l. side. Watery discharge; trickling of water from r. nostril; trickling from l. nostril, when lying on l. side; with frequent sneezing, lachrymation, dim vision, redness and soreness of inner canthi, which feel swollen, later increase of secretions of nose, eyes, mouth and throat, with burning in these parts, without thirst (compare Euphrasia).
Clinical Sanguinaria nit. has been used quite extensively for polypus of the nose, chronic catarrh, with sneezing and burning, laryngitis, hoarseness, dry, hollow cough. Soreness behind the sternum, violent convulsive cough. Irritation at the bifurcation of the bronchi, with expectoration of blood-streaked mucus; also in general for catarrhal inflammation of mucous membranes, with great irritability of them. Rawness and soreness in posterior nares and hawking of thick yellow, sometimes bloody mucus.
Mouth
Acrid burning on tongue. Tongue, palate, tonsils and pharynx feel sore, raw. Roughness of tongue; as if burnt; extending to fauces and tonsils and rising to posterior nares, with rawness and soreness; in M. and throat, with dryness and with constriction of throat. Burning. Taste bitter; and acrid; T. acrid, soon extending to pharynx and posterior nares; T. dry to everything, coffee did not taste natural.
Throat
Red irritable spot. Uvula swollen and elongated, palate and upper part of pharynx red, swollen, mucous follicles enlarged and bright red, the whole surface covered with white tenacious mucus. Pain in r. tonsil. Soreness of r. tonsil, with roughness and rawness, difficulty in swallowing, obstruction of Eustachian tube, difficulty in distinguishing sounds, roaring in r. ear. Burning in oesophagus and stomach.
Stomach and Abdomen
LIttle appetite, wanted something succulent, not pungent, but soothing to mouth and throat, which felt hot, dry and raw. Eructations of putrid-smelling gases at 10 P.M., though she had eaten nothing since morning. Borborygmi, with colic as before diarrhoea; B. at night, with cutting in abdomen as if stool or flatus would be discharged.
Urinary Organs
Micturition three times at night, urine high-colored, bright yellow sediment; M. nearly every hour at night, weighing twenty- eight ounces, and depositing a white sediment.
Respiratory Organs
Air-passages feel as if lined with thick, stiff mucus or pus. Burning in air-passages; in nostril, forehead, eyes, throat and bronchi, then trickling of watery mucus from nose, lachrymation, watery coryza, with burning pain in posterior nares and trachea, then tension, burning and mucus behind sternum, mucus in bronchia and throat.
Cough short, hacking; harsh C., leaving soreness and rawness in throat and chest, with scraping rawness in pharynx; deep and rattling C., mucus came up easily. Expectoration of thin, frothy, tenacious mucus; easy E. of clear mucus, becoming thick and yellow and greenish mucus. Desire for fresh air.
Chest
Soreness. Pressure behind sternum, spreading to lungs and increasing the sense of suffocation. Tightness, (>) coughing up thick, yellow, sweet mucus, with fulness and soreness; T. causing short, hacking cough. Heat behind centre of sternum, with tension.
Sleep
Restless; from feverishness and irritable condition. Poor, on account of pressure behind centre of sternum and soreness, with raw and rough feeling in r. side of throat. Bad, from frequent desire to urinate and obstruction of nose and bronchi, as soon as she moved she raised thick, yellow, sweetish mucus, this lasted all day, with apparent dryness of nose and throat. Sleeplessness.
Fever
Heat in forehead, (>) warm bathing.
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.