The pure metal is triturated for use. Ally. Phos
Generalities
Emaciation, (<) face hands, loins and calves. Tearing in l. side of trunk and head, with stiffness in nape and cervical muscles, impeding turning of head. Intolerance of slightest draught of air, he takes could therefrom and then has tearing in limbs. Weakness; after coition, with irritability (Phosphorus); after eating with desire to lie down, but sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, (<) abdomen. Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep, then aggravation of all symptoms. Obliged to lie down during the heat of the day and remain half asleep, even his imagination was relaxed; suddenly obliged to lie down when sitting and working, with no other effects than that it was impossible to do anything. Aggravation after sleep, to which he is much inclined; (<) hot days.
Clinical Occasionally indicated in the prostration following typhoid fever. A remedy particularly adapted to old age; easy exhaustion, mental and physical. Useful for debility following exhausting diseases.
Mind
Talkative when excited, (<) evening; T., light-hearted excited. Fretful, sleepy, lazy, with frequent vomiting and stretching. Dread of people and of his occupation. Exhaustion after mental work late at night. Unfit for work, though he constantly begins he is obliged soon again to leave off. Forgetful, especially about business, but when lying half asleep every thing recurs to him.
Head
Sticking internally; deep. Aching every afternoon; A. after tamarind water; after lemonade and wine, and sometimes after tea. Dullness, (<) evening. Vertigo in morning; in evening; in evening when riding in a carriage; on standing up; with staggering, attacks of faintness, pale and distorted face and anxious sweat, and when riding in a carriage after lunch he was obliged to turn back to the house where he vomited and was so weak that he had to go to bed; so that he must close his eyes, (<) motion, then nausea and anxious sweat over whole body, then vomiting of all food, then vomiting of water and mucus, at last of sour water, the paroxysms (<) an hour after breakfast and dinner, then weakness, with thirst for cold water, which was always vomited, taste flat, stool large, soft, colored with bile, stitches in forepart of chest as from incarcerated flatus, feeling of a board before forehead, then feeling as if head were pressed against the pillow by a warm hand on forehead, hiccough, eructations, stupefaction of head inability to collect his thoughts and frequent lying in a doze, urine scanty, red, symptoms (>) emission of flatus, these attacks returned every half to one hour except at night, most relief from spirits of camphor taken alternately with back coffee, when he was obliged to hawk up much mucus.
Sticking in forehead, temples and eyes in forenoon and evening after going from cold air into warm room. Pain in temples; in occiput on standing up, with vertigo. Heaviness in occiput, at times waving in brain, fluttering in ears twitching and pressure in eyeballs. (Drawing in occiput, with ringing and stoppage in ears.) Hair falls out on combing.
Clinical Headache from tea drinking. Neuralgic. Neuralgic headache over left eye, (<) the sun, strong odors, and especially tea and strong acids. Headaches of drunkards, sometimes (>) liquor, for which there is a craving.
Eyes
Inflammation. Lachrymation, with pressure in l. Blisters on inner margin of lid, with itching and pressure as from a grain of sand. Twitching of lids, with indistinct vision. Burning on margin of r. lids, with itching. Twitching in l. ball. Pain deep in orbits. Falling of hair from brows. Vision obscured. Myopia increased.
Ears
Wax increased in the l. deaf ear, it is harder and in r. softer than usual. Throbbing in r. Stopped as from a membrane in front of them, moderately (>) shaking head and boring finger into ear. Distant rumbling in l. in evening in bed, with sensation as if ears were stopped.
Nose
Pain in septum as if a pimple would from. Itching in nostrils; On septum. Frequent involuntary boring into it. Coryza; with distressing dry cough; then fever, next evening headache, and in upper part of middle of forehead, extending towards vertex, a pain that lasted all the next day, the hat annoyed him, heat in the painful part, the hand felt pleasant, with bruised feeling and heaviness in all limbs so that he could scarcely walk, and during the headache he woke at night with cough; fluent every evening; sudden fluent, disappearing suddenly. Yellow, thick, lumpy mucus. Gelatinous mucus, at times containing small yellow masses. Loss of small.
Face
Twitching. Red cheeks on waking. Cracking in lower jaw. Crack in lip; in middle of upper.
Mouth
Teeth. Free from mucus, smoother and harder, so that on rubbing they cracked, with thickly coated white tongue. Boring in hollow. Pain as if decayed internally, Obliged to pick it till it bled. Pain in a hollow one as if it were being drawn up, (>) taking cold water and cold air into mouth, by eating, drinking and smoking, with coldness extending into cheek, the pains (<) evening in bed, with throbbing extending into l. eye, l. temple and jaws, (>) olfaction of Bryonia.
Tongue coated white; in morning. Pain in region of root of T. Burning on tip of tongue woke him at night. Stammering so that he misplaced syllables and could not articulate many words. Mouth full of tenacious mucus after midday nap. Dryness of M., fauces and pharynx on waking in afternoon and night, was obliged to drink much water, then sweat. Salivation. Disagreeable sweet taste on lips when smoking.
Throat
Hawking of lumps of transparent mucus every morning ( Argent); of bloody mucus in evening; of mucus, with a spot of blood on it. Ticking, with scraping and necessity to raise mucus. Dryness; (<) towards evening.
Stomach
Hunger immediately in morning; in middle of the night, when he happens to rise; H. increased; little in morning. Desire for brandy; late in evening; D. For salt things, then aversion to them. Thirst in evening. Hiccough from smoking before eating, with eructations. Nausea; then drawing sticking in a l. lower molar. Very sick after sleep. Cramp. Pressure as if cramp would occur.
Abdomen
Rumbling before eating. Cutting in evening, (>) emission of flatus repeated in the night. Splenetic sticking between tip of l. ilium and umbilicus when walking, so that he could scarcely move. Pain in r. side around under last ribs, (<) inspiration, extending to region of kidneys, which were sensitive to pressure.
Clinical Enlargement of the liver, and stitches (<) motion and pressure, soreness over liver, white tongue, loss of appetite, (<) morning.
Stool
Tenesmus; with frequent semi-fluid stools. Pasty, then sensation in anus as after a hard stool. Constipation. Hard, with blood at the end (Alumina); H. and accumulated in rectum so that it could scarcely be evacuated. Difficult, at the end slimy. Containing threads like hairs.
Clinical Constipation from paralysis of the rectum.
Urinary Organs
Dribbling after urinating, especially after stool; D. when walking (Phos). Frequent micturition at night. Always obliged to urinate some time after stool. Obliged to wait a long time when urinating. Discharge from urethra of fluid before micturition; D. of watery, Sticky substance just before stool and soon afterwards; of a drop of prostatic fluid when sitting, with disagreeable sensation. Dribbling of prostatic fluid. Sensation in tip of urethra as if a biting drop were forcing its way out. Twinging forward along urethra, with sensation as if drops were passing out. Red urine; in evening. U. dark and scanty. Urine had the odor of violets. Brick-dust sediment. Red sandy sediment.
Genital Organs
Erections, with itching in urethra; violent E. in morning on waking, without voluptuous sensation; incomplete E.; weak E. during sexual excitement. Impotency, with lascivious thoughts. Something thicker than natural and stony behind l. testicle. Jerking pain in r, testicle in evening. Itching of scrotum. Semen thin and odorless; dribbling of S. in sleep; discharge of S. with rheumatic pains. Desire mentally, not physically, erection slow and incomplete, too speedy emission, but long-continued pleasurable sensation. Menses delayed.
Clinical Nocturnal emissions, with sexual dreams followed by weakness in small of the back; seminal discharge thin, without odor; seminal discharges when walking; ejaculation too easy; neurasthenia from sexual excess.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness when singing, especially at the beginning; H. alternating with necessity to clear his throat (Phos). Cough in morning, slight, but affecting whole chest, and expectoration of lumps of mucus with blood; C. from deep in chest, with expectoration of opaque mucus and blood. Oppressed breathing in evening when lying, from raw pain in l. side of chest and here and there in small of back; O. in open air, with stitches in side. Frequent deep breathing as when sighing. (Compare Phosphorus)
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.