Gums. Swelling of inner part; S., with pain; with sore pain; with sore pain, they recede and bleed on touch; about decayed teeth, with pain and with swelling of cheek; with dark redness and painful throbbing as if beginning to suppurate; and of inner mouth, with burning in mouth extending into throat. Sore, ulcerated. Blister, with burning pain on touch. Bleeding, almost without cause; on touch. Stitches. Drawing about upper incisors.
Tongue. Coated; with pain on r. side, hindering chewing and distinct speaking; white; with mucus one or two hours after eating; with putrid-tasting mucus; brown, with red edges, next day tip and edges red, middle and posterior part yellow; yellow, and l. side of T. and mouth covered with stinging vesicles; dirty yellow and sticky, with putrid taste causing nausea. Pimple on tip, with sweet salvia. Pustules covering R. and throat. Blisters in middle; covering l. side; covering l. side of R., throat and corner of mouth; covering l. side of T., throat and l. nostril; painful, above below tip; with pain as if burnt. Tearing posteriorly on r. side, with smarting. Sore pain. Acrid smarting on forepart. Pain as if burnt; on smoking the accustomed tobacco; in tip; with feeling as if too large; with redness and elevated papillae. Dryness, and in mouth and throat, and in morning roughness; D. of tongue and palate, with roughness; D. in morning on waking, as if burnt.
Swelling of inner mouth; on mucous membrane and inner part of gums. White blisters inside cheeks. Mucus on soft palate. Pain anteriorly in palate as if burned; just back of teeth, on touch of finger or tongue. Burning in roof of palate. Dryness without thirst; D. in morning on waking, and in throat, so that she could not utter a sound. Salivation; in evening; (>) eating; salt. Offensive smell; as from mucus in chest. Taste foul, as from old catarrh; different kinds of foul; unpleasant in morning, mouth dry and slimy; sour; sour in morning on waking; sour after eating; sour, with constipation; bitterish sour; bitter in morning; bitter on clearing throat; bitter to food; sweet; as of manure; putrid after beer; mawkish; insipid.
Clinical Neuralgic toothache, (>) cold air, resulting from the use of tobacco. (Like Puls, there is relief from cold. Both drugs are frequently called for in the toothaches of pregnancy.)
Throat
Throbbing in carotids. Bruised pain in submaxillary glands, with pain on touch. Swelling of submaxillary glands, with pain on swallowing; S. of l. submaxillary gland and tonsil; of l. tonsil, which was covered with pustules; of l. tonsil, with inflammation and suppuration, inability to swallow from pain, general heat, thirst and burning in eyes. Redness and dryness. Inflammation; of upper part, with swelling. Mucus, almost suffocating her. Expectoration of mucus from fauces. Hawking up of mucus; in morning; bloody.
Sticking on swallowing; S. in uvula, with redness of sides of throat, sensitive on swallowing, with shaking chill and mucus that cannot be loosened. Cutting with rawness and much mucus; C. on swallowing, (<) hawking up mucus, with pressure, then bleeding, Dullness of head fever, pulse 108, then stupidity, in which he did not know whether he was awake or asleep, at night frequent waking, with much mucus in throat and distressing dreams, on rising next morning weakness, sweat on forehead and nausea, so that he lay down again. Pinching from larynx upward. Pain; in r. upper side; towards back on swallowing food and drink; and contraction; in region of tonsil, as if neckcloth were too tight; as if choked with something that would not go down.
Painful jerking to pit of stomach in morning when sitting up in bed. Soreness; at 7 A.M.; on swallowing; with swelling of cervical glands; with swelling, trapezius muscles very sore, can scarcely turn my head, and neck sensitive to touch; scratching, during empty swallowing; like a cramp at inside of cervical vertebrae, after a meal. Constriction, above and on larynx; in fauces on smoking. Sensation of a plug; in evening on swallowing; which he must swallow, mucus is raised by hawking or coughing.
Feeling as if skinned; and in nose. Smarting in l. side of pharynx, then cutting and at times pressing; S. posteriorly in fauces and above on palate, with burning, as before coryza. Scraping in evening; S. on swallowing. Roughness in fauces, (<) hawking, with burning. Creeping, with hoarse sensation, which causes hawking. Heat; in afternoon. Difficult swallowing as from paralysis, evenings. Numbness in r. tonsil.
Dryness; in fauces; all day; in afternoon, (<) 8 P.M., with heat and paroxysms of pain and lachrymation, rawness in posterior nares, redness of fauces, when swallowing it seemed as if the opposing parts would not blend, next day throat (<) after sleep, temporarily (>) detaching mucus, which had to be swallowed; in evening before sleep, not (>) drinking; (<) evenings; in posterior nares, with mucus in mouth, with urging to swallow; with sense of thickness.
Stomach
Hunger on waking, preventing sleep again; on seeing food, with salivation. Craving hunger; at noon; in evening; and if he only thinks of eating salivation; and if it is not appeased salivation; and after eating weariness and eructations tasting of food. Desire for vinegar; for acids; for sweets and meat. Little appetite, yet he relishes everything; L., but much thirst; and everything tastes too salt. Appetite lost; and taste; but thirst. Aversion to meat; to all food, especially meat, could eat only bread, butter and soup; to smoking tobacco.
Thirst; all day, with sickness and fever; in morning after waking; in evening; for wine; sudden and uncontrollable at 9 P.M., but water tastes insipid unless very cold. Thirstless.
Eructations; after eating a little (Lycopodium); after eating and drinking; with retching; alternating with hiccough; sour; sour after supper; tasting like rotten eggs; empty after supper; gurgling, empty; of blood in a warm room; painful, of blood, after rapid riding; bitter, after breakfast, bitter, with nausea; bitter, in morning on rising, with bitter taste in mouth and throat, the bitter taste(>) eating.
Hiccough after a meal; after supper; during habitual smoking, with contraction of throat and sensation of a plug in it, causing nausea and salivation.
Nausea. Morning nausea, (>) eating; on waking, towards evening and at night; on washing mouth; before breakfast; on riding in a carriage; with no desire for stool; on walking, with blackness before eyes, fever from 1 till 6 P.M., with tearing in limbs and nausea, in evening weakness even to faintness, with melancholy, easily startled, at night much fetid flatus; with salivation and griping in abdomen; then vomiting of food, then retching. N. every day at 10 A.M.; at 11 A.M., with chilliness; in forenoon after a walk, with blackness before eyes and loss of appetite, before dinner heat with pain in limbs, nausea, headache, and in company weakness even to faintness, every trifle affected him and he was easily started; at night waking him; after lunch; on exerting eyes, with anxiety; at the thought of eating; before each liquid stool; on coughing, at times retching, causing heat and sweat; on movement, with weakness forcing him to-lie on the ground, and in open air the limbs felt relaxed; with weakness; with chilliness; with bitterness in throat; with cutting in abdomen; with digging in abdomen; then drawing in limbs; as if everything in abdomen were turning around, in morning; intermittent, all day and after a meal, with watery salivation, bitterish sour taste, loss of appetite, yet food tasted natural; in two attacks pet day, with contractive griping in hypochondrium extending like a stitch into back, with stitches in chest and yawning till he vomits bile and food.
Vomiting during pregnancy, straining her so that blood comes up; V. of milky water during pregnancy, though she had not drunk milk; bilious, mornings.
Rumbling. Sticking in pit; S. in afternoon, and in the distended abdomen; beneath pit during inspiration; in pit, l. side and between scapulae during eructations; sudden, in pit on swallowing food quickly. Tearing around pit. Cutting extending to breast, with motion of flatus, which cannot find exit. Cramplike pain, and in abdomen; burning-contracting cramps from a cold. Griping as if something would tear loose in morning during eructations. Gnawing, (>) supper, with weakness; G. in pit at night when awake, with intolerance of weight of clothes.
Distress, (<) afternoon, (>) supper, with sensitiveness to clothes, aching and throbbing, (>) eructations, with pain from the jar of walking, in evening flatulence. Pain in pit; P. in morning in bed; from morning till 1 P.M.; in evening, then headache; every night; in pit at night, with drawing; in region on pressure; after a meal and on touch; at cardiac orifice when food orifice when food in descending; in epigastrium an hour after dinner and after walking in open air, with tension; in pit, (>) fermenting movement downward; sore internally; sticking tensive, in pit and hypochondria during movement when stooping; drawing, an hour after dinner and earlier, with gnawing extending to back, where it is most painful, then prostration.
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.