Ovaries. Sticking through l. (Graphites) at 4 P.M., next day at 4.30 P.M., and thorough acetabulum. Darting pain in r. (Podophyllum), next day pain as of a tight thread running to uterus. Sharp pains, with urging to urinate, the pain (>) micturition, later in the day heavy pain in l. ovary. Pain in r. (Podophyllum), (<) afternoon; in r., (<) inspiration; in r., with pain in back, next afternoon in r, with soreness on pressure after sleeping, felt too badly to move (Podophyllum). Heaviness;l with urging to urinate; in lower part, with urging to urinate.
Menses-Too early; and scanty, appearing only in the morning; and scanty, lasting only one day; and scanty, dark, fetid. Too late; at the full moon; (after-effect). Reappeared in an elderly woman after they had been absent several months; with drawing from teeth into the swollen cheek. Increased and brighter colored. Scanty, pale, acrid; S., dark, clotted, painful.
Clinical Chronic dry catarrh of the vagina, which is painful, especially on coition. The symptoms of pressure as if everything would protrude, and the feeling of emptiness in the stomach and abdomen have led to the very successful use of this drug in displacements of the uterus, especially in simple prolapsus; there is a feeling as if everything would protrude from the pudenda and the woman even crosses her legs to prevent protrusion. Induration of the neck of the uterus. Chronic endometritis, with tenderness over the uterine region, constant desire to urinate, etc. (Aurum mur.nat.). Disorders of menstruation, amenorrhoea dysmenorrhoea, with scanty flow, nervous palpitation, sinking at the epigastrium, morning nausea, etc., threatening abortion, with the extreme pressure of the drug. Flushes at the climacteric period. Tumors of the breast, with sharp pains.
Respiratory Organs
Mucus in larynx, difficult to cough up but easy to swallow, even with deep inspiration. Frequent pressure in larynx in morning, without pain. Dryness of trachea; of larynx in morning. Hoarseness; in evening; with weakness and chilliness; sudden; inability to speak aloud. Voice as in coryza, in evening.
Cough every morning till 9 A.M., with coryza and with sneezing in bed; in evening; at night preventing sleep (Pulsatilla); at night waking him; (<) evening after lying down; (<) evening in bed, with vomiting (Pulsatilla); on going to sleep; with sticking in back; with sticking in hypochondria; spasmodic; irritation to C. so sudden that he cannot breathe quickly enough, and it causes spasmodic contraction of chest; causing pain in pit of stomach, day and night; affecting chest and stomach; harsh, distressing, (<) going from cold air to warm room, and vice versa, lungs are sore; scraping, it seems to have settled on chest; tickling scraping, and again loose, phlegm. Dry cough towards morning, from tickling in trachea; D. in evening in bed, with vomiting of bitter fluid; after a meal; from tickling in larynx; from tickling in throat; (>) lying, but when lying at night dry coryza; with stitches in r. chest; as if from stomach and abdomen, or from constipation, or as if something lodged in stomach; and hard, concussive; and short, in evening, with intermittent sticking in r. hypochondrium; often dry, whooping and choking, with pain in pit of stomach and scraping, raw, sore pain in larynx, (>) swallowing food, the C. does not wake her, but is worse after waking, at times rattling in trachea, ending in mucous expectoration; and tickling, (>) morning, with spasm of chest. Hacking cough in evening after lying down (sang.), with expectoration of pure coagulated blood. Loose cough, (<) night. Cough, with expectoration; day and night, C. wakes her at night, with sensation as if chest hollow and sore; C. from 8 till 9 P.M., (>) expectoration; only before midnight, as soon as he gets into bed; C., with almost loss of breath if she cannot expectorate; of blood every morning; scanty E. evenings in bed, but mostly with bitter vomiting; purulent E., with oppression of chest, rattling in throat, the slightest motion takes away her breath and she is exhausted; gray and yellowish E.; C. in sudden attacks, E. full and easy only after breakfast; violent C., with much E. of white mucus.
Expectoration. From chest without much cough. Salt (Lycopodium) from chest. Of white mucus. Yellow, tasting like rotten eggs. Blood- streaked, after a meal. Putrid-tasting, with putrid breath. Scanty, with wheezing rattling in chest.
Respiration. Asthmatic attack at night, lay with head bent forward, then cough with expectoration of tenacious saliva; A. during mental exertion, worse during palpitation. Breath lost on slightest motion; when standing still. Dyspnoea; in morning on waking, lasting four hours, with sweat; with mucus in chest difficult to loosen. Short; when walking; as if chest were full, when walking. Oppressed in evening by pain under short ribs, which prevents motion; O. towards evening from pressure over pit of stomach. Snoring inspiration. Inclination to sigh. Inclined to take a long breath.
Clinical Whooping cough (<) before midnight, followed by expectoration which is generally thick, greenish-yellow and salty, with relief; the cough seems to come from the abdomen, Whooping cough, with violent retching, frequent desire to eat, (<) especially the forepart of the night. Chronic bronchitis, (<) morning on waking, particularly with hepatic symptoms, pale yellow face. Sepia has proved itself valuable, certainly as an intercurrent, in chronic pulmonary diseases (phthisis),. particularly when there are soreness in the chest, faintness in the stomach and other symptoms; more frequently called for in women.
Chest
Gurgling. Rattling till the expectoration is coughed up; R. of mucus, then cough and expectoration causing raw and sore pain in throat. A cold from riding in a railway car, voice hoarse, deep and unnatural. Sticking in one mamma; in r. side; deep in; in r. side in morning after a half sleep; in r. towards evening during inspiration; in l;. on coughing; in r. when walking in open air; in r. during expiration; in r. side and scapula during inspiration and cough; on inspiration, he dared to take only a short breath, from this she head became affected; in r. mamma, (<) cold when riding or walking; in region of r. lowest ribs towards pit of stomach, (>) eructations; in l., with palpitation; in l. without relation to breathing; occasional, in l. lung on expiration.
Tearing in r. lower ribs; near l. shoulder-joint, (>) eructations, but returning. Paroxysmal piercing pain in lower lobe of. lung. Sharp pain near heart in middle of afternoon and about 10 P.M.; in a spot in ensiform cartilage, as if a nerve were tense, (<) inspiration and ascending stairs. Pain; in upper lobe of l. lung; in r. fourth and fifth ribs, near sternum, returning from 12 till 1 P.M.; in l. at 5 P.M.; in evening in bed; in r. upper on retiring at 10.45 P.M., then boring in point of l. testicle, these symptoms came and went till sleep; in upper part of sternum when coughing; in tendons of pectoral muscles, near head of humerus, on bending arm backward and from touch; (<) certain movements; in side, (<) stooping and lying on r. side; near l. axilla, (<) strong expiration, and on touch bruised pain; in sides, passing around between scapulae.
Burning pain in sternum when drinking beer. Soreness of lungs; of mammae on touch; of mammae on touch, (<) moving, turning or stepping; burning, in upper part of l., even from touch. Rawness; from cough and expectoration.
Oppression morning and evening (see Ferrum, Phosphorus); in evening, (<) lying, with difficult breathing and flickering before eyes; (<) walking; anxious, in upper part. Pressure on l. lower ribs on walking; P. on stooping and deep breathing; on l. lower ribs, even from touch; paroxysmal, on r., (>) empty eructations; tensive, (<) l. side. Contraction in morning; in morning on waking; at night on waking, with oppression, he had to breathe heavily and deeply, and on waking in morning some C.; with oppression, and on deep breathing sticking; with tightness; with fulness, interfering with breathing; around lower part, so that he cannot breathe deeply. Tension in attacks; T. as from a cold, posteriorly at l. side. Pressing drawing on r. false ribs, towards back, (>) motion and rubbing. Drugging in r. side. Weight; on upper part of sternum; necessitating deep breathing. Bubbling in l. Beating in l.; in C. and abdomen as if heart occupied the whole body. Burning in sternum. Orgasm and congestion as if haemoptysis would follow. Tickling in lower part. Crawling causing irritation to cough.
Heart
Sticking in afternoon; through H. about noon. Impulse increased and rapid, (<) inspiration. Convulsive beating, with anxiety and trembling of fingers and lower limbs. Intermittent beating after dinner; (<) a meal; with anxiety. Palpitation; in evening; in evening in bed, with beating in all arteries; (>) walking far and fast; with anxious feeling, which necessitates deep breathing, without influence on the spirits.
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.