A tincture is made of the seeds of Delphinium Staphisagria, L. (a European Lark-spur). Allies – Its closest allies are the Ranunculaceae, Pulsatilla, Clem., Cimicif., Aconite, Also Lycopodium, Sulphur
Generalities
Sticking in face and other parts of body; itching, in various parts. Drawing tearing here and there in all muscles when sitting (Pulsatilla). Bruised sensation when walking, (<) calves. Pain in all bones; drawing (?), in joints of shoulder, elbow, wrist, fingers, back, knees, on moving them, (>) rest, especially in evening. Paralytic drawing in various parts, (<) joints, if limbs are kept long in an unusual or uncomfortable position.
Weakness in morning; in morning in bed, limbs pain as if bruised and as if there were no strength in them; in morning on waking; in afternoon when sitting, with sleepiness; after eating, with sleepiness and need to lie down, wakes confused and heavy in limbs and dreads to walk, on continuing to walk, which is irksome, (<) ascending a hill, he feels more active and lively; when walking, (<) knees; (<) motion, with bruised pain.
Clinical Chronic gout, with nodosities. Neuralgia after operations. Frequently an antidote to the chronic effects of Mercury.
Mind
Peevish in morning, he wishes to throw away everything which he takes in his hands; P. and disinclined to mental work; and restless; and quiet, vexed at things which do not concern him; at every word, she cries if any one only speaks to her. Quarrelsome and yet lively. Lachrymose; and she wraps up her face and will not hear about anybody or anything. Sad; and fears the worst results from slight causes and cannot quiet himself; and her mind seems dead; and apathetic; everything seems indifferent to him, he would rather die. The most attractive things make no impression upon him. Indifference to his surroundings, with mental exhaustion. Earnest, quiet, busy with himself, speaks but little.
Anxiety; and fear; so that he cannot remain in any place, but without complaints; and past events came before him, causing anxious sweat, then blackness before eyes, he did not know whether the images were real or illusory, then everything seemed indifferent and he lost all desire to live; (when walking rapidly, as if some one were coming behind him, and he is constantly obliged to look behind him.).
Alternations of mood, at first joyous, then anxious, at last quiet and contented (the first is a transient reaction from one of fear and depression, then the primary action is noticed in anxiety, then the reaction is seen again.)
Memory weak; disturbed by fantasies. Ideas vanish on attempting to grasp them; if any one interrupts him or suggests a different subject from the one of which he is thinking. He does not know whether the things presented to him are from out his memory, are real or whether he is dreaming of them, from 5 till 7 P.M. Dullness keeping him from work. Disinclination for earnest work.
Clinical Violent temper, throws things into the fire, ravenous hunger, very irritable mood, these attacks may alternate with rush of blood to the head. Has been found useful for bad effects of anger. Patients generally are extremely sensitive and feel acutely the slightest wrong. Sickness from wounded pride or chagrin.
Head
Falls forward almost involuntarily on bending forward while sitting. Sticking all day; in evening, (<) stooping and walking, with tingling. Tearing in brain in morning on waking, (>) spasmodic yawning; T. extending through cheeks into teeth, with pulling. Pain; stupefying, (<) forehead, (<) moving head and standing; alternately stupefying and boring; like a tingling; on stooping, as if everything would come out at forehead; as from too much blood in brain in evening, (<) occiput towards bones; as if brain would fall out, on motion, and even during rest sensation as if brain were pressed together and lying loose within skull. Compression of brain, (<) forehead, with paroxysmal roaring in ears, which ceases sooner than the headache.
Dullness; in morning, with constriction in vertex; when standing and talking, as if vertigo would occur; with vertigo in forehead; intermittent; as in coryza. Heaviness; (>) resting it upon the hand; with weakness of cervical muscles, he must lean head back or to one side. Vertigo; in forenoon on rising from a seat, with pallor and falling to one side as in a faint, a similar attack about the same time the next day; in evening in bed; (<) sitting, (>) walking; and he runs against a door; as if stupefied, (>) open air; as if everything turned in a half circle on stooping and suddenly turning head.
Forehead – Sticking in l. side, with drawing pain; sudden, in upper part of frontal bone; boring, extending outward in l. half, waking him twice in morning; burning, externally on bone. Tearing in evening when sitting, and on stooping a sticking, (>) walking; drawing cutting, in side. Pinching, (>) walking, returning on sitting and standing, and stitches in temples. Pressure above r. eye and a drawing upward; hard P. in r. side; as form something hard behind r. brow; intermittent drawing. Pressure outward in l. half, with pressing asunder; P outward, at times sticking, afterwards in l. eminence, (>) rest, (<) motion. Dullness in a spot anteriorly in middle, like a stupefaction, on the street he does not know whether he is going to the r. or l. Heaviness above r. orbit in open air; H. as from a ball of lead which would not loosen, in a spot in the middle, on shaking head; upon cribiform plate of ethmoid bone, like a compression on both sides.
Temples – Sticking in l.; burning in l.; internally, and externally as if bones would be pressed out, (<) touch; pulsative drawing-tearing, in l. bone, on following days now in l., now in r. temple, then in l. frontal eminence. Burning tearing close to r. eye. Pain internally and externally in l. as from pressure, of a finger.
Vertex. – Stitches extending from skull into brain, with external soreness, (<) touch; burning S. externally; boring, extending outward. Hard pressure, and in r. temple; sharp P. at times. Constriction and pain.
Sides. – Burning sticking in l. parietal bone. Tearing through l. half of brain, (<) forehead, gradually increasing and gradually diminishing. Burning pain extending inward in bone above l. ear. Soreness of r. parietal bone on touch, preventing lying on it at night.
Occiput – Burning stitches, on first days extending from r. to l., afterwards from below upward. Compression internally and externally. Pressing asunder when walking in open air. Painful drawing on and beneath O. on motion of head; rheumatic D. beginning at articulation on bending head forward.
Scalp. – Itching scurfy eruption above and behind ear. Hair falls out (nitricum acidum, Sepia, Graphites, Sulphur). Tearing externally in head and in teeth, Painful drawing externally in laces on head, (<) touch. Itching biting, (<) rubbing. Itching; with scurf and moisture; biting, on occiput, and sore pain, recurring in evening; sticking, with fine papules towards forehead.
Clinical Neuralgic headache, with sensation of a ball in forehead or of a lump which cannot be shaken off. Moist fetid eruptions on the back of the head and behind the ears; painful sensitiveness of the scalp.
Eyes
Sunken, with blue raised rings around them. Inflammation of white, with pain. Dim and so hot that the eye-glasses were dim. Stitches on exerting them. Pressure, with frequent necessity to wink. Burning pain about l. Dryness all day (Natrum mur., Lycopodium); in evening, with pressure; in morning on waking, with pressure in them so that she cannot open them unless they are moistened. Biting when writing, (<) afternoon and (<) light, with burning and with biting discharge. Feeling as if full of sleep. Biting lachrymation in morning. Pupils dilated; contracted. Sticking thrusts in ball, as if it would burst. Pain in upper part of r. ball. Pain in upper wall of r. orbit, pressing the eye outward.
Lids close, without sleepiness; r. wider open than usual; cutting beneath l. upper; pain in upper all day, (<) closing eye; pain as if a hard substance were beneath l. upper; constriction in upper, forcing out tears; itching of margins (Sepia); itching of margin of upper in open air, recurring after two hours in other eye, (>) rubbing. Canthi, agglutination in morning; dry matter during the day; dry matter at night and in open air, and upon lashes; tensive stitch in r. outer; tearing in outer and in region of lachrymal gland; biting smarting in inner; hard pressure in r. inner; pain in l. inner, more biting than itching; paroxysmal burning in r. outer extending behind eye towards ear; itching in inner, (<) open air.
Vision – Dim; as if eyes were full of water, with itching and sticking in inner canthus. Of a pillar of fire when in bed in a dark night; of black lightnings like a flickering, on looking in open air; small black lightnings before the letters when reading and then whole lines vanished. Of a white veil over objects, making them invisible. Halo around candle-light in evening. Illusion, on rising from a seat he seems to himself larger than natural and everything beneath him seems too low down.
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.