A tincture is made of the fresh lichen (that growing on the maple seems the best.) Burning biting-sticking all over body, increasing in intensity all day. Weariness. Feeling of Dullness. “Feel the medicine all over me.” Inactivity of mind, inability to collect thoughts. Dullness of head, with heavy pressure in forehead and root of nose, increasing in during the day; d. of head, with sharp darting pain through vertex, side of face and lower jaw. Heavy intermittent pain in forehead at noon, (<) 2 P.M., (<) r. supraorbital region, (<) 4 P.M., when it extended through brain, (<) r. side of head. Darting pain in temples increasing all day. Intermittent shooting in r. temple at 7 A.M., (<) 8 A.M., when it extended through frontal and r. parietal regions deep into brain, the pain (<) 11 A.M., when it was heavy and intermittent, (<) r. supraorbital region, almost intolerable at 5 P.M. and extending through brain. Scalp feels too small or as if drawn too tight. Eyes feel heavy. Burning in eyelids, increasing in intensity all day, with soreness of balls on closing lids or turning eye. Fulness at root of nose. Dull oppressive pain in cardiac region. Fulness in l. hypochondrium. Pain in r. hypochondrium. Oppression of lungs. Lancinations in second joint of middle finger, increasing in intensity all day. Darting pains in muscles of arms, then in finger-joints and shoulders, next to thighs, knees and toes.
Clinical
Headache, with violent pains in the eyes, which are sore on turning them. Earache, with noise and beating in the back of the head. Nasal catarrh, with profuse discharge of bloody pus, distressing cough and oppression of the chest, cough (<) evening and night, becoming almost incessant, (<) lying down. Nasal catarrh, dryness of the nose and palate, they feel as stiff as leather, with occasional discharges of scabby mucus, (<) evening and night. Catarrh, with constant blowing of the nose, but no discharge. Hay fever, incessant sneezing, with fulness in forehead and root of the nose and tingling. Nasal catarrh for many years, sneezing, with green discharge, frontal headache and occasional bleeding. Diarrhoea, with much mucus, associated with cough. Cough, incessant, dry, spasmodic, (<) evening and night, sometimes with feeling of hard masses in chest, pressure at root of nose. Hacking cough in nervous and hysterical patients, particularly such as are subject to sick headache. Cough dry, racking, with splitting headache in forehead; cough caused by inspiration, (<) lying down at night. Cough, with hoarseness, nightly expectoration. Very noisy coughs, often spasmodic, like whooping cough; frequently suitable for the incessant cough of measles, which prevents sleep at night, with stuffy and dry nose. Hysterical chorea, (<) evening and night, constant jumping about, feet and legs feel as if floating in the air.
Inflammatory rheumatism of small joints, intense pain in the neck and head. Rheumatism of the wrists. Rheumatism of the knee. Housemaid’s knee.
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.