Stitches towards evening; on swallowing (Hep-s., nitricum acidum); in l. tonsil from 6 till 8 P.M., which on swallowing extended into l. ear; (<)swallowing, with constriction; more on empty swallowing than on swallowing food, when not swallowing pain as from a plug. T. and chest feel cut to pieces on coughing. Choking, with soreness as if tonsils were swollen, with stitches extending into ears on swallowing. Pain on swallowing; on swallowing, extending into r. ear; in upper part on swallowing, with pain in upper part of chest; intermittent, at back of pharynx at night till towards morning; as from swelling of palate on swallowing; as from a plug. Swollen sensation, with hawking up of a large piece of white mucus. Soreness, with swelling of cervical glands; S. on empty swallowing, as if she swallowed meat or as from elongation of uvula; after dinner, with contraction of pharynx. Sensitiveness in morning.
Spasmodic contraction at middle of pharynx, food will not go down. Constriction of pharynx. A hard ball seems to rise and close the pharynx and take away the breath. When eating, sensation as if something stuck in pharynx. Upper part of pharynx feels closed after eating. Sensation as if stretched. Irritation in morning, with hoarseness. Rawness. Roughness; of fauces and uvula; of pharynx; all day, with inclination to cough; of fauces in morning after waking; when swallowing with pain; of fauces and uvula, (<) swallowing; with hoarseness and irritation, causing cough, which results in expectoration of round pieces of blue mucus. Scraping; all day; in morning after rising, then in afternoon bloody expectoration and hoarseness, at last with headache, which was (<) going to bed; in evening, with rawness and thirst; in evening in bed, with irritation to cough; and irritation to cough; in fauces, causing hawking. Sensation of a hair in it on waking from afternoon nap. Tickling causing hawking; in posterior wall of pharynx all day, causing hacking.
Fermentation in upper part. Disgust and retching Feeling as of a fatty exhalation from stomach. Rancidity like heartburn on swallowing, (<) pressure upon trachea. Coldness on inspiration. Burning in fauces; B. in morning on waking, with hot breath; in pharynx, with sour eructation; like heartburn, just before menses. Dryness; in pharynx; in morning, with warmth; in morning, then salt taste in mouth, (>) eating; at 5 P.M.; at night, and on waking much mucus on tongue; with burning on swallowing and hoarseness; and tongue sticks to palate, but is moist with frothy mucus; exciting cough. Swallowing difficult.
Clinical Tonsillitis. Chronic catarrh of the pharynx (see symptoms above).
Stomach
Appetite. Increased; at noon. Ravenous (Calc-c., China, Cina, Iodium, Lycopodium, Veratrum), if he does not eat headache, lassitude and necessity to lie down. Great, but a little food causes distention; hunger in abdomen, but fulness from a few morsels. Irresistible desire for sugar. Hunger without much appetite at noon after walking much, the last of the meal was not relished. Little; for breakfast; at noon; at noon, and no thirst; at noon,. and after eating fulness in stomach and aching in scrobiculus cordis; and stomach feels overloaded after a little food. For only soft food, not for bread or meat. Lost; in forenoon; at noon; for supper; as soon as he sees food, and he feels full in abdomen and aversion to it when he begins to eat (Lycopodium); and food has no taste and sticks in her gullet; he desires only acids; as from contraction in pit of stomach. Smoking tobacco is not relished. Aversion to food, especially to supper; to dinner; to sour and sweet things; to meat, it makes her qualmish; to meat at noon; to the usual beer in the evening; sudden, to sweets, and to milk.
Thirst; during the day; in morning; at noon; in afternoon, with full feeling in stomach; after drink; not (>) drink, which distresses stomach; for sugar-water; for coffee. Thirst for beer; in evening; (<) an hour after eating.
Eructations.- After breakfast. From milk, till vomiting of mucus. Empty (Pulsatilla, Phosphorus, Sepia); in forenoon; in evening; after eating (Phosphorus); after breakfast; after breakfast, with sensation as if about to have heartburn; after breakfast, then of food, nausea, and in half an hour vomiting of the breakfast and sulphur; after dinner; with taste of the dinner; smelling of sulphur; with relief of symptoms. Sour (Lycopodium); during the day; after eating; after dinner; when walking in open air; with distress in stomach from acids; tasting of lead; like heartburn. Tasting of bad eggs. Smelling of sulphuretted hydrogen; in evening. Smelling of sulphur; in forenoon. As after onions. Rancid after Weiss beer. Bitter, rancid, of food. Bitter, scraping, of milk. Sweetish in morning. Of the breakfast; in evening, of food eaten at noon; of food an hour after eating; of undigested food; tasting of the food (Lycopodium, Pulsatilla). Hiccough- like, with pain in posterior part of palate. Tasteless, with insipid feeling in stomach. Ineffectual on going to bed.
Waterbrash in morning on rinsing mouth and hawking up mucus, with retching and discharge of water from stomach; W. in evening, water runs from mouth and he cannot speak, then vomiting of food eaten seven hours previously; two hours after eating, with eructations, running of water from mouth, vomiting of food, nausea and shivering; twice daily, a working in pit of stomach, retching and rising of much water from stomach; (>) eating; before dinner making him dizzy and qualmish, then discharge of much water from stomach.
Hiccough in morning fasting; about noon, with fulness in stomach; in evening in bed; on going into open air after eating.
Nausea; during the day; every morning; in morning, with retching and vomiting of mucus; in morning on waking, with heat in face; in forenoon; at 9.30 A.M.; about noon, with heat of face; towards 2 P.M.; towards evening, with eructations, rolling in abdomen, emission of flatus and weakness; in evening; in evening during stool; at night, with working at pit of stomach as in waterbrash; before meal-time; an hour after eating, with waterbrash and pressure in stomach; on waking, caused by mucus that collects in chest at night; before, during and after stool, with burning in anus; with eructations, at first like mucus, then bitter rancidity; with twisting and turning in stomach; with cutting in abdomen and sweat; with trembling of whole body; even to faintness.
Vomiting; when coughing; as soon as she eats or drinks; with sweat; of food in morning, with trembling of hands and feet; in evening of food eaten at noon; bitter, in afternoon; of a salt liquid as clear as water; sour; frequent, of sour, colorless, watery liquid from 4 till 6 P.M., with faintness.
Swelling of pit. Stitches; in pit; in pit in morning on standing; at 3 P.M.; in cardiac region in evening; in pit on deep breathing; in pit, with several watery stools; from r. side of epigastric region to lumbar region in evening on inspiration. Cramps; at night; before dinner, then sweat till late in evening. Cutting in afternoon. Griping in epigastric region, extending downward. Clawing in morning on waking. Gnawing, then in abdomen, then two stools. Biting.
Pain in region; in pit; beneath pit; in pit during the day; in morning after rising; in pit in morning, with weight; in region in morning on waking, with full feeling; in forenoon; in pit in forenoon; in pit in forenoon, with heaviness; in forenoon after two thin stools; in pit at noon and in evening after eating, then waterbrash; in afternoon after coffee; in evening, with burning; in evening from meat or fat food, with drawing up of abdomen and delay of stool; in pit in evening on touch, with tension in stomach and chest extending to back, as if he had eaten too much; at night, (>) eructations; at night, with burning; in pit during menses; beneath S. when lying; in epigastric region, on touch, even of bed-clothes; after eating; in region after breakfast; after dinner; in region and chest after dinner; in pit, with weight; in pit, with scratching in stomach; extending into back, after eating; paroxysmal, in pit and upper abdomen, (<) morning, (>) pressure; as if disordered; burning, towards morning, (>) emission of fetid flatus and diarrhoea.
Screwing-together bruised pain, and in r, lower rib and hip. Squeezing pain all day in pit and chest; in pit, with anxiety, gradually changing into constriction, and at last a burning pain. Anxious pain; in pit; in pit at night, with palpitation. Tensive pain in l. side of region waking him at night, gradually going to r. side on turning upon r. side, then pain in small of back. Compressive pain at night after waking, (>) bending up body. Constriction; in pit; in region; all day before menses, (<) eating, with boring in nape and sensitiveness of scalp; in epigastric region, taking away her breath; cramplike, in pit at noon before eating, taking away the breath; anxious, in region towards noon; burning, waking him in morning and recurring twice in forenoon.
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.