A tincture is made of Pekoe-tea (Camellia The, Link).
Generalities
Loss of weight diminished. Lean; and pale. Trembling. Convulsions, (<) limbs. Epilepsy. Twitching like the sensation caused by electric sparks, in different parts, (<) forearms, hands and finger-joints. Agitation; first in limbs, extending from muscles to nervous centres. Inclination to lie down. Weakness; for two hours after breakfast; (<) every meal; with pain in small of back; as if knees would not support body. Sinking, craving, fluttering feeling. Faintness; which vexed him; becoming a cramplike pain after every meal, reaching into throat and often waking her at night. Incapable of muscular action. Symptoms of paralysis, numbness of limbs and partial loss of use of limbs. If wine or beer were drunk after the tea the sleeplessness and malaise were not felt, but if strong beer were drunk before the tea it diminished the frequency of the pulse and caused comfort and buoyancy of mind and body. Aggravation in afternoon; A. if I drank it fasting. Feeling of great ease.
Mind
Delirium; and unconsciousness, ecstasy, he laughs and talks in rhyme; delirium tremens, wandering about the house, imagining that evil spirits and people were seeking to harm her, sleeplessness, twitching of face and limbs, later wandering abut the wharves and attempting to drown herself. Agreeable exhilaration of mind and body, contentment, placidity, increase of intellectual and physical vigor, without noticeable reaction. Temporary exaltation, greater confidence in himself. Excitement from animated conversation and intense thinking, then refreshing sleep; E., with clearness of intellect; then debilitating influence upon nervous system and lumbar portion of spinal marrow. Cordiality, brilliancy of intellect, conversation fluent, interesting, witty, then the opposite state, with irritability, sensitiveness and quarrelsome mood.
Sensation as if impelled to commit suicide, to jump out of the window, to put her baby into the boiler with the clothes, to cut its throat when cutting the bread, to throw it down stairs. Nervousness at the sound of the night-bell; N., (>) beer, with want of confidence. Anguish. Terror. Fright at night, sinister thoughts, invincible propensity to analyze his life, to look at it on the dark side and to resolve it into its most hopelessness realities. Anxiety. Apprehension of something dreadful about to happen, fear of sudden death, would never go out alone, at times impulse to commit some horrible crime, to murder her children, so that she trembled for their safety. Weeps easily. Peevish; and taciturn; and disinclined to write or think; and averse to everything and to fatigue. Averse to movement; to conversation. Sadness in some, cheerfulness in others. Gloomy, heavy and dizzy in forehead.
Aptitude for study increased, more capable of sustained attention. Greater power of receiving impressions, it disposes to pensive meditation, causes activity of ideas, attention is easily fixed, sensation of health and gayety, but after an hour nervous troubles, such as yawning, irritability, pains in epigastrium, palpitation, trembling of limbs and sadness, with these symptoms insupportable insomnia, with excitation, then lassitude and headache. Ideas dull and confused. Memory weak; lost. Incapable of any occupation. Insensibility in evening.
Head
Aching; in morning and evening, often with nausea; with throbbing of carotids; or backache, Sick headache; every week, with soreness of head, then weakness; (<) during menses, pain begins in l. ovary and stomach and passes to head, throbbing shooting through temples, extending down nose, with acuteness of smell, vomiting of bile when the pain is at its height, exertion causes vomiting during the headache. Congestion; with fulness, (<) over eyes. Vertigo; with darkness before eyes; sudden, as if about to lose consciousness in evening when walking in open air.
Frontal pain. Frontal heaviness, (<) walking, with vertigo; (<) walking, with compression. Vertigo in vertex, with heat and pulsation. On both sides of base of cerebellum and in nape, neuralgic pain like a cold flat-iron between skin and skull, extending over cranium and over forehead to eyes. Sharp twitching pain in r. occipital protuberance, with feeling of damp coldness, afterwards the pain extends to nape, r. shoulder and r. arm, (>) application of hand or warm cloth. Sudden tensive pain in occiput, almost in nape. Scalp painful to touch; on vertex.
NOTE – Tea is one of the most fruitful causes of “sick- headache.”
Eyes
Glittering. Dryness from mental exercise during a sleepless night, then neuralgia of them. Pupils dilated. Vision dim. Vision of sparks; flashing, fiery lines darting from eyes and radiating outward from axis of vision.
Ears
Neuralgic of pain in cartilages, with coldness, the pains extending to molars and cheek-bones. Ringing. Roaring. Hallucinations of hearing, for five nights he thought he heard the door-bell, it often woke him with a start.
Nose
Soreness of internal edge. Constant desire to pick it. Dryness. Sensation at root as if epistaxis would occur.
Face
Pale; with circumscribed redness; and lips; and cheeks easily flushed. Red; cheeks. Wild and distressed expression.
Mouth
Teeth diseased. Tongue pale; T. red, with white slime; stinging as from blisters, with pain as if scalded, and on top red spots and white blisters. Scraping of soft palate. Dryness and sensitiveness. Salivation, with hunger, afterwards dryness of mouth, scanty viscid saliva, with satiety and a little thirst. Offensive breath in morning on waking. Filled with viscid saliva after drinking. Taste bitter. Taste of tea extending from throat to stomach.
Throat
Diphtheritic soreness. Painless swelling of mucous membrane of pharynx. Dryness. Uneasiness as from a foreign body in pharynx.
Stomach
Appetite great, with faintness at the dinner-hour; great, but easily satisfied, then satiety. Craving for acids; especially lemons. Longing for tea, which removed the goneness and gave vigor for a short time, often loathed the tea, but could not resist it, thirsty, but could not bear cold water, every mouthful affected her head like a shock. Lost; with craving at pit of stomach. Loathing of food till noon, then she eats sparingly. Disliked cold water. Lack of thirst.
Exhausting eructations. Nausea; in pit of stomach; (>) diarrhoea, with general discomfort and sweat; (>) a glass of sherry or beer, with weakness and irregular pulse; with discomfort in stomach; with salivation, weak feeling in stomach, which seems to hang in his body like an empty bag. Vomiting; of bile; of the meal which she had lately taken. Spasms from slight exertions. Pyrosis. Pain in epigastrium; (<) eating, (>) before breakfast, and in umbilical region; cramplike and pressing, after every meal; reaching into throat and often waking her of at night. Sensitiveness of epigastrium; with feeling as if caved in. Tickling in pit, causing dry cough, which shakes the whole digestive organization, bringing on neuralgic head symptoms. Heartburn. Burning in region of pylorus.
Emptiness; in epigastrium; in pit after eating, with pain; with craving; with craving and with fluttering in l. side; with excitability and constriction, preventing deep breathing; with oppression, benumbed feeling and with tossing about, groans at every breath, occasionally rubbing her stomach violently.
Abdomen
Borborygmi, and (<) epigastrium region. Relaxation of fibres of intestines. Paroxysmal stitches below ribs, extending from r. towards l. side, after luncheon. Liability to hernia. Cutting above umbilicus, extending to pit of stomach, there becoming intense and radiating thence over chest, causing sick faint feeling, sometimes three or four pains in quick succession, but oftener one long slow pain every four or five minutes, then spasmodic belching, pain (<) towards morning, then frequent watery stools, with flatus and pain, then nervous depression, the least thought of any exertion seemed overpowering, heavy sleep the second night and exhaustion, (<) next morning, eyes sunken, face pallid, tremor of hands, even on lifting a small vial, all movements slow, halting, feeling in brain that everything must stop.
Rectum and Stool
Tumefaction of lower end of R., with itching. Diarrhoea frequent; chronic D., (<) beer, (>) port wine. Constipation. Stool hard in part, the rest scarcely formed; S. irregular and costive; S. scanty; frequent.
Urinary Organs
Pain in vesical region, with tenderness and frequent desire to urinate, scanty discharge, biting and smarting after urinating. Urine diminished. Urea increased. Urine decreased, contains less water, solids, urea, uric acid, oxalic acid, sulph. acid, sulph. of potash, chlorine, chloride of sodium, phosphate of magnesia and salts by incineration, but more ammonia, muriate of ammonia, potash, chloride of potassium, phos. acid, phosphate of soda, phosphate of lime, volative salts and extractives.
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.