Clinical Hemeralopia preceding menstruation, with other Veratrum symptoms.
Ears
Stitches deep in l.; behind l. E. and jaw. (Tearing in lobule.) Pain in external meatus; P. in r. in morning. Sensation as if a membrane were stretched over it. Alternations in r. of heat and sensation of a cold breath. Hearing diminished; one or other ear seems stopped. Ringing. Whistling in r. preceded by Dullness of hearing, once after the W. the hearing was clear, after two minutes it was dull again. Roaring on rising from a seat, with rushing in them and bright fire before eyes; R. during menses, with pain in limbs and thirst; like a storm.
Nose
Sensation as if ulcerated internally. Compression in bones, with pressure inward. Sharp burning in l. nostril. Dryness as from dust; D. and heat. Sneezing. Catarrh; then gelatinous mucus in fauces and throat, with membranes of yellow-brown mucus. Bleeding; from r. nostril; (at night in sleep); before menses. Smell of dung in nose.
Face
Sunken, and expression anxious (Arsenicum). Pale (Arsenicum); and lips; with frequent stools (Arsenicum); alternating suddenly with redness and heat. Red and hot; red, with great thirst and flow of urine. Bluish (Cuprum); towards end of menses, with grinding of teeth. Dark, with anxious expression. Swelling. Drawing and tensive pains in r. side and r. ear. (Jerking pinching in muscular parts.)
Jaws. Closed. Stitches in r. frequently during the day; in joints on opening them, so that he cannot draw down jaw as usual. Sore pain in forepart of lower. Bruised feeling in muscles of lower when eating, so that he must stop chewing. Pressure is muscles of l. as from a dull point of wood. Stiffness of muscles.
Lips. Cracked. Painful pimple on margin of red near corner, (<) touch. Vesicles in l. corner. Lips and mouth dry in evening.
Clinical Facial neuralgia, drawing tearing pains, with pinched features, cold extremities, cold sweat, nausea and vomiting.
Mouth
Teeth. Loose. Grating. Boring in upper incisors. Aching, with inflammation of tonsils and weakness; A., then swollen red face; then when chewing ending in drawing streaming into roots, even when something soft was taken between teeth; in l. upper molars as if filled with lead. Acutely affected by cold wind. Swelling of gum and lower jaw.
Tongue. Swelling. Coldness (Cuprum, Camph.). Burning; and in oesophagus; with stinging; in tip and in mouth, with sticking, and coolness; and in throat and stomach, with coldness in mouth as from peppermint; sharp, on tip. Dryness (Nux-mos., Rhus-t.). Inability to talk. Stammering.
Inflammation of mouth. Frothing. Mucus running out towards noon; tenacious M. in mouth and palate, (<) drinking water; much M., and in fauces and throat, expectoration of large lumps of M. without cough, next day M. in mouth and throat after eating, and in evening constant spitting of M. after a glass of wine, with cold hands. Pain, then inflammation, then red swollen tongue, preceded by nausea. Dryness, and of palate, with thirst for water. (Aconite, Arsenicum, Nux-mos.); D. in morning after rising, only slightly (>) rinsing, with stickiness; with stickiness, without special thirst. Burning; posteriorly and in fauces. Numbness of palate as if covered with the skin of a plum. Seemed sore.
Salivation; running from mouth like waterbrash; tenacious; alternating with dryness and stickiness of mouth; with acrid, salt taste and heat in palm and pit of stomach. Tasteless saliva, with tastelessness in mouth. Salt saliva. Taste and coolness in M. and throat as from peppermint; biting T. in throat as from peppermint, with heat rising from oesophagus into mouth, with nausea; pasty; as of dung; putrid, hereby, almost like pestwursel; (sour, with watery salivation); diminished.
Throat
Swelling of l. submaxillary glands, with internal soreness, (<) l. side, and with choking and constriction during and after swallowing. Pinching in submaxillary glands. Swelling; of tonsils, with redness of pharynx. Tenacious mucus. Scraping; burning. Pain; and in oesophagus, with burning stinging in pharynx. Drawing pain, with thirst and colic. Roughness. Paroxysmal constriction and choking as from unripe pears. Dryness; in pharynx; in fauces, with heat and secretion of mucus; not (>) drinking. Burning; in pharynx; in fauces.
OEsophagus. Swelling. Distention, with feeling as if he would suffocate. Contraction as from pressure of a selling. Coldness comes up into it (also a spot far back on palate is cold), then warm, sweetish, salt, slimy liquid rises like waterbrash, then coldness returns. Burning. Swallowing impossible.
Clinical Neuralgic toothache, pulsating, driving to madness, teeth feel heavy, as if filled with lead.
Stomach
Hunger violent; H. in stomach, with undisturbed appetite; with thirst and profuse urine; ravenous, without thirst. Appetite for fruit; with aversion to warm food. Longing for only cold food, herring, sardines; for acids; for gherkins; for citric acid. Little appetite, and nausea when eating. Appetite lost. Thirst (Bryonia); in afternoon and evening; during sweat; for cold drinks.
Eructations; after breakfast, with shivering and weakness; after eating, with pressure in stomach and tension in upper abdomen; bitter; sour; qualmish, with terrific cough; (tasting of food); violent, mostly of air. Empty eructations; after eating; in evening after lying down, then scraping, scratching in larynx, almost as after heartburn. Waterbrash choking him. Efforts to eructate. Hiccough; in morning during the customary smoke.
Nausea; in of stomach; from breakfast, (>) meat at noon; after dinner; while eating, with hunger and pressure in epigastric region; after eating a little, with pressure and heaviness in stomach; with bilious taste; with salivation and closure of jaws; with great thirst and flow of urine; with frothing from mouth; with weakness; with red sweaty face; with crawling in stomach.
Vomiting (Aconite, Cuprum); and diarrhoea ten times, with pale, sunken face, covered with cold sweat; with purging, then unconsciousness; with exhaustion as if thighs would separate from hip-joints; with sinking of strength and pulse; with heat of body; forcible; violent, of slimy acid liquid with food, with painful distortion of face; of food; of food, with green mucus; of food, with mucus and green substances; green (Merc-c.); bloody; back bloody, frequent V. and stools; paroxysmal, sour- smelling, (>) drinking cold milk, then chill in bed; of bile, then of tenacious mucus; of froth, then of yellowish-green, sour- smelling mucus; (black). Vomiting of mucus (Cuprum, Sec-c.); with cold sweat; with weakness; green; green, then of froth; green, then chilliness; dark green (Sec-c.)., with diarrhoea, and yet appetite and thirst, bloody, with cold sweat; white, at night, white, with good appetite; tenacious, at night; bitter, sour; brown M. and food in evening two hours after coffee; and of bile, then of black bile, at last of blood.
Painful distention of pit. Fulness after eating a little. Cramp, with burning pressure in pit and in middle of chest, and with eructations after breakfast. Pinching in pit, (<) walking. Cardialgia. Pain; in epigastric region and side; after dinner; acute, in epigastrium extending into sternum, hypochondria and to ilia; as from ravenous hunger; pressing and drawing, in pit. Burning; in region of pit; in epigastrium and along oesophagus; like heartburn, in evening, and in chest, with cold shivering over back. Heaviness after breakfast, and in chest. (Sensation of weakness, with internal coldness in epigastric region and pressure.)
Clinical Craving juicy things. Most violent retching and vomiting, of food, or of whatever is taken the stomach; the ejecta are always very profuse, and the vomiting is attended with cold sweat, great prostration, burning in the stomach and great sensitiveness to touch. The violent retching and vomiting is the most characteristic feature of the Veratrum patient, unlike Arsenic and Cuprum; the ejecta are profuse, though many of the other symptoms correspond. Vomiting of great quantities of blood, at times even bright red, usually dark and thick. A few cases of dyspepsia from chewing tobacco, without vomiting or diarrhoea.
Abdomen
Distention; with colic and emission of flatus; flatulent, with colic as from constipation and uneasiness. Rumbling; with nausea in it, a sensation as if diarrhoea would come on, without desire for stool; with diuresis; and unusual troubles with a hernia. Flatulence in evening; after dinner. Emission of flatus; noisy, at night; unnoticed after dinner, with thin stool, then acrid diarrhoea, with. Twitching, with not disagreeable warmth of chest.
Stitches extending through abdominal ring along spermatic cord when coughing. Cutting; here and there; early in morning, with diarrhoea. Griping; drawing; then emission of flatus and tenacious stool. Pain (Colchicum, Coloc.); nightly, with sleeplessness; with feeling as if intestines were twisted into a knot; with thirst and increased urine; from back towards navel; flatulent, here and there, the longer delayed the emission of flatus the more difficult it is to pass (Coloc.); sudden (Griping?) in morning in bed, then desire for stool, stool yellowish-green, pasty, the last part consisted of mucus, the desire lasted after the stool, then almost clear mucus, then feeling above pubes as if beaten and an unsettled feeling in pit of stomach. Drawing pain in evening when walking; D. as from a purge. Bruised feeling because flatus refuses to pass.
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.