A tincture is made of the fresh bark of the root of the “high cranberry.” (It contains Valerianic acid).
Generalities
Pains flying from one part to another; wandering, tired pains extending to hips and knees, with disinclination to move about. Soreness of muscles of l. side of body feeling Tired in morning on rising. Inability to lie on affected side; on l. side. Aggravation in evening or night; A. in a warm room. Amelioration in open air; from pressure; from motion, walking.
Clinical It is used for hysteria.
Mind
Exaltation of spirits, in some cases followed by depression. Depressed. Irritable, wishes to be alone. Confusion; and inability to concentrate it. Stupid feeling as if I could not tell where I was or what to do, in morning on waking. Inability to perform mental labor.
Head
Hurt by every cough. Pain beginning about 3 P.M., (<) night; P., with red face; throbbing, all the evening, so severe on retiring that I felt sick al over; heavy, (<) over eyes, (<) l. side, at times extending to vertex and occiput ( (<) when delayed menses should appear), (<) a sudden jar, bending over, false step or movement. Dull and sluggish. Vertigo; in afternoon on closing eyes; (<) descending stairs or walking in a dimly-lighted room; with inclination to turn to left; as if he would fall forwards, on rising from a sweat.
Forehead. Pain; over l. eye; in r. supraorbital region; in forenoon; over eyes on opening them, the soreness extending back into head; with occasional vertigo, almost incapacitating him for study, with profuse and frequent micturition; and in supraorbital region, with profuse, clear, watery urine; beginning over r. eye and extending to vertex, with fulness in head and pressure on vertex; throbbing, extending to eyeballs, (<) mental exertion, (>) moving about; confusing, extending to temples, as after night- watching, compelling cessation of mental exertion.
Pain in l. temple, with pinching; P. in l. side of head; sharp, in parietal region, penetrating into brain, (<) coughing, moving head and stool. Aggravation on r. side. Hair feels as if pulled. Scalp sensitive to touch.
Eyes
Swelling about r., with induration. Sclerotica streaked with blood. sensation of sand. Pain, (<) r., with congestion. Sore feeling on closing lids. Burning and lachrymation. Heaviness, feel almost sick enough to go to bed; H. over eyes and in balls, at times had to look twice to be sure of seeing an object. Balls feel sore. Lids swollen.
Ears
Stabbing. Pains in bone, waking at night. External ear sore as if bruised, cannot lie on affected side of head, had to rub ear and it seemed as if I must straighten it out, sensation as if pinned to head, lay on other side and was awakened by the same feeling in that ear, in consequence compelled to change position often.
Nose and Face
Sneezing. Watery coryza. Face flushed and hot. Lips dry.
Mouth and Throat
Tooth sore on pressure. Tongue broad and white, with brown centre and imprints of teeth. Dryness of tongue; of mouth. Taste disagreeable; coppery. Tickling in r. side of pharynx, causing cough.
Stomach
Nausea; every night; during menses; for ten days after menses, with faintness at stomach; (>) eating, with faintness, both returning; in pit of stomaching, (>) lying perfectly quiet, faintness always on trying to get up; with faintness; (without inclination to vomit),(>) eating; then vomiting. Pain; in afternoon, (>) stretching body and throwing stomach forward; cramplike, and in abdomen, doubling him up. Sensitiveness of region. Indigestion, food lies heavy. Goneness.
Abdomen
Rumbling and darting pains. Darting pains, which settle about navel. Flying pains. Bearing-down Pains as during menstruation, with heavy pain over pubes, B. down pain, with drawing pains in anterior muscles of thighs and occasional shooting in ovarian region. Sensitiveness to pressure, (<) about umbilicus. Pressure of flatus in l. side. Throbbing pain under l. floating ribs from 11 P.M. till 3 A.M., (>) hand pressure and walking about the room. Throbbing in l. hypochondrium when lying on l. side. Sticking in spleen in evening, (>) walking about the room, with sensation as if hot fluid ran through its vessels. Pain in region of spleen causing faintness, (>) sweat. Cramping pain in hypogastrium during menstruation; sudden C. Pain as before menstruation, (<) night.
Rectum
Haemorrhage of dark red blood during and after stool. Inactivity, no inclination for stool.
Stool
Watery, profuse, frequent, at menstrual period, with chills and cold sweat rolling off forehead. Constipation; with tenesmus, when bowels moved pain in l. orbital region; desire, with much straining; alternating with diarrhoea. Hard, large with cutting in rectum and anus; H., large, painful and so difficult that mechanical assistance was necessary; scanty, in balls, difficult; and scanty, with haemorrhage, with constriction of rectum and anus; and long, large, difficult, having a desire to evacuate, but on attempting feels as if nothing were there stool slow and only after long straining. Large, difficult, with urging. Irregular. Omitted two days, then hard, with blood and soreness of anus.
Urinary Organs
Sensation after micturition as if urine continued to flow. Copious urine; in morning, clear, watery, sp. gr. 1019, frequent micturition; every hour in afternoon and evening; at night, and pale, sp. gr. 1021; every hour or two during menses, and clear, light-colored; and watery; in afternoon, watery, clear micturition frequent. Light-colored urine.
Clinical Spasmodic dysuria.
Sexual Organs
Pain in r. side of epididymis, with swelling; of l. side of E l. and l. testicle, with swelling. Emission without dream.
Female. Leucorrhoea; thick, white and copious thin, yellowish- white after menses; thin, colorless, except with every stool, when it was thick, white, inodorous, blood streaked; causing redness, smarting and itching of genitals. Sudden pain in womb and hypogastrium before menstruation. Pain in ovarian region. Congested feeling in pelvic organs, as before menses. Bearing down pains in pelvic region, with uneasiness; B. down as before menses; as during menses, with heavy aching in sacral region and over pubes; as during menses, with drawing pains in anterior muscles of thighs, every day after 3 P.M., with occasional shooting over ovaries, later the same pains, with nervousness, could not sit or lie still on account of the pains. Menstrual pain, with feeling as if the breath would leave her body and heart would cease to beat. Menses too early, profuse and offensive; too late, scanty, thin, light-colored, lasting but a few hours, with lightness of head faintness on attempting to sit up; looks like jelly; stains permanently; ceased for several hours, then four large clots of the color of raw beef, and as solid as liver; for two days flow like normal M., but with cramping pain and nervousness.
Clinical Dysmenorrhoea, excruciating colic through the uterus and lower part of the abdomen, just preceding menstruation. It is very valuable for after pains. The uterine pains are like those of Sepia, extending around the pelvis to the uterine region, with sensation of emptiness and goneness, but they are much more violent and become cramplike, sometimes extending down thighs. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Cramps in the calves always between the menses, (<) just before the period, with scanty, delayed menstruation, dysmenorrhoea, etc.
Respiratory Organs, Chest and Heart
Hoarse. Suffocating spells at night Shooting over l. sixth rib near sternum. In lungs sensation as if muscles of chest failed to act, causing dyspnoea. Heart’s action increased.
Neck
Stiffness, with pain in occiput; S. in nape, with sore feeling.
Back
Pain as if would break during menses. Lame and bruised feeling in muscles. Wandering, tired pains in muscles, (<) l. side. Tired, bruised pain in muscles from point of scapula to wing of ilium, on both sides of spine, (>) firm pressure. Pain in lumbar region; between l. floating ribs and wing of ilium, (>) pressure, but must keep moving; in kidney region, (<) working in laboratory, (>) pressing across back with arms crossed; in l. loin and l. hypochondrium, causing faintness, (>) warm sweat though the night was cool; throbbing, in l. loin, (<) lying down, (>) walking with cane pressed across back; in back loins and hypogastrium as if menses were coming on, (<) early part of evening and in a close room, (>) open air and morning about.
Extremities
Pain in r. shoulder. Soreness of l. shoulder in region of subclavian muscle, (<) rest and wet weather, (>) motion, with lameness. Pain in l. biceps. Numbness of l. arm and hand. Buzzing feeling in hands as if they would burst. Swelling of fingers, (<) washing in cold water, with numbness. Weakness of lower, with heaviness. Feeling in feet as from the starting of circulation after constriction is removed.
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.