Introduction
Poly gala senega, L. Natural order: Polygalaceae. Common name: Seneca snake-root. Preparation: Tincture of the root.
Mind
Cheerful mood (first days). (Cheerful, disposed to work), (after half an hour). Cheerful, and childishly playful; a slight cause makes him mad and vehement (first days). Cheerful, but irritable, and becoming easily vehement when excited (third and fourth days). Frightful anxiety. Anxiety and vertigo, from large doses.
Anxiety. Feeling of anxiety, with somewhat accelerated breathing (after half an hour). Hypochondriac mood and irritable (eighth and ninth days). Melancholy mood, evening (first day). (Fretful mood, forenoon), (second day). Phlegmatic; inclines to quarrel and give offence. He recollects suddenly, without any cause, unimportant regions which he had seen long ago, and which had never made a deep impression upon him.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confused feeling in the head (soon).
Vertigo, with roaring in the ears (soon). Vertigo, in large doses. Slight vertigo before the eyes (soon). Vertigo in the head, continuing for a few moments, as if the blood ceased to flow, and as if the ideas were arrested (first day). Dizziness in the head, with flat taste in the mouth, the first days. Reeling sensation in the head (after a quarter of an hour). General Head.
Dulness of the head, with pressure and weakness of the eyes (fifth day). Dulness in the head (after a quarter of an hour).
Dull headache, early in the morning (second and third days). Dull pressing headache (soon). Heaviness of the whole head, continuing six hour (soon). The head feels heavy. Violent rush of blood to the head when stopping, especially to the eyeballs, where a painful pressure is experienced (first, second, and third days).
A sort of aching pain in the head, in the sinciput and occiput, not increased by pressure; this headache came on every day, and was especially felt when sitting in a warm room; it was accompanied with a pressure in the eyes, which did not bear touch. On the fifth day nausea supervened after dinner, with inclination to vomit. The pain seemed to be relieved by leaning the head quietly on the arm, but exercise in the open air afforded the greatest relief, accompanied with a slight sensation as if diarrhoea would set in, which however was not the case.
After the nausea had passed off, after the lapse of one hour and a quarter, a peculiar though not unpleasant sensation was felt in the parotid gland, and a simple pain in the pit of the stomach, rather external. Violent beating headache, with pressure in the eyes diminished appetite bruised feeling of malaise (sixth day).
The headache is relieved by cold. Disagreeable sensation of emptiness in the head (third day). Boring stitches in the head (second and third days). Forehead. Dull sensation in the right half of the forehead, like pressure (third day). Violent aching- beating pain in the forehead, in the evening (first day).
Sensitively painful drawing in the forehead, several times (second day). Pressing pain in the forehead and in the orbits, after dinner, especially in the left side of the head; relieved in the open air (third day). Sensation of pressure in the forehead, continuing one hour (after a quarter of an hour).
Headache, more towards the forehead (after one hour). Transient tearing pain in the left half of the forehead (third day).
Temples. Violent pressure in the right temple. Pressure in the temples, in the forenoon, towards the forehead (after six days).
Sudden pressure in both temples. Tearing and drawing pains in the temples, extending down into the face (sixth day). Occiput.
Simple pain in the occiput, afterwards extending to the temples, and finally affecting the whole head (after half an hour). Aching stupefying pain in the occiput, towards evening (second and third days). Simple pain in the occiput. External Head. Itching of the scalp, early in the morning (fourth day). Shuddering over the scalp (soon); (after five hours).
Eyes
When looking at an object intently or permanently the eyes tremble and run (after three hours and a half). He stares at one object; sensation as if it were difficult to move the eyes (soon). Weakness of the eyes, with slight burning and lachrymation (fifth day). Weakness of the eyes (soon). Weakness of the eyes when reading, with lachrymation on exerting them too much (second day). Extreme sensitiveness of the eyes to light (after three-quarters of an hour). Dryness of the eyes, with sensation as if the eyeballs were too large for the orbits (after one hour and a quarter). Considerable dryness and smarting pain, as of soap, in the eyes (after one hour and a half). Drawing in the eyes, changing into a cooling sensation and leaving tears behind (third day). Tensive sensation in the eyes, with too great sensitiveness to the light (fourth day). Pressure in the eyes when stopping, as if a fluid were pressing into the eyeballs and distended them, the first days. Pressure in the eyes, in the evening, at candlelight (first day). Pressing in the eyes (sixth day). Painful pressure towards the eye, as if the eye would be pressed out of the sockets, disappears in half a minute, leaving a dull feeling, early in the morning (second day). Burning in the eyes when reading or writing (first day). Burning and pressure in the eyes, toward evening (second and third days). Orbit. Aching pain over the orbits (after eleven hours, and on the second day).
Pressure over the left eye (after one hour). Sensitive pressure in the orbits (after two hours). Lids. Bloated eyelids (the first days). Swelling, burning, and pressure of the eyelids, without any considerable redness of them (fifth day). Swelling of the eyelids, the first days. Both lids of the right eye are inflamed and swollen, especially toward the inner canthus, with painful pressure (sixth day). Pimple (hordeolum) on the margin of the right lower eyelids (eighth day). Vesicle of the size of the head a pin on the margin of the left upper eyelids, occasioning a troublesome pressure in the eye; upon being opened, the vesicle discharged a clear fluid and the pressure disappeared (third day). Early in the morning the eyelashes are full of hard mucus (first day). Secretion of a quantity of hard tenacious mucus in the canthi, during the night (first night). The lower eyelids are spasmodically drawn towards the nose, continuing several days (after one hour). An almost constant twitching and jerking in the lower eyelids causes lachrymation (fifth day). Constant twitching in the right outer canthus (first day) Jerking in the right upper eyelid (tenth and eleventh days). Jerking in the eyelids (first day). Pressure in the right upper eyelids, towards the inner canthus (fifth day). Burning pain in the margins of the eyelids, early in the morning (second and third days). Slight burning in the lids when writing (first day). Violent crawling in the eyelids, with sensation as if sand had got into them (fourth day). Pulsation in the right lower eyelids (eighth day).
Lachrymal Apparatus. Slight lachrymation, and sensation as if threads were hanging before the eyes, especially in the right eye, in the open air. Some lachrymation, in the open air. Ball.
Drawing and pressure in the eyelids, with diminution of visual power (after three and four hours). Intense pressure in the eyeballs (after one hour). Pressure in the right eyeball (first day). Sharp pressure deep in the left eyeball (after one hour).
Considerable pressure in the eyeballs, now in the right, now in the left. Drawing in the eyeballs, with diminution of visual power (second day). Pupil. Contracted and sluggish pupils (first days). Vision. Weakness of sight and flickering before the eyes when reading, obliging me to wipe them often, but which were aggravated thereby (first and third days). Impaired vision by a glaring light (first day). Objects look shaded. While reading the eyes feel dazzled; this makes reading difficult (first day).
Flickering before the eyes and weakness of sight, when continuing to read or write (after ten hours). At noon she saw several times a shining spot on the wall at side of the eye; it disappeared on looking directly at it (third day). When walking towards the setting sun the seemed to see another smaller sun hover below the other, assuming a somewhat oval shape, when looking down, disappearing on bending the head backwards and on closing the eyes. Illusions of sight (first day). Shadows before the eyes (second day). Flickering and running together of letters when reading (after one hour and a quarter).
Ears
Dull pain in the right ear (after half an hour). Sensation of painful pressure in the right ear when chewing. A cooling sensation frequently extends through the left ear (second day).
Feeling of warmth in the right ear (after half an hour). Painful sensitiveness of hearing even to usually agreeable sounds (after one hour). Slight humming in the ears, which feel stopped (third day).
Nose
Coryza, continuing two days (after six days). Frequent sneezing.
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.