A tincture is made of the dried root of Polygala Senega, L.
General Action
It presents imperfectly two important phases: (1) Laryngo- bronchial catarrh, with numerous characteristic indications, and (2) paralytic symptoms everywhere, but most pronounced in the eye and larynx. Closely allied to Causticum, partly to Phosphorus and Spongia.
Generalities
Weakness, with trembling of upper limbs (Causticum); W., stretching of limbs, confusion, heaviness and beating in head; with yawning; with mental indolence and bruised pain in muscles of things; even to nausea; physical and mental. Faintness in afternoon on walking in open air. Amelioration from sweat.
Mind
Cheerful; and childishly playful, but a slight cause made him mad and vehement; ( and disposed to work). Hypochondriac and irritable; H. in evening. Fretful in forenoon.) Anxiety; with accelerated breathing. Phlegmatic, inclined to quarrel and to give offense. Suddenly remembers unimportant regions which he saw long ago and which never made a deep impression upon him.
Head
Boring stitches. Aching; in morning; (>) cold; beating, with pressure in eyes, diminished appetite, bruised feeling and malaise. Dullness; with pressure and weakness of eyes. Heaviness. Emptiness. Rush of blood on stooping, (<) eyeballs, where there is painful pressure. Vertigo; in morning, with flat taste; with roaring in ears; as if blood ceased to flow and as if ideas were arrested.
Forehead. Tearing in l. half. Pain; over orbits; over l. eye; in r. half; after dinner, and in orbits, (<) l. side of head, (>) open air; in sinciput and occiput every day, (<) sitting in a warm room, with pressure in eyes, which did not bear touch, on the fifth day nausea after dinner, the pain (>) leaning head on arm, but exercise in open air gave the greatest relief, with sensation as if diarrhoea would come on, which was not the case, after the nausea a peculiar but not unpleasant sensation in parotid and external pain in praecordial region. Beating pain in evening. Painful drawing.
Tearing in temples extending into face, with drawing pain. Pain in temples; r.; towards forehead, in forenoon. Pain in occiput; afterwards extending to temples and finally to whole head; stupefying, towards evening. Itching on scalp in morning.
Eyes
Staring, with sensation as if it were difficult to move eyes. Pressing; towards evening, with burning; in evening by candle- light; as if it would be pressed out of the socket in morning, then dull feeling; as if a fluid pressed into balls and distended them, on stooping. Dryness, with smarting as from soap; D., with sensation as if balls were too large for orbits. Burning when reading or writing. Drawing changing into coolness, then lachrymation. Lachrymation in open air; and sensation as if threads were hanging before eyes, (<) r.; l. on looking intently, with trembling of eyes. Pupils contracted and sluggish.
Lids. Swelling; with burning and pain; of r., (<) towards inner canthus, with inflammation and pain. Pimple on margin of r. lower. Vesicle on margin of l. upper, causing pressure in eye, on being opened it discharged clear fluid. Lashes full of hard mucus in morning. Jerking; of r. upper; of lower, causing lachrymation. Lower spasmodically drawn towards nose. Pressure in r upper, towards inner canthus; burning P. in margins in morning. Burning when writing. Pulsation in r. lower. Crawling, with sensation of sand in them.
Much mucus in Meibomian glands; hard, tenacious” mucus in canthi at night. Twitching in r. outer canthus. Pain in orbits; in ball; r. ball; now r., now l. ball; in balls, with drawing and diminished vision; sharp deep in l. ball.
Sensitiveness to light; with tension in eyes. Weakness; when reading, with lachrymation on exerting eyes too much; on continuing to read or write, with flickering; when reading, with flickering, obliging one to wipe eyes often, but which were aggravated thereby; with burning and lachrymation. Objects looked shaded. Vision dazzled; when reading. Illusions. When walking to wards the setting sun and looking down he saw an oval smaller sun hovering below the other,(>) bending backward and closing eyes. A shining spot on wall at side of eye at noon,(>) looking directly at
it.
Clinical Opacities of the vitreous. Valuable to promote absorption of fragments of lens after operation. Paralysis of the l. oculo- motor nerve, with double vision, (<) only by bending the head backward. Partial paralysis of the upper lid. Catarrh of conjunctiva. Muscular asthenopia (Causticum).
Ears
Pain in r.; in r. when chewing. Warmth in r. Coolness often extends through l. Hearing painfully sensitive. Humming, with stopped sensation.
Nose
Dryness; with discharge of a few drops of blood. Itching in nostrils. Sneezing; and ticking in nostrils; causing heaviness of head and vertigo, then flow of much watery mucus from nose. Coryza. Smell before nose as of a malignant ulcer.
Face
Paralytic feeling in l. half.
Mouth
Burrowing in l. upper molars. Pain in teeth and jaws. Lower incisors sensitive on inhaling through mouth cold or damp air. Tongue coated white; coated yellowish-white; slimy in morning, with unpleasant slimy taste; creeping under T.; dry in middle; burning in tip. Mouth and fauces burnt. Smarting burning in palate as if skin were detached. Tension in palate extending to articular fossae of lower jaw. Astringent acridity, and (<) uvula. Dryness; in morning and forenoon, and in larynx; and in throat, with tenacious mucus in throat; then salivation. Salivation; with prickling and stinging in mouth; with contractive sensation in mouth; watery, when smoking. Viscid saliva. Putrid smell. Taste metallic; T. of urine; bad, with rumbling in stomach; acrid. (<) fauces; nauseating sweetish in throat; flat in morning; diminished.
Throat
Inflammatory swelling of fauces, (<) uvula Hawking, easy of white mucus; H. up lumps of gray mucus in morning, with irritation in larynx inducing hacking cough; of mucus from trachea; of small lumps of tenacious mucus from larynx. Tenacious mucus; in fauces in morning; whitish. Constant inclination to clear T. and to swallow. Scraping; in fauces; with roughness and tenacious mucus; and in back part of tongue with salivation; with dryness, making it difficult to talk and obliging him to cough; obliging hawking; in fauces, obliging one to clear the throat often and to swallow saliva; burning, obliging frequent swallowing; tickling, in evening.
Pressure on swallowing food. Soreness. Roughness in forenoon; in evening, with dry cough and oppression chest; in morning on waking with dryness; with dryness and dry cough. Rawness when clearing it. Constriction; in fauces. Constrictive irritation in fauces. Burning; in fauces. Dryness. with makes speech difficult; D. of Fauces, (<) uvula, with stitches.
Oesophagus – Irritation; and roughness. Sensation as if membrane had been abraded. Burning, with discharge of mucus from trachea. Disagreeable sensation.
Clinical Catarrhal inflammations of the throat and fauces with scraping, hoarseness, etc.
Stomach
Gnawing hunger below pit in morning. Appetite diminished; lost at breakfast. Thirst; with dryness of palate; with roughness and dryness in fauces. Eructations; of air. Nausea; after dinner; during the siesta; with salivation. Retching; fatiguing, with vomiting and discharge of much watery mucus. Vomiting, with diarrhoea; V., with anxiety; copious; violent, all night, with violent purging and profuse sweat.
Digging below pit after supper, with discomfort in whole body. Pain; in pit; all day; almost cramplike, disturbing sleep every night at 3 A.M. Oppression. Burning; changing into fatiguing retching and vomiting of much watery mucus. Emptiness. Digestion disturbed.
Abdomen
Rumbling; and motions. Emission of flatus. Cutting extending to pit of stomach. Griping, with inclination to stool. Pinching, (>) liquid stools. Colic; during dinner; (>) diarrhoea. Burning.
Rumbling in l. hypochondrium. Boring in l. hypochondrium in evening. Upper A., cutting; digging towards evening, with disposition to flatulence and sudden outbreaks of ill humor appetite; oppression during inspiration with warmth. Rumbling in l. side, with pinching. sudden pressure i r. side of A. and chest in evening when sitting. When walking, drawing as of foreign body between integuments on r. side. Shifting boring in umbilical region. Pain in umbilical region; in afternoon, (<) evening and rest. Pressing in hypogastrium, then emission of flatus.
Anus
(Beating) pressure after stool.
Stool
Watery. Diarrhoea; copious, light-colored, spurting away almost without sensation; indications of D., which did not take place. Papescent; with rumbling and emission of flatus. Constipation. Hard, large and difficult; H., scanty, rare; H., scanty, then pressing in rectum. Delayed. Frequent. Increased.
Urinary Organs
Micturition frequent and increased; frequent, but less urine at a time and lighter colored; frequent, urine grayish, depositing a cloudy sediment. Involuntary micturition at night in sleep; when dreaming (he did not urinate before retiring). Sticking along urethra in morning after emission of dark yellow urine. Burning when urinating; in morning, with sensation as if urine had to open a passage; in evening, with pressure; B. Pain along urethra after micturition.
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.