Introduction.
Anamirta Cocculus, Wight and Arnott (Menispermum cocculus, Linn., Cocculus Indicus).
Natural Order: Menispermaceae.
Preparation: Tincture of the powdered seeds.
Mind.
Emotional.
Irresistible inclination to sing and tra la; a kind of mania.
Weeping. Cheerful and contented. (* Curative action. HAHNEMANN.
*) After a few hours, he became lively and jocose. Frolicsome, contented, joyous; he became witty and jocose. (* In part curative action. HAHNEMANN. *) Earnest and little concerned as to his own health; he is very anxious about others’ sickness.
Extremely earnest, after which he breaks out into complains.
Discouraged. Constant sad thoughts, as though he had suffered an insult. She is absorbed in the saddest thoughts, and affronts sink deep into her heart. Thoughts directed to an unpleasant object; she is absorbed in herself, and notices nothing about her. Despairing mood. Anxiety; (after six hours, and third day).
Anxiety concerning the curability of a slight complaint, in the morning. Anxiety, as if she had committed a great crime. Great anxiety, as though he had done some evil (after twenty nine hours). Frightful anxiety, like a dream, which prevented every attempt to sleep. Sudden excessive anxiety. Hypochondria, especially in the afternoon. Overpowered with the most frightful fearfulness, which increased every second (soon after). Excessive sensitiveness (after twenty four hours). Very sensitive mood; everything worries him. Excessive irritability of mind, every trifle offends him. Extremely inclined to be offended, the slightest trifle offends her (after one hour). She is offended at the slightest circumstance, often to weeping, with contraction of the pupils; after weeping, loss of appetite. Very much affected and offended by slight obliquities and untruths of others.
Everything makes him angry and peevish. She is easily angered, takes everything in bad part (after twenty four hours).
Great dissatisfaction with himself. He has no desire, and takes pleasure in nothing. No pleasure in anything, desire for nothing.
Time passes too rapidly, several hours seem as short as one hour.
No desire to work. Distracted (loss of memory); he easily forgets of what he has just thought. She sits in deep thought.
Stupidly dumb (after six hours). Stupefied (after six hours).
Overpowering stupefaction as from sleep, while awake (coma vigil).
Head.
Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion and stupefaction of the head (third day). Confusion of the head, in the morning; humming in it as after a debauch in the evening. Confusion of the head, most increased by eating and drinking. Inclination to vertigo (eighth day).
Vertigo (third day). Vertigo, lasting six hours. Vertigo, as from intoxication, with dulness in the forehead, as if there were a board across the head. Attack of vertigo, as from intoxication (while sitting, after one hour and three quarters). Whirling vertigo, on rising up in bed, with inclination to vomit, which compelled him to lie down again.
General Head.
Convulsive trembling of the head. Heaviness in the head.
Heaviness and confusion of the head, as after intoxication the preceding day. Dulness in the head. Dulness in the head with cold sweat on the forehead and head, with aversion to food and drink. Dulness and confusion of the head, aggravated by reading, so that he was frequently obliged to pause in order to understand what he was reading. Great inclination to sleep, but as soon as he closed his eyes was obliged to open them on account of a most frightful sensation in his brain, like that produced by the most dreadful dreams (after six hours). Headache, with inclination to vomit, as if he had taken an emetic. Headache, as if the brain were constricted. Headache composed of constriction, burning, tearing, digging, and boring.
Feeling as if the brain were rolled up or compressed into a smaller bulk. Feeling as if the nerves in head were drawn up tightly (after three days). The head is painful, as if bound up. It seemed as if his brain were bound together with a band (after six hours). Severe pressure through the whole head, mostly in the forehead, which is aggravated by reading or reflecting, until there is loss of ideas (after sixty hours). Severe pressing downward in the whole head, especially in the forehead, aggravated by walking (after six hours and a half). Pressive headache, as if the brain were pressed together (after five hours). Sensation as if something heavy were lying upon the head, though without pain. (Painful shaking of the brain while walking, moving the head, or speaking). Thinking affects the head very much.
Forehead.
Dull compression of the right half of the forehead.
Dull wavelike compression in the left half of the forehead.
Pressive headache in the forehead. Tearing throbbing headache in the forehead, from 7 to 9 P.M. (after thirty eight hours).
Intermitting, boring, needle like stitches in the right side of the forehead.
Frequent attacks of headache in a small spot in the left frontal eminence, lasting several minutes, at first consisting of raging, throbbing, sticking pains, which afterwards extend as a crawling to the right frontal eminence, and become a crawling fine sticking in the temples. Headache, as if something forcibly closed the eyes. Severe sticking in the head above the right eye (after twelve hours).
Headache, as if the eyes would be torn out.
Temples.
Cramp like pain in the left temporal muscle (after one hour and a half). Pressing inward in the right temple, as if a dull instrument were slowly pressed deep into the brain. Inward pressure in the left temple. Headache in the temples, as if the head were screwed in. Fine needle like stitches in the left temple (after six hours).
Vertex.
Pressive headache in the crown (after ten hours).
Parietals.
Several stitches in the right side of the brain (after twenty four hours).
Occiput.
Sensation in the left side of the occiput, as if the hairs were being pulled up.
Eye.
Objective.
Blue rings around the eyes. (Swelling of one eye and half the nose, in the morning, after a violent headache through the night). Eyes turned upward (third day).
Subjective.
Pressure in both eyes, as from dust in them (after seven hours).
Pressive pain in the eyes, with inability to open the lids at night. Stitches in the eyes, from within outward (after twenty four hours). Bruised pain in the eyes, with inability to open the lids, at night (after five hours).
Orbit.
Dull pressure in the outer margin of the orbit (immediately).
Lids.
Dryness of the lids.
Pupil.
Contracted pupils (after five hours). Pupils contracted to their smallest diameter; as the spasm abated, the pupils became dilated to their fullest extent, and again contracted as the spasm returned. By touching the eyelids, the spasm could be produced at pleasure (after half an hour).
Vision.
Dimness of vision. Dark spots and objects like flies float before the eyes, as if amaurosis would ensue. A black object before the eyes; on turning it turns with her, yet she saw everything clearly.
Ear.
(Heat in the outer and inner right ear, in the morning, in bed).
Something seems to fall before the right ear, as if he heard with difficulty. Sensation, alternately in the ears, as if they were closed and deaf. Rushing in the ears, as when listening in a tube. Sound in the ears, as of the rushing of water, with difficult hearing (after one hour).
Nose.
Objective.
Swelling of the right half of the nose. Sneezing. While walking in the open air, he began to sneeze. Violent coryza, throughout the whole day. Violent coryza for four days. (She blows bloody mucus from the nose). Pain in the nostril, in the anterior angle of the tip of the nose, especially when touched. Pain as from an ulcer, in the left nostril, without itching.
Face.
Expression rigid and irritable (after six hours).
Countenance earthy, with a very painful expression (third day).
Cyanosis of the face (after one hour and a half).
Cheeks.
Redness of the cheeks, with heat in the face, without thirst, in a very cold room. Cramp in the zygoma, in the masseter muscles (after two hours). Pressive, rather benumbing than painful sensation in the left zygoma.
Lower Jaw.
Cramp like pains in the muscles of mastication, even before opening the jaws, but aggravated thereby (after three hours).
Tearing digging pain in the lower jaw.
Mouth.
Teeth.
The front teeth seemed raised up, and so heavy that it seems as though they would fall out. A decayed tooth seems elongated, when chewing even soft food, as if it were quite loose, but is not painful on biting the teeth together, when not eating. Biting sensation in the upper and lower back teeth, as after using much salt; it causes an unpleasant sensation on biting together.
Gum.
(The gum is sensitive and sore).
Tongue.
Tongue coated white, and dry upon edges (third day).
Dryness of the tongue, with a whitish yellow coat, without thirst (after a quarter of an hour). Tongue rough in the morning. If he passes the tongue far out, it is painful posteriorly, as if beater.
General Mouth.
Whole mouth became filled with aphthae, which quickly became gangrenous, so that the soft parts of the mouth were soon destroyed, and the teeth fell out (seventh day) Dryness of the mouth, in the night, without thirst. Dry sensation in the mouth, with frothy saliva and great thirst. Sensation as if water collected in the mouth, for a long time, without inclination to vomit.
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.