Common names: Blood-root, Puccoon, etc.
Introduction
Sanguinaria Canadensis, Linn. Natural order: Papaveraceae. Preparation: Tincture of the root.
Mind
The depressing sensation on the nervous system not so market as yesterday (fourth day). Great anxiety. Great anxiety before vomiting. Extreme moroseness. Very irritable and morose, and impatient at the least trifle, with severe dyspnoea, in the afternoon (third day). Irritable, easily excited (first day).
Irritability, in the morning; she could break things to pieces without any cause (fourth day). Inability to fix the mind on any subject, in the afternoon (second day). Inability to attend to any business during the fever (third day). The stupor continues, making it almost impossible to continue my studies (ninth day).
Head
Vertigo. That terrible vertigo, which had been so prominent during the whole proving, returned (after one hour, first day).
Vertigo, in the morning (fourth day). Vertigo, immediately (ninth day). Vertigo on rising from a sitting position (after the dose, twelfth day). The vertigo, which had partly left, immediately returned (after the dose), with a dull heavy feeling in the stomach, as if caused from some hard substance there (sixteenth day). Distressing vertigo (eighth morning). Vertigo and headache in the forehead, as from coryza, with sneezing and vomiturition; (perhaps increased by lime used for whitewashing, which always caused her headache), (sixteenth day). Vertigo, long continuing, with debility. Vertigo, with sounds in the ears, immediately.
Vertigo. Stagger as if intoxicated (after the dose, twelfth day).
Very dizzy, immediately (seventh and fifteenth day). Head feels dizzy and cannot turn quick, without fear of falling, in the afternoon (second day). Head is dizzy at times, and vertigo and faintness on rising quickly from a stooping position, or turning the head quickly, in the morning (fourth day). General Head.
Confused and dull feeling in the head, which became better after eructation (soon). Heaviness in the head, from the vertex to the middle of the forehead, with pressing in the glabella and buzzing in head; eyes have a dull expression (fifth day). Heaviness of the brain. Head feels dull and inclined to ache in the temples, right side most (after one hour). Dull headache. Dull headache, which did not leave me for several hours (after eighty minutes).
Determination of blood to the head, with whizzing in the ears and transitory feeling of heat; then a sensation as if vomiting was about to take place, but instead of this there succeeded slight cutting drawings in the abdomen, and then a stool. The fullness in the head considerable (seventeenth day). Fullness in his head, with vertigo (after twenty-five minutes); still continued (after fifty-five minutes). Fullness in the head (after the dose, twelfth day). Terrible headache, as if caused by an approaching coryza, which would not make its appearance, in the forehead and middle of the vertex, with pressure on the eyes, which burn and are moved with difficulty, and vertigo (eighth and thirteenth days). Terrific headache during the fever (fourth day). Headache aches as if it would burst; better when walking in the open air; pain most severe in the temples, and especially the right, in the afternoon (third day). Severe headache, on waking, in the morning (twelfth day). Slight headache, with vertigo (eighth and ninth days). Headache on the left side (sixteenth and seventeenth days). Severe headache third morning); (after a dose, thirteenth day). Headache (after forty minutes); (fourteenth day).
Headache, lasting six hours. Headache in the evening, with tickling in the throat. Slight headache (after forty minutes).
Paroxysmal headache. Headache, with vertigo and earache, while lying down. Headache, with nausea and chilliness, followed by flushes of heat, extending from the head to the stomach.
Headache, with chilliness. Headaches, in the morning (fourth day). Headache whilst lying down. Slight headache (eighth day).
Throbbing headache, worse on every motion. Throbbing headache, with bitter vomiting. Throbbing headache, worse while stooping and moving about. Very dizzy headache over and above the right eye, extending to the right temple; pain very severe, amounting to a tearing pain, and in an hour feels like driving a nail into the brain or boring into it, first one sensation and then the other, in the afternoon (second day). Violent pain over the upper portion of the whole left side of the head, especially in the eye, at the same time a similar pain in the left foot. Sharp darting pains through the brain, from one temple to the other (fourth day). Sensation as if the head were drawn forward. Pain in all the upper part of the head. The cerebral functions are exalted by small doses. Forehead. Headache, as if the forehead would burst, with chilliness and burning in the stomach. Frontal headache, with considerable vertigo, on rising from a sitting posture (ninth and tenth days). Awoke with a severe frontal headache over the eye, which continued all day (second day).
Sharp frontal headache (Fincke, 10). Headache very severe through the whole front of the head, extending down into the cheek-bones, for two hours (after three hours, second day). On taking a little exercise the frontal headache increases, and sympathizes with the stomach, like sick headache (third morning). Pressive headache in the forehead. Severe pain and sore feeling through all the front of the head the temples, with strong pulsation in the temporal arteries (third day). Neuralgic pains of a constrictive kind, from the right side of the forehead to the zygomatic arch, all day (fourth day). Burrowing pain in the upper part of the forehead. A lightning-like pain in the right side of the forehead and temple, at 5 P.M., lasting five minutes; repeated at 7 P.M.; at 11 P.M. a sudden transient pain like an electric shock through the forehead. Pain in the forehead (after five days), tied hard.
Transient pain like a pressure in the right side of the forehead, only while standing still, better while walking. Slight frontal headache, soon (ninth day). Pressive drawing in the forehead.
Slowly sticking pain in the forehead (after fifteen minutes). A band like constriction across the forehead, just above the eyebrows in the afternoon (second day). Temples. Severe aching pain through the temples and in frontal region (first night).
Sides of the head (temples) feel pressed together, with darting pains over the upper portion of the eyeballs (after thirty- minutes). Pressing pain in both temples, with occasional darting pain through head, in the afternoon (second day). Pain very severe in the left temple, at times like a nail driven in the brain, with violent throbbing in the temporal arteries (third morning). Pressing pain in the temples, in the morning (fourth day). Periodic sticking in the left temple. Vertex. The top of my head feels as though it were cleaved from the base (sixteenth and seventh days). Pressure on the top of the head, in the region of the anterior fontanelle, disappearing on walking. Pain in the vertex. Pain like a fullness in the sinciput, in the afternoon.
Occiput. Moderate pain in the back of the head and neck, gradually extending downwards to the region of the kidneys, where the pain is very severe, dull and heavy, in the afternoon (second day). External Head. Enlarged veins on the head. One-sided looseness of the scalp and drawing in it, on raising the eyes.
The scalp on the right side seems loose. Soreness of the scalp on touch. Moving the scalp still painful (fourth day).
Eyes
Redness of the eyes, in the morning (eighteenth day). Staring and protuberance of the eyes. The eyes are sunken, dull, and burning, with slight injection of the blood vessels (seventeenth day).
Dimness of the eyes, in the afternoon, with a feeling as if there were hairs in them. At first dryness and violent burning in the eyes, with difficulty in opening the lids, then copious lachrymation with burning, as from hot tears, in the evening (fourth day). Burning dryness in the eyes (third day). Burning dryness in the eyes wakes her from sleep (fourth day). Eyes feel very weak and lids smart on closing them tightly, and tears start if opened to the ordinary light of day; eyeballs tender to the touch (third morning). Sensation as of acid fumes in the eyes.
Pressive pain in the left eye. Pain in the right eye. A pain suddenly shoots into the inner corner of the right eye and thence to the forehead. Pain over the eyes (twelfth day). Dull pain directly over the eyes (after seventy-five minutes). Lids.
Stitches in the upper lid. Lachrymal Apparatus. Profuse lachrymation of the right eye, which is especially painful to touch, soon followed by fluent coryza, with flow of clear water from the right nostril; afterwards, in the evening, two diarrhoea-like stools, followed by cessation of all symptoms (after five hours). Profuse lachrymation of the right eye, that is painful to touch, followed by coryza. Lachrymation, with burning in the eyes. Ball. Both eyeballs very sore, with frequent sharp piercing pain darting though them, with dimness of sight (after three hours, second day). Right eyeball very painful, especially on attempting to roll it outward or upward, in the afternoon (second day). Eyeballs very painful to move in any direction (fourth day). Eyeballs very tender to touch (fourth day). Pupil. Dilatation of the pupils. Pupils dilated ore than usual (after forty-five minutes). Great dilatation of the pupils, the strongest light of the sun was utterly incapable of producing the least contraction or giving the least uneasiness. Vision.
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.