General Action
Clinical. It has been used in morbus Basedowii, with tremulous action of the heart and protruding eyes. It may relieve the protrusion of th eye and the cyanosis from the general relaxation. It is indicated in diseases associated with tumultuous action of the heart, with more or less pain and tenderness; often in symptoms associated with hypertrophy of the heat. Palpitation from nervous irritation, with oppression about the heart. Rheumatoid pains in various parts of the body, associated with valvular disease of the heart, cough and hypertrophy, or with simple palpitation and various nervous symptoms. Cardiac disease following rheumatic fever, with hacking cough, palpitation, dyspnoea, small, weak, irritable pulse, which intermits now and then. Haemoptysis, with palpitation, and pain left side of chest. Feeble, irritable heart, with cold extremities and general nervousness.
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.