Common name: Paw paw.
Introduction
Anona triloba, L.
Natural order: Anonaceae.
Preparation:.
Mind.
Did not care to hold conversation with any one, even his best friends.
Head.
Headache unceasing for several days.
Headache on awaking in the morning.
After exercising by walking in open air, the headache became general throughout the frontal region, and somewhat relieved.
Slight headache through temples.
On rising in the morning, unusual headache in the temporal region, involving the eye, with an occasional sharp pain over it, which was increased by a single cough.
Throat.
Throat only lightly sore; not so much so as the hoarseness would indicate.
Stomach.
Soreness in region of stomach on pressure.
Stomach felt increased in size.
Abdomen.
Pain in left hypochondrium.
Slight pain, resembling colic pain.
Soreness in abdomen, worse on pressure.
In evening, rumbling pain in abdomen, with desire for stool, which resulted in the passage of a soft, pappy, insufficient stool.
Stool and Anus.
Inactivity of bowels and rectum.
Soft, Pappy, insufficient stool, preceded by rumbling pain in abdomen.
Insufficiency of stool,.
Respiratory Apparatus.
Quite hoarse.
Hoarseness; throat did not feel very sore.
Hoarseness, attended with unusual difficulty in talking.
Hoarseness increased, requiring much effort to talk, and seeming as if the mucus membrane was thickened, and the organs slow to respond to the efforts of speech.
Slight, dry cough.
Chest.
Dull, aching pain in upper portion of left lung.
Dull, aching pains in upper part of chest, more on left side than on the right.
Soreness on pressure at the lower end of the sternum.
Upper Extremities.
Pain in left shoulder, apparently involving the pectoral muscles.
Lower Extremities.
At 10.30 A.M., sharp pain in left hip-joint, lasting about half an hour; felt the same pain again at 1.30 P.M., and in the evening.
In the evening, felt other pains more mild than the former, lasting but a short time.
Generalities.
Felt uncomfortable all day.
Sleep and Dreams.
Did not rest well the night previous.
Did not rest well at night; kept turning and moving all night; could not dismiss from my mind what had occurred during the day; got up feeling unrefreshed.
A woke about daylight, unrefreshed, with headache.
Conditions.- Aggravation
(Morning, on waking), Headache.
(Morning, on rising), Temporal headache, etc. (Evening), Pain in abdomen, etc.; pains in hip-joint.
(10.30 A.M., 1.30 P.M., and in evening), Pain in left hip-joint, etc. (Coughing), pain over eye.
(Pressure), Soreness in abdomen; soreness in lower end of sternum.
Amelioration.
(After walking in open air), Headache.
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.