Introduction
Aurum foliatum, metallic gold. Preparation, Triturate pure gold with sugar of milk.
Mind
Religious excitement.
In a reverie he says something absurd.
The child woke after three o’clock, early in the morning and spoke rapidly in a strong voice, and with red face, thus; “Mother, thou art my jewel of a daughter! What sort of a dog is that? What sort of a head is that at the wall? What is of running about there in the room?” and many other such foolish question.
Desire for solitude.
(Loathing of life).
Disgust for life, suicidal tendency. Good humor the whole day, with talkativeness and self-satisfaction (reaction).
Tolerable degree of cheerfulness, agreeable ease (after two hours).
Frequent weeping.
She howls and screams and imagines herself irretrievably lost.
Despondent.
Melancholy; he imagines he is unfit for this world, and longs for death, which he contemplates with internal delight.
Despondent melancholy; he imagine he cannot succeed in anything.
Dejected, and full of melancholy.
He is dejected, and seeks solitude.
He imagines he has lost the affection of his friends; this makes him sad, even unto tears.
Discouraged, and out of humor with himself.
The least trifle makes him discouraged.
He feels discouraged and despondent; he imagines he does everything wrong and cannot succeed in anything(20).
He is dissatisfied with everything he imagines obstacles everywhere in his way, partly occasioned by adverse fate, partly by himself; this latter makes him morbidly depressed.
Great anguish coming from the precordial region, and driving him from place to place, so that he can remain nowhere.
Excessive anguish, with palpitation of the heart, weariness in all the limbs and sleepiness.
Great anguish, increasing unto self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction of the abdomen.
Uneasiness, and hurried desire for bodily and mental activity; he cannot do anything fast enough, and cannot live so as to be satisfied with himself.
He feels uneasy and uncertain, without orgasm; he constantly imagines he neglects something, and deserves reproaches in consequence; he appears to carry this uneasiness about him in his mind, and it deprives him of all energy and perseverance.
While eating, the anxiety of mind leaves him.
Timidity.
Apprehensiveness; a mere noise at the door made him anxious; he feared lest some one would come in; anthropophobia.
Constant sullen mood and taciturnity.
Unsociable mood.
Weariness; causeless vexation.
Some persons are offensive to him.
Peevishness, and want of disposition to speak.
Peevish and vehement; the least contradiction excites his wrath.
Impatience; anger.
Choleric and quarrelsome.
Violent anger and vehemence.
Extreme disposition to feel offended: he was deeply affected and provoked by the least thing that seemed to grieve him.
He becomes angry while thinking of some absent persons.
He quarrels with every one, and says coarse things.
She alternately weeps and laughs, as if not conscious of herself.
Silent peevishness and cheerfulness, often alternate (after one and three hours).
If left alone, he sits still, taciturn, apparently melancholy, in a corner by himself; but the slightest contradiction excites his wrath, which he first manifests by disputing and talking a good deal, afterwards by uttering a few detached words (after three days).
The intellectual faculties are more acute, and the memory more faithful (reaction).
She is anxious to reflect deeply about this or that subject; this, however, makes her quite weak, tremulous, cold, and damp over the body.
Memory impaired.
Head
Confusion of the head.
Confusion of the head, early on rising, with heaviness in the occiput.
When standing, vertigo, forcing him to sit down.
Great vertigo, when stooping.
Vertigo when stooping, as if turning in a circle; it goes off on raising the head.
When walking in the open air, vertigo, as if he were drunk, and would fall to the left side;he was forced to lie down, but even then for some time the vertigo returned on the slightest motion (after forty-three hours).
His head shakes sideways and up and down.
Headache as from an incipient cold.
Pains in the head, caused by intellectual exertions.
Headache, sometimes as from a contusion, sometimes like a painful pressure in one part of the brain, sometimes like a tearing; it has increased ever since morning, and disappears at 3 p. m. (after twenty four hours).
Burning heat of the whole head, worse at the occiput.
Rush of blood to the head.
Great determination of blood to the brain (after three-quarters of an hour).
Violent rush of blood to the head when stooping; it passes off after raising the head again (after eight days).
A kind of hypochondriacal intoxication; the head feels full of compressed air, especially towards the nape of the neck, Boring in different parts of cranial bones, – The bones of the head pained him on lying down, as if broken, so that all his vital energy seemed effected, – Stunning pressive headache, as from violent wind,.-Pressive tearing in the head here and there e specially in the forehead, with feeling of vertigo, 6 Headache, ever since morning, as from a bruised brain; when talking or reading, especially when talking or writing, the headache increases to the utmost violence, and a perfect confusion of ideas; when ceasing to reflect, speak, or write the headache ceases, until it disappears entirely at 7 in the evening (after six hours).
Small, bony tumor on the upper part of the left side of the forehead.
Burning in skin of forehead.
Pressive pain on the forehead externally (after ten hours).
Boring in left side of frontal bone.
Boring in left side of forehead.
Pressure in left side of forehead (after an hour and a half).
Fine tearing in the forehead.
Very frequent tearing in forehead.
Tearing headache in front, in the forehead and temples, deep in the brain, abating in the open air.
Tearing in the left side of the forehead, more violent during motion.
A stitch on the frontal bone like a slow drawing (after six hours).
Stitch in the center of the forehead, where the hair begins.
Prickings, as from pins, in the forehead externally (after twenty four hours).
Tingling sensation in the forepart of the head.
Small, bony tumor on the right side of the vertex, with boring pain that grows worse when the tumor is touched.
Burning in skin of right temple.
Pressive pain in the temples.
Pressive pain on the left temple externally (after thirty-two hours).
Pressure on the left temple, worse by touch (after a quarter of an hour).
Tearings in the left temple.
Severe and constant burning heat on the top of the head.
Tearing pressure in the left side of the vertex, more violent during motion.
Tearing in the right side of the vertex (after three hours).
Tearing in the left side of the vertex (after one and a half hours.
Cutting tearing pain in the right side of the vertex (after seventeen days).
Drawing in right side of head.
Pressive tearing in the right side of the head, from the occiput to the forehead (after three hours).
One-sided, sharply throbbing, hacking headache.
Grinding, boring, and slight throbbing in one side of the head, early in the morning shortly after waking, increased by coughing, and bending the head backwards.
Megrim returning every three or four days, with stitching, burning, and beating in one side of the forehead, qualmishness, nausea, and even bilious vomiting.
Tearing pressure in the right occiput.
Fine tearing from the right side of the occiput through the brain as far as the forehead; more violent during motion (after one hour).
Eyes
Prominent, protruding eyes.
Sensation of weakness and pressure in the eyes.
A kind of burning in the eyes.
Tension in the eyes, which makes seeing difficult (after one hour).
Excessive tension in the eyes, with diminution of sight; more violent when fixing the eyes upon something; less when closing them (after nine days).
Pressure in the eyes, as from a foreign body.
Pressure upon the left eye from without inwards (after eight days).
Sensation in his eyes when looking, as of violent heat, as if the blood pressed upon the optic nerve.
Constant feeling of sand in the eyes.
Burning, stitching, drawing, and itching in the inner canthus of the eyes.
Drawing about the right eye.
Excessive spasmodic pressure in the posterior segment of the left orbit.
Fine tearing in the right orbit, close to the external canthus (after five hours).
Dull stitch in the lower part of the left orbit, from within outwards.
Redness of the lids at the approach of the menses.
Bluish appearance of the inner canthi.
Swelling of the lower lids.
Morning agglutination.
Burning, stitching, and itching of the eyelids.
Biting pain in the left upper eyelid.
Several single stitches in the internal canthus and lid of the left eye (after thirty-six hours).
Itching and burning in the right canthus.
Constant lachrymation.
Redness of the sclerotica.
Sensation of pressing out in the internal and superior angle of the left eyeball.
Pressive pain in the right eyeball, from without inwards; more violent during motion (after six hours).
Dilatation of the pupils (after three hours and a half).
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.