Introduction
“Tincture acris sine Kali”.
Preparation: Distill a mixture of slaked lime and a solution of Potassium sulphate according to directions given in the Homeopathic Dispensatory. The distillate contains Potassium hydrate, but no lime nor Sulphuric acid. Some effects of Caustic potash (Kali causticum, Potassium hydrate) are here included.
Mind.
Emotional.
When she closes the eyes she does only terrible visions and distorted human faces. Lively, joyous mood, first twelve hours, rapid flow of ideas (* This seemed to be the curative action in one whose previous conditions of dispositions and mind had been the opposite. H. *) but after twenty-one hours (in the morning after waking and through the whole forenoon), and anxious trembling, sleepy confusion of the head, heavy pressure in the occiput and forehead, with heaviness of the limbs, constant pains in the joints and muscles of the fingers, arms, shoulders, knees and feet. Lively disposition the whole day, contented with himself and very talkative; he constantly wished to talk with some one (curative action). Good humored and talkative, in the forenoon. The child whines about every trifle.
Although disputes (e. g. political) were brought to him, still he remained quite calm, though, indeed, he felt sensitive, yet be avoided speaking of it, and subdued his emotions (curative action), (the first hours). Melancholy mood. Melancholy before menstruation, as if everything was of a dark color. Sad, weeping mood, full of care, as if beside oneself. Sad and some what anxious mood. Excessively sympathetic; she is beside herself, with weeping and sobbing, and cannot be contented when listening to accounts of the hard-ships of others. Anxiety the whole day, as if he had done something bad, or apprehended it, or as if he had been unfortunate. Anxiety in the morning on waking.
Anxiety in the evening before going to sleep; the boy could not fall asleep because he constantly thought of anxious things; one could with difficulty induce him to go to bed in the evening.
Anxiety and uneasiness at night did not permit her to sleep (20th day). Anxiety after the stool. Anxiety after the stool, heat in the face, and inclination to sweat. Anxiety with the physical troubles. Great anxiety throughout the day (13th day). The greatest anxiety for 12 hours. Anxious mood, as if stupefied (soon after taking). Anxious uneasy mood, as if something unpleasant impended; this unfits him for every work. Anxious solicitude about every occurrence. Anxious apprehension lest something evil should happen, with urging to stool. Constantly anxious and sweaty (2nd day). He was busy with thoughts of death, with uneasiness and great solicitude. Loss of courage. Fear and anxiety, so that she does not wish to live. Fearfulness at night. Extremely anxious fearfulness; was so anxious about a dog near by, which did not hurt her, that her whole body trembled; every noise in the street made her apprehensive; and if she saw boys climbing she was in the greatest uneasiness lest they should be harmed. Great apprehension whenever anything happens; despondent, depressed, most excessive exhaustion and prostration. Full of frightful ideas, in the evening. Sensitive and inclined to be angry, with great nervous irritability, together with slight chilliness, and on motion easily heated. Very sensitive, hot headed, and vehement. Irritable about trifles. Extreme irritability of mind; the slightest vexation affects her whole body, so that her knees sink under her. Unbounded inclination to be out of humor. Out of humor and irritable (after 4 days). During menstruation ill humor and great weariness. Discontented with herself, with gloomy looks. Peevish, irritable mood. Peevish, weeping mood. Peevish, irritable, takes no pleasure in music. Very Peevish.
(after 48 hours). Fretful. Fretful and despondent, without being vexed (1st day). Fretful the whole day; everything which surrounded him made a disagreeable impression upon him.
Fretful the whole day, out of humor with himself, discontented, solicitous, and yet not disinclined to mental labor. Fretful, still, and absorbed in himself, though previously he head been very lively, lasting half an hour (immediately after taking). Very fretful and indolent. Contradictory. Furiously opinionated and quarrelsome. Inclined to scold and make a disturbance, without being peevish. Inclined to scold and quarrel, with sullen mood. Quarrelsome (after a quarter of an hour). He becomes easily violent after the midday sleep, with great despondency. Persistent silence, difficult to overcome, remained after the poisoning. Long morose silence (after 6 hours). At one time excessively merry, at another depressed. Sometimes joyful, and soon afterwards peevish. Intellectual. Weakness of thought; slow succession of ideas. Absence of mind, with loss of ideas. A kind of loss of ideas; if he was doing anything it constantly seemed to him that he head something more important to do, although he did not know what; he reflected about it, but without thinking of anything.
Disinclined to work (after ten and 20 hours). Disinclined to pay attention. Momentary absence of mind; he seemed to be thinking of something, but without having any thoughts (after half an hour).
Inattentive and distracted. Weakness of memory. He frequently pronounces words wrongly and confuses syllables and letters. (e.
g. “cluent foryza’), for several days. Coma.
Head.– Confusion.
Confusion of the head, the whole day from the morning, as if in a close room where clothes were washed and dried; aggravated by stooping, not relieved by walking in the open air, but on returning into the room. Confusion of the head in the morning, with coryza. Confusion and heat of the head (7th day). A momentary (painful, tensive) confusion of the head; almost like a slight throbbing headache, disappearing after eating. Cloudiness of the head. Feeling of stupefaction and drunkenness of the head (after 24 hours). Stupid feeling in the head the day after an emission. The head feels dull and screwed together (after half an hour). The head feels dull and as if intoxicated, with redness of the face (after half an hour). Vertigo. Vertigo, as from spirituous drinks.
Vertigo, forwards and sideways. Vertigo, in the morning on rising from bed. Vertigo at night in bed, on rising, and lying down again. Vertigo in the open air; everything turned about with her; persons seemed larger than usual to her; it disappears in the room. During menstruation vertigo and whirling in the head, worse on stooping; relieved in the afternoon. Vertigo on looking fixedly at one point. Vertigo on looking up (to a high tower), so violent that he feel over.
Vertigo almost like a loss of consciousness, after walking; while sitting, he nearly fell. Vertigo, when standing. Vertigo, reeling, with heaviness of the head, while standing and sitting. Vertigo on stooping, which disappears on rising up, in the morning (2nd day). Vertigo, relieved in the open air. Vertigo, with weakness of the head. Vertigo, and falling down without cause. Momentary vertigo while sitting, as if he would stagger (after 3 hours and a half). Dizziness of the head. Dizziness of the head, with anxiety of the whole body. Dizzy the whole week, as from compression of the head. Dizzy in the morning, with painful confusion of the head. Feels drunken and dizzy, with distraction of thought. General Head. Involuntary nodding with the head, just as if some one pressed it down (while writing). Rush of blood to the head, with heat in it. Rush of blood to the head, and a sensation as if intoxicated, relieved in the open air (after a quarter of an hour). Rushing of blood into the head, in the evening. After walking in the open air a little, the blood rushes to the head and face; it becomes dim shaken, when walking in the open air. Stitches in the head, with warmth in it. Tearing in the head, neither aggravated nor relieved by motion, lasting several days, more or less severe. A sticking-tearing in the head, which commences in the forehead and extends to the right side through the whole head.
Throbbing pain; very painful throbbing in the cerebral arteries. Jerkings and severe beatings in the head every minute, in all positions, during rest and motion. Headache at night, as if an ulcer were in it. A morning headache, which had existed a long time, disappears (curative action). Forehead. Stupefying pain in the forehead, when sitting and reading, which was not relieved on walking or standing. Headache, as if something were forced in between the frontal bone and the cerebrum, or as if the place behind the frontal bone were hollow.
The whole brain was painful on shaking the head. Warmth in the head internally, an hour after dinner. Sensation of internal heat in the head, without external heat (after half an hour).
Sensation in the head as if everything would come out in front, on stooping. Headache, with nausea. Compressive headache. A jerking-pinching pain through the head. Painless digging in the whole head. Pressive headache from all sides, with pinching in the ear and boring toothache. At times a pressure deep in the head, with heaviness of the head. Screwing in and heaviness of the head, relieved in the open air. Sticking headache, more especially in the orbits, the whole night, not during the day. Stitch like headache, in the morning on waking, and almost the whole day. Burning headache in the forehead, as if the forepart of the brain were inflamed, after returning into the room from the open air. Tension and warmth in the forehead and nose, with slight drawing in the eyes from time to time. Tensive and drawing headache between the eyes.
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.