Common names: Leather wood, Moose wood, Wicopy.
Introduction
Dirca Palustris, Linn. Natural order: Thymelaceae. Preparation: Tincture from inner bark of the branches.
Mind
Emotional. Uneasy and sensation as if something unpleasant were to happen (second day). In daytime was constantly expecting some bad news; everything seemed to worry and annoy. Sense of apprehension, throughout the proving, as of some trouble, which may have depended upon the morbid state of the mind at the time of the proving. Intellectual. Time seemed to pass slowly. Can hardly control the actions of the mind, can neither think nor study; dull and bewildered (third day). Felt dull all day (sixth day). Dulness of powers, and great inertia all day (fourth day). Dull feeling, and indisposition to talk (seventh day). Absent- minded about everything, in writing spoiled several letters by writing the wrong words often. Difficulty in thinking what word to use while writing.
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo on walking; seems as if would fall to left side (second day). Head feels light and dizzy; seemed to incline to left side (not marked), (third day). General Head. Congestion of the head; sense of fullness in the head, neck, and chest (second day). Head felt dull for two or three days (after fourth day). Pains all through the head, vertex, and occiput, extending down into the spine (third day). Sensation of fullness in head, especially between the temples and in front (first day). Sensation of fulness in head with pain in temporal region and in front, in the morning (second day). Head feels full and heavy, in the morning (third day). Head felt full and heavy, but did not really ache (third night). Slight headache; not marked (first day). Forehead. Great congestion and pressure in the forehead, in the morning (fourth day). Languid, dull feeling in the forehead, at 9.30 A.M. (second day). Continued headache in the frontal and temporal region, in the afternoon (first day). Intense congestive headache in frontal region, with darting pains inward from each temple (seventh day). Sensation as if the lobes of the cerebrum were drawn forward toward the frontal sinuses (eighth and ninth days). Temples. Pains in temples (fifth day). Headache in temporal region (fourth day); (sixth day). Headache in both temples, extending inwards; lasted half an hour; relieved by hard pressure, at 3 P.M. (first day). Slight headache in temporal region (second day). Severe headache in temporal region, extending towards the center, at 7 P.M. (second, third, and fourth days). Headache in left temporal region, extending towards the center, dull, oppressive pain, towards evening (second and third days). Sharp pain in both temples, extending inwards, more severe in left (fifth day). Sharp sticking pains in right temple, worse from motion, but did not stop when sitting still (fourth day). Just before noon, felt sharp darting pain in right temporal region, and also neuralgic pain in arm (first day). Headache. w th dull sore pain in temporal region, with dizziness (first day). Vertex. Immediately after dinner headache in vertex; space as large as hand seemed to ache, lasted only a few minutes; relieved by pressure (first day). Sides. Headache seemed to be in left half of head and to throb and beat, aggravated by coughing or moving (during all the proving had a headache of this character, not always so severe); could not bear to have anything touch the back of the head, and felt better with the hair down or up high on head (fourth day). Occiput. Several times during the afternoon pain high up in the occiput, extending inwards (second day). Awoke with a pain in the head, low down in the occiput; much worse on raising up or accidentally moving the head, in the morning; toward noon the pain increased, and went up over the top of the head to forehead, and there had a strong congestive headache, with throbbing of carotids, lasting till evening and then gradually disappearing (second morning). External Head.
Scalp felt dry and tight (second day).
Eye
Slight haziness of retina (on ophthalmoscopic examination), (third day). Eyes felt sore (second day). Eyes sore and painful to touch (third day). Sensations as if the brows were corrugated, and as if the brain were also drawn down (eighth day). Lids heavy (third day). Photophobia (seventh day). Photophobia on awaking, which continued through the day (second day). Much photophobia (sixth day). Great photophobia, especially from gaslight (second day).
Ear
Some time during each day, a roaring in one ear for a time and then in the other, then stopping entirely.
Face
Face red, full, and bloated, in the morning (fourth day). Face pale (second day); (fifth day). Face pale and sunken (third day). Face very pale (first and second days).
Mouth
Tongue. Tongue light, and smooth (first day). During all the time the tongue was covered with a thin white coating, thicker at the base. Tongue coated smoothly, and evenly white (second day). Tongue white; thinly and smoothly coated (seventh day). Tongue coated smoothly and thickly dirty-white; apparently thicker towards center and far back (fourth and fifth days). Taste. Sour taste in mouth (fourth and fifth days).
Throat
Acidity in throat, at 9.30 P.M. (first day). Fauces red and raw (seventh day). Fauces rose-red and dry towards evening; hurts to swallow food or liquids (second day). Hurts to swallow (seventh day). Throbbing of the carotids (second day).
Stomach
Appetite. Appetite less than usual. Thirst. No thirst, at 1.30 P.M. (third day). Eructation. Eructations, at 11.35 A.M.; 12.15 P.M.; 8.30 P.M. (third day). Empty eructations (for an hour), (thirty minutes after second dose, and at 9.30 P.M)., (first day), etc. Eructations of sour-tasting gas (second and third days). Nausea. Nausea on taking the drug, and for some time after; more marked in afternoon (second day). Stomach. Uneasy feeling as of a lump or weight in the stomach, continuing several days (after third day). (* This prover had formerly been a chronic dyspeptic, and described these sensations as being the same as he experienced when afflicted with that trouble, and for this cause could not be persuaded to take any more of the drug. *).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Severe lancinating pains in left hypochondrium, with tympanites; the pain increasing and spreading over the whole intestinal region (third day). Umbilical. Constant pain in the abdomen just above the umbilicus, constantly biting, with exacerbations, at 10 P.M. (first day). Warm or slightly burning sensation about the umbilicus, at 7.30 P.M. (first day). Burning in abdomen below the umbilicus, at 12.30 P.M. (second day). Griping about the umbilicus continues, at 8.40 A.M. (fourth day). Griping and aching in abdomen below the umbilicus, not relieved by change of position, at 1 P.M. (second day). Sore pain in and below the umbilical region; continued pain, but with aggravations (third day). General Abdomen. Abdomen swollen and tender to pressure (first day). Abdomen swollen slightly (second day). Tympanites (third day). Abdomen tympanitic, with some pain, at 9 P.M. (third day). Rumbling in the bowels (second day), at 10.20 A.M. (fourth day), etc. Slight rumbling in bowels, with passage of flatus, a, t 7.30 P.M. (first day). Flatus, at 12.15 P.M. (third day). Flatus and eructations, at 3.15, 8.30 P.M. (second day). Flatus and severe colicky pains in abdomen, followed by stool, which was somewhat consistent, with great soreness and smarting of the anus; the colic seemed to be somewhat relieved by bending forward. Colic pain relieved by stool, but smarting of the anus remains, at 1.30 P.M. (third day). Frequent passage of fetid flatus for an hour (fifteen minutes after second dose, first day). Feels as if there would be a movement of the bowels, but have not pain, at 9 A.M. (third day). Some discomfort in the abdomen, which is still tympanitic, at 2 P.M. (third day). A continued discomfort in abdomen all the evening, like “stomachache,” with passage of flatus (first day). Dull and uncomfortable feeling in the abdomen, at 9 P.M. (second day). Pain in the bowels all the afternoon (first day); pain with desire for stool (second day); same uneasy feeling in the bowels, as if would have an evacuation, but none satisfactory (second day). Pain in bowels on walking, also painful on pressure, at 9 P.M. (third day). Pain in bowels, partly relieved by diarrhoeic stool (second day). Pain in the bowels and violent purging, which partially relieved the pain (second day). Slight pain in bowels (fifth day). Pain in bowels, very severe (second day). Awoke about 6 A.M. with very severe pain in bowels and urgent desire for stool. Stool dark, thin, and soft, coming but little at a time, each passage relieving for a short time the pain, which soon returned, to be followed by another passage; after passing all that was possible, had every few minutes the cramping pains, but not so hard; went to bed and fell asleep; when awoke again, felt better (fourth day). Burning and uncomfortable sensations in the bowels, all the evening (first day). Occasional gripings at 9.20 A.M. (fourth day). Before going to bed and after, had spells of sharp pain in bowels, lasting about fifteen minutes, and repeating about every fifteen minutes (third day). Colicky pain in abdomen, at 10 P.M. (third day). Colicky pains, with flatus, pain just above the umbilicus, at 9 P.M. (first day). Muscles of the abdomen were sore, continuing throughout the entire proving, more or less (after first day). Abdomen rather sensitive to pressure and tympanitic (after twenty minutes, third day). Hypogastrium. Dull ache low down in pelvis all day (second day). Bearing down sensation in the lower part of the abdomen as if muscles were relaxed; sitting or lying did not relieve, but the sense of pressure was less when the head ached less.
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.