Common names: Dyer’s Greenweld; (G)., Farbe-Ginster; (Fr)., Genestrolle.
Introduction
Genista tinctoria, Linn. Natural order: Leguminosae. Preparation: Tincture of the whole plant.
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo on rising or shaking the head (half an hour after third dose, first day). Vertigo on rising, in the afternoon; relieved in half an hour in the open air (third day). Dizziness on walking fast or turning round (one hour after fifth dose, first day). Dizziness approaching faintness, lasting a short time (one hour after fifth dose, first day). General Head. Headache till dinner; none after eating, except shaking the head; at 6 P.M. it came on suddenly, with vertigo on rising (second day). Immediate headache, quite sharp in the forehead, which soon subsided into dull heavy pain; relieved by eating (after fourth dose, third day). Slight headache, when turning quickly or shaking the head, in the afternoon (first day). Severe headache, relieved by walking in the woods at 10 A.M. (third day). Steady headache, which came on while exposed to the sun, in the forenoon (first day). Dull heavy headache coming on after dinner, increasing after a dose of 5 drops (third day). Headache worse on left side (two hours after fifth dose, first day). Brain feels tender (sensitive), (one hour after fifth dose, first day). On shaking the head, the brain feels tender (third day). Sensation as though the brain was lose and very sensitive (half an hour after third dose, first day). Forehead. Severe frontal headache, relieved by sitting in a cool room, in the forenoon (first day). Slight pressing pain in the center of forehead at 9.10 A.M. (third day). Temples. Frequent sharp pains in right temple, from within outward, when walking, in the forenoon (first day). Sharp piercing pain in left temple (two hours after fifth dose, first day).
Eye
Eyes sensitive to the touch, in the forenoon (first day).
Ear
Once, a sensation in left ear, as though some sharp instrument was thrust into, it in the forenoon (first day).
Throat.
Dryness of the throat, in the forenoon (first day). Throat dry and sensitive (third day).
Stomach.
During the night, water brash (second night). Awoke several times during the night with water brash (first night). Slight nausea (after sixth dose, first day).
Rectum and Anus.
Desire for stool, with violent sneezing, as from stuff, at 9 A.M. (third day). Urgent desire for stool, lasting only a short time, soon (after second dose, third dose).
Stool.
Stool soft and scanty, at 9.10 A.M. (third day). Stool tinged with blood; the faces, through large, were expelled like a wad from a pop gun (forty minutes after third dose).
Skin.
Peculiar eruption, consisting of roundish, dark-red, confluent spots, scarcely elevated above the skin, which, itching very much, become scarlet reed, then pale, and disappear within twenty-four hours; this eruption appears on the feet to the knees, and on the hands to the elbows’.
Aggravation
(Rising), Vertigo.
(Shaking head), Vertigo headache.
(Turning quickly), Headache.
(Walking), Pain in temple.
Amelioration
(Open air), Vertigo.
(Walking in open air), Headache.
(Going to bed), The symptoms.
(Sitting in cool room), Frontal headache.
(Eating), 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.