Common names: Plumbago, Black Lead; (Germ), Ressblei.
Introduction
Carbon, amorphous.
(The finest specimens contain traces of iron, 04 to 09 per cent; poor qualities contain as much as 4 per cent).
Preparation: Trituration of the prepared black lead from finest English drawing-pencils.
Mind
Emotional. Very easily excited; hot hands even from speaking.
Fanciful raving at night. Sadness, with thoughts of nothing but death (eleventh day). Sad, despondent; she was obliged to weep.
Gloomy mood (fourth day). Dejected, sad mood (after seventy-two hours). Dejected, with great heaviness of the feet. Completely depressed in mind, together with great anxiety, lasting until lying down in the evening. Oppression. Oppression, with anxiety, and a very unpleasant sensation in the stomach. Very much inclined to grieve and cry in the evening, whilst in the forenoon she had laughed about every trifle, contrary to her habit. Grief about the slightest occurrences, even to despair.
Weeping in a child, with fretfulness. He was obliged to weep, without cause, in the evening. She was obliged to weep at music.
Anxiety, with headache, vertigo, and ill-humor. Anxiety and hastiness drive him about like an evil-doer. Anxiety, so that she cannot sit, with nausea and sweat. Constant anxiety at night, so that he had no rest in bed; he constantly talked in sleep (twelfth hour). Great anxiety, so that she trembled all over for some minutes. Great anxiety, in the evening, as if some misfortune had happened, with heat of the face and coldness of hands and feet. At night, after lying down, thoughts full of care, from which she could not free herself, and which were so distressing and anxious that the blood became excited, and she could not sleep the whole night (fifth day). He awoke at 2 A.M. with restless mood; everything that could injure him happened, and made him anxious, so that frequently he did not know where he should turn, for over seven nights (after twelve hours). Hypochondriac uneasiness, discouragement, anxious sweat, loss of sleep. Fearfulness.
Apprehensiveness, with inclination to weep, in frequent attacks. Extreme apprehensiveness, so that she did not know how to overcome it, disappearing after weeping. It frequently seemed to him as though his end were near, or the greatest misfortune were impending. Timid (after six hours). Irritable and uneasy.
Irritable, violent, in the morning; hypochondriac in the afternoon. He would much rather be alone; every disturbance irritates him. She is very easily angered, but it just as easily passes out of her mind. Fretful. Fretful and hypochondriac, without special cause. Extremely fretful; everything angers and offends him. Peevish (after three hours). Very peevish and wrathful. Mood in the morning lively, in the evening depressed.
Intellectual. At night she was obliged to think of all sorts of things, on account of which she slept very little. At night a fixed idea took possession of him, so that he could not sleep before midnight. Uneasiness and unsteadiness; he had not thought for his work, no inclination for anything; relief after walking in the open air. Extreme hesitation; she is unable to make up her mind about anything. Slowness of purpose and thought. She was usually very quick to resolve, but soon after taking was very slow of thought and resolution.
Incapable of mental work, after the midday nap, lasting four hours. Beclouded mind. Makes mistakes in talking and writing.
Absent-minded. Constant forgetfulness. Extreme forgetfulness (after eight days). Only obscure recollection of the most recent events. Lethargy.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head, immediately in the morning, with nausea and sour vomiting. Confusion of the forehead, with a contractive sensation. Very great, painful confusion of the head, in the morning, lasting an hour (after four days). Pressive confusion of the head, especially in the morning. Vertigo in the morning on waking (seventh day).
Vertigo in the evening, with stupefaction; she was obliged to lie down. Vertigo while looking up. Vertigo, during and after stooping, lasting several minutes, even to falling forward, with nausea. Vertigo and dizziness of the whole head.
Attacks of vertigo, with inclination to fall forwards. Great vertigo, in the morning, after a good sleep (after fifteen days). Reeling and whirling, in the evening, while walking.
Feeling in the head as if intoxicated. General Head. Orgasm of blood in the head, with compressive pain in the vertex, in the afternoon. Orgasm and sensation of heat in the head very frequently during the day, with perspiration. Weakness of the head, extending to the throat. Emptiness of the head after the midday meal. Stupid in the head, in the morning, for three mornings in succession. A pain as if the head were numb and pithy. Unpleasant warmth in whole head after dinner. Severe tensive headache on waking from sleep, affecting the whole head, especially on the surface of the brain, mostly in the occiput, without impeding thought, with painful stiffness of the neck; the more he tries to fall asleep the worse the pain becomes (after twenty-four hours). A sharp, drawing tension in the nerves of the brain. Pain as if constricted, especially in the occiput, extending to the nape of the neck, which pains on looking up, as if broken, at noon; afterwards the pain extends down the back and to the chest. Feeling as if the head were screwed together and stuffed full. Headache in the morning, as if she had not slept enough (ninth day). Headache, in the morning on waking, every morning, for half an hour. Headache at night on the side upon which she was not lying. Headache during and after eating. Headache on moving the head; she dreads to move it. Headache while riding. Headache, on turning the head, for two days. Headache, with nausea, as from the abdomen, a very unpleasant sensation. Violent headache, with eructations and nausea, during menstruation (after five days).
Violent headache, in the morning on waking, with vomiting, diarrhoea, and icy-cold sweat, even to faintness; she was obliged to lie two days on account of weakness, with constant alternations of chilliness and heat. Violent headache, especially in the evening, during menstruation. Drawing pain in the head, extending into the face and down to the neck.
Pressive pain in the head (after twenty-four days). Pressive headache here and there in the brain, at last behind the left ear (after twenty-four hours). Pressive headache during and after eating. Tearing in the head, like rheumatism, in the morning. Bruised pain in the head, with a general sick feeling, in the evening. Trembling and twitching in the head, neck, and right arm. Feeling of looseness of the whole brain.
Forehead. Sensations as if the forehead were wrinkled.
Headache, as if the forehead would burst, after eating. Dull headache in the forehead and vertex, in the morning in bed, while yet half asleep; when completely awake it had disappeared (ninth day). Drawing in the forehead, for half an hour, recurring several days in succession. Drawing first in the forehead, then in the occiput in the evening. Drawing headache in the forehead, with pain in the nape of the neck, as if it were stiff Pressure, extending from the forehead deep into the brain (after thirty days). Pressure outwards at the forehead two hours after eating. Dull pressure in the forehead, in the morning after rising, aggravated by motion. Tearing headache in the forehead, in the morning on waking, lasting an hour. Tearing in the forehead, with sensation of internal heat, in the afternoon. Pain in the forehead, as if torn, lasting from the morning after rising till towards noon. Smarting pain in the forehead when touched. Throbbing in the forehead.
Temples. Pressive pain in the left temple, lasting one minute.
Sharp, pressive pain in the temple upon which he does not lie in the morning in bed. Transient stitches in the left temple (after eleven days). Vertex. Burning in a small spot on the vertex. Stitches in both sides of the vertex towards the middle, as if the head would burst, from morning till 3 P.M. when the pain disappeared during a profuse perspiration in the heat of the sun. Parietals. One-sided headache, in the morning in bed, with inclination to vomit, disappearing on rising. Violent tearing in the right side of the head in the evening (first day). Throbbing in the right aide of the head, in the afternoon, recurring for several days. Painful shocks in the right side of the head.
Jerking pain in the right side of the head. Occiput. A very violent, dull pain in the occiput, with heaviness of the head, tension, and stiffness of the neck; the pains are intolerable on walking, but are scarcely noticed while lying; during the night the pain disappears (fifteenth day). Pressive headache in the occiput. Much pressure in the occiput and nape of the neck.
External Head. Some hairs become gray. Falling of the hair of the scalp (after thirty-six hours and sixteen days). A constant and remarkable tangling of the hair of the head; although it was combed eight or ten times during the day, it was always combed with difficulty. Lumpy patches on the vertex red and painful.
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.