Common name: Witch Hazel.
Introduction
Hamamelis Virginica, Linn. Natural order: Hamamelaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the leaves and twigs.
Mind
Emotional. Feeling that she ought to be reverenced by all around her and have great respect paid to her opinions; lasting about an hour. Wish to be alone; cannot settle mind on study (twelfth day); continuing (nineteenth day). Depressed in mind (second, fortieth, and forty-ninth days). Lowness of spirits. Feels gloomy (fourth day). Very gloomy (sixth day). Very gloomy and sad, probably caused by the nocturnal emission (second day). Very gloomy; no disposition to move (fourth day). Regretful in mind for having had emissions at night (third day). Less despondency, in the evening (fourth day). Irritable disposition (second day). Very cross and easily irritated, not wanting anybody to speak to him (second day). Discontented all day (third day). I became impatient, and resolved not to take any more of the medicine; felt as if I did not care whether I attended to my practice or not; did not want any one to call at the office for medicine (seventh day). Was afraid to risk another dose; his mind was in a fearful condition. Intellectual. After the nausea, headache, and general stupor lasting two hours, had disappeared, felt clearer and brighter than before using it. Intense thinking; unhappy in body and mind; better at 7 P.M. (thirteenth day). Quick perception of anything out of shape or disproportion ed (thirteenth day). Desire to hear lofty, sublime conversation, attended with perfect indisposition to talk myself; after the heat. Still finds it difficult to settle his mind; angry-mood; nothing seems to suit him (twenty-third day); still continuing (thirtieth day). Inability to concentrate the thoughts upon any subject of study; exceedingly restless or muse, while awake (second day). No desire to work; likes to sit and think, or muse, while awake (second day). No desire to study or read; in the evening (first day). Could not read or study. Dull and spiritless all day (twelfth and fifteenth days). Rose feeling dull (twenty-second and twenty-third days). Felt a dulness and was somewhat stupid, in the afternoon (first day). Dull and listless, especially in afternoon; disinclination to study (seventh day). Forgetfulness, especially of words when talking, so much so that his room-mate thinks him crazy (fourth day). Marked weakness of memory; if he reads cannot remember important things he has been reading about (twelfth day). General stupor, for two hours after taking.
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo, as if drunk (seventh day). Vertigo (momentarily) on rising after stooping, after lying down, while reading (sixth day). Vertigo when stooping or bending forward (seventh day). Slight vertigo in afternoon on stooping, but it quickly passed (twenty fifth day). Slight vertigo towards night (fifteenth day). Dizziness in the head. Dizzy, and sick at her stomach, with a desire to lie down (second day). Swimming sensation in head, at 12 M. (seventh day). Sensation as if the brain was swimming around, continuing all day (second day); on rising (third day). General Head. Dulness in the head (after two hours), (thirteenth day). Dulness and fullness in head all day (seventh day). Feeling in head as if she had taken cold (second day). Headache (eight day), (eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth days), (nineteenth and twenty-second days). Headache for two hours after taking. Headache all day (second day), worse by stooping (fifteenth day), off and on (fifteenth day). Headache in the morning; better at noon (after more than two months). Headache on rising (sixth day), (tenth day), (ninth and fourteenth days) at 7 A.M. (fifth day), (eleventh day). Headache; the peculiarity about the headache is, that it is worse in the morning when rising and while indoors, but better while thinking, or reading, or walking or talking (seventeenth day). Headache during forenoon, increased in afternoon; quite severe, chiefly in forehead, at night (twenty-second day). Headache in afternoon, with pain in both ears (tenth day). Headache (unusual) towards evening, with dull throbbing pain over left eye (third and fourth days). Headache towards night (tenth and twelfth days), (twenty- sixth day). Headache from straining at stool, at 10 P.M., with sense of fullness in head, continuing till bedtime (eighth day). Headache and cold (thirteenth day). Slight headache (third day), (thirteenth day), eighteenth and twenty- fourth days), in morning (twenty-seventh day); on waking (third day), better at night (thirteenth day). Slight headache, with severe distress in the pyloric portion of the stomach and umbilical region (after three hours, second day). Considerable headache, the same as that produced by the third potency. Bad headache (twentieth day); all day (twenty-first day); on waking (twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty- sixth days); on rising (twenty-seventh, twenty-eight, twenty- ninth, thirty-first, and thirty-fourth days). Severe headache (thirteenth day), (after two months). Very severe headache, in afternoon (fourteenth day). Very severe headache indeed, feeling as if the head would burst, at 8 P.M. (twelfth day). Intense headache on rising, in the morning (fifteenth day). Headache (which had been very slight all day) commenced violently again, continuing all day (after three hours, sixteenth day). Terrible headache all day, probably from sleeping in a close room, not relieved by pressure, riding, walking, or anything; better towards night, disappearing while asleep (eleventh day). Dull headache (third morning); at 10 A.M. (first and second days); lasting about an hour (first day). Fullness in head (ninth day). Fullness in head with occasional vertigo continued (eight day). Painful fullness of the head, with a feeling as if a bolt was passed form temple to temple through the head and tightly screwed; lasting about an hour. Immediately after the heat a painful fullness of the brain, especially at the top, with a desire to hear lofty, sublime conversation, attended with perfect indisposition to talk myself. Woke up at 7 A.M., with a bursting headache, with vertigo on stooping; headache wearing off towards evening (second day). Bursting headache, upon waking, insupportable on bending downward (ninth day). Soreness and headache all over the head (seventh day). Headache of a throbbing nature (twenty-first day). Headache worse after second sleep in the morning (nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty- second days). Increasing headache, in the evening (first day). Took another cold, which aggravated the old headache (thirty-first day). Pains not so severe in head, in the evening (fourth day). Headache better outdoors (seventh day). Forehead. Dull feeling in forehead at root of nose, continuing all day; aggravated for a few moments, all 11 P.M. (second day); across the forehead, but more particularly over the eyes and at root of nose (third day). Dull stopped up feeling in forehead, over root of nose continually (fourth day). Dull pain across the frontal bone. Dull, stupefying headache over eyes and root of nose (second day). Headache in forehead (fourth day). Headache in front and top of head, at 10 P.M. (eleventh day). Headache over right eye, at 9 A.M. continuing a few moments and then disappearing (second day). Headache over nose and eyes (four- tenth day). Slight headache continually present in forehead, but not observed so much while out of doors, of busily engaged (eighth day). Slight frontal headache, with constant burning distress in the lower part of the epigastrium and umbilicus, lasting four hours, immediately (first day). Severe frontal headache, in the morning (thirteenth day). Very severe frontal headache (second day); intense, can hardly stand it (fourth day); terrible, worse sitting or standing up, better lying down, relieved by rubbing forehead, also by pressure (seventh day). Fullness in forehead (tenth day). Fullness of the forehead and sharp pain in the temples all day, of a severe character, with pressing sensation in the pharynx (after two hours, second day). Great fullness of the forehead, with pressing distress in the root of the tongue, lasting all day (after one hour, first day). Sensation as if anterior lobes of brain were too large for cranium (second day). The old bursting headache in forehead and over eyes, and an empty, gone feeling at pit of stomach, on rising, at 8.30 A.M.; headache wears off towards night (eighteenth day). Sense of constriction across forehead, at 10 P.M. (tenth day). Woke up with a severe headache; pressing in frontal bone, the only part affected, continuing unabated all day (fourth day). Severe headache over the right eye, of a pressing nature; most intense when sitting or lying quiet, about 12 M.; disappearing while walking in the open air (seventh day); reappearing at 10P.M., but not preventing his sleeping soundly (eighth day). Sharp pain across the forehead (thirtieth day). Lancinating pain in left frontal region, once (seventh day). Temples. Headache in the temples; worse in the morning (second day). Pain through temples and heaviness of eyes, at 10 P.M. (tenth day). Severe pain in her temples, for three days (after two months). A sharp pain from one temple to the other (twenty-third day). Peculiar sensation in mastoid portion of temporal bone (ninth day). Pain in mastoid portion of temporal bone in morning (second day). Very severe sore pain in right mastoid portion of temporal bone (seventh day). Shooting pain in (left) mastoid portion of temporal bone (sixteenth day). Shooting pain in mastoid portion of temporal bone, when walking in the wind (twenty-sixth day). Sides. Headache in whole left side of the head; most severe in parietal region; worse in morning and evening; relieved by eating (twentieth and subsequent days). Headache dull and heavy, in left parietal region (eighteenth day). Occiput. Pain in occiput (twelfth day). Dull throbbing pain in back and top of head, lasting half an hour (seventh day). Dull throbbing pain in back and top of head, lasting half an hour (seventh day). External Head. Feeling as if vermin were crawling along the edges of the hair (sixth day).
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.