Common name: Partridge-berry.
Introduction
Mitchella repens, L. Natural order: Rubiaceae. Preparation: Tincture of whole plant.
Mind
Emotional. Depression of mind; sighing (after two hours, seventh day). Great depression of spirits (after five hours and a half, seventh day). Spirits began to revive, at 1 P.M. (eighth day). Light and buoyant in spirits, although the weather is gloomy and rainy (ninth day). Intellectual. Awoke from a most refreshing sleep, brain clear; feel light and buoyant in spirits, much better than usual (second morning); brain feels dull, and mind stupid, in morning (third day); brain still dull (fourth morning); brain feels very dull, at 7.30 A.M. (fifth day); brain feels lighter, but still far from being clear, in morning (sixth day); mind very dull, brain very dull, cannot concentrate thought; could not keep mind on subject in hand; whole perceptive faculties very dull (after first dose, sixth day); brain very dull (after two hours, seventh day); continued dulness of anterior lobes of brain (after three hours and a half, seventh day); totally unable to attend to any regular duties (after thirteen hours and a half, seventh day); great dulness of brain, with feeling of fullness, at 9.30 A.M. (eighth day); brain feels somewhat lighter, can think better, at 1 P.M. (eighth day). Memory poor (after eleven hours and a half, seventh day). Forgetfulness (seventh day). Very forgetful (after thirteen hours and a half, seventh day).
Head
Whole head feels bad at 11 A.M. (after one dose, sixth day). Headache; whole brain feels dull, especially the cerebellum, in the morning (sixth day). Headache continuous (after thirteen hours and a half, seventh day). Awoke with a very severe headache, in the morning (eighth day). Head feels as being relieved of great pressure from without, most of which has been upon the anterior lobes, at 10 P.M. (eighth day). Forehead. Feeling of fullness of frontal region (after two hours, seventh day). Anterior lobes of brain seem dull and heavy (three hours and a half after first dose, fifth day). Great frontal headache, lasting thirty minutes (eleventh day). Severe frontal headache for two hours, just behind the superciliary ridges, at 10 P.M. (eighth day). Vertex. Burning in the coronal region on inside of skull, at 11 A.M. (after first dose, sixth day). Parietals. Throbbing pain on right side of head, in region of “sublimity” (after three hours and a half, seventh day). Spot on right side of head, “sublimity” region, about the size of a silver dollar, feels as if electricity was passing through there (after eleven hours and a half, seventh day). Occiput. Dull, heavy aching in cerebellum (after one hour, seventh day). Throbbing in occipital region, on inside of skull, at 11 A.M. (after first dose, sixth day). External head. Scalp feels hot, at 1 P.M. (eighth day). Scalp sore to touch, especially over region of benevolence, at 10 P.M. (eighth day).
Eyes
Eyes feel dull and heavy, at 11 A.M. (after first dose, sixth day); eyes feel week, at 11 P.M. (after first dose, sixth day); eyes feel dull and weak (after two hours, seventh day); eyes feel dull, heavy, and filled with tears (after three hours and a half, seventh day); eyes feel heavy and dull, in the morning (eighth day).
Ear
Burning of the pinna of the left ear, at 11.10 A.M. (after first dose, sixth day). Dull aching pain in the right ear, at 1 P.M. (eighth day).
Face
Rush of blood to the face; nose feels as though it would bleed (after two hours, seventh day).
Mouth
Sharp shooting pain in an upper molar tooth, left side (after three hours and a half, seventh day). Burning in tongue (after two hours, seventh day). Pricking sensation in tongue, back portion, in the center (after second dose, fifth day).
Throat
Tonsils. Deglutition difficult; tonsils enlarged, especially left one; it is not congested; do not feel them, except when swallowing, in the morning (sixth day). Fauces. Fauces feel dry and slightly irritated (two hours and a half after first dose, second day); fauces again dry (after second dose, third day); a good deal of irritation of the fauces (after first dose, fourth day); fauces still dry and irritable, at 7.30 A.M. (fifth day). Swallowing. Difficult deglutition, due to constriction of the pharynx (two hours after third dose, fifth day). Deglutition difficult, at 11 A.M. (after first dose, sixth day). Some slight difficulty in deglutition (ninth day). External Throat. Some enlargement of the left submaxillary gland (after three hours and a half, seventh day).
Stomach
Appetite. The appetite is not so good (third morning). Appetite not so good as usual, in the morning, returning at 1 P.M. (eighth day). Thirst. Thirst (fifth day). Eructation. Eructations (after first dose, fourth day); with hiccough (after thirteen hours and a half, seventh day). Acid eructations, at 11 A.M. (after first dose, sixth day). Nausea. Nausea (sixth and seventh days). Slight nausea (seventh and eighth days). Stomach. Burning in stomach, which extends along the oesophagus its whole length (sixth and seventh days). Dull pain in epigastrium, at 1 P.M. (after first dose, sixth day).
Abdomen
Objective. Rumbling in bowels; expulsion of flatus; feel as if going to have diarrhoea (ninth day). Much flatus in the intestines (third and fourth days). Expulsion of flatus, in the morning (third day). Subjective. Whole alimentary tract feels cold; transverse colon tender under pressure (three hours after second dose, fifth day). Abdomen feels distended, as if with flatus, especially in the transverse colon, in the morning (third day). Griping pain in bowels (eighth day); in colon (seventh day), in small intestines (ninth day). Dull pain in the bowels, in transverse and ascending colon, at 11 A.M. (after first dose, sixth day).
Rectum
Urging to stool (eighth day). Urging to stool, expulsion of flatus (three hours and a half after first dose, fifth day).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Evacuation of quite thin stools; not strictly diarrhoea, but just such stools as generally usher in an attack of diarrhoea (three hours after second dose, fifth day). Evacuation from bowels, at 7.30 A.M.; stool quite soluble (fifth day). Stool, which was quite soluble, at 9 A.M. (eighth day). Stool at 9.30 A.M., expelled with difficulty; much flatus (after first dose, fourth day). Constipation. Bowels costive (ninth day); at 9 A.M. (third day). Bowels costive, faeces small in amount and expelled with difficulty, tenesmus, at 8.30 A.M. (seventh day).
Urinary Organs
Kidneys and Bladder. Heat in kidneys (after three hours and a half, seventh day). Dull pain over the region of kidneys, and apparently in those organs, at 11 A.M. (after first dose, sixth day). Uneasiness at neck, of bladder, urging to urinate, at 11 A.M. (after first dose, sixth day). Great burning sensation at neck of bladder, at 11.10 A.M. (after first dose, sixth day). Urethra. The urethra and neck of the bladder were swollen and irritated (after three weeks). Urine. The renal secretion was notably increased (after three weeks). Voided 9 ounces of urine between 9, 30 A.M. and 1 P.M.; it seems to be much darker in color than usual; had voided 12 ounces more at 6 P.M.; 6 ounces more at 11 P.M. (fourth day); urging to urinate, voided 15 ounces of high-colored urine in the morning; 42 ounces in the last twenty-four hours; recent urine, sp. gr. 1040; after standing in a cool place for three hours, sp. gr. 1038, color deep-yellow; a very strong acid reaction; sediment white, flocculent, and large in amount; readily responds to the tests for uric acid, and chloride of sodium; the sp. gr. of the urine voided during the last twenty-four hours, ending at 1 P.M., and taken from the top of the vessel, was 1024; this would give us 1010.142 grains of solid matter (the whole amount of urine being 42 ounces), but this not the true sp. gr. nor the true amount of solid matter, as there was more than 1/2 ounce of sediment at the bottom of the vessel, which responded readily to the tests for uric acid; I think that 1038 is the more accurate sp. gr.; we would now have, according to Golding Bird, 1688.642 grs. of solid matter passed in the last twenty-four hours, 5 ounces; sp. gr. 1031, at 10 P.M. (fifth day); Urine of last evening, which stood in the test-tube, 1040 sp. gr.; recent urine, sp. gr. 1032, in the morning; 19 ounces in the last twenty-four hours, sp. gr, of recent urine, 1024; mean sp. gr. for last twenty-four hours, 1036, at 1 P.M.; 8 ounces at 6 P.M.; 4 ounces more, sp. gr. 1028, at 11 P.M. (sixth day); 6 ounces, sp. gr. 1032; last night’s urine after standing in the test-tube, 1038, some sediment, in the morning; 23 ounces, mean sp. gr. 1030, in last twenty-four hours, at 1 P.M.; 8 ounces, sp. gr. 1034, at 9 P.M. (seventh day); 9 ounces, sp. gr. 1030, acid reaction, in the morning; 29 ounces, mean sp. gr. 1032, within last twenty-four hours; sp. gr. of recent, 1032, at 1 P.M.; 7 ounces, sp. gr. 1030, at 6 P.M.; afterwards, at 10 P.M., 3 ounces more, sp. gr. 1034 (eighth day); 7 ounces, sp. gr. 1022, in the morning; 24 ounces, mean sp. gr. 1028, in last twenty-four hours, at 1 P.M. (ninth day); mean sp. gr. 1024 (tenth day); natural (eleventh 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.