Common name: Bayberry, Wax-myrtle.
Introduction
Myrica cerifera, L. Natural order: Myricaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the bark of the root.
Mind
Emotional. A pleasant exhilaration (half an hour after second dose); followed by an excited state of the nervous system, precluding sleep for several hours; this was accompanied by a restlessness which required a frequent change of position (eighth day). A pleasant exhilaration, succeeded by depression and pressure about the head (ninth day). Depression of spirits (one hour after first dose, third day); lasting three or four days (second morning). Great depression of mind, irritable, do not want to speak or to be spoken to. Great unusual depression of spirits, all the morning (second day). Miserable dejected feeling all day (tenth day); (fourteenth day). Great despondency, at 11 A.M. (second day). Feels gloomy, terribly depressed; this depression of spirits continued for three days, and to such an extent that it was impossible to write; did not care about anything or for any friends; was perfectly wretched, beyond description. Awoke in a gloomy state of mind an unusual condition for him; felt very irritable, and had a constant desire to find fault; everything went wrong; looked upon this world as a place not fit to live in any longer; considered himself better than the rest, in the morning; felt very low-spirited; condemned for various imaginary faults; complete hypochondria, in the afternoon (second day). Felt irritable, easily provoked (after half an hour, fourth and fifth days). Irritable, worried by little things; everything seemed to go wrong, in the morning (tenth day). Exceedingly irritable; the slightest thing fretted and irritated him; ungovernable petulancy (sixth day). Intellectual. Loss of energy (sixth day). Deficient concentration of the mind on any subject (after five hours and a half, seventh day). Confusion of intellect; could not concentrate his thoughts (one hour after first dose, third day). Dulness of intellect (sixth day). Felt dull and drowsy, for the last two hours (five hours and twenty minutes after first dose, fifth day). Semi-stupor, attended with pain all through the head, quite severe in the temples, with throbbing in the superficial veins (after four hours, seventh day). Drowsy stupor, very difficult to keep the mind concentrated on any one thing long at a time (after sixteen hours and a half, seventh day). Drowsy stupor, all the forenoon, could not keep the mind on the subject of the lectures (eighth day). A kind of drowsy stupor, at 12.50 P.M., continuing through the day (eighth day).
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo, with dulness and drowsiness much of the time during lectures, all the forenoon (tenth day). Slight vertigo (sixth day). Dizziness and rush of blood to the head and face, on stooping (premonitory symptoms of headache with him), (after two hours, second day). General dizziness, all the morning, with feverish acceleration of the pulse, attaining its height about 4 o’clock (second day). Slight dizziness, with nausea (after first dose, second day). Slight dizziness, with repeated yawning, almost immediately (first day). Light-headedness and nausea (a few minutes after first dose, seventh and eighth day). General Head. Dulness of the head (sixth morning). Dulness and heaviness of the head, hardly to be called a pain, on waking (eighth morning). Heaviness of head (one hour after first dose, third day). Empty feeling in the head (soon), (second day). Pain all through the head, quite severe in the temples, with throbbing in the superficial veins, attended with a semi-stupor (after four hours, seventh day). Slight pain in the head (after fifteen hours, sixth day). Fullness about the head, with bad, indescribable taste in the mouth (third morning). Awoke with dull pain in head and eyes (ninth day). Dull pain in head and back, on waking (fourth day). Dull heavy pains all through the head, most severe in the frontis and through the temples, at 7 A.M. (seventh day). Head has ached all day, at 10 P.M. (second day). Slight headache (soon, and second morning); on waking (seventh morning). Awoke with severe headache, better after rising and washing with cold water (eleventh day). Head ached severely, particularly over the left eye, at 11 A.M. (second day). Heavy headache followed the severe nausea (after five minutes, second day). Dull aching pain all through the head and in the neck (seven hours and a half after first dose, sixth day). Dull, grinding headache (forty minutes after first dose, sixth day). Pressure alike in all parts of the head (after half an hour, fourth day). Pressure, with dull pain in the head, worse in the right temple (one hours after first dose, sixth day). Pressure about the head, with ringing in the ears (tenth day); the pressure increased very much, causing confusion of thought, and giving rise to a staggering gait (eleventh day); less so (twelfth day). Heaviness and pressure in the head (after second dose, third day). Headache, with severe pressure (seventh night). Bruised feeling in head (seventh morning). Throbbing of arteries in the head (sixth day). Throbbing in the superficial veins of the head, on waking (ninth morning). Pain in head, worse when stooping or moving about, in the morning (fourth day). Forehead. Awoke about daylight, with severe pain in the frontis and temples (tenth day). Dull pain in the frontis and temples (after five hours and a half, seventh day). Awoke with dull pain in the frontis and temples (third morning); continuing through the day (eighth day). Awoke with dull pain in the frontis and temple, and in small of back; head feels better, in afternoon (fifth and sixth days). Dull pain in forehead and eyes, all the evening (fifth day). Dull heavy pain through the front portion of the head, worst in the left temporal region (five hours and twenty minutes after first dose, fifth day). Awoke with dull heavy pain in the frontis and through the temples (fourth, sixth, and ninth days). Dull, aching pain in the front part of the head and through the temples, in the forenoon (eighth day). Frontal headache (one hour after first dose, third day). Quite severe frontal headache, in the afternoon, (ninth day). Severe headache just over the eyes, increased by motion, at 8.30 A.M. (second morning). Dull headache in the forehead, on waking in the morning (second day). Awoke this morning with pressive frontal headache (fifth day). Awoke with dull pressure in the forehead, with headache and feeling as though he had not slept enough, at 6.30 A.M. (second day). Pressure and dull pain in forehead and vertex, with throbbing synchronous with the pulse (after one hour, first day). Dull, oppressive headache in the right side of forehead, at the juncture of parietal and frontal bones, with fullness in the head, in the afternoon and evening, until bedtime (second day). Sharp pain on the left side of the head (after five hours). Temples. Numb feeling in right temple; felt as if some hard substance were strongly pressed against the part (after first dose, eighth day). Vertex. Drawing sensation in the crown of the head (soon), (second day). Strange sensation in the top of the head, like foam rising in anything fomenting; this was very clear and perceptible, and lasted ten minutes, and then gradually subsided (after forty minutes, second day). Parietals. Severe pain in head on both sides, near temples, which settled into a heavy grinding feeling in top of head (soon), (first day). Occiput. Heaviness in the back of head (immediately after second dose, third day). Pain in the back part of the head on the right side (after five minutes, first day). Pain in the occiput (after two hours, second day). External Head. Scalp feels sore to the touch, on waking (eighth morning).
Eye
Eyes congested and yellow (ninth day). Dulness and heaviness of the eyes and head (fifteenth day). Eyes feel dull and heavy, in the forenoon (eighth day). Eyes feel heavy and dull (after sixteen hours and a half, seventh day). Eyes feel heavy and weak, on waking (eighth morning). Hot feeling in the eyes (after second dose, second day). Eyes burned and tired easily on reading (after nine hours, fourth day). Eyes feel swollen and with a yellowish tint, in the morning (tenth day). Awoke with dull pain in the eyes and head (ninth day). Sharp pain in left eye, at 9 A.M. (second day). Left eye sore, and looked inflamed (third morning). Both eyes quite sore, at 8 A.M. (second morning). Smarting in eyes (after half an hour, fourth day). Smarting in the eyes followed evanescent itching, like fleabites (a few minutes after first dose, second day). Smarting with dryness in both eyes, and feeling of sand in them, making it difficult to close the lids (after one hour, first day). Smarting in left eye (after five hours). Brow. Dull heavy feeling over the eyes, soon followed by a stricture across the nose (after fifteen minutes). Dull pain in the right eyebrow (after half an hour). Lids. Eyelids heavy and swollen (second morning). Fullness in eyelid of left eye, approaching a soreness (after a few minutes, second day). Quivering sensation in left upper lid (after half an hour, first day). Conjunctiva. Conjunctiva congested and yellow (fifteenth day). Smarting sensation in conjunctiva of left eye, followed by an aching pain in the right eyeball (after half an hour, first 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.