Common name (Brazilian): Ucuba.
Introduction
Myristica sebifera, Swartz. Natural order: Myristicaceae. Preparation: Trituration of the red, acrid, and very poisonous gum obtained by incising the bark.
Mind
He is indifferent and careless about his business (second day). Inability to concentrate the thoughts, although important business has to be transacted (fifth day). Since 4 P.M. he cannot fix his mind upon anything; he is much vexed by a song which keeps running in his head, and which he cannot get rid off (third day).
Head
Vertigo from right to left, on waking in the morning (first day). Dizziness in the morning (second day). Head feels heavy (fourth day). Pain in the frontal eminence, at noon (fifth day). Pain with sensation of pressure from within outward, in the right frontal eminence; this pain intermits now and then, and is less in the open air (first day).
Face
Face very red (second day).
Mouth
Tongue white and cracked (fourth day). The whole mouth is painful (third day). The whole buccal cavity, the tonsils, and the upper part of the pharynx, are painful and sensitive to contact; every mouthful seems to wound these parts, when chewed or swallowed (second day). Palate insensible, with loss of taste (fourth day). Bitter mouth (fourth day). Strong taste of copper in the mouth, which excited spitting of blood, for twenty minutes).
Throat
Burning sensation at the bottom of the throat (second day). Constriction of the isthmus of the pharynx; this pain increases progressively (first day). Difficulty in swallowing the saliva (first day). Swallowing the saliva is easier and less painful (second day).
Stomach
Thirst (second day).
Abdomen
Sensation as if a foreign body, as large as a walnut, had lodged deep in the left inguinal region, all the forenoon (second day).
Stool
Stools mixed with yellow mucus (fourth day).
Urinary Organs
Less frequent micturition (second day). Has not urinated since 5 P.M. on the previous day (third day). He usually drinks two glasses of water on going to bed, and urinates immediately after; this evening he drinks, but does not urinate (second day). The urine is scanty and discharged less frequently, although he drinks much; it is of a reddish-yellow color (second day).
Chest
Hard pressure, during the night, on both sides of the chest, but it does not affect respiration (fourth day).
Neck
Pinching in the right side of the neck (second day).
Superior Extremities
The hands are stiff, as if from squeezing something for a long time (second day). Pain in the left hand (second day). The pains in the hands is worse when they touch each other (second day). Formication on the left thumb-joint (second day). Pain in the finger-nails, with swelling of the phalanges (first day).
Inferior Extremities
Pinching pain in the right calf (first day).
Skin
Two pimples on the left cheek; they disappear in an hour (third day).
Sleep
Cannot go to sleep, in the evening in bed (second day). Restless sleep, with dreams about business, quite foreign to his daily life; then about disputes (fourth day). Very restless sleep (fifth day). Sleep much disturbed; he dreams of violent wrangling (third day). Violent starting during sleep (fifth day). Unconnected dreams about houses being built, beginning at the upper stories (second 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.