Common names: Drop-water, Safran-rebendolde.
Introduction
Oenanthe crocata, Linn.
Natural order: Umbelliferae.
Preparation: Tincture of the root.
Mind
Furious delirium. Delirium. Very marked symptoms of maniacal delirium. Delirium and insensibility; restless, and with difficulty kept in bed; when roused he did not speak, but stared vacantly, and seemed in a state of madness (after seven hours and a half); still restless and insane (after twenty-four hours); delirious (ninth and tenth days). Delirium like delirium tremens; the patients constantly moved from place to place, talked without cessation, and without knowing what they said; they grasped at imaginary objects. Excessive excitement; she talked to herself, swore and blasphemed, while at the same time she was seized with convulsive laughter. The patients refused everything that was offered, and constantly endeavored to escape, so that it was necessary to keep constant watch over them. One ran mad, but his reason returned next morning. Semi-delirium in almost all.
Approaching delirium (twelfth day). In one the most prominent symptom was extreme restlessness, approaching to mania. Lost control of myself and was unconscious of what I was doing or saying. When slapped on the cheeks he bounds up indignantly, stammering out in pitiful remonstrance, ” Wisha, don’t, then,” and covers his head impatiently; he is immediately buried in unconsciousness again (after four hours). It seemed to her as if she were flying. Depression of spirits (second day). Great oppression, with extreme anxiety. Moans (second day). Temper irritable (third day). General malaise. Much confused in intellect, and vacant in expression (second day); consciousness has quite returned, but all is a blank since he ate the root up to this morning (third day). She thought that she was transported to a very great elevation. They were all absolutely unconscious.
Loss of sensibility. Complete insensibility. In a state of insensibility (after one hour and a half). Stupor for several days. Lay for some hours in a state of stupor. Slight symptoms of coma (after six hours and a half). Coma.
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo like intoxication. The first attacked was seized with vertigo and fell; the other, while placing him on his back, fell also. Dizziness in the head (one case). Felt dizzy and strangely (after twenty minutes). Dizziness in his head for some time. Giddiness. Great giddiness, with vast uneasiness and sickness at stomach, but no vomiting (after ten or fifteen minutes). Complained of giddiness, and immediately fell to the ground. Giddy, in one case. Giddiness (second day). Giddiness (eleventh day). Giddy, so that several times he was obliged to quit the room and walk out in the fresh air to recover himself; but when the doors and windows of his room were opened, he could finish his work without giddiness. General Head. Headache and giddiness (seventh day). Headache. Violent pain in the head. Pain in the head (second day). Pain in head (fifth day). Complained greatly of pain all over him, but particularly in the head (after one hour and a half).
Eye.
Eyes very much sunk (ninth day). Eyes full and projecting, pupils dilated. It inflamed the eye much, and caused the other eye to swell and inflame. Injection of the eye (seventh day). Lid and Ball. Eyelids spasmodically closed (after four hours). Eyelids half closed (after six hours and a half). Eyeballs drawn upward and inward and firmly fixed. Pupil. The pupils of the eye in all cases were widely dilated; the eyes themselves were fixed, and were never moved, the retinae being apparently insensible to light, as the children never manifested any sigh of recognizing those who were attending to them. Pupils very much contracted.
Pupil of eye contracted to the size of a pin’s head (after one hour and three-quarters). Pupils first contracted, afterwards dilated. Pupils dilated; expression uncertain and haggard. Pupils dilated and insensible. Pupils dilated. Dilatation of pupils, for several days. Much dilatation of the pupils, and redness of the eyes. Vision. Vision impaired. Disturbance of vision. Obscuration of vision. Saw nothing on awaking.
Ear and Nose.
Hears nothing on awaking. Tip of the nose very red (second day).
Hemorrhage from the nose (in one case).
Face
Swelling of the face. Rapid convulsive twitching of muscles of face. Face swollen, flushed (second day). Face flushed up during his struggles, livid when quiet. Face flushed (second day). Face congested (after seven days). Face black (after one hour). Face swollen and livid. Face livid and turgid. Face livid (sixth day).
Face pale and cold. Pallor of face. The face immediately became very pale, and he said he felt as though he had eaten some tobacco. Pale face. Features very pale. Ghastly pallor of the cutaneous surface of the face, with blackening round the eyelids.
Looked pale. Countenance anxious (after eleven days). Countenance anxious, depressed (after six hours and a half). Lips. Lips livid (after seven hours and a half). Lips blue (seventh day). Jaw. An emetic was with great difficulty forced down, on account of his jaws being, as it were, locked together. Jaws closed fast, so that very little could be given him. Jaws rigidly closed. Jaws locked (in one case). Two boys, aged five and eight, were lock jawed, and after writhing in pain for some hours, died. Jaws closed spasmodically. Impracticable to introduce emetics by the mouth, notwithstanding the use of a dilator, in consequence of spasm of lower jaw. In one instance, owing to the spasm of the jaw, no emetic could be introduced. Muscles of mastication of rigid spasm.
Mouth
Tongue. Convulsive movements of the teeth. Tongue half bitten through about an inch from the vertex. Tongue sore and swollen (second day); raw at tip and edges (third day). Tongue swollen and protruded. Tongue protruded with difficulty, swollen, white, blistered (second day); white, its edges ulcerated (third day); coated; moist, red at the tip (fifth day). Tongue swollen (after six hours and a half); red at the tip (second day); white (fourth day); moist (sixth day); coated, moist (after seven days). Tongue slightly coated (second day); white (third day). Tongue moist, slightly furred (seventh day). Tongue slightly coated (sixth day). Tongue clean, moist, and trembling. General Mouth. Foaming at the mouth; (after one hour). He foamed considerably at the mouth. Frothy mucus, with blood about their mouths. Bloody mucus oozed from the mouth. Mouth dry and parched (second day). Mouth parched (third day). Speech. Loss of speech. Speechless (after one hour and three-quarters). Speechless.
Throat
Much mucus in the throat (second day). Pressure on the throat given pain; it is sore when he swallows (fifth day). Inflammation of the throat and pharynx. Inflammation of the throat and oesophagus. Constriction of the throat. Sensation of burning and constriction in the larynx. Burning heat in the throat. Burning heat in the throat and stomach. Heat in throat. Great heat in the throat. Violent heat in throat and stomach. Great heat in the throat and stomach. Loud rattles in the trachea (after six hours and a half). To make him swallow was impossible. She had lost the power of deglutition (after one hour and three-quarters).
Stomach
Appetite and thirst. Total loss of appetite. Thirst (eleventh day). Thirst (third day). Desires cold drinks, in the evening (third day). Eructation and Hiccough. Constant and continued eructations strongly flavored by the plant. Hiccough. Very distressing hiccough. Cardialgia. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea, without vomiting. Nausea. Frequent nausea, without vomiting.
Nausea and vomiting. Nauseated, and vomited up nearly the whole of the root (after twenty minutes). Nausea and sickness, which were soon relieved, if vomiting supervened. Vast uneasiness and sickness at stomach, but no vomiting, with great uneasiness (after ten or fifteen minutes). Vomiting. Vomited blood. Vomiting and diarrhoea. They vomited in their fits. Great retching; at the first attempt he threw up about half a pint of clear watery liquid; at the first and third attempts hardly anything.
Tenderness at stomach (eleventh day). A cute pain in the stomach.
Pain in pit of stomach, with slight fever (eighth and ninth days). Pain in the stomach. Violent pains in the epigastric region. Pain in the epigastric region. Burning in the stomach.
Heat in stomach. Biting heat in the epigastric region, without nausea. “Warmed her stomach very much.
Abdomen
Abdomen distended like a balloon. Distension of the abdomen.
Abdomen greatly distended. Sudden distension of the abdomen, with shortness of breathing (second day). Belly greatly swelled.
Abdomen rather hard (eleventh day). Violent colic. Colic pains in the abdomen (second day). Tenderness, hardness, and pain in the abdomen (second day). Belly very tender (third day). Griping or severe tormina. Tumescence of the abdomen. Cough gives pain in the region of the liver and in the head (second day). The slightest touch on any part of the abdomen causes great pain (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.