Common names (G.), Pfingstrose, Gichtrose; (Fr.), Pivoine.
Introduction
Paeonia officinalis, Linn.
Natural order: Ranunculaceae.
Preparation: Tincture of the root, dug in spring (preparations from the root dug in August proved insert), (Geyer, Hygeia, 21, 305).
Mind
Slight delirium (fifth day). Great nervous excitement.
Apprehension (second day). Great internal anxiety an apprehension, without cause, in the evening (first day).
Depression. Very irritable and depressed, without cause, after 5 P.M. (second day). Extremely ill-humored.
Head
Vertigo. Constant vertigo, with nausea, that was relieved by a glass of water. Vertigo, confusion and heaviness of the head, in a warm room. Vertigo, especially on walking about the room, and reeling to and fro. Vertigo on every motion; constant reeling in the head. Great reeling and unsteadiness (second day). General Head. Rush of blood to the head. Rush of blood to the head, with pressure and dull pain below the forehead, after 5 P.M. (second day). Rush of blood to the head and face, with perspiration (second day). Head heavy, dull, dizzy, with a feeling of heat in it (second day). Sensation of fullness in the whole head (second day). Pain and confusion of the head. Pressive headache, with dullness, roaring in the ears, flickering before the eyes, soon.
Gnawing headache. Forehead. Violent pressive pain in the forehead and orbits (in the morning and evening, first day, also on second day). Pressure and dull pain in the forehead. Temples. Boring pain from without inward in the right temporal region. Jerking tearing in the right temporal region, extending into the head.
Parietals. Pressure and sticking in the left side of the head, above the eyebrow (second day). Pressing headache in the left side, after dinner. Occiput. Heaviness in the occiput. Pressure in the occiput (in the morning and second day). Pressive pain in the occiput and nape of the neck (second day).
Eye.
Eyes red and water (fifth day). Eye dry (smarting), not easy to open (second day). Most violent pain in the left eye (third and following days). Pressive pain in the left eye, which gradually became more violent, and afterwards a tearing; on the third day the inflammation of the eye was quite violent, the conjunctiva injected, opening of the eye difficult, partly on account of the pain, partly on a account of photophobia, with profuse lachrymation; this inflammation continued for eight days. Pain in the eye continued and became very violent, until complete conjunctivitis of the eyeball and inner surface of the lids developed, with much lachrymation and contracted pupils, lasting about fourteen days. Burning of the eyes and lids. Burning in the eyes, itching, and sensation of dryness (second day). Pressure in the left eye (third day). Lid. Very acute stitches in the right upper lid, towards the inner canthus, not relieved by rubbing.
Itching in the right upper lid at short intervals. Ball and Pupil. Inflammation of the left eyeball, with pain in the eye, as if a sharp grain of sand were under the upper lid (second day).
Contracted pupils, with inflammation of the eyes.
Ear.
Very acute stitches from within outward in the right ear (second day). Pinching behind the right ear. Constant ringing in the ears. Ringing in the left ear.
Nose, Face, and Mouth.
Stoppage and dryness of the nose, in the morning in bed (second day). Stoppage of the nose, in the evening (second day). Face red and puffy (fifth day). Violent pressure extending from the articular fossa of the lower jaw through the inner ear; relieved by keeping the jaws open for a long time, as, for example, when drinking; aggravated by pressing them together. Crawling in the upper lip. Tongue red (fifth day). Biting sensation in the posterior portion of the palate, in the evening (after five days).
Throat.
Constant scraping in the throat; was obliged to cough and hawk to loosen it; also the posterior nares feel as in catarrh and full of mucus. Heat in the throat and fauces, aggravated by hawking (second day). Heat in throat; sensation of burning heat in the fauces, extending up to the pharynx (second day). Sensation as of an acrid burning vapor coming up in the throat (second day).
Difficulty of swallowing.
Stomach.
Loss of appetite. Great thirst. Nausea, soon. (Nausea, seething in the head, with vanishing or obscuration of the senses and attacks of faintness, from going into a warm room after a moderate walk). Vomiting and painful diarrhoea (third, fourth, and fifth days). Cutting in the region of the stomach and transverse colon, followed by a soft stool. Periodical, frequently recurring stitches extending upward from the middle of the epigastric region. Burning in the epigastric region, at night (first night).
Abdomen.
Umbilicus. Cutting about the umbilicus, lasting a quarter of an hour, and returning after about three hours, and again after five hours. Cutting in the umbilical region. Drawing crawling beneath the umbilicus, disappearing on scratching. General Abdomen.
Rumbling in the abdomen. Abdomen sensitive, especially along the transverse colon and epigastric region, that was hard and retracted (fifth day). Cutting colic. Colic. Colic transversely across the upper abdomen. Griping pain in the abdomen, lasting only a few seconds, preceded, and especially followed, by anxiety, trembling of the limbs and arms, as though he were frightened; he became apprehensive when any one spoke to him, and unpleasant news, affected him exceedingly; in the forenoon (second day). Pressure in the abdomen (after twenty drops).
Crawling in the abdomen.
Anus and Stool.
Biting itching in the anus, that provokes scratching; the orifice seems somewhat swollen; in the afternoon (second day). Diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea, with colic (after 110 drops). Five diarrhoea-like stools. Pasty diarrhoea, with a feeling of faintness in the abdomen and burning in the anus after the stool, that returns after six hours; it came on suddenly, was followed by internal chilliness, occurring generally a few hours after he felt the worst. Several thin stools, soon.
Urinary and Sexual Organs
Frequent and copious micturition, disturbing sleep at night (first night). Micturition somewhat impeded by a constrictive sensation in the region of the neck of the bladder, so that the urine was passed only in driblets. Burning micturition, with scanty urine. External genitals swollen, painful.
Respiratory organs
Hawking caused by accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat, with scanty expectoration.
Chest
Rush of blood of the chest. Heat in the chest. Pressure in the chest, towards forepart, near the middle of the sternum (fourth and fifth days). Transient pains in the upper and forepart of the chest, beneath the manubrium of the chest, that can scarcely be distinguished from a kind of pressure, lasting a few seconds, in the morning (fifth day). Pains in the chest at the same hour, and lasting two hours (second day). Dull stitches in the thorax, from before backwards, as if through the heart. Front and Sides.
Violent pressure in the middle of the sternum, which was somewhat relieved during the night, but became more violent the next morning, and continued to recur the whole forenoon (second and third days). A very transient sharp pressive pain in the lower portion of the right side of the chest, in the ribs, above the hepatic region, in the morning (after two days). Pressing pain near both side of the lower portion of the sternum, while eating.
Cutting pressure in the left side of the chest (while sitting bent over). Pressure and stitches to the right of the ensiform process (first day). Violent stitches extending vertically through the whole left half of the chest, beginning beneath the clavicle and extending down to the diaphragm; it was most violent in the region of the heart, at the moment of expiration, and was aggravated by walking about; it lasted two hours (first and third days). Stitches in the left side of the chest, extending downward (second day). Stitches in the right side of the chest, near the sternum, on level with the nipples, at 4 P.M. A persistent sticking in the left thorax, parallel with the axis of the body, on every inspiration, from 3.30 to 5, and also at 9 P.M.
Throbbing extending through the right side of the thorax and from the posterior portion to the nape of the neck, where it ended in intermitting pinching. Sticking in the left side of the thorax (third day). Sticking pains near the right nipple, aggravated by walking (first day).
Heart and Pulse
Pressure beneath the heart, as from great anxiety. Pulse somewhat contracted (fifth day).
Neck and Back.
Periodical sticking pains in the last cervical vertebra (third day). Sharp stitches in the scapulae. Fine boring pain in the left scapula, relieved by motion. Stitches in several places in the back, disappearing on scratching. Pinching, now in the dorsal, now in the abdominal muscles. Griping, at one time in the dorsal, at another in the abdominal muscles.
Extremities.
Paroxysmal tearing pains in the extremities followed by a sensation of numbness, Jerking and tearing in the extremities (fifth 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.