Common names (Brazilian), Pipi, Erva de Pipi, Raiz de Guine.
Introduction
Petiveria tetrandra, Gom. (*So given by Mure; but it is probably identical with the Mexican and West Indian species, P. alliacea, Linn. The figure given by Mure corresponds to the latter plant; moreover, Mure states that the plant exhales a strong alliaceous odor. *)
Natural order: Phytolaccaceae.
Preparation: Trituration of the fresh root.
Mind
Excessive gayety. The least thing excites inordinate mirth; she is inclined to sing. Merry and disposed to sing. Inclination to sing. Disposed to laugh and jest (first day). He laughs and sings all day. Sadness unto tears, with headache (second day). Sadness and tears; in her grief she remains seated, without motion or speech. All these head symptoms come on within an hour, early in the afternoon (second day). Sadness and inclination to weep; shortly after, involuntary weeping, in the morning (sixth day).
Evanescent and confused ideas. Things occur to her for a moment, and then suddenly vanish from her recollection. Loss of memory.
Head
Heaviness of the head, on waking (after eight hours). Numbness and compressive sensation as if the head were bound with a warm cloth. Feeling of fullness in the head, as if it would split, especially in the afternoon (third day). Feeling of fullness in the head (second day). Deep seated dull pain in the upper part of the brain, worse from contact, when talking and when sitting; relieved by walking and motion in general (first day); pain less severe (second day). Sensation as if hot water were dashed on the scalp, penetrating to the brain (second day). Feeling as if warm water were in the head. Just when lying down in bed, feeling as from a loud explosion in the head, the noise passing through the ears (third day). Headache, with a small and weak passing through the ears (third day). Headache, with a small and weak pulse; heat of the face, especially the right cheek, deeply felt, although the skin seems cool (first day). The headache becomes lighter and changes, and finally disappears (third day). Headache, on waking.
Headache, with weight on the eyes (second day). Forehead. Painful weight on the forehead, worse when opening the eyes, with external heat of the head, at 2 P.M. (first day). Great heaviness in different parts of the forehead, when bending the head forward, at noon (sixth day). Severe lancinations at the upper part of the forehead, and within the head on the left side; lasting for a minute, at noon (second day). Deep seated pain, at times in the forehead, at times in the nape of the neck. Pain in the forehead, with compressive sensation in the brain, aggravated by walking. Pain and heat in the forehead, with pressure on the eyes, at 3 P.M. (second day). Temples. Lancinating pain in the right temple, shifting suddenly to the left, and thence to the vertex, where there is a burning sensation (second day). Stabbing sensation in the right temple, at 3 P.M. (first day). Pressive pain in the temples. Benumbing and deep seated pressive pain on both temples, with dull pain in the vertex (second day). Dull pain, with beating in the left temple (third day). Sensation as if a finger were pressed on the right temple, with great sensitiveness to contact, at noon (second day). Vertex. Weight at the vertex, which seems to press on the brain, with heaviness of the eyelids, and difficulty in opening them, without sleep. Pain at the vertex, as if from a blow; dull pain on the left side of the top of the head, worse when turning the head, or walking, at 11 A.M. (second day). Parietal and External. Pain in the upper part of the left parietal bone, as if the skull would split (first day). Dull pain at a spot on the scalp, with pressure on the right side of the occiput.
Eye.
Eyes half closed, swollen externally, surrounded by blue rings, especially next to the nose, for three days. Rapid inflammation of the left eye, while at dinner, so that she had to leave the table; it continues three days. Heaviness of the eyes, and prostration as from sleepiness, although she is not actually sleepy. Great sensitiveness of the eye to daylight. Weight on the eyelids, compelling her to close the eyes; on doing so, she sees a variety of figures (sixth day). Pains in the eyes, as if the balls were pushed out of their sockets by some foreign body. Dull pain as from a blow on the right eye, relieved by pressure, at noon (second day). Bruised pain in the outer parts of the orbits.
Boring pains in the right upper eyelid (first day). Painful burning at the margin of the eyelids, worse on closing them.
Lachrymation, with sensation of sand in the eyes. Redness of the conjunctiva, especially near the left inner canthus Sight weaker and dimmer than usual. Dim sight after dinner (second day). The flame of a candle looks yellow, and surrounded by a yellow halo.
Ear.
Attack of deafness in the right ear, as if it was stopped up.
Nose.
Coryza (third to fifth day). Frequent sneezing, in the afternoon (fifth day). The veins of the nose are swollen and bluish.
Redness of the wing of the nose and left cheek (third day). Nose slightly inflamed and shining. Dull pain over the root of the nose, in the evening (first day). Dull pain at the root of the nose, in the evening. Pain in the left wing of the nose, spreading to the opposite side; followed by congestion over the bridge of the nose, at noon (second day). Slight pain within the nose.
Face.
Redness of the left cheek. Bruised pain in the zygomatic processes. Sensation as if a needle were stuck into the upper lip, from within outwards; on rising, in the morning (eleventh day).
Mouth.
Toothache. Burning tongue, as if scalded, on rising, in the morning (second day). Sensation in the mouth and throat, as after eating acid and resinous fruit, in the morning (second day). Dry mouth. Flow of watery and cold saliva, depositing a kind of ashy sediment, and whitish granules, which taste and smell like bile, but bitter; when rising, in the morning.
Throat.
Sensation in the throat, as after eating something astringent.
Pain in the throat, with difficulty in swallowing saliva.
Stomach.
Sharp lancinations in the epigastrium, from within outwards, in the evening (fifth day). Lancinations in the stomach, after dinner (seventh day). Acute and seated pain in the whole stomach, when getting up. Stomachache, with sensation of internal coldness.
Abdomen.
Long, blue horizontal spots, on the right hypochondrium.
Lancination in the hypochondria. Sharp and lancinating pain which goes through the spleen from below upwards (second day).
Borborygmi, in the morning, in bed (second day). Dull pain in the bowels and hypogastrium (second day). Frequently repeated slight acute and circumscribed pains in the groins. Slight colic in the descending colon.
Stool.
Diarrhoea of dark mucus, mixed with fecal matter, in separate hard pieces (third day). Constipation, for three days.
Urinary Organs.
Micturition every five minutes, from 11 A.M. until evening, with heat in the urethra (second day); three or four times an hour, without pain (third day). Copious urination, in the morning.
Urine more profuse and lighter-colored. Light-colored and copious urine (second and third days). Light-colored, watery urine, without smell or sediment (third day). Pale urine (after three days).
Respiratory Organs.
The voice seems to come from afar. The voice becomes hoarse, from coughing. Suffocation, with cold feet, which obliges her to remain in bed, in the evening (sixth day). Offensive breath.
Chest
Deepseated, dull pain in the chest beneath the sternum, when moving the neck, at noon (second day). Slight pain at the sternum, when bending the head forward. Violent lancinations under the right breast, at each inspiration.
Heart
Contraction and throbbing in the region of the heart, in the evening (fourth day).
Back.
Strained feeling in the spine, on lying down, in the evening, as from lifting a heavy weight; it is aggravated by sitting upright, or bending backwards, and disappears on bending forwards (first and second days).
Extremities.
Numbness, which is felt three different times, in the upper and lower limbs, after rising from bed (second day). Paralytic numbness of the arms and legs, in the morning (fifth day).
Painful numbness of the arms and legs, Numbness of the arms and legs, with deepseated pain, sometimes in the forehead, sometimes in the nape of the neck, and aversion to movement, in the morning (fifth day). Weariness of the arms and legs, with numbness, as after a long march, in the morning (fourth day). Heaviness and numbness of the extremities in the evening (first day). Heaviness and weariness of the limbs, in the morning (sixth day). Bruised pains in the arms and legs (sixth day).
Superior Extremities.
Twisting sensation in the shoulder-joint, when stooping (third day). Pricking on the right shoulder, followed by inflammatory redness for a quarter of an hour. Pain at the outer part of the left arm, with a large red inflamed spot like erysipelas.
Numbness of the right arm. Weariness and numbness of the left arm, with pain in the elbow-joint (first day). Dull pain and numbness, such a is felt on touching the brachial nerve, where it passes over the inner condyle of the humerus; aggravated by contact, at noon (first day). Pains, like the stings of ants, in the muscles of the upper and inner portion of the elbow. Pain in the elbow-joint, extending to the wrist. Redness and intense inflammation of the outer portion of the left forearm, at 11 A.M.
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.