PYRETHRUM


Pyrethrum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


   Common names, Spanish Pellitory, Fever few.

Introduction

Pyrethrum Parthenium, L. (Chrysanthemum Parthenium, Bernh).

Natural order, Compositae. Preparation, Tincture of the plant.

General Symptoms

Very excited, and talked incessantly for four hours (second day).

Lying in a state of stupor; easily roused, but quickly relapsing (second day). Soreness of the tongue (first night). At 5, the next morning, diarrhoea commenced, accompanied with pain; at first diarrhoea was profuse and exhausting, with tenesmus; afterwards involuntary evacuations of mucus, slightly tinged with blood; the irritation of the bowels subsided by the following morning. Pulse 120 and feeble, becoming much more rapid at intervals (second day); continued rapid (between 120 and 130) until the fifth day, when it became normal. itching of the muscles of the limbs, not of those of the face (second morning); at 12.30 violent convulsions came on, lasting for an hour, and leaving the child apparently moribund, but he gradually improved, and at 3 P.M. could be roused, took some wine, and went to sleep for some hours, having convulsive movements like those of tetanus (second day); the twitchings subsided by the morning of the third day. Restlessness (first night). Profuse perspiration (first night).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.