Common names: Cebadilla, Cevadilla, Sabadilla.
Introduction
Asagraea officinalis, Lindley (Veratrum officinale, Schlicht.; Sabadilla officinarum, Brandt). Natural order: Liliaceae (Melanthaceae). Preparation: Tincture of the seeds.
Mind
Rage. He imagines all sorts of strange things about his own body, for instance, that it had shrunk like that of dead persons, that his stomach was corroded, that the scrotum was swollen, etc.; he knows that all this is fanciful; he continues to imagine it. Absorbed in revery all day. Cheerful mood, for half an hour (after three hours). Cheerful disposition, which was not natural to her, continuing five hours (after three days).
Gloomy mood, as if he were the greatest criminal, for twenty-five minutes (soon). Vexed at every trifle. Vexed, inclination to be vehement, out of humor. Not disposed to work.
Thought was difficult, and caused headache; other wise she is inclined to laugh at everything; afterwards she feels indifferent, almost apathetic. The mind seems over excited, tense, the disposition is however little sensitive, cold; but after several days the understanding is decidedly depressed; he can with difficulty comprehend many things, thinks slowly; the disposition, however, is more easily excited, everything deeply affects him. She lay entirely speechless and unconscious, or else sprang up with anxious restlessness and ran about the room, constantly pulling at the pit of her stomach and at her neck; face sunken, deathly pale, with features expressive of extreme anxiety.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion in the head. Vertigo early in the morning after rising, greater when sitting than when walking; his head felt stupid. He had to rest his head upon the table, the whole afternoon until after dinner, in order to keep off his vertigo, in which he succeeded; accompanied with constant nausea, with out vomiting (after two days). Vertigo, as if one would fall (second day). Vertigo, everything turns in a circle (sixth day). Vertigo, greater when sitting than when standing (seventh day). Vertigo, as if everything were turning, especially when rising from a seat (after one hour).
Vertigo, as if he would faint, with obscuration of sight (third day). Vertigo, when going to bed, so that he had to hold himself, continuing for five days (after three days). Dizziness, as after a slight intoxication, without vertigo or pain, continuing two days (after three hours). General head. Dulness in the head, like vertigo, with some aching pain, continuing a hour and a half (soon). His head feels dull and heavy, as if he were obliged to hold it all the time, for several days. Painful heaviness, first in the forepart of the right side of the forehead, whence it extends more and more towards the left side, and finally affects the whole head;increases during motion, when it becomes a sort of vertigo (first day). Stupefaction of the head, without vertigo and real headache. Constant headache like a heaviness; on the first day it was felt only in the forehead; on the following day in the whole head; less violent when staring or reflecting. Pressive pain with heaviness in the head, so that he can scarcely raise it, for half an hour (immediately). Painful pressure in the whole head, as if it were forced asunder, lasting three-quarters of an hour (after half an hour). Painful pressure in the right hemisphere, extending as far as the lower molars. In the evening when reading, pains in the head, as if different parts of the brains were pressed against sharp corners. Headache, especially after every walk; on returning to the house she is attacked with a twisting-screwing pain, commencing in the right side of the head, affecting both temples very sensibly, and extending over the whole head after going to bed; recurring daily. Headache, as if the head were violently pressed inward from all sides, for half an hour (after three-quarters of an hour). Headache occasioned by fixed attention. Forehead. Dull sensation, as from a blow, in the forehead; not exactly a pain, whilst the limbs felt heavy (after two hours). Headache above the eyes, as the brain would fall forward (after a quarter of an hour). Headache, as if a thread had been drawn from the middle of the forehead to the occiput above the temples, leaving a burning sensation, for an hour (after two hours). Stupefying oppressive sensation in the forehead, producing a reeling sensation, making him stagger from side to side, as if he were drunk (after ten hours). Slight painful pressure in the forehead above the left eye, afterwards also in the temple (after ten hours). Itching-pressive headache, most violent in the forehead.
Tensive pain in the forehead, with pressure (after three- quarters of an hour). Sticking headache, especially in the forehead (seventh day). Dull stitches in the left frontal eminence (after half an hour). Tearing stitches externally on the left side of the forehead (after six hours). Dull aching pain in the sinciput, diminished by pressing the palm of the hand against the forehead; increased warmth in the forehead, followed in a few minutes by coldness in the hairy scalp; even the hair felt cold to the hands, as if cold water had been poured over the head (after two hours and a half). Pulsative headache in the right side of the forehead; afterwards more in the upper part (after one hour); it lasted three quarters of an hour, after which it decreased gradually, but the head remained painful all day. Slight beating headache, first on the right then on the left side, over the forehead (after one hour). Painful pressure, with dizziness in the sinciput and temples, with occasional painful stitches in the back, followed by a drawing sensation. Temples. Aching in the left temporal region (after eleven hours). Headache, as if occasioned by hard pressure, extending from both temples towards the vertex, and thence to the lowest part of the occiput, for half an hour (after twenty-two minutes). Painful pressure in the right temple, from within outward (after ten hours). Painful pressure in both temples, for an hour (after twenty- two minutes). Painful pressure from above downward, in the left temple, near the ear (after nine hours and a half). Painful pressure towards the right temporal bone. Sticking in the temples, especially in the right side. Sticking in the temples and the scalp (second day). Single stitches externally in the left temporal region (after three hours and a quarter). Painful beating in the left temple. Vertex.
Pressive pain in the vertex; it ascends from the skin of the forehead, where there develops a sort of whirling motion (after two days). Slight headache in the right side of the vertex (after two hours). Corrosive burning point on the top of the head. Occiput. Pressure from behind forward in the occiput, with a reeling sensation (after a quarter of an hour). Headache, as if something were thrust from the upper part of the occiput through the brain to the forehead, lasting two hours (after half an hour). Pain in the left side of the occiput, as if a wound were violently pressed. External Head. Tension of the scalp, especially during the fever (third and fourth days). Burning pain in the scalp (after eight hours). Violent itching of the scalp obliging her to scratch until it bled, for five days (after five hours). Itching on the vertex, as from numerous vermin, obliging him to scratch incessantly, continuing two days (after two days).
Fine slight prickings in the skin of the forehead, on becoming warm and going upstairs rapidly (after two days).
Eyes
Blue rings around the eyes; for many days. Painful drawing from below upwards, in the interior of the right eye and in the temple. Burning sensation in the left eye, as from something corrosive; intermitting and returning after a few pulsations (after one hour). Burning crawling over the eyebrows.
Redness of the margins of the eyelids, and sensation in the eyes as if an inflammation would arise. Hardened mucus in the outer canthi, about noon (after six hours, and a half). Pressure upon the eyeballs, especially when looking upward; less when looking down. Lachrymation as soon as the least pain is felt in some other part of the body, for instance in the hand.
Lachrymation, when walking in the open air, when looking at the bright slight, when coughing or yawning, for several days.
Ears
Painful boring behind the left ear in the parotid glands, the lower law, and the submaxillary glands (after three hours).
Burning itching in the interior of the lobules of the ears without external redness or heat. Sticking in the lobule of the right ear (after two hours). Violent sticking in the left ear (first day). Pressing pain internally in the ear. Burning- crawling sticking behind the ear. Burning sensation on the right ear without perceptible redness, accompanied with a burning of the left temple, lasting an hour (after one hour).
Sensation as if the ear were obstructed by something. Crackling in the ear; humming in the ear on forcing air into it, shortly before dinner. Humming and buzzing in the ears, with sometimes a sensation as if something heavy had fallen upon the floor and burst, after which the ringing in the ears continues for a long time. Otalgia and crackling in the ears.
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.