Introduction
Smilax officinalis, H. B. K. (probably), (the brown Sarsaparilla from Jamaica, St. Domingo, etc.). Natural order: Smilaceae.
Preparation: Triturations of the dried root.
Mind
Cheerfulness. Merriness and feeling of strength, Merrier and livelier than usual (first and second days). In very good spirits, merry and full of fun, all day. Happier and livelier than usual (first and second days). Soul and body restless before midnight. The soul is affected inordinately by the pains; the mind is depressed, the mood dull; he feels wretchedly, and moans involuntarily. Inclined to weep, and out of humor, forenoon. Sad and depressed, absorbed within himself. Much depressed in mind and sluggish. Depression of spirits. Great anxiety, first in the head, then in the whole body, with trembling, mostly in the feet, forenoon. Anxiety and fears, with palpitation of heart. Great anxiety with constriction of the throat. She thinks she cannot bear the headache. Dulness of temper, and stoppage of nose.
Silent moroseness. Very easily vexed and cannot forget the cause of vexation. Extremely ill-humored, even vexed “by the fly on the wall.” Every word may offend him. Ill-tempered and moody, afternoon. Cross, but with disposition to work. Very ill-humored, in the morning, with heaviness of the head (eighth day). Cross, without disinclination to work. Very ill-humored all day; better in the evening (seventh day). Has aversion for everything; nothing gives her pleasure; only in the forenoon (sixth day).
Very changeable humor, every two or three days (fifth day).
Inclined to work, in the afternoon. Inactive, sluggish, indisposed to work, awkward. Inaptitude for mental application (immediately). Indisposed to work, cross, and hot in the face (immediately). Spelled the word “write” “right,” and could not think for a minute how it should be spelled (sixth day). Felt it almost too much trouble to write down;the symptoms and to seek for their conditions (sixth day). Absent-minded. Stupid and heavy in the head (eighth day); sometimes as if the temples were being compressed, forenoon, 11 o’clock. Stupor, weakness of head.
Without consciousness; cannot speak, with headache. Loss of consciousness after nausea and dizziness; fell down.
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo, while standing at the window, he suddenly fell backwards on the floor unconsciousness; at the same time the throat was swollen; sour eructation before and afterwards, thereupon the chest felt as if pressed; severe perspiration in the night. Vertigo, with nausea, mornings, while gazing long at one object (fifth day). Vertigo and unsteady gait, as if intoxicated (soon). In the afternoon, vertigo going round from left forwards to right, when sitting indoors (sixteenth day).
Vertigo, frequently all the forenoon (ninth day). Vertigo, while gazing long at one object. Vertigo, while sitting and walking; the head inclined to drop forward. Staggering backwards, when standing after stool, at 3.30 A.M. (seventh day). Slight giddiness and heat all over, as if from a close air (it was a cold rainy day), (after five minutes). General Head. Head inclined to drop forward. Heaviness in the head, with tension in the right side of the neck, particularly on moving the head (first day). Heaviness of head, with toothache. Lightness or pain in head. Head stupid and dull, all the forenoon; in the afternoon, ill-tempered and moody. Weakness in the head, as after a fever, with stupor. Dulness in the head, with flatulency. The dulness of the head always passed off, towards evening. Dulness of the head after long sitting, with mist before the eyes; lassitude of limbs; stoppage of the nose and gloomy mood. Dull headache, as if bound or screwed together; afternoon, 2 o’clock (fourth day).
Headache, like pressure from a great weight in the head, which is inclined to sink forward. Tearing pressure in the head, here and there, increased by motion and walking. Rending deep in the brain, only on talking and walking, not while in rest (second day). Cramp like one-sided headache, beginning with flickering and blackness before the eyes; at the same time he seems to be without berated in his head. Hammering headache, evenings; worse at night, with much nausea and sour vomiting. The pains about the head are worse from touch and on walking. Pains like lightning about the head. Dull tremor, with a waving in the head, afternoon, 2 o’clock (fourth day). Throbbing in head, till towards noon. Lying in bed on right side, transient banging sound in head like the sound of a gong when struck (twenty-third night). A kind of tingling in the head, as if a large bell had been struck, towards noon. Stinging, now in the head, now in the right ear, now in the left (sixth day). Forehead. Heavy feeling in the forehead. Pressing and heavy feeling around the whole forehead, in forenoon and after dinner (second day). Pressing in left side of forehead. Pressing in forehead and occiput. Pressure in right frontal protuberance, with fine stitches slowly developing. Severe pressing and then stinging in left frontal protuberance. Tearing in the whole frontal region, afternoon, 6.30 P.M. (fourth day). Penetrating stitches in left frontal protuberance, evening. Acute fine stitches in the middle of the forehead. Penetrating stinging in the region of the right frontal protuberance, evening, 7 o’clock, she thinks she cannot bear it, for half an hour (third day). Stinging in left forehead. Violent stinging in forehead, passing off out of doors, forenoon (fifth day). Dull stinging on left frontal protuberance. Throbbing in right frontal region, on walking out doors (first day). Temples.
Head somewhat heavy in left temple, till noon. Heaviness in the left temple. Headache, heavy in each temple, extending to lower teeth, afternoon 2 o’clock (fourth day). Pressing-stinging pain about temporal bone, increased by touching. Stinging drawing from right mastoid process to left frontal protuberance. Burning dull stitches on left temporal bone. Dull stitches at root of right mastoid process, passing off on being touched, A piercing- startling stitch in right temple, afternoon, 1 o’clock (seventh day). At midnight, throbbing in right temple, soon passing;off in an undefined pain (second day). Vertex. Last night in bed, throbbing pain for a few minutes in right anterior vertex; in the morning, discovered a large red pimple on neck, just behind angle of left lower jaw, smarting severely on being scratched (twelfth day). Frequent stitches on vertex. Parietals. Pressing in left side of head, particularly in the temple, during rest and motion.
Sensation as if screwed together in both sides of the head, half an hour after breakfast (sixth day). A pressure-like tearing in the whole left of the head. Pressing and itching deep in the right half of head, morning (eight day). Pressing, with frequent stitches, in left side of head, morning (ninety day). Beating and sounding in the right side of head, deep in the brain, forenoon (ninth day). Violent throbbing in right side of head, deep in brain. Violent pressing-tearing stitches in right side of head that he shudders. Frequent stitches in side of head. Dull stinging in left side of head, to the nape of the neck. Stinging drawing on right parietal and temporal bone. Stinging tearing on parietal bone in left vertex. Occiput. Stinging pain in left occiput. Twitching on left side of occiput. External Head.
Falling off of the hair, with great sensitiveness of the scalp on combing (sixth day). External headache, like compressions and incisions. Pulsating stitches on the forehead. Frequent itching on the whole head, does not cease after scratching (eighth day).
Itching on scalp, disappearing after scratching (sixth day).
Scalp, fine pricking itching. Itching in right half of head.
Itching on posterior part of scalp. Severe pressure and stitches on vertex, towards right side.
Eyes
Bruised pain in right eye on turning eyes to left (sixteenth day). Pain of the eyes when he looks at anything in the daylight.
Pressure in left eye, as from a grain of sand. Pressure in the left, then in the right eye, with dimness of vision. Pressing in eyes alternates with burning. Stinging frequent in both eyes, as if dust or sand were in them; outdoors it seems better. Stinging in the eyes on closing the lids, and violent pain when the closed eyes are pressed upon; at the same time, a broad red stripe extending from cornea to the outer canthus; the inner corners are turned blue, and the right is somewhat swollen (twenty-first day). On closing eyes stinging in them. Reading by candlelight hurts eyes, paper looks red. In the morning all objects affect the eyes. Lids. Inflamed dry eyelids. Violent burning and agglutination of the eyelids, on awaking in the morning.
Quivering in right upper eyelid. Burning in the eyelids constantly, sometimes alternating with pressing pain in the same.
Lachrymal Apparatus. Lachrymation of the eyes in the daytime; in the morning they are agglutinated (fourth day). Lachrymation of the eyes, every other day (sixth day). Tears in eyes when gaping.
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.