Introduction
Silicic acid, Kieselerde.
Preparation: Triturations of pure precipitated Silica.
Mind
Emotional. Unsteady and confused in his action. Nervous excitement (eighth day). The child becomes obstinate and headstrong. Obstinate. Longing for home. Very easily startled.
Sensitiveness to noise, and anxiety there from. Very sensitive, even weeping mood (fourth day). Weeping mood for two hours without any particular thoughts.(10) The slightest word brings tears. Gloominess; she felt as if she would die, and for the time lost her memory. Low-spirited, and weeps every morning. Gloomy mood (twentieth day). Mind sad (seventeenth day). Low-spirited and over-anxious about himself. Great depression and irritability (forty – second day). Depression of spirits (nineteenth day). *Dejected and melancholy.(20) Internal loathing of life. He woke with great anxiety about midnight, could not move in spite of every effort, and imagined that thieves were breaking in; on rising he became quiet, after lying down the anxiety returned (after thirty seven days). Frequent attacks of anxiety, so that he could not remain sitting. Great anxiety from a start. He woke with anxiety and incarceration of flatus, both of which disappeared after moving about in the house, without emission of flatus (after eight days). Awoke with anxiety and stupefying vertigo. On waking at night from an anxious dream she remained very anxious and her heart beat audibly. Most excessive scruples of conscience about trifles frequently, as though he had done a great wrong. Discontentment.
Great irritability and painful sensitiveness to touch (after four days).(30) Irritability and depressed mood (after eight days).
Very irritable and low spirited. Irritable and peevish mood (sixteenth day). Peevish and quarrelsome, in the evening. Peevish (ninth day). Very irritable though lively. Loud talking annoys him. Whimsical and fault-finding. She is ill-humored and peevish, in the forenoon (sixth day). Out of humor and despondent.(40) She could and would do nothing on account of ill-humor. He easily gets out of humor, though with the best intentions. Is easily made angry. Everything frets her and makes her peevish. Fretful.
Trifles frequently make him fretful. Restless and fidgety, starts at the least thing. Frequent restlessness and impatience, so that he did not know what to do. Intellectual. Great activity of mind (second day). Great facility of thought and fluent expression (seventh, eight, and ninth days), (secondary action).(50) Great indolence for mental work; nearly fell asleep while teaching. Disinclination for mental work; (sixteenth day).
Disinclination to mental effort (third day). Great difficulty in fixing the attention. Thought difficult (first day). Mental labor is very difficult. She gets confused and makes mistakes, half knowing what she is about, and yet unable to control herself; she had almost put a watch into the saucepan to boil instead of an egg. Great distraction of mind, in the forenoon, with uneasiness in the head and pit of the stomach. Distraction of mind; he is almost always trying to think of two things at the same time. Inability to read, write, or think, becoming worse from noon to 6 P.M., and disappearing in the evening after eating (second day).(60) Easily makes mistakes in talking. Memory weak (seventeenth and twentieth days). Forgetful and dizzy, every morning. Loss of memory, forgetfulness. Constant vanishing of the senses (second day).
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. The head is very much confused, with constant suffering in the sinciput (sixteenth day). Confusion of the head (after four days). Vertigo, etc. Vertigo as from intoxication (eleventh day). Vertigo on rising, dizzy stupefaction of the head with nausea, even to vomiting; relieved while riding in the open air, returning on entering the house; the room seemed to whirl around with her, and she staggered to and fro (after thirty-eight days).(70) Vertigo, while sitting and standing, in the evening. Vertigo, after the usual smoke and snuff; if he closes the eyes, every-thing seems to whirl around; it ceases on opening the eyes. Vertigo, as if he were being raised up. Vertigo, even on raising the eyes to look upward. At breakfast, vertigo, as if the head would fall to the left, with heat in the face and sweat on the forehead. Vertigo, with qualmish nausea; water is regurgitated. Sensation of vertigo, in the morning while fasting. Vertigo, while walking forward, it seemed as though he were walking backward. Stupefying vertigo, in the morning on rising. Vertigo, on rising up.(80) Vertigo, only while sitting, not while walking, especially while riding in a carriage, when suddenly for a moment he lost consciousness, though without blackness before the eyes. Attacks of vertigo, towards evening, in the open air; aggravated by the slightest reflection. Vertigo, with qualmish nausea, on rising up in bed in the morn-ing, so that she was obliged to fall back again. Attack of vertigo seem to rise painfully from the back, through the nape of the neck to the head, so that she does not know where she is, and is constantly inclined to fall forward. Vertigo, even during sleep about midnight, with heat in the head. Vertigo, with nausea, in the middle of a dream, at night. Vertigo all day, while stooping at work (first day). Vertigo, even to falling down, on rising from bed (fourth, fifth, and sixth days).
Vertigo, with pains in the sinciput (sixteenth day). Vertigo and dimness before the eyes, so that he could not see farther than five paces (after half an hour).(90) Vertigo, followed by heat of the head, and afterwards sweat and weakness (first day). Reeling vertigo, with dimness of vision (nineteenth day). Vertigo, so that objects seem turning in a circle (eighth day). Vertigo, with headache, so that he lay down in bed (first day). Constant vertigo, as if something were moving to and fro in the head, even while sitting still, less while lying down. Vertigo woke him at night, worse during rest than on motion, especially severe on rising after stooping, lasting a part of the next day (fifty- seventh day). Excessive vertigo, while walking it sometimes seemed as though she did not know where she was and that she would fall from side to side. Violent vertigo, in the morning, so that while walking she was obliged to steady herself, it drew her toward the right side, with nausea; several days in succession, and so violent in the afternoon that she was obliged to lie down (after twelve days). Severe vertigo, that never left him, with great dulness of the head. Violent vertigo, without qualmishness, with good appetite, at noon while eating.(100) Great vertigo, lasting an hour, with dimness on vision (after half an hour, twelfth day). Violent vertigo after going to bed, only when lying on the left side. Slight vertigo all day, with some nausea.
Extreme dizziness. Dizziness as if he were stupid, he could not collect his thoughts so as to express himself properly, and spoke nearly every word incorrectly, immediately. Dizzy and confused in the head, so that he constantly feared to fall whenever he moved or stooped; he could not walk steadily for several weeks.
Dizziness, in the morning on rising (twentieth day). Dizziness in the head, in the forepart of the night (fifth night). Dizziness and whirling every morning, for half an hour after rising, while walking and sitting, with headache for an hour or two; on stooping it seemed as though he would fall down. Dizzy, staggering, unsteady, while walking.(110) Reeling as if the bed were turning around, whenever he lies upon the left side, at night (sixth night). She almost constantly felt intoxicated.
Objects seem whirling around (fourth day). Her head went swimming around as if she was drunk; she had to sit down. Slight reeling (third day). Reeling, in the morning on rising from bed. In the head a strange feeling, as if she would fall over, with ringing in the ears. He felt extremely giddy. General Head. Rush of blood to the head, at night. Painful rush of blood to the head, with heat and sticking, walking him at 2 A.M.(120) Rush of blood to the head, with throbbing in the top of the head and forehead, with heaviness of the head. Rush of blood to the head and burning in the red face, at 4 P.M. (third day). Rush of blood to the head, with stitches in the occiput. Great rush of blood to the head when rising from a seat, with feeling of fullness in the brain. Frequent rushes of the head with jerking and starting in sleep. Head dull; constant pressive pain in the left temple, throbbing (twenty-first day). Head dull and dizzy (tenth day).
Dulness of head, with bruised sensation in the body. Dulness, as from too much blood in the head, without pain. Dulness of the head immediately from a little conversation, with general exhaustion, so that he was obliged to stop conversing.(130) Great dulness in the head, in the whole of the forehead (twenty-first day). Stupefaction of the head (second day). Heaviness of the head. Head heavy, in the forenoon; some transient stitches in the temples towards the forehead, in the after-noon (thirty-ninth and fortieth days). Heavy headache, as from lead in the brain, increasing from fore-noon till night. Sensation of fullness and heaviness in the head in the afternoon, lasting till night (first day). Head heavy and confused (seventeenth day). It seems as though she could not hold up her head. Extreme heaviness of the head she cannot hold it up it feels so weighty. Weariness of the head (first day).(140) Weakness of the head (first day). Frequent tightness of the head and chest, with anxiety. Headache, (fifth day); (first day). Headache, at night. Headache caused by hunger. Headache, on waking (twenty-fifth day). Headache, as if everything would press out and burst the skull. Headache, as if the brain and eyes were forced forward. Headache, rising from the nape of the neck to the vertex, as if coming from the back (after twenty-one days). Headache, which seems to come from the stomach; heaviness in the forehead, together with a painful tearing, that drew the head sideways (tenth day).(150) Headache over the whole head (tenth day). Headache associated with nausea, and inclination to vomit (fourth day). Headache woke him at night (fifth day). Pains in the head (after 30th dil.). Pains alternating in different parts of the head, for an hour in the sinciput, afterwards in the whole head; tearing in the right temple, tearing in the occiput, in the right temple, afterwards in the left, about 1 P.M. (nineteenth day). Pain in the anterior portion of the brain, as from pressure, increasing from 12 to 2 o’clock (first day). Violent headache (first day). Violent headache; jerking pain, associated with violent stitches; tearing stitches extending over the temple to the left ear; sticking pain extending from the left ear to the root of the nose, where it caused a single stitch (seventh day). Violent headache, from 3 to 9 P.M., after which the pain abated somewhat, followed by great weariness and sleepiness (third day). Violent headache, as if violent stitches were piercing the vertex. (160) The most violent headache, with loss of consciousness, so that she groaned and cried aloud for help (after forty-six days). Cold kind of headache, from nape of neck to vertex. He feels in the head and limbs every change of weather. A distressing sensation as if everything in the head were alive and turning and twisting about.
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.