Common name: Sumbul (Persian and Arabic).
Introduction
Ferula sumbul, Hook, f. (Bot. Ma., 1875).
Natural order: Umbelliferae. Preparation: Tincture of the root.
Mind
Humor excited and cheerful. More cheerful in humor and more disposed for intellectual occupation; he felt in the happy enthusiastic state of mind that accompanies the consciousness of having performed a noble deed; this sort of medicinal intoxication went away in a few hours. Very cheerful. Cheerful humor. Dull humor, though he was usually cheerful. Anxiety.
Easily frightened. Melancholy; no desire for labor, even intellectual, in the evening (twelfth day); mirthful, witty, inclined to gayety; continued smiling; calm, contented; amorous; fond of the society of women; cannot feel compassion (fifteenth day); mirthfulness and smiling; nothing disturbs (sixteenth day); mirthfulness, smiling, good-humor, wittily inclined; sympathy with suffering seems robbed of its pain (eighteenth day); fit of hysterical laughter and tears (twenty-second day); tranquillity, indolent, good-humor, mirthfulness (twenty-fourth day); clearness of intellect, especially in evening (twenty-fifth day); vivacity, hastiness; intellect very clear, in the evening (twenty-sixth day); intellect clear, in the evening (twenty-seventh day); nervous excitement and heat, especially in head from listening to a disputation, in the evening (twenty-eighth day); humor fidgety, nervous excitability; cannot continue reading, restless; irritability and agitation from harsh music, in the evening (twenty-ninth day); anxious activity, with physical weakness and debility; nervous excitability; restlessness whilst reading (thirtieth day); intellect clear, in the evening (thirty-second, thirty-third, and thirty-fourth days); mistakes in writing; mild, good humored, excitable (thirty-fourth day); intellect dull, in the morning; clear, in the evening; humor merry, smiling (forty- first day); irritability, in the afternoon and evening (forty- eighth day); disposition mild, amiable, smiling (forty-ninth day); nervous excitability; humor depressed, with despair of the future (fiftieth day); humor became cheerful and happy again this morn-ing (fifty-first day); excitability; easily depressed; easily roused into a passion; sensation as if the least provocation would enrage, with merry cheerful humor; the sensation of excitability is accompanied by fullness in temples and forehead and cerebellum, especially on left side, with pulsations in neck on left side, below the ear, in the evening (fifty-second day); frequent mistakes in writing and summing; one letter or figure is found written for another, even in simple words, and especially in common arithmetical operations, for many days past (fifty-third day); humor (since the fifty-fifth day excessively touchy) irritable, peevish, and sad, as if overburdened with cares and harassed; melancholy despondency, as if ill-treated by every one purposely, alternately with cheerfulness, mirth, and smiling (reaction?), (fifty-ninth day); humor disagreeable (sixty-first day); continued mistakes in letters and figures (sixty-first day); inability to study (one hundred and sixty-ninth day); mildness, amiability, except during the pains; extremely irritable during the pains; extremely irritable during the pains, while walking or during any exertion (one hundred and seventy-third day); cheerfulness, except during the agony of pains, to which, all the system seems to contribute (one hundred and seventy-fifth day); very cheerful, in the evening (one hundred and seventy-sixth day); nervous excitability and weakness; susceptibility to emotional impressions and fear of vertigo (one hundred and seventy – eighth day); mild cheerfulness, amiability (one hundred and seventy- ninth day); clearness of intellect, in the evening, but reading fatigues (one hundred and eighty-third day); cheerfulness; listlessness; no desire for mental labor (one hundred and ninety- second day). Humor at times cross (slightly), (tenth day). Great activity of mind. The thinking faculty was somewhat disturbed next morning.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head. He felt confused during the next day, but in the afternoon became more overwhelmed, having a great tendency to snore, and did so while quite awake. Slight confusion in the head, with moderate pressing and contractive pain in the left half of the forehead (after ten minutes); the turgescence towards the head lasted scarcely half an hour. Slight confusion, accompanied by a feeling of contraction in the forehead (soon), lasting half an hour, disappearing after evacuations. Dull confusion in left frontal region (one hundred and eightieth day). Dull empty confusion in left frontal region over left eye; reading fatigues; incapacity for prolonged attention; at times, chiefly in the evening, clear intellect, especially in the warmth; head worse in the morning, even on rising; clearer of an evening and in the warmth (one hundred and eighty-first day). Vertigo. Slight vertigo, of short duration. Vertigo on stooping and from using warm water; inability to stoop from vertigo, in the evening (seventeenth day). Reeling vertigo when rising from a seat and while lying. Giddiness on stooping (thirtieth day). Giddiness on rising from a seat, on stooping, on moving about; feeling of want of security, as if in imminent danger of reeling, or of having a fit whilst moving or standing, relieved by holding on to some object for safety, worse after 6 P.M. (one hundred and ninety-second day). General Head. Dulness of the head. Dulness of the head, especially in the forehead. Dulness of the head, especially in the forehead and occiput, with sensation of fullness. Dulness and confusion in the head, especially in the forehead (first day). Head freer then usual (first day).
Heaviness in head and forehead (nineteenth day). Heaviness in the head (thirty-second day). Dull heaviness and tension in cerebellum (one hundred and eighty-third day). Headache. Slight headache. Headache; tensive aching pain over eyes and in forehead, especially left temple, at 6 P.M. in the evening (thirty-sixth day). Tensive pains and heat in cerebellum, worse on left side, in the evening (one hundred and eighty-third day).
Dull pain and tensive fullness in head, increasing at 6 P.M.
(fourteenth day). Fullness in head and its vessels, with sensation of dizziness, and oppressive fullness in the forehead and over eyes (seventh day). Fullness in head, especially forehead and cerebellum; oppressive fullness in forehead (eleventh day). Sunbeams affect the head, which feels full of blood; sensation of heat and uneasiness, with fullness, in cerebellum, extending to spinal cord; dulness in head; dizziness; inability to stoop from giddiness (twenty-fourth day). Ebullition of blood in the head, lightness, and exalted feeling (forty-sixth day). The blood seems circulating quickly in the head, especially on left side (fifteenth day). Uneasiness in left cerebellum, painful, with stiffness in the muscles p73 adjoining, on moving the head; uneasiness, heat, lightness, and ebullition of blood, chiefly in forehead and cerebellum (fifty- third day). Occasional shooting pains from left cerebellum to left forehead (one hundred and ninety-second day). Sensation of slightly benumbing constriction in brain, as if contracted, in the morning (sixth day). During the catamenia, pains around the head, from cerebellum to frontal region (eighth day). Cold in the head, worse in the morning (nineteenth day). Cold in the head (thirty-third day). Forehead. Dull cloudy confusion in left frontal region and over left eye (one hundred and sixty- ninth day). Dull confusion in left frontal region; reading fatigues, worse in the morning (one hundred and seventy-third day). Dull aching in left frontal region and over left eye (one hundred and seventy-third day). Dull confusion in left forehead, especially over eye, at intervals, worse in the morning (one hundred and seventy-fifth day). Dull confusion in left frontal region, with slight nausea and sleepiness, in the morning (one hundred and eighty-second day). Dull confused stupor in left frontal region, on rising in the morning relieved by warmth (one hundred and eighty-third day). Dull pain, confused, in left frontal region (one hundred and ninety-second day). Heaviness and oppressive fullness in forehead (thirty-third day).
Oppressive fullness and heaviness in forehead and over eyes (ninth day). Fullness in forehead (thirtieth day). Pressure in the frontal region. Dull pressure in the forehead, with confusion of the head (soon). Pressure in the left frontal eminence. Beating-pressive pain in the left frontal eminence, in a circumscribed spot (first day). Pressive oppression in forehead (eleventh day). Dull pain in the forehead over eyes (sixteenth day). Oppressive dull pains in forehead (twenty- seventh and twenty-ninth days). Oppression in forehead (thirty- eighth day). Oppression in forehead, chiefly left temple, and nausea, at 11 P.M. (forty-eighth day). Oppression in the forehead and dull constriction over the head, chiefly from forehead to occiput; head heavy (forty-eighth day). Pain and heat in the forehead (twelfth day). Pain in forehead, after dinner, dull (thirtieth day). Dull constrictive pain in forehead, on rising (thirty-second day). Temples. Pain in the temples. Dull pain in temples (fourteenth day). Pain in left temple (thirty-third day). Dull pain in left temple (sixty-first day). Slight dull oppression on temples, especially the left, and over left eye (forty-ninth day). Dull compression from one temple to the other, with head within the forehead and heaviness in the head (first day). With the sensation of excitability, fullness in temples and forehead and cerebellum, especially on left side, with pulsations in neck, on left side below the ear, in the evening (fifty-second day). Painful pulsation in left temple, at 7 P.M. (fifty-first day). Vertex. Headache, excessive, all over top of head, extending to the eyebrows, like a very heavy weight (twenty-second and twenty-sixth days). Pressure in a small spot on the vertex (two hours after 2 drops). Occiput. Slight pain in the occiput. External Head. Round sore elevations of the cuticle on left parietal bone, painful when touched, dry, and coming off in dry scabs, at different times, chiefly in line over ear (sixteenth day). Slight contraction of the skin of the forehead (after five to ten minutes).
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.