Upas


Upas 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…


Introduction

Strychnos tieute. Natural order: Apocynaceae. Common name: Ipo of Borneo (not of Massachar, which is Upas antiar).

Generalities

Clonic spasms of the muscles of the nape of the neck or extremities, which were at one time extended, at another flexed; these paroxysms were repeated spontaneously or by the slightest irritation, and without pain; between the paroxysms the muscles were completely relaxed. Sudden jerking of the whole body followed by violent stretching of the extensors, with drawing backward of the head (after one hour). Great weakness and exhaustion after a paroxysm. Weakness as if going to swoon (first day). Great muscular weakness (third day). Very tired on waking (third day). Weakness, as if not able to walk (third day). Great prostration (sixth day). General uneasiness, in the morning. General uneasiness, in the afternoon; general prostration and very marked diminution of muscular strength (fiftieth day). General uneasiness; increased sensitiveness to cold; pulse accelerated; pale face (fifth and sixth days). Amelioration of all the symptoms, in the evening after dinner (fifth and sixth days). Dull nephritic pains at night, and especially in the morning (as after sexual excess); they cease soon after rising (twenty-fifth day). Great aggravation, in the afternoon and evening (second day).

Mind

Very lively mood. Depressed spirits; aversion to speaking (seventh day). Great moral sensibility (fourteenth day). Melancholic; has to force the tears back; cold towards his friends, repelling every one (sixth day). Morose (second day). Morose and irritable (first day). Morose without cause; easily exasperated; likes to quarrel (third day). Morose and does not want to speak (fifth day). Cross, irritable, after going to bed (second night). Irritability, sensitiveness (thirty second day). Irritability, irascibility (twenty-ninth day). Thinking is laborious and difficult; transient cloudiness of the mind (thirtieth day). Extreme difficulty in fixing the attention (thirty-fifth day). Sensible weakening of the memory several days past (fortieth day). Very marked diminution in readiness of thought;inability to concentrate the attention, to express himself, to apply technical expressions, to recollect; irritability; very marked diminution of muscular strength; there symptoms continue, becoming more and marked for several days (forty-first day).

Head

Vertigo. Head muddled (as if proving Cocculus), (sixth day). Vertigo, as if falling; this lasts only a few seconds, and terminates with a pressing headache in the forehead (third day). General Head. Dull pains in the brain (forty-third day). Headache all over the head after going to bed (second night). Pressive heaviness throughout the head; great tendency to feel cold (thirty-sixth day). Some twitchings in the brain and the orbits (thirty-sixth day). Some twitchings in the brain and the orbits (thirty-second day). Severe pulsating pain all over the head, on waking in the morning, disappearing in the open air (third day). Forehead. Slight frontal headache. Pain in the forehead (after second dose, seventh day). Constant dull tearing pains in the forepart of the brain, on the right side (in the afternoon), worse when walking (afternoon and all the evening), (twentieth day). From time to time, during the day, dull and prolonged shootings in the right anterior lobe of the brain (twenty-ninth day). Dull pain or shootings, sometimes dull, sometimes sharp, in the anterior of the brain, chiefly on the right side, etc., et supra (thirtieth day). Dull deep seated pains in the base of the right frontal lobe, above the orbit (thirty-fourth day). Sharp contusive pains in a line with the left frontal eminence, aggravated by movement, walking, and especially by going upstairs, to such a degree that it seems as if the brain were rudely shaken, from morning to midday (forty-first day); on the following day these symptoms diminish. Boring shooting, very sharp and deep seated, in the left side of the forehead near the temporal fossa (thirty- fifth day). Boring pain, which is felt simultaneously in th frontal eminence and in the occipital protuberance of the left side (twenty-sixth day). Frequent dull shootings in the frontal lone on the right side (twenty-eight day). Some dull twitchings in the anterior left side of the brain above the orbit (eighth day). Some twitchings in the anterior lobes of the brain (twenty ninth day). Pulsating headache in the forehead and through the left eye, with pressure, as if the eye were pressed inward, in the evening after going to bed (second day). Temples. Every few moments pressure in both temples, especially the left (fifth and sixth days). Sharp pressure in the temple (in the evening), (forty first day). Superficial drawing pain, which every few moments, traverses the left temple from before back wards, and ceases at outer angle of the orbit; the part is hot and painful to touch; this pain was felt all day yesterday, and this morning subsided into a dull pain (fifth and sixth days). Vertex and Parietals. Pressure on the vertex (first and second days). Pressure, painful heaviness in the top of the head (thirty fifth day). Dull pains in the right side of the brain, sometimes in front, sometimes behind, or inside the orbit, near the root of the nose, with feeling of internal heat, uneasiness in the whole head, and sometimes sharp lancinations in the brain and the orbits (forty- fourth day). Several shootings deep in the brain on the right side (seventh day). In the forenoon, boring shootings in the parietal region of the right side of the brain (twenty- fourth day). Some dull shootings in the right side of the brain (thirty-second day). Frequent shootings in the right side of the brain (fortieth day). Some pains in the right side of the brain (forty-first day). Violent shootings in the right side of the head. Frequent shootings in the brain, chiefly on the right side (thirty-seventh day). Occiput. In the afternoon painful heaviness in the occiput, accompanied with throbbing isochronous with the arterial pulse (as after sexual excess), (twenty-fifth day). Dull pressure, pressive weight in the posterior part of the cerebrum and cerebellum (thirty-fifth day). Headache in the occiput a pressing inward pain, for more than a fortnight (after two days). External Head. Scalp numb, as if going to sleep (first day).

Eyes

Eyes sunken, with bluish rings around them (seventh day). Dull pains in the right eye, in the evening, for several hours in succession (twenty-fifth day). Painful pressure and sensation as of a foreign body in the left eye, when opening and shutting it. In the morning, when waking, sensation of pressure and of dryness in the eyes, preventing the lids from opening, as if there was sand in them (symptom previously experienced after a dose of this medicine), (fourth day). When opening the eyes, sharp and burning pain, like that caused by the presence of a foreign body (fifth and sixth days ). Sharp pain, composed of burning, together with a feeling as if from a foreign body, especially in the left eye, and chiefly when opening and shutting the lids (fifth and sixth day). The eyes are weak, as after sexual excesses (twenty-fifth day). Every morning weakness of the eyes, with lachrymation, the lids being so heavy that they close involuntarily, as if from irresistible drowsiness; (twenty-eighth day). Same symptoms of the eyes as on the preceding days; they are very weak; the outer canthus of the left eye is the seat of very acute itching (twenty-ninth day). Every morning weak eyes; itching smarting in the canthi, feeling as of a foreign body, etc.

(thirty-fifth day). The condition of the eyes is aggravated; in the morning they are weak and close involuntarily, constant feeling as of a foreign body under the lids; on the inner surface of the right lower lid, near the margin, a small white military pustule, hard, and surrounded with a violet circle; redness of the palpebral conjunctiva; itching smarting in the outer canthi; all day, sensation as if there were sand in the eyes (thirty-sixth day). The symptoms of the eyes continue, accompanied with heaviness of the head, heat in the head and in the eyelids, which are red and congested; I inhaled a dilution of Bryonia, and the symptoms of blepharo-conjunctivitis were sensibly alleviated at the approach of evening (thirty-eight day). The sensation of sand in the eyes returns, accompanied with itching and congestion of the lids, and smarting itching and ulcerated feeling in the outer canthi (forty-third day). All the symptoms of the eyes instantly reappeared; sensation of distress, of pressure, as from sand under the lids; vivid redness of the conjunctiva, the margin, and the angles of the lids, etc., all day long, and especially in the morning (fifty-eight day). Orbit. Dull pain in the left orbit when opening or shutting the eyes (fifth and sixth days). Dull pain in the floor of the right orbit, in the morning (fourteenth day). Dull pain above the nasal bone, at the internal portion of the orbit, sometimes on the right side, sometimes on the left (forty-fifth day). In the morning, dull and prolonged shooting in the outer angle of the orbit, oven into the nasal bone, on the right side (twenty-ninth day). Dull shootings in the right orbit and in the frontal lobe of the same side (thirty-eight day). Frequent dull shootings in the right orbit, sometimes on the left side (in the evening), as on the preceding days (fortieth day). Shootings in the left orbit. Violent lancinations in the anterior and internal portion of the orbit, in the morning, sometimes before getting up (forty-third day). Violent lancinations in the right orbit before getting up (forty-third day). Prolonged and violent lancinations under the orbit, on the right side (forty-fifth day). In the morning, before getting up, severe dull lancinations in the internal portion of the right orbit, on the bone at the root of the nose (forty-fifth to fiftieth day). Lids. Flow of blood from the eyelids (twenty-seventh day). Same condition of the eyes; the small pustule on the right lower lid increases in size becomes hard, and resembles a cyst (thirty- seventh day). Stye on the left upper eyelid; itching of the outer canthus, with ulcerated feeling (as on the preceding days), (thirty-first day). Redness and heat in the eyelids, chiefly in the left (fifth and sixth days). In the morning and in the after part of the day redness and itching in the eyelids, chiefly in their margins (twenty-fifth day). Acute itching and congestion of the eyelids, chiefly in the morning (twenty-eight day). Itching in the border of the outer surface of the lower lids (fifth and sixth days). Intense smarting itching in the outer canthi, in the evening; it seems as if they were ulcerated,; (thirtieth day). Amelioration of the eye symptoms; there only remains a sharp itching of the lids (fortieth day). Lachrymation. Weeping of the left eye (second day); weeping of the eyes lasted more than a fortnight. Conjunctiva. Considerable amelioration of the blepharo- conjunctivitis (thirty-ninth day). Ball. Dull shootings in the left eyeball, in the evening (twelfth and thirteenth days). Pupil. Pupils contracted. Vision. Dimness of sight; letters running together; fog before the eyes (second day); the dimness lasted more than a fortnight. In the open air dimness, and as if endless strings of white and transparent globules were floating in the air (third day). After rising from a stooping position, blackness before the eyes, as if all the blood were rushing to the head, with vanishing of thoughts (third day).

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.