A tincture of the fresh root is used. Allies.– Eupt-perf., Apocyn-c.
Generalities and Mind
Neuralgia from below upward, (<) up l. side of back and hip. Rheumatic pain changing about always from below upward. Tired feeling; in every organ. Faintness; with the urinary symptoms; after rising, with sickness. numbness, (<) in groin. Aggravation on l. side of body. Delusions; of sight and hearing. Talkative, exclamations. Depression. Homesickness though at home and surrounded by her own family. Fear of sickness.
Head
heavy pain, (<) forehead. Feeling as in a bad cold. Lightness, (<) morning, (>) at 12 O’clock; L., with sensation as if falling to the left. Sensation as if moving in all directions. Vertigo, with sensation of falling to left; V., with deep dull pain through l. temple; in which the whole body seemed to participate; as if flying round and round. Fulness in vertex, with pressing as if lifting up from adjoining parts, confusion and heaviness. Thumping pain on l. side of occipital bone. Soreness of scalp. Pleasant pricking in scalp. itching of scalp.
Eyes and Ears
Eyes wide open and fixed. Lachrymation. Inability to see as far as usual. Ears feel full. Reports in E. Squeaking in E. Crackling in E. like the burning of birch bark, (<) swallowing anything.
Nose and Face
Copious watery discharge from nose. Constant discharge from a sore, from continued wiping of nose. Face shining as from washing with much soap. Congestion of face. Rush of blood to F. Redness, dryness, and internal and external heat of F. Heat of F.
Mouth and Throat
Gums red and hot. Stinging in end of tongue. Prickling in posterior part of tongue. numbness of tongue as from Aconite. Salivation. Sensation in throat as after swallowing tobacco. Scalded feeling in throat. Smarting in posterior part of R.; (<) posterior part, with burning. Soreness of T. Roughness and dryness in T. Fulness in T., can hardly prevent crying; F., with choking, compelling frequent swallowing. Fluttering in pit of T.
Stomach
Eructations. Nausea. Swelling, (<) l. side, with fulness. Crampy pain. Griping. crampy pain in pit. Gnawing.
Abdomen
As hard as a rock. Rumbling. Fulness; with pain. Crampy, windy. Twisting pain. Pain in the whole, (<) l. side, with soreness; deep in ossa innominata; as in diarrhoea, without much alteration in stools.
Rectum
Pressure all day. Ineffectual urging top stool.
Urinary Organs
Cutting in bladder, with pressure and fulness. PAin in bladder. Smarting in bladder and urethra, with burning, so that she could not stand. Feeling of continual micturition. Constant urging to urinate, with cutting in bladder, frequent and copious micturition, the stream smaller than usual. Frequent micturition, 58 ozs. in twelve hours, once with an aromatic odor, pale, containing a white flocculent mucus, in the next twelve hours greater urging and more frequent micturition, but less urine, the next day almost constant urging but urine scanty, one half to two ounces each evacuation, of higher color, during the three days occasional spasmodic action of bladder. Cutting in urethra. Smarting in urethra during micturition; burning S. in U. Smarting burning in urethra during micturition. Feeling of having retained the urine long. Heavy pain in urethra.
Clinical It has been recommended for chronic or subacute inflammation of the bladder with dysuria, and in intermittent fever when dysuria is a prominent symptoms, with constant desire to urinate with aching in kidneys and bladder.
Sexual Organs
Constant were feeling externally. Jerking in and above l. ovary. Cutting two inches above l. ovary. Heavy pressure during the day above l. ovary. Leucorrhoea leaving no stain.
Respiratory Organs, Heart and Pulse
Frequent sighing. Desire to inflate the lungs, which she did from time to time without particularly noticing that she did it. Heart and throat fluttering. Palpitation. Pulse from 80 to 100, full and bounding.
Neck and Back
Stiff, wry neck. Lame feeling in nape; in neck, with weak feeling. Sore pain in the whole extent of the spine, from below upward. Aching in sacrum running into kidneys; deep in l. kidney; deep in kidneys, with cutting.
Clinical The severe pain in the back noticed in this drugs sometimes seems to indicate its use for chronic or subacute inflammation of the kidneys, especially from taking cold, with suppression of urine or with more or less difficulty in urinating.
Extremities
Gnawing pain. Weakness, with uneasiness. Cutting in l. shoulder, running to occiput. Gnawing in hip-bone. Weakness of legs, (<) l., with numbness of r. Feet feel as after a long walk, and as if the heels were crowding through the boots.
Clinical It has been used for sciatica, severe pain in the course of the l. sciatic nerve. It has also been used for rheumatism of old people, with soreness of bones, swelling of ankles, etc. It has been found useful in dropsy during Bright’s disease, with oedematous swelling, scanty urine, cold extremities, etc.
Sleep
Yawning. Sleepiness; with Dullness, it requires a great effort to move about. Wakefulness, with staring eyes.
Fever
Clinical In intermittent fever it has generally been found curative when the chill begins in the small of the back and spreads over the body. This drug as well as the Eup. perfoliatum, seems to remove the bone-pains; the other symptoms of the two remedies seem also to be similar; whether there is a marked difference in the drugs it is for the future experiments determine.
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.