A tincture is made of the fresh root of G. cruciata L.
Generalities
Tension of all nerves so that walking was difficult. Uneasiness. Faintness. Amelioration in open air.
Mind
Weeping mood, with disinclination to talk. apprehension, with rapid and difficult breathing, swelling of temporal veins, pressure in temples, and on reading print indistinct vision.
Head
Constriction on prolonged sitting. Sensitiveness after dinner (<) violent motion of it. Confusion. Vertigo. Pressure in forehead; in temples. Sudden stitch through I. temple towards 6 P.M. Tension in vertex, and at times jerking pain, the tension becoming an acute pressure, (<) exerting eyes or constant thought.
Eyes, Ears and Nose
Pressure inward in r. eyes. Eyes feel as if lying deep in orbits. Acute drawing in mastoid process. Frequent sneezing.
Face and Mouth
Two aphthous ulcers on margin of lower lips, on either side of fraenum. Saliva increased.
Throat
Violent pulsation in carotids. Redness of posterior part of palate, of both tonsils and upper part of pharynx, and certain times of day; R. of arch of palate, uvula and posterior wall of pharynx, with difficult swallowing and anxious constriction; R. with constriction so that swallowing was difficult and constant hawking up of tenacious mucus. Sticking in tonsils. Rawness and scraping; with constriction on swallowing; R. causing frequent hawking. Scraping. and in soft palate and half way down oesophagus. Constriction, with frequent necessity to hawk and expectorate. Difficult swallowing.
Stomach
Appetite increased; lost. Thirst Eructations of air tasting of tincture; of air and of acid fluid tasting of the during; of air relieving the tension of abdomen and the headache acid E., then three sour, watery vomitings Nausea; with inclination to lie down with constriction of throat. Vomiting; violent, difficult, of mucus, difficulty, of scanty, bitter, sour-smelling mucus, leaving scraping and rawness in throat. Movements, then in abdomen, (>) waking. Pressure; as from a stone, with nausea; inward in put. Full sensation, with constant inclination to eructate. Burning. Sensation all day in S. and oesophagus as if he had swallowed a hot normal, then cold water, (<) eating, (>) drinking water.
Abdomen
Frequent passage offensive flatus. distention; (>) continued walking; with constriction; with heaviness in stomach and frequent empty eructations. Movements, with headache, then copious pasty stool. Pain. Tension; (>) a profuse pasty stool. with nausea. Intermittent griping sore sensation in umbilical region, (<)dinner, (>) sitting and lying, (<) standing and walking, obliging him to bend forward, there with the umbilicus seemed drawn forward. Dragging in r. inguinal region as if something would protrude, (>) sitting and lying, after violent sneezing sensitive protrusion the size of hazel-nut.
Stool
Urging, then three watery stools. Three liquid, preceded by groping. Pasty diarrhoea several times. Free, pasty, without the usual itching in anus.
Sexual Organs
Menstruation three days earlier than usual, during which there was headache as if head were to full, with distended feeling in skull, (>) rest, (<) motion, and delaying sleep.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness, the voice gave out in the middle of his speech. H. in attacks with sensitiveness of throat. Frequent expectoration.
Neck and Back
Drawings in cervical muscles; extending to ears, (<) turning head, an uneasiness so that he could not remain long in one position; D. along r. side of neck to shoulder, with jerking. Tension in lumbar region.
Extremities, etc
Jerklike drawings in extremities. Distressing drawing in r. shoulder. Cramplike pains in soles Creeping in evening over whole body as from fleas. Uneasy sleep.
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.