A tincture is made of the fresh inner bark of the root of the cotton plant, Gossypium herbaceum, L.
General Action
It is said to be a powerful emmenagogue and commonly used by negroes at the South to produce abortion. It seems to arrest uterine haemorrhage.
Generalities
The pains are stinging, drawing, tearing and sometimes burning, extending from one place to another, jumping from one place to another, and from one limb to the opposite one. The pains generally take a downward direction. Uneasiness, with anxiety and sighing. Lassitude with pains as if beaten. Amelioration after breakfast.
Head
Aching. Stinging from forehead to vertex. Drawing pain over eyes, with stinging in pupils. Pain from temporal bones to middle of frontal bone, first drawing, then stinging. Knocking pain in r. parietal bone.
Nose, Mouth and Throat
Nostrils swollen and inflamed, (<) l. Taste as of rotten eggs. Tonsils swollen, (<) r.
Stomach and Abdomen
Nausea and salivation; N before breakfast. Rotating pain in pit of stomach. Sticking in r. hypochondrium, then drawing pain from hypochondria to pit of stomach. Intermittent pains in hypochondria.
Urinary and Sexual Organs
Frequent desire to urinate, with burning pain. Intermittent stinging in ovarian region, with drawing towards uterus. Selling of outer part of labia, (<) l., the outer skin of both studded with pale, somewhat reddish granules. Menses watery and nineteen days late.
Clinical Valuable for retention of placenta after miscarriage. Menstrual headaches. Tumor of the breast, with hard lumps, scanty menstruation, swelling of the glands of the axilla, inflammation of the lymphatics running towards the axilla. Morning sickness of pregnancy and faintness. Suppressed menstruation, with great prostration and faintness. Suppressed menstruation. Sterility.
Back and Extremities
Pain in back. Tearing in r. arm and hand. Heaviness of hands, (>) hanging down, (<) warmth of bed. Pain jumping from one finger to another. Twitching from hips to knees Tearing from lower part of r. thigh to instep, then jumping over to l. leg. Drawing pain in knee-caps and from calves to ankles. Twitching changing from one leg to the other. Trembling of legs when standing, (>) sitting or lying. Sensation as if the marrow were being squeezed out of the bones of legs. Drawing pain from above downward in legs, in r. shin-bone from knee to ankle. Weariness of legs, (<) ascending stairs, (>) lying, with crushed feeling. Contracting pain in l. foot, (<) motion, (>) rest.
Skin
Soft tumor between l. thigh and vulva, secreting a watery fluid, with sticking, (<) at night. Soreness between thighs and vulva, with watery secretion. Pale red, itching papules on backs of hands with watery exudation after scratching. Round dark red, itching spots, with pale red circles, around knee caps and over shin-bones, burning after scratching. Crawling in all fingers as from the moving of worms. Itching of the whole skin; I. in round spots around l. ankle.
Sleep and Fever
Sleep a great part of the time. External coldness, with internal heat.
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.