A solution of pure chlorate of Potassium in distilled water (1 to 99) is taken for the first dilution.
General Action
This, the most poisonous of all the salts of Potassium, depresses and paralyzes the heart and lowers the temperature very rapidly. It is a violent irritant to the whole gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, producing gangrenous ulceration in the mouth and throat, ulceration of the stomach and bowels and terrible dysentery, with profound prostration. It causes at first diuresis, followed by suppression of urine and violent nephritis; on this account, particularly, it is a very dangerous drug in diphtheria, and cases have been killed by its unwise administration. Its action on the respiratory tract is marked.
Allies. (Merc-c., Cantharis)
Generalities
Convulsions. Jerking of head and other parts. Blood taken from a vein was very viscid. Rheumatic pains in different. Malaise. Discomfort. Weakness; and sleepiness. Collapse. Relief from warm baths, which were always followed by profuse sweat and quiet sleep.
Mind
Liveliness; then ill humour. Ill-humored, anxious, hypochondriac condition of the ganglionic nerve, (>) nosebleed. Apathy; in evening, with sadness and chilliness. Consciousness suddenly almost lost after a glass of wine..
Head
Cutting extending into malar-bones. Aching; in evening. Confusion; on walking in open air. Congestion of brain, so that one half of head, face and nose felt paralyzed; feeling of C., with pain in forehead. Intoxication from a small glass of beer. Vertigo; after violent motion, with congestion. Forehead, jerking in upper and lower part of bone; pain; drawing; tension, then sneezing and catarrh; tension in sinciput. Temples, intermittent sticking in r.; pain; pain in l; pain in bone extending to eye- teeth. Pain in l. side. Pain in occiput; in evening, at times extending into jaws. Confusion in occiput, with peculiar sensation in muscles of nape. Itching.
Eyes
Redness in evening, with pain. Stitches. Cramp in l. Pressure. Rush of blood; with irritation. Feeling of strength. Detected in the tears. Twitching in canthi; inner. Pain in upper lid in evening. Appearance of light before eyes when coughing and sneezing.
Ears and Nose
Roaring in ears, with a painful bloody stool. Drawing in root of nose. Irritation at root of N. Sneezing. Catarrh; violent; violent, with much sneezing and profuse mucus. Detected in nasal mucus. Nosebleed; at night, from r. nostril.
Face
Pale; bluish. Livid. Twitching and of eyes; of masseter muscles. Striking in various parts. Tearing and tension. Pain in r. malar- bone, beneath margin of orbit, then tension in whole cheek and temple. Drawing pain in r. cheek till he sneezes. Drawing in r. cheek; and in gum, with cramp in muscles of r. cheek; with pain in lobule of r. ear, at one time more beneath orbits, at another more in masseter muscles; in r. half of face, with tension; cramplike, in cheeks, extending into joint of jaw, at times with tearing in upper jaw; tensive, in l. cheek near orbital margin. Tension, with pressure towards eyes, (<) r. side; T. in cheek beneath eye, extending to ear, r., then l; drawing, in r. cheek, then inclination to sneeze. Sensitiveness.
Jerking in nerves of lower jaw, at foramen maxillare posticum. Cramplike pressure in joint of jaw, with stitches in jaw and teeth, (<) r. side. Lips blue; swollen; pimples on r. corner; pimples on lower.
Clinical Neuralgia of the face, sudden electric like pain in l. side, (<) talking, eating or slightest touch, followed by numbness.
Mouth
Aching in upper teeth. Teeth blunted. Gums bright red. Gums bleed easily on brushing teeth. Tongue white; in middle. Tongue coated; at back; with diarrhoea. Two symmetrical ulcers on sides of tongue. Tongue cold; and throat. Sticking burning in tongue. Stomatitis; ulcerative and follicular, mucous surface red and tumid, and gray-based ulcers in cheeks, lips, etc. Tanned appearance, and in throat. Contracted feeling in muscles of palate. Salivation; acid. Taste sticking burning, acid; T. burning, alkaline; as of blue vitriol; salt; sour; saltish, sour; bitter, sourish; bitter, (>) expectoration of mucus, with coldness of tongue; ( like laurel-water with salt); lost.
Clinical Aphthous or gangrenous ulceration of the mouth. Aphthae of the mouth. Obstinate follicular stomatitis, with extreme fetor; there is generally tough, stringy saliva. It has been found extremely useful in gangrene of the mouth in children, nearly every case having been cured ( at the Five Points Hospital, New York, where it was used internally and locally). Ulceration of the mouth and throat, with extreme fetor, albuminuria, haematuria, cough and dyspnoea. Nursing sore mouth of infants or of mothers.
Throat
Submaxillary glands swollen, throat red and oedematous. Pain, and in stomach, with inclination to eructate. Scraping. Rawness. Dryness; and of chest, with violent cough, as from sulphur fumes. Swallowing difficult.
Stomach
Appetite increased; paroxysms of ravenous hunger, (>) a drink of water, then loss of appetite; diminished; lost. Thirst. Eructations; of air; sourish; violent, with alternating pains in chest and abdomen. Nausea; and shivering; and attempts to vomit, though nothing but air was ejected. Vomiting; sudden; incessant; of all food; of offensive dark green mucus.
Acute gastritis, nausea, pain in splenic region, enlargement of spleen. Cardialgia. (Gastralgia) Pyrosis. Cutting. Pressure, with feeling of emptiness; P. in epigastric region; in pit, with apathy and chilliness. Heavy pain after a walk of an eighth of an mile, with sinking sensation. Weight in region, with distention; W. and oppression, almost amounting to pain, with cardialgia and flatulence; W. and oppression in increasing to an uniform gravity pain; W. in epigastric region, (>) night, with fulness and twisting. Warmth.
Abdomen
Movings, with inclination to diarrhoea. Flatulence; during the day; in afternoon; and epigastric distress, preventing sleep. Griping. Pain. Intermittent weight, tension and pain in umbilical region. Pressure in l. hypochondrium; in r., extending to umbilicus; tensive, in r., (>) emission of flatus. Pain in pelvic region, with diarrhoea.
Rectum
Proctica marisca; with constipation. Pain. Urging; constant, with normal stool.
Stool
Liquid. Thin. Diarrhoea; violent, constantly getting more liquid, at last consisting only of mucus; copious, as after a refrigerant purging salt (painful); with weakness. Hard; and at last mixed with mucus and blood. Constipation, but when action was solicited the matter was dark. Green. Light-colored. Indolent, delayed.
Clinical Dysentery, with most violent cutting pains as from knives, frequent stools, tenesmus making the patient cry out, evacuations very small, almost clear blood, great prostration (Cantharis, Merc-
c.)
Urinary Organs
Nephritis. Urging (Merc-c.); frequent. Twitching in urethra. Inability to empty bladder. Could pass only a few drops of bloody urine. Frequent micturition; and copious, with irritation about bladder and urethra. Haematuria. Urine increased in evening and night; U. scanty; black and albuminous; greenish-black, albuminous, containing haematin; five ounces of smoky U., containing albumen, casts and altered blood, drawn off by catheter; acid, and deposits urates abundantly; turbid; suppressed.
Sexual Organs
Violent erections, with itching on scrotum; violent E., with emissions. Depression of desire, with chilliness and apathy.
Respiratory Organs and Chest
Hoarseness. In larynx irritation to cough. Cough; violent, with catarrh. Breathing laborious. Pain in sides and loins. Painful pressure superiorly in l. costal region. Chest, tightness; constriction as from sulphur fumes; oppression, with sensation as if lungs were constricted with a fine thread; oppression, with violent beating of heart rush of blood.
Heart and Pulse
Praecordial anxiety without notable signs in heart or lungs. Coldness in praecordial region. Palpitation. Hearts beat distinctly perceptible to touch, with coldness in praecordial region. Violent beating of H.; with oppression of chest and cold feet. Pulse rapid; and compressible; and feeble, appearing as after a sudden and copious haemorrhage. Pulse slow; and small, weak. P. diminished in fulness and force. P. in r. hand,\ full and soft, intermittent, slower than beat of heart, in l. hand small, soft, compressible.
Back
Pain in lumbar region. Heaviness in lumbar region, with dragging and increased urine.
Extremities
Rigidity of muscles. Drawing in forearms; in wrists, with tearing. Tearing in r. wrist and along ulna. Cramp in r. index. Drawing in thigh. Sticking in r. knee. Cramp in leg.
Skin
Cyanosis, (<) lips and extremities. Icterus. Duskiness. Congestion. Small purple maculae on forearms. Rash, with painful pimples on l. shoulder. Inflamed hang-nails. Pimples on forehead; between lip and chin; on thigh; red P.;l burning on l. cheek; itching; itching, with vesicles on back of l. hand, (>) during the day returning next morning. Itching pustules filled with matter, surrounded by red areola, on limbs. Itching vesicles on back or r. hand. Itching over whole body; in evening in bed; in face; at night, next morning red pimples on legs and shoulders, not on joints, then pimples on face.
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.