One part of beechwood-tar creosote is dissolved in 99 parts of alcohol for the Ist dilution.
General Action
An irritant poison, affecting particularly the gastro-intestinal canal, the genito-urinary organs, and the skin.
Allies. The Carbons in general, especially Graphites, Carbo-v., Carbol-ac., Petrol., Secale-c.
Generalities
Loss of flesh. Twitching in muscles of all parts. Pinching here and there. Drawing in whole body. Excitement of whole body. Feeling during rest as if all parts were in motion. Pulsation in all parts when quiet; with sensation as if whole body wavered. Uneasiness; when sitting and walking, with shivering through all limbs and necessity to breathe deeply, which was impossible. Felt myself going very low. Weakness; after leucorrhoea; as if she had not slept enough, with warmth in eyes. Faintness if obliged to rise earlier than usual. General numbness. Insensibility; so that she did not know that a tooth was taken out. Most symptoms (>) open air.
Clinical General tendency to haemorrhage (Arnica, Carbo-v.), and to decomposition of fluids or rapid decomposition of secretions. Fetid discharge and secretions. General restlessness (especially of teething children). The pains are always burning, like red-hot coals.
Mind
Excitement; before menses, with uneasiness; with peevishness and obstinacy. Fretful in morning; F. and at the point of weeping. Despondent and wishing to cry; D. and longing for death; D. towards evening and doubtful if she would ever be well again. Music or anything else that caused excitement she took very much to heart, and she could not refrain from weeping. Thoughts vanished and she felt dazed. Memory weak and thoughts vanished. When she undertake anything and has gone a few steps she stops and does not know what she intended to do. Stupor.
Head
Drawing sticking extending through temples and into upper jaw, with vertigo. Tearing, with drawing in eyes; T., with heat in face and intermittent tearing in l. lower teeth, preventing sleep, with general heat, weakness, peevish and lachrymose mood. Aching; from emotional disturbances; with heat in front of forehead; with sleepiness; in middle, pressing outward; drawing, so that it closes eyes; as after intoxication; as if she had drunk too much the day previous (feeling of a board before forehead), with weak memory; tensive, (<) stooping. Confusion; with vertigo; intermittent, with vanishing of thoughts. Dullness, she looks straight ahead and does not know at what, hears and sees nothing and is without thought. Heaviness. Weariness. Beating. Vertigo; in morning in street, so that she reeled backward and forward, (>) in house; so that she could not bear to be lifted from the pillow; and everything looked dark blue; and everything turns around with him; if she turns suddenly she feels as if she would fall; stupefying.
Forehead.- On stooping everything shoots forward into F.; and she is near falling. Aching; in anterior lobes of brain; above root of nose; above r. eminence; above eyes, (<) r.; above eyes in evening; extending towards vertex, with tension; ulcerative, on r. side of sinciput; drawing, from r. sinus to middle of r. jaw, in morning, (>) noon, (<) 2 P.M. and lasting till evening; as from a plug above superciliary ridge, extending to occiput. Pressing-out pain in middle; P. out pain, with pressure on eyes extending to vertex; P. in sinciput in morning as if everything would be pressed out at forehead. Throbbing pain; on waking at 5.30 A.M., with heat of face, weakness of limbs, crawling through thighs and feet, bitter taste, even food tastes bitter. Throbbing in middle of sinciput; T. in sinciput, with intermittent sticking in temple. Heaviness in sinciput as if something would burst out there.
Temples.- Sticking in r. bone; tearing S. anteriorly in r., extending into molars. Tearing in l.; drawing, in l., as if different parts would be torn out; drawing, in middle of sutura squamosa, extending through temple into l. side of face and l. treat. Drawing pain in l. bone affecting whole head. Pain one or other; jerking, pulsating, above l. mastoid process. Pressing-out pain in lower part of l. bone; in evening. Throbbing in l. extending to vertex and to middle of lower jaw, with bubbling sensation and with twitching and contraction of eyelids and feeling as if they would become smaller.
Vertex.- Tearing in afternoon. Pressing beneath V. Hammering pain. Throbbing. Vertigo.
Sides.- Sticking anteriorly on r. in afternoon, (>) night’s sleep, so that her ideas almost disappeared. Tearing, extending on l. through temple and into cheek, on r. side to upper jaw. Pain in r.; seeming to come from cervical muscles; intermittent jerking P. in r. upper half of brain; pressing out, beneath l. parietal bone. Confusion in l., with throbbing in it, which then involves upper molars, where it causes periodic grumbling.
Occiput.- Pain below l. bone as from suppuration. Fulness and heaviness, causing sensation as if he would fall backward.
Scalp.- Hair very gray. Falling of hair. Pain on combing hair, (<) combing it down towards temples. Pain in sinciput as if several hairs were grasped and slowly pulled out. Suppurative pain on vertex and sinciput when touched or hair is combed, when not touched the pain is drawing, (<) vertex.
Eyes
Look as after weeping. Surrounded by blue rings. Fixed. Sticking tearing in l.; alternating with tearing sticking in r. Pressure and burning, preventing sleep till towards morning, on waking lids agglutinated; pressure, heat, lachrymation and feeling as if something were in them, after sleep agglutination. Itching, after rubbing biting, whites inflamed and pressure as from sand; I. and corrosion, then burning in eyes and frequent accumulation of fatty matter in inner canthi. Heat. Lachrymation; if she looks at a bright light; if she looks at an object for a while; of r. eye in afternoon, with biting in it and jerking of l. lids; after rubbing eyes, they become dry, inflamed, bite and burn; hot and acrid in morning on waking; hot and acrid after rubbing eyes. Tears are acrid, like salt water. Conjunctiva red and burning.
Pupils dilated. Tearing in balls in afternoon as if they would be torn out, (<) r., then throbbing pain in r. eye towards evening. Lids red and swollen. Red, sensitive spot on r. lower lid, next day swelling of the lid, then a pimple on a whitish surface towards inner margin of lid, conjunctiva of lid very red, lid externally bluish-red, in evening sticking in the swelling. Twitching of lids. Vision obscured. Vision as if feathers hung before eyes, so that she must wipe eyes. Inability to see.
Clinical Chronic inflammation of the eyelids, with swelling; blepharitis, usually with scalding lachrymation in the morning.
Ears
Sticking; drawing, in inner part of l., extending over outer part; jerking, in r. tragus, with swelling, stiffness and sticking on touch. Cramplike pain in l. Periodic pinching. Bubbling, pressing as under pain in r. Pressing out or sticking or ringing. Frequent bubbling in r., with twinging. Heat of l. external, with scarlet color, swelling and tensive burning pain. Ringing, humming, (<) before l., with difficult hearing, at times when the humming ceases ringing and hissing; humming during menses, with roaring and with pressing-out pain in head, the latter (<) stooping. Difficult hearing for three day before menses; during menses.
Clinical Moist eruption about the ear, with swollen glands on the neck.
Nose
Sneezing; in morning; in morning, without trace of catarrh; frequent, with moisture in nose; frequent, with want of air in nose though it was not stopped. It seemed as if she had catarrh, sensation as if mucous membrane of nose would swell. Fluent catarrh, when she draws air through nose it feels too sharp in posterior nares. Catarrh stopped, then fluent, with acrid rawness beneath sternum. Obliged to blow frequently. Bleeding; thick and black; bright red in morning. Offensive smell, with loss of appetite; O. smell in morning on waking.
Clinical It has been used for lupus of the nose and face, with burning pain.
Face
Pale; and puffy. Full and flushed. Tearing in r. angle of jaw in evening, extending into temple; in r. angle of jaw, waking her at night, extending towards ear and causing sticking. Lips dry, without thirst; dry, upper one desquamates, is hot and tense. Upper lip feels sore and is cracked. Tension about r. corner of mouth in evening, with burning and with feeling as if r. half of lower lip were drawn towards r. corner of mouth.
Clinical It has cured as tumor of lower lip, supposed to be epithelioma, with dry, cracked skin.
Mouth
Drawing tearing in l. upper teeth on waking at 5 A.M., then involving l. muscles of face and temple, lasting till noon, therewith the teeth protrude. Jerking pain in l. lower hollow molar, with frequent yawning. Throbbing pain in third upper molar, which is beginning to decay. Drawing toothache, diffusing itself over temple; D. in incisors; in l. lower molars, then involving upper molars, as soon as it ceases there it begins in upper incisors. Drawing pain in l. upper gum, with inflammation.
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.