The fresh juice from the color-sac is triturated for use.
Clinical
Polyuria, (<) night; one case in which, associated with other troubles, there was frequent need to pass urine, but it was scanty and very fetid, with the odor of Valerian. This drug has been used almost solely for prolapsus of the uterus, with pressure and bearing-down pains and with the particularly characteristic sensation of sharp pain extending upward to the breasts; some cases (<) Lying down, with aching in the sacrum; other cases with much leucorrhoea, green or bloody, with unnatural sexual excitement and enlarged, indurated uterus; other cases with great soreness of the uterus felt on sitting down; sensation of prolapsus so great that the patient wants to keep the legs tightly crossed in order to relieve the tendency to protrusion. Dysmenorrhoea, with uterine displacement. Chronic inflammation of the uterus following miscarriage or labor, with tenderness also with soreness over r. ovary, which extends up into r. chest. Subinvolution after confinement, up on rectum, swelling of the haemorrhoids, greenish-yellow leucorrhoea, sometimes bloody, sometimes discharge of blood from the vagina when at stool, great weariness in the loins and pain in the lower extremities, sharp, lancinating pains in uterus, etc. Pulsation in neck of uterus (Compare Sepia, Lilium tigrinum, etc.).
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.