The pure metal is triturated for use. Compare Platina, Podophyllum
Generalities
Pain in abdomen in morning before rising then in r. temple, at 7.30 when walking rheumatic pain in r. hip, at 9.15 pain in r. thumb, then in forefinger, then in r. temple, then in l. temple, r. shoulder and arm, then again in r. temple in small of back extending over r. thigh, then in r. wrist, l. hip, r. hand, r. lower jaw, after a walk at noon pain in r. temple and r. arms, the pains change place so quickly and at times are so transient that they are hard to describe, they appear oftenest and longest in temple. Pain in head and hip in forenoon, (>) 2 P.M by sleep, from which she wakes with a starts, headache cured by half an hour’s sleep before dusk. Peculiar pain somewhere in l. side (forgotten because it disappeared on turning) towards morning. Throbbing throughout body at 2.30 P.M., delaying sleep. On walking, feeling as if he had grown taller. Heaviness in morning, with tried feeling in limbs, inertia and indecision. Tired in evening; on walking, he reels on entering on the room. Aversion to exertion. Aggravation in afternoon; towards evening; from motion.
Mind
Irritable; in evening. Impatient. Inclined to use forcible language and violent expressions. Time seems long. Tried in evening.
Head
Aching; in morning; internally in places, or crocked stitches; making her irritable and impatient, with inclination to be pert and to make faces; dreamy, (<) vertex and occiput. dullness, with sticking to and fro in l. side of head.
Forehead. Aching in F. and over eyes in forenoon, with heaviness, next morning heaviness. Fluttering pain, between stinging and pressing, in “cautiousness,” r. side, (>) touch or fixing attention upon it. Cooling or slightly burning pressure in a spot on r. side, in boundary line off hair. dullness as from a load,. (<) central part of brain, and on each expiration felling as if this load were pushed from occiput to forehead. Fulness and sensation as if brain were shaken.
Pain in temples and vertex; l. temple; temple and orbit on walking in open air. Tension in temples. Pain in l. vertex; P. in vertex at dinner, causing numbness, as from great heat or cold, (<) between 2 and 3 P.M., necessity to lie down, head felt as if swung backward and forward, the pain (>) an hour’s sleep. Sharp pain, neuralgia, in l. side of head in evening. Constriction in r. side at 12 O’clock, through l. side at 1 O’clock. dullness in occiput all the evening. Pimples on scalp behind 1.ear.
Clinical Headache across the top of the head, from one ear to the other, with sensation as if the head were swinging from behind forward and the brain were shaken.
Eyes
Pain around l. when walking, extending beyond r. brow. Heavy pain in l. and in back part of orbit from 6 till 7 P.M after walking, spreading over forehead and vertex, and next day towards 8 O’clock, after a walk, pain in r. eye, temple and around ear, during dinner pain in r. temple near eye and unpleasant sensation around l. eye. Dryness in evening, with itching, not (>) rubbing; D. of edges of lids. Vesicles as clear as water on edge of lower lids. Lids felt heavy in afternoon.
Nose and Face
Burning in nose, as from horseradish, in evening then watery discharge. Coryza. Diminished growth of beard. Vesicle on inside of lower lip, near l. corner. Pain in r. corner of lips as if sore.
Mouth and Throat
Sensitiveness of second l. upper incisor, and feeling as if were a dead foreign body. Hawking up of small solid lumps of mucus that he must swallow again. Fauces and tongue dry, tongue red in middle.
Stomach
Aversion to beer. Eructations, the last leaving a sourish taste. Digging to right of epigastrium, where eighth and ninth ribs ascend to sternum, then pressing pain under l. ribs.
Abdomen
Frequent, small and short emissions of flatus; frequent, small and odorless. Pain, (<) region of spleen; P. before rising; in liver, with soreness; in l. groin at every step. Cutting in hypogastrium soon after rising, between 6 and 7, (>) stool, two slight attacks after breakfast, with inclination to stool, but emission of only wind.
Rectum and Stool
Sticking in l. side of rectum or aching twitches, at approach of stool, the sticking returned in evening. Pain in rectum, with a retained stool, on urging, the pain (<) till 1 P.M., just before dinner, then (>) soft stool. Inclination as to diarrhoea when walking in the street. Fulness in anus in evening after stool, with pressing. Thin stool, with urging as if diarrhoea would set in. A hard stool, then a mushy, thin stool, with protrusion of anus (Pod). Frequent stools, then colic; F. and soft. Stool every other day. Stool usually in afternoon or evening.
Urinary Organs
Sticking through bladder and painful weakness. Urging in evening, he passes more, but not often. Frequent micturition, bladder feels full, yet little passes.
Sexual Organs
Erections every morning, none in evening or night even from excitation. Pain in uterus or region of bladder. Menses too soon; reappeared after rapid walking, as they had often done, but were more like clear blood than usual, it was the seventh day since they began and for thirty-six hours nothing had been visible, they still continued two days afterwards, but were less copious and watery.
Clinical Swelling and induration of r. ovary, with soreness and shooting pain from navel to breasts, where there is heaviness. Neuralgia of r. ovary, drawing downward during and after menstruation,(<) standing and moving,(>) rubbing and Lying down, associated with feeling as if the uterus were prolapsed, accompanied by headache and nausea, glairy mucus in the throat and glairy leucorrhoea, also with soreness over r. side of abdomen, pains shooting down r. thigh; pain in region of liver and spleen, flatulence and constipation, frequent micturition, with sticking in urethra; pains in different parts, changing about, with great lassitude, cold hands and feet ( this condition occurred in a nursing woman who menstruated every month, at one time after three weeks, at another after five weeks, alternating regularly, with profuse haemorrhage after the five week’s interval). Jelly-like leucorrhoea before and after menstruation, with heaviness and weight. Uterine displacement, with constant pains in back and hips and cold extremities (r. ovary compare Platina and Podophyllum).
Chest and Heart
Sticking on inner side of collar bone on entering room a walk in open air; S. in region of r. nipple, running deep in, (<) deep breathing, (>) walking in open air; flying S. from middle of C. in direction of shoulders, on bending forward while sitting. Congestion in r. side of C. after sitting awhile. Aching along edge of ribs and diaphragm; A. in cardiac region at 2 A.M. Intermittent painful pressure in cardiac region and low down in l. chest.
Neck and Back
Painful contraction of several muscles on r. side of neck. Painful drawing in neck and shoulders and down l. arm. Pain in l; trapezius as from lying on it too long, (<) turning head to left. Backache in afternoon as from sitting up stiffly too long; B. across hips at night, perhaps because her child was restless and she was anxious about it; B. in region of l. kidney as if urine had been retained too long,(<) sitting,(>) pressure, but worse afterwards, (<) towards evening, frequent urging to urinate and aching in bladder, next day pain in l. kidney when sitting. Back weak in morning.
Extremities
Bruised pain in afternoon, (>) evening, with feeling as if menses would appear; B. Pain in muscles of shoulders and upper arms. Lightning like sticking i r. shoulder. Rheumatic pain in r. shoulder in evening. Painful drawing in r. shoulder on entering room after walking in open air. Sensation in l. arm as if it were going to sleep. Numbness of arm, (>) evening; N. of r. arm and hand in night; N. of r. forearm, extending to fingers. Drawing pain in l. forearm as if lame, (<) radial side, (>) open air. Pain in r. wrist extending into forearm. Sudden twitching in r. wrist and metacarpal bones. Stinging in l. metacarpal bones and thumb; suddenly in l. middle metacarpal bone noon. Burning pain and boring as if shattered, deep in l. hand at night waking him. Twitching of fingers, (<) index, which crooks the fingers, when sitting, till 12 O’clock.
Lower Extremities
Gnawing in l. hip. Pain above l. knee, extending thence into chest, in morning; twitching P. in l. hip-joint during the morning. Feeling in femora, (<) l., as if they expanded or were pressed out their sockets on pressing down as if for stool.
Skin
Pimple on back part of r. zygoma, next day one in the same place on l.; red, deep-seated on r. cheek, near wing of nose; painfully sore, (<) back of l. ear; itching, in side of whiskers in evening; itching and burning, on r. side of neck; burning and biting on touch, beneath r. brow, near canthus. Something similar to flea above r. side of lip, on l. nostril and various parts of body and head, between 2 and 3 P.M. Elevations like nettle-rash here and three, red on a base whiter than the skin. Pustule above tip of nose, bleeding a long time after the pus was squeezed out.
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.