A tincture is made of the fresh solid roots of the black garden radish.
Generalities
Emaciation. Hysterical attack, pain as if a foreign body passed through spine from top to bottom and were stopped at certain points by an obstacle, the pain extends to adjacent parts and causes weakness, it seems to her that she is about to die, inability to speak or stir, pain like a hot ball starting from uterus and stopping at beginning of throat, then drawing pain in occiput, lancinations in ears, pain in jaws, gums, nose, eyes, which burn, drawing pain in temples, swollen feeling in every part, even in bones, abdomen swollen and painful to touch, feeling as if several balls ascended from abdomen to throat, eyes filed with blood, sight lost, ability to lie only on back, loss of power of moving, this hysterical attack repeated at midnight, with sharp, nervous pain in shoulder, next day (first day of menses) less severe attacks, preceded by cramps extending from uterus to chest.
Lancinations in different parts; in whole body, with drawing pain; in fleshy parts, with drawing in all muscles, itching around waist, preceded and followed by sensation as from too tight a girdle. Pain in all joints, painful weariness, all bones crack, (<) nape; P. in nasal bones, from tobacco, at root, and in ear, with weeping; in l. orbital, nasal and maxillary bones on touch, with numbness in parts near them; in sides when she presses on stomach, pain in dorsal vertebrae, which, when she touches, is felt in middle of chest. Drawing pain all day, (<) evening. Rheumatic pain in loins, knees, groins, abdomen and thighs, can scarcely stand upright, cannot bend knees. Paralytic pains increase till evening; P. pain, (<) sometimes on one side, sometimes on other, with difficulty in writing. Pain under skin, like painful weariness of whole body.
Sensation in head, throat and chest as in beginning of a bad cold. Swollen sensation in arms, hands and eyes, but feet appear smaller, and wrist feels as if lashed with a whip. Throbbing in l. lowest rib, neck, temples, back, stomach, (<) when she wishes to express an idea, later the throbbings became lancinations, two or three near together. Veins feel as if full of quick-silver. Sensitive to the electricity of the atmosphere, it causes pain and low spirits.
Weakness; with bruised feeling; with want of spirit, it seems to her as if she were dead. Difficulty in rising from bed, she lay without thinking or moving, but a multitude of pictures passed before her eyes, inactivity, it seemed as if she were carried somewhere else and covered with another person, calm and indifferent, it was also like a picture. Numbness and heaviness. Stiffness of muscles. Aggravation from wine and vinegar; symptoms severe in morning, (>) course of the day, (<) evening. Amelioration from walking and open air. Feels better when lying than when sitting.
Mind
She is averse to all women, but she is attracted towards all men, these symptoms increase to furious delirium. Nervous in morning, averse to children, (<) little girls. Nervous distention and sometimes nervous attacks, great activity of head, sleeplessness every night, strange ideas, forgets what she has to do, dangerous fancies assail her, but she restrains herself from executing them. Agitation till 1.30, then heavy sleep. Return of memory, liveliness, quick intelligence, everything disturbs her. Rage, then depression. Excitement, with sleeplessness all night.
Anxiety, she thought that she should die. Melancholy and numbness; M. on waking, with impulse to weep, then apathy; with irrepressible tears, voice sounds melancholy and eyes have a sad expression; with drawing and throbbing pains running over head, body and limbs, when these pains are felt in abdomen or chest they make her weep. Believes that she has a disease that is not recognized. Capricious mood, stupefaction, sadness and tears alternating with hopefulness, she fears that she will become a burden to every one. Indolence and indifference. Dullness and inclination to weep at the least word.
Inactivity of mind; physical and moral I.., loss of memory, which she tries to recover, and this fatigues her, she goes out and at every step forgets what she was of memory, indifference, horror of noise. Stupefaction when she wishes to pursue a train of thought, she looks at things without seeing them. Memory lost.
Head
When writing shock in brain as when sitting down suddenly and sensation in ears as when diving. Aching on waking between 3 and 4 A.M., and drinking of much water; in morning, with confusion in vertex and forehead, then flushes of heat ending in general external coolness; in morning, (<) occiput, when she presses her hand on occiput the aching becomes general, when placing a finger on middle of occiput tickling, or rather shuddering in back, chest and arms, with loss of thought, appearance of a sheet of water before her eyes; at 12.30 P.M.; in evening, (<) occiput, head fatigued; on waking; after dinner; in open air, (<) skin of frontal eminence, especially l. side; with stupefaction of head.
Pressure inwards upon eyes, extending to behind ears. Brain feels sore from least jar when walking. Confusion, with pressure in forehead. Rush of blood to head and chest at 11 A.M., causing vertigo and cough, preceded by burning. Intoxicated feeling in morning on waking; after dinner, at which she drank only water. Vertigo, with dim vision; in morning; V. in evening, with feeling as if head were bandaged.
Forehead. Pain; in eminence, with sticking; over eyes; in morning, and in occiput; in forepart of head at night on waking; (<) root of nose; (<) over eyes, almost preventing vision; in l. side like a pressure.
Pain in morning in temples, eyes and root of nose, with fatigue as if bruised. Sticking on vertex. Gnawing in occiput, then numbness. Pain in occiput,. throwing head back, when leaning head to l., side sensation if a sharp substance inside which pricks into temple near ear, (>) lifting head; pain in O., a kind of uneasiness, of fatigue, with drawing in it and in neck. Scalp of vertex tight.
Eyes
Red. Sunken. Pricking, heat when shutting them, coldness when opening them, it seems to her that she sees double, that she squints. Smarting and a little lachrymation; S. and burning, with myopia; and redness and agglutination in morning, after shutting them she can scarcely open them on account of her nervous condition, she winks when looking at anything. Itching in l., with deep stitches. Coldness and pressure upon them; C. in l. Pupils dilated. Lower lids oedematous. Fainting. Vision weak, lost in r. eye, when she turns her eye in direction of ear she feels a pain in temple, ear and parietal bon; V. very acute. Far-sighted. Shortsighted. Vision and hearing lost, then vomiting with great effort.
Clinical Distressing twitching of thee eyelids, almost prevents vision, with rotary motion of the ball.
Ears
Sticking in r. Sticking tearing in bones of l. Swollen sensation in posterior part on bending head to l., and when pressing on this spot pain in eye as if it were pulled inward, with drawing in ear corresponding to part pressed on. Stoppage, with fulness as from rush of blood.
Nose
Pointed. Pain in root extending to occiput. Stoppage. Weight on back. Sneezing. Pure blood from it every time she blows it, which clears her head, but it seems as if she did not blow it all out as if there were a deposit deep in nose. Odor of the radish; as of spoiled eau de cologne, or a suppurating spot, or bad oil burning, which seems to come from interior of head or of nose, with gnawing there, and the breath feels burning.
Face
Pale, with expression of anguish; P., with blue circles around eyes. Red and tumid. Yellowish in morning on rising; cheeks Y. Sunken; and livid. Tearing in r. malar-bone; in r. zygoma.
Mouth
Teeth. Lower loose, gum inflamed and ulcerated. Two lower incisors loose and gum ulcerated; and gums violet-colored. Lancinations in l. molars. Pricking and burning. Tearing in molars. Pain in hollow, causing salivation; P., with abscess on gums and another in hollow tooth, decayed teeth loose and lower incisors shake, lower gums black. Excoriating and gnawing pains in T. and gums, T. feel as if made of papier mache. Feeling as if two lower middle incisors were enlarged and starting from gums. Gum black in front of lower incisors, pale behind, with vesicles. Pain in gums and feeling as if they separated from teeth.
Tongue white; coated white; pale reddish-blue, with fissure in centre, pale red points on margins; burning in forepart; heat in root. Taste bitter; pasty; of pepper; bed.
Clinical Neuralgic toothache, shooting pulsating pain in the evening, lying, (<) walking about. Toothache during the early part of pregnancy.
Throat
R. submaxillary gland hard, swollen. Swelling of tonsils, with redness and constriction. Mucus, with cough. Pain in tonsil; in throat, swollen sensation in top of oesophagus, sensations as if a particle of tobacco stuck in oesophagus, owing to a small pimple behind posterior nares; as if alive every evening when air reaches it, sharp pains as if alive in tonsils, uvula, behind nasal fossae and along oesophagus, cramps in neck, nerves of neck behind ear painful, feeling of viscid mucus at bottom of throat, which cough make more adherent, and which breathing appears to loosen.
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.