A tincture is made of the root of Rheum of officinale, Baillon.
General Action
An active cathartic not inflaming the mucous membrane, but stimulating peristalsis. Constipation follows its catharsis.
Alies. Coloc., Mag-c., Sulphur
Generalities
Twitching in morning. Discomfort. Weakness; when walking. Heaviness of whole body after sleep; as after deep sleep; as from too little sleep.
Clinical In general, there is an acid condition of the system, the whole body smells sour, the discharges are and fermented.
Mind
Excitement. Talking nonsense. Moaning, anxiety, ill humor. Silence, nothing makes an impression on him; S. and sulky. Child impatiently desires many things and cries. Gloomy, he cannot continue long at one occupation. Indolent and laconic; I. in morning after sleep, and pinching and tensive pain transversely across forepart of head, State at if half asleep. Inability to collect her senses for a long time.
Head
Aching; them tearing extending into occiput; beating; tense, dizzy, spreading over brain, (<) vertex and in temples; as if stupefied and distorted, (<) motion and stooping, with anxiety as if he had committed a crime. Confusion; with puffy eyes, then pain above one orbit, with dilated pupils; as after intoxication. Heaviness when walking with intermittent tearing in it; H., with sultry heat rising into it. On stooping sensation as if brain moved. Vertigo; as if one would fall to the side, when standing.
Forehead. Pain over forepart of skull; drawing, deep, behind eminences; beating, in forepart of head, (<) standing. Obscuration on forepart of head, a drawing about in it. Inclination to wrinkle it
Sticking above temples. Pulsative pinching now in l., now in r. temporal bone and over crown. Pain in r. side, (<) vertex and temple. Pressure as with a finger at point where head unites neck. Crawling in temporal region.
Eyes
Beating pain. Biting in l. as from a foreign substance before sleep, with lachrymation. Seem dull and on looking long at anything aching as if they were weak. Lachrymation in open air. Contraction of pupils, with internal uneasiness; at time greater, at another less contraction. Agglutination after sleep. Gland on margin of upper lid, causing pressive and burning pain. Pressure on lids, even when closed. Drawing in lids.
Ears
Crackling and bubbling, perceptible even to hand, and in muscles in side of neck. Squeezing in l., with itching. Pressure as from a finger in meatus. Throbbing at times when writing, (<) stooping. Roaring in r., transiently (>) violent swallowing, with dull hearing and sensation as if drum were relaxed.
Nose and Face
Drawing, stupefied pain along root, causing crawling in tip. One check pale, the other red, or both pale. Tensive sensation in skin of face. Drawing gushing sensation in r. lower jaw, extending into r. temple.
Mouth
Teeth blunt; burrowing in hollow T., with elongation and looseness; pain in l. upper incisors, with coldness; pain in l. molars, with coldness, causing salivation. Mouth covered with offensive mucus after sleep. Dryness, without desire to drink. Offensive breath after sleep. Taste sour; insipid; bitter to food; bad after sleep; lost, and tongue insensible.
Throat
Hawking and spitting. Contraction of pharynx.
Stomach
Appetite great, yet the food that was relished soon became repulsive; hunger without real A.; diminished; lost. Food soon becomes repulsive, though there is a tolerably good appetite. Aversion for certain things (for example, fat, insipid food), yet desire for various things, but he cannot eat much because they become repulsive. Coffee in repulsive unless very sweet. Thirst. Eructations. Nausea; in epigastric region; which colic; with contractive sensation in stomach; with retching.
Sticking in pit; in side near pit. Fulness as if he had eaten to satiety, sometimes followed by sleepiness. Pressure as if filled with food; P. in pit after sleep, that on inspiration extended over sternum and changed to bruised pain. Throbbing in pit, with rhythmical gurgling.
Abdomen
Distention; after eating. Rumbling; and gurgling. Twitching of muscles. Flatulence; rising to chest and there causing tension and pressure. Emission of Flatus; offensive, with relief. Nausea. Cutting; in morning in bed, on uncovering, with emission of flatus; after dinner, (>) bending over,, standing; twinging, transversely across. Griping; with ineffectual urging to stool from inactivity of rectum; then emission of flatus. Pain; before and during stool, (>) stool; (<) plums; as if full of liquid, on inspiration. Hammering mounting into head. Tension. Gushing gurgling sensation, which seemed as if it could be heard. Warmth, with pain on pressure.
Pressure in region of spleen. Umbilical region, cutting; griping; pressure; intestines seem to press outward. Itching stitches in the last inguinal gland. Pain in ring as if a hernia would protrude, when walking. Pressure as with tip of thumb in pubis region. Tension in l. side above pubis after a meal.
Rectum and Anus
Desire for stool after a meal (Chamomilla); D. (<) moving about; then thin offensive stool, with colic, then ineffectual tenesmus, later another stool, after rising from stool the urging, which had gradually subsided, returned more violent than ever, and the pain in abdomen which accompanied the stool became worse; partly ineffectual. partly with soft stool. Tenesmus. Urging. Pain in region of anus as after continued diarrhoea.
Stool
Semi-liquid, forcible, frequent, followed by tenesmus and burning in anus; S., brown, frequent, followed by tenesmus, pain in back and burning in rectum. Diarrhoea, with mucus. Pasty, sour-smelling (Dulcamara), then shivering (Pulsatilla), then urging, with constriction in intestines. First part soft, then hard, preceded and accompanied by cutting. First part hard, last liquid. Constipation. Mingled with mucus. Of grayish mucus.
Clinical Diarrhoea, sour-smelling, brown and frothy, sometimes excoriating, especially during teething, preceded by colic and followed by tenesmus, with desire for all sorts of food of which one can but little. Diarrhoea, with colic, tenesmus, alternate chill, heat and thirst, sweat, weakness; stools like chopped eggs, with sour odor, color green.
Urinary Organs
Burning in bladder and kidneys. Bladder weak, must press when urinating else the urine cannot be completely evacuated. Urging. Desire to urinate every half hour. Tenesmus during micturition, tickling in urethra and dragging towards bladder. Micturition frequent and profuse. Micturition burning. Prickling in urethra during micturition. Urine bright yellow, tinged with green; reddish-yellow, as in jaundice and high fever; dark, of an agreeable benzoic odor; dark red, almost brown, thickish, warm and of an agreeable odor; increased; increased and light-colored.
Sexual Organs
Emissions.
Respiratory Organs
Cough, with expectoration of mucus; dry C. in evening. Dyspnoea, on taking a deep breath the chest cannot expand sufficiently, as from a weight below throat.
Chest
Yellow, bitter milk in a nursing woman. Sticking; in r. side; in nipples; sudden, below last ribs during inspiration and expiration. Aching in nipples, caused by flatulence in abdomen; tightening, across sternum, with at times stitches; burning, in l. side of sternum. Contraction. Audible crackling bubbling, as of vesicles, in l., then in r. pectoral muscles. (Oppression.)
Pulse
Rapid.
Back
Tension, cutting in lumbar vertebrae, (<) stool; C. in l. lumbar region. Cutting drawing in lumbar region, beneath l. short ribs, and in l. side of hypogastrium above pubis, on digging in intestines. Stiffness in sacrum and hips, with inability to walk straight.
Extremities
Pain in all joints during motion. (Fatigue.) Falling asleep of those upon which he lies.
Upper Extremities
Sticking in arms. Tearing in upper arms and finger-joints. Elbow, twitching sensation in r.; gushing gurgling sensation. Forearms, muscles seem contracted, with tremulous motion of hands; tearing; sensation in lower side as if about to fall asleep. Hands, swollen veins; involuntarily stretched above head before falling asleep; tearing across from thumb to little finger. Sticking tearing in thumb.
Lower Extremities
Thigh, twitching of various fibres on posterior part when muscles were extended while sitting and on drawing up knees while lying; weariness. Knee, sticking in l. when walking; drawing-down weary pain in hollow of l. when standing; tensive pain in hollow of l., extending to heel; painless gurgling in hollows, extending to heels; gushing gurgling sensation in hollows; weary tension in hollow of r.; stiffness, with pain on motion.
Intermittent burning pain between inner malleolus and tendo- achillis, Gurgling extending down leg, with other. (Sprained sensation in l. ankle in morning on stepping upon it.) Tearing transversely across instep, with sticking. Sticking in l. sole above little toe. Gushing crackling sensation in ball of l. great toe.
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.