A tincture is made of the fresh bark of the young twigs of the yellow locust. Robinia pseud-acacia, L. Features and limbs shrunken. Convulsions. There appeared to be muscular pains, as the child cried when its arms were taken hold of. Weak; in morning. Faint; tendency to when moved from a horizontal position. Relief after flatulent stools. Low-spirited. No ambition. Headache; in r. temple; with sharp stitches in temples; throbbing, in forehead; heavy, in forehead, (<) motion and reading; neuralgic, in l. temple, preventing sleep from midnight till day-light. Dullness of head. Inability to support head upright. Eyes sunken. Eyes sore; felt sore and watery. Pupils contracted. Running from nose; continual discharge, with headache and frequent sneezing. Tongue coated white, with red tip; coated whitish-brown, smooth and slimy. Mucous membrane of mouth pale. Throat rough. Dry, scratching sensation in throat. Called for water. Eructations; of sour fluid. Retching. Nausea on sitting up, with efforts to vomit; N., then profuse vomiting of sour fluid; intermittent, in afternoon. Vomiting; violent; in sudden attacks, with purging. Sourness of stomach. Pain in epigastrium; sharp, in stomach day and night. Distress in epigastric region, with cutting in stomach and bowels, and much rumbling; heavy aching D. in stomach; burning in stomach and region of gall-bladder.
Clinical
Acid dyspepsia, with constant weight in the stomach, eructations of sour liquid, sometimes with vomiting. Indigestion, with severe lancinating pains extending from side of the chest to top of shoulder-blade. Intensely acid vomiting; this symptoms has been relieved, even when associated with cancer of the stomach; and numerous cases of acid eructations and vomiting have been cured. Burning in stomach and between the shoulder blades. Indigestion, constant squeezing pain in the stomach after eating, can only eat once a day on account of the distress, backache, weakness, etc.
Distention of abdomen; with flatulence; with pain. Rumbling in abdomen. Abdomen sore on motion and pressure. Stool, with slimy look and bilious tinge. Purging an hour after supper, continuing every few minutes for about an hour, when it changed to urging, but with little success, in another hour stool of a little dark liquid, with tenesmus and pain. Constipation; with frequent ineffectual desire. Voice reduced to a whisper, and the effort to cry very feeble, suddenly ceasing with a sigh, as if from exhaustion. Respiration feeble. Heart’s action feeble; action more embarrassed when moved from a horizontal position. Puls 55; P. almost imperceptible at wrist. Inability to move fingers, hands arms or legs. Body and limbs pale. Urticaria over whole body. Tickling the soles seemed to cause much distress. Lethargy from r. to l. side, also with stinging in temples. Restless sleep on account of frequent sneezing. Cold hands and feet.
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.