A tincture is made of the seeds of (Veratrum Sabadilla, Schl.), Schoenocaulon officinale, A. Gr. (Cevadilla seeds.). Allies. Like its near relative, Veratrum album, it is an acrid emetic and cathartic, with a very decided action on the nose; it seems to lack the violent thirst of Verat and in some respects more resembles Pulsatilla (Relief in the open air is a strongly marked character throughout the symptomatology.)
Generalities
Convulsions. Jerking of upper lip, then of hands, fingers or thighs, (<) l. side, and always from r. to l. Starting at the least noise. Trembling. Sticking, now here, now there; S. under skin, (<) about fingers and toes; burning crawling, here and there; beating, in several parts, almost like pressure, sometimes pinching, returning after four or seven beats of pulse. Pain in all bones, (<) joints, as if scraped and cut, all day (see Ph-ac.), (<) r. arm, (<) cold, transiently (>) moving arm rapidly and in warmth and at night. Boring behind l. ear in parotid lower jaw and submaxillary glands. Bruised pain in various parts; B. feeling, she would like to lie all the time, walking and standing are very distressing. Many pains are felt in r., then l. side, or extend from r. to l., for instance, headache, pain in side, pain in limbs.
Indisposition without pain. Discomfort towards evening and falling asleep, worried in sleep by all sorts of strange thoughts, no images in his dreams. Pulsation in all vessels in evening before sleep. Anxious restlessness. Weakness; in morning on waking, with pain as if she had lain on blocks of wood starts up in fright, then heaviness of head; (>) lying down, with heaviness; with desire to lie and sleep all the time; sudden, with closure of eyes; sudden, in the street after a short walk, with Dullness of head as if he had taken liquor, and closure of eyes. Aggravation in last hours of forenoon especially pains in joints, weakness and drowsiness; of pain by cold, with discomfort. Amelioration when lying.
Clinical Convulsive symptoms, especially in children with worms. General aggravation at the same hour each day. General sensitiveness to cold, which aggravates.
Mind
She lay almost speechless and unconscious of else sprang up with anxious restlessness and ran about the room, pulling at the pit of stomach and at neck, face sunken, pale and anxious. He imagined strange things about his own body that it had shrunk like that of a dead person, that his stomach was corroded, that the scrotum was swollen, etc., but he knew that it was all fanciful. Mind excited, but disposition cold, afterwards understanding depressed, he comprehends with difficulty, but disposition is more easily excited. Rage. Vexed; and inclined to be vehement. Gloomy, as if he were the greatest criminal. Absorbed in reverie all day. Indisposed to work. Cheerful. Thought difficult and caused headache, otherwise inclined to laugh at everything, afterwards indifferent.
Clinical It has been found useful for imaginary disease, that is to say a mental condition in which the patient imagines he has various troubles.
Head
Sticking, (<) forehead. Pain from fixed attention; P. (<) walking, on returning to the house screwing pain beginning in r. side of head and extending over whole head after going to bed; with heaviness so that he could scarcely raise it; itching, (<) forehead; in different parts of brain as if pressed against sharp corners, in evening when reading; pressing asunder; P. inward from all sides. Dull and heavy, as if he must hold it all the time. Confusion. Stupefaction. Vertigo; in morning after rising, greater when sitting than when walking; in afternoon till after dinner, (>) resting head on table, with nausea; on going to bed; (<) rising from a seat; greater when sitting than when standing; ad if he would faint, with obscuration of vision.
Forehead. Sticking in l. eminence; tearing, externally on l. side. Pain; above l. eye, then also in temple; in sinciput, (>) pressure of palm on forehead, heat in F., then coldness in hairy scalp, even the hair felt cold to hand, as if cold water had been poured over head; in sinciput and temples, with dizziness and occasional stitches in back, then drawing; in skin ascending to vertex, with vertigo in F.; tensive, with pressure; above eyes, as if brain would fall forward; as if thread had been drawn from middle of F. to occiput above temple, leaving burning; beating, in r., then l. side; beating, in r., afterwards more in upper part, then headache all day; like heaviness, next day in whole head, (>) staring or reflecting. Heaviness in forepart of r. side, extending towards, l. side and finally over whole head, (<) motion, when it is a sort of vertigo. Stupefying oppression, causing a reeling sensation and making him stagger. Dull sensation as from a blow, not exactly a pain, with heaviness of limbs.
Temples. Sticking; in r.; externally in l.; and in scalp. Pain; in l.; pressure towards r. bone; P. outward in r.; downward in l.; P. extending towards vertex and thence to lowest part of occiput. Painful beating in l.
Pain in r. side of vertex. Pain in r. hemisphere, extending to l. lower molars. Sticking in r. side of occiput, in region of lambdoidal suture, when walking in open air. Pain as if something were thrust from upper part of occiput through brain to forehead. Pressure forward in O., with vertigo. Pain in l. side of O. as if a wound were pressed. Burning pain in scalp. Tension of scalp, (<) during fever. Itching of scalp; on vertex; when perspiring during a walk, with crawling, (>) scratching, with burning.
Clinical Sudden vertigo on waking at night, sometimes when rising from stooping. Headaches (>) eating.
Eyes
Surrounded by blue rings. Painful drawing upward in r. E. and temple. Intermittent corrosive burning in l., returning after a few pulsations. Lachrymation as soon as pain is felt in any part of body; L. when walking in open air, when looking at a bright light, coughing or yawning. Pressure upon balls, (<) looking upward, (>) looking down. Hard mucus in external canthi about noon. Margins of lids red and sensation in eyes as if inflammation would arise.
Ears
Sticking in l.; in lobule of r.; burning-crawling, behind E. Pain internally. Burning itching in interior of lobules. Obstructed sensation. Crackling; and otalgia. Humming before dinner, on forcing air into it; H. and buzzing, with sometimes a sensation as if something heavy had fallen upon the floor and burst, then ringing.
Nose
Constructive biting as from mustard. Itching tingling. Sensitive dryness of upper part. Obstruction of one nostril, with whistling in the other during inspiration; O. of one or other nostril, the air has to be forced out with a snuffing noise and is drawn in with great effort, with snoring. Sneezing shaking the abdomen, then lachrymation; S., with sticking contractive headache over eyes and red margins of lids. Copious, thin, thickish, whitish, transparent mucus, sometimes in large lumps, on blowing slightly, without catarrh, later frequent blowing of nose because it is full of viscid, yellowish-grayish mucus. Bleeding.
Clinical Influenza, with violent spasmodic sneezing and lachrymation on being in the open air, with symptoms of tonsillitis beginning on l. side extending to r., pains (<) empty swallowing. Rose-cold or hay-fever, with burning and stinging and complete obstruction, watery discharge, itching and tingling in nose, nose swollen, eyes watery (Veratrum alb).
Face
Jaws, rattling in joints as if loose, in morning on opening mouth, (<) r.; pain in lower on touch, as from swollen glands; drawing, and in teeth; beating in muscles of l. upper, with itching. Stinging in lips, gums and tip of tongue, with bitterness and repulsive sweetness. Sore tensive pain in median line of upper lip in morning after waking, as from a crack, or as if it were drawn together and upward with a string, the tension (>) pressing lip with incisors, then only soreness, afterwards it is seen that the epidermis is torn and retracted. Burning of lips; with itching, tingling and prickling.
Mouth
A carious molar becomes more carious and breaks, without pain. Sticking downward in r. upper teeth; S. in an anterior l. lower molar, extending towards ear; in a r. lower molar, extending into submaxillary glands. Intermittent beating in teeth, (<) walking, with drawing. Paroxysmal painful jerking in gums.
Tongue. Coated mostly whitish-yellowish, (<) middle and posteriorly; C. white, tip and gums are bluish. Intermittent pinching stitches in tip, (<) r. ride. Feels sore and as if full of blisters. Burning pain through r. side of tip, then spitting and taste as unripe fruit. Burning on tip; with soreness of throat, (<) swallowing saliva, leaving burning when drinking.
Burning, crawling, stinging in palate. Intermittent pain inside l. cheek, where teeth touch. Mouth and tip of tongue felt sore and scalded. Salivation; with nausea and retching; sweetish; (astringent, metallic). Hot breath. Taste flat, bitter; bitter, rising from throat to nose, (>) a meal; flat, bitter; sweet as after liquorice; repulsive, burning, sweetish, (<) the customary smoking, (>) eating; T. and appetite lost.
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.