A tincture is made of the stinging nettle.
Generalities
Symptoms returned at the same time every year.
Head
Aching, (<) over eyes; A., with stitches in region of spleen. Fulness, sensation of rush of blood and Dullness; F. all day, with giddiness, like a rush of blood. Pain in r. side of sinciput; and in r. side of face, extending to malar-bone; over r. eye and in eye-ball; over eyes during the day and evening; neuralgic, in r. side of forehead and face at 9 P.M. Stinging pain in r. parietal bone forcing me to rub and press it. Pain in occiput and over eyes.
Eyes
Pain in r.; in l. at 3 P.M.; in balls as from a blow, with feeling as if sand were in eyes. Feel weak and sore.
Throat
Burning; with frequent hawking of frothy mucus; causing cough, expectoration scanty, frothy.
Stomach and Abdomen
Nausea. Soreness of abdomen at 10 A.M. when lying and on pressure sound as if full of water. Pain in l. hypochondrium at 10 P.M.
Anus and Stool
Haemorrhoid, with raw burning in anus during and after stool, and in afternoon and evening itching and burning. Stool omitted in morning, but at 2 P.M. scanty dysenteric stool, a greenish- brown slime, with urging and tenesmus, afterwards constipation, then small stool with straining, later dysentery, frequent urging, small painful stool, mucus mixed with white matter like boiled white of eggs, at times a little blood, pain in abdomen for a week; S. omitted for three days, then six hours after Nux vomica a natural stool, four hours later several dysenteric stools of whitish slime, with pain around umbilicus, then for the next five days daily two to four white and yellow stools mixed with mucus, with colic and tenesmus.
Chest and Pulse
Sore feeling as from a blow in l. side of chest; intermittent soreness in r. side during the day. Pulse accelerated by six beats.
Extremities
Rheumatic pain in arms and ankles, (<)r. arm. Pain in r. deltoid, (<) 9 P.M., could not put on his coat alone; cramplike, in r. deltoid in evening, (<) rotating arm inward, with soreness to touch, with rheumatic feeling in l. arm, next day aggravation of the pain in r. arm by lying on it, and on moving it a stitch darted through the arm, the pain extended over front of humerus, and at times a similar but lighter pain in l. arm, muscles of r. arm feel sore as if bruised, cannot raise or stretch r. arm on account of pain, afterwards rheumatic stiffness and pain in r. wrist later rheumatic pain in l. arm, wrist and fingers. Stiff soreness on inside of l. knee.
Skin
Itching swellings all over fingers and hands, resembling “bold hives;” lumps and red spots on hands and fever blisters on lips, itching. Heat in skin of face, arms, shoulder and chest, with formication, numbness and itching, lips nose and ears swollen lids so oedematous that they could scarcely be opened, after a while upper part of body as far as navel oedematous and pale, transparent blisters filled with serum and looking like sudamina, becoming confluent and making the skin look wrinkled, lids closed, forming transparent, here and there bluish shining swellings as large as hen’s eggs, the woman, who had no children for three years and a half and had nursed none of her children, had at first great swelling of breasts, which discharged serum, then copious milk, urine suppressed for eight days, everything disappeared with desquamation.
Sleep and Fever
Drowsiness when reading. General heat on getting into bed, with soreness over abdomen.
Clinical It has been found valuable for absence of milk after confinement (Ricinus). Pruritus of the vulva; of the scrotum; of the perineum. General urticaria, with intolerable itching and burning especially from eating shell-fish. Whooping cough has been cured.
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.