Search of Allen’s Key note comparison

Dr Puneet Kumar Misra

Introduction
Allen’s key note
having an important position in the all  homoeoaths  Young and Old or  topmost to the beginner clinician of  homoeopathy . It provide guide in the many way i.e. in the key note form, short summary and vary important its comparison with other remedy on   the basis of identical indication or clinical disorder.   Some other materia medica also based on the comparative discussion of the different remedy i.e. nesh, faringten but the popularity of the  Allen’s key note  have an specific place  in the all homoeopathic clinician. In the present study my focus on merits or demerits of   those disorder which contain four or more than four remedy in the bracket.

Abrotanum

Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially of legs (Iod., Sanic., Tub.);

Ravenous hunger; loosing flesh while eating well (Iod., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.).

Acetic acid

Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic., Tub.).

Aesculus hippo

Stool followed by fullness of rectum and intense pain in anus for hours (Aloe, Ign., Mur. ac., Sulph.).

Agaricus muscarius

Complaints appear diagonally; upper left and lower right side (Ant. t., Stram. – upper right, lower left, Ambr., Brom., Med., Phos., Sul. ac.).

Allium cepa

Nasal polypus (Mar. v., Sang., Sang. nit., Psor.)

Alumina

Inactivity of rectum, even soft stool requires great straining (Anac., Plat., Sil., Ver.).

Ammonium car

Stoppage of nose, mostly at night; must breathe through the mouth, a keynote even in diphtheria; long lasting coryza; “snuffles” of infants (Hep., Nux, Samb., Sticta).

Ammonium muria

Offensive sweat of the feet (Alum., Graph., Psor., Sanic., Sil.).

Argentum nitricum

Sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing (Dolch., Hep., Nit. ac., Sil.); in or about uterus when walking or riding

Arsenicum alb

Complaints return annually (Carbo. v., Lach., Sulph., Thuja).

Arum triphyllum.

Aphonia: complete, after exposure to northwest winds (Acon., Hep.); from singing (Arg. n., Caust., Phos., Sel.).

Asterias rubens

Diarrhoea: watery, brown, gushing out in a violent jet (Crot. t., Grat., Gum., Jatr., Thuja).

Baryta carbonica

Offensive foot sweat; toes and soles get sore; of the heels; throat affections after checked foot sweat (compare, Graph., Psor., Sanic., Sil.).

Borax

Hair becomes frowsy and tangled; splits, sticks together at the tips; if these bunches are cut off, they form again, cannot be combed smooth  (Flour. ac., Lyc., Psor., Tub.).

Calcarea  ostrearum

Stool has to be removed mechanically (Aloe., Sanic., Sel., Sep., Sil.).

Causticum

Rheumatic affections, with contraction of the flexors and stiffness of the joints; tension and shortening of muscles (Am. m., Cimex, Guaiac., Nat.mur.

Cina

Adapted to children with dark hair, very cross, irritable, ill-humored, want to be carried, but carrying gives no relief; does not want to be touched; cannot bear you to come hear it; averse to caresses; desires many things; but rejects everything offered (compare, Ant. t., Bry., Cham., Staph.).

Coffea cruda.

Toothache: intermittent, jerking, relieved by holding ice-water in the mouth, but returns when water becomes warm (Bis., Bry., Puls., Caust., Sep., Nat. s.).

Graphites

Takes cold easily, sensitive to draught of air (Bor., Cal., Hep., Nux).

Sensation of cobwebs on forehead, tries hard to brush it off (Bar., Bor., Brom., Ran. s.).

Helleborus

Weakly, delicate,, psoric children; prone to brain troubles (Bell., Cal., Tub.); with serous effusion

Irritable, easily angered; consolation < (Ign., Nat., Sep., Sil.);

Hepar sulphuris

Sensation of a splinter, fish bone or plug in the throat (Arg. n., Nit. ac.); quinsy, when suppuration threatens; chronic hypertrophy, with hardness of hearing (Bar., Lyc., Plumb., Psor.).

Iodum

Ravenous hunger; eats freely and well, yet loses flesh all the time (Abrot., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.).

Kali carbonicum

After loss of fluids or vitality, particularly in anaemic (Cinch., Phos. ac., Phos., Psor.).

Lachesis

Ailments from long lasting grief; sorrow, fright, vexation, jealousy or disappointed love (Aur., Ign., Phos. ac.).

As soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops (Am. c., Grind., Lac c., Op.).

Lac caninum

Very forgetful, absent-minded; makes purchases and walks away without them (Agnus, Anac., Caust., Nat.).

In writing, uses too many words or not the right ones; omits final letter or letters in a word; cannot concentrate the mind to read or study; very nervous (Bov., Graph., Lach., Nat. c., Sep.).

Despondent, hopeless; thinks her disease incurable; has not a friend living; nothing worth living for; could weep at any moment (Act., Aur., Cal., Lach.).

Cross, irritable; child cries and screams all the time, especially at night (Jal., Nux, Psor.).

Very hungry, cannot eat enough to satisfy; as hungry after eating as before (Casc., Cal., Cina, Lyc., Stront.). Sinking in epigastrium; faintness in stomach.

Discharge of flatus from vagina (Brom., Lyc., Nux m., Sang.).

Sexual organs easily excited, from touch, pressure on sitting, or friction by walking (Cinn., Coff., Mur., Plat.).

Lyssin

Cannot bear heat of sun (Gels., Glon., Lach., Nat.).

Magnesia carbonica

Unrefreshing sleep, more tired on rising than when retiring (Bry., Con., Hep., Op., Sulph.).

Magnesia phosphoric

Affections of right side of body; head, ear, face, chest, ovary, sciatic nerve (Bell., Bry., Chel., Kali c., Lyc., Pod

Natrum carbonicum

Aversion to milk; diarrhoea from it. Bearing down as if everything would come out (Agar., Lil., Mur., Sep.); heaviness, < sitting, > by moving

Natrum muraticum

Tongue: mapped, with red insular patches; like ringworm on sides (Ars., Lach., Mer., Nit. ac., tarax.); heavy, difficult speech, children slow in learning to walk.

Constipation: sensation of contraction of anus; torn, bleeding, smarting afterwards; stool, dry, hard, difficult, crumbling (Am. c., Mag. m.); stitches in rectum (Nit. ac.); involuntary, knows not whether flatus or faeces escape (Aloe, Iod., Mur. ac., Olean., Pod.).

Urticaria, acute or chronic; over whole body; especially after violent exercise (Apis, Cal., Hep., Sanic., Urt.).

Phytolacca

Hastens suppuration (Hep., Lach., Mer., Sil.).

Pulsatilla

Pains: drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting from one part to another (Kali bi., Lac c., Mang. a.);

Diarrhoea: only, or usually at night, watery, greenish-yellow, very changeable; soon as they eat; from fruit, cold food or drinks, ice-cream (Ars., Bry.; eating pears, Ver., China; onions, Thuja; oysters, Brom., Lyc.; milk, Cal., Nat. c., Nic., Sul.; drinking impure water, Camp., Zing.).

Rhododendron

Nervous persons who dread a storm and are particularly afraid of thunder; < before a storm, especially an electrical storm (Nat. c., Phos., Psor., Sil.).

Sanguinaria can

Headaches, return at the climacteric; every seventh day (Sabad., Sil., Sulph. – eight day, Iris).

Eruption on face of young women, especially during scanty menses (Bellis, Cal., Eug. j., Psor.).

Sanicula aqua

Burning of soles of feet; must uncover or put them in a cool place (Lach., Med., Sang., Sulph.).

Emaciation, progressive; child looks old, dirty, greasy and brownish; skin about neck wrinkled, hangs in folds (Abrot., Iod., Nat. m., Sars.).

Sarsaparilla offi

Great emaciation: skin becomes shriveled or lies in folds (Abrot., Iod., Nat. m., Sanic.).

Severe, almost unbearable pain at conclusion of urination (Berb., Equis., Med., Thuja).

Selenium met

Constipation: stool large, hard, impacted so that it requires mechanical aid (Aloe, Cal., Sanic., Sep., Sil.);

Sepia off

Prolapsus of uterus and vagina; pressure and bearing down as if everything would protrude from pelvis; must cross limbs tightly to “sit close” to prevent it; with oppression of breathing (compare Agar., Bell., Lil., Murex, Sanic.).

Erythism; flushes of heat from least motion; with anxiety and faintness; followed by perspiration over whole body;       climacteric (Lach., Sang., Sulph., Tub.); ascends, from pelvic organs.

Silicea

 Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates (Graph., Hep., Merc., Petr.).

Staphysagria

Apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory from sexual abuses (Anac., Aur., Nat., Phos. ac.).

Sulphuricum acidum

Sensation as if the brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side (Bell., Bry., Rhus, Spig.).

Haemorrhage of black blood from all the outlets of the body (Crot., Mur. ac., Nit. ac., Ter.).

Syphilinum

Hereditary tendency to alcoholism (Asar., Psor., Tuber., Sulph., Sulph. ac.).

Theridion curassavicum

Violent stitches in upper left chest, below the scapula, extending to neck (Anis., Myr., Pix, Sulph.).

Tuberculinum

Emaciation rapid and pronounced; losing flesh while eating well (Abrot., Calc., Con., Iod., Nat.).

Discussion

  • In the above observations 44 remedy more the 60 place show the similar issue contain four or more than four remedy in the bracket
  • Many issue are very helpful during rapid selection of remedy for the treatment provide the summary in one line like mentioned point-  Unrefreshing sleep, more tired on rising than when retiring ,such type point help in the inclusion/exclusion of disorder as well as selection  of the remedy when fast aid is required .
  • This pattern of  Allen’s also provide an narrow  range rapid reckoner  reparatory of   remedy on the particular disorder .
  • On the many place the discus issue are not clear and not  provide any guide to the clinician for the selection of the remedy mean while – Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates, such kind of disorder need more information for the inclusion/exclusion of character of  disorder or for selection of medicine .
  • Few point are confuse the clinician for imagination of disorder picture i.e. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism
  • Few medicine are not describe in the Allen’s but present in the bracket –pix , anis or   J are more .
  • The polycrest medicine are few in the above point while narrow use medicine have more number
  • in some disorder the medicine present   in the bracket but when go through the particular medicine on  that issue  found missing

 Conclusion
When we scrutiny the Allen’s  key note, we found that it is not only an materia medica  it is the combo of  materia medica   and   narrow  range rapid ready reckoner  of reparatory. As per above discussion it is found that many compression are very useful for the clinician but some are meaning less. The  grouping  of the remedy also provide an good  tools of the examiners of the various competitive examination for preparation of questions ,ultimately it is the need of time when  of  Allen’s key note study   we very  carefully  for the   group of remedy and its use or confusion .

Reference –

  • C.Allen ,H.C.Allen’s keynotes and characteristics with comparisons of some leading remedies of the materia medica with bowel nosodes , 8th edition 49th impression 2018,published by kuldeep jain for B.Jain publishers (p)ltd. Noida up india ISBN 978-81-319-0349-0
  • C.Allen , Allen’s keynote rearranged and classified with leading remedies of the materia medica and bowel nosodes 10th edition reprint edition 2008 published by kuldeep jain for B.Jain publishers (p)ltd. Noida up india SBN 978-81-319-0088-8

Dr Puneet Kumar Misra B.Sc, BHMS
Lecturer(Practice of Medicine)
Govt Pt J LN H M C  Kanpur

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