Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Robinia Pseudacacia rob.
General
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 it 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 right temple; with sharp stitches in temples; throbbing, in forehead; heavy, in forehead, agg. motion and reading; neuralgic, in left temple, preventing sleep from midnight till daylight. ▶ 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 symptom 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. ▶ Pulse 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. ▶ Sleepiness, with dullness in limbs and head, changing from right to left side, also with stinging in temples. ▶ Restless sleep on account of frequent sneezing. ▶ Cold hands and feet.