Robinia Pseudacacia rob.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Secretions. Stomach.

Worse

Eating. Night. Fats.

General

Acridity; sour taste; sour stomach; acid belching; vomitus so sour it sets the teeth on edge or dulls them. Acid dyspepsia. Waterbrash. Burning in stomach and between scapulæ. Squeezing in stomach. Sick headache.

Related

Related: Iris. Mag-c.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Yellow Locust (ROBINIA)

General

The remedy for hperchlorhydria. In cases where albuminoid digestion is too rapid and starch digestion is perverted. The gastric symptoms with the most pronounced acidity are well authenticated, and are the guiding symptoms. The acidity of Robinia is accompanied by frontal headache. Intensely acrid eructations. Acrid and greenish vomiting, colic and flatulence, nightly burning pains in stomach and constipation with urgent desire.--Acidity of children. Stools and perspiration sour. Incarcerated flatus.

Head

Dull, throbbing, frontal pain; worse, motion and reading. Gastric headache with acid vomiting.

Stomach

Dull, heavy aching. Nausea; sour, eructations; profuse vomiting of an intensely sour fluid (Sulph ac). Great distention of stomach and bowels. Flatulent colic (Cham; Diosc). Sour stools; child smells sour.

Female

Nymphomania. Acrid, fetid leucorrhœa. Discharge of blood between menstrual periods. Herpes on vagina and vulva.

Relationship

Magnes phos; Arg nit; Orexine tannate. (Hyperchlorhydria; deficient acid and slow digestion; 14 hourly doses)

Dose

Third potency. Must be continued a long time.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Excessive acidity of the stomach; vomits substance that sets teeth on edge.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Robinia pseud-acacia. Common or False Acacia. North American Locust. N. O. Leguminosæ. Tincture of fresh root bark. Tincture of fresh bark of young twigs. Trituration of the beans.

Clinical

Acidity. Coryza. Dyspepsia. Flatulence. Headache, gastric. Hyperchlorhydria. Indigestion, nocturnal. Intermittents. Neuralgia. Pyrosis. Stomach, affections of. Urticaria.

Characteristics

The roots of Robinia (says Treas. of Bot .) "have the taste and smell of liquorice, but are a dangerous poison, and accidents have occurred from their being mistaken for liquorice roots." The poisonings that have been recorded have been due to eating the beans or chewing the bark. Of thirty-two boys so poisoned ( H. R ., iv. 72) in the mildest cases there occurred ─ Vomiting of ropy mucus, dilatation of pupils, dry throat, flushed face. In the severest the vomit was more copious and mixed with blood; with retching, epigastric pains, debility, stupor, cold extremities, dusky pallor, heart's action feeble, intermittent, extremities pulseless. Recovery took place in two days. The provings of Burt and Spranger have developed the symptoms which have led to the chief clinical uses, but some of Houatt's symptoms have also been confirmed. The chief keynote of Rob . is acidity , especially if the time of aggravation is night . Cooper has observed improvement which was going on under Rob . cease at night-time. Sour stomach; vomiting of intensely sour fluid which set the teeth on edge. Eructations of a very sour fluid. Clinical experience has added to these: Sour stools of infants, with sour smell of body and vomiting of sour milk. Heartburn and acidity coming on when lying down at night and preventing sleep. Halbert ( Clinique , March, 1899, H. W ., xxxiv. 373) relates a case of hyperchlorydria treated with Rob .: Mrs. S., 40, had had stomach troubles many years, for which she had had bitter tonics, stomach douchings, electric massage. She had acid eructations and vomitings of intensely sour food; extreme appetite, but gastric pains an hour or two after meals; stomach and bowels distended with gas almost constantly, and flatulence was extremely irritating. Craved meats, but could not tolerate vegetables; craved solid food, but did not dare take it. Emaciated and cachectic. Meat, eggs, and milk was the diet prescribed. Lavage was performed every alternate day, and after it the patient was directed to eat a full meal; Rob . 3x was given every two hours, and steady improvement occurred in all particulars, till health was practically restored. Burt had a severe neuralgia in left temple, preventing sleep from midnight to daylight. He had also a "dull, heavy aching in stomach," and a "constant dull, heavy frontal headache, much < by motion and reading. The combination of gastric and head symptoms has placed Rob . among the chief remedies in migraine and sick headaches. Among Houatt's symptoms was a facial neuralgia spreading to eyes, forehead, with contraction of the jaw and features; and also a sensation as if the jaws would be dislocated or fractured. Hering gives this case of neuralgia as having been cured with Rob .: "jawbone feels as if disarticulated; intensely sour taste and vomiting." The paralytic symptoms were very marked in one of the poisoning cases. Flatulence and diarrhœa were produced, and also constipation, with constant ineffectual urging. Among the Peculiar Sensations are: As if brain revolved. As if head were full of boiling water. As if brain struck against skull. Jawbone as if disarticulated. Stomach as if scalded. As if whole body would pass away with stool. The left side was most affected. A sleepy, dull feeling in head and limbs changed from right to left. A. L. Fisher (quoted H. R ., iv. 27) has relieved with Rob ., when everything else failed, the intensely acid vomiting in four cases of gastric cancer. Millspaugh points out that Trifol. prat ., which is a domestic remedy for cancer, is a near botanical ally of Rob . The symptoms are < by touch (neuralgia from contact of food), < by motion. < By reading (headache), < Lying down (heartburn and acidity). < Being raised from the horizontal (nausea and vomiting). < Night. < From fat, gravies, flatulent food, cabbages, turnips, new bread, ice-cream, raw fruit, &c.; they = gastric headache.

Relations

Compare: Laburn. In acidity, Rhe., Calc., Æth., Mg. c., Puls. In neuralgia, Ars., Chi. Flatulence, Chi., Carb. v., Lyc. Ineffectual urging to stool, Nux. Gastric headaches, Ir. v. Jawbone as if dislocated, Rhus. Changing sides, Lac c. (Rob. right to left). Heart, Phaseol. Dilated pupils, dry throat, and flushed face, Bell.

Mind

Very low-spirited. ─ Excessively irritable. ─ Tried to write but could not (agg. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Can hardly tell what she is doing (agg. ─ R. T. C.).

Head

Vertigo and dulness of head in whatever position it is placed. ─ Sensation as if brain revolved, < lying on r. side. ─ Vertigo with unsteadiness and nausea. ─ Unable to hold his head upright; on eighteenth day could hold it up for a time, but it dropped if the effort was long continued (in a child who ate locust beans). ─ Constant dull, heavy, frontal headache, much < by motion and reading. ─ Dull headache: with profuse nasal discharge and frequent sneezing; with sharp stitches in temples. ─ Steady headache with sensation as if head full of boiling water; as if brain struck against skull when moving. ─ Sick headache, with sour stomach; from fat meat, gravies, flatulent food, cabbage, turnips, warm bread, pastry, ice-creams, raw fruits, &c. ─ Severe neuralgic pain in l. temple, preventing sleep from midnight to daylight.

Eyes

Eyes sunk. ─ Eyes sore, watery; with rough throat. ─ Pupils contracted (in poisoning cases dilated).

Nose

Profuse continual discharge from nostrils, with sneezing and dull headache. ─ Wax-like tumour on nose.

Face

Neuralgic faceache, spreading to eyes, forehead, ears, and teeth, changing the whole features. ─ Spasmodic pains in jaws, feels as if they would be broken or disarticulated; intensely sour taste in mouth. ─ Face flushed (in mild poisoning cases); dusky pallor (in severe cases).

Mouth

Burning, lancinating pains, esp. in carious teeth, spreading to cheeks, eyes, and temples, < at night or on contact of food, esp. if cold or spiced; teeth become loosened from the spongy and easily bleeding gums. ─ White coating on tongue, with red tip. ─ Tongue covered with whitish-brown fur, smooth and slimy. ─ Mucous membrane of mouth pale.

Throat

Dry scratching in throat. ─ Dryness of throat, with flushing of face. ─ Rough soreness. ─ Roughness, with sore eyes.

Stomach

Thirst. ─ Constant eructations of a very sour fluid. ─ Heartburn and acidity of stomach at night on lying down. ─ Regurgitation of acid and bitter substances, everything turns to acid. ─ Nausea for three hours, followed by vomiting of an intensely sour fluid. ─ Nausea and attempts to vomit when placed in sitting posture. ─ Water taken before eating, at night, returned in morning green and sour. ─ Vomiting of intensely sour fluid, setting teeth on edge. ─ Vomiting of ropy mucus; tinged with blood; retching and epigastric pains. ─ Vomiting, with slight convulsions. ─ Sour stomach. ─ Dull, heavy, aching dulness in stomach. ─ Very severe, sharp pains in stomach all day and night.

Abdomen

Constant dulness in epigastric region, with cutting pains in stomach and bowels and a good deal of rumbling. ─ Burning distress in stomach and region of gall-bladder. ─ Bowels greatly distended with flatulence, seemed to fill up whole abdomen; tympanites; > passing flatus. ─ Soreness in bowels when moving or by pressure.

Stool and Anus

Desire for stool, but only flatus passes; finally constipated stool. ─ Sour stools of infants, with sour smell from body and vomiting of sour milk. ─ Diarrhœic stools, yellow, green, burning, with nervous agitation, weakness, cold sweat, dyspnœa. ─ Stools: loose, black, fetid, with great tenesmus; watery, whitish, excessively frequent and generally involuntary, with sensation as if whole body would pass away with stool; heat, and pressure in epigastrium; cramps. ─ Sudden attacks of purging and vomiting. ─ The daily motion has a slimy look and bilious tinge. ─ Bowels costive, with frequent ineffectual desire for stool.

Urinary Organs

Urine scanty and painful; or profuse and turbid.

Female Sexual Organs

Nymphomania; whitish, greenish, yellowish, thick, and acrid, purulent leucorrhœa, with tumefaction and bruised feeling in neck of womb and general prostration; ulcerative pains in vagina, with acrid, yellowish leucorrhœa of most fetid smell. ─ Hard swelling of womb. ─ Cramps in womb. ─ Menses too late, black. ─ Hæmorrhage between the periods, accompanied by purulent leucorrhœa. ─ Eruptions and ulcers like herpes on vagina and vulva.

Respiratory Organs

Voice reduced to a whisper and efforts to cry exceedingly feeble, suddenly ceasing with a slight sigh, as if from exhaustion. ─ Feeble respiration.

Heart

Heart's action very feeble; embarrassed when moved from horizontal position. ─ Almost pulseless.

Limbs

Could not move in slightest degree fingers, hands, arms, or legs; later could move fingers of r. hand a little; later could stir legs, but not draw them up; tickling feet caused much distress (from the beans).

Generalities

Features and limbs shrunken as if from excessive diarrhœa (but there was none). ─ Faintness < when raised from horizontal position. ─ Child cried when its arms were laid hold of. ─ Improvement which was going on ceases at night-time (R. T. C.).

Skin

Covered from head to foot with the worst form of urticaria.

Sleep

Sleepiness and dulness in limbs and head (with stinging pain in temples), changing from r. to l. side. ─ Restless sleep all night on account of frequent sneezing; from indigestion.

Fever

Hands and feet cold. ─ Paroxysms of pain late in afternoon, lasting till 3 to 4 a.m., face hippocratic, much flatulence. ─ Hectic fever with night-sweats.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Locust. Leguminosæ.
The common locust tree, indigenous to the southern part of the United States.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh bark of the young twigs.
Provings by Burt, Am. Hom. Obs., 1864, p. 61 ; Spranger, Am. Hom. Obs., vol. 1, p. 271 ; Ball (poisoning), Am. Hom. Obs., 1865, vol. 2, p. 327 ; Houatt, Nouvelles Données, Paris, 1866.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Headache , Burt, A. H. O., vol. 1, p. 62 ; Pain in stomach , Burt, A. H. O., vol. 1, p. 62 ; Pyrosis , Peck, T. A. J. H., 1883, p. 676 ; Sour stomach , Burt, A. H. O., vol. 1, p. 62 ; Kippax, Org., vol. 3, p. 96 ; Smedley, A. H. O., vol. 5, p. 24 ; Dyspepsia , Blake, Hom. Rev., vol. 16, p. 405 ; Chronic affection of stomach , Shafer, A. H. O., vol. 4, p. 277 ; Ague , Funk, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 555.

Mind

Very low-spirited ; excessive irritability. θ Indigestion.

Sensorium

Vertigo and dulness of head, in whatever posture it is placed.
Sensation as if brain revolved, especially when lying down.
Vertigo with unsteadiness and nausea.

Inner head

Dull frontal headache ; much < by motion, with neuralgic pains in temples ; migraine.
Steady headache, with sensation as if head were full of boiling water, and when moving head sensation as if brain struck against skull.
Gastric headache from a sour stomach, caused by fat meat, gravies, flatulent food, cabbage, turnips, warm bread, pastry, ice cream, raw fruit, etc.
Sick-headache, with eructations and vomiting of excessively acid secretions ; irritable and desponding.
Chronic sick-headache.

Upper face

Neuralgic faceache, spreading to eyes, forehead, ears and teeth, changing the whole features ; sensation of disarticulation and fracture of jawbone ; l. side.

Lower face

Jawbone feels as if disarticulated ; intensely sour taste and vomiting. θ Neuralgia.

Teeth and gums

Burning, lancinating pains, especially in carious teeth, spreading to cheeks, eyes and temples, < at night, or when coming in contact with food, especially cold or spiced food ; teeth become loosened from the spongy and easily bleeding gums.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Heartburn and acidity of stomach, at night on lying down.
Regurgitation of acid and bitter substances, everything turning to acid.
Sour vomiting of infants ; the whole child smells sour.
Nausea, with vomiting of intensely acid fluid. θ Migraine.
Water taken before eating, at night, returned in morning green and sour.
Vomiting of intensely sour fluid, setting the teeth on edge.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Heartburn and acidity of stomach at night on lying down.
Dull heavy, aching distress in stomach.
Acidity of stomach ; food turns sour soon after eating ; constant feeling of weight, fulness and tension in stomach ; eructations accompanied by a sour liquid, and at times portions of ingesta ; burning pain in stomach and between scapulæ ; thirst ; constant frontal headache ; water taken before retiring at night, returns in morning green and sour.
Constant dull headache, < by motion and reading ; at times dull, heavy aching distress in stomach, with sensation as if scalded ; sour stomach every night.
Intensely acid condition of stomach often occurring suddenly after taking food, however carefully selected ; period between eating and onset of attack not constant ; frequent acid, fluid and flatulent eructations, with slight temporary relief ; feeling of distension and weight, like a stone, in epigastrium ; nausea ; palpitation ; constipation ; severe lancinating pains in epigastric, l. inframammary and left infrascapular regions ; pains of same character, though less severe, in left side of head and left extremities ; integument of left temple and side painfully sensitive to contact ; pallor of face ; shivering, with coldness of left side, particularly of left extremities, which were bluish around nails ; temperature of right side normal ; then considerable heat of surface and flushed face ; with establishment of reaction symptoms subsided ; during attack great mental depression ; an anxious longing for and expectation of speedy dissolution ; at times sudden vanishing of ideas ; occasionally very violent and often repeated acid vomiting so sour as to set teeth on edge ; matter ejected frequently streaked with blood ; after violent attack of vomiting there was entire cessation of pain for half an hour or longer ; tongue slightly furred ; appetite good ; continued eating sometimes seemed to postpone attack ; attack usually lasts several hours ; suffering almost continuous for last fifteen years.
Constant, dull, heavy, squeezing pain in stomach after every meal, causing great distress and making her cry every day ; stomach sour ; constipation ; much pain in lumbar region ; obliged to keep her bed most of day ; hands and feet very cold ; cannot eat more than one meal a day, it puts her in such agony.
Fulness and oppression in pit of stomach ; bitter, flat or foul taste, excessively acid eructations ; long-continued nausea, finally > by vomiting, which is so fatiguing that it may cause fainting ; constant inclination to stool, finally black, fetid stools, with great relief. θ Gastric derangement.
Dyspepsia manifesting itself at night and preventing sleep.

Abdomen and loins

Great distension of stomach and bowels, with flatus ; intestines distended almost to point of rupturing, with severe colic and acid diarrhœa.
Flatulent colic and pinching in abdomen, corresponding to pains in head ; severe colic, with ineffectual desire for stool ; tympanitic colic, accompanied by great weakness and < from least motion.

Stools and rectum

Desire for stool, but only flatus passes ; finally constipated stools ; from undigestion.
Sour stools of infants, with sour smell from body, and vomiting of sour milk.
Diarrheic stools, yellow, green, burning, with nervous agitation, weakness, cold sweat and dyspnœa.
Stools, loose, black, fetid, with great tenesmus.
Diarrheic stools, black, fetid or watery, whitish, excessively frequent and generally involuntary, with sensation as if whole body would pass away with stool ; heat and pressure in epigastrium ; cramps in extremities ; weakness and extreme prostration ; acid dyspepsia ; putrid emanations from body ; suppression of urine ; fear of death.
Cholera infantum ; child smells intensely sour ; stools green and watery ; with much tympanitis ; colic ; accompanied by excessive irritability.

Urinary organs

Urine scanty and painful ; or profuse and turbid.

Female sexual organs

Nymphomania ; whitish, greenish, yellowish, thick, acrid, purulent leucorrhœa, with tumefaction and bruised feeling in neck of womb and general prostration ; ulcerative pains in vagina, with acrid yellowish leucorrhœa, of most fetid smell.
Hard swelling of womb.
Cramps in womb.
Menses too late ; black.
Discharge of blood, like a hemorrhage, between menstrual periods accompanied by purulent leucorrhœa.
Eruption and ulcers like herpes on vagina and vulva.

Rest. position. motion

Lying down : as if brain revolved ; heartburn and acidity of stomach.
In whatever position : vertigo and dulness of head.
Motion : dull frontal headache < ; of head, as if brain struck against skull ; colic <.

Time

Night : neuralgic pains in teeth and face < ; heartburn and acidity of stomach ; water taken before eating returned in morning green and sour ; dyspepsia at night.

Fever

Paroxysms every day, late in afternoon, lasting until 3 or 4 o'clock next morning ; during attack entire loss of consciousness ; flatulence, eructations ; at last with emission of flatus the paroxysms gradually faded away ; on third day of treatment, very severe paroxysm followed by collapse, eyes sunken, face hippocratic, rattling of mucus in throat and chest, threatened suffocation ; Carbo veg. removed the most imminent danger ; during next three days had three more attacks, also very severe ; high fever with delirium, flatulence with unconsciousness, followed by great prostration, dulness and heaviness of head, distressing dreams when shutting eyes ; flatulence seems to be chief cause of fever. θ Ague.
Hectic fever, with night sweats.

Attacks, periodicity

For several hours : attack of vomiting.
Every day : paroxysms of fever late in afternoon, lasting until 3 or 4 o'clock next morning.
Every night : sour stomach.
Last fifteen years : attacks of sour stomach and vomiting.

Locality and direction

Right : temperature of side normal.
Left : sensation of disarticulation of jawbone ; pain in inframammary, infrascapular regions and in side of head and extremities ; integument of temple and side painfully sensitive to contact ; coldness of side and extremities.

Sensations

As if brain revolved ; as if head were full of boiling water ; as if brain struck against skull ; jawbone as if disarticulated ; stomach as if scalded ; as if whole body would pass away with stool.
Pain : in lumbar region.
Lancinating pains : severe in epigastric, left inframammary and left infrascapular regions ; in left side of head and left extremities.
Burning-lancinating pain : in teeth and face.
Burning pain : in stomach and between scapulæ.
Ulcerative pains : in vagina.
Neuralgic pain : in temples ; in face.
Pinching : in abdomen.
Dull, heavy, squeezing pain : in stomach.
Cramps : in extremities ; in womb.
Dull, heavy, aching distress : in stomach.
Heat : in epigastrium.
Bruised feeling : in neck of womb.
Pressure : in epigastrium.
Weight : in stomach ; in epigastrium.
Heaviness : of head.
Oppression : in pit of stomach.
Dulness : of head.
Tension : in stomach.
Fulness : in stomach ; in pit of stomach.
Distension : in epigastrium.
Coldness : of left side, left extremities.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Contact : neuralgia in face < from food ; integument of temple and side painfully sensitive.

Stage of life, constitution

Young man, suffering four months ; acidity of stomach.
Miss L., æt. 26, temperament nervo-bilious, with a little of the lymphatic ; menstruates every three weeks profusely ; pains in stomach.
Mrs. ---, æt. 45, dark eyes and hair, nervo-bilious temperament, mother of eight children ; suffering since fourteen years old, attacks at first every Spring and Fall, continuing for about three months, for last fifteen years suffering almost continuous ; pain in stomach, etc.
Man, æt. 45, suffering three years from enlargement of liver and sympathetic cough ; ague.

Relations

Compare : Bryon., Cinchon., Carbo veg., Lycop., Nux vom .

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Excessive acidity of stomach; the child smells sour; sour vomiting and sour stool (Hep., Rheum).

Eructations and vomiting of intensively sour fluid, setting the teeth on edge (Lyc., Sulph. ac.).

Sick headache, with irritability, despondency, very acid eructations and acid vomiting (with sweet saliva, sweet vomiting, Iris).

Time

Paroxysm, from 3–4 P. M. to 3–4 A. M.

Chill

Especially in afternoon and evening; feels frozen, as if the blood did not circulate (Lyc.). Hands cold. Unconscious.

Heat

With intense thirst; frothy saliva; pasty, nauseous taste; delirium, cerebral congestion; soporous sleep; flatulence and eructations; violent cramps of extremities and great prostration. Heat and sensation of drowsiness over the whole body; face pale with circumscribed redness of cheeks, headache, nausea, colic and thirst (Lach.).

Sweat

Copious, oily, fetid, especially on the scalp and face.