ROBINIA.
Robinia pseud-acacia, Linn.
Natural order,
Leguminosæ.
Common names
, Locust; (F.), Robinier.
Preparation
, Tincture of the bark.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. W. H. Burt, Am. Hom. Obs., 1864, p. 61, effects of chewing the green
bark; 2, F. X. Spranger, M.D., Am.
Hom. Obs., 1, p. 271, two doses of 40 drops of tincture; 3, same, proving of brother, with 15 drops of
tincture; 4, A. R. Ball, M.D., Am.
Hom. Obs., 1865, 2, 327, poisoning of a girl and boy, by chewing the
bark; 5, Med. Times and Gaz., N. S.,
14, p. 241, effects of eating the beans; 6,
Seymour, ibid., effect of over half a pint of an infusion of locust
beans; 7, Shaw, Med. Times and Gaz.,
1857, 1, p. 570, effects of locust beans, in a child.APPENDIX. -Symptoms by T. L. Houatt, in Nouvelles
Données de Mat. Méd. Homœopathique, Paris, 1866.
MIND.
►
*Very low-spirited, [1].
HEAD.
►
She could not support her head upright upon her shoulders (fifth day);
she succeeded for the first time by leaning her head forwards and
downwards in raising her right hand to the extent of reaching her mouth
in this attitude (thirteenth day); she could support the head upright
for some time, but it dropped if long continued (eighteenth day), [7]. ►
Dreadful dulness in the head (after four hours), [3]. ► Slight
headache (soon), [3]. ► Most severe dull headache and pain in the
right temple (first day), [3]. ► Dull headache and very profuse continual
discharge of the nostrils, with frequent sneezing, the same as from a
bad cold (second day), [3]. ► Dull headache, with sharp stitches in the
temples, [1]. ► *Constant, dull, heavy, frontal headache, very
much aggravated by motion and reading, [1]. ► *Dull,
throbbing, frontal headache, [1].
[10.] ►
Severe neuralgic pain in the left temple, that prevented sleeping, from
midnight until daylight, [1].
EYE.
►
Eyes sunk (fifth day), [7]. ► Soreness of the eyes and roughness of the
throat (second day), [3]. ► Eyes felt sore and watery (first day), [3]. ►
Pupils contracted (after three hours), [4].
NOSE.
►
Profuse continual discharge of the nostrils, with frequent sneezing and
dull headache (second day), [3]. ► Running of the nose (first day), [3].
MOUTH.
►
White coating on the tongue, with a red tip, [1]. ► Tongue
covered with a whitish-brown fur, smooth and slimy (fifth day), [7]. ►
Mucous membrane of the mouth pale (fifth day), [7].
THROAT.
[20.]
► A dry scratching sensation in the
throat (soon), [2]. ► Rough soreness of the throat (first day),
[3]. ►
Roughness of the throat and soreness of the eyes (second day), [3].
STOMACH.
►
Thirst. ► Called for water
(after three hours), [4]. ► Eructations. ►
Constant eructations, [1]. ► *Constant eructations of a very sour fluid,
[1]. ►
Nausea and Vomiting. ►
Nausea all the afternoon by spells, [1].
► *Nausea for three hours, followed by
profuse vomiting, of an intensely
sour fluid, [1]. ► Nausea, and attempts to vomit, when the
child was placed in a sitting posture (fifth day), [7]. ► Violent
vomiting (first day), [6]. [30.] ►
Sudden attack of vomiting and purging, [5].
► Vomiting three different times, [1]. ►
Began to vomit an hour after supper, and continued to vomit every few
minutes, for about an hour; vomited a watery sour-smelling substance,
with much retching after another hour, [4].
► The fluid vomited is so sour that
the teeth are set on edge, [1]. ► Stomach. ►
*Sourness of the stomach, but more particularly the discharge
of the nose and roughness of the throat, [3].
► Constant distress in the epigastric
region, with cutting pains in the stomach and bowels, and a good deal of
rumbling, [1]. ► Burning distress in the stomach and
region of the gall bladder, [1]. ► *Dull, heavy, aching distress in the stomach,
[1]. ►
Very severe sharp pains in the stomach, all day and night, [1]. ►
Pain in the epigastrium (first day), [6].
ABDOMEN.
[40.]
► Great distension of the bowels,
with flatulence (after four hours, first day), [2]. ►
Distension and rumbling of the bowels, which seemed to fill up the whole
abdomen (nine hours after dose, second day), [2]. ► Still a
great deal of rumbling in the bowels, which extended over the whole
abdomen, but not as painful (after four hours, first day), [2]. ►
Abdomen distended and tympanitic (fifth day), [7]. ► The
intestines seemed to be extended to a great degree, and were very
painful (after four hours, first day), [2].
► Relief after flatulent discharges
(after four hours, first day), [2].
► Sensation of soreness in the
bowels, when moving or upon pressure (second day), [2].
STOOL.
►
Purging commenced about an hour after supper, and continued every few
minutes for about an hour, when it changed to a more frequent
inclination to evacuate the bowels, but with but little success; in
another hour the evacuation was of a very little dark liquid, with
apparent tenesmus and great pain, [4].
► Sudden attack of purging and
vomiting, [5]. ► Bowels daily evacuated, the motions
having a slimy look and a bilious tinge, [7].
[50.] ►
Bowels generally constipated, [1].
► Bowels costive, but a frequent
ineffectual desire for stool (second day), [2].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Voice reduced to a whisper, and the efforts to cry exceedingly feeble,
suddenly ceasing with a slight sigh, as it from exhaustion (fifth day), [7]. ►
Feeble respiration (fifth day), [7].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Heart’s action very feeble (fifth day), [7].
► Heart’s action became more
embarrassed when moved from horizontal position (fifth day), [7]. ►
The wrists were almost pulseless (fifth day), [7]. ► Pulse
55 (after three hours), [4].
EXTREMITIES.
►
She could not move in the slightest degree the fingers, hands, arms, or
legs (fifth day); she could move the fingers of the right hand a little,
but no other part (thirteenth day); she could stir her legs but could
not draw them up, and if a bright toy be placed within her reach she
could clumsily retain it, but cold no move her arms at all (eighteenth
day); she could not move her legs either to stand or walk and feebly in
any way (thirty-eighth day), [7]. ► Tickling the soles of the feet seemed to
produce much distress (fifth day), [7].
GENERALITIES.
[60.]
► The features and limbs shrunken, as
if from complete exhaustion by diarrhœa, though there was no purging
(fifth day), [7]. ► Body and limbs pale (fifth day), [7]. ►
Increasing feebleness and depression, for four days, [7]. ► No
ambition, [1]. ► Seemed very much prostrated (after three
hours); extremely weak (next morning), [4].
► General prostration and tendency to
syncope, when moved from the horizontal position (fifth day), [7]. ►
Feeling very faint and weary, [1].
► There appeared to be muscular pain,
as the child cried when its arms were laid hold of (sixth day), [7].
SKIN.
►
Covered from head to foot with an eruption of the worst form of
urticaria (second day), [6].
SLEEP.
►
Sleepiness and dulness in the limbs and head, changing from the right to
the left side (after two hours), [3].
[70.] ►
Sleepiness and dulness in the head and limbs, with stinging pain in the
temples, changing from the right to the left side (after two hours), [3]. ►
Restless sleep all night, on account of frequent sneezing (second day), [3].
FEVER.
►
Hands and feet cold (after three hours), [4].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Afternoon), Nausea. ►
(Motion), Frontal headache; soreness
in bowels. ► (Pressure), Soreness in bowels. ► (Reading),
Frontal headache.
APPENDIX OF ROBINIA.
MIND.
►
Mental alienation and craziness, with furious motions or with laughter,
buffoonery, jumping, and dancing. ►
Nervous excitement, with great sensitiveness of the organs, everything
displeased, irritated, and incommoded him. ►
Moral agitation, great restlessness; he is always under the impression
that he will be disgraced. ► Cries
very easily. ► Attacks of fear, with
contraction and stitching pains in the chest; anguish, oppression, and
general tremor. ► Fear and confusion
of conscience, as if he had committed a crime, especially in the
afternoon, during the night, or when in bed. ►
Dread of everything that is sombre and black. ►
Great disposition to get angry; he gets angry at the least cause,
passing even into fury. ►
Bacchanalian, erotic, or religious madness. [10.]
► Love and excited passions, leading
him to the grossest excesses, even to homicide. ►
Strong disposition to be obscene, to gormandize, and for all kinds of
orgies. ► Anxiety to seek honors;
excessive pride; he considers himself better than an emperor. ► Hypochondriac grief; he seeks pleasures
and tries to divert his mind, without succeeding. ►
Laziness and apathy, with desire to keep the bed all the time. ► Loss of memory and feeling. ► Stupefaction; loss of memory and
sensation. ► Stupor and dulness. ► Stupefaction of the intelligence,
impossibility to perform any intellectual work; ideas cross one another
and are forgotten.
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo and
whirling in the head, with pressure upon the temples; great malaise and
heaviness. [20.] ► Vertigo and increased dizziness in every
position. ► Vertigo, with staggering
and nausea. ► Vertigo and sensation
of whirling in the brain, and loss of sensibility in the skin; no
feeling on being pinched. ► Vertigo;
obnubilation; sensation as if something rolls about in the head;
somnolence and snoring as in a heavy sleep. ►
General attack of dizziness, when he thinks that he can go a heavy
sleep. ► General Head. ► Erysipelatous swelling of the head. ► Heaviness of the head; spreading on all
sides, nearly unbearable. ► Rush of
blood to the head, with heat. ►
Cerebral congestions, with lancinations and pulsations in the head,
buzzing in the ears, stupor, and unconsciousness; when recovering he
feels as if his body was paralyzed. ►
Cerebral congestion, like apoplexy, but the sensitiveness to pain
remains with cramps and tonic spasms. [30.]
► Steady headache, with sensation as
if the head were full of boiling water, and when moving the head, a
sensation as if the brain struck against the cranium. ► Headache, with nausea and debility. ► Headache, with great heat of the head and
falling of the hair. ► Motion,
contact, strong air, and noise aggravate the headache. ► The pains in the head extend also to the
face, especially to the left side. ►
Lancinating and sensation of tearing in the envelopes of the brain. ► Lancinating and spasms in the head. ► Lacerating and distensive pains in the
head, with a sensation as if the bones of the skull were disunited and
grazed one another. ► Neuralgic pains
in the head, especially in the evening and night. ►
Sensation as if the brain swells and dilates on all sides. [40.] ►
Sensation as if the head were struck and pierces on the top. ► Sensation as if he had received a blow,
or as if a nail were driven into the right parietal eminence. ► Sensation as if the head had been struck
and beaten, or placed in a vice and crushed. ►
Sensation as if a quantity of water rushed into the head whenever moved.
► Sensation in the brain as if
everything revolved with it and turned upon it, especially when lying
down. ► The head excessively
disturbed, with desire to have it constantly supported and propped up. ► Sensation of cold and heat in the head,
with shooting pain in the interior of the brain. ►
Electrical shocks in the head, with constant whirling vertigo. ► Violent beating in the head, with severe
pulsations in the arteries. ►
Pulsative and lancinating pains became seated on one side of the head,
as if there were an internal tumor. ►
Forehead and Temples. [50.]
► Pain in forehead and right side of
head. ► Pressive, pulsative, and
lancinating pains in the temples. ►
External Head. ► Many
furuncles and ulcers on the scalp. ►
Productions on the head, like sebacious tumors. ►
Crusty and suppurating eruptions on the scalp. ►
Eruption and abundant scales on the head, with loss of the hair. ► Furuncles and herpetic crusts on the
forehead. ► Great sensitiveness of
the scalp. ► Pain and heat in the
scalp, which is red and inflamed. ►
Sensation as if the scalp were combed with iron points.
EYE.
►
Objective. [60.] ► Eyes dim, glassy, and sunken. ► The eyes swollen and inflamed, with
injection of the vessels of the conjunctiva and sclerotica, and constant
sensation as if foreign objects were in them. ►
The sclerotica looks yellowish. ► The
cornea is without lustre and surrounded by pustules. ► Eyes fixed, haggard; uncertain look. ► Black about the eyes and as if
ecchymosed. ► Eyes convulsed and
directed upward. ► Subjective.
► Spasms and neuralgic pains in the
eyes. ► Sensation in the eyes as in
too cold or too hot air. ► Stinging
in the eyes, as from abscesses. [70.]
► Heat and burning, and pressure in
the eyes, with photophobia. ► Lids.
► Small and painful tumors, like
styes, on the borders of the eyelids. ►
Ulceration and suppuration of the caruncula lachrymalis. ► The eyelids inflamed, swollen, and
ulcerated, with abundant secretion from the bleared eyes, and loss of
the eyelashes. ► Great dryness of the
eyelids and insupportable pruritus in the eyes, especially in the
evening and night. ► Nervous
twitchings of the eyelids. ►
Involuntary closing of the eyelids. ►
Drooping of the eyelids, as if they were attacked by palsy. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► Abundant lachrymation, amblyopia,
excessive photophobia. ► Pupil.
► Pupils inflamed and greatly
dilated. ► Vision. [80.] ►
Weakness, obscuration, and loss of sight. ►
Only large letters can be read, and at a distance. ►
All objects appear confused, and as if surrounded by a cloud. ► Confused sight from light or brilliant
objects. ► Mist, red, or yellow
clouds, flames, flashes, and luminous circles before the eyes. ► The light of the candles appear obscure
and diffused. ► Objects can not be
distinguished except when near to the eyes.
EAR.
►
Rush of blood, or of purulent foul-smelling matter, in the ears. ► Left-sided earache, as from deeply-seated
abscesses. ► Pinching and lancinating
pains as from abscesses in the ears. [90.]
► Spasmodic and neuralgic pains, with
sensation of coldness in the ears. ►
Heat in the interior of the ears, as if from a steaming vapor; at other
times sensation as of cold water. ►
Weakness of hearing and deafness increasing, especially morning and
evening. ► Tingling and humming in
the ears, with boring pains. ► Noise
in the ear as of the beating of a drum.
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Tumor like a
wen upon the nose. ► The lobe of the
nose deformed, enlarged, and red. ►
Inflammation and swelling of the nose. ►
Polypoid cysts in the nose, which impeded respiration. ► Vesicular eruption and crusts in the
nostrils and on the nose, with great heat. [100.]
► A kind of chancrous ulcers in the
nose, frequently accompanied by gurgling in the abdomen and colic, with
heaviness in the head, especially in the forehead. ►
Smarting, burning, and ulcers in the nose, with constant desire to
introduce the finger. ► Frequent
sneezing. ► Frequent bleeding of the
nose. ► Fetid discharge from the
nose. ► Greenish and purulent
discharge from the nose. ► Dry
coryza, followed by tenacious fluent coryza. ►
Subjective. ► Heat and
heaviness of the nose, with insupportable itching and desire to sneeze. ► Sensation of pressure, as if there was a
heavy weight on the nose. Pulsative and lancinating pains in the nose,
with a sensation of swelling and congestion.® 2000
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