Robinia Pseudacacia

Locust. Leguminosse.

Tlie 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. Horn. Obs., vol. 1, p. 271; Ball (poisoning), Am. Hom. Obs., 1865, vol. 2, p. 327 ; Houatt, Nouvelles Dontiees, 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. tl., 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. Eev., 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. ^Indiges- tion. ^ Sensorium. Vertigo and dulness of head, in whatever pos- ture 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. I Gastric headache from a sour stomach, caused by fat meat, gravies, flatulent food, cabbage, turnips, warm bread, pastry, ice cream, raw fruit, etc. I Sick-headache, with eructations and vomiting of excess- ively acid secretions ; irritable and desponding.

I I Chronic sick-headache. •^ Upper Face. Neuralgic faceache, spreading to eyes, fore- head, ears and teeth, changing the whole features ; sen- sation of disarticulation and fracture of jawbone; 1. side. ^ Lower Face. Uawbone feels as if disarticulated ; in- tensely sour taste and vomiting. ^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, es- pecially cold or spiced food ; teeth become loosened from the spongy and easily bleeding gums.

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^® Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting, i Heart- burn and acidity of stomach, at night on lying down.

■ Regurgitation of acid and bitter substances, everything

turning to acid. I I Sour vomiting of infants ; the whole child smells sour.

■ Nausea, with vomiting of intensely acid fluid. ^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.

I I Acidity of stomach ; food turns sour soon after eating ; constant feeling of weight, fulness and tension in stom- ach ; eructations accompanied by a sour liquid, and at times portions of ingesta ; burning pain in stomach and between scapulae ; thirst ; constant f'rontal head- ache ; water taken before retiring at night, returns in morning green and sour.

I 'Constant dull headache, < by motion and reading; at times dull, heavy aching distress in stomach, with sen- sation as if scalded ; sour stomach every night.

I llntensely 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 ; palpita- tion ; constipation ; severe lancinating pains in epi- gastric, 1. inframammary and 1. infrascapular regions ; pains of same character, though less severe, in 1. side of head and 1. extremities ; integument of 1. temple and side painfully sensitive to contact ; pallor of face ; shivering, with coldness of 1. side, particularly of 1. ex- tremities, which were bluish around nails; temperature of r. side normal ; then considerable heat of surface and flushed face; with establishment of reaction symp-

* toms subsided ; during attack great mental depression ; an anxious longing for and expectation of speedy dis- solution ; at times sudden vanishing of ideas ; occasion- ally 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 ; con- tinued eating sometimes seemed to postpone attack ; attack usually lasts s'everal hours ; suff"ering almost con- tinuous for last fifteen years.

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I Constant, dull, heav}^ squeezing pain in stomach after every meal, causing great distress and making her cry everyday; 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.

I 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. ^Gastric derangement.

■ Dyspepsia manifesting itself at night and preventing

'^Abdomen. ■ Great distension of stomach and bowels, with tiatus ; intestines distended almost to point of rupturing, with severe colic and acid diarrhoea.

■ Flatulent colic and pinching in abdomen, corresponding

to pains in head ; severe colic, with ineffectual desire for stool ; tympanitic colic, accompanied by great weak- ness and < from least motion. ^" Stool and Rectum. ■ Desire for stool, but only flatus passes; finally constipated stools; from indigestion.

I Sour stools of infants, with sour smell from body, and vomiting of sour milk.

iDiarrhoeic stools, yellow, green, burning, with nervous agitation, weakness, cold sweat and dyspnoea.

■ Stools, loose, black, fetid, with great tenesmus.

■ Diarrhoeic stools, black, fetid or watery, whitish, excess-

ively frequent and generally involuntary, with sensa- tion 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

and turbid. *^ Female Sexual Organs. Nymphomania; whitish, green- ish, yellowish, thick, acrid, purulent leucorrhoea, with tumefaction and bruised feeling in neck of womb and general prostration ; ulcerative pains in vagina, with acrid yellowish leucorrhoea, of most fetid smell.

Hard swelling of womb.

Cramps in womb.

Menses too late ; black.

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Discharge of blood, like a hemorrhage, between menstrual

until 3 or 4 o'clock next morning. Every night : sour stomach.

Lancinating pains : severe in epigastric, 1. inframammary and 1. infrascapular regions ; in 1. side of head and 1.

Burning-lancinating pain : in teeth and face.

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Burning pain : in stomach and between scapulae.

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.

Miss L., set. 26, temperament nervo-bilious, with a little of the lymphatic; menstruates every three weeks pro- fusely ; pains in stomach.

Mrs. , set. 45, dark eyes and hair, nervo-bilious temper- ament, mother of eight children ; suffering since fourteen years old, attacks at first every Spring and Fall, continu- ing for about three months, for last fifteen years suffering almost continuous ; pain in stomach, etc.

Man, set. 45, suff'ering three years from enlargement of liver and sympathetic cough ; ague. ^^ Relations. Compare: Bryon., Cinchon., Carbo veg., Lycop., Nux vom.

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