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.

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.

FACE

• Objective. [110.]
• Swelling of the face, as in erysipelas, with vesicles and fever.
• Wrinkled and hippocratic face, with pointed nose, sunken eyes, surrounded by dark circles.
• Paleness and coldness of the face, with great prostration, and desire to rub the cheeks to give them heat and life.
• Pale, gray, greenish, blackish face.
• The face congested and deep-red, and the head greatly affected.
• Frequent flushes of the cheeks.
• Redness of one cheek, with paleness of the other.
• The red face presents, in some parts, a yellow, pale, speckled appearance.
• The skin of the face is tense, chapped, hard, and rough.
• The skin of the face is very tender, irritable, and ulcerates easily. [120.]
• Spasms in the face, with distortion and contraction of the features.
• Subjective.
• Neuralgic facial pains, spreading to the eyes, forehead, and ears, with contraction of the saw; facial neuralgia, especially on the left side, spreading from the head to the teeth, changing all the features (very marked).
• Wants to scratch and squeeze his face constantly, with restlessness and ill-humor.
• Smarting pains in the face, as if there were thousands of insects in it.
• Lips.
• Lips dry, black, fuliginous, as in typhoid fever.
• Lips red, dark, chapping and bleeding easily.
• The lips thick, hard, tense, and frequently distorted.
• Spasmodic pains in the jaws, with sensation as if they would be dislocated and fractured.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• The teeth become denuded of the gums and loose.
• Odontalgia, with convulsive and continuous pains in the teeth, causing great despondency. [130.]
• Burning-lancinating pains, especially in the carious teeth, spreading to the cheeks, eyes, and temples; aggravated at night, or when coming in contact with food, especially cold or spiced food.
• Gums.
• The gums swollen, red, dark, bleeding easily.
• Abscesses of the gums.
• Ulcerated fungoid gum, discharging a bloody pus.
• Tongue.
• Pruriginous eruption on the tongue and tonsils.
• Tongue burning, thick, heavy, and ulcerated, with difficulty of speech.
• Very painful pimples on the tongue.
• Dry rough tongue, as if glazed.
• Tongue covered with a white, gray, greenish or blackish, and generally thick coat.
• The tongue seemed paralyzed.
• General Mouth. [140.]
• Bad odor from the mouth.
• Ulceration of the buccal cavity and fauces.
• Mouth dry, pasty, and full of saliva, with nausea.
• Great acidity in the mouth and throat, with continual nausea.
• Taste.
• Bitter taste in the mouth, that is pasty and disagreeable as after a debauch, with great thirst.
• Bitterness in the mouth and even in the œsophagus.
• During the fever the water always tastes bad; he wishes to drink only wine or sour drinks, notwithstanding that the wine aggravates the fever.
• Perversion of the taste, desire for highly-seasoned food, which tastes like ordinary food.

THROAT

• Accumulation of much mucus in the throat, and copious painful salivation.
• Ulcerations and gray spots, as if diphtheritic, in the throat. [150.]
• Gastric mucus, with bitter taste and burning in the throat.
• Water and food are arrested in the throat and œsophagus, and sometimes pass into the larynx, producing cough.
• Burning, lancinating, and pulsative pains in the throat.
• Great dryness of the throat and mouth, with desire to drink constantly.
• Spasmodic constriction in the throat, with impossibility to swallow, and attacks of suffocation.
• Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils, so that nothing could be swallowed, with sensation of strangulation, swelling of the submaxillary and cervical glands.
• Abscess and suppuration of the tonsils.
• Submaxillary glands swollen and painful.

STOMACH

• Appetite and Thirst.
• Great hunger, with excessive thirst, drowsiness while drinking.
• Intense hunger or anorexia. [160.]
• Desires spices, tobacco, coffee, or strong liquors.
• Delicate appetite, with contraction and burning in the stomach, and sensation as if were full of thorns, which prick it.
• No desire for salt, although it relieved some stomach symptoms.
• Ardent thirst, with desire for sour or spirituous drinks.
• Febrile thirst, with heat and horripilation.
• Eructation and Hiccough.
• Frequent spasmodic eructations, taking away the breath, especially some hours after eating.
• Regurgitation of acrid, acid, and bitter substances.
• Convulsive hiccough, with frequent regurgitation. Watery mucus or bloody matter, with burning in the stomach and chest, especially in the afternoon, at night, and when in motion.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea, with spasms, anxiety, and cold sweats. Nausea and vomiting after the least movement and after cold drinks.
• Fatiguing nausea, without being able to vomit. [170.]
• Continual nausea and efforts to vomit, with burning in the throat, extending to the intestines, tearing pains and horrible cramps in the stomach.
• Nausea and vomiting; the mouth constantly full of saliva.
• Though hungry, yet unable to eat on account of nausea and vomiting.
• After eating or drinking nausea, gastralgia, and colic.
• Flat things, as also motion and walking, aggravate the nausea and vomiting.
• Frequent efforts to vomit, in the evening, after food, or about mealtime, even when nothing is eaten.
• Painful effort to vomit. It seems as if the lungs were a mass of lead, compressing the stomach and impeding the vomiting. Vomiting of food and bile, as after indigestion.
• Efforts to vomit, accompanied by headache.
• Desire to vomit and to defecate at the same time.
• Desire to vomit, very painful, although he has the sensation of emptiness in his stomach. [180.]
• Desire to vomit, with tightness in the stomach, extending to the back.
• Profuse easy vomiting in gushes.
• Repeated vomiting, with great effort and sensation, as if all his bowels would come up; it seems to him as if his stomach and bowels were torn and detached.
• Vomiting, with diarrhœa; spasms in the extremities; chills over the back and extremities; pressure and constriction in the epigastrium, ardent thirst, labored respiration, sunken countenance, and ashy face; extreme debility, great restlessness, and agitation; vertigo, intoxication, and somnolence.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• Inflammation and swelling of the liver.
• Pains in the liver, as if there were abscesses in it, or as if it were ulcerated or full of cavities; he can lie only on the back and left side, but not at all on the right side.
• Burning, spasmodic, and lancinating pains in the hepatic region.
• Inflammation and swelling of the spleen. [210.]
• Burning and lancinating pains in the region of the spleen, with cerebral congestion, vertigo, and hallucinations; he believed he was travelling, though he was lying.
• Umbilicus and Sides.
• Tumor like a hernia at the umbilicus and groin.
• Severe and incisive pains in the umbilical region; sensation as if the abdomen were cut in two.
• Swelling as if there were an ovarian cyst, especially in the left side of the abdomen.
• General Abdomen.
• The abdomen of a greenish color, contracted or distended, and very sensitive to the touch.
• Inflammation and swelling of the abdomen, with constipation.
• Swelling of the abdomen an in ascites.
• Abdomen swollen and resonant, as in tympanitis.
• Frequent expulsion of gas, upward and downward.
• Much flatulency and painful borborygmi in the intestines. [220.]
• Horrible colic, extending towards the kidneys, with sensation of twisting in the bowels, and vomiting of various substances.
• Colic and spasmodic pains in the kidneys, spreading to the bowels, with screams, lamentations, trembling, weakness, nausea, and desire to urinate.
• Colic and tympanitis, with contractive pains in the abdomen and rheumatic pains in the extremities:
• Colic, piercing and burning in the abdomen, accompanied by great weakness, and aggravated by the least motion.
• Excessive colic, with contraction of the bowels and constipation.
• Colic generally at night or after eating and drinking, and accompanied by diarrhœa and vomiting.
• Colic and piercing in the abdomen, corresponding with pains in the head.
• Colic and contortions, as if knives were moved from time to time across the bowels.
• Severe colic with ineffectual desire to defecate.
• Constriction of the abdomen, with a sensation as if it were resting on a trapeze. [230.]
• Cramps, pinching, lacerating, stitching, and pulsating pains in the liver; generally with bilious vomiting, constipation, prostration, and trismus.
• Pains in abdomen, as if there were eruptions and ulcers in it.
• Spasms and pains in the abdomen, with sensation as if something were on it.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Large and very painful hæmorrhoidal tumors in the anus:
• Hæmorrhoids, either blind, or flowing and ulcerated. [240.]
• Heat, pain, and great itching in the anus:
• Heat and excruciating pains in rectum.

STOOL

• Diarrhœic stool, black and fetid, or watery, whitish, excessively frequent, and generally involuntary, and accompanied by vomiting, with sensation as if the whole body would pass away through the stool. Heat and pressure in the epigastrium; cramps in the extremities; weakness and extreme prostration; dread of persons dressed in black; putrid emanations from the body; suppression of urine, chilliness, and fear of death. [Many of the symptoms relative to cholera were not included in our communications to the Congress; it will be borne in mind that we then remarked that the latter were extracted from a large number of observations. -HOUATT.]
• Diarrhœic stools, yellow, green, burning, with nervous agitation, weakness, cold sweat, and dyspnœa.
• Diarrhœic stools, evacuated with flatulency.
• Mucus, bloody, dysenteric stools, with colic and severe tenesmus and fainting spells.
• Stools, with lumbrici.
• Hard, small, insufficient, difficult, and frequent stool.
• Obstinate constipation.

URINARY ORGANS

• Kidneys and Bladder.
• Nephritic colic, with anguish and fear of death. [250.]
• Cramps in the kidneys, with stiffness and impossibility to make the slightest movement.
• Pulsative and burning pains in the kidneys, as if caused by inflammation.
• Pains in the kidneys, with ischuria, as if the urine were interrupted by foreign bodies.
• Expulsion of gravel, and frequently small pieces of polypi from the bladder, with bloody urine.
• Burning, with sensation of fulness in the bladder.
• Urethra.
• Purulent, yellowish, greenish, and sometimes bloody discharge from the urethra, staining the linen.
• Blennorrhagia, with priapism, burning in the urethra, especially when urinating, tensive pains in the spermatic cords, radiating to the urethra and testicles.
• Burning in the urethra, as from herpes or ulceration.
• Micturition and Urine.
• Frequent and intolerable desire to urinate.
• Ineffectual efforts to urinate, with pinching and burning in the bladder. [260.]
• The urine flows drop by drop, with burning and spasmodic pains in the kidneys and bladder and tenesmus.
• Complete suppression of urine, with fulness and heaviness in the bladder.
• Urine with much mucus, which adheres to the chamber.
• The urinary deposit creamy-white, like gypsum.
• Copious, turbid, yellowish urine.
• Incontinency of urine, frequently during the night, in bed.
• Urine, with an iridescent film.
• Bloody urine.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Sensation of strong traction in the genitals, followed by erysipelatous inflammation.
• Sensation as if the hairs on the genitals were irritated, with tendency to grow worse. [270.]
• Inflammation and swelling of the prepuce and penis.
• The prepuce retracts from the gland and compresses it.
• Erysipelatous swelling of the scrotum, with collection of water in the tunica vaginalis.
• Inflammation and swelling of the testicles, with burning-lancinating pains spreading to the abdomen.
• Prompt and easily repeated ejaculation.
• Frequent nocturnal pollutions.
• Exalted venereal appetite, with itching and tickling of the genitals.
• Impotence, with paralytic weakness of the lower part of the body.
• Female.
• Swelling of the womb, as if produced by false pregnancy, or by an intra-uterine polypus.
• Hard and scirrhous swelling of the neck of the womb. [280.]
• Before and during the courses, penetrating and lancinating pains in the womb and vulva; desire to vomit, constipation or diarrhœa, uterine colic, headache, neuralgia, and great nervous exaltation.
• Frequent cramps in the womb.
• Burning, distensive, boring, and penetrating pains in the womb.
• Sensation as if the womb were swollen and inflamed.
• Stings in the uterus, as if caused by electrical discharges.
• Burning and tearing pains in the ovarian region, as if they were torn away.
• Pinching in the ovarian region.
• Polypus-like tubercles in the vulva.
• Eruption and ulcers, like herpes, in vagina and vulva.
• Discharge of blood, like hæmorrhage, between the menses, accompanied by purulent leucorrhœa, and frequently by tympanitis. [290.]
• Whitish, yellowish, greenish, thick, acrid, purulent leucorrhœa, with tumefaction and bruised feeling in the neck of the womb, and general prostration.
• The menstrual blood is black, viscous, yellow, and sometimes bright.
• Frequent sensation as if a foreign body turns itself in the vagina and uterus, or as if a ball rises up to the throat, generally with spasm and attacks of strangulation and suffocation.
• Menses too early and then too late.
• Menses especially too late.
• Ulcerative pains in the vagina, with acrid leucorrhœa, yellowish and of most fetid smell.
• Heaviness, itching, and burning in the vulva.
• Nymphomania.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Larynx.
• Tenacious mucus in the larynx and chest.
• Bronchial catarrh, with headache, fluent coryza, and contractive pains, as after taking cold. [300.]
• Spasmodic constriction in larynx.
• Pain and sensation as if he had granulations, tubercles, or false membranes in the larynx or trachea.
• Burning in the larynx, with a sensation as if ulcerated.
• Speaking greatly aggravates the suffering of the larynx and chest, and during the sufferings of the chest the body is bathed in perspiration, and the venereal appetite greatly exalted.
• Voice.
• Hoarseness, sometimes nearly aphonia.
• The voice obscure and husky.
• Cough and Expectoration.
• Severe cough, occasioned by continual tickling in larynx.
• Violent and spasmodic cough, with sensation of tearing in the chest and fear of choking.
• Shaking and convulsive cough, with vomiting, as in whooping cough.
• Rough, dry, and hoarse cough, or heavy and deep. [310.]
• Cough, worse in the afternoon and night, during conversation in wet and windy weather.
• Barking and sibilant cough, with production of false membranes in the throat.
• Cough, with pinching in the head and contusive pains in chest and back.
• Cough, with vomiting of bile and food, and sometimes of blood.
• Short and frequent cough, generally with dyspnœa, epistaxis, and bloody sputa.
• White, frothy, yellow, green, or blackish expectoration, generally of a bad odor.
• Expectoration of blood and matter, as from abscesses and disorganization of the lungs.
• Hæmoptysis, with violent cough, itching in the larynx, and lacerating pains in the chest.
• Respiration.
• Short anxious respiration.
• Frequent dyspnœa, at night and in bed, with suffocating cough, sweat on the face, painful respiration, anxiety, and wailing.

CHEST. [320.]

• Swelling of the thyroid region as in goitre.
• Stertor, hissing and crepitating noises in the chest.
• Great oppression of the chest, with dilatation of the nostrils, fear of asphyxia and impossibility to walk.
• Cramps and oppression of the chest, with anguish and debility.
• Sensation of weight and fluctuations in the sides of the thorax, as if they were full of liquid.
• Sensation as if the chest were crushed, and every motion of the heart increases the pain.
• Spasmodic and incisive pains in the chest.
• Sensation as if the thorax were compressed by an iron band, and the lungs depressed and torn in various places.
• Contractions and stitching pains in the chest, with fear.
• Sensation as if the chest and stomach were distended with gases. [330.]
• Heat and burning in the chest, with sensation as if the lungs were swelled, contracted, and compressed.
• Heat and sensation of swelling in the chest, as if the lungs were affected by erysipelas.
• Lancinating and stitching pains in the chest, with great difficulty of breathing.
• Pricking and sensation of rupture in the base of the lungs.
• Stitching and lancinating pains in the chest, spreading to the heart.
• Stitching pains in the chest, especially on the right side, with great difficulty of breathing.
• Stitches in the muscles of the chest, with sensation as if distended.
• Itching and burning in the chest, as if an herpetic or eczematous eruption had been suppressed, with violent cough and purulent and bloody expectoration.
• Mammæ.
• Swelling of the breasts, with great affluence of milk.
• Inflammation, swelling, and induration of the mammary and axillary glands. [340.]
• Small tumors and hardness like scirrhous tumors in the breasts.
• Pricking, pulling, and cramping pains in the breasts.

HEART AND PULSE

• Swelling and great sensitiveness of the præcordial region.
• The heart heavy, seeming to produce the great weakness which he feels.
• Sensation as if the heart swells, and then stops suddenly.
• Cramps and twisting pains in the heart, especially when yawning or taking a deep respiration.
• Sensation as if there were a chafing-dish in the region of the heart.
• The heart feels as if affected by hypertrophy and aneurisma, and the beatings sometimes accelerated, sometimes slow.
• The heart seems at times to stop and remain paralyzed.
• Strong palpitations, especially at night, or in bed, or on ascending steps. [350.]
• Pains and palpitations of the heart, frequently with nausea and bloody vomiting, and desire to support chest and head; weakness and dizziness.
• Pulse strong and quick, sometimes intermittent, small and slow, but always dicrotic or greatly accelerated; weak, imperceptible.

NECK AND BACK

• Inflammation and swelling of the cervical glands.
• Painful stiffness of the neck, with impossibility to move the head.
• Stiffness of the neck, back, and kidneys, with spasmodic, lancinating, and penetrating pains in those parts.

EXTREMITIES

• Agitation of the extremities, with spasmodic pains in the articulations.
• Pains of contraction and luxation in the extremities:

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Swelling, red and violet spots, as if from contusions of the arms.
• Trembling and cramps in the arms and hands.
• Pains in the arms, as if bruised by blows. [360.]
• Pulsative, burning, lancinating, tearing pains in the articulations of the arms.
• Stitches and cramps in the arms with impossibility to move them.
• Arms seem paralyzed, cannot perform manual labor.
• Weakness of the arms, with paralytic debility, inflammation, and swelling of the articulations of the hands.
• Sensation as if the shoulder-blades were dislocated downward.
• Painful enlargement of the articulations of the fingers.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Difficult and stumbling gait.
• Infiltration and voluminous swelling of the legs, especially during the night.
• Debility and deformity of the bones of the legs.
• Languor, especially of the legs, as in consequence of venereal excesses. [370.]
• Cramps and painful contractions in the legs, forming cords and nodes, especially in the calf of the leg.
• Rheumatic pains, with paralysis, in the lower extremities.
• Tightness and cramps in the lower extremities.
• Pulsative burning, lancinating, tearing pains in the articulations of the lower extremities.
• Contractive and pricking pains from the groins to the feet, frequently accompanied by erysipelatous inflammation.
• Lancinating, spasmodic, and pricking pains in the coxofemoral articulations, with paralytic weakness of the extremities.
• Pains in the legs, as if they were struck and bruised.
• Swelling of the feet, with redness, heat, and arthritic pains.
• Inflammation and swelling of the articulations of the feet.

GENERALITIES

• Insects over all the hairy parts of the body. [380.]
• Red and painful swellings like chilblains, in different parts of the body.
• Swelling of all the glands of the body with painful pulsations.
• Hypertrophy, suppuration, and induration of the glands.
• Loss of serosity in the internal organs, and also in the cellular textures.
• Cerebral congestions with apoplectic attack, followed by paralysis of the tongue, extremities, and even of the lungs.
• Hysteria; tonic and clonic spasms; tetanic stiffness in different parts of the body.
• Epileptic paroxysms, preceded by restlessness, salivation, and general chills, with falling down, loss of consciousness, drivelling, biting the tongue, especially on the left side; retraction of the thumbs, violent movements and jerks over the whole body; after the attack, somnolence, hebetude, and great prostration.
• Attacks of trembling and anguish in consequence of a great fright.
• Nervous agitation, irregular involuntary movements of the head, hands, and fingers, as in chorea; movements stop when the affected parts rest upon something, or during sleep, and are aggravated when the attention is fixed upon them.
• During all the suffering in the skin, great agitation and frequent desire to change the position. [390.]
• Great restlessness, alternating with great alacrity, without any motive.
• Convulsive motions, contractions, and tonic spasms all over the body.
• Spasmodic attacks, with loss of consciousness, agitation, and movements of the arms, as if he wished to repel somebody.
• It seems as if he would lose his senses at any moment, and the least motion produces syncope.
• Great debility and agitation on account of the stitches, cramps, and terrible pains all over the body.
• Great debility with desire to lie down, but he is ill at ease in any position.
• Debility and weariness, as from want of nourishment.
• Attacks of debility, weariness, prostration, and giddiness, provoked frequently by the least movement.
• Sensation of debility and molecular disorganization of the skin; with unbearable itching.
• General weakness, ascites, swelling of the articulations, and deformities of the bones, as in rachitis. [400.]
• General prostration, with complete absence of ideas, as if they did not exist.
• Considerable prostration, generally with cramps and tension in different parts of the body.
• Patience, with great loss of strength, great weakness and insensibility.
• Pains, producing frequently despair and dementia.
• Sensation of fulness or emptiness, of separation or constrictions in the splanchnic cavities; frequent cramps and bruised sensation in the back, chest, abdomen, kidneys, thighs, calves of legs, and feet.

SKIN

• Objective.
• Skin very vulnerable; after the slightest cause, torn, excoriating, and ulcerating.
• Rough tense skin, as if tanned.
• Skin tender and keeps the impression of the fingers.
• Loss of the elasticity and sensibility of the skin, sometimes tense, at other times soft and spongy.
• It seems that by the least motion the skin retracts and becomes tense, on account of which he is afraid to walk.
• Skin saffron yellow, as in jaundice.
• The skin blue, purple, cold, as if frozen.
• The skin tumefied, red, of scarlet color.
• The skin red and yellow in places. [420.]
• Desquamation of the skin.
• Great tendency of tumors to indurate.
• Œdematous swelling of the skin.
• Swelling, heat and redness in some parts of the skin, as if produced by the stings of insects, with great tendency to inflame.
• Spots and tumefaction of the skin, as if caused by contusions.
• Tuberosities and tumors, like subcutaneous abscesses.
• Eruptions similar to small-pox, leaving indelible scars.
• Phlyctenoid and petechial eruptions.
• Eruptions having the aspect of measles or scarlatina.
• Ephelides, fiery and itching, so that he tore the skin, especially at night. [430.]
• Urticaria on the face, or pustular herpes like an acne rosacea, with varicose dilatation of the capillary vessels of the cheek and nose.
• Miliary eruptions and urticaria.
• Itching and eruptions, similar to scabies, with great disposition to disappear and to be followed by affections of the chest.
• Eruptions like an eczema, all around the penis.
• Many pimples like small furuncles over the whole body.
• Very painful pimples, having a malignant character, irritable and ulcerating.
• A great number of red pimples in the skin and beneath it.
• Hard pimples, which take a great while to suppurate.
• Heat in the beard, with eruption of small pimples with white heads.
• Nose greatly pimpled. [440.]
• Eruption of small pimples on the back and chest, with heat, itching, and sweat.
• Pimples on the penis similar to syphilis.
• Pimples and small furuncles, painful and stubborn, on the arms.
• Eruptions of small white pimples on the fingers.
• Vesicular eruption, as in scabies, on the arms and hands.
• Large vesicles on the lips.
• Formation of large painful vesicles, with ulcers, on the legs.
• Erysipelatous blisters, especially in the upper part of the body.

SLEEP

• Irresistible desire to sleep, especially when he feels cold.
• Sleepiness with debility and weariness, as if he had not slept for several days.
• Comatose sleep, with snoring, and awakened with great difficulty.
• Sleep like coma vigil, with nightmare, dread, screaming, crying, and great restlessness.
• Very great somnolence, as if he were drunk, during the day, and sleeplessness during the night, especially with heat. [470.]
• He falls asleep only late at night.
• When going to bed, restlessness, agitations, and visions.
• Sleep, with frequent waking, agitation, and twitching of the extremities.
• Agitated sleep, waking early.
• When waking, red face, the head stupid and a mist before the eyes.
• At the moment of falling asleep, accumulation of thoughts of business, disturbing sleep.
• Apparitions and increased fever during the night, in the morning, and after meals.
• Dreams of pleasures and travels.
• Dreams full of disputes, scolding, anger, and cruelties, which have happened or will happen.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Chills, general coldness, with heat and cerebral congestions, intense thirst, tightness, and violent cramps of the extremities. [480.]
• Coldness and chills, especially in the afternoon and at night; he frequently feels frozen, or as if the blood did not circulate.
• Cold hands.
• Heat.
• Fever, with heat and partial chills; constant intense thirst, the mouth full of thick frothy saliva, pasty nauseous taste; pulse strong and accelerated.
• Fever, with soporous sleep; mouth open and fuliginous.
• Fever continued or intermittent, quotidian, tertian, or quartan, always with great prostration.
• Heat and sensation of drowsiness over the whole body, copious perspiration from head to foot, also on the back and other parts of the body; pale face, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks, headache, nausea, colic, ardent thirst, and pains in the throat.
• Heat and sweat, followed by cold chills, increasing to intense shivering, debility, and malaise; desire to lie down; dry arid tongue, coated white or yellow; bilious vomiting; constipation or diarrhœa; great thirst, somnolence, and delirium.
• Heat and general perspiration, with debility.
• Heat, with contraction of the epidermis, at the least movement.
• Great heat of the head, with pain as if the hair were pulled out. [490.]
• Heat and irritation in the head, with excitable temperament.
• Sweat.
• Frequent sweats, even with the chills; colliquative sweats.
• Sweat, with bathes the scalp and face, with shuddering of the chest.
• Copious sweat, oily and fetid on the scalp.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Deafness; till evening, the symptoms; apparitions and fever.
• ( Afternoon ), Cough; itching and pricking; coldness and chills.
• ( Evening ), Pains in head; dryness of eyelids; deafness.
• ( Night ), Pains in head; dryness of eyelids; pain in teeth; colic; cough; in bed, dyspnœa; palpitations; swelling of legs; itching and pricking; apparitions and fever; coldness and chills.
• ( Strong air ), Headache.
• ( Ascending steps ), Palpitations.
• ( In bed ), Palpitations.
• ( Changing position ), The symptoms.
• ( Cold ), Itching and pricking.
• ( Flat things ), Nausea and vomiting.
• ( While drinking ), Drowsiness.
• ( Great head ), Itching and pricking.
• ( When lying down ), Sensation in brain.
• ( After meal ), Apparitions and fever.
• ( Motion ), Headache; nausea and vomiting; colic.
• ( Noise ), Headache.
• ( Rising from sitting ), The symptoms.
• ( Speaking ), Sufferings of larynx and chest.
• ( Spring and fall ), The symptoms.
• ( When taking a deep breath ), Cramps and pains in heart.
• ( Damp weather ), The symptoms.
• ( Wet and windy weather ), Cough.
• ( Walking ), Nausea and vomiting.
• ( When yawning ), Cramps and pains in chest.
• Amelioration.
• ( Salt ), Some stomach symptoms.

SUPPLEMENT: ROBINIA. Authority.

8 , Dr. Gendron, Ann. Clin. de Mont., 24, 68 (Journ. of Philad. Coll. of Pharm., 1834, p. 285), some schoolboys chewed the bark and swallowed the juice.

• Lethargy, 8.
• Vomiting, 8.
• Slight convulsions, 8.