Robinia Pseudacacia

Yellow Locust

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(ROBINIA)

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.

Robinia Pseudacacia across the other classic books

Robinia Pseudacacia appears in 6 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Robinia pseud-acacia, Linn. Natural order , Leguminosæ. Common names , Locust; (F.), Robinier. Preparation , Tincture of the bark. Authorities. APPENDIX. -Symptoms by T. L. Houatt, in Nouvelles Données de Mat. Méd. Homœopathique, Paris, 1866. Very low-spirited, 1. She could not support her head upright upon her…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Secretions. Stomach. Eating. Night. Fats. 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: Iris. Mag-c.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“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. Acidity / Coryza / Dyspepsia / Flatulence / Headache, gastric / Hyperchlorhydria / Indigestion, nocturnal / Intermittents / Neuralgia / Pyrosis /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Excessive acidity of the stomach; vomits substance that sets teeth on edge.”

Robinia Pseudacacia in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Robinia Pseudacacia in 144 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in STOMACH (30), MIND (23), HEAD (11), TEETH (9), GENERALITIES (8).

SLEEP - DEEP - heat,during
SLEEP - HEAT,during,in intermittent
SLEEP - FALLING asleep - heat,during
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - heat,during the
STOMACH - VOMITING - sour
STOMACH - VOMITING - water
STOMACH - ERUCTATIONS - sour
STOMACH - THIRST - extreme
STOMACH - HEARTBURN - night - lying down,on
STOMACH - ERUCTATIONS - sour - sitting bent,while
STOMACH - ERUCTATIONS - sour - fat food
STOMACH - HEARTBURN - night
PERSPIRATION - OILY
GENERALITIES - WEAKNESS,enervation - fever - during
MOUTH - SPONGY - Gums
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS
CHILL - PREDOMINATING
KIDNEYS - SUPPRESSION of urine
STOMACH - PAIN - eating - after
STOMACH - HEARTBURN

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