Common names: Locust; (F.), Robinier.
Introduction
Robinia pseudacacia, Linn. Natural order: Leguminosae. Preparation: Tincture of the bark.
Mind
Very low-spirited. 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. 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 memory and sensation. Stupor and dulness.
Stupefaction of the intelligence, impossibility to perform any intellectual work; ideas cross one another and are forgotten.
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). Dreadful dulness in the head (after four hours). Slight headache (soon). Most severe dull headache and pain in the right temple (first day). Dull headache and very profuse continual discharge of the nostrils, with frequent sneezing, the same as from a bad cold (second day).
Dull headache, with sharp stitches in the temples. Constant, dull, heavy, frontal headache, very much aggravated by motion and reading. Dull, throbbing, frontal headache. Severe neuralgic pain in the left temple, that prevented sleeping, from midnight until daylight. Vertigo. Vertigo and whirling in the head, with pressure upon the temples; great malaise and heaviness.
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; snoring as in a heavy sleep. General attack of dizziness, when he thinks that he can go to 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.
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. Lancinations 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. Sensation as if the head were struck and pierced 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. 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 sebaceous 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.
Eyes
Eyes sunk (fifth day). Soreness of the eyes and roughness of the throat (second day). Eyes felt sore and watery (first day).
Pupils contracted (after three hours). Objective. 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. 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. 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.
Ears
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.
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
Profuse continual discharge of the nostrils, with frequent sneezing and dull headache (second day). Running of the nose (first day). 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. 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 swelling and congestion.
Face
Objective. 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 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.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.