Robinia Fever Symptoms


Allen gives the therapeutic indications of the remedy Robinia in different kinds of fevers like: Continued, Bilious, Intermittent, Malarial, Remittent, Pernicious, Typhoid, Typhus, Septic fever, etc…


Fever

Characteristic – Excessive acidity of stomach, the child smells sour, sour vomiting and sour stool (Hepar, Rheum).Eructations and vomiting of intensively sour fluid, setting the teeth on edge (Lycopodium, Sulphurac.).

Sick headache, with irritability, despondency, very acid eructations and acid vomiting (with sweet saliva, sweet vomiting, Iris).

Time: Paroxysm, from 3-4 P.M. to 3 – 4 A.M.

Chill: Especially in afternoon and evening, feels frozen, as if blood did not circulate (Lycopodium). Hands cold. Unconscious.

Heat: With intense thirst, frothy saliva, pasty, nauseous taste, delirium, cerebral congestion, soporous sleep, flatulence and eructations, violent cramps of extremities and great prostration. Heat and sensation of drowsiness over the whole body, face pale with circumscribed redness of cheeks, headache, nausea, colic and thirst (Lachesis).

Sweat: Copious, oily, fetid, especially on the scalp and face.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.