Materia Medica
Robinia
Yellow Locust
Yellow Locust (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 leucorrhoea. Discharge of blood between menstrual periods. Herpes on vagina and vulva.
Relationships
Magnes phos; Arg nit; Orexine tannate. (Hyperchlorhydria; deficient acid and slow digestion; 14 hourly doses)
Dose
Third potency. Must be continued a long time.