by Henry N. Guernsey — Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Urine has a deep red color, and deposits a copious red sediment. Where we find the above symptom very prominently displayed, we may think strongly of Lobel. infl.
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Lobelia inflata appears in 13 of the 21 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.
“Indian Tobacco. (Lobeliaceae.) Best adapted to persons of light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, inclined to be fleshy. Gastric derangements, extreme nausea and vomiting ; morning sickness; spasmodic asthma; pertusis, with dyspnoea threatening suffocation . Headache: gastric, with nausea, vomiting and great…”
“Lobelia inflata, Linn. Natural order , Lobeliaceæ. Common name , Indian Tobacco. Preparation , Tincture of the plant. Authorities.”
“Indian Tobacco Is a vaso-motor stimulant; increases the activity of all vegetative processes; spends its force mainly upon the pneumogastric nerve, producing a depressed relaxed condition with oppression of the chest and epigastrium, impeded respiration, nausea and vomiting. Languor, relaxation of muscles, nausea…”
“DRINKING, Amel. EPIGASTRIUM PUFFINESS RESPIRATION”
“RESPIRATION. Vaso - motor nerves. Secretions. Heart. Epigastrium. Cold bathing. Suppressions. Sleep; after. Tobacco. Rapid motion. Eating a little. RELAXATION; with increased secretions and weakness; with sweat; with deathly sickness all over; with oppressed, rattling respiration. Sits with elbows on knees. Prickles…”
“Indian Tobacco. (Fields and roadsides from Canada to Southern U.S.A.) N. O. Lobeliaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant when in flower and seed. Trituration of dried leaves. Acetum. Alcoholism / Alopecia / Amenorrhœa / Angina pectoris / Asthma / Cardialgia / Cough / Croup / Deafness / Debility / Diarrhœa / Dysmenorrhœa /…”
“(Indian Tobacco.) Botanical Description. — This plant is generally known as wild or Indian Tobacco, and is an annual or biennial indigenous plant, more commonly the latter, with a fibrous, yellowish white root, and an erect, angular, very hairy stem; in the full-sized plant, much branched, and from six inches to three…”
“Indian Tobacco. Lobeliaceæ. Introduced and proved by Jeanes. See Trans. Amer. Institute of Hom., vol. 1, p. 171 ; also proved by Barallier, of Toulon. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Headache , Smith, MSS. ; Nausea , McGeorge, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 21 ; Vomiting , Smith, Hom. Clin., vol. 4, p. 60 ; Cardialgia (2 cases), Noack…”
“LOBELIA. LobeBa infiatat L., Indian tobacco ; L. cardinHlh, L., cardinal flower \ and L. sfpnili' tica, L., great blue lobelia. Nat. Ord., Lobtiiacea. L Provings. — i. Dr. S. R. Dub:> took lodr. of concentrated tinct, of L. cardinalis in water at lO.lO a.m. Local burning caused by it lasted till n. In 20 m., sticking…”
“Desponding -sobbing like a child. Apprehension of death and difficulty of breathing. Vertigo with nausea. Headache with slight giddiness. Outward pressing in both temples. Heat of the face. Perspiration of the face with the nausea. Chilly feeling in the left cheek extending to the ear. Flow of clammy saliva in the…”
“Common name: indian tobacco. Extreme sensitiveness of the sacrum; can't bear least touch; sits leaning forward to avoid contact of chair or cushion (N.). Sick headache with vertigo (Bt.). Dull headache, with violent nausea, vomiting and great prostration (Bt.). Face bathed in cold sweat (Ars., Bry., Cact., Calc…”
“Nausea and vomiting with great relaxation of muscular system and profuse accumulation of saliva.”
Kent's Repertory lists Lobelia inflata in 477 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in STOMACH (68), HEAD (47), CHEST (37), GENERALITIES (34), BACK (31).
