LOBELIA PURPURASCENS
Purple Lobelia
By William Boericke â Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
Profound prostration of all the vital forces and of the nervous system; respiratory paralysis. Nervous prostration of influenza . Coma. Tongue white and paralyzed.
Head
Confused and depressed. Headache with nausea, vertigo; especially between eyebrows. Cannot keep eyes open; spasmodic closure of lids.
Chest
Superficial respiration; heart and lungs feel paralyzed; respiration slow. Heart beats sound to him like boom of a drum.
Eyes
Impossible to keep open. Drowsy.
Relationship
Compare: Baptisa; Lobelia cardinalis (debility, especially of lower extremities; oppressed breathing, pleurisy, sticking pain in chest on taking a long breath. Pain in left lung, intermitting pricking during the day).
Dose
Third potency.