Lobelia
by C.M. Boger — General Analysis
- DRINKING, Amel.
- EPIGASTRIUM
- PUFFINESS
- RESPIRATION
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Lobelia appears in 10 of the 13 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…”
“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. 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…”
“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 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).