Lobelia Inflata

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

RESPIRATION.
Vaso - motor nerves.
Secretions.
Heart.
Epigastrium.

WORSE

Cold bathing.
Suppressions.
Sleep; after.
Tobacco.

BETTER

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 all over. .................... Flow of saliva; with retching, hiccough, nausea, dyspnœa, etc. As of a lump in throat or stomach. Deathly nausea; with vertigo; < night and early A.M., > eating or drinking. Vomiting; with sweat (cold on face). Nausea and vomiting, with profuse sweat; with respiratory symptoms. Weak, sinking at stomach. Deep red urine, with red sediment. Urine suppressed or infrequent. Dyspnœa; nervous; with labor pains; as from a wedge in larynx; > rapid motion; with general prickling. Asthma. Spasmodic cough; with sneezing, belching or gastric pain. Rattle in chest, but don't expectorate. Constriction or oppressive fulness in chest. Pulse weak, or soft; flowing. Plaques of œdema (figurata); with ecchymoses.

Related: Ant-t. Ip. Tab.

Lobelia Inflata across the other classic books

Lobelia Inflata 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.

Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“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…”
Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Lobelia inflata, Linn. Natural order , Lobeliaceæ. Common name , Indian Tobacco. Preparation , Tincture of the plant. Authorities.”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“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…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“DRINKING, Amel. EPIGASTRIUM PUFFINESS RESPIRATION”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“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 /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“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…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“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…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Nausea and vomiting with great relaxation of muscular system and profuse accumulation of saliva.”

Lobelia Inflata in Kent's Repertory

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).

FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - copious - serum like discharge from anus and vagina
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - pain,with every labor
STOMACH - EMPTINESS,weak feeling,faintness,goneness,hungry feeling - extending to heart
STOMACH - SINKING - extending to heart
CHEST - CEASE, - sensation as if heart - would
STOMACH - NAUSEA - salivation,with
STOMACH - VOMITING - paroxysmal
STOMACH - NAUSEA - deathly
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - air, - in cold
CHEST - EMPHYSEMA
FACE - PAIN - left
SKIN - PRICKLING
CHEST - AFFECTIONS - Heart
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - spasmodic
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - exertion, - after
CHILL - NOON
URINE - SEDIMENT - sand - red (brick-dust)
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying, - while
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Lungs
GENERALITIES - CONVULSIONS

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