- 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 — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“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 /…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“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.”
- Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(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…”
- 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…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“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…”
- 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.”
