Lobelia Cardinalis
Hale - Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies · Edwin Moses Hale · 3,242 χαρακτήρες
General EN
{Cwrdmal Flower) Desciuption. — Tliis is a tali, smooth plant, wili oblong, lanceolate leaves, slightly tootlied. The flowers are deep red., large, and very showy, in an eloDgated raceme, rather one-aided. It grows ia wet places, all over the United States, flowering from July to October. There are twelve or moro species of the Lobelia found in this country. This pathogenesis is from a proving by Dr. Samuel R. Dubs.
Opficihal Peeparatiobs. — Tincture of the plant when mature, Analoguks. — ( .' ) Lobelia ctrulea (?)
Mind EN
Disposition to sing while walking.
Head EN
Headache, dnll and distressing, with fullness in the forehead and base of the occiput; the latter was peculiarly painful; the pain increased by motion on shaking the head. Hot sweat on the forehead; throbbing in that portion, and low
in the occiput, with stiffness in the nape of the neck. Head feels light, with dull pain in the forehead and occiput.
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Dryness of the nose, with fullness, followed by sneezing.
Dull pains in the upper maxillary bones of each side, with aching in the molar teeth.
Mouth And Throat EN
Unple^ant taste in the mouth in the morning.
Burning, stinging in the mouth and lances.
Tongue raw, sore, very red, especially at its tip, and a painful
blister on that part. Soreness of the fauces, with burning and pricking, extending
down to the pharynx and cesophagus. Throat sore and dry, with disposition to swallow and to hawk
np phlegm. Eaw and distressed feeling in the throat, extending down to the epigastiium.
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LOBELIA OARDINALIS. 417
Eyes, Soreness in the ejes, with smarting and slight watering, with
repugnance to lamp light. The eyes feel sore on closing them; with laehrjmation,
Stomacli, Dall, heavy pain in the epigastrium, with sensation ofaweight,
or load there. Dnll, distressing pain ahont three inches below, and a little to
the left of the epigastrium.
Some nausea, with the distress at the epigastrium.
Sticking pains in the stomach, with heaviness there.
Loss of appetite, and much thirst.
Dryness and rawness from the mouth to the stomach
Abdomen EN
Sticking pain in the left hypochondrium, which came on so
suddenly and so violently as to cause me to cry oat; the
pain was relieved by light pressure on the spot.
" Used as a vermifuge by the Choctaw Indians.
Bowels loose, stools at first thin, then consistent.
Chest EN
Severe stitch in the left side of the chest, which compelled me
to press with the hand to moderate it; it nearly took my
breath. Oppression of breathing, with dnll and distressing pain under
the lower part of the sternum, with the same feeling on.
each side; relieved by beating lightly on the part, with.
the hand (lasting ten minutes). Oppression of breathing, with sticking pains on taking a long,
breath. Pricking pains in the left lung (side), coming on several times
a day, lasting several minutes.
Back EN
Weakness, as from a sprain, across the kidneys, with general
languor.
Sxtremitiea. Pricking as from needles, in the calf of left leg, sole of left
foot and heel. Great debility of the lower extremities; the knees seem to
bend under the weight of the body.
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Generalities EN
General debility, languor, with los8 of appetite, and distress in the stomach.