Homeopathy LibraryOrigin Plant · Lobeliaceae (Campanulaceae (subfamily Lobelioideae)) · Simple
Habitat Fields and roadsides from Canada to Southern U.S.A
ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh plant when in flower and seed. Trituration of dried leaves.
Sources 13 entries across 11 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Allen, Lippe …
Dose Boericke
30X, Ø
Tincture, to thirtieth potency. Locally the tincture is antidotal to Poison-oak. Often the Acetum Lobelia acts better than any other preparation. Lobelia hypodermically acts clinically almost precisely as the antitoxin of diphtheria does upon the infection and renders the system stronger to resist future infections (F. Ellingwood)
Reason for useT. F. Allen
Violent vomiting, with profound prostration, failure of the heart and respiration, ending in fatal stupor. Laryngeal and bronchial spasms, associated with deathly nausea.
By regionT. F. Allen
Head Vertigo, with nausea. Pain from one temple to the other across the forehead.
Stomach Nausea ; worse in the morning ; > a little water, with vertigo, cold sweat on the head and face, ineffectual retching, with oppression of the stomach, heat, pain. …
Fever Chilliness, coldness. Sweat towards evening or at night.
Books*
Antidoted by Ipecacuanha 3, Matthiola Graeca, Mercurius Corrosivus
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Arsenicum Album, Tabacum, Veratrum Album +17
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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