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Lobelia Inflata
Lobelia inflata · LOB
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Origin 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 useHering

Introduced and proved by Jeanes. See Trans. Amer. Institute of Horn., vol. 1^ p. 171 ; also proved by Barallier, of Toulon. Clinical authorities. — Headache, Smitb, MSS. ; Nausea, McGeorge, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 21; Vomiting, Smith, Horn. Clin., vol. 4, p. 60; Cardialgia (2 cases), Noack, MSS. ; Jeanes, MSS. ; Hemorrhoidal discharge, Jeanes, MSS. ; Bronchitis, MeyhofFer, Raue's Path., p. 375 ; Dyspnoea, Jeanes, Horn. Clin., vol. 1, p. 6 ; Asthma, Ker, B. J. H., vol. 8, p. 451 ; Cutler, MSS. ; Asthma, Schlesier, N. A. J. H., vol. 9, p. 252 ; Spasmodic asthma, Barton, MSS. ; Jeanes, Horn. Practice, 1838 ; Whooping Cough, A. E., Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 723 ; Pneumonia intermittens, Eosenberg, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 822 ; Consumption, Niesz, Horn. Clin., vol. 1, p. 272 ; Heart disease, Schlesier, N. A. J. H., vol. 9, p. 252 ; Pain in shoulder, Caspari, Horn. Clin., vol. 1, p. 272; Pain in sacj'um. Smith, Horn. Clin., vol. 4, p. 60; J.^'ue, Jeanes, Euck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 942. ^ Mind. Desponding ; sobbing like a child. I Apprehension of death and difficulty of breathing. ^ Sensorium. Vertigo: and deathly nausea; as if starting from 1. eye, with pain in head and trembling agitation of body. ^ Inner Head, i Headache with vertigo. I Dull, heavy pain passing around forehead, from temple to temple, just above eyebrows. I I Pressing outward in both temples. I I Pains through head in sudden shocks. I Dull, heavy pain in 1. side of head. iPressive headache at occiput, 1. side; < at night and on motion. B Periodical headache in afternoon, increasing until mid- night, every third attack alternately more or less violent. iSick headache with vertigo; dull headache, violent nau- sea, vomiting and great prostration. I Pain over 1. eye, extending over 1. side of head and neck; coldness; > near fire; deathly sick feeling at stomach and all over; sudden pallor with profuse sweat; faint- ing when making an effort to move ; cannot bear smell of tobacco; tobacco smoke brings on fainting; sour stomach; sleepiness; vomiting of bile (vomiting sel- dom). ^Gastric sick headaches; headaches following intoxication, with nervousness and trembling. 79 LOBELIA INFLATA. '^ Sight and Eyes. Hemiopia; pressure on upper half of eyeballs. ® Hearing and Ears. Sudden shutting up of r. ear, as if stopped by a plug, at 2 p.m., > boring with finger in ear. ^ Smell and Nose. Nosebleed. I I Tip of nose very cold. ^ Upper Face, n Neuralgia of 1. side of face and temples, with retarded menses. Flushes of heat or heat of face. ■ Cold sweat on face with nausea. Chilly feeling in 1. cheek, near ear, extending to lower jaw. I I Cyanosis. ^Emphysema. ^° Teeth and Gums. Dull, pressing pain in last 1. molar and temples. " Taste and Tongue, l i Very sharp, disagreeable taste, espe- cially at tip of tongue, and in back of throat. ^^ Inner Mouth. iFlow of profuse, clammy saliva, with nausea. ^^ Throat. Burning in throat, dryness of fauces, spitting at intervals. Tough mucus in fauces, causing frequent hawking. Dryness and pricking in throat, not > by drinking. iSensation of a lump in pit of throat, impeding deglutition. ■ Sensation as if oesophagus contracted from below upward. ^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. "Loss of appe- tite, with acrid, burning taste in mouth. I Cannot bear smell of tobacco or tobacco smoke, although addicted to its use. ^ Eating and Drinking. After breakfast : pressing outward, in both temples ; itching in 1. canthus. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting, i Hic- cough with profuse flow of saliva ; in evening, followed by drowsiness. ■ Frequent empty eructations, flow of water into mouth. ■ Frequent gulping of a burning, sour fluid. ■ Acidity in stomach, with contractive feeling in pit of stomach; heartburn. ■ Incessant, violent nausea ; profuse perspiration ; copious vomiting. ■ Nausea: with vertigo; disappearing very suddenly; in last stages of phthisis; < at night and after sleep; > by a little food or drink. ■ Nausea with rather cold sweat on head, especially on face, with great but ineffectual efforts to vomit. ■Vomiting, with cold perspiration of face. I I Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, profuse run- ning of water from mouth ; morning sickness. ■ ■Chronic vomiting in paroxysms, with nausea, profuse LOBELIA INFLATA. 80 sweat, prostration of strength, good appetite ; brickdust sediment in urine. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach, i Sensation in stomach : heat or burning; of weight; as of a lump; as from undi- gested food ; of weakness, extending through whole chest and down to umbilicus. 1 1 Faintness or weakness at pit of stomach, from excessive use of green tea or tobacco. 1 1 Indescribable feeling about stomach, compounded of nausea, pain, heat, oppression and excessive uneasiness. I Deathly sick feeling all over, especially at stomach. I Bruised soreness from pit of stomach through to back^ after cramp in stomach. ■ Sensation of oppression at epigastrium, as if stomach was too full ; < on pressure. ■ Dyspepsia, heartburn and running of water from mouth. iGastralgia biliosa; paroxysm of excruciating pain, and feeling as of a heavy load in stomach. ■Weakness and oppression at epigastrium, extending into chest; burning in stomach, a burning lump in pit of throat impedes swallowing and respiration ; in swallow- ing it seemed as if at this point something rose up to meet food and obstruct its descent ; eructation of acid fluid with burning ; vomiting of food after meals, espe- cially after warm food ; had heartburn continually ; urine high colored, copious, red sediment; pain in 1. ^ lumbar region. ^Cardialgia. ■ Severe pressing feeling in epigastrium, excited by certain kinds of food, and mental emotion ; < evening and night; after fright and vexation during menstrual pe- riod, suppression, alternating heat and cold, nausea, bitter taste, thirst, vomiting of bile, severe pressing in epigastrium after eating and whilst fasting, in evening; oppression and feeling of anxiety in breast, pain in sacral region ; tongue yellow, pulse small, weak and slow. ^Cardialgia biliosa. ^^ Hypochondria. Fulness and pressure in hypochondria after eating. Pinching in abdomen, near edge of liver. ^^ Abdomen. Pain in abdomen, < after eating. Rumbling in bowels and passage of flatus downward. Sudden, sharp pain in 1. side of abdomen. Abdomen distended, shortness of breath; tympanitis. ■ Intussusception of bowels; incarcerated hernia. ^ Stool and Rectum. Stool : soft, but passed with great ex- ertion ; green, soft ; frequent, loose during day, with great obtuseness of head. I 1 Discharge of black blood after stool. 81 LOBELIA INFLATA. ■Copious hemorrhoidal discharge, consequent debility, sen- sation of tightness in epigastrium ; acidity of stomach ; oppression of chest. ^^ Urinary Organs. Sticking pain in region of r. kidney. Urine increased or diminished ; brown sediment. I Urine of a deep red color, depositing copious red sediment. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Smarting of prepuce ; aching in urethra. Sensation of weight in genitals. ^ Female Sexual Organs. IMenses too early, too profuse. • Suppressed menses: in consumptive persons; with pain in r. shoulder. I Violent pain in sacrum ; sense of great weight in genitals. ^Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation, i Morning sickness. iWith every uterine contraction violent dj'-spnoea, which seems to neutralize labor pains ; rigid os and perineum. ^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia, i Oppres- sion felt in throat pit; spasmodic asthma. Sensation of fulness in trachea, as if from chest, causing a. few short coughs, followed by warmth in forehead. Peculiar sensation, between tickling and acrid feeling, in larynx ; two short coughs ; feehng of narrowness. ■ Feeling as of a lump or quantity of mucus, and pressure in larynx. ■Spasmodic croup, with stridulous breathing, ringing cough, d3^spncea ; constrictive sensation in larynx ; con- stant cough and great anguish, with fear of suffocation. ■ Burning pricking in air passages. ■ Spasmodic contraction of diaphragm in emphysema, ac- companied by pain in epigastrium, tympanitis, impos- sibility of deep inspiration, extreme dyspnoea and cya- nosis. ^Bronchitis. ^ Respiration. ■Sensation of a foreign body in throat, imped- ing breathing and swallowing. ■ Dyspnoea and asthma, with sensation as of a lump in pit of throat, immediately above sternum. I I Contraction of chest, with deep inhalations. I I Want of breath, hysterical. ■ Impossibility of deep inspiration; extreme dyspnoea. ^Bronchitis. Short inhalation and long, deep exhalation. Inclination to sigh, or to get a very deep breath ; deep in- spiration, > pressive pain in epigastrium. ■ ■Extremely difficult breathing caused by a very strong constriction at middle of chest, which impedes respira- tory movements. ■ ■Dyspncea < by slightest exertion, or short exposure to cold, to an asthmatic paroxysm, YOL. VII. — 6. LOBELIA INFLATA. 82 I I Deep inspiration relieves pressive pain in epigastrium. I Short and slow inspiration, with desire to cough. I Asthmatic constriction of air tubes. I Asthma: < from exertion, with a disordered stomach, especially a feeling of weakness in pit of stomach ; often preceded by a prickling all over, even to fingers and toes ; paroxysmal, with pain in chest ; lump in throat pit ; weakness and oppression at epigastrium ; oppres- sion at heart and chest. ■Sudden and most urgent oppression, pants and endeavors to cough, but is unable to, and is threatened with suffo- cation every moment. ^Nervous asthma. I Every day at noon, for three months, asthmatic parox- ysms of difficult breathing, terminating in cough with- out expectoration. ^Asthma. ■ Spasmodic contraction of diaphragm in emphysema, ac- companied by pain in epigastrium, tympanitis, impos- sibility of deep inspirations, extreme d^'spnoea, and cyanosis. I Convulsive asthma from pulmonic irritation of efi'used serum. ■ Dyspnoea, < by exertion, going up or down stairs, ex- posure to cold, and eating very warm food ; pain in 1. lumbar region of abdomen ; burning in stomach and throat, with dryness in latter ; lump in pit of throat im- peding respiration and deglutition ; weakness and op- pression in epigastrium ; gastric derangement ; urine of a deep red, depositing a copious red sediment. ^ Cough. Cough : with vomituritio ; with pain in stomach, short, dry ; only a single one, from a feeling of narrow- ness in chest, ■Whooping cough, violent racking ; seemingly from deep in chest, in paroxysms of long continuance; followed by expectoration of ropy mucus, adhering to pharynx. ■Spasmodic cough ; dyspnoea so severe as to cause fear of death ; sensation of fulness in chest, and burning, raw pain in epigastrium ; < from motion ; particularly use- ful in third stage, when expectoration ceases, or when relapses occur ; also when an inflammatory condition of mucous membrane of larynx, trachea and bronchi accompany the disease. ^Whooping cough. ■ Cough with sneezing, gaping and flatulent eructations. ^Bronchitis. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Sensation of pressure on chest; 1. chest above nipple. ■Spasmodic contraction of diaphragm. I I Pain in chest, with breathing, while sitting after dinner; > when moving about. 83 LOBELIA INFLATA. I I Pain in lower chest, most 1. side. I I Burning feeling in chest, passing upward. I Pneumonia intermittens, particularly in individuals who live in malarial districts, accompanied by affections of bronchi or heart. I Emphysema with very dry tracheal and bronchial catarrh, lit palliated cough and brought back menses, which had ceased for six months. ^Consumption, last stage. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation, i Slight, deep seated pain in region of heart. ■ Sensation of weakness and pressure in epigastrium, rising to heart. ■ Sawing sound about heart, with violent pains, diarrhoea and vomiting. ■ ■Sensation as if heart would stand still , a pain deep in, above heart. ■Sensation of excessive weakness at prsecordium, extending upward into chest and downward as far as umbilicus. ■ Dyspnoea and suffocation from every rapid movement, attended with vertigo, threatened loss of consciousness and a peculiar confusion of head. ^Heart disease. ■ Pulse: frequent, but small, weak in evening; slower than usual. ^° Outer Chest. Repeated quivering in muscles of I. ribs towards spine. Pressure on lower portion of sternum, 1. side. Tension in 1. chest, from nipple to armpit. I I Pain behind sternum, ■Feeling as of a band about chest, with irresistible desire to cough. ^^ Neck and Back. Swelling and pain on 1. side of neck. Rheumatic pain between scapulae. Dull pressure between shoulder blades. ■ Violent pain in top of r. shoulder and shortly afterward in back, from about first to fourth dorsal vertebrae. ^Gastralgia biliosa. Pain under r. shoulder blade, < when bending forward. After noon a burning pain in back, as if in posterior wall of stomach. ■Violent pain in sacrum, with fever. ^SupjDression of menses. ■Extreme tenderness over sacrum; she cannot bear even pressure of a soft pillow; cries out if any attempt is made to touch part ; sits up in bed, leaning forward to avoid contact with bedclothes ; after each vomiting spell breaks out all over with sweat, followed by a sen- sation as if thousands of needles were piercing her skin from within outward. LOBELIA INFLATA. 84 ^^ Upper Limbs. Lame feeling in 1. upper arm. Rheumatic pain in r. shoulder joint, goes to 1. upper arm. and around elbow joint. I Pain in shoulder of an elderly lady, who had not men- struated for two years ; relieved pain and brought on menstruation. Fine crawling stitches inside of r. deltoid. Pain in r. deltoid, place size of palm of hand sore to touch. A sharp shooting pain in an old scar of r. ring finger. Sweat of palms of hands, back of hand dry and cool ; tips of fingers cold. ^^ Lower Limbs, b Inflammatory rheumatism of r. knee, with tearing pains in fibula. Painful stiffness in knees, as after a long march. ^^ Limbs in GeneraL Shooting pain through whole body, into tips of fingers and toes. ^^ Rest. Position. Motion. Bending forward : pain under r. shoulder blade <. Motion : headache < ; pain in epigastrium <. Slightest exertion: dyspnoea and asthma <. Too weak to stretch out her hand to do anything. Making an afibrt to move : causes fainting. Going up or down stairs: dyspnoea <. From every rapid movement: dyspnoea and suffocation.. 36 Jferyeg. Weakness ; feels too weak to stretch out her hand to do anything ; comj)lete muscular relaxation. BFaintness, with profuse sweat; fainting, great pallor. ^"^ Sleep. Gaping, followed by crawling in nose and sneezing;, then gaping and belching of wind. Wakened early by very impressive dreams ; arm ampu- tated, wounded by a shot, etc. ^ Time. Morning : sickness, of pregnancy. Towards middle of day : shuddering chill followed by heat and sweat, lasting until next morning. During day : looseness of bowels. At 2 P.M. : sudden shutting up of ear. Afternoon : a burning pain in back. Evening : hiccough with profuse flow of saliva ; severe- pressing in epigastrium; pulse weak. Night : pressive headache < ; nausea < ; pressing in epi- gastrium. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Near fire: coldness >. After warm food : vomiting. Exposure to cold : dyspnoea <. *° Fever. Shuddering towards middle of day. I Coldness > near fire, or from heat. I Chills down back, heat in stomach; general shivering. Thirst before chill ; shaking chill and coldness, < after drinking. 85 LOBELIA INFLATA. Heat with thirst and sweat, particularly in face. iSweat: with heat, or after heat has lasted for some time; after heat with sleep; copious night sweat. I Intermittent fever (quotidian). I Fever and ague, with chill in middle of day, followed by heat and sweat, which lasts until next morning. ^^ Attacks, Periodicity. Every day at noon, for three months : asthmatic paroxysms. Periodical headache : in afternoon, increasing until mid- night, every third attack alternating more or less violent. Quotidian intermittent. '^Locality and Direction. Right: sudden shutting up of ear ; sticking pain in region of kidney ; pain in shoulder; violent pain in top of shoulder; pain. under shoulder blade ; rheumatic pain in shoulder joint, goes to 1. upper arm ; fine crawling stitches inside of deltoid ; pain in deltoid; sharp shooting pain in an old scar of ring finger ; inflammatory rheumatism in knee. Left: as if nausea started from eye; dull pain side of head ; pressive pain side of occiput; pain over eye, over side of head and neck ; neuralgia of side of face_ and temples ; chilly feeling of cheek ; dull, pressing pain in last molar; itching in canthus; pain in lumbar region; sudden sharp pain in side of abdomen ; repeated quiver- ing in muscles of ribs ; pressure on side of lower por- tion of sternum ; tension of chest; swelling and pain on side of neck ; lame feeling in upper arm. From within outward : as if needles were piercing her skin. From below upward : oesophagus as if contracted. ^^ Sensations. Vertigo, as if starting from 1. eye ; r. ear as if suddenly stopped by a plug; as of a lump in pit of throat ; as if oesophagus contracted from below upward ; as of a lump in stomach ; as from undigested food in stomach ; as if stomach was too full ; as of a heavy load in stomach ; as if lump rose up to meet food and obstruct its descent ; fulness in trachea, as if from chest; as of a lump in larynx ; as of a foreign body in throat ; as if heart would stand still ; as of a band about chest ; as if thousands of needles were pricking her skin from with- in outward. Pain : in head ; through head in sudden shocks ; over 1. eye, extending over 1. side of head and neck ; in 1. lum- bar region; in sacral region ; in abdomen; in r. shoulder; in epigastrium ; in chest ; in stomach ; deep in above heart ; behind sternum ; on 1. side of neck ; under r. shoulder blade ; in r. deltoid. Excruciating pain : in stomach. Violent pain: in sacrum; about heart; in top of r. shoulder; in back. LOBELIA INFLATA. 80 Indescribable feeling : compounded of nausea, heat, pain, oppression and excessive uneasiness about stomach. Sudden sharp pain : in 1. side of abdomen. Sharp shooting pain : in an old scar of r. ring finger. Shooting pain : through whole body into tips of fingers and toes. Tearing pains : in fibula. Neuralgia : of 1. side of face and temples. Burning, raw pain : in epigastrium. Pinching : in abdomen. Inflammatory rheumatism : of r. knee. Rheumatic pains : between scapulse ; in r. shoulder joint, to upper arm and around elbow joint. Cramp : in stomach. Sticking pain : in region of r. kidney. Burning pain : in back. Fine, crawling stitches : inside of r. deltoid. Aching : in urethra. Slight, deep seated pain : in region of heart. Dull, heavy pain : passing around forehead, from temple to temple, just above ej^ebrows; on 1. side of head. Pressive pain : at occiput, 1. side ; in epigastrium. Dull pressing pain : in last 1. molar and temples. Burning : in throat ; in stomach. Burning, pricking: in air passages. A burning lump : in pit of throat. Smarting ; of prepuce. Bruised soreness: from pit of stomach through to back. Extreme tenderness: over sacrum. Prickling: in throat; all over. Prickling itching : of skin all over body. Peculiar sensation between tickling and acrid feeling: in


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Antidoted by Ipecacuanha 3, Matthiola Graeca, Mercurius Corrosivus
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Compare Arsenicum Album, Tabacum, Veratrum Album +17

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