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Lobelia Inflata

Lobelia inflata
LOB · 13 entries across 13 books
HabitatFields and roadsides from Canada to Southern U.S.A. PreparationTincture of fresh plant when in flower and seed. Trituration of dried leaves. Clarke
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)Dose · Boericke

Reason for use

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 prostration; following intoxication; < afternoon until midnight; sudden pallor with profuse sweat (Tab.); < by tobacco or tobacco smoke. Vomiting: face bathed with cold sweat; of pregnancy, profuse salivation (Lac. ac. - at night, Mer.); chronic with good appetite, with nausea, profuse sweat and marked prostration. Faintness, weakness and an indescribable feeling at epigastrium, from excessive use of tea or tobacco. Urine: of a deep orange red color; copious red sediment. Dyspnoea: from constriction of middle of chest; < with every labor pain, seems to neutralize the pains; < by exposure to cold or slightest exertion, going up or down stairs (Ipec.). Sensation of congestion, pressure or weight in chest as if blood from extremities was filling it, > by rapid walking. Sensation as if heart would stand still; deep seated pain at base (at apex, Lil.). Sacrum: extreme sensitiveness; cannot bear the slightest touch, even of a soft pillow; sits leaning forward to avoid contact with clothes.

▲ Worse

Slightest motion; touch, cold

▼ Better

Chest pain by walking rapidly. For the bad effects of drunkenness in people with light hair, blue or grey eyes, florid complexion, corpulent, Lobelia bears the same relation that Nux vomica does to persons of the opposite temperament

The full Allen text, by section

Relations

Compare: Ant. t., Ars., Ipec., Tab., Ver.

Complete text of the Lobelia Inflata entry in Allen - Keynotes of Leading Remedies; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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13 entries across 13 books · abbreviations: LOB · Family: Lobeliaceae

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Entries

1 Boericke

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3 Clarke

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4 Hering

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5 Allen · shown above

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7 Hering

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10 Lippe

Lobelia inflata · Adolph zur Lippe · 2,745 chars

14 T. F. Allen

LOBELIA INFLATA · Timothy Field Allen · 30,482 chars

16 Guernsey

LOBELIA INFLATA · Henry Newell Guernsey · 163 chars

17 Cowperthwaite

LOBELIA INFLATA · Allen Corson Cowperthwaite · 2,793 chars

20 Hempel

Lobelia Inflata · Charles Julius Hempel · 12,314 chars

21 Hale

Lobelia Inflata · Edwin Moses Hale · 28,774 chars

22 Roberts

Lobelia inflata · Herbert Alfred Roberts · 1,299 chars

23 T. F. Allen

LOBELIA INFLATA · Timothy Field Allen · 1,144 chars

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