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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

Violent vomiting, with profound prostration, failure of the heart and respiration, ending in fatal stupor.

Laryngeal and bronchial spasms, associated with deathly nausea.

The full T. F. Allen text, by section

Generalities

Extreme weakness.

General amelioration towards evening.

Head

Vertigo, with nausea.

Pain from one temple to the other across the forehead.

Mouth

Salivation.

Disagreeable taste.

Throat

Constant need to clear the throat of mucus.

Contraction of the oesophagus like a lump in the pit of the throat, with difficult swallowing.

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.

Burning and weak feeling.

Faintness and sinking of the pit of the stomach.

Urinary Organs

Urine deposits a rosy red sediment.

Respiratory organs :

Difficult breathing, caused by constriction in the middle of the chest.

Asthmatic breathing, with great oppression, > moving about.

Spasmodic croup, with nausea, vomiting and threatening suffocation.

Fever

Chilliness, coldness.

Sweat towards evening or at night.

Complete text of the Lobelia Inflata entry in T. F. Allen - A Primer of Materia Medica; 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

LOBELIA INFLATA · William Boericke · 3,397 chars

3 Clarke

Lobelia Inflata · John Henry Clarke · 33,900 chars

4 Hering

Lobelia Inflata · Constantine Hering · 22,434 chars

5 Allen

Lobelia Inflata · Henry C. Allen · 1,679 chars

7 Hering

LOBELIA INFLATA · Constantine Hering · 9,346 chars

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 · shown above

LOBELIA INFLATA · Timothy Field Allen · 1,144 chars

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