Lobelia Inflata

General

LOBELIA INFLATA. [Lobel. infl.] Indian Tobacco. Jeanes. Lobeliaceae.

Mind

► Desponding ; sobbing like a child. ► Apprehension of death and difficulty of breathing.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : and deathly nausea ; as if starting from left eye.

Inner Head

► Headache, with slight giddiness. ► Dull, heavy pain passing around forehead, from one temple to the other, just above the eyebrows. ► Pressing outwards in both temples. ► Pains through the head in sudden shocks.

Outer Head

► Chilliness in left side of head, commencing in ear, with feeling as if the hair would rise on end. ► Pressing pain on left side of occiput, worse at night and from motion. ► Drawing upward, in a narrow stripe, from right side of throat to behind the ear.

Eyes

► Hemiopia. ► Pressure on the upper half of eyeballs.

Ears

► Sudden shutting up of the right ear, as if stopped by a plug, at 2 P.M., only relieved while boring with his finger in the ear.

Nose

► Nosebleed. ► Tip of nose very cold.

Face

► Neuralgia of left side of face and temples, with retarded menses. ► Flushes of heat, or heat of the face. ► Sweat on the face with the nausea. ► Chilly feeling in left cheek, near ear, extending to lower jaw. ► Cyanosis. θ Emphysema.

Teeth

► Dull, pressing pain in last left molar, with same sensation in temples.

Mouth

► Flow of clammy saliva in the mouth (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 diminished by drinking. ► Sensation of a lump in pit of throat, impeding deglutition. ► Sensation as if oesophagus contracted from below upward.

Desires And Aversions

► Loss of appetite, with acrid, burning taste in the mouth. ► No appetite for dinner.

Eating And Drinking

► After breakfast ; pressing outward, in both temples ; itching in left canthus. ► Faint, weak at stomach from excessive use of green tea or tobacco. ► Food and drink : 16. After eating : 18, 19. After drinking : 40.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Hiccough : with profuse flow of saliva ; in the evening, followed by drowsiness. ► Frequent empty eructations, with flow of water into mouth. ► Frequent gulping up of a burning, sour fluid. ► Acidity in stomach, with contractive feeling in pit of stomach. ► Incessant, violent nausea. ► Nausea, with profuse perspiration and copious vomiting. ► Heart-burn and running of water from the mouth. ► Vomiting, with cold perspiration of the face. ► Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, with profuse running of water from the mouth ; morning sickness. ► Nausea disappearing very suddenly. ► Nausea in last stages of phthisis pulmonaris. ► Nausea worse at night and after sleeping ; relieved by a little food or drink. ► Chronic vomiting, nausea, profuse sweat ; but with good appetite ; brick-dust sediment in the urine.

Stomach

► Heat or burning in the stomach. ► Sensation in stomach : of weight ; of a lump ; as from undigested food. ► Feeling of weakness of stomach, or in the pit of stomach, extending through the whole chest and lower down to umbilicus. ► Bruised soreness from pit of stomach through to back, after cramp in stomach. ► Sensation of oppression at epigastrium, as if the stomach was too full ; worse on pressure.

Hypochondria

► Fulness and pressure in hypochondria after eating. ► Pinching in abdomen, near the edge of liver.

Abdomen

► Pain in the abdomen, worse after eating. ► Rumbling in bowels and passage of flatus downward. ► Sudden sharp pain in left side of abdomen. ► Abdomen distended, with shortness of breath. ► Tympanitis.

Stool, Etc

► Stool : soft, but passed with great exertion ; green, soft ; frequent, loose during day, with great obtuseness of the head. ► Discharge of blood after stool. ► Bleeding piles ; copious hemorrhage.

Urine

► Sticking pain in the region of the right kidney. ► Urine increased or diminished. ► Urine of a deep red color, depositing a copious, red sediment. ► Brown sediment.

Male Sexual Organs

► Smarting of the prepuce. ► Sensation of weight in the genitals. ► Aching pain in the urethra.

Female Sexual Organs

► Menses too early, too profuse. ► Violent pain in sacrum ; sense of great weight in genitals.

Pregnancy

► Morning sickness : 16. ► With every uterine contraction violent dyspnoea, which seems to neutralize the labor-pains ; rigid os uteri.

Larynx

► Oppression felt in the throat-pit. θ Spasmodic asthma. ► Sensation of fulness in trachea, as if arising from chest, causing a few short coughs, followed by warmth in forehead. ► Peculiar sensation, between tickling and acrid feeling in larynx ; two short coughs ; feeling of narrowness.

Breathing

► Sensation of a foreign body in the throat, impeding the breathing and swallowing. ► Dyspnoea and asthma, with sensation as of a lump in the pit of the throat, immediately above the sternum. ► Contraction of chest, with deep inhalations. ► Want of breath, hysterical. ► Impossibility of deep inspiration ; extreme dyspnoea. ► Short inhalation and long, deep exhalation. ► Inclination to sigh, or to get a very deep breath ; deep inspiration relieves the pressive pain in the epigastrium. ► Asthma, worse from exertion, with a disorder stomach, especially a feeling of weakness in the pit of stomach ; asthmatic attacks often preceded by prickling all over, even to fingers and toes.

Cough

► Cough : with vomiturition ; with pain in stomach ; short, dry ; only a single one, from a feeling of narrowness of chest. ► Whooping-cough, violent racking ; seemingly from deep in chest, in paroxysms of long continuance ; followed by expectoration of ropy mucus adhering to pharynx. ► Cough, with sneezing, gaping and flatulent eructations. θ Bronchitis.

Lungs

► Pressure on the chest ; left chest above the nipple. ► Spasmodic contraction of diaphragm. ► Pain in chest, with the breathing, while sitting after dinner ; disappears when moving about. ► Pain in lower chest, mostly left side. ► Burning feeling in chest, passing upward.

Heart And Pulse

► Slight, deep-seated pain in region of heart. ► Sensation of weakness and pressure in epigastrium, rising to the heart. ► Sawing sound about heart, with violent pains, diarrhoea and vomiting. ► Short sensation, as if heart would stand still ; deep in, above heart, a pain. ► Pulse : frequent, but small, weak, in evening slower than usual.

Outer Chest

► Repeated quivering in muscles of the left ribs toward spine. ► Pressure on lower portion of sternum left side. ► Tension in left chest, from nipple to arm-pit. ► Pain behind the sternum.

Neck And Back

► Swelling and pain on left side of neck. ► Rheumatic pain between the scapulae. ► Dull pressure between the shoulder-blades. ► Pain under the right shoulder-blade, worse when bending forward. ► About noon a burning pain in back, as if in posterior wall of stomach. ► Extreme tenderness over sacrum ; cannot bear slightest touch ; cries out if any attempt is made to touch the part ; sits up in bed, leaning forward.

Upper Limbs

► Lame feeling in left upper arm. ► Rheumatic pain in right shoulder-joint, goes to left upper arm and around elbow-joint. ► Fine crawling stitches, inside of right deltoid. ► Pain in right deltoid, on a place size of palm of hand, sore to touch. ► A sharp shooting pain in an old scar of the right finger. ► Sweat of the palms of hands, back of hand is dry and cool ; tips of fingers feel very cold ; while walking out in the coldest winter weather, but remaining the same in-doors.

Lower Limbs

► Inflammatory rheumatism in the right knee ; swelling and extreme pain. ► Painful stiffness in knees, as after a long march.

Limbs In General

► Shooting pain through whole body, down into tips of fingers and toes.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 4. Walking : 28 ; in cold air : 32. Exertion : 26. Sitting : 28. Sits leaning forward : 31. In-doors : 32.

Nerves

► Weakness ; feels too weak to stretch out her hand to do anything.

Sleep

► Gaping, followed by crawling in the nose and sneezing ; then gaping and belching of wind. ► Wakened early by very impressive dreams ; arm amputated, wounded by a shot, etc.

Time

► Nearly all symptoms disappear in the evening. ► Morning : 16. Evening : 16. Night : 6. Day : 20.

Temperature And Weather

► Cold washing : increases or causes pain ; causes difficult breathing.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chills down the back, with heat in stomach ; general shivering. ► Thirst before chill ; shaking chill and coldness increased after drinking. ► Heat, with thirst and sweat. ► Flushes of heat. ► Heat, with inclination to sweat, particularly in the face. ► Sweat, with heat, or after heat has lasted for some time. ► Sweat, after heat, with sleep. ► Copious night-sweats. ► Cold sweat.

Sides

► Right : 4, 6, 21, 31, 32, 33. Lift : 2, 4, 8, 10, 15, 19, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. Right to left : 32. Below upward : 4, 13, 28. Within outward : 3.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 31, 32. Pressure : 17. Boring finger in ear : 6.

Skin

► Prickling-itching of the skin all over the body.

Relationship

► Useful in morning sickness, after Ant. tart. and Ipec. fail. ► Antidote : Ipec. (?).