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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

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

The full Lippe text, by section

Head

Vertigo with nausea. Headache with slight giddiness.

Face

Heat of the face. Perspiration of the face with the nausea. Chilly feeling in the left cheek extending to the ear.

Mouth And Throat

Flow of clammy saliva in the mouth (with nausea). [10] Burning in the throat : dryness of the fauces, frequent spitting. Tough mucus on the fauces, causing frequent hawking. Dryness and prickling in the throat, not diminished by drinking. Sensation of a lump in the pit of the throat, impeding deglutition. Sensation in the oesophagus as if it contracted itself from below upwards.

Stomach And Abdomen

[15] Frequent flatulent eructations with flow of water in the mouth. Frequent gulping up of a burning, sour fluid. Acidity in the stomach with contractive feeling in the pit of the stomach. Incessant, violent nausea, with shivering and shaking of the upper part of the body. Hiccough, with abundant flow of saliva in the mouth. [20] Nausea, with profuse perspiration and copious vomiting. Heartburn 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. Feeling of weakness of the stomach or in the pit of the stomach, extending through the whole chest.

Burning In The Stomach

Feeling of weight in the stomach. Pain in the abdomen, worse after eating.

Stool And Anus

Soft, whitish stool. Discharge of black blood after stool. [30] Copious haemorrhages from the haemorrhoidal vessels.

Urinary Organs

Urine of a deep-red color, depositing a copious, red sediment. Sticking pain in the region of the right kidney.

Sexual Organs

Men. Smarting of the prepuce. Sensation of weight in the genitals.

Women

During menstruation violent pain in the sacrum.

Respiratory Organs. Sensation of a foreign body in the throat, impeding the breathing and swallowing. Tightness of the breast, with heat in the forehead. Dyspnoea and asthma, with sensation as of a lump in the pit of the throat, immediately above the sternum. Burning feeling in the chest, passing upwards.

Extremities

Upper. Rheumatic feeling in the right shoulder-joint. Rheumatic pain in the right elbow-joint. Lower. Inflammatory rheumatism in the right knee.

Fever

Pulse weak and small. [45] Intermittent fever. Thirst before the chill and through the whole fever ; often only before the chill, not during the chill, but again during the heat. Drinking increases the violence of the shaking chill and the coldness. At the end of the heat, perspiration with sleep.

Complete text of the Lobelia Inflata entry in Lippe - 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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1 Boericke

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3 Clarke

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4 Hering

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5 Allen

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7 Hering

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10 Lippe · shown above

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14 T. F. Allen

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16 Guernsey

LOBELIA INFLATA · Henry Newell Guernsey · 163 chars

17 Cowperthwaite

LOBELIA INFLATA · Allen Corson Cowperthwaite · 2,793 chars

20 Hempel

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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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