Plant · Solanaceae · simple

Tabacum

Nicotiana tabacum

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PreparationTincture of the fresh leaves collected before the flowers are developed. Clarke

30X, ↑

Third to thirtieth and higher potenciesDose · Boericke

Reason for use

Acts especially upon the pneumogastric nerve and the medulla oblongata, producing complete relaxation and paralysis of the involuntary muscular system.

Through the vagi also the digestive system is powerfully affected.

According to Bartholow , "the emetic effect of tobacco is doubtless the product of three factors : its cerebral action, its local irritation of the gastric mucous membrane, and its specific emetic property.

The secretions of the intestinal mucous membrane are increased, and the muscular layer is thrown into tetanic contraction, whence the catharsis which follows its administration."

Its chief characteristic is a deathly nausea, accompanied by pallor, vertigo, cold sweat, and intermittent pulse.

Characteristic symptoms.

The full Cowperthwaite text, by section

Mind

(Tabacum)

Anxiety ; better after weeping.

Difficult concentration of the mind.

Head

(Tabacum)

Vertigo, with qualmishness of the stomach ; worse indoors ; better in the open air.

Heaviness of the head.

Face

(Tabacum)

Death-like paleness of the face with sick stomach. (Ant. tart., Ars ., Ipec.)

Face pale, collapsed ; covered with cold sweat. ( Ox. ac.)

Violent tearing in facial bones and teeth.

Mouth

(Tabacum)

Frothing from the mouth. (Coccul., Cic., Laur.)

Profuse salivation. (Hep. s., Merc., Nitr. ac.)

Accumulation of white tenacious mucus in mouth and throat, which must be frequently expectorated.

Stomach

(Tabacum)

Great thirst.

Qualmishness, nausea, and vomiting ; worse on motion.

Deathly nausea, with vertigo, in paroxysms ; body covered with cold sweat ( Verat .) ; seasickness. ( Coccul .)

Feeling of coldness in the stomach (Camph., Colch.), with nausea.

Sinking at pit of stomach ; sensation of relaxation. (Ipec.)

Abdomen

(Tabacum)

Painful retraction of the navel ; contraction of the abdominal muscles. ( Chel., Plumb., Podo.)

Incarcerated hernia.

Stool

(Tabacum)

Violent pain in small of back during soft stool, with tenesmus and burning.

Diarrhoea, yellowish-green, or greenish, slimy stools.

Cholera-like stools. (Ars., Camph., Cupr., Verat. alb .)

Respiratory Organs.- (Tabacum)

Difficult respiration.

Violent constriction of the chest.

Hiccough after every paroxysm of whooping cough.

Heart and Pulse.- (Tabacum)

Violent palpitation. (Acon., Ars ., Aur., Spig .)

Paroxysms of precordial oppression, at night, with palpitation and pain between the shoulders.

Pulse very feeble, soft and slow ; imperceptible, small, intermittent.

Generalities

(Tabacum)

Great weakness and debility . ( Ars ., Cinch .)

Restlessness, wants to change place continually.

Stupefying sleep at night.

Fever

(Tabacum)

Icy coldness from knees to toes.

Body warm ; hands and legs icy cold. (Menyanth.)

Cold sweat on hands, forehead, and face. (Verat. alb.)

Cold, clammy sweat . (Ars., Camph., Merc ., Phos., Tereb.)

Therapeutic Range.- (Tabacum)

Diseases originating in cerebral irritation, followed by marked gastric symptoms ; nervous diseases and heart affections, accompanied by deathly nausea ; seasickness ; cholera ; cholera infantum ; incarcerated hernia ; asthma ; asphyxia ; angina pectoris.

Compare

(Tabacum)

Ant. tart ., Bell., Digit ., Ipec., Lob ., Nux v., Op., Stram., Verat. alb.

Antidotes

(Tabacum)

Ars., Cham., Ipec., Nux v., Ign., Puls.

Tabacum Antidotes.-

Cic., Stram.

Index

Complete text of the Tabacum entry in Cowperthwaite - A Text-Book 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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