Tabacum

General

TABACUM. [Tabac.] Tobacco. Hartlaub. Solanaceae.

Mind

► Forgetful ; slow perception. ► Idiotic ; epileptic idiocy. ► Cheerful, merry, loquacious. ► Melancholy ; anxiety, better from weeping. ► Sudden anxiety, with angina pectoris ; also, with oppression of the chest, driving him from place to place. ► Disease originating in cerebral irritation, followed by marked gastric symptoms.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : excessive heaviness in the head ; with qualmishness in stomach ; better out-doors.

Inner Head

► Sick headache, coming on early in morning, intolerable by noon ; deathly nausea, violent vomiting, greatly aggravated by noise and light. ► Headache better in open air.

Eyes

► Dimsightedness, as through a veil, evenings ; also with double vision. ► Heat and burning in eyes ; eyeballs injected, cornea covered with mucus, wipe it off. ► Pupils dilated. ► Contraction of lids.

Ears

► Nervous deafness. ► Sensation as if ears were closed. ► Ears burning hot and red.

Nose

► Smell feeble. ► Nasal catarrh with sensation of crawling, in nostrils.

Face

► Emaciation and death-like pallor of the face ; cold, covered with sweat. ► Face blue, pinched. ► Face is drawn, distorted ; eyes sunken ; blue around them. ► Lips cracked, swollen, covered with a brown crust : 48. ► Glowing heat in face, with redness frequently only on one side. ► Violent tearing in bones of face and teeth.

Teeth

► Drawing, rending toothache.

Tongue, Etc

► Cannot speak. θ Angina pectoris. θ Difficult speech.

Throat

► Dry and choky, can hardly swallow ; burning in throat and mouth. ► Violent constriction of throat. θ Angina pectoris. ► Much viscid phlegm in throat, difficult to raise. ► Uvula oedematous. ► Pharynx feels as if burning, raw and scraped.

Desires And Aversions

► Great thirst. θ Cholera infantum. ► Constant hunger ; nausea if stomach is not satisfied ; or disgust for food.

Eating And Drinking

► Sensitive to smell of wine ; fumes all but intoxicate her. ► Worse eating (abdominal symptoms).

Nausea And Vomiting

► Nausea and vomiting on least motion. θ Cholera infantum. ► Nausea and cold sweat remaining after Veratr. and Secale checked stools. θ Cholera. ► Eructations ; sour, hot ; also of small amounts of food ; or, loud, noisy. ► Vomiting : nausea, as soon as he begins to move ; during pregnancy, deathly nausea ; of water ; of sour fluid, with mucus. ► Seasickness, deathly nausea ; pallor ; coldness ; worse from least bodily movement ; better on deck in fresh, cold air.

Stomach

► Spasmodic pressure in pyloric region. ► Writhing in pit of stomach. θ Cardialgia. ► Sticking in pit of stomach through to back. ► Sinking, weakness, relaxed sensation. ► Various distressing sensations, as burning, cramps, sudden shocks on falling asleep, etc.

Hypochondria

► Pressure, heaviness or stitches in liver. ► Liver enlarged, pressure on it sends pain to pit of stomach.

Abdomen

► Gurgling in bowels. ► Shifting of flatulence. ► Abdomen tympanitic, costive ; also with severe pains in spells, worse eating, yet so hungry, cannot refrain. ► Violent burning must shriek, horrible pains. ► Spasms of bowels. ► Violent contraction in abdominal ; naval retracted. ► Strangulated hernia deathly faintness, cold ; cold sweat ; vomiting ; sudden cerebral hyperaemia.

Stool, Etc

► Sudden papescent, yellow-green or greenish slimy stools, tenesmus ; shifting flatus. ► Costive stools like the sheep's, evacuated with difficulty. ► Body cold, abdomen hot ; not satisfied until clothing is all off abdomen. θ Cholera infantum. ► Stools yellow sometimes greenish slime ; vomiting debility cold sweat. θ Cholera infantum. ► Cholera, body cold, face distorted, spasms ; vomiting, or, no stool or vomit ; collapse. ► Soft stool, tenesmus ; burning backache.

Urine

► Renal colic ; violent pains along ureters (worse right) ; cold sweat, pale face, fainting, deathly nausea, great exhaustion.

Male Sexual Organs

► Nocturnal emissions.

Female Sexual Organs

► Stitching pains in abdomen, genitals, urethra, etc. ► Climacteric troubles ; much mental confusion ; giddy ; weak and faint.

Pregnancy

► Morning sickness : 16.

Larynx

► Voice weak and hoarse.

Breathing

► Paroxysms of suffocation. ► Hurried, anxious, irregular respirations. ► Dyspnoea ; costiveness. ► Asphyxia. ► Sticking under sternum, with inability to take deep breath.

Cough

► Dry cough. ► Whooping-cough, violent straining and vomiting stitches in pit of stomach, inability to breathe deeply ; hiccough, as if he would suffocate, after cough.

Lungs

► Tightness across upper part chest, with angina pectoris.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation in attacks at night, tight across chest, with angina pectoris. ► Oppression at heart ; pulse feeble, irregular. θ Cholera. ► Violent beating of heart and carotids. ► Sudden precordial anguish. ► Violent palpitation lying on side ; goes off when turning to right. ► Pulse : quick, full, large ; imperceptible, small, intermittent ; excessively slow ; soft feeble.

Neck And Back

► Neuralgic pains up into neck, with angina pectoris ; also with tightness in the throat. ► Pains between shoulders. θ Angina pectoris. ► Violent pain in small of back and loins ; usually better walking. ► Throbbing in sacral region, evening.

Upper Limbs

► Left arm exhausted, painful. ► Cramps in arms and hands ; in single fingers, especially while washing ; early morning. ► Spasmodic contraction in arms and hands. ► Hands feel lame, cold ; then burning, with bloated fingertips. ► Hands icy-cold ; body warm. ► Trembling of the hands.

Lower Limbs

► Legs from knees down icy-cold. ► Cannot walk, with angina pectoris. ► Formication in left leg, from knee to toes. ► Tremor and disabling weakness of the feet.

Limbs In General

► Coldness, trembling of limbs ; cold sweat. ► Cramp tearing in limbs.

Position, Etc

► Lying on left side : 29. Lying on right side : 29. Motion : 16, 31.

Nerves

► Weary, languid ; tremor. ► Horrid pains, with involuntary muscular contraction of muscles. ► Spasmodic contraction of muscles, spasms, general insensibility, relaxation.

Sleep

► Drowsiness, going off in open air. θ Stupefying sleep at night. ► Sleepless ; jerking and twitching in sleep.

Time

► Morning : 3, 24, 32. Noon : 3. Evening : 31, 40. Night : 22, 29, 37.

Temperature And Weather

► Cold air : 16. Open air : 3, 37. Washing : 32. Clothing must be removed : 20.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Coldness and shuddering in whole body, evenings. ► Icy-coldness of legs, from knees to toes. ► Body, warm : hands icy-cold ; or body cold. θ In cholera. ► Sweat : cold, hands, forehead, face ; viscid, cold ; profuse.

Attacks

► Symptoms come in paroxysms.

Sides

► Right : 18, 29, 46. Left : 29, 32, 33.

Tissues

► Emaciation especially of back and cheeks.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Motion of vessel : 16. Touch : 46.

Skin

► Cold ; in cholera ; livid, with angina pectoris. ► Red spots in face and on right shoulder, burning when touched. ► Itching, with red or yellow spots on chest and shoulder ; vesicles.

Relationship

► Tabac. antidotes : Cicut., Stramon. ► Antidotes to Tabac. : Ipec., vomiting ; Arsen., chewing tobacco ; Nux vom., gastric symptoms next morning after smoking ; Phosphor., palpitation ; Ignat., Pulsat., hiccough ; Clemat., toothache ; Sepia, neuralgia right side of face, dyspepsia, chronic nervousness ; Lycop., impotence ; wine, spasms, cold sweat from excessive smoking. ► Plant. maj. has several times caused on aversion to tobacco.