Lobelia Inflata
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Lobelia Inflata in traditional homeopathic usage, not approved by the FDA.
▲ GENERAL
General
Is a vasomotor stimulant; increases the activity of all vegetative processes; spends its force mainly upon the pneumogastric nerve, producing a depressed relaxed condition with oppression of the chest and epigastrium, impeded respiration, nausea and vomiting.
Languor, relaxation of muscles, Nausea, vomiting and dyspepsia are the general indications that point to the use of Lobelia Inflata, in asthma and gastric affections. Best adapted to light-complexioned fleshy people. Bad effects of drunkenness. Suppressed discharges ( Sulphur Sulph.) Diphtheria. Catarrhal jaundice ( chionanth.)
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Worse
WORSE, tobacco, afternoon, slightest motion, cold, especially cold washing.
Better
BETTER, by rapid walking; (chest pain), toward evening, and from warmth.
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Headache
Gastric headache, with nausea, vomiting, and great prostration; worse, afternoon until midnight; tobacco
Dull, heavy pain.
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Taste
Profuse flow of saliva; acrid burning taste; Mercurial taste; tenacious mucus, tongue coated white.
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Chest
Constriction, tension
Heart
sensation as if heart would cease
Inflammation; lungs
Lungs; emphysema
Respiration
Dyspnoea from constriction of chest; worse, any exertion
Sensation of pressure or weight in chest; Better by rapid walking
Feels as if heart would stop
Asthma; attacks, with weakness, felt in pit of stomach and preceded by Prickling all over
Cramp, ringing cough, short breath, catching at throat
Senile emphysema.
Asthma attack
spasmodic
Difficult (dyspnea)
in cold air
after exertion
physical exertion
while lying down
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Back
Pain in sacrum; cannot bear slightest touch
Sits leaning forward.
Urinary Organs.
Deep red color and copious red sediment.
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Abdomen
Heartburn with profuse flow of saliva
Morning sickness
Faintness and weakness of epigastrium
profuse salivation, with good appetite
Profuse sweat and prostration
Cannot bear smell or taste of tobacco
Acrid, burning taste; acidity, with contractive feeling in pit of stomach
Heartburn.
Stomach
disordered; extending to heart
sinking (see emptiness); extending to heart
Flatus
Acidity, flatulence, shortness of breath after eating
Flatulence, shortness of breath after eating
Nausea
Stomach; nausea; with salivation
Vomiting
Extreme nausea and vomiting
Stomach; vomiting; comes on suddenly
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Urine
Sediment; sand; red (brick-dust)
Female
Female; vaginal discharge; copious; serum like discharge from anus and vagina
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Preparation
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 i