Lobelia Inflata lob.
Characteristic
Best adapted to persons of light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion; inclined to be fleshy.
Gastric derangements, extreme nausea and vomiting; morning sickness; spasmodic asthma; pertussis, with dyspnœa threatening suffocation.
Headaches: gastric, with nausea, vomiting and great prostration; following intoxication; < afternoon until midnight; sudden pallor with profuse sweat (Tab.); < by tobacco or tobacco smoke.
Vomiting: face bathed with cold sweat; of pregnancy, profuse salivation (Lac. ac.—at night, Merc.); chronic with good appetite, with nausea, profuse sweat and marked prostration.
Faintness, weakness and an indescribable feeling at epigastrium, from excessive use of tea or tobacco.
Urine: of a deep orange red color; copious red sediment.
Dyspnœa: from constriction of middle of chest < with every labor pain, seems to neutralize the pains; < by exposure to cold or slightest exertion, going up or down stairs (Ipec.).
Sensation of congestion, pressure or weight in chest as if blood from extremities was filling it, > by rapid walking.
Sensation as if heart would stand still; deep-seated pain at base (at apex, Lil.).
Sacrum: extreme sensitiveness; cannot bear the slightest touch, even of a soft pillow; sits leaning forward to avoid contact with clothes.
For the bad effects of drunkenness in people with light hair, blue or grey eyes, florid complexion, corpulent, Lobelia bears the same relation that Nux vomica does to persons of the opposite temperament.
Aggravation
Cold washing; cold bathing; cause dyspnœa and increase or return of pain (Ant. c.); slight motion; touch.
Amelioration
After drinking; evening; walking rapidly > chest pain.
Type
Quotidian; remittent; continued.
Time
10:30, 11 A. M., 12 M.
Prodrome
Thirst (Caps., Cinch., Eup.).
Chill
With thirst; severe, shaking; coldness, increased after drinking (Caps.); down the back with heat in stomach; general shivering alternating with flushes of heat.
Heat
With thirst; with sweat or inclination to sweat, partic- ularly in the face; heat alternating with slight chilliness from noon till evening. Respiration short, anxious, laborious and wheezing, with tightness of the chest. Tickling in the throat- pit, with frequent hacking cough, severe headache extending round the forehead from one temple to the other. Great debility.
Sweat
With heat, or after the heat has lasted some time; with sleep (Pod.); profuse, at night; cold.
Tongue
White or coated on the right side, clean on the left.
Loss of appetite.
Pulse
Frequent, but small and weak in the evening.
Apyrexia
Attended with great debility; dyspnœa and oppres- sion at pit of stomach, with weakness and sensation as if stomach was too full, as from undigested food. Complete loss of appetite.
Nausea relieved by drinking. The weak sensation in stomach may extend through whole chest or down to abdomen. The thirst is often found only during heat and prodrome and not in chill. The sweat resembles that of Podophyllum, coming on after the heat has continued for some time and is accompanied by sleep.
Analysis
Chill; with thirst; severe shaking < by drinking.
Heat; short, anxious, labored breathing.
Sweat; with sleep or heat.
Nausea > by drinking.