Lobelia Inflata lob.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

RESPIRATION. Vaso - motor nerves. Secretions. Heart. Epigastrium.

Worse

Cold bathing. Suppressions. Sleep; after. Tobacco.

Better

Rapid motion. Eating a little.

General

RELAXATION; with increased secretions and weakness; with sweat; with deathly sickness all over; with oppressed, rattling respiration. Sits with elbows on knees. Prickles all over.

Particulars

Flow of saliva; with retching, hiccough, nausea, dyspnœa, etc. As of a lump in throat or stomach. Deathly nausea; with vertigo; < night and early A.M., > eating or drinking. Vomiting; with sweat (cold on face). Nausea and vomiting, with profuse sweat; with respiratory symptoms. Weak, sinking at stomach. Deep red urine, with red sediment. Urine suppressed or infrequent. Dyspnœa; nervous; with labor pains; as from a wedge in larynx; > rapid motion; with general prickling. Asthma. Spasmodic cough; with sneezing, belching or gastric pain. Rattle in chest, but don't expectorate. Constriction or oppressive fulness in chest. Pulse weak, or soft; flowing. Plaques of œdema (figurata); with ecchymoses.

Related

Related: Ant-t. Ip. Tab.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

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; pertusis, with dyspnoea threatening suffocation. Headache: 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, Mer.); 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. Dyspnoea: 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.

Relations

Compare: Ant. t., Ars., Ipec., Tab., Ver.

Aggravation

Slightest motion; touch, cold.

Amelioration

Chest pain by walking rapidly. 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.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

Urine has a deep red color, and deposits a copious red sediment. Where we find the above symptom very prominently displayed, we may think strongly of Lobel. infl.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Indian Tobacco

General

Is a vaso-motor 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 this remedy, in asthma and gastric affections. Best adapted to light complexioned fleshy people. Bad effects of drunkenness. Suppressed discharges (Sulph). Diphtheria. Catarrhal jaundice (Chionanth).

Head

Vertigo, and fear of death. Gastric headache, with nausea, vomiting, and great prostration; worse, afternoon until midnight; tobacco. Dull, heavy pain.

Face

Bathed in cold sweat. Sudden pallor.

Ears

Deafness due to suppressed discharges or eczema. Shooting pain from throat.

Mouth

Profuse flow of saliva; acrid burning taste; mercurial taste; tenacious mucus, tongue coated white.

Stomach

Acidity, flatulence, shortness of breath after eating. Heartburn with profuse flow of saliva. Extreme nausea and vomiting. Morning sickness. Faintness and weakness at 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. Flatulence, shortness of breath after eating. Heartburn.

Respiratory

Dyspnœa 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.

Back

Pain in sacrum; cannot bear slightest touch. Sits leaning forward.

Urinary

Deep red color and copious red sediment.

Skin

Prickling, itching with intense nausea.

Modalities

Worse, tobacco, afternoon, slightest motion, cold, especially cold washing. Better, by rapid walking; (chest pain), toward evening, and from warmth.

Relationship

Antidote: Ipec.

Compare: Tabac; Ars; Tart e; Verat; Rosa.

Lobelia syphilitica or cerulea (gives a perfect picture of sneezing influenza, involving the posterior nares, palate, and fauces. Very depressed. Pain in forehead over eyes; pain and gas in bowels, followed by copious watery stools with tenesmus and soreness of anus. Pain in knees. Prickling in soles. Great oppression in lower part of chest, as if air could not reach there. Pain in chest under short ribs of left side. Dry, hacking cough. Breathing difficult. Dull, aching pain over root of nose. Eustachian catarrh. Pain in posterior part of spleen). Lobelia erinus (malignant growths, extremely rapid development; colloid cancer of the omentum; cork-screw-like pains in abdomen; great dryness of skin, nasal and buccal mucous membranes; distaste for brandy; dry, eczematous patches covering points of first fingers. Malignant disease of the face. Epithelioma).

Dose

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).

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Nausea and vomiting with great relaxation of muscular system and profuse accumulation of saliva.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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General

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

Head

Vertigo with nausea. Headache with slight giddiness. Outward pressing in both temples.

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). 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 œsophagus as if it contracted itself from below upwards.

Stomach and Abdomen

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. 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. Copious hæmorrhages from the hæmorrhoidal 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. Dyspnœa 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.

Back

Rheumatic pain between the scapulæ.

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. 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.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Lobelia inflata. Indian Tobacco. (Fields and roadsides from Canada to Southern U.S.A.) N. O. Lobeliaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant when in flower and seed. Trituration of dried leaves. Acetum.

Clinical

Alcoholism. Alopecia. Amenorrhœa. Angina pectoris. Asthma . Cardialgia. Cough . Croup. Deafness. Debility. Diarrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Emphysema . Faintness. Gall-stones. Gastralgia. Hæmorrhoidal discharge. Hay-asthma. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Meningeal headaches. Millar's asthma. Morning sickness (of drunkards; of pregnancy). Morphia habit. Palpitation. Pleurisy. Psoriasis. Rigid os. Seborrhœa. Shoulders, pain in. Tea, effects of. Urethra, stricture of. Vagina, serous discharge from. Vomiting, of pregnancy. Wens. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

Matthew Lobel, whose name is given to this family of plants, was a physician and botanist attached to the court of James I. There are two British species, L. Dortmanna , found in shallow lakes, and L. urens , which grows in heathy places. L. inflata , the North American variety, is the most important of all, medically. According to Hale, this plant was used by the Indians as an emetic detergent, in the same way as Verat. alb . was used by the ancients to produce "Helleborism." But the chief modern exponent of Lobelia is Samuel Thompson, of New Hampshire, who founded the modern Botanic School. His chief remedies were, besides Lobelia , cayenne pepper and the vapour bath. There can be little doubt that he accomplished much with these, but his unbounded faith in Lobelia led, in some instances, to fatal poisoning. Such a result is not altogether unknown in qualified practice; but as Thompson had no medical degree these cases brought him into trouble. ─ The records of them have furnished some of the symptoms of the pathogenesis. Lob. i . probably obtained the name of "Indian Tobacco" from the similarity of its action to that of Tabacum in producing intense nausea, vomiting, profound depression at the epigastrium, and collapse. It was a true instinct On the part of Teste that led him to class Lob. i . with Sul .; and though the provings and clinical experience do not fully bear out what he says about its skin action, the results of botanic practice, confirmed by Cooper, show that it has an antipsoric action, and relieves morbid states due to the suppression of discharges. In a paper read before the Brit. Hom. Society , November 1, 1888 ( M. H. Rev ., xxxii. 717) Cooper explains that he got no good out of Lob. i . until under the advice of a herbalist he used a solution of Lobelia made with common vinegar. Here is one of his cases. A young woman, 23, of consumptive family history on both sides, had, when 14 to 15 years old, severe pain in left, and sometimes right, side, and round lower abdomen, with faint feeling. This lasted till the monthly period came on regularly and then she was well till 20, when diarrhœa came on, which nothing was able to check and which kept her in bed for months at a time. The symptoms were: Pains all round abdomen and up the back, much < after undressing, feeling of exhaustion or failing to pieces inside and out, cannot bear anything to touch her. Four or five motions daily when taking medicine; if she leaves it off continual motions all day; it literally runs from her: watery, sometimes light-coloured, sometimes dark, never bloody. Menses very irregular, sometimes five to six weeks between; all symptoms, especially diarrhœa, < then; much tenderness all over abdomen, especially in ovarian regions, legs ache fearfully, pains all over body; faints continually. Since the illness began subject to neuralgia of face, one or other side or both, extending to chest, coming and going suddenly at any time. In spite of treatment of all kinds, including that of a skilful repertorian, she grew worse. She went into a hospital, and there a small pile was removed with but temporary benefit; and after this the vagina as well as the rectum began to discharge copiously an excoriating fluid. Lob. i. ac . Ø, eight drops three times a day, was now given. She began to improve at once, and in a few weeks was quite well. In this case the difficulty first showed itself when the menstrual era was commencing; was relieved when the flow was regularly established; reappeared simultaneously with menstrual irregularity. In the next case there was an analogous history. A lady of 52, when 37, was exposed to a severe chill which checked the catamenial flow. After this she had threatened phthisis with bronchorrhœa, which after two years gradually went off, leaving her subject to severe constantly recurring seizures of vertigo. Nine months before coming under Dr. Cooper's care she felt as if something was forming in the utero-vaginal region, causing much bearing down. She was obliged to go to bed, and then there occurred a profuse pouring away of apparently serous fluid from utero-vaginal and vesical mucous membranes, with paroxysms of agonising, burning, and scalding, < in evening. Vagina swollen, extremely tender, bathed in moisture; urination always very painful and followed by paroxysm of general scalding. She was unable to sit up and decubitus could only be maintained with the knees drawn up, or on the left side. At night she would be awoke by finding her back resting in a pool of water, and the sense of uterine bearing down was almost intolerable. The bowels were unaffected; urine free from all but a trace of albumen. A hardness and dulness to percussion existed all down right side of abdomen. Lob. infl. acet . Ø, 1/3 drop every four hours. From that time the patient had not to keep her bed for a single day, and all her symptoms cleared up. The Lob. i . was in this case assisted by Nat. chlor . (Liq. Sodæ chlor. of B. P.), 1/3 drop doses occasionally, which relieved the bearing down more than anything else. All that remained of the illness was a slight weakness in lower abdomen felt every autumn. Cooper recalls in connection with these cases a symptom recorded by Jahr: "Violent pain in the sacrum with fever supervening upon suppression of the menses during their flow." Alongside this action of Lob. i . may be placed another, also vouched for by Cooper, the power of eliminating foreign substances like that possessed by Silica . A woman got a piece of mutton-bone down her windpipe and into one of the bronchia. She was taken to the London Hospital, but the idea of operation was abandoned as hopeless and she was sent out. Lob. i. ac . Ø was given, five drops three times a day. Soon a most violent cough was set up, in the course of which the patient coughed up a large quantity of fetid, pus and finally the bone. B the action of Lob. i . in determining to the periphery it meets a large number of conditions due to suppression, including cases of phthisis. Cooper adds the following note to the above: "The interest of knowing that Lob. i . meets very serious symptoms connected with a profuse flow of serous discharge from the utero-vaginal mucous surfaces is to some extent marred by my having employed the acetous preparation, and subsequent trials of it would certainly have been made with the fresh plant tincture had I been able to obtain the living plant. As it is, my inferences, re the action of Lob. i ., are all derived from the acetous tincture. The indications for Lob. i . are difficult to discover, being broad and general rather than precise and localised. Its power over serous discharges from mucous surfaces accounts probably for its influence on certain very obstinate forms of chronic diarrhœa, these being more serous than watery, and it is probably owing to a similar influence over sebaceous secretions that it removes in time the most obstinate wens on the scalp, causing them sometimes to gradually disappear and at others to point and discharge their contents, and that it causes the hair to grow when used locally in seborrhœa capitis. It is particularly called for in ailments that never finish up, whether beginning from acutely inflammatory causes or not; it also fights with symptoms occasioned by mechanical irritants in a way that I have never found any remedy do, e.g ., where a spicula of bone presses on the brain (compression) or where a bone is lodged in bronchus. The late Dr. Coffin ( Botan. Jour ., Aug., 1849, p. 271), in a boastful way, professed to cure children and adults whose lives were despaired of from poisoning by various substances by (decoctions? of) Lobelia , but whether by directly evacuant action or not it is not stated. But in my own hands a few drops mixed in water cured a baby of severe convulsions that I afterwards found were caused by a diabolical nurse giving the little one Chlorodyne. In symptoms existing along with hereditary syphilis and in the tuberculosis of childhood it acts with full power; in tabes mesenterica, in persistent earaches and headaches due to suppressed discharges, where the lips are dry and hot and continual feverish colds are prominent, it is specific. Here it stands side by side with Ars. iod . and our foremost antipsorics. In severe inflammatory conditions existing along with anthrax, or with malignant deposits in different regions, Lobelia in repeated as well as in single doses will often arrest urgent mischief. A few drops of Lob. i. ac . in boiling water takes away the pain and tension of inflamed piles; the patient sits on a utensil thus filled. In the broncho-pneumonia of childhood and in imperfect recoveries from chest affections, especially where tubercle threatens, Lobelia is indispensable. Treatment with Lobelia should always be begun with a single dose, if the symptoms permit, as in some cases it produces violent depression. In veterinary practice it is said to have proved curative in the tetanus of horses; a disease it is also said to produce. It must be kept in mind when studying Lob. i . that the herbalists used it in two forms: the decoction to produce emesis, and through which they seem to have obtained its antidotal action, or by virtue of which they aborted acute gout; and the acetous tincture , which they gave in chronic diseases, and in moderate doses." ─ Lob. i . may cause a rash which exfoliates, and it has cured many cases of psoriasis. It meets a condition in which the secondary digestion is at fault. The patient is thin, poor, and has no appetite. It cures the condition which favours pediculi corporis. Referring to the skin action of Lob. i ., Hale quotes P. H. Hale as saying that, with the intense nausea it causes, there is sometimes a prickling itching of the skin, and acting on this hint P. H. Hale thinks he has seen benefit from its use in suppressed urticaria, with nausea and vomiting . The symptom Teste gives is this: "Eruption between the fingers, on the dorsa of the hands and on the forearms, consisting of small vesicles accompanied by a tingling itching, and resembling the itch pustules exactly." As with Sulph . "faintness at the stomach" is a grand characteristic which will be found in a large proportion of the cases calling for the remedy. Jeanes, who proved Lob. i ., gives these as the chief symptoms: "Constant dyspnœa, < by slightest exertion and increased to an asthmatic paroxysm by even the shortest exposure to cold; sensation of weakness and pressure in the epigastrium, and rising thence to the heart with a constant heartburn; feeling as of a lump or quantity of mucus, and also a sense of pressure in larynx; pain in forehead from one temple to the other; pain in neck; in left side; high-coloured urine; weakness and oppression in epigastrium, with simultaneous oppression of the heart." I have italicised "rising thence to the heart" because I think this a particularly characteristic feature. There is something like it in the œsophagus; a kind of globus hystericus. Hale quotes Dr. Cutler's (allopath) account of his own case. He had been asthmatic ten years, liable to very severe and prolonged attacks, and during the intervals scarcely ever passed a night without more or less of it, and as often as not was unable to lie in bed. In the middle of an attack he had a tablespoonful of afresh plant tincture. In three or four minutes his breathing was quite free; but there was no nausea, and thinking that necessary he took another spoonful ten minutes after the first, and this occasioned sickness. Ten minutes later he took a third, and this produced a sensible effect on the stomach coats, and a very little vomiting and "a kind of prickling sensation through the Whole system even to the extremities of the fingers and toes. The urinary passage was perceptibly affected, by producing a smarting sensation in passing urine, which was provoked by stimulus on the bladder." But all these symptoms very soon subsided, and vigour seemed to be restored to the constitution which he had not experienced for years. The necessity of taking Lobel . in doses sufficient to cause pathogenetic symptoms was insisted on by Thompson, and though it led to some disasters seems to have been the means of saving some lives. Thompson tells how as a boy he chewed this herb and so learned practically its effects. He used to give it to other boys out of sport. One day whilst mowing he gave a sprig of it to a companion. By the time they had got six rods the man said he thought the sprig would kill him: he never felt so ill in his life before. He was in a profuse perspiration, trembled all over, and was as pallid as a corpse. Unable to walk, he lay down and vomited "two quarts." He was helped to his house; ate a good dinner, and returned to work in the afternoon. After this he "felt better than he had for a long time." This gave Thompson his first notion of the medicinal virtues of Lobel . In Walter Besant's Life of Edward Henry Palmer , the great Orientalist, Palmer's own account of his cure by Lobel . is given. In 1859 he was seized with pulmonary disease, which rapidly increased until he was told he had probably only a few months to live. On the advice of a herbalist named Sherringham he took a single large dose of Lobel. i ., and this is what he experienced: ( 1 ) Violent attack of vomiting; ( 2 ) cold chill mounting up from feet to hands, which he could no longer move; to heart, which ceased to beat; to throat, which ceased to breathe. A doctor was sent for. "I felt myself dying," he said afterwards, describing the experience I was being killed by this dreadful cold spreading all over me. I was quite certain that my last moments had come. By the bedside stood my aunt, poor soul, crying. I saw the doctor feeling my pulseless wrist, watch in hand; the cold dews of death were on my forehead; the cold hand of death was on my limbs. Up to my lips, but no higher, I thought I was actually dead. I could see and hear but not speak, not even when the doctor let my hand fall on the pillow and said solemnly, "He is gone!" There was no pain, he said, and he was in no concern except about a book he wanted to finish. He recovered suddenly. New strength came to him. The consumption was arrested and was no more trouble to him for the rest of his life ( H. W ., xviii. 405). ─ The prickling sensation experienced by Cutler is characteristic, as also is tenderness of the sacrum. Carleton Smith ( H. P ., viii. 272) thus describes these: Extreme tenderness over sacrum; cannot bear even pressure of soft pillow; cries out if any attempt is made to touch the part; she sits up in bed, leaning forward to avoid contact. After each vomiting spell breaks out all over with sweat, followed by sensation as if thousands of needles were piercing her skin from within out. Lob. i . is indicated in whooping-cough with dyspnœa threatening suffocation. Must keep mouth open to breathe. The headaches of Lob. i . are remarkable. Teste describes them as follows: Pressive headache, at occiput, less frequently at the forehead, sometimes one-sided (left), < by motion; in evening and especially at night. Continual periodic headache, in afternoon and increasing till midnight, every third attack being alternately more or less violent. The brain is racked by the cough, which causes an intolerable pain. Heat and sweat about head and face, Cooper has recorded this case ( M. H. R ., xxxiv. 289): Girl, æt. 9, seized with very bad headache affecting whole head and continuing night and day for two days, Merc . and Verat. v . being given in vain, Lob. i. acet . Ø, two or three drops in a little water given in the morning after a bad night, gave immediate relief and restored the appetite. Cooper considered it a meningitic headache, and he finds Lob. i. ac . and Kali iod . 30 especially useful in these (excessive sensitiveness being a leading indication for the latter). A headache that has been frequently verified is: "Dull, heavy pain passing round the forehead from one temple to the other, immediately above eyebrows." Headache following intoxication; < afternoon till midnight; < from tobacco. A peculiar symptom of Lob. i . is semilateral coating of tongue. ─ Sudden pallor with profuse sweat. Gastric derangements, extreme nausea and vomiting. The nausea of Lob. i . is continuous and accompanied by constant flow of saliva. This is the indication for it in morning sickness and in effects of suppressed or missed menstrual period. Vomiting; face bathed in cold sweat. The nausea of Lobel . has been used in the same way as that of Tabac . and other emetics to produce relaxation of muscles, as, for example, rigid os. Sometimes this is effected by direct physiological action, but it may be homœopathic as in this cured case: "With every uterine contraction violent dyspnœa, which seems to neutralise labour pains; rigid os, and perineum." But it is also of service locally, as in an enema; also in cases of difficult catheterism. G. W. Boskowitz ( H. R ., xv. 357) relates the case of a man, 40, who had twice had gonorrhœa, the second attack, three years before, having left him with a gleety discharge. For a year the stream had been diminishing until at last it took him half an hour to empty the bladder. Many surgeons had tried to pass an instrument and had failed. Boskowitz also failed several times, until one day he dropped fifteen drops of Lob. i . Ø into the urethra and held the meatus, to retain it, for five minutes. It produced a smarting which soon passed away; and then No. 10 sound passed with ease. This sound was passed twice a week until No. 24 entered easily, and after this there was no further trouble. Boskowitz has used Lob. i . in many similar cases with like success. Guernsey gives this as a leading indication when found prominent: "Urine has a deep red colour and deposits a copious red sediment." Dyspnœa (as well as nausea) occurring in connection with imperfect menstrual evolution may indicate Lobel . H. M. Broderick ( Med. Adv ., xviii. 568) has recorded this case: Young lady, 18, ill two years under allopathic treatment. Symptoms: Laboured breathing, sense of tightness across chest compelling her to take deep inspirations, which caused pain in heart region. Pulse full, very rapid; cough after each deep breath. Unable to lie down from oppression and pain. Twitching of muscles of face. Menses never regularly established; would go several weeks over time and then would last only a day. Lob. i . 3x was given in water. After the second dose she went to bed and slept. The remedy was repeated just before next menstrual period. She had no more attacks and menstruation became normal. Among the peculiar sensations of Lobel. i . are: As of lump in pit of throat. As of foreign body in throat. As if œsophagus contracted from below upward. As of a lump or heavy load in stomach. As if a lump rose up to meet food and obstruct. its descent. Fulness in trachea as if from chest. As of a lump in larynx. As if the heart would stand still. As of a band about chest. As if blood stagnated in chest ( > moving about). As if thousands of needles were pricking her skin from within outward. Lobel. i . is suited to persons with light hair, blue eyes, and fair complexion; inclined to be fleshy. Symptoms are < by touch (right deltoid sore. Sits up in bed, leaning forward to avoid contact with bedclothes on sacrum. Cannot bear even a soft pillow over sacrum. Pressure at epigastrium = oppression). Motion; slightest exertion < . Bending forward < pain under right shoulder-blade. Effort to move = fainting. Every rapid movement = dyspnœa and suffocation. Going up or down stairs < dyspnœa. Symptoms generally > afternoon, < evening and night. Rapid walking > sensation of congestion, weight or pressure in chest as if blood from extremities was filling it. Sickness (of pregnancy) < morning. Coldness > by warmth. Cold < dyspnœa; < from current of air. Warm food = vomiting. Headache is < by tobacco or tobacco smoke.

Relations

Antidoted by: Ipec. Compare: The other Lobelias; Digit. and Tabac. (heart affections; vomiting; < by motion sudden pallor with profuse sweat); Ars. (hay fever; gastric troubles) Verat. alb. (gastric troubles); Ipec. (asthma ─ but Lob. i. has, with the asthma, weak sensation at epigastrium spreading up into chest, nausea, salivation, feeling of lump in stomach); Ipec. and Ant. t. (morning sickness). Nux (morning sickness of drunkards; Lob. in fair people, Nux in dark); Bry. ( < by movement; cough = headache); Asaf. (reversed peristalsis); Sul. (occipital headache; cough = headache); Ab. n. and Thuj. (effects of tea); Lact. ac. (vomiting with profuse salivation ─ Merc. at night); Lil. t. (pain at heart ─ Lob. i. at base, Lil. t., apex); Daph. i. and Rhus (semilateral coating on tongue; with Rhus the coating is white); Kali i. (meningitic headaches).

Causation

Alcohol. Tea. Tobacco. Wetting feet. Suppressions. Foreign bodies.

Mind

Mental inquietude; great depression and exhaustion; presentiment of death, and dyspnœa. ─ Sobbing-like a child. ─ Violent raving with flushing of face and palpitation, every evening, after an hour's sleep. ─ Lost his reason and became convulsed; it required several men to hold him; this continued till death. ─ Felt he was dying, with distress at chest. ─ Felt he was dying, but was unconcerned.

Head

Cerebral suffering; giddiness; vertigo. ─ Vertigo with nausea. ─ Headache with slight giddiness. ─ Vertigo as if starting from l. eye. ─ Feeling of disorder: at first in occiput; afterwards in forehead; in head, after a meal, increasing to a violent aching pain, with heat in face. ─ Headache < by coughing; brain racked by cough which causes intolerable pain. ─ Heaviness in head, with lassitude in back. ─ Cephalalgia, esp. during movement, and when ascending a staircase, chiefly in vertex; with vertigo and lancinations in temples; dull pain and heat in occiput, in evening; violent, in forehead, from time to time (during the fever). ─ Outward pressing in both temples. ─ Tension in head, in evening, esp. in occiput, or else with heat in face. ─ Aching in occiput, sometimes chiefly in open air, or else diminished on covering the head. ─ Pressive pain on l. side of occiput; < at night and from motion. ─ Wens. ─ Seborrhœa. ─ Seborrhœa of scalp smelling offensively (produced in an infant every time one drop of Lob. i. ac . Ø was taken. ─ Cooper.).

Eyes

Burning in eyes; (hemiopia). ─ Pain and soreness in r. eye. ─ Burning in eyes. ─ Itching in angles of (l.) lids. ─ Pressing pain in eyeballs, most in upper part. ─ Pupils dilated. ─ Vision dim.

Ears

Aching in l. ear. ─ Shooting pain extending into l. ear from painful spot in throat to l. of larynx. ─ Sudden shutting up of r. ear, as if stopped by a plug, at 2 p.m., > boring finger in ear. ─ (Profuse-discharge from the ear. ─ Constantly recurring earache and deafness following suppressed otorrhœa.)

Face

Heat of face; sweat on face, with nausea. ─ Chilly feeling in l. cheek extending to ear.

Mouth

Flow of clammy saliva in mouth (with nausea). ─ Sharp, disagreeable taste in mouth, esp. at tip of tongue and back of throat. ─ Accumulation of saliva; frequent expectoration of a very watery saliva; copious salivation. ─ Tongue white, charged with a thick coating, on r. side only. ─ Acrid, burning taste in mouth; bitter, with foul tongue and thirst.

Throat

Scraping in throat; changing into aching and nausea, which in turn is succeeded by retching, with squeezing and convulsive heaving in larynx; with risings and burning, arising from stomach; with sensation of rawness in throat, and constriction in œsophagus; with great dryness, which is not removed by drinking, after a meal. ─ Burning in throat, which becomes a scraping sensation; increased secretion of viscid saliva, with scraping, nausea, and risings; burning scraping from velum palati to larynx; < on swallowing, and with frequent hawking, by reason of an increased secretion of mucus in throat, burning followed by dryness, during the forenoon. ─ Viscid mucus in throat. ─ Tough mucus on fauces, causing frequent hawking. ─ Aching in œsophagus: with nausea, griping in abdomen, and emission of fetid wind; along œsophagus, as far as stomach, worse in certain parts, and esp. below the larynx. ─ Sensation in œsophagus as if it contracted itself from below upwards. ─ Deglutition impeded as by a foreign body; in swallowing, sensation as if something rose in larynx, and prevented the food from descending.

Stomach

Anorexia. ─ Frequent risings, with accumulation of water in mouth; frequent regurgitation of an acid and burning liquid; acidity in stomach, with sensation of constriction in pit of stomach. ─ Frequent and violent hiccough, with abundant accumulation of water. ─ Pyrosis, sometimes constant, or else with accumulation of saliva. ─ Heartburn and running of water from mouth. ─ Faintness, weakness, and an indescribable feeling at epigastrium, from excessive use of tea or tobacco. ─ Violent and constant loathing, with shuddering and shivering; relaxation of the stomach, sometimes with loathing, or with a very marked sensation of anti-peristaltic movements (but without nausea). ─ Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, with profuse running of water from mouth. ─ Burning in stomach. ─ Feeling of weight in stomach. ─ Nausea: in morning, disappearing after taking a draught of water; with cold sweat on face; great disposition to vomit, without vomiting. ─ Vomiting: of all kinds, even the most violent; with sighing, and continual nausea; vomiting of food after a meal, esp. hot food. ─ Vomiting, with cold perspiration of face. ─ Dyspepsia. ─ Pain in stomach; sensation of weakness in stomach; or else in pit of stomach, with oppression, which thence extends itself throughout chest.

Abdomen

Aching in stomach: sometimes after eating but very little; after the meal, with fulness and gurgling in abdomen; ascending towards chest, which becomes oppressed; with nausea; accumulation of water in mouth, and retching. ─ Pressure in pit of stomach; across body into spinal marrow, as by a plug, by intermitting action, becoming each time stronger; as from a weight, when fasting, and after a meal, < chiefly in evening, also with vomiting of bile, and oppression and anguish in chest, and pains in loins. ─ Violent and painful constriction in epigastrium. ─ Cramps in stomach of various kinds. ─ Pains in abdomen; < after eating, with cephalalgia, on returning from a walk, after a meal; cutting and drawing pains in abdomen; griping and twisting, with nausea, violent risings, and emission of fetid wind. ─ Inflation of abdomen, with dyspnœa; flatulency and abundant emission of wind, with borborygmi in abdomen, which are sometimes painful.

Stool and Anus

Soft, whitish stool. ─ Discharge of black blood after stool. ─ Copious hæmorrhages from hæmorrhoidal vessels. ─ Stools, like pap, soft, green; diarrhœa, sometimes with frequent evacuations and confusion of head.

Urinary Organs

Increased secretion of urine, sometimes with want to urinate. ─ Frequent emission of urine, even during night, and following morning (secretion of urine diminished). ─ Urine cloudy: with loose deposit; deep red, with sediment of a dull red, soon becoming turbid, with sediment of a rose colour, having small blue crystals.

Male Sexual Organs

Fatiguing heaviness in genital parts. ─ Smarting of the prepuce.

Female Sexual Organs

During menstruation violent pain in sacrum. ─ Violent pain in the sacrum, with fever, &c., supervening on suppression of the menses during their flow.

Respiratory Organs

Tickling in larynx, with frequent fits of short coughing; dryness in throat, with sensation as though a solid body were there impeding both respiration and deglutition. ─ Irritation which provokes coughing and expectoration.

Chest

Respiration anxious, difficult, sobbing, with sensation of obstruction in chest; short, imperfect, with sensation of fulness in chest; during inspiration, tickling in inferior region of sternum; on breathing deeply, mitigation of the pressive pain at pit of stomach, and a feeling of improved health. ─ Pain in chest, with breathing, while sitting after dinner, > moving about. ─ Congestive pressure and weight in chest as if blood from extremities was filling it, > by rapid walking. ─ Want of breath, sometimes with respiration impeded, hurried, with frequent want to breathe deeply; great difficulty in retaining the breath. ─ Oppression of chest, causing laboured respiration; asthma, chiefly with gastric symptoms, and sensation of weakness in pit of stomach; dyspnœa, sometimes with a sort of presentiment of death; difficulty of respiration, after the least fatigue, after washing in cold water, likewise from a current of air, and from heavy food. ─ Asthmatic symptoms, hysterical asthma. ─ Violent pains in chest; < on breathing deeply; on returning from a walk, after a meal. ─ Dyspnœa and asthma, with sensation of a lump in the throat, immediately above sternum. ─ Burning feeling in the chest, passing upwards. ─ Tension in chest on turning body; burning pain as of excoriation at one spot below r. breast, with sensation on breathing deeply, on sneezing, and on moving body quickly, as though something there were dislodged, which in the midst of the suffering returns to its place; with a like sensation at pit of stomach and l. side; perforating pain at one spot in chest, extending sometimes to back and shoulder-blade, < by movement, and with sensation of paralysis in the part affected. ─ Pain in the breast. ─ Burning feeling in breast passing upward. ─ A tightness of the breast with heat in forehead. ─ Drawing in l. breast from nipple to axilla.

Heart

Precordial anxiety. ─ Deep-seated pain in region of heart. ─ Sensation of weakness and pressure in epigastrium rising to heart. ─ Sensation as if heart would stand still, a pain deep in above heart. ─ Sensation of weakness in precordium extending upwards and downwards. ─ Dyspnœa and suffocation from every rapid movement, with vertigo, and threatened loss of consciousness and a peculiar confusion of head. ─ Pulse small; and weak.

Neck and Back

Swelling and pain l. side of neck. ─ Rheumatic pain between the scapulæ. ─ Pain under r. scapula < bending forward. ─ In back: lassitude, with heaviness of head; burning and incisive pains at lower part of spine; pains in loins; violent cramp-like squeezing in posterior part of iliac region, which renders contact with anything, or motion, almost insupportable.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic feeling in r. shoulder-joint; goes to l. upper arm and around elbow-joint. ─ Fine crawling stitches inside of r. deltoid. ─ Pain in shoulders of an elderly lady who had not menstruated for two years; Lob. i. relieved the pain and brought on menstruation. ─ Rheumatic pain in r. elbow-joint. ─ Sweat of palms, backs of hands dry and cool; tips of fingers cold.

Lower Limbs

In the legs, lassitude; acute tearing in tibia, extending to knee-joint; cramps in calf in morning, on waking from a troubled sleep. ─ Inflammatory rheumatism in r. knee; with tearing pains in fibula.

Generalities

Lancinating pains throughout body, extending to ends of fingers and toes; trembling of limbs, likewise of whole body feeling of depression; unusual lassitude; prolonged weakness; exhaustion state of stupefaction; convulsions, sometimes such as to require two men to hold the patient, followed by death; violent convulsive jerkings, followed by death. ─ Other symptoms coming on when a discharge ceases.

Skin

Prickling itching of skin all over body. ─ Eruption between fingers, on dorsa of hands and on forearms, vesicular itch-like pustules with tingling itching (Teste). ─ Vesicular eruption on skin.

Sleep

Gaping; < followed by crawling in nose and sneezing; then gaping and belching of wind. ─ Wakened early by very impressive dreams: arm amputated; wounded by a shot, &c. ─ Disturbed sleep with many dreams, sometimes anxious; painful dreams; numerous, without intermediate awakening; cold sweat.

Fever

Pulse: accelerated; frequent and softer than usual; slow, in evening (after a stronger dose). ─ Intermittent fever: commencing at noon, with great paleness and anorexia; quotidian, sometimes every morning at ten o'clock; at first violent shivering, alternating with moderate heat until noon, afterwards a predominance of heat, with slight shuddering, until evening; also, copious nocturnal sweat, great thirst by fits (esp. during the shivering), respiration short, anxious, impeded and fainting, with a feeling of constriction in chest, sensation of weakness and of oppression in pit of stomach, and in chest generally; tickling in larynx, with frequent fits of short coughing; violent frontal cephalalgia; anorexia during and after the attack, white tongue, covered with a thick coating on r. side, and great weakness. ─ Coldness of whole body; heat, with tendency to perspire, esp. on face; tendency to perspire excessively. ─ Thirst before the chill and through the whole fever; often only before the chill, not during the chill, but again during the heat. ─ Drinking < the violence of the shaking chill and the coldness. ─ At the end of the heat, perspiration with heat.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

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

Sensorium

Vertigo : and deathly nausea ; as if starting from left eye, with pain in head and trembling agitation of body.

Inner head

Headache with vertigo.
Dull, heavy pain passing around forehead, from temple to temple, just above eyebrows.
Pressing outward in both temples.
Pains through head in sudden shocks.
Dull, heavy pain in left side of head.
Pressive headache at occiput, left side ; < at night and on motion.
Periodical headache in afternoon, increasing until midnight, every third attack alternately more or less violent.
Sick headache with vertigo ; dull headache, violent nausea, vomiting and great prostration.
Pain over left eye, extending over left side of head and neck ; coldness ; > near fire ; deathly sick feeling at stomach and all over ; sudden pallor with profuse sweat ; fainting when making an effort to move ; cannot bear smell of tobacco ; tobacco
smoke brings on fainting ; sour stomach ; sleepiness ; vomiting of bile (vomiting seldom). θ Gastric sick headaches ; headaches following intoxication, with
nervousness and trembling.

Sight and eyes

Hemiopia ; pressure on upper half of eyeballs.

Hearing and ears

Sudden shutting up of right ear, as if stopped by a plug, at 2 P. M., > boring with finger in ear.

Smell and nose

Nosebleed.
Tip of nose very cold.

Upper face

Neuralgia of left side of face and temples, with retarded menses.
Flushes of heat or heat of face.
Cold sweat on face with nausea.
Chilly feeling in left cheek, near ear, extending to lower jaw.
Cyanosis. θ Emphysema.

Teeth and gums

Dull, pressing pain in last left molar and temples.

Taste, speech, tongue

Very sharp, disagreeable taste, especially at tip of tongue, and in back of throat.

Inner mouth

Flow of profuse, clammy saliva, with nausea.

Palate and throat

Burning in throat, dryness of fauces, spitting at intervals.
Tough mucus in fauces, causing frequent hawking.
Dryness and pricking in throat, not > by drinking.
Sensation of a lump in pit of throat, impeding deglutition.
Sensation as if œsophagus contracted from below upward.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of appetite, with acrid, burning taste in mouth.
Cannot bear smell of tobacco or tobacco smoke, although addicted to its use.

Eating and drinking

After breakfast : pressing outward, in both temples ; itching in left canthus.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough with profuse flow of saliva ; in evening, followed by drowsiness.
Frequent empty eructations, flow of water into mouth.
Frequent gulping of a burning, sour fluid.
Acidity in stomach, with contractive feeling in pit of stomach ; heartburn.
Incessant, violent nausea ; profuse perspiration ; copious vomiting.
Nausea : with vertigo ; disappearing very suddenly ; in last stages of phthisis ; < at night and after sleep ; > by a little food or drink.
Nausea with rather cold sweat on head, especially on face, with great but ineffectual efforts to vomit.
Vomiting, with cold perspiration of face.
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, profuse running of water from mouth ; morning sickness.
Chronic vomiting in paroxysms, with nausea, profuse sweat, prostration of strength, good appetite ; brick-dust sediment in urine.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sensation in stomach : heat or burning ; of weight ; as of a lump ; as from undigested food ; of weakness, extending through whole chest and down to umbilicus.
Faintness or weakness at pit of stomach, from excessive use of green tea or tobacco.
Indescribable feeling about stomach, compounded of nausea, pain, heat, oppression and excessive uneasiness.
Deathly sick feeling all over, especially at stomach.
Bruised soreness from pit of stomach through to back, after cramp in stomach.
Sensation of oppression at epigastrium, as if stomach was too full ; < on pressure.
Dyspepsia, heartburn and running of water from mouth.
Gastralgia biliosa ; paroxysm of excruciating pain, and feeling as of a heavy load in stomach.
Weakness and oppression at epigastrium, extending into chest ; burning in stomach, a burning lump in pit of throat impedes swallowing and respiration ; in swallowing it seemed as if at this point something rose up to meet food and obstruct its descent ; eructation of acid
fluid with burning ; vomiting of food after meals, especially after warm food ; had heartburn continually ; urine high colored, copious, red sediment ; pain in left lumbar region. θ Cardialgia.
Severe pressing feeling in epigastrium, excited by certain kinds of food, and mental emotion ; < evening and night ; after fright and vexation during menstrual period, suppression, alternating heat and cold, nausea, bitter taste, thirst, vomiting of bile, severe pressing in
epigastrium after eating and whilst fasting, in evening ; oppression and feeling of anxiety in breast, pain in sacral region ; tongue yellow, pulse small, weak and slow. θ Cardialgia
biliosa.

Hypochondria

Fulness and pressure in hypochondria after eating.
Pinching in abdomen, near edge of liver.

Abdomen and loins

Pain in abdomen, < after eating.
Rumbling in bowels and passage of flatus downward.
Sudden, sharp pain in left side of abdomen.
Abdomen distended, shortness of breath ; tympanitis.
Intussusception of bowels ; incarcerated hernia.

Stools and rectum

Stool : soft, but passed with great exertion ; green, soft ; frequent, loose during day, with great obtuseness of head.
Discharge of black blood after stool.
Copious hemorrhoidal discharge, consequent debility, sensation of tightness in epigastrium ; acidity of stomach ; oppression of chest.

Urinary organs

Sticking pain in region of right kidney.
Urine increased or diminished ; brown sediment.
Urine of a deep red color, depositing copious red sediment.

Male sexual organs

Smarting of prepuce ; aching in urethra.
Sensation of weight in genitals.

Female sexual organs

Menses too early, too profuse.
Suppressed menses : in consumptive persons ; with pain in right shoulder.
Violent pain in sacrum ; sense of great weight in genitals.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Morning sickness.
With every uterine contraction violent dyspnœa, which seems to neutralize labor pains ; rigid os and perineum.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Oppression felt in throat pit ; spasmodic asthma.
Sensation of fulness in trachea, as if from chest, causing a few short coughs, followed by warmth in forehead.
Peculiar sensation, between tickling and acrid feeling, in larynx ; two short coughs ; feeling of narrowness.
Feeling as of a lump or quantity of mucus, and pressure in larynx.
Spasmodic croup, with stridulous breathing, ringing cough, dyspnœa ; constrictive sensation in larynx ; constant cough and great anguish, with fear of suffocation.
Burning pricking in air passages.
Spasmodic contraction of diaphragm in emphysema, accompanied by pain in epigastrium, tympanitis, impossibility of deep inspiration, extreme dyspnœa and cyanosis. θ Bronchitis.

Respiration

Sensation of a foreign body in throat, impeding breathing and swallowing.
Dyspnœa and asthma, with sensation as of a lump in pit of throat, immediately above sternum.
Contraction of chest, with deep inhalations.
Want of breath, hysterical.
Impossibility of deep inspiration ; extreme dyspnœa. θ Bronchitis.
Short inhalation and long, deep exhalation.
Inclination to sigh, or to get a very deep breath ; deep inspiration, > pressive pain in epigastrium.
Extremely difficult breathing caused by a very strong constriction at middle of chest, which impedes respiratory movements.
Dyspnœa < by slightest exertion, or short exposure to cold, to an asthmatic paroxysm.
Deep inspiration relieves pressive pain in epigastrium.
Short and slow inspiration, with desire to cough.
Asthmatic constriction of air tubes.
Asthma : < from exertion, with a disordered stomach, especially a feeling of weakness in pit of stomach ; often preceded by a prickling all over, even to fingers and toes ; paroxysmal, with pain in chest ; lump in throat pit ; weakness and oppression at
epigastrium ; oppression at heart and chest.
Sudden and most urgent oppression, pants and endeavors to cough, but is unable to, and is threatened with suffocation every moment. θ Nervous asthma.
Every day at noon, for three months, asthmatic paroxysms of difficult breathing, terminating in cough without expectoration. θ Asthma.
Spasmodic contraction of diaphragm in emphysema, accompanied by pain in epigastrium, tympanitis, impossibility of deep inspirations, extreme dyspnœa, and cyanosis.
Convulsive asthma from pulmonic irritation of effused serum.
Dyspnœa, < by exertion, going up or down stairs, exposure to cold, and eating very warm food ; pain in left lumbar region of abdomen ; burning in stomach and throat, with dryness in latter ; lump in pit of throat impeding respiration and
deglutition ; weakness and oppression in epigastrium ; gastric derangement ; urine of a deep red, depositing a copious red sediment.

Cough

Cough : with vomituritio ; with pain in stomach, short, dry ; only a single one, from a feeling of narrowness in chest.
Whooping cough, violent racking ; seemingly from deep in chest, in paroxysms of long continuance ; followed by expectoration of ropy mucus, adhering to pharynx.
Spasmodic cough ; dyspnœa so severe as to cause fear of death ; sensation of fulness in chest, and burning, raw pain in epigastrium ; < from motion ; particularly useful in third stage, when expectoration ceases, or when relapses occur ; also when na
inflammatory condition of mucous membrane of larynx, trachea and bronchi accompany the disease. θ Whooping cough.
Cough with sneezing, gaping and flatulent eructations. θ Bronchitis.

Inner chest and lungs

Sensation of pressure on chest ; l. chest above nipple.
Spasmodic contraction of diaphragm.
Pain in chest, with breathing, while sitting after dinner ; > when moving about.
Pain in lower chest, most left side.
Burning feeling in chest, passing upward.
Pneumonia intermittens, particularly in individuals who live in malarial districts, accompanied by affections of bronchi or heart.
Emphysema with very dry tracheal and bronchial catarrh.
It palliated cough and brought back menses, which had ceased for six months. θ Consumption, last stage.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Slight, deep seated pain in region of heart.
Sensation of weakness and pressure in epigastrium, rising to heart.
Sawing sound about heart, with violent pains, diarrhœa and vomiting.
Sensation as if heart would stand still, a pain deep in, above heart.
Sensation of excessive weakness at precordium, extending upward into chest and downward as far as umbilicus.
Dyspnœa and suffocation from every rapid movement, attended with vertigo, threatened loss of consciousness and a peculiar confusion of head. θ Heart disease.
Pulse : frequent, but small, weak in evening ; slower than usual.

Outer chest

Repeated quivering in muscles of left ribs towards spine.
Pressure on lower portion of sternum, left side.
Tension in left chest, from nipple to armpit.
Pain behind sternum.
Feeling as of a band about chest, with irresistible desire to cough.

Neck and back

Swelling and pain on left side of neck.
Rheumatic pain between scapulæ.
Dull pressure between shoulder blades.
Violent pain in top of right shoulder and shortly afterward in back, from about first to fourth dorsal vertebræ. θ Gastralgia biliosa.
Pain under right shoulder blade, < when bending forward.
After noon a burning pain in back, as if in posterior wall of stomach.
Violent pain in sacrum, with fever. θ Suppression of menses.
Extreme tenderness over sacrum ; she cannot bear even pressure of a soft pillow ; cries out if any attempt is made to touch part ; sits up in bed, leaning forward to avoid contact with bedclothes ; after each vomiting spell breaks out all over with sweat, followed by
a sensation as if thousands of needles were piercing her skin from within outward.

Upper limbs

Lame feeling in left upper arm.
Rheumatic pain in right shoulder joint, goes to left upper arm and around elbow joint.
Pain in shoulder of an elderly lady, who had not menstruated for two years ; relieved pain and brought on menstruation.
Fine crawling stitches inside of right deltoid.
Pain in right deltoid, place size of palm of hand sore to touch.
A sharp shooting pain in an old scar of right ring finger.
Sweat of palms of hands, back of hand dry and cool ; tips of fingers cold.

Lower limbs

Inflammatory rheumatism of right knee, with tearing pains in fibula.
Painful stiffness in knees, as after a long march.

Limbs in general

Shooting pain through whole body, into tips of fingers and toes.

Rest. position. motion

Bending forward : pain under r. shoulder blade <.
Motion : headache < ; pain in epigastrium <.
Slightest exertion : dyspnœa and asthma <.
Too weak to stretch out her hand to do anything.
Making an effort to move : causes fainting.
Going up or down stairs : dyspnœa <.
From every rapid movement : dyspnœa and suffocation.

Nerves

Weakness ; feels too weak to stretch out her hand to do anything ; complete muscular relaxation.
Faintness, with profuse sweat ; fainting, great pallor.

Sleep

Gaping, followed by crawling in nose and sneezing ; then gaping and belching of wind.
Wakened early by very impressive dreams ; arm amputated, wounded by a shot, etc.

Time

Morning : sickness, of pregnancy.
Towards middle of day : shuddering chill followed by heat and sweat, lasting until next morning.
During day : looseness of bowels.
At 2 P. M. : sudden shutting up of ear.
Afternoon : a burning pain in back.
Evening : hiccough with profuse flow of saliva ; severe pressing in epigastrium ; pulse weak.
Night : pressive headache < ; nausea < ; pressing in epigastrium.

Temperature and weather

Near fire : coldness >.
After warm food : vomiting.
Exposure to cold : dyspnœa <.

Fever

Shuddering towards middle of day.
Coldness > near fire, or from heat.
Chills down back, heat in stomach ; general shivering.
Thirst before chill ; shaking chill and coldness, < after drinking.
Heat with thirst and sweat, particularly in face.
Sweat : with heat, or after heat has lasted for some time ; after heat with sleep ; copious night sweat.
Intermittent fever (quotidian).
Fever and ague, with chill in middle of day, followed by heat and sweat, which lasts until next morning.

Attacks, periodicity

Every day at noon, for three months ; asthmatic paroxysms.
Periodical headache : in afternoon, increasing until midnight, every third attack alternating more or less violent.
Quotidian intermittent.

Locality and direction

Right : sudden shutting up of ear ; sticking pain in region of kidney ; pain in shoulder ; violent pain in top of shoulder ; pain under shoulder blade ; rheumatic pain in shoulder joint, goes to left upper arm ; fine crawling stitches inside
of deltoid ; pain in deltoid ; sharp shooting pain in an old scar of ring finger ; inflammatory rheumatism in knee.
Left : as if nausea started from eye ; dull pain side of head ; pressive pain side of occiput ; pain over eye, over side of head and neck ; neuralgia of side of face and temples ; chilly feeling of cheek ; dull, pressing pain in last molar ;
itching in canthus pain in lumbar region ; sudden sharp pain in side of abdomen ; repeated quivering in muscles of ribs ; pressure on side of lower portion of sternum ; tension of chest ; swelling and pain on side of neck ; lame feeling in upper arm.
From within outward : as if needles were piercing her skin.
From below upward : œsophagus as if contracted.

Sensations

Vertigo, as if starting from left eye ; right ear as if suddenly stopped by a plug ; as of a lump in pit of throat ; as if œsophagus contracted from below upward ; as of a lump in stomach ; as from undigested food in stomach ; as if stomach was
too full ; as of a heavy load in stomach ; as if lump rose up to meet food and obstruct its descent ; fulness in trachea, as if from chest ; as of a lump in larynx ; as of a foreign body in throat ; as if heart would stand still ; as of a band about
chest ; as if thousands of needles were pricking her skin from within outward.
Pain : in head ; through head in sudden shocks ; over left eye, extending over left side of head and neck ; in left lumbar region ; in sacral region ; in abdomen ; in right shoulder ; in epigastrium ; in chest ; in stomach ; deep in
above heart ; behind sternum ; on left side of neck ; under right shoulder blade ; in right deltoid.
Excruciating pain : in stomach.
Violent pain : in sacrum ; about heart ; in top of right shoulder ; in back.
Indescribable feeling : compounded of nausea, heat, pain, oppression and excessive uneasiness about stomach.
Sudden sharp pain : in left side of abdomen.
Sharp shooting pain : in an old scar of right ring finger.
Shooting pain : through whole body into tips of fingers and toes.
Tearing pains : in fibula.
Neuralgia : of left side of face and temples.
Burning, raw pain : in epigastrium.
Pinching : in abdomen.
Inflammatory rheumatism : of right knee.
Rheumatic pains : between scapulæ ; in right shoulder joint, to upper arm and around elbow joint.
Cramp : in stomach.
Sticking pain : in region of right kidney.
Burning pain : in back.
Fine, crawling stitches : inside of right deltoid.
Aching : in urethra.
Slight, deep seated pain : in region of heart.
Dull, heavy pain : passing around forehead, from temple to temple, just above eyebrows ; on left side of head.
Pressive pain : at occiput, left side ; in epigastrium.
Dull pressing pain : in last left molar and temples.
Burning : in throat ; in stomach.
Burning, pricking : in air passages.
A burning lump : in pit of throat.
Smarting : of prepuce.
Bruised soreness : from pit of stomach through to back.
Extreme tenderness : over sacrum.
Prickling : in throat ; all over.
Prickling itching : of skin all over body.
Peculiar sensation between tickling and acrid feeling : in larynx.
Crawling : in nose.
Flushes of heat : in face.
Warmth : in forehead.
Severe pressing feeling : in epigastrium.
Dull pressure : between shoulder blades.
Pressure : on upper half of eyeballs ; in hypochondria ; in larynx ; in epigastrium ; on lower portion of sternum.
Painful stiffness : in knees.
Weight : in stomach ; in genitals.
Oppression : at epigastrium ; of chest ; in throat-pit ; at heart.
Pressing outward : in both temples.
Tightness : in epigastrium.
Contractive feeling : in pit of stomach.
Tension : in chest from nipple to armpit.
Fulness : in hypochondria ; in trachea ; in chest.
Feeling of anxiety : in breast.
Constrictive feeling : in larynx ; at middle of chest ; of air tubes.
Feeling of narrowness : in throat ; in chest.
Deadly sick feeling : at stomach and all over.
Dryness : of fauces ; in throat.
Repeated quivering : in muscles of ribs toward spine.
Peculiar confusion : of head.
Weakness : extending through whole chest down to umbilicus ; at pit of stomach ; at epigastrium, extending into chest ; at precordium.
Lame feeling : in upper left arm.
Itching : in left canthus.
Chilly feeling : in left cheek near ear, extending to lower jaw.
Coldness : of tip of nose ; of tip of fingers.

Tissues

Headache accompanied by irritation of pneumogastric.
Gastric derangement, with extreme nausea and vomiting ; morning sickness ; spasmodic asthma ; emphysema ; whooping cough ; cardiac disturbance ; intermittent fever.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : right deltoid sore.
Sits up in bed, leaning forward to avoid contact with bedclothes on sacrum.
Pressure : oppression at epigastrium.
Cannot bear even pressure of soft pillow over sacrum.
Boring with finger : > sudden shutting up of ear.

Skin

Prickling itching of skin all over body.

Stage of life, constitution

Light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion ; inclined to be fleshy.
Child, æt. 1 1/2, suffering three months ; asthma.
Servant girl, narrow and depressed thorax, suffering for years ; spasmodic asthma.
Young woman, suffering many years ; cardialgia simplex.
Servant maid, æt. 26, bilious habit, suffering a long time ; cardialgia biliosa.
Physician, suffering for ten years ; asthma.
Man, æt. 35 ; gastralgia biliosa.
Woman, æt. 38, mother of several children, suffering since childhood ; spasmodic asthma.
Woman, æt. 38, suffering with chronic dyspepsia ; cardialgia.
Man, æt. 45, fat and robust ; hemorrhoidal discharge.
Man, æt. 49 ; ague.

Relations

Antidoted by : Ipec .
Compare : Arsen . and Rosa damas . in hay fever or rose cold ; Digit., Tabac . in heart affections ; Arsen., Verat. alb . in gastric
troubles ; Ipec . in spasmodic asthma ; Ant. tart . and Ipec . in morning sickness.
"Lobelia is to the bad effects from drunkenness in people with light hair, blue or grey eyes, florid complexion, fat or corpulent, what Nux vom . is to people of opposite temperament."

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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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.