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LOBELIA CARDINALIS
Lobelia cardinalis
lob-cPlantRarePsoric✨ Exclusively from Hering
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Exclusively Documented in Hering
This remedy is documented exclusively in Hering's Guiding Symptoms. It does not appear in Boericke's Materia Medica or other standard texts.
🎯 Acts primarily on the mental state and the thoracic/dorsal region, addressing deep-seated sadness and localized spinal or splenic pain.
About: Lobelia cardinalis is a specialized remedy often indicated for individuals suffering from profound emotional distress and mental exhaustion. It is particularly noted for its ability to address specific, sharp pains in the back and splenic region that are aggravated by movement.
👤 Constitution
•An intelligent and educated man ; melancholia.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Constant disposition to cry, accompanied by deep sadness and dejection.
Hering
Extreme mental weakness where any excitement or mental exertion is forbidden.
Hering
Feeling as if one would go wild due to mental exhaustion.
Hering
Pain and aching located specifically in the posterior region of the spleen.
Hering
Pain in the eighth dorsal vertebra and back under the short ribs.
Hering
Back pain is significantly worsened by movement.
Hering
Back pain is aggravated by deep inspiration.
Hering
Inability to sit alone or engage in conversation when the mind is taxed.
Hering
🩺 Systems & Indications
✨ Hering Exclusive🧠Mind
Constant disposition to cry, with sadness and dejection
- •such weakness of brain that all excitement is forbidden ;
- •he could neither sit alone, nor could he talk when he had to exert his mind ;
- •seemed as if he would go wild..
Much depressed, tearful, unhappy.
Bad effects from grief.
Great depression of spirits
- •unhappy state of mind, always associated with pain about and under (not below) short ribs, in back, on left side, extending outward nearly to left side ;
- •posterior aspect of region of spleen..
Hering Symptom Grade:
Keynote (Grade 3)
Important (Grade 2)
Minor (Grade 1)
🔑 Modalities
✨ Hering Exclusive↓Worse from
EveningSour eructations from 5 to 6 P.M.
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
PULSATILLA PRATENSIS →
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia Medica✓ Hering's Guiding Symptoms↗Hahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's KeynotesPhatak's Concise MM
Compiled from classical homeopathic texts in the public domain. Click any active source badge to open the original text. For educational and reference purposes only. Always consult a qualified homeopath for treatment.