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Lobelia Cardinalis

30CLobelia Card
Cardinal Flower · "The Spasmodic Asthma Cardiac"
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🎯 Acts primarily on the mental state and the thoracic/dorsal region, addressing deep-seated sadness and localized spinal or splenic pain.
📖 Hering writes:
Lobelia Coerulea. (Lobelia Syphilitica.)
Mind. Sensorium. Inner head. Outer head. Sight and eyes. Hearing and ears. Smell and nose. Upper face. Lower face. Teeth and gums. Taste, speech, tongue. Inner mouth. Palate and throat. Appetite, thirst. Desires.. Eating and drinking. Hiccough, belching, nausea..
Scrobiculum and stomach. Hypochondria. Abdomen and loins. Stools and rectum. Urinary organs. Male sexual organs. Female sexual organs. Pregnancy. Parturition.. Voice and larynx. Trachea.. Respiration. Cough. Inner chest and lungs. Heart, pulse and circulation. Outer chest. Neck and back. Upper limbs. Lower limbs. Limbs in general. Rest. Position. Motion. Nerves. Sleep. Time. Temperature and weather. Fever. Attacks, periodicity. Locality and direction. Sensations. Tissues. Touch. Injuries.. Skin. Relations.
Lob-c. * Full text * Red and blue only * Red only
Great Blue Lobelia. Lobeliaceae.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant which grows in low grounds in the United States.
Introduced and proved by Jeanes, assisted by Neidhard and Williamson. See H. Mo., vol. 6, p. 520.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Melancholia, Jeanes, Hom. Clin., vol. 3, p. 356 ; Cough, Neidhard.
👤 Constitution
•An intelligent and educated man ; melancholia.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Constant disposition to cry, accompanied by deep sadness and dejection.
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Extreme mental weakness where any excitement or mental exertion is forbidden.
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Feeling as if one would go wild due to mental exhaustion.
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Pain and aching located specifically in the posterior region of the spleen.
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Pain in the eighth dorsal vertebra and back under the short ribs.
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Back pain is significantly worsened by movement.
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Back pain is aggravated by deep inspiration.
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Inability to sit alone or engage in conversation when the mind is taxed.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠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
↓Worse from
Evening
Sour eructations from 5 to 6 P.M.
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Pulsatilla Pratensis →
📚 Sources & References

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