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Lobelia Dortmanna

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Lobelia Dortmanna · Water Lobelia · "The Water Lobelia"

PlantRarePsoric✨ Clarke only

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Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 Acts primarily on the digestive and respiratory systems, often used to address chronic conditions through deep-acting, single-dose interventions.

📖 Clarke writes:

Lobelia dortmanna. (The principal indigenous British species. Habitat, shallow lakes.) N. O. Lobeliaceae. Tincture of fresh plant.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Has much in common with Lobelia erinus and Lobelia inflata

•Symptoms observed after single doses of the Ø tincture allowed to exhaust their action

Methodology & Source

•Information provided by Cooper

•Symptoms of the Schema observed on patients after single doses of the Ø tincture

•Letters and figures appended to symptoms denote sex and age of patients

•m denotes man

•w denotes woman

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Burning sensation in the rectum as if from a red-hot poker, accompanied by shooting pains.

Clarke

Violent headache lasting all day, potentially resolving into severe colic and diarrhea.

Clarke

Roaring noises in the ears, particularly when lying down or falling asleep.

Clarke

Habitual indigestion characterized by a complete lack of digestive power.

Clarke

Neuralgic pains migrating from the right arm to the fingers, followed by pain in the right knee.

Clarke

Violent sneezing and catarrh.

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Deafness associated with high nasal blockage.

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Excessive discharge of flatus.

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Improvement in breathing capacity.

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Itching on the skin behind the angle of the right jaw and below the ear.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

✨ Clarke Exclusive

👤Head

Consider for violent, prolonged headaches that may precede a shift in other chronic symptoms.

Violent headache lasting all day goes on for a fortnight, ending in severe colic and diarrhoea

and then an old cough goes away (w. 56).

🔑 Modalities

✨ Clarke Exclusive

↓Worse from

Lying down

roaring noises in ears

rectal burning and shooting pains

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak'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.