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Lobelia Inflata

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Indian Tobacco · Puke Weed · "The Nausea Asthma Tobacco Remedy"

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🎯 A vaso-motor stimulant that acts primarily on the pneumogastric nerve to produce relaxation, nausea, and respiratory oppression.

📖 Boericke writes:

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).

👤 Constitution

•Light-complexioned, fleshy people.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

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.

introduction

Suppressed discharges (Sulph).

introduction

Deafness due to suppressed discharges or eczema.

ears

Extreme nausea and vomiting.

stomach

Faintness and weakness at epigastrium.

stomach

Profuse salivation, with good appetite.

stomach

Dyspnoea from constriction of chest; worse, any exertion.

respiratory

Sensation of pressure or weight in chest; better by rapid walking.

respiratory

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for gastric-related headaches characterized by intense nausea and prostration.

Vertigo, and fear of death.

Gastric headache, with nausea, vomiting, and great prostration; worse, afternoon until midnight; tobacco.

Dull, heavy pain.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture to 30th

Other

📝Locally the tincture is antidotal to Poison-oak; Acetum Lobelia often acts better; hypodermically used for diphtheria.

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Ipecacuanha →

⏩ Follows Well After

Lobelia Erinus →

🔄 Compare With

Tabacum →Arsenicum Album →Veratrum Album →Tartaricum Acidum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Lobelia Inflata is listed in 126 rubrics across 18 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 31 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System34 Stomach29 Head10 Modalities10 Circulatory System5 Nervous System5 Locomotor System4 Fever4 Generalities4 Throat4 Female Sexual System3 Urinary System3 Ears2 Tongue2 Abdomen2 Mouth2 Taste2 Face1

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