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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
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture to 30th
Other
🕒As directed
📝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 →
📚 Sources & References

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