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Lobelia Syphilitica

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Lobelia Syphilitica · Great Blue Lobelia · "The Great Blue Lobelia"

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🎯 Acts primarily on the naso-pharynx, respiratory tract, and the left side of the back and chest.

📖 Clarke writes:

Lobelia syphilitica. L. coerulia. Great Blue Lobelia. (Grows in low grounds in U.S.) N. O. Lobeliaceae. Tincture of fresh plant. Acetum.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Action on posterior nares

•Action on naso-pharynx

•Action on back, back of chest, and lower ribs

•History of suppression is a leading indication

•Contains Silex, Iron, Muriate and Phosphate of Lime

•Milky juice (shared with Lob. card. and Lob. inf.)

•Does not bring out the emetic properties of Lob. inflata

Temperament & Physical Profile

•Educated, intelligent man (in context of melancholia case)

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Great depression of spirits

•Unhappy state of mind

•Mental exertion WORSE (mental state)

•Reading and writing WORSE pain in forehead

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Epigastric sinking

•Flatulence

•Dyspepsia

•Diarrhoea

•Deafness arising from an unhealthy, soft, swollen, easily bleeding catarrhal condition of the naso-pharynx

•Dull aching pain in centre of forehead, over root of nose

•Pain about and under short ribs in back on left side, extending outward nearly to left side posterior aspect of region of spleen

•Pain on inside of right scapula

•Pain under (not below) inner border of left scapula, WORSE after weeping

•Pains travel about: from right to left; from left tonsil to right; from back down legs; from eighth rib downward; aching from back of head down nape

•Synalgias: Pain in right maxillary joint, with pain in middle of right lung; pain in breast and larynx; pain in left side of chest near axilla, with aching in left shoulder and arm

•Soreness of ischium

•Internal nose painfully sensitive to cool air

•Inhaling moderately cool air WORSE

•Flushing after dinner BETTER somewhat in open air

•Secretion of thick mucus BETTER throat soreness

Modalities

•Touch WORSE

•Motion WORSE

•Deep inspiration WORSE

•Drinking cold water BETTER (temporarily) gastric symptoms

•Mental exertion WORSE

•Reading and writing WORSE

•Symptoms WORSE after dinner

•WORSE At night

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Dull aching pain in the center of the forehead, specifically over the root of the nose.

Clarke

Deep depression of spirits associated with pain under the short ribs on the left side.

Clarke

Dryness and extreme sensitiveness of the nostrils to cool air.

Clarke

Dyspepsia and gastric symptoms that are temporarily relieved by drinking cold water.

Clarke

Pains that travel about, particularly from right to left or from the back down the legs.

Clarke

Thick mucous secretion in the throat which relieves constricting rawness and soreness.

Clarke

Stiffness of the nape of the neck, especially on the left side, when looking up.

Clarke

Pain in the back under the false ribs, worse at night after lying down.

Clarke

Headache and facial flushing after dinner.

Clarke

Severe jarring in the breast and larynx during sneezing.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Melancholia and depression with specific left-sided back pain; mental exertion is intolerable.

Frequent mistakes in spelling and writing (with confused feeling and slight aching in head (after 15 min.).

Depressed, temper unhappy

with pain in posterior aspect of spleen.

Brain weakness, exertion of mind intolerable

seemed as if he would go wild.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Movement

dizziness

back pain

chest pain

↑Better from

Cold water

gastric symptoms

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Pulsatilla Pratensis →Chelidonium Majus →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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