Lobelia Inflata

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great dryness of skin, nasal and buccal mucous membranes; distaste for brandy; dry, eczematous patches covering points of first fingers. Malignant disease of the

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J^ain in sacrum; cannot bear slightest touch. Sits leaning forward.

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better by rapid walking. Feels as if heart LOBEriy\ INFIATA 465 would stop. Asthma; attacks, with weakness, felt in pit of stomach and preceded by pne /cling all over. Cramp, ringing cough, short breath, catching at

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worse, any exertion. Sensation of pressure or weight in

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Tabar.; Ars.: Tart, c.; Veriil.; Rosa. Lobelia syphilitica or ccrnlca (gives a perfect picture of sneezing influenza, involving the posterior nares, palate, and fauces. Very depressed. Pain in forehead over

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Tincture, to thirtieth potency. Locally the tincture is antidotal to Poison-oak. Often the Acetum Lobelia acts better than any other preparation. Lobelia hypodermically acts clinically almost precisely as the antitoxin of diphtheria does upon the infection and renders the system stronger to resist future infections (F. Ellingwood). 466 LOBELIA PURPURASCENS — LOLIUM TEMULENTUM

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Deafness due to suppressed discharges or eC' zema. Shooting pain from

William Boericke 1922

pain and gas in bowels, followed by copious watery stools with tenesmus and soreness of anus. Pain in knees. Prickling in soles. Great oppression in lower pu^t of chest, as if air could not reach there. Pain in chest under short ribs of left side. Dry, hacking cough. Breathing difficult. Dull, aching pain over root of

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Epithelioma).

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Bathed in cold

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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 ^vith oppression of the chest and episgastrium, impeded respiration, nausea and vomiting. Languor, relaxation of muscles, nausea, vomiiing, 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.]

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Vertigo, and fear of death. Gastric headache with nausea, vomiting, and great prostration, worse, afternoon until midnight; tobacco. Dull, heavy pain.

William Boericke 1922

lVor\c, tobacco, afternoon, slightest motion, cold, especially cold washing. Better, by rapid walking (chest pain), toward evening, and from warmth.

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Profuse flow of saliva ; acrid burning taste ; mercurial taste; tenacious mucus, tongue coated white.

William Boericke 1922

Eu.stachian catarrh. Pain in posterior part of spleen.) Lobelia erinus (malignant growths; colloid cancer of the omentum ; cork-screw-like pains in

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Antidote : Jpcc.

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Dyspnoea from constriction of

William Boericke 1922

Prickling, itching with intense nausea.

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Acidity, flatulence, shortness of breath after eating. Heartburn with profuse flow of saliva. Extreme nausea and vomiting. Morning sickness. Faintness and zveakness at epigastrium. Profuse salivation, with good appetite. Profuse sweat and prostration. Cannot bear smell or taste of tobacco. Acrid, burning taste; acidity, with contractive feeling in pii of

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Flatulence, shortness^ of breath after eating. [Carho.\ Heartburn.

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Sudden pallor. ^

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Deep red color and copious red sediment.