Tabacum
Abbrev.: Tobacco
Abdomen
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Cold, Wants abdomen uncovered. It lessens the nausea and vomiting.
Chest
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Praecordial oppression, with palpitation and pain between shoulders. Cough followed by hiccough. Cough dry, teasing, must take a swallow of cold water [Caust; Phos.]. Dyspcena, with tingling down left arm when lying on left side.
Compare
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Nicotinum (Alternate tonic and clonic spasms, followed by general relaxation and trembling; nausea, cold sweat, and speedy collapse ; head drawn back, contraction of eyelids and masseter muscles ; muscles of neck and back rigid ; hissing respiration from spasm of laryngeal and bronchial muscles). Antidote: Ars. (chewing tobacco) ; Ign.; (smoking) ; Sep. (neuralgia and dyspepsia) ; Lycop. (impotency) ; Nux (bad taste due to tobacco) ; Calad. and Plantag. (^c^use aversion to tobacco) ; Phosp, (tobacco heart, ^^xual weakness).
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Hydrobroinic acid; Camph.; Verat.; Ars.
Dose
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Third to thirtieth and higher potencies. 728 TANACETUM VULGARE — TARANTULA CUBENSIS
Extremities
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Legs and hands icy cold ; limbs tremble. Paralysis following apoplexy. [Plumb.] Gait shuffling, unsteady.
Eyes
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sick headache, with deathly nausea ; periodical. Sudden pain, as if struck by a hammer. Nervous .deafness.
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Dim sight ; sees as through a veil ; strabis mils. Amaurosis; muscje volitantes.
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evening; extremes of heat and cold. Better, uncovering, open fresh air.
Face
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Pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered with cold
Fever
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Chills, with cold s7vcat.
Guiding symptoms
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in praecordial region. Pain radiates from center of sternum. Tachycardia. Bradycardia.
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prostration oi the entire muscular system. Collapse. Arterio-sclerosis. Gastralgia, enteralgia, seasickness, cholera infantum ; cold, but wants abdomen uncovered. Vigorous peristaltic activity, diarrhcea.
Head
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Vertigo on opening
Heart
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Palpitation when lying on left side. Pulse mtermits, feeble, imperceptible. Angina pectoris, pain
Mind
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Sensation of excessive wretchedness. Very despondent. Forgetful. Discontented.
Modalities
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Worse, opening
Rectum
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Constipation; rectum paralyzed, prolapsed. Dianhoea, sudden, watery, with nausea and vomiting, prostration, and cold
Respiratory
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Difficult, violent constriction of
Sleep
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Insomnia with dilated heart, with cold, clammy skin and anxiety.
Stomach
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Incessant nansoa ; worse, smell of tobacco smoke [Phos.]; vomiting on least motion, during pregnancy xvith much spitting. [Ant. t.; Asar.; Kreos.; Nux V.; Sep.; Strych.] Seasickness; terrible faint, sinking feeling at pit of
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Sense of relaxation of stomach, with nausea. [Ipec.] Gastralgia; pain from cardiac end extending to left arm.
Sweat
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discharges look like sour milk, thick, curdled, watery.
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[Ars.; Verat.] Freckles.
Text
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The symptomatology of Tabacum is exceedingly well marked. The nausea, giddiness, death-like pallor, vomiting, icy coldness, and sweat, with the intermittent pulse, are all most characteristic. Has marked antiseptic qualities, antidotal to cholera germs. Complete 726
Throat
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Nasopharyngitis and tracheitis, hemming, morning cough, sometimes with vomiting. Hoarseness of public speakers.
Urinary
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—Renal colic; violent pain along ureter, left side.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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