Remedy

Lobelia inflata

Indian tobacco

5 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • 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.
  • Best adapted to light complexioned fleshy people.
  • Bad effects of drunkenness.

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What makes it better or worse

Worse

TobaccoAfternoonSlightest motionCold, especially cold washing

Better

By rapid walkingToward eveningFrom warmth

Symptoms by body part

Head

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

Face

Bathed in cold sweat. Sudden pallor.

Ears

Shooting pain from throat.

Mouth

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

Stomach

Acidity, gas, shortness of breath after eating. Heartburn with profuse flow of saliva. Extreme nausea and vomiting. Morning sickness. Faintness and weakness at epigastrium. Profuse excess saliva, with good appetite. Profuse sweat and extreme weakness. Cannot bear smell or taste of tobacco. Acrid, burning taste; acidity, with contractive feeling in pit of stomach. Gas, shortness of breath after eating. Heartburn.

Respiratory

Dyspnoea from constriction of chest; worse, any exertion. Sensation of pressure or weight in chest; better by rapid walking. Feels as if heart would stop. Cramp, ringing cough, short breath, catching at throat. Senile emphysema.

Back

Pain in sacrum; cannot bear slightest touch. Sits leaning forward.

Urinary

Deep red color and copious red sediment.

Skin

Prickling, itching with intense nausea.

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