LOBELIA INFLATA HOMEOPATHIC REMEDY NERVOUS SYSTEM

Indian tobacco, Puke root, Asthma root

Named after Mathias de L’ Obel, a French botanist. It is a widespread American (North) plant and smoked by Indians for its relaxing affects. First proved by Dr. Jeanes. But the chief modern exponent of Lobelia is Samuel Thompson of New Hampshire, who founded, the modern Botanical School. His chief remedies were, besides Lobelia, Cayenne pepper and the vapor bath. There are two other Lobelias, red – Lobelia cardinalis; blue – Lobelia syphilitica.

Natural order: Lobeliaceae
Preparation: tincture of the fresh plant in flowers and seeds, trituration of dried leaves.

Through cerebrospinal nervous system it affects the pneumogastric nerve. First affect the nervous of sensation. Nerves of motion – this system is brought most powerfully under the action of this drug, inferior laryngeal seems to be the first one to be called into action, which causes a constricted feeling in the larynx. Passing on the oesophagus, constricts its whole length, then the stomach contracts from below upwards; and emesis follows. In the mean time bronchi and chest contract, and patient feels as suffocation is impending. Muscular system – involuntary muscle fibers are the first to involve (of the oesophagus, stomach, heart), the voluntary muscles do not seem to be affected until the involuntary are completely under its influence. Eclectics used it for relaxation of muscles fibers.

It 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.

This drug produces, in large doses, most violent vomiting, and profound prostration, failure of the heart and respiration, collapse and fatal stupor, it paralyzes the pneumogastric and vasomotor nerves

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.

= Alcohol, Tea, Tobacco, Wetting feet, Suppressions (sulph), foreign bodies, bad effects of Diphtheria and catarrhal jaundice (chionan)

PHYSICAL CONSTITUTION:
Light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, inclined to be fleshy.

MIND:
Mental inquietude (Feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable); great depression and exhaustion; pre sentiment of death, and dyspnoea. Sobbing like a child. Violent raving (declaiming violently) with flushing of face and palpitation, every evening, after an hour's sleep.

HEAD:
Gastric headache with nausea, vomiting, and great prostration; following intoxication; < afternoon until midnight, tobacco and tobacco smoke. Vertigo with fear of death. Associated sudden pallor with profuse sweat. (Tab). Neuralgia of the left side of the face with retarded menses.

EARS:
Deafness due to suppressed discharges or eczema. Shooting pain from throat.

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

STOMACH:
Morning sickness. Faintness and weakness at epigastrium. Profuse salivation with good appetite. Can not bear taste or smell of tobacco. Flatulence and shortness of breath after eating. Pain abdomen < after eating but very little.

CHEST:
Constriction or oppressive fullness in chest causing dyspnoea. Sensation of pressure or weight in chest, better by rapid walking. Rattle in chest but does not expectorate. Violent pains in chest, worse on breathing deeply. Burning feeling in the chest, passing upwards. Tension in chest on turning body. Pain in the breast. Burning feeling in breast passing upward. A tightness of the breast with heat in forehead. Drawing in left breast from nipple to axilla. Senile emphysema. Heart feels as if it would stop. Pulse weak or soft flowing.

BACK:
Pain in sacrum, cannot bear slightest touch. Sits leaning forward. Swelling and pain left side of neck. Rheumatic pain between the scapula. Pain under right scapula worse bending forward.



URINE:
Urine cloudy. With loose deposit; deep red, with sediment of a dull red, soon becoming turbid, with sediment of a rose colour, having small blue crystals. Urine suppressed or infrequent.

FEMALE:
Morning sickness; suddenly disappears > by a little food and drink.
Labour pains with shortness of breath. Pain in her sacrum and a sense of weight in her genitals.

SKIN:
Prikling all over body with itching. Eruptions between fingers, on dorsum of hands and on forearm, vesicular itch like pustules.

MODALITIES:
Better afternoon. Better from rapid walking (chest pain), eating a little, toward evening and from warmth. Worse tobacco, afternoon, slightest motion, cold, especially cold washing. Worse from suppressions, Sleep after, tea, foreign bodies.

ANTIDOTE:
Ipec

COMPARE:
Ars, Ant.t, Tab, Ip, Verat.a, Rosa.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A cyclopedia of drug pathogenesy (vol. 3) by Richard Hughes
The guiding symptoms of our Materia Medica by Hering .C
Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (vol. 5) by T. F Allen
Characteristic Materia Medica by William H. Burt
Dictionary of practical Materia Medica by Clark J.H
Plain talks on Materia Medic with comparisons by Pierce W.I
Phatak’s Materia Medica.
Lotus Materia Medica by Murphy R

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