TABACUM


TABACUM signs and symptoms from the Characteristic Materia Medica by William Burt of the homeopathic medicine TABACUM …


SPHERE OF ACTION

Acts especially on the cerebro-spinal centres. More particularly affecting the medulla oblongata and pneumogastric nerve. The motor nerves that preside over the muscular system are perfectly and completely paralyzed; in fact, Nicotine, the active principle of Tobacco, produces the most profound and complete relaxation of the muscular system of any poison we possess, except, perhaps, Veratrum viride.

GRAND CHARACTERISTICS

Adapted to diseases of the nervous system, where there is prominent irritation of the functions of the vagi. Sick headache, that comes on early in the morning, and by noon is intolerable, with deathly nausea, and violent vomiting, greatly aggravated by noise and light. Dreadful faint feeling at the stomach.

During pregnancy an insupportable pruritus over the whole body, with pyrosis and other gastric symptoms. — DR. GROSS.

Continual paroxysms of sneezing for weeks. — DR. L. GROSS.

State of collapse as in cholera.

Icy coldness; cold sweat and intermittent pulse.

Icy coldness of the legs from the knees down. — C.C. SMITH.

Strangulated hernia; ileus; complete marasmus; paralysis and sudden hyperaemia of the brain, with violent nausea, vomiting and great prostration.

Violent pain in the small of the back during soft stool, with tenesmus and burning. — JAHR.

William Burt
William H. Burt, MD
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881