Homeopathy Remedy Lobelia Inflata


Lobelia Inflata homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Lobelia Inflata……


      A tincture of the fresh plant is used.

General Action

      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. Its most important action in smaller doses is laryngeal and bronchial spasm, hence it is very useful in various spasmodic diseases of the respiratory apparatus attended with deathly nausea.

Allies. Ant-tart., Tabac., Coccul.

Generalities

      Convulsions. Trembling. Prickling through whole body, even to fingers and toes. Distress. Internal uneasiness. Malaise; towards evening, caused by colic and diarrhoea. Weakness; in evening. Its action is like that of tobacco, but more speedy, diffusive and of shorter duration. Amelioration towards evening.

Mind

      Loss of reason, with convulsions. Raving every evening after an hour’s sleep, with palpitation and flushed face. Indisposed to mental exertion.

Head

      Aching; towards evening; all night; (<) waking; (<) ascending steps; with drowsiness; in sudden shocks through head. Heaviness. Confusion on moving about, (<) vertex; C. in evening, increasing to headache, with heat of face. Cerebral torpor. Vertigo; with nausea (Coccul.); with headache and trembling agitation of whole body. Confusion in forehead. Temples, stitches; heavy pain passing from one to other round forehead, in a line above brows; pain, and in l. molars; outward pressure. Pain in l. parietal protuberance. Occiput, pain; in open air; (>) removing head- covering; tension in region of lambdoidal suture on paying strict attention to it; confusion; Dullness.

Eyes

      Pain in r., with soreness. Burning. Pupils dilated. Pain in balls, (<) upper parts. Smarting of inside of lids. Itching in angles of lids; l. Vision dim.

Ears, Nose and Face

      Aching in l. ear. Sneezing, with gaping and flatulent eructations. Nosebleed. Face of the color of a corpse. Drawing now in l., now in r. lower jaw.

Mouth

      Pricking in back part. Peculiar drawing from r. side to r. eye. Dryness. Salivation; clammy; tenacious; thin. Taste sharp; and disagreeable, (<) tip of tongue and back of throat.

Throat

      Mucus causing frequent necessity to hawk. Shooting in a spot to left of larynx and on a line with its lowest cartilage, extending into l. ear. Pricking on swallowing the medicine. Scraping; in pharynx; on r. side of larynx; with sore pain and with consecutive constrictions of oesophagus from below upward; then pain; then efforts to vomit, with pressure and heaving in pharynx; burning S., (<) anterior arches of palate, extending towards larynx, causing frequent hawking of mucus. Soreness. Sensation of a lump in pit impeding respiration and deglutition. Drawing pain in r. side extending to ear. Burning; changing to dryness and lasting all the forenoon. Dryness; at back; in fauces; after a meal, not (>) drinking, with scraping. Dysphagia.

Pressure in oesophagus and pit of stomach; in O., as from a foreign substance, worse at certain places, as, for example, just below larynx, whence there was a twisting peristaltic motion to pit of stomach, at last only an intermittent twisting feeling as if a plug in pit reached to spine, the sensation extended to right and left through praecordium, (>) deep inspiration, at 5 P.M. only a sensation in back, hypochondrium and pit of stomach on turning body as if the tendinous expansion of diaphragm were too tense.

Stomach

      Loss of appetite; for dinner. Aversion to food in afternoon. Eructations; with salivation; empty; painful; fatiguing, with nausea; burning; flatulent, with acidity and heat in stomach; of an acid fluid, with burning. Hiccough; towards evening; frequent and violent. Nausea; all the morning; in morning, (>) a swallow of water (Bryonia); with vertigo; with cold sweat on head, (<) face, and ineffectual retching; with heat, pain, oppression and uneasiness in stomach (with affection of respiratory organs), with uneasiness and vomiting; with shaking of upper part of body; or sensation of a lump, as if caused by undigested food. Excessive vomiting; violent V.

Pain in pit. Painful twisting in cardiac region. Sensation of an antiperistaltic motion in morning, without nausea. Uneasiness or feeling of a lump. Weight in pit. Oppression of epigastrium as if too full, (<) pressure. Pressure, though little had been eaten; P. in region after dinner, with heaviness. Heartburn, with salivation. Burning. Weak feeling.

Clinical The most marked and persistent symptoms of this drug are the nausea and vomiting; they generally accompany the respiratory troubles. It has been used for gastralgia and dyspepsia, for the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, especially if with the nausea there are extreme faintness and sinking at the pit of the stomach.

Abdomen

      Distention, with rapid respiration. Rumbling; with passage downward of flatus. Flatulence. Movings. Griping, with movings, then emission of flatus; G. in morning on waking. Cutting in morning on waking, with drawing. Sensation as before diarrhoea. Pain; in afternoon; almost all night; on waking; (<) till evening; (<) eating; and in small of back; in r. hypochondrium; in lower; cramplike, in l. posterior iliac region, (<) touch and motion.

Rectum and Stool

      Discharge of black blood after stool. Scraping in anus during stool, as from passage of a rough, hard body. Stools liquid, copious, frequent, after the colic. Stools soft; and whitish. Stools pasty. S. easier.

Clinical Dr. Cooper has reported in the Monthly Hom. Review for Dec., 1888, some remarkable cases of chronic diarrhoea and vaginal discharges, in which the tincture of Lobelia had entirely failed, but the extract with acetic acid produced wonderful results; these cannot be accepted as a contribution to Lobelia, since it may fairly be assumed that acetic acid, which we are beginning to appreciate as a great antipsoric remedy, bore an important part in the cures mentioned.

Urinary Organs

      Pain in urethra. Smarting in urethra during micturition. Frequent micturition; at night. Urine of yellowish wine color. Urine increased; diminished, with less frequent desire to urinate than usual, rosy red sediment, with crystals of uric acid.

Sexual Organs

      Heaviness. Smarting of prepuce. Brought on menses; but scantily.

Respiratory Organs

      Constriction of larynx. In larynx a peculiar sensation between tickling and smarting, like irritation to cough, which occurred but seldom, and then with oppression. Hoarse. Cough; irritation to; short, dry. Expectorant. Breathing difficult; from constriction in middle of chest, which impedes respiratory movements. Inclination to sigh, inspiration deep. Respiration insufficient. Respiration accelerated, with sensation as if it were insufficient, the abdominal muscles acted less than natural in breathing, and it was difficult to hold the breath. Inspiration short, expiration slow.

Clinical Bronchitis and asthma, with very great oppression of the chest, as if it were full of blood, which seems to stagnate, (>) moving about. Spasmodic croup. with nausea, vomiting and threatening suffocation.

Chest

      Pain; under middle of sternum; at l. side of lower part of sternum; in breast; (<) deep inspiration. Burning pain in a spot below r. breast, extending towards pit of stomach, and on deep inspiration or sneezing sensation as if something were drawn from its position and then returned to its place, towards noon the burning pain extended more towards pit of stomach and l. side, and the pain in the original spot was boring, the pains (<) dinner, returned at 4 P.M., and extended to the back beneath r. shoulder, the part seemed paralyzed and was intolerant of motion.

Distress. Oppression; impeding respiration; obligating deep respiration. Constriction; of sternal region towards evening, with colic and diarrhoea; (<) at base, after the eructations had ceased. Tightness, with heat in forehead; T., with short and labored breathing and disposition to breathe with open mouth. Fulness, with short, superficial breathing and failure of abdominal respiration. Burning in breast passing upward. Drawing from l. nipple to axilla. Tickling in region of lower end of sternum on deep inspiration.

Heart and Pulse

      Praecordial anxiety. Deep-seated pain in region of heart. Tumultuous action of H. Pulse rapid; and soft. Pulse slow; and irregular; and small, irregular; and small, intermittent. Pulse small; and weak.

Back

      Twitches over l. ribs near spine, then drawing pain between scapulae. Sticking in region of r. kidney. Pain in loins; in third, fourth and fifth dorsal vertebrae; burning, as if in posterior wall of stomach; rheumatic; between scapulae. Weakness.

Extremities

      (Rheumatic feeling in r. shoulder-joint). Pain in a space of a hand’s breadth in muscles of r. arm on touch, the pain in shoulder gone. Pressing in flesh above l. elbow, with paralyzed feeling in hand. Paralytic feeling in l. arm. Crawling stitches on inside of r. deltoid. Pain in r. elbow; rheumatic. Walking is difficult. Pressing pain on exterior, middle part of thigh, with constriction of head. Pain and stiffness in knees as from fatigue. Cramp in calves in morning on waking. Cramplike feeling in l. gastrocnemius. Tearing extending up fibulae to knees. Pain in l. leg when sitting. Weakness of legs. Cramplike feeling in hollow of l. foot.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.