Lobelia Inflata lob.

RESPIRATION. Vaso - motor nerves. Secretions. Heart. Epigastrium.

Cold bathing. Suppressions. Sleep; after. Tobacco.

Rapid motion. Eating a little.

RELAXATION; with increased secretions and weakness; with sweat; with deathly sickness all over; with oppressed, rattling respiration. Sits with elbows on knees. Prickles all over.

Flow of saliva; with retching, hiccough, nausea, dyspnœa, etc. As of a lump in throat or stomach. Deathly nausea; with vertigo; < night and early A.M., > eating or drinking. Vomiting; with sweat (cold on face). Nausea and vomiting, with profuse sweat; with respiratory symptoms. Weak, sinking at stomach. Deep red urine, with red sediment. Urine suppressed or infrequent. Dyspnœa; nervous; with labor pains; as from a wedge in larynx; > rapid motion; with general prickling. Asthma. Spasmodic cough; with sneezing, belching or gastric pain. Rattle in chest, but don't expectorate. Constriction or oppressive fulness in chest. Pulse weak, or soft; flowing. Plaques of œdema (figurata); with ecchymoses.

Related: Ant-t. Ip. Tab.

Best adapted to persons of light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, inclined to be fleshy. Gastric derangements, extreme nausea and vomiting; morning sickness; spasmodic asthma; pertusis, with dyspnoea threatening suffocation. Headache: gastric, with nausea, vomiting and great prostration; following intoxication; < afternoon until midnight; sudden pallor with profuse sweat (Tab.); < by tobacco or tobacco smoke. Vomiting: face bathed with cold sweat; of pregnancy, profuse salivation (Lac. ac. - at night, Mer.); chronic with good appetite, with nausea, profuse sweat and marked prostration. Faintness, weakness and an indescribable feeling at epigastrium, from excessive use of tea or tobacco. Urine: of a deep orange red color; copious red sediment. Dyspnoea: from constriction of middle of chest; < with every labor pain, seems to neutralize the pains; < by exposure to cold or slightest exertion, going up or down stairs (Ipec.). Sensation of congestion, pressure or weight in chest as if blood from extremities was filling it, > by rapid walking. Sensation as if heart would stand still; deep seated pain at base (at apex, Lil.). Sacrum: extreme sensitiveness; cannot bear the slightest touch, even of a soft pillow; sits leaning forward to avoid contact with clothes.

Compare: Ant. t., Ars., Ipec., Tab., Ver.

Slightest motion; touch, cold.

Chest pain by walking rapidly. For the bad effects of drunkenness in people with light hair, blue or grey eyes, florid complexion, corpulent, Lobelia bears the same relation that Nux vomica does to persons of the opposite temperament.

Urine has a deep red color, and deposits a copious red sediment. Where we find the above symptom very prominently displayed, we may think strongly of Lobel. infl.

Indian Tobacco

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.

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. Best adapted to light complexioned fleshy people. Bad effects of drunkenness. Suppressed discharges (Sulph). Diphtheria. Catarrhal jaundice (Chionanth).

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

Bathed in cold sweat. Sudden pallor.

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

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

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

Dyspnœa from constriction of chest; worse, any exertion. Sensation of pressure or weight in chest; better by rapid walking. Feels as if heart would stop. Asthma; attacks, with weakness, felt in pit of stomach and preceded by prickling all over. Cramp, ringing cough, short breath, catching at throat. Senile emphysema.

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

Deep red color and copious red sediment.

Prickling, itching with intense nausea.

Worse, tobacco, afternoon, slightest motion, cold, especially cold washing. Better, by rapid walking; (chest pain), toward evening, and from warmth.

Antidote: Ipec.

Compare: Tabac; Ars; Tart e; Verat; Rosa.

Lobelia syphilitica or cerulea (gives a perfect picture of sneezing influenza, involving the posterior nares, palate, and fauces. Very depressed. Pain in forehead over eyes; pain and gas in bowels, followed by copious watery stools with tenesmus and soreness of anus. Pain in knees. Prickling in soles. Great oppression in lower part of chest, as if air could not reach there. Pain in chest under short ribs of left side. Dry, hacking cough. Breathing difficult. Dull, aching pain over root of nose. Eustachian catarrh. Pain in posterior part of spleen). Lobelia erinus (malignant growths, extremely rapid development; colloid cancer of the omentum; cork-screw-like pains in abdomen; great dryness of skin, nasal and buccal mucous membranes; distaste for brandy; dry, eczematous patches covering points of first fingers. Malignant disease of the face. Epithelioma).

Tincture, to thirtieth potency. Locally the tincture is antidotal to Poison-oak. Often the Acetum Lobelia acts better than any other preparation. Lobelia hypodermically acts clinically almost precisely as the antitoxin of diphtheria does upon the infection and renders the system stronger to resist future infections (F. Ellingwood).

Nausea and vomiting with great relaxation of muscular system and profuse accumulation of saliva.

Desponding -sobbing like a child. Apprehension of death and difficulty of breathing.

Vertigo with nausea. Headache with slight giddiness. Outward pressing in both temples.

Heat of the face. Perspiration of the face with the nausea. Chilly feeling in the left cheek extending to the ear.

Flow of clammy saliva in the mouth (with nausea). Burning in the throat : dryness of the fauces, frequent spitting. Tough mucus on the fauces, causing frequent hawking. Dryness and prickling in the throat, not diminished by drinking. Sensation of a lump in the pit of the throat, impeding deglutition. Sensation in the œsophagus as if it contracted itself from below upwards.

Frequent flatulent eructations with flow of water in the mouth. Frequent gulping up of a burning, sour fluid. Acidity in the stomach with contractive feeling in the pit of the stomach. Incessant, violent nausea, with shivering and shaking of the upper part of the body. Hiccough, with abundant flow of saliva in the mouth. Nausea, with profuse perspiration and copious vomiting. Heartburn and running of water from the mouth. Vomiting, with cold perspiration of the face. Nausea and vomiting during, pregnancy, with profuse running of water from the mouth. Feeling of weakness of the stomach or in the pit of the stomach, extending through the whole chest. Burning in the stomach. Feeling of weight in the stomach. Pain in the abdomen, worse after eating.

Soft, whitish stool. Discharge of black blood after stool. Copious hæmorrhages from the hæmorrhoidal vessels.

Urine of a deep-red color, depositing a copious, red sediment. Sticking pain in the region of the right kidney.

Men. Smarting of the prepuce. Sensation of weight in the genitals. Women. During menstruation violent pain in the sacrum.

Sensation of a foreign body in the throat, impeding the breathing and swallowing. Tightness of the breast, with heat in the forehead. Dyspnœa and asthma, with sensation as of a lump in the pit of the throat, immediately above the sternum. Burning feeling in the chest, passing upwards.

Rheumatic pain between the scapulæ.

Upper. Rheumatic feeling in the right shoulder-joint. Rheumatic pain in the right elbow-joint. Lower. Inflammatory rheumatism in the right knee.

Pulse weak and small. Intermittent fever. Thirst before the chill and through the whole fever ; often only before the chill, not during the chill, but again during the heat. Drinking increases the violence of the shaking chill and the coldness. At the end of the heat, perspiration with sleep.

Lobelia inflata. Indian Tobacco. (Fields and roadsides from Canada to Southern U.S.A.) N. O. Lobeliaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant when in flower and seed. Trituration of dried leaves. Acetum.

Alcoholism. Alopecia. Amenorrhœa. Angina pectoris. Asthma . Cardialgia. Cough . Croup. Deafness. Debility. Diarrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Emphysema . Faintness. Gall-stones. Gastralgia. Hæmorrhoidal discharge. Hay-asthma. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Meningeal headaches. Millar's asthma. Morning sickness (of drunkards; of pregnancy). Morphia habit. Palpitation. Pleurisy. Psoriasis. Rigid os. Seborrhœa. Shoulders, pain in. Tea, effects of. Urethra, stricture of. Vagina, serous discharge from. Vomiting, of pregnancy. Wens. Whooping-cough.

Matthew Lobel, whose name is given to this family of plants, was a physician and botanist attached to the court of James I. There are two British species, L. Dortmanna , found in shallow lakes, and L. urens , which grows in heathy places. L. inflata , the North American variety, is the most important of all, medically. According to Hale, this plant was used by the Indians as an emetic detergent, in the same way as Verat. alb . was used by the ancients to produce "Helleborism." But the chief modern exponent of Lobelia is Samuel Thompson, of New Hampshire, who founded the modern Botanic School. His chief remedies were, besides Lobelia , cayenne pepper and the vapour bath. There can be little doubt that he accomplished much with these, but his unbounded faith in Lobelia led, in some instances, to fatal poisoning. Such a result is not altogether unknown in qualified practice; but as Thompson had no medical degree these cases brought him into trouble. — The records of them have furnished some of the symptoms of the pathogenesis. Lob. i . probably obtained the name of "Indian Tobacco" from the similarity of its action to that of Tabacum in producing intense nausea, vomiting, profound depression at the epigastrium, and collapse. It was a true instinct On the part of Teste that led him to class Lob. i . with Sul .; and though the provings and clinical experience do not fully bear out what he says about its skin action, the results of botanic practice, confirmed by Cooper, show that it has an antipsoric action, and relieves morbid states due to the suppression of discharges. In a paper read before the Brit. Hom. Society , November 1, 1888 ( M. H. Rev ., xxxii. 717) Cooper explains that he got no good out of Lob. i . until under the advice of a herbalist he used a solution of Lobelia made with common vinegar. Here is one of his cases. A young woman, 23, of consumptive family history on both sides, had, when 14 to 15 years old, severe pain in left, and sometimes right, side, and round lower abdomen, with faint feeling. This lasted till the monthly period came on regularly and then she was well till 20, when diarrhœa came on, which nothing was able to check and which kept her in bed for months at a time. The symptoms were: Pains all round abdomen and up the back, much < after undressing, feeling of exhaustion or failing to pieces inside and out, cannot bear anything to touch her. Four or five motions daily when taking medicine; if she leaves it off continual motions all day; it literally runs from her: watery, sometimes light-coloured, sometimes dark, never bloody. Menses very irregular, sometimes five to six weeks between; all symptoms, especially diarrhœa, < then; much tenderness all over abdomen, especially in ovarian regions, legs ache fearfully, pains all over body; faints continually. Since the illness began subject to neuralgia of face, one or other side or both, extending to chest, coming and going suddenly at any time. In spite of treatment of all kinds, including that of a skilful repertorian, she grew worse. She went into a hospital, and there a small pile was removed with but temporary benefit; and after this the vagina as well as the rectum began to discharge copiously an excoriating fluid. Lob. i. ac . Ø, eight drops three times a day, was now given. She began to improve at once, and in a few weeks was quite well. In this case the difficulty first showed itself when the menstrual era was commencing; was relieved when the flow was regularly established; reappeared simultaneously with menstrual irregularity. In the next case there was an analogous history. A lady of 52, when 37, was exposed to a severe chill which checked the catamenial flow. After this she had threatened phthisis with bronchorrhœa, which after two years gradually went off, leaving her subject to severe constantly recurring seizures of vertigo. Nine months before coming under Dr. Cooper's care she felt as if something was forming in the utero-vaginal region, causing much bearing down. She was obliged to go to bed, and then there occurred a profuse pouring away of apparently serous fluid from utero-vaginal and vesical mucous membranes, with paroxysms of agonising, burning, and scalding, < in evening. Vagina swollen, extremely tender, bathed in moisture; urination always very painful and followed by paroxysm of general scalding. She was unable to sit up and decubitus could only be maintained with the knees drawn up, or on the left side. At night she would be awoke by finding her back resting in a pool of water, and the sense of uterine bearing down was almost intolerable. The bowels were unaffected; urine free from all but a trace of albumen. A hardness and dulness to percussion existed all down right side of abdomen. Lob. infl. acet . Ø, 1/3 drop every four hours. From that time the patient had not to keep her bed for a single day, and all her symptoms cleared up. The Lob. i . was in this case assisted by Nat. chlor . (Liq. Sodæ chlor. of B. P.), 1/3 drop doses occasionally, which relieved the bearing down more than anything else. All that remained of the illness was a slight weakness in lower abdomen felt every autumn. Cooper recalls in connection with these cases a symptom recorded by Jahr: "Violent pain in the sacrum with fever supervening upon suppression of the menses during their flow." Alongside this action of Lob. i . may be placed another, also vouched for by Cooper, the power of eliminating foreign substances like that possessed by Silica . A woman got a piece of mutton-bone down her windpipe and into one of the bronchia. She was taken to the London Hospital, but the idea of operation was abandoned as hopeless and she was sent out. Lob. i. ac . Ø was given, five drops three times a day. Soon a most violent cough was set up, in the course of which the patient coughed up a large quantity of fetid, pus and finally the bone. B the action of Lob. i . in determining to the periphery it meets a large number of conditions due to suppression, including cases of phthisis. Cooper adds the following note to the above: "The interest of knowing that Lob. i . meets very serious symptoms connected with a profuse flow of serous discharge from the utero-vaginal mucous surfaces is to some extent marred by my having employed the acetous preparation, and subsequent trials of it would certainly have been made with the fresh plant tincture had I been able to obtain the living plant. As it is, my inferences, re the action of Lob. i ., are all derived from the acetous tincture. The indications for Lob. i . are difficult to discover, being broad and general rather than precise and localised. Its power over serous discharges from mucous surfaces accounts probably for its influence on certain very obstinate forms of chronic diarrhœa, these being more serous than watery, and it is probably owing to a similar influence over sebaceous secretions that it removes in time the most obstinate wens on the scalp, causing them sometimes to gradually disappear and at others to point and discharge their contents, and that it causes the hair to grow when used locally in seborrhœa capitis. It is particularly called for in ailments that never finish up, whether beginning from acutely inflammatory causes or not; it also fights with symptoms occasioned by mechanical irritants in a way that I have never found any remedy do, e.g ., where a spicula of bone presses on the brain (compression) or where a bone is lodged in bronchus. The late Dr. Coffin ( Botan. Jour ., Aug., 1849, p. 271), in a boastful way, professed to cure children and adults whose lives were despaired of from poisoning by various substances by (decoctions? of) Lobelia , but whether by directly evacuant action or not it is not stated. But in my own hands a few drops mixed in water cured a baby of severe convulsions that I afterwards found were caused by a diabolical nurse giving the little one Chlorodyne. In symptoms existing along with hereditary syphilis and in the tuberculosis of childhood it acts with full power; in tabes mesenterica, in persistent earaches and headaches due to suppressed discharges, where the lips are dry and hot and continual feverish colds are prominent, it is specific. Here it stands side by side with Ars. iod . and our foremost antipsorics. In severe inflammatory conditions existing along with anthrax, or with malignant deposits in different regions, Lobelia in repeated as well as in single doses will often arrest urgent mischief. A few drops of Lob. i. ac . in boiling water takes away the pain and tension of inflamed piles; the patient sits on a utensil thus filled. In the broncho-pneumonia of childhood and in imperfect recoveries from chest affections, especially where tubercle threatens, Lobelia is indispensable. Treatment with Lobelia should always be begun with a single dose, if the symptoms permit, as in some cases it produces violent depression. In veterinary practice it is said to have proved curative in the tetanus of horses; a disease it is also said to produce. It must be kept in mind when studying Lob. i . that the herbalists used it in two forms: the decoction to produce emesis, and through which they seem to have obtained its antidotal action, or by virtue of which they aborted acute gout; and the acetous tincture , which they gave in chronic diseases, and in moderate doses." — Lob. i . may cause a rash which exfoliates, and it has cured many cases of psoriasis. It meets a condition in which the secondary digestion is at fault. The patient is thin, poor, and has no appetite. It cures the condition which favours pediculi corporis. Referring to the skin action of Lob. i ., Hale quotes P. H. Hale as saying that, with the intense nausea it causes, there is sometimes a prickling itching of the skin, and acting on this hint P. H. Hale thinks he has seen benefit from its use in suppressed urticaria, with nausea and vomiting . The symptom Teste gives is this: "Eruption between the fingers, on the dorsa of the hands and on the forearms, consisting of small vesicles accompanied by a tingling itching, and resembling the itch pustules exactly." As with Sulph . "faintness at the stomach" is a grand characteristic which will be found in a large proportion of the cases calling for the remedy. Jeanes, who proved Lob. i ., gives these as the chief symptoms: "Constant dyspnœa, < by slightest exertion and increased to an asthmatic paroxysm by even the shortest exposure to cold; sensation of weakness and pressure in the epigastrium, and rising thence to the heart with a constant heartburn; feeling as of a lump or quantity of mucus, and also a sense of pressure in larynx; pain in forehead from one temple to the other; pain in neck; in left side; high-coloured urine; weakness and oppression in epigastrium, with simultaneous oppression of the heart." I have italicised "rising thence to the heart" because I think this a particularly characteristic feature. There is something like it in the œsophagus; a kind of globus hystericus. Hale quotes Dr. Cutler's (allopath) account of his own case. He had been asthmatic ten years, liable to very severe and prolonged attacks, and during the intervals scarcely ever passed a night without more or less of it, and as often as not was unable to lie in bed. In the middle of an attack he had a tablespoonful of afresh plant tincture. In three or four minutes his breathing was quite free; but there was no nausea, and thinking that necessary he took another spoonful ten minutes after the first, and this occasioned sickness. Ten minutes later he took a third, and this produced a sensible effect on the stomach coats, and a very little vomiting and "a kind of prickling sensation through the Whole system even to the extremities of the fingers and toes. The urinary passage was perceptibly affected, by producing a smarting sensation in passing urine, which was provoked by stimulus on the bladder." But all these symptoms very soon subsided, and vigour seemed to be restored to the constitution which he had not experienced for years. The necessity of taking Lobel . in doses sufficient to cause pathogenetic symptoms was insisted on by Thompson, and though it led to some disasters seems to have been the means of saving some lives. Thompson tells how as a boy he chewed this herb and so learned practically its effects. He used to give it to other boys out of sport. One day whilst mowing he gave a sprig of it to a companion. By the time they had got six rods the man said he thought the sprig would kill him: he never felt so ill in his life before. He was in a profuse perspiration, trembled all over, and was as pallid as a corpse. Unable to walk, he lay down and vomited "two quarts." He was helped to his house; ate a good dinner, and returned to work in the afternoon. After this he "felt better than he had for a long time." This gave Thompson his first notion of the medicinal virtues of Lobel . In Walter Besant's Life of Edward Henry Palmer , the great Orientalist, Palmer's own account of his cure by Lobel . is given. In 1859 he was seized with pulmonary disease, which rapidly increased until he was told he had probably only a few months to live. On the advice of a herbalist named Sherringham he took a single large dose of Lobel. i ., and this is what he experienced: ( 1 ) Violent attack of vomiting; ( 2 ) cold chill mounting up from feet to hands, which he could no longer move; to heart, which ceased to beat; to throat, which ceased to breathe. A doctor was sent for. "I felt myself dying," he said afterwards, describing the experience I was being killed by this dreadful cold spreading all over me. I was quite certain that my last moments had come. By the bedside stood my aunt, poor soul, crying. I saw the doctor feeling my pulseless wrist, watch in hand; the cold dews of death were on my forehead; the cold hand of death was on my limbs. Up to my lips, but no higher, I thought I was actually dead. I could see and hear but not speak, not even when the doctor let my hand fall on the pillow and said solemnly, "He is gone!" There was no pain, he said, and he was in no concern except about a book he wanted to finish. He recovered suddenly. New strength came to him. The consumption was arrested and was no more trouble to him for the rest of his life ( H. W ., xviii. 405). — The prickling sensation experienced by Cutler is characteristic, as also is tenderness of the sacrum. Carleton Smith ( H. P ., viii. 272) thus describes these: Extreme tenderness over sacrum; cannot bear even pressure of soft pillow; cries out if any attempt is made to touch the part; she sits up in bed, leaning forward to avoid contact. After each vomiting spell breaks out all over with sweat, followed by sensation as if thousands of needles were piercing her skin from within out. Lob. i . is indicated in whooping-cough with dyspnœa threatening suffocation. Must keep mouth open to breathe. The headaches of Lob. i . are remarkable. Teste describes them as follows: Pressive headache, at occiput, less frequently at the forehead, sometimes one-sided (left), < by motion; in evening and especially at night. Continual periodic headache, in afternoon and increasing till midnight, every third attack being alternately more or less violent. The brain is racked by the cough, which causes an intolerable pain. Heat and sweat about head and face, Cooper has recorded this case ( M. H. R ., xxxiv. 289): Girl, æt. 9, seized with very bad headache affecting whole head and continuing night and day for two days, Merc . and Verat. v . being given in vain, Lob. i. acet . Ø, two or three drops in a little water given in the morning after a bad night, gave immediate relief and restored the appetite. Cooper considered it a meningitic headache, and he finds Lob. i. ac . and Kali iod . 30 especially useful in these (excessive sensitiveness being a leading indication for the latter). A headache that has been frequently verified is: "Dull, heavy pain passing round the forehead from one temple to the other, immediately above eyebrows." Headache following intoxication; < afternoon till midnight; < from tobacco. A peculiar symptom of Lob. i . is semilateral coating of tongue. — Sudden pallor with profuse sweat. Gastric derangements, extreme nausea and vomiting. The nausea of Lob. i . is continuous and accompanied by constant flow of saliva. This is the indication for it in morning sickness and in effects of suppressed or missed menstrual period. Vomiting; face bathed in cold sweat. The nausea of Lobel . has been used in the same way as that of Tabac . and other emetics to produce relaxation of muscles, as, for example, rigid os. Sometimes this is effected by direct physiological action, but it may be homœopathic as in this cured case: "With every uterine contraction violent dyspnœa, which seems to neutralise labour pains; rigid os, and perineum." But it is also of service locally, as in an enema; also in cases of difficult catheterism. G. W. Boskowitz ( H. R ., xv. 357) relates the case of a man, 40, who had twice had gonorrhœa, the second attack, three years before, having left him with a gleety discharge. For a year the stream had been diminishing until at last it took him half an hour to empty the bladder. Many surgeons had tried to pass an instrument and had failed. Boskowitz also failed several times, until one day he dropped fifteen drops of Lob. i . Ø into the urethra and held the meatus, to retain it, for five minutes. It produced a smarting which soon passed away; and then No. 10 sound passed with ease. This sound was passed twice a week until No. 24 entered easily, and after this there was no further trouble. Boskowitz has used Lob. i . in many similar cases with like success. Guernsey gives this as a leading indication when found prominent: "Urine has a deep red colour and deposits a copious red sediment." Dyspnœa (as well as nausea) occurring in connection with imperfect menstrual evolution may indicate Lobel . H. M. Broderick ( Med. Adv ., xviii. 568) has recorded this case: Young lady, 18, ill two years under allopathic treatment. Symptoms: Laboured breathing, sense of tightness across chest compelling her to take deep inspirations, which caused pain in heart region. Pulse full, very rapid; cough after each deep breath. Unable to lie down from oppression and pain. Twitching of muscles of face. Menses never regularly established; would go several weeks over time and then would last only a day. Lob. i . 3x was given in water. After the second dose she went to bed and slept. The remedy was repeated just before next menstrual period. She had no more attacks and menstruation became normal. Among the peculiar sensations of Lobel. i . are: As of lump in pit of throat. As of foreign body in throat. As if œsophagus contracted from below upward. As of a lump or heavy load in stomach. As if a lump rose up to meet food and obstruct. its descent. Fulness in trachea as if from chest. As of a lump in larynx. As if the heart would stand still. As of a band about chest. As if blood stagnated in chest ( > moving about). As if thousands of needles were pricking her skin from within outward. Lobel. i . is suited to persons with light hair, blue eyes, and fair complexion; inclined to be fleshy. Symptoms are < by touch (right deltoid sore. Sits up in bed, leaning forward to avoid contact with bedclothes on sacrum. Cannot bear even a soft pillow over sacrum. Pressure at epigastrium = oppression). Motion; slightest exertion < . Bending forward < pain under right shoulder-blade. Effort to move = fainting. Every rapid movement = dyspnœa and suffocation. Going up or down stairs < dyspnœa. Symptoms generally > afternoon, < evening and night. Rapid walking > sensation of congestion, weight or pressure in chest as if blood from extremities was filling it. Sickness (of pregnancy) < morning. Coldness > by warmth. Cold < dyspnœa; < from current of air. Warm food = vomiting. Headache is < by tobacco or tobacco smoke.

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Desponding ; sobbing like a child.
Apprehension of death and difficulty of breathing.

Vertigo : and deathly nausea ; as if starting from left eye, with pain in head and trembling agitation of body.

Headache with vertigo.
Dull, heavy pain passing around forehead, from temple to temple, just above eyebrows.
Pressing outward in both temples.
Pains through head in sudden shocks.
Dull, heavy pain in left side of head.
Pressive headache at occiput, left side ; < at night and on motion.
Periodical headache in afternoon, increasing until midnight, every third attack alternately more or less violent.
Sick headache with vertigo ; dull headache, violent nausea, vomiting and great prostration.
Pain over left eye, extending over left side of head and neck ; coldness ; > near fire ; deathly sick feeling at stomach and all over ; sudden pallor with profuse sweat ; fainting when making an effort to move ; cannot bear smell of tobacco ; tobacco
smoke brings on fainting ; sour stomach ; sleepiness ; vomiting of bile (vomiting seldom). θ Gastric sick headaches ; headaches following intoxication, with
nervousness and trembling.

Hemiopia ; pressure on upper half of eyeballs.

Sudden shutting up of right ear, as if stopped by a plug, at 2 P. M., > boring with finger in ear.

Nosebleed.
Tip of nose very cold.

Neuralgia of left side of face and temples, with retarded menses.
Flushes of heat or heat of face.
Cold sweat on face with nausea.
Chilly feeling in left cheek, near ear, extending to lower jaw.
Cyanosis. θ Emphysema.

Dull, pressing pain in last left molar and temples.

Very sharp, disagreeable taste, especially at tip of tongue, and in back of throat.

Flow of profuse, clammy saliva, with nausea.

Burning in throat, dryness of fauces, spitting at intervals.
Tough mucus in fauces, causing frequent hawking.
Dryness and pricking in throat, not > by drinking.
Sensation of a lump in pit of throat, impeding deglutition.
Sensation as if œsophagus contracted from below upward.

Loss of appetite, with acrid, burning taste in mouth.
Cannot bear smell of tobacco or tobacco smoke, although addicted to its use.

After breakfast : pressing outward, in both temples ; itching in left canthus.

Hiccough with profuse flow of saliva ; in evening, followed by drowsiness.
Frequent empty eructations, flow of water into mouth.
Frequent gulping of a burning, sour fluid.
Acidity in stomach, with contractive feeling in pit of stomach ; heartburn.
Incessant, violent nausea ; profuse perspiration ; copious vomiting.
Nausea : with vertigo ; disappearing very suddenly ; in last stages of phthisis ; < at night and after sleep ; > by a little food or drink.
Nausea with rather cold sweat on head, especially on face, with great but ineffectual efforts to vomit.
Vomiting, with cold perspiration of face.
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, profuse running of water from mouth ; morning sickness.
Chronic vomiting in paroxysms, with nausea, profuse sweat, prostration of strength, good appetite ; brick-dust sediment in urine.

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Best adapted to persons of light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion; inclined to be fleshy.

Gastric derangements, extreme nausea and vomiting; morning sickness; spasmodic asthma; pertussis, with dyspnœa threatening suffocation.

Headaches: gastric, with nausea, vomiting and great prostration; following intoxication; < afternoon until midnight; sudden pallor with profuse sweat (Tab.); < by tobacco or tobacco smoke.

Vomiting: face bathed with cold sweat; of pregnancy, profuse salivation (Lac. ac.—at night, Merc.); chronic with good appetite, with nausea, profuse sweat and marked prostration.

Faintness, weakness and an indescribable feeling at epigastrium, from excessive use of tea or tobacco.

Urine: of a deep orange red color; copious red sediment.

Dyspnœa: from constriction of middle of chest < with every labor pain, seems to neutralize the pains; < by exposure to cold or slightest exertion, going up or down stairs (Ipec.).

Sensation of congestion, pressure or weight in chest as if blood from extremities was filling it, > by rapid walking.

Sensation as if heart would stand still; deep-seated pain at base (at apex, Lil.).

Sacrum: extreme sensitiveness; cannot bear the slightest touch, even of a soft pillow; sits leaning forward to avoid contact with clothes.

For the bad effects of drunkenness in people with light hair, blue or grey eyes, florid complexion, corpulent, Lobelia bears the same relation that Nux vomica does to persons of the opposite temperament.

Cold washing; cold bathing; cause dyspnœa and increase or return of pain (Ant. c.); slight motion; touch.

After drinking; evening; walking rapidly > chest pain.

Quotidian; remittent; continued.

10:30, 11 A. M., 12 M.

Thirst (Caps., Cinch., Eup.).

With thirst; severe, shaking; coldness, increased after drinking (Caps.); down the back with heat in stomach; general shivering alternating with flushes of heat.

With thirst; with sweat or inclination to sweat, partic- ularly in the face; heat alternating with slight chilliness from noon till evening. Respiration short, anxious, laborious and wheezing, with tightness of the chest. Tickling in the throat- pit, with frequent hacking cough, severe headache extending round the forehead from one temple to the other. Great debility.

With heat, or after the heat has lasted some time; with sleep (Pod.); profuse, at night; cold.

White or coated on the right side, clean on the left.

Loss of appetite.

Frequent, but small and weak in the evening.

Attended with great debility; dyspnœa and oppres- sion at pit of stomach, with weakness and sensation as if stomach was too full, as from undigested food. Complete loss of appetite.

Nausea relieved by drinking. The weak sensation in stomach may extend through whole chest or down to abdomen. The thirst is often found only during heat and prodrome and not in chill. The sweat resembles that of Podophyllum, coming on after the heat has continued for some time and is accompanied by sleep.

Chill; with thirst; severe shaking < by drinking.

Heat; short, anxious, labored breathing.

Sweat; with sleep or heat.

Nausea > by drinking.

Desponding; sobbing like a child.
Apprehension of death and difficulty of breathing.

Vertigo: and deathly nausea; as if starting from left eye.

Headache, with slight giddiness.
Dull, heavy pain passing around forehead, from one temple to the other, just above the eyebrows.
Pressing outwards in both temples.
Pains through the head in sudden shocks.

Chilliness in left side of head, commencing in ear, with feeling as if the hair would rise on end.
Pressing pain on left side of occiput, worse at night and from motion.
Drawing upward, in a narrow stripe, from right side of throat to behind the ear.

Hemiopia.
Pressure on the upper half of eyeballs.

Sudden shutting up of the right ear, as if stopped by a plug, at 2 P.M., only relieved while boring with his finger in the ear.

Nosebleed.
Tip of nose very cold.

Neuralgia of left side of face and temples, with retarded menses.
Flushes of heat, or heat of the face.
Sweat on the face with the nausea.
Chilly feeling in left cheek, near ear, extending to lower jaw.
Cyanosis. θ Emphysema.

Dull, pressing pain in last left molar, with same sensation in temples.

Flow of clammy saliva in the mouth (with nausea).

Burning in throat; dryness of fauces, spitting at intervals.
Tough mucus in fauces, causing frequent hawking.
Dryness and pricking in throat, not diminished by drinking.
Sensation of a lump in pit of throat, impeding deglutition.
Sensation as if œsophagus contracted from below upward.

Loss of appetite, with acrid, burning taste in the mouth.
No appetite for dinner.

After breakfast; pressing outward, in both temples; itching in left canthus.
Faint, weak at stomach from excessive use of green tea or tobacco.
Food and drink: 16. After eating: 18, 19. After drinking: 40.

Hiccough: with profuse flow of saliva; in the evening, followed by drowsiness.
Frequent empty eructations, with flow of water into mouth.
Frequent gulping up of a burning, sour fluid.
Acidity in stomach, with contractive feeling in pit of stomach.
Incessant, violent nausea.
Nausea, with profuse perspiration and copious vomiting.
Heart-burn and running of water from the mouth.
Vomiting, with cold perspiration of the face.
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, with profuse running of water from the mouth; morning sickness.
Nausea disappearing very suddenly.
Nausea in last stages of phthisis pulmonaris.
Nausea worse at night and after sleeping; relieved by a little food or drink.
Chronic vomiting, nausea, profuse sweat; but with good appetite; brick-dust sediment in the urine.

Heat or burning in the stomach.
Sensation in stomach: of weight; of a lump; as from undigested food.
Feeling of weakness of stomach, or in the pit of stomach, extending through the whole chest and lower down to umbilicus.
Bruised soreness from pit of stomach through to back, after cramp in stomach.
Sensation of oppression at epigastrium, as if the stomach was too full; worse on pressure.

Fulness and pressure in hypochondria after eating.
Pinching in abdomen, near the edge of liver.

Pain in the abdomen, worse after eating.
Rumbling in bowels and passage of flatus downward.
Sudden sharp pain in left side of abdomen.
Abdomen distended, with shortness of breath.
Tympanitis.

Stool: soft, but passed with great exertion; green, soft; frequent, loose during day, with great obtuseness of the head.
Discharge of blood after stool.
Bleeding piles; copious hemorrhage.

Sticking pain in the region of the right kidney.
Urine increased or diminished.
Urine of a deep red color, depositing a copious, red sediment.
Brown sediment.

Smarting of the prepuce.
Sensation of weight in the genitals.
Aching pain in the urethra.

Menses too early, too profuse.
Violent pain in sacrum; sense of great weight in genitals.

Morning sickness: 16.
With every uterine contraction violent dyspnœa, which seems to neutralize the labor-pains; rigid os uteri.

Oppression felt in the throat-pit. θ Spasmodic asthma.
Sensation of fulness in trachea, as if arising from chest, causing a few short coughs, followed by warmth in forehead.
Peculiar sensation, between tickling and acrid feeling in larynx; two short coughs; feeling of narrowness.

Sensation of a foreign body in the throat, impeding the breathing and swallowing.
Dyspnœa and asthma, with sensation as of a lump in the pit of the throat, immediately above the sternum.
Contraction of chest, with deep inhalations.
Want of breath, hysterical.
Impossibility of deep inspiration; extreme dyspnœa.
Short inhalation and long, deep exhalation.
Inclination to sigh, or to get a very deep breath; deep inspiration relieves the pressive pain in the epigastrium.
Asthma, worse from exertion, with a disorder stomach, especially a feeling of weakness in the pit of stomach; asthmatic attacks often preceded by prickling all over, even to fingers and toes.

Cough: with vomiturition; with pain in stomach; short, dry; only a single one, from a feeling of narrowness of chest.
Whooping-cough, violent racking; seemingly from deep in chest, in paroxysms of long continuance; followed by expectoration of ropy mucus adhering to pharynx.
Cough, with sneezing, gaping and flatulent eructations. θ Bronchitis.

Pressure on the chest; left chest above the nipple.
Spasmodic contraction of diaphragm.
Pain in chest, with the breathing, while sitting after dinner; disappears when moving about.
Pain in lower chest, mostly left side.
Burning feeling in chest, passing upward.

Slight, deep-seated pain in region of heart.
Sensation of weakness and pressure in epigastrium, rising to the heart.
Sawing sound about heart, with violent pains, diarrhœa and vomiting.
Short sensation, as if heart would stand still; deep in, above heart, a pain.
Pulse: frequent, but small, weak, in evening slower than usual.

Repeated quivering in muscles of the left ribs toward spine.
Pressure on lower portion of sternum left side.
Tension in left chest, from nipple to arm-pit.
Pain behind the sternum.

Swelling and pain on left side of neck.
Rheumatic pain between the scapulæ.
Dull pressure between the shoulder-blades.
Pain under the right shoulder-blade, worse when bending forward.
About noon a burning pain in back, as if in posterior wall of stomach.
Extreme tenderness over sacrum; cannot bear slightest touch; cries out if any attempt is made to touch the part; sits up in bed, leaning forward.

Lame feeling in left upper arm.
Rheumatic pain in right shoulder-joint, goes to left upper arm and around elbow-joint.
Fine crawling stitches, inside of right deltoid.
Pain in right deltoid, on a place size of palm of hand, sore to touch.
A sharp shooting pain in an old scar of the right finger.
Sweat of the palms of hands, back of hand is dry and cool; tips of fingers feel very cold; while walking out in the coldest winter weather, but remaining the same in-doors.

Inflammatory rheumatism in the right knee; swelling and extreme pain.
Painful stiffness in knees, as after a long march.

Shooting pain through whole body, down into tips of fingers and toes.

Motion: 4. Walking: 28; in cold air: 32. Exertion: 26. Sitting: 28. Sits leaning forward: 31. In-doors: 32.

Weakness; feels too weak to stretch out her hand to do anything.

Gaping, followed by crawling in the nose and sneezing; then gaping and belching of wind.
Wakened early by very impressive dreams; arm amputated, wounded by a shot, etc.

Nearly all symptoms disappear in the evening.
Morning: 16. Evening: 16. Night: 6. Day: 20.

Cold washing: increases or causes pain; causes difficult breathing.

Chills down the back, with heat in stomach; general shivering.
Thirst before chill; shaking chill and coldness increased after drinking.
Heat, with thirst and sweat.
Flushes of heat.
Heat, with inclination to sweat, particularly in the face.
Sweat, with heat, or after heat has lasted for some time.
Sweat, after heat, with sleep.
Copious night-sweats.
Cold sweat.

Right: 4, 6, 21, 31, 32, 33. Lift: 2, 4, 8, 10, 15, 19, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. Right to left: 32. Below upward: 4, 13, 28. Within outward: 3.

Touch: 31, 32. Pressure: 17. Boring finger in ear: 6.

Prickling-itching of the skin all over the body.

Useful in morning sickness, after Ant. tart. and Ipec. fail.
Antidote: Ipec. (?).

A tincture of the fresh plant is used.

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.

Ant. tart., Tabac., Coccul.

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

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

Aching; towards evening; all night; agg. waking; agg. ascending steps; with drowsiness; in sudden shocks through head. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Confusion on moving about, agg. 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 left molars; outward pressure. ▶ Pain in left parietal protuberance. ▶ Occiput, pain; in open air; amel. removing head-covering; tension in region of lambdoidal suture on paying strict attention to it; confusion; dullness.

Pain in right; with soreness. ▶ Burning. ▶ Pupils dilated. ▶ Pain in balls, agg. upper parts. ▶ Smarting of inside of lids. ▶ Itching in angles of lids; left vision dim.

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

Pricking in back part. ▶ Peculiar drawing from right side to right eye. ▶ Dryness. ▶ Salivation; clammy; tenacious; thin. ▶ Taste sharp; and disagreeable, agg. tip of tongue and back of 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 left ear. ▶ Pricking on swallowing the medicine. ▶ Scraping; in pharynx; on right side of larynx; with sore pain and with consecutive constrictions of œsophagus from below upward; then pain; then efforts to vomit, with pressure and heaving in pharynx; burning S., agg. 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 right side extending to ear. ▶ Burning; changing to dryness and lasting all the forenoon. ▶ Dryness; at back; in fauces; after a meal, not amel. drinking, with scraping. ▶ Dysphagia.

Pressure in œsophagus 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 præcordium, amel. 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.

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, amel. a swallow of water (Bry.); with vertigo; with cold sweat on head, agg. 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, agg. pressure. ▶ Pressure, though little had been eaten; P. in region after dinner, with heaviness. ▶ Heartburn, with salivation. ▶ Burning. ▶ Weak feeling.

The most marked and persistent symptom of this drug are the nausea and vomiting; they generally accompany the respiratory troubles. ▶ It has been 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.

Dr. Cooper has reported in the Monthly Hom. Review for Dec., 1888, some remarkable cases of chronic diarrhœa and vaginal discharges, in which the tincture of Lob. had entirely failed, but the extract with acetic acid produced wonderful results; these cannot be accepted as a contribution to Lob., 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.

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

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 diarrhœa. ▶ Pain; in afternoon; almost all night; on waking; agg. till evening; agg. eating; and in small of back; in right hypochondrium; in lower; cramplike, in left posterior iliac region, agg. touch and motion.

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.

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.

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

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.

Pain; under middle of sternum; at left side of lower part of sternum; in breast; agg. deep inspiration. ▶ Burning pain in a spot below right 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 left side, and the pain in the original spot was boring, the pains agg. dinner, returned at 4 P.M., and extended to the back beneath right shoulder, the part seemed paralyzed and was intolerant of motion.

Distress. ▶ Oppression; impeding respiration; obliging deep respiration. ▶ Constriction; of sternal region towards evening, with colic and diarrhœa; agg. 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 left nipple to axilla. ▶ Tickling in region of lower end of sternum on deep inspiration.

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

Twitches over left ribs near spine, then drawing pain between scapulæ. ▶ Sticking in region of right kidney. ▶ Pain in loins; in third, fourth and fifth dorsal vertebræ; burning, as if in posterior wall of stomach; rheumatic, between scapulæ. ▶ Weakness.

(Rheumatic feeling in right shoulder joint.). ▶ Pain in space of a hand's breath in muscles of right arm on touch, the pain in shoulder gone. ▶ Pressing in flesh above left elbow, with paralyzed feeling in hand. ▶ Paralytic feeling in left arm. ▶ Crawling stitches on inside of right deltoid. ▶ Pain in right 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 left gastrocnemius. ▶ Tearing extending up fibulæ to knees. ▶ Pain in left leg when sitting. ▶ Weakness of legs. ▶ Cramplike feeling in hollow of left foot.

Yawning; and stretching. ▶ Sleepiness. ▶ Deep sleep. ▶ Heavy sleep interrupted by the slightest noise. ▶ Sleep restless and full of dreams. ▶ Sleep unrefreshing and disturbed by hallucinations. ▶ Dreams heavy; D. anxious; numerous D. and frequent waking.

▶ General chilliness; C. in left cheek extending to ear; of left side of head, with feeling as if hair would rise on end; down back, with heat in stomach. ▶ Shivering in upper part of body on account of aversion to the drug. ▶ Heat towards evening, agg. face, with inclination to sweet; H. in evening, with headache posteriorly; in face in evening, with tension in head; in forehead, with tightness in breast. ▶ Sweat; towards evening (with colic and diarrhœa); at night; cold.

Violent vomiting, with profound prostration, failure of the heart and respiration, ending in fatal stupor.
Laryngeal and bronchial spasms, associated with deathly nausea.

Extreme weakness.
General amelioration towards evening.

Vertigo, with nausea.
Pain from one temple to the other across the forehead.

Salivation.
Disagreeable taste.

Constant need to clear the throat of mucus.
Contraction of the œsophagus like a lump in the pit of the throat, with difficult swallowing.

Nausea; worse in the morning; > a little water, with vertigo, cold sweat on the head and face, ineffectual retching, with oppression of the stomach, heat, pain.
Burning and weak feeling.
Faintness and sinking of the pit of the stomach.

Urine deposits a rosy red sediment.

Difficult breathing, caused by constriction in the middle of the chest.
Asthmatic breathing, with great oppression, > moving about.
Spasmodic croup, with nausea, vomiting and threatening suffocation.

Chilliness, coldness.
Sweat towards evening or at night.

Lob. / Loafer

Lobelia,-Thou helpest best,
In ills of stomach and of chest.
A Tender stomach-Burning, sour,
And smothering breath display thy power.
Thy nausea, though at "casting" brink,
May be relieved by taking drink.
Worse from cold air, and cold ablution,
Improving towards the day's conclusion.

The Loafer,-has a Tender stomach.

The Loafer, McPho, the tinner, and Job Shank, the black barber, live on Sang.

This Loafer,-Who is subject to Heartburn,- Is in the black coal car, with Captain Jo Dio, the pining old Man.

Tender Stomach: Lob., Mer. c., Pho., Stan., Aco., Bell., Sul., Hep., Nux. v., Kal. c., Sep., Bar. c., Lyc., Verat. a., Sang.

Heartburn: Lob., Sep., Cal. c., Lyc., Carb. v., Caps., Iod., Dio., Pho., Nat. m., Con., Mer., Nux. v.

Indicated in gastric affections with deathly nausea, vomiting and great prostration; in asthma.

Cannot bear taste or smell of tobacco.

Headache, dull, heavy, with deathly nausea and vomiting with great prostration.

Epigastric faintness and goneness; deathly nausea and vomiting.

Dyspnoea; sense of great constriction in the chest; pressure and weight upon the chest, better from walking.

Urine of deep red color, with copious red sediment.

Worse from tobacco, from motion, form cold.

Better from rapid walking, from warmth.