LOBELIA INFLATA

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

Vaso-motor stimulant
Depressed relaxed condition
Oppression of chest
Oppression of epigastrium
Impeded respiration
Nausea
Vomiting
Languor
Relaxation of muscles
Dyspepsia
Vertigo
Fear of death
Gastric headache
Great prostration
Dull heavy pain
Cold sweat on face
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
Faintness and weakness at epigastrium
Profuse salivation with good appetite
Profuse sweat
Cannot bear smell or taste of tobacco
Contractive feeling in pit of stomach
Dyspnea from constriction of chest
Sensation of pressure or weight in chest
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 urine
Copious red sediment in urine
Prickling itching with intense nausea

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Alcoholism
Alopecia
Amenorrha
Angina pectoris
Asthma
Cardialgia
Cough
Croup
Deafness
Debility
Diarrha
Dysmenorrha
Dyspepsia
Emphysema
Faintness
Gall-stones
Gastralgia
Hmorrhoidal discharge
Hay-asthma
Heart affections
Hysteria
Meningeal headaches
Millar's asthma
Morning sickness of drunkards
Morning sickness of pregnancy
Morphia habit
Palpitation
Pleurisy
Psoriasis
Rigid os
Seborrha
Shoulders pain in
Tea effects of
Urethra stricture of
Vagina serous discharge from
Vomiting of pregnancy
Wens
Whooping-cough
Pains all round abdomen and up the back
Feeling of exhaustion
Cannot bear anything to touch her
Motions watery sometimes light-coloured sometimes dark never bloody
Menses very irregular
Tenderness all over abdomen
Legs ache fearfully
Pains all over body
Faints continually
Neuralgia of face extending to chest
Vagina as well as the rectum began to discharge copiously an excoriating fluid
Threatened phthisis with bronchorrha
Vertigo
Bearing down in utero-vaginal region
Serous fluid from utero-vaginal and vesical mucous membranes
Agonising burning and scalding
Vagina swollen extremely tender bathed in moisture
Urination very painful and followed by paroxysm of general scalding
Decubitus could only be maintained with the knees drawn up or on the left side
Pool of water on back at night
Sense of uterine bearing down was almost intolerable
Hardness and dulness to percussion existed all down right side of abdomen
Violent pain in the sacrum with fever
Coughing up a large quantity of fetid pus
Severe convulsions
Lips dry and hot
Continual feverish colds
Anthrax
Malignant deposits in different regions
Inflamed piles
Broncho-pneumonia of childhood
Rash which exfoliates
Secondary digestion at fault
Thin poor and has no appetite
Condition which favours pediculi corporis
Prickling itching of the skin
Eruption between the fingers on the dorsa of the hands and on the forearms consisting of small vesicles accompanied by a tingling itching resembling the itch pustules exactly
Faintness at the stomach
Constant dyspna
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
Pain in left side
High-coloured urine
Weakness and oppression in epigastrium with simultaneous oppression of the heart
Sickness
Cold chill mounting up from feet to hands to heart to throat
Tenderness of the sacrum
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
Whooping-cough with dyspna threatening suffocation
Must keep mouth open to breathe
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
Brain is racked by the cough which causes an intolerable pain
Heat and sweat about head and face
Headache affecting whole head
Dull heavy pain passing round the forehead from one temple to the other immediately above eyebrows
Headache following intoxication
< afternoon till midnight
< from tobacco
Semilateral coating of tongue
Sudden pallor with profuse sweat
Gastric derangements
Extreme nausea and vomiting
Nausea continuous and accompanied by constant flow of saliva
Face bathed in cold sweat
Rigid os
With every uterine contraction violent dyspna which seems to neutralise labour pains
Gleety discharge
Urine has a deep red colour and deposits a copious red sediment
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
As of lump in pit of throat
As of foreign body in throat
As if sophagus 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
Symptoms are < by touch
Right deltoid sore
Pressure at epigastrium = oppression
Motion
Slightest exertion <
Bending forward < pain under right shoulder-blade
Effort to move = fainting
Every rapid movement = dyspna and suffocation
Going up or down stairs < dyspna
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 < dyspna
< from current of air
Warm food = vomiting
Headache is < by tobacco or tobacco smoke
Mental inquietude
Great depression and exhaustion
Presentiment of death and dyspna
Sobbing like a child
Violent raving with flushing of face and palpitation every evening after an hour's sleep
Lost his reason and became convulsed
Felt he was dying with distress at chest
Felt he was dying but was unconcerned
Cerebral suffering
Giddiness
Vertigo
Headache with slight giddiness
Vertigo as if starting from l. eye
Feeling of disorder at first in occiput afterwards in forehead in head after a meal increasing to a violent aching pain with heat in face
Headache < by coughing
Brain racked by cough which causes intolerable pain
Heaviness in head with lassitude in back
Cephalalgia esp. during movement and when ascending a staircase chiefly in vertex with vertigo and lancinations in temples dull pain and heat in occiput in evening violent in forehead from time to time during the fever
Outward pressing in both temples
Tension in head in evening esp. in occiput or else with heat in face
Aching in occiput sometimes chiefly in open air or else diminished on covering the head
Pressive pain on l. side of occiput
< at night and from motion
Wens
Seborrha
Seborrha of scalp smelling offensively
Burning in eyes
Hemipia
Pain and soreness in r. eye
Itching in angles of l. lids
Pressing pain in eyeballs most in upper part
Pupils dilated
Vision dim
Aching in l. ear
Shooting pain extending into l. ear from painful spot in throat to l. of larynx
Sudden shutting up of r. ear as if stopped by a plug
Profuse discharge from the ear
Constantly recurring earache and deafness following suppressed otorrha
Heat of face
Sweat on face with nausea
Chilly feeling in l. cheek extending to ear
Flow of clammy saliva in mouth with nausea
Sharp disagreeable taste in mouth esp. at tip of tongue and back of throat
Accumulation of saliva
Frequent expectoration of a very watery saliva
Copious salivation
Tongue white charged with a thick coating on r. side only
Acrid burning taste in mouth
Bitter with foul tongue and thirst
Scraping in throat
Changing into aching and nausea which in turn is succeeded by retching with squeezing and convulsive heaving in larynx with risings and burning arising from stomach with sensation of rawness in throat and constriction in sophagus with great dryness which is not removed by drinking after a meal
Burning in throat which becomes a scraping sensation
Increased secretion of viscid saliva with scraping nausea and risings
Burning scraping from velum palati to larynx
< on swallowing and with frequent hawking by reason of an increased secretion of mucus in throat burning followed by dryness during the forenoon
Viscid mucus in throat
Tough mucus on fauces causing frequent hawking
Aching in sophagus
With nausea griping in abdomen and emission of fetid wind along sophagus as far as stomach worse in certain parts and esp. below the larynx
Sensation in sophagus as if it contracted itself from below upwards
Deglutition impeded as by a foreign body
In swallowing sensation as if something rose in larynx and prevented the food from descending
Anorexia
Frequent risings with accumulation of water in mouth
Frequent regurgitation of an acid and burning liquid
Acidity in stomach with sensation of constriction in pit of stomach
Frequent and violent hiccough with abundant accumulation of water
Pyrosis sometimes constant or else with accumulation of saliva
Heartburn and running of water from mouth
Faintness weakness and an indescribable feeling at epigastrium from excessive use of tea or tobacco
Violent and constant loathing with shuddering and shivering
Relaxation of the stomach sometimes with loathing or with a very marked sensation of anti-peristaltic movements but without nausea
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy with profuse running of water from mouth
Burning in stomach
Feeling of weight in stomach
Nausea in morning disappearing after taking a draught of water with cold sweat on face great disposition to vomit without vomiting
Vomiting of all kinds even the most violent with sighing and continual nausea
Vomiting of food after a meal esp. hot food
Vomiting with cold perspiration of face
Dyspepsia
Pain in stomach
Sensation of weakness in stomach
Or else in pit of stomach with oppression which thence extends itself throughout chest
Aching in stomach
Sometimes after eating but very little after the meal with fulness and gurgling in abdomen ascending towards chest which becomes oppressed with nausea accumulation of water in mouth and retching
Pressure in pit of stomach
Across body into spinal marrow as by a plug by intermitting action becoming each time stronger as from a weight when fasting and after a meal
< chiefly in evening also with vomiting of bile and oppression and anguish in chest and pains in loins
Violent and painful constriction in epigastrium
Cramps in stomach of various kinds
Pains in abdomen
< after eating with cephalalgia on returning from a walk after a meal cutting and drawing pains in abdomen griping and twisting with nausea violent risings and emission of fetid wind
Inflation of abdomen with dyspna
Flatulency and abundant emission of wind with borborygmi in abdomen which are sometimes painful
Soft whitish stool
Discharge of black blood after stool
Copious hmorrhages from hmorrhoidal vessels
Stools like pap soft green
Diarrha sometimes with frequent evacuations and confusion of head
Increased secretion of urine sometimes with want to urinate
Frequent emission of urine even during night and following morning secretion of urine diminished
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
Fatiguing heaviness in genital parts
Smarting of the prepuce
During menstruation violent pain in sacrum
Violent pain in the sacrum with fever
Tickling in larynx with frequent fits of short coughing
Dryness in throat with sensation as though a solid body were there impeding both respiration and deglutition
Irritation which provokes coughing and expectoration
Respiration anxious difficult sobbing with sensation of obstruction in chest
Short imperfect with sensation of fulness in chest
During inspiration tickling in inferior region of sternum
On breathing deeply mitigation of the pressive pain at pit of stomach and a feeling of improved health
Pain in chest with breathing while sitting after dinner
> moving about
Congestive pressure and weight in chest as if blood from extremities was filling it
> by rapid walking
Want of breath sometimes with respiration impeded hurried with frequent want to breathe deeply great difficulty in retaining the breath
Oppression of chest causing laboured respiration
Asthma chiefly with gastric symptoms and sensation of weakness in pit of stomach
Dyspna sometimes with a sort of presentiment of death
Difficulty of respiration after the least fatigue after washing in cold water likewise from a current of air and from heavy food
Asthmatic symptoms hysterical asthma
Violent pains in chest
< on breathing deeply on returning from a walk after a meal
Dyspna and asthma with sensation of a lump in the throat immediately above sternum
Burning feeling in the chest passing upwards
Tension in chest on turning body
Burning pain as of excoriation at one spot below r. breast with sensation on breathing deeply on sneezing and on moving body quickly as though something there were dislodged which in the midst of the suffering returns to its place with a like sensation at pit of stomach and l. side
Perforating pain at one spot in chest extending sometimes to back and shoulder-blade
< by movement and with sensation of paralysis in the part affected
Pain in the breast
Burning feeling in breast passing upward
A tightness of the breast with heat in forehead
Drawing in l. breast from nipple to axilla
Precordial anxiety
Deep-seated pain in region of heart
Sensation of weakness and pressure in epigastrium rising to heart
Sensation as if heart would stand still a pain deep in above heart
Sensation of weakness in precordium extending upwards and downwards
Dyspna and suffocation from every rapid movement with vertigo and threatened loss of consciousness and a peculiar confusion of head
Pulse small and weak
Swelling and pain l. side of neck
Rheumatic pain between the scapul
Pain under r. scapula < bending forward
In back lassitude with heaviness of head
Burning and incisive pains at lower part of spine
Pains in loins
Violent cramp-like squeezing in posterior part of iliac region which renders contact with anything or motion almost insupportable
Rheumatic feeling in r. shoulder-joint
Goes to l. upper arm and around elbow-joint
Fine crawling stitches inside of r. deltoid
Pain in shoulders of an elderly lady who had not menstruated for two years
Rheumatic pain in r. elbow-joint
Sweat of palms backs of hands dry and cool
Tips of fingers cold
In the legs lassitude
Acute tearing in tibia extending to knee-joint
Cramps in calf in morning on waking from a troubled sleep
Inflammatory rheumatism in r. knee
With tearing pains in fibula
Lancinating pains throughout body extending to ends of fingers and toes
Trembling of limbs likewise of whole body feeling of depression
Unusual lassitude
Prolonged weakness
Exhaustion state of stupefaction
Convulsions sometimes such as to require two men to hold the patient followed by death
Violent convulsive jerkings followed by death
Other symptoms coming on when a discharge ceases
Prickling itching of skin all over body
Eruption between fingers on dorsa of hands and on forearms vesicular itch-like pustules with tingling itching Teste
Vesicular eruption on skin
Gaping
< followed by crawling in nose and sneezing then gaping and belching of wind
Wakened early by very impressive dreams
Arm amputated
Wounded by a shot etc
Disturbed sleep with many dreams sometimes anxious
Painful dreams
Numerous without intermediate awakening
Cold sweat
Pulse accelerated
Frequent and softer than usual
Slow in evening after a stronger dose
Intermittent fever commencing at noon with great paleness and anorexia
Quotidian sometimes every morning at ten o'clock
At first violent shivering alternating with moderate heat until noon afterwards a predominance of heat with slight shuddering until evening also copious nocturnal sweat great thirst by fits esp. during the shivering respiration short anxious impeded and fainting with a feeling of constriction in chest sensation of weakness and of oppression in pit of stomach and in chest generally tickling in larynx with frequent fits of short coughing violent frontal cephalalgia anorexia during and after the attack white tongue covered with a thick coating on r. side and great weakness
Coldness of whole body
Heat with tendency to perspire esp. on face
Tendency to perspire excessively
Thirst before the chill and through the whole fever
Often only before the chill not during the chill but again during the heat
Drinking < the violence of the shaking chill and the coldness
At the end of the heat perspiration with heat

Allen's Keynotes

best adapted to persons of light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, inclined to be fleshy
for bad effects of drunkenness in such people
gastric derangements, extreme nausea and vomiting; morning sickness
vomiting: face bathed with cold sweat; of pregnancy, profuse salivation
faintness, weakness and an indescribable feeling at epigastrium, from excessive use of tea or tobacco
spasmodic asthma; pertussis, with dyspnoea threatening suffocation
dyspnoea: from constriction of middle of chest; < with every labor pain; < by exposure to cold or slightest exertion
sensation of congestion, pressure or weight in chest, > by rapid walking
headache: gastric with nausea, vomiting and great prostration; following intoxication
headache: < afternoon until midnight; < by tobacco or tobacco smoke
sensation as if heart would stand still; deep seated pain at base
sacrum: extreme sensitiveness; cannot bear the slightest touch, even of a soft pillow
sacrum: sits leaning forward to avoid contact with clothes
aggravation: slightest motion; touch, cold

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