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General EN

Lobelia Syphilitica.

Lobelia syphilitica. L. coerulia. Great Blue Lobelia. (Grows in low grounds in U.S.) N. O. Lobeliaceae. Tincture of fresh plant. Acetum.

Clinical EN

Acidity. Adenoids. Asthma. Back, pains in. Borborygmi. Cartilages, pains in. Catarrh. Coryza. Cough. Dyspepsia. Eustachian catarrh.

Flatulence EN

Hay-fever.

Influenza.

Kidneys, pains in.

Lumbago.

Melancholia.

Post-nasal catarrh.

Pylorus, pain in.

Sciatica.

Spine, pains in.

Spleen, affections of.

Stomach cough.

Throat, sore.

Characteristics EN

The symptoms of the Lob. syph. proving, whilst in many points analogous to those of the other Lobelias, do not bring out the emetic properties of Lob. inflata. There is, however, epigastric sinking, flatulence, dyspepsia, and diarrhoea. Lob. card., Lob. inf., and Lob. syph. all have a milky juice. Hale quotes Rafinesque as saying that the analysis of Lob. syph. shows it to contain Silex, Iron, and Muriate and Phosphate of Lime.

The marked action of Lob. syph. on the posterior nares led Cooper to use it with success in cases of deafness arising from an "unhealthy, soft, swollen, easily bleeding catarrhal" condition of the naso-pharynx. This is emphasised by another symptom: "Dull aching pain in centre of forehead, over root of nose." Cooper (who uses an acetic preparation) considers that with this, as well as with the Inflata, a history of suppression is a leading indication. There are many notable symptoms in the back, back of chest, and about the lower ribs.

Some of these led Jeanes (the first prover) to make a very fine cure of melancholia in an educated, intelligent man, of which these were the characteristics: "Great depression of spirits; unhappy state of mind, always associated with pain about and under short ribs in back on left side, extending outward nearly to left side posterior aspect of region of spleen." In the proving there was this: Pain on inside of right scapula. Farrington adds this: "Pain under (not below) inner border of left scapula, < after weeping." The pains of Lob. syph. travel about, from right to left; from left tonsil to right; from back down legs; from eighth rib downward; aching from back of head down nape.

Then there are frequent synalgias: Pain in right maxillary joint, with pain in middle of right lung; pain in breast and larynx; pain in left side of chest near axilla, with aching in left shoulder and arm. Touch < (soreness of ischium). Motion <. Deep inspiration <.

Drinking cold water > (temporarily) gastric symptoms. Mental exertion < (mental state). Reading and writing < pain in forehead. Internal nose painfully sensitive to cool air.

Inhaling moderately cool air <. Flushing after dinner > somewhat in open air. Symptoms < after dinner. < At night.

Secretion of thick mucus > throat soreness.

Relations EN

Compare: Other Lobelias; Puls. (mental depression and weeping); Chel. and Ranunc. (scapular pains); Hydrast. (postnasal catarrh); Cean. (spleen). Lob. i. has one-sided coating of tongue. Lob. s. has left half of palate dry. Pod. relieved the diarrhoea of Lob. s., but not the acute abdominal pains.

Causation EN

Grief. Suppressions.

Mind EN

Frequent mistakes in spelling and writing (with confused feeling and slight aching in head (after 15 min.)

Depressed, temper unhappy; with pain in posterior aspect of spleen

Brain weakness, exertion of mind intolerable; seemed as if he would go wild.

Head EN

Dizziness < moving about

Headache continuing till daylight

Headache, after dinner

Dull pain in forehead over eyes (and esp. over root of nose), < reading and writing

Pain in both mastoid processes; first and < in r

Acute pain along r. fronto-temporal suture

Stitching pain in l. temple

Pain in l. parietal protuberance.

Eyes EN

Heaviness over eyes, like a weight, but no pain; with drowsiness

Burning in r. eye with a tear

Itching of l. internal canthus; in external canthus

Boring pain in r. orbit

Drawing sensation under r. eye, afternoon

Feeling of foreign body under r. upper lid with smarting and burning

Soreness of r. tarsi

Soreness of eyeballs from turning them.

Ear EN

In l. ear: pain; continued itching about posterior edge of meatus.

Nose EN

Frequent sneezing with severe and painful jarring in breast and larynx; larynx feels stretched almost to bursting, with copious discharge of thick mucus from both nostrils, at sunset

Painful irritation of both sides of cartilaginous septum;

< immediately behind the columna nasi; sensitive to cool air

Itching and tingling in l. nostril as if about to sneeze.—(Postnasal catarrh.)

Face EN

Flushed face, with heat, when lying down

Face flushed and headache after dinner, with drowsiness and lassitude, but inability to sleep when lying down;

> open air

Sensation of dropping under l. cheekbone, afternoon

Drawing pain in r. cheekbone

Perfect dryness of lips, and a feeling of dryness and sensitiveness of nostrils so that inhalation of air of moderate temperature (60°) = a painful feeling

Pain in r. jaw-joint and in middle of r. lung, afternoon.

Mouth EN

Frequent shooting pains through r.

Teeth EN

Bleeding of gums with putrid taste

A renewed secretion of thick mucus, apparently on inferior surface of palate, renewed by snuffing and hawking, with still further diminution of throat soreness

Dryness of l. half of palate

Constrictive feeling of skin of mouth and tongue, esp. at l. commissure of jaws; ten minutes later towards root of tongue

Great soreness, rawness, pricking, dryness of lower surface of palate; extending forward through mouth;

> by secretion of mucus and at noon, but still continued.

Throat EN

Increased secretion of mucus

Thick mucous secretion in throat with > of constricting rawness, dryness, and soreness

Dryness of throat with sensation as if pharynx was open like a funnel

Pain in region of l. tonsil (immediately); of r. tonsil (after 16 minutes)

Sensation of a lump in upper part of oesophagus.

Stomach EN

(Acid eructations 5 to 6 a.m.)

Water-brash 8 a.m

Dyspepsia uniformly > by drinking cold water

Sinking in stomach followed by borborygmi below epigastrium

Slight pain in region of pylorus

Awoke 6 a.m. with violent pain in stomach and pain and borborygmus in bowels, followed by copious watery stools with tenesmus and soreness of anus; four attacks one day increasing in violence, colic and diarrhoea > by Podoph., but the pain in stomach with sense of distension increased, with hunger

Jolting of an easy carriage = pain in stomach and both hypochondria.

Abdomen EN

Borborygmi: below epigastrium < after dinner; in lower abdomen towards r. side

Woke 3 a.m. with flatulence but inability to pass it

Pains in abdomen, most below umbilicus, followed by diarrhoea, afternoon and evening.

Stool And Anus EN

Copious watery stools with tenesmus and soreness of anus

Loose stools

Ineffectual effort at stool, but free evacuation of tasteless wind on rising from bed.

Urinary Organs EN

Itching and smarting in fore part of urethra

Increased quantity of urine with free discharge

A small quantity of water, which he is obliged to retain for some time, = pain in bladder; when evacuated, of deep amber colour.

Respiratory Organs EN

Larynx feels stretched almost to bursting

Much tickling about top of larynx with disposition to hacking cough, evening

Morning hoarseness from state of stomach

Dyspeptic stomach cough

Slight mucous expectoration, evening

Dry, hacking cough of four weeks' duration, day and night, with pain r. side about junction of sixth rib with its cartilage, of a year's duration; dryness of back of throat.

Chest EN

Pain middle r. lung and r. jaw-joint

Pain just anterior to cartilaginous margin of short ribs

Pain between shoulders and neck both sides

Aching pain in cartilage of sixth l. rib

Rheumatic pain along r. clavicle

Pain along juncture of sixth r. rib with its cartilage

Pain in l. chest near axilla with aching in l. shoulder and arm

Oppression in lower chest as if breath did not reach there; distress in region of heart and audible "knocking" respiration (like sound of chopping wood); pain under short ribs and dry cough

Pain under l. breast

Severe and painful jarring in breast and larynx; larynx feels stretched to bursting, frequent sneezing; at sunset.

Heart EN

Severe pain in region of heart about sunset.

Neck And Back EN

Stiffness of nape (< l. side) from looking up

Slight aching pain from back of head down nape

Pain, heavy, aching, in back under false ribs, < night after lying down in bed, increased to cutting pain by deep inspiration, and < turning in bed; less during the day

Cutting under false ribs forward and upward (not noticed after going to bed)

Stitching pain in r. back passing from eighth rib downward

Pain on inside edge r. scapula

Pain, acute, sticking, in eighth dorsal vertebra;

< by least movement and deep inspiration

Pain and aching in posterior aspect of region of spleen

Pain in region of l. kidney; stitch in r

Pain commencing r. side small of back, then going down to os ischium, very sore to touch

Great rigidity of spine, least motion exceedingly painful; pain goes from r. to l. side of back and shoots down leg.

Upper Limbs EN

Severe aching of shoulder and fingers, whilst writing

Heavy pain in radial muscles of l. arm; later in same of r

Stiff, numb feeling in r. palm

Sticking pain in l. thumb, fleshy part of last phalanx.

Lower Limbs EN

Pain in both hips, occasionally

Sensation of coldness, as if from the weather, with aching, in both knees through the day

Stitching pain in l. tibia

Rheumatic pain over r. inner ankle

Pain in upper part of l. heel

Pricking stinging sensation as if asleep, in both soles

Pain in fleshy part of last phalanx of l. great toe; sore pain in its joints.

Generalities EN

Lassitude, after dinner.—Transient pain over l. kidney, and soon after in l. hypochondrium.

Skin EN

(Itching here and there on skin, worse than usual.)

Sleep EN

Drowsy but unable to sleep, when lying down after dinner

Slight drowsiness and oppression over eyelids

Restless sleep with frequent wakings through the night.

Fever EN

Cold sensation as if alcohol had been spilled on outer l. thigh

Cold hands, hot forehead

Feeling of heat in back, shoulders, face, with burning of ears.