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Lobelia Inflata

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Lob.

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Region:

RESPIRATION

Vaso-motor nerves

Secretions

Heart

Epigastrium

Worse:

Cold bathing

Suppressions

Sleep; after

Tobacco

Better:

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, dyspnoea, etc. As of a lump in throat or stomach. Deathly nausea; with vertigo; < night and early AM, > 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. Dyspnoea; 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 fullness in chest. Pulse weak, or soft; flowing. Plaques of oedema (figurata); with ecchymoses.

Relations

Related: Ant-t, Ip, Tab.

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