LOBELIA INFLATA

Source indications

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