Lobelia cardinalis


Lobelia cardinalis signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Lobelia cardinalis is used…


      Lobelia cardinalis. Cardinal Flower. *N. O. Lobeliaceae. Tincture of fresh plant.

Clinical

Anorexia. Debility. Headache. Sore throat.

Characteristics

There is a proving of *Lobelia card. by ***S. D. R. Dubs, who took ten drops of the tincture in one dose. Dubs’ symptoms have been confirmed by a second proving by Kopp (*H. W., xxxi. 26). The acrid properties of the plant were immediately felt by Dubs, in burning in mouth and throat, which lasted a long time. Sticking and pricking sensation in various parts, especially left chest and left hypochondrium. Oppression of breathing. Headache at base of occiput worse by motion and shaking head, stiffness in nape. Throbbing and weakness in lower limbs. Most of the effects lasted two weeks, and it was three weeks before the appetite returned. There was thirst for cold water, which better burning in tongue and fauces. Many symptoms occurred at 8 a.m. Sleepy but difficulty in sleeping. A lady to whom Cooper gave one dose of *Lobelia cd. had “flashes of light before eyes every day for a week.” It seems, he says, to have an action distinct from that of other *Lobelias, since a dose of it brought back pains which had been relieved by *Lobelia dort.

Relations

*Compare: Lobelia i., Lobelia s., Caps. (burning in mouth and throat, but Caps is worse by cold water, Lobelia cd. better).

Mind

Disposition to sing.

Head

Head feels light, with dull pain in forehead and occiput, 6 a.m. Headache, dull, distressing, with fullness in forehead and especially base of occiput, worse motion, or shaking head, remained longest in occiput. Slight shooting pain in forehead with eruption of small sore vesicles.

Eyes

Eyes burning, sore, smarting, and watery, dread of light, sore on closing them 8 a.m. Flashes of light before eyes every day for a week.

Nose

Dryness of nose, with fullness, followed by sneezing.

Face

Dull pains in both maxillary bones, with aching in molar teeth.

Mouth

Burning and stinging in tongue and fauces (lasting fourteen hours), better by copious drafts of cold water. Tongue raw, sore, very red, especially at tip. where is a blister. Mouth and fauces dry, with raw, distressed feeling extending down to epigastrium 8 a.m. Unpleasant taste, morning and through the day.

Throat

Throat sore, dry, with disposition to swallow and hawk. Soreness of fauces, extending down into upper esophagus, when it leaves fauces burning and pricking remain there.

Stomach

Appetite indifferent. Thirst for cold water, which better. Nausea 8 a.m. Dull, heavy pain in epigastrium, with sensation of weight

or load. Sticking pains with sensation of load at epigastrium.

Abdomen

Sticking pain at left hypochondrium, which came suddenly and so violently as to cause him to cry out, better placing ends of fingers over spot.

Stool

Stool at first thin, then more consistent.

Respiratory Organs

Breathing oppressed, through day, with sticking pains on taking a deep breath, with dull, distressing pain in lower part of sternum, with same feeling on each side, forming a circle, better by beating the part gently with the hand.

Chest

Pricking pain in left lung. Severe stitch left side of chest nearly taking away breath, better pressing with hand.

Back and neck

Stiffness of nape. Weakness as from spine across kidneys.

Lower Limbs

Throbbing and weakness in lower limbs, with headache compelling him to lie down. Sticking like pricking with needles: inner right thigh, left calf and heel, left sole, shooting up.

Generalities

Debility all day. Symptoms continued two weeks, and it was three weeks before the appetite came back.

Skin

Eruption of small, sore, vesicular pimples in center of fore. head.

Sleep

While lying down great sleepiness with difficulty of falling asleep. Starting in sleep, with jerking of hands.

Fever

Hot sweat on forehead, with throbbing there and at base of occiput.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica