Relations
*Antidoted by: Vinegar, Sour Apples, Camph., Coffea, Ipecac. (primary effects: vomiting), Arsenicum (effects of chewing tobacco), Nux (bad taste in mouth in morning, amblyopia), Phosphorus (Palpitation, tobacco heart, amblyopia, sexual weakness), Spigelia (heart affections), Ignatia, Pulsatilla (hiccough), Clem. (toothache), Sepia (neuralgia in face and dyspepsia, chronic nervousness), Lycopodium (impotence), Wine (spasms, cold sweat from excessive smoking). Plant. Maj. has sometimes caused aversion to tobacco. Gelsemium (occipital headache and vertigo), Tabacum 200, or 1,000 for the craving when discontinuing its use. *Antidote to: Cicuta, Stramonium *Compare: Nicotinum. Cold sweat, Verbascum (Verbascum on forehead, Tabacum all over). Coldness in abdomen, Colchicum, Elps., Lachesis Spasmodic pains along left ureter, Berberis Meniere’s disease, Salicin. Incarcerated hernia, Aco., Nux vomica, Opium, Sul. Chills or creeps precede headache (Chelidonium, accompany headache) Sinking immediately after meals, Arsenicum, Cin., Lycopodium, Selenium, Staphysagria, Ur. nit. Hair sensation, Kali-bi., Silicea (Tabacum, in eye). Blindness, optic atrophy, Carb. s., Benz. din., Filix. m. Emissions, heart, anaemia, Digitalis Retracted abdomen, Plb. Jerking of legs in bed, Meny. As if a hand clutching throat (Belladonna, intestines).
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Gloomy melancholy. Inclination to weep. Anguish and inquietude, generally in the afternoon, better by weeping. Restlessness, which prompts continual change of place. Dislike to labour and conversation. Excessive vertigo, mental faculties much impaired, cannot read or study, sufferings from abuse of tobacco. Difficulty of concentrating mind for any length of time on one subject. Feels as if some one were coming to arrest him, or murder him, always with singing in ears (produced-***R.T.C.). Suicidal tendency, gloomy forebodings, inclined to hang down head, breath becomes short, appetite goes (produced-***R.T.C.). Feels intoxicated, hands and feet tremble. Over-excitement and great liveliness, with songs, dancing, and great loquacity. The Mexican priests incite courage and bravery by means of an ointment of tobacco. Abject cowardice, thinks he is going to die and is in extreme terror of death (from smoking many cigars. ***J.H.C.). Frequent laughter without cause. Silly talk, cannot stop, loss of memory. (Attacks of silliness, cannot help talking sillily and memory goes, blames himself for things, inclines to suicide and despair. ***R.T.C.). Idiotic, epileptic idiocy. Concourse of confused ideas. Cataleptic state. Stupor. Coma.
Head
Emptiness and confusion in the head. Dizziness. Vertigo, which often produces loss of consciousness, with nausea (aggravated indoors, better in open air), and pains in head and eyes. Vertigo worse on rising and looking up brought on by immoderate use of cigars. Giddiness in occiput. Headache, with nausea and vertigo. Excessive heaviness of head. Pressive headache, especially above eyes, vertex, and temples. Shootings in head. Headache from one temple to the other, involving orbits, or with shooting in left eye, better from cold. While passing urine, suddenly attacked with pains in head, so severe he screamed for assistance, immediately followed by vomiting. Congestion of blood in head, with internal heat, and throbbing in temples. Neuralgic headache, sensation as of sudden blows struck by a hammer. Periodical sick- headache from fatigue or excitement. Tightness in head as though a band stretched round it, disturbance of vision, tinnitus, and vertigo. Headache better in the open air. Burning and tingling sensation in exterior of head. Trembling of head. Hair falls out. Formication above left temple.
Eyes
Pain in eyes, as from much weeping. Aching in eyes, extending into bottom of orbits. Sensation, as if there were a hair in eye. Smarting in eyes. Heat and burning sensation in eyes, with redness. Contraction of the lids. Pupils: dilated and insensible, irregularly dilated, contracted. Amblyopia with intolerance of light. Loss of sight on looking steadily at anything white. Confused sight, in evening, as if looking through a veil. Sees as through a fog, and hears as through cotton wool (produced _ ***R.T.C.). Squinting when trying to read. Insufficiency of internal recti. Sparks and black specks before eyes. Central colour scotoma. White or grey atrophia of optic nerve. Optic neuritis. Sudden failure of vision. Tobacco-blindness commences in one eye, generally right, sight worse evening. Photophobia.
Ears
Shootings in ears, especially in open air, and when listening to music. Hyperaesthesia to music and loud talking. Jerking tearing in right ear, and in front of it externally. Burning heat and redness of the ears. Hard reddish swelling behind (1.) ear, with shootings. Ringing, roaring, rushing, humming in ears, worse by loud noise or going into open air. Tinnitus and vertigo. Fluttering in right ear both heard and felt.
Nose
Burning sensation and tingling in the nose. Diminished power of smell, which, however, is very sensitive to odour of wine, fumes all but intoxicate her. Frequent sneezing. Dryness and obstruction of nose.
Face
Deadly paleness of face (during the nausea, face collapsed, cold sweat on). Burning heat in face, with redness, sometimes of one cheek only, and paleness of the other. Face covered with cold sweat. Right cheek glowing, the other pale. Red spots on face. Tearings in bones of face (and teeth, in evening). Pimples on cheeks, wings of nose, and corners of mouth. Violent tearing in right facial bones and teeth. Granulated tuberosities on cheeks. Emaciation of face. Lips dry, burning, rough, and cracked. Epithelioma of lip (27 per cent. in men, left 5 in women). Eruption on commissures of lips. Lancinating pains in maxillary joint, when laughing.
Teeth
Toothache, with drawing and tearing pains. Lancinations in carious teeth, when masticating. Violent tearing in right teeth. Throbbing or jumping pains in teeth. Drawing pain in gums. Gums pale and parched.
Mouth
Dryness of the mouth and tongue, with violent thirst. Tongue feels swollen. Tongue: trembles, white, red, furred, dry and parched, covered with blackish-brown crust. Frothing from the mouth. Profuse salivation. Accumulation of white, tenacious mucus in mouth and throat, which must be frequently expectorated. Swelling of glands under tongue. Weak, interrupted speech. Drawling, monotonous style of reading.
Throat
Roughness, dryness, and scraping in throat, as from a foreign body. Dry, hot, sulphur feeling in throat, with dry, parched mouth, comes on after dose of O and remains for a week off and on, but generally worse in morning after sleep (***R.T.C.). Throat dry, can hardly swallow. Crawling and tickling in throat. Swallowing very painful from spasms in throat. Peculiar sensation of plug in oesophagus, with constant dull pressure. Redness of fauces. Burning in pharynx. Accumulation of viscid mucus in throat.
Appetite
Mawkish and clammy, or bitter and sour taste. Acid taste of all food. Acidulated taste of water, as if it contained wine. Adipsia, and dread of water. Great thirst, worse at night. Absence of hunger and appetite. Constant hunger, with nausea if nothing is eaten.
Stomach
Frequent empty and noisy risings. Sour, burning risings. Pyrosis. Spasmodic hiccough. Frequent nausea, especially during movement, often inducing syncope, with deadly paleness of face, disappearing generally in open air. Deathly nausea, with vertigo, in paroxysms, body covered with cold sweat, sea-sickness. Nausea, with inclination to vomit, sensation of coldness in stomach, or pinchings in abdomen. Vomiting of water only, with yellow and greenish reflection before eyes. Vomiting of acid serum, often mixed with mucus. Violent vomiting, easy of sour liquid, watery, insipid, sometimes bitter in morning. The vomiting is renewed by
the slightest movement. Stomach-ache. Squeezing, contractive pains in stomach, sometimes after a meal, often accompanied by nausea, and an accumulation of saliva in mouth. Shootings in the scrobiculus, which pass through back. Relaxation, and sensation of coldness or burning in stomach. Sinking at the pit of stomach. Dreadful faint feeling in stomach.
Abdomen
Hepatic pain, when pressing on the part. Hepatic and renal regions sensitive to pressure. Pressure in hepatic region, as from a heavy body. Shooting in hepatic region. Shootings in the Left hypochondrium. Great sensitiveness of abdomen to slightest touch. Uncovering abdomen better nausea and vomiting. Painful distention of abdomen. Pressive pains in abdomen, especially in umbilical region, with spasmodic retraction of that part. Violent burning in abdomen, horrible pains, must shriek. Nocturnal tearings in abdomen. Pinchings and borborygmi in abdomen. Incarcerated hernia.
Stool & Anus
Constipation. Chronic constipation, great pain and tympanitic distension of intestines, great dyspnoea. Stools clay-colour or mottled grey and brown. Habitual constipation, paralysis of rectum, spasm of anal sphincter. Prolapsus ani, great drowsiness during day when trying to study. Frequent tenesmus. Soft faeces of consistence of pap, also at night. Violent pain in small of back during soft stool. Shifting of flatulence, formed by sudden, papescent, yellow-green or greenish, slimy stools with tenesmus. Violent diarrhoea, fetid or yellowish green slime, also at night, accompanied and followed by violent tenesmus, and burning sensation in anus. Cholera-like stools, watery, urgent, painless.
