Common name: Indian Tobacco.
Introduction
Lobelia inflata, Linn. Natural order: Lobeliaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the plant.
Mind
Violent raving, with flushing of the face, and palpitation of the heart, every evening after an hour’s sleep. Indisposed to mental exertion (after one hour). Lost his reason, and became convulsed, so that several men were required to hold him, and so continued till death (after several days). Narcotic.
Head
Confusion and vertigo. Confusion of the head increased to violent pressive headache with decided heat of the face, in the afternoon (first day). Confusion of the head, especially on the vertex on moving about (third day). Confusion in the occiput (after half an hour). Vertigo. Vertigo, with nausea. Vertigo, with pain in the head, and trembling agitation of the whole body. Giddiness and pain in head. General Head. When given in large doses, it affects the brain. Cerebral torpor (after one hour). Heaviness of the head, (second day). Pain in the head. Dull tension in the head, in the evening (first day). Headache; (after four hours); especially on ascending steps (second day) Headache with slight vertigo, and at times transient stitches in the temples (after ten minutes). Headache, at first slight; becoming worse gradually (after two hours). Headache, at first slight, then gradually increasing (after two hours); worse on awaking (after seven hours); lasted nearly all night. Severe headache (after two hours); with drowsiness, for half an hour. Violent headache, towards evening. Pains through the head in sudden shocks. Forehead. Dull heavy pain passing round the forehead, from one temple to the other, on a line immediately above the eyebrows. (In numerous cases, both of pathogenesis and cure; the latter often preceded by homeopathic aggravation of several days’ continuance). Temples. Dull pressing pain in the temple and left molar teeth. Outward pressing in both temples; at the same time a dull pressing in the flesh, just above the left elbow, and the hand feels as if paralyzed. Parietal. Pain in the parietal protuberance on the left side of the head. Occiput. Dull feeling in the occiput. Pain in the occiput. Tension in the occiput, in the region of the lambdoidal suture, only when paying strict attention to anything. Pressure in the occiput, relieved after removing the head covering (second day). Pressive pain in the occiput in the open air (first day). External Head. Chilliness of the left side of the head, with a feeling as if the hair would rise on end.
Eye.
Pain and soreness in the right eye. Burning in the eyes (second day). Itching in the angles of the lids of the left eye. Lids. Severe and frequent itching in the angles of the eyelids. Smarting of the inside of the eyelids. Ball. Pressing pain in the eyeballs, most in the upper parts. Pupil. Pupils dilated; (after two hours). Pupils slightly dilated (after two hours). Vision. Dimness of vision; (after two hours).
Ear.
Aching in the left ear. Shooting pain, into left ear from a painful spot in the throat, situated about an inch to the left of the larynx, on a line with its lowest cartilage.
Nose.
Sneezing, accompanying gaping and flatulent eructation. Bleeding at the nose.
Face.
There was no more color in him than a corpse. A peculiar drawing feeling extending from the right side of the mouth to the right eye. Slight drawing feelings, at one time in the left, at another in the right side of the lower jaw.
Mouth.
Teeth. Dull pressing pain in the left molar teeth and temple. General Mouth. Dryness of the mouth. Pricking sensation in back of mouth, for a few minutes (immediately)). Saliva. In certain cases larger doses have produced only a flow of saliva. Sialogogue. Copious flow from glands of mouth. Copious discharge of saliva. Flow of clammy saliva. Increased secretion of tenacious saliva (fifteen minutes after 100 drops). Frequent accumulation of much sweetish saliva, which soon filled the whole mouth (fourth day). Accumulation of water in the mouth, and nausea and eructations tasting of the drug (after five minutes, third day). Spitting at intervals (fourth day). Taste. Taste in mouth at first insipid, but soon became pungent. Pungent taste in the mouth. Very unpleasant sharp taste (immediately). Very sharp disagreeable taste in the whole mouth, especially at the tip of the tongue, and in the back throat; it lasted about half an hour (immediately). Sharp taste, like snuff (immediately). Taste resembles that of tartar emetic. Disagreeable taste in the mouth, somewhat similar to that of a solution of corrosive sublimate (after twenty-four hours).
Throat
Frequent necessity for hawking, on account of increased accumulation of mucus in the throat (seventh day). Dryness of the throat. Dryness in the throat, and warmth in the stomach immediately after a dose (second day). Great dryness and scraping in the throat after a meal, not relieved by drinking lasting more than an hour (first day). Burning in the throat. Burning in the throat, which soon changed to a sensation of dryness, and lasted the whole forenoon. Burning and scraping in the throat, immediately after every dose, soon disappearing. Drawing pain in the right side of the throat, which extends upwards to the ear. Soreness of the throat. Scraping in the throat immediately; followed after ten minutes by a pressive sensation (after eighty drops). Scraping and sore pain in the throat (first day). Scraping in the throat and eructations, immediately. Scraping in the throat, followed by slight efforts to vomit, which, with the pressure and heaving in the pharynx, last nearly a quarter of an hour. Scraping sensation in the throat, and warmth in the stomach, immediately (first day). Burning scraping in the throat, especially in the anterior arches of the palate, extending towards the larynx, causing after half an hour frequent hawking of much mucus that accumulated in the throat; after an hour there was only slight scraping in the throat, seemingly on the right side of the larynx, which remains sensitive to swallowing (first day). Feeling of acridity and dryness in the back throat. Pricking in the throat, when swallowing the medicine. Fauces, Pharynx, and OEsophagus. Dryness of the fauces (fourth day). The small doses seemed to have greater effect on the pharynx, large ones more upon the stomach. Excessive scraping in pharynx (after half an hour, ninth day). A sensation of consecutive constrictions in the oesophagus from below upwards (first day). Pressure in the oesophagus and pit of the stomach (after 100 drops). Pressure as from a foreign substance, or a morsel of food, along the whole course of the oesophagus, worse at certain places, as for example, just below the larynx, whence there seemed to be a twisting peristaltic motion proceeding downward as far as the pit of the stomach; the sensation in the oesophagus was not affected by swallowing nor by eructations; it gradually disappeared, and at last seemed only to affect a spot between the pit of the stomach and the back, as if there were a plug in the pit of the stomach reaching to the spine; at times this pressive pain seemed to disappear entirely but it was soon renewed, always having a twisting character; the esophagus remained quite free from troubles, but from the pit of the stomach and the place internally near the spine the sensation seemed to extend to the right and left through the precordium; deep inspiration gave a certain relief, since it seemed to overpower the pressive pain; about 5 P. M. there was nothing left of this except a slight sensation in the back, hypochondria, and pit of the stomach, on turning the body, that gave rise to an anatomical impression that the tendinous expansion of the diaphragm was somewhat too tense. Dysphagia.
Stomach
Appetite. Scarcely any appetite all day. No appetite all day (after two hours). No appetite for dinner (fourth day). Anorexia. Aversion to food (in afternoon). Eructation and Hiccough. Eructations. Eructations lasting about a quarter of an hour (immediately). Eructations, together with a burning sensation rising up from the stomach (soon), (first day). Eructation immediately and repeated several times during the day (fourth day); immediately (fifth day). Frequent eructations, with accumulation of water in the mouth (first day). Forcible eructations and nausea. Very fatiguing eructations and nausea, lasting an hour (immediately). Painful eructations. Eructations of air. Flatulent eructation and gaping, accompanying sneezing. Flatulent eructation, with sensation of acidity and heat of stomach. Eructation of an acid fluid with burning sensation. Hiccough. Frequent hiccough towards (first and second days). Frequent and violent hiccough more than twenty times in rapid succession (seventh day). A sensation similar to heartburn, with accumulation of water in the mouth, immediately (after 20 drops). Some nausea (immediately). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea, lasting about an hour (soon). Nausea, or sensation of a lump or weight, as if caused by undigested food (fourth day). Nausea all the morning (third day). Nausea in the morning, disappearing after a swallow of water (third day). Nausea with great inclination to vomit. Nausea, and almost irresistible inclination to vomit (soon). Nausea with the vertigo. Nausea with rather cold perspiration on the head, especially on the face, with great efforts to vomit, without results (fourth day). Frequent nausea. Constant nausea. Slight nausea (after one or two hours, first day), also (second day). Extreme nausea and vomiting. Fatiguing nausea, lasting about a quarter of an hour (immediately). Incessant violent nausea, with shivering and shaking of the upper part of the body. A scraping in the throat, which came on immediately after a dose, seemed to change to a qualmish nausea after 50 drops. Qualmishness in the stomach (ninth day). Peculiar qualmishness, with a sensation as of an anti-peristaltic motion of the stomach, though without nausea, in the morning (second day). He attempted to go to a spring to drink, got as far as the wall, but could not get over it, and laid down on the ground and vomited several times; he said he thought he threw two quarts from his stomach. Nausea, and sometimes vomiting. Nausea great uneasiness, and vomiting. Vomited violently (first day). Excessive vomiting, which was long continued. Sickness (after second dose); sensible effects upon coats of stomach and very little moderate puking (after third dose). Occasional emesis. By chewing a small part of plant, generally no more than one or two capsules, it proves a gentle emetic. Powerful and efficient emetic. Stomach. Large doses seemed to have greater effect on the stomach, small ones on the pharynx. Feeling of weakness of the stomach. Feeling of weakness in the stomach, and qualmishness, soon (after 150 drops, eleventh day). Warmth in the stomach, soon (first day). A sensation of warmth or burning all over the stomach (fourth day). Burning in the stomach. Heaviness and pressure in the epigastric region after dinner (first day). Pressure in the stomach, though but little had been eaten (first day). Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as from a weight (after five minutes). Feeling of weight at pit of stomach. Uneasiness, or feeling of a lump or weight, in the stomach for a few moments (third day). Violent, pressive pain in the pit of the stomach (second day). Sensation of oppression at the epigastrium, as if the stomach were too full, worse on pressure. An indescribable feeling about the stomach, compounded of nausea, pain, heat, oppression, and excessive uneasiness, accompanying the affection of the respiration organs. Painful twisting about in the cardiac region, lasting a few minutes (second day). Violent, painful sensation of twisting in the cardiac region (fourth day).
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.