TABACUM Medicine


TABACUM symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Plain Talks on Materia Medica with Comparisons by W.I. Pierce. What TABACUM can be used for? Indications and personality of TABACUM…


      HAVANA TOBACCO.

Introduction

      (Tabacum, the origin of the word is not positively know, although various explanations are give.,)

The first proving of this drug that is recorded in the Encyclop. is by Nenning one of Hahnemann’s followers.

Altogether 175 different provings are cited by Allen, young and old, male and female; from Dr.R., who is recorded as having”smoked a cigar,” to John H., aet. 66 years, a heavy smoker; from a child aet. seven days, who was given two tablespoonfuls of water impregnated with tobacco smoke, with death in eight hours, to those who took sixty drops of he tincture. the records include smoking, of all kinds, chewing, snuffing, injections and decoctions and many local applications. Allen, in the Handbook, gives its general action as follows: “A powerful depressant, causing nausea and vomiting, feeble heart and pulse, low temperature, vertigo, delirium and collapse. It produces also violent gastro-enteritis. In some cases convulsions of spinal origin, as well as tetanic rigidity, It may cause long-continued spasms of arterioles. with persistent coldness of he surface. Its long-continued use favors degeneration of nerve tissue, as witnessed in atrophy of the optic nerve and general muscular paralysis., palpitation is a frequent and persistent symptom.”.

Symptoms

      Some of the conditions where we can think of it as a remedy are: headaches, neuralgic or gastric, associated with vertigo and nausea, better open air (92) or from cold(92).

Seasickness (165) and nausea and vomiting or pregnancy (153), with deathly nausea, coldness (178) and goneness in the pit of the stomach (179) and cold sweat (185).

Gastralgia, pain starting from the cardiac end of the stomach and extending into the l. arm. Cholera infantum, icy- coldness of the extremities and collapse, the nausea and vomiting relieved by uncovering.

Angina pectoris(107() with sensation of constriction of heart of upper part of chest, coldness and cost sweat (185), the pain radiate from the center of the sternum and run down the 1.arm.

I have never used Tabacum as a remedy.

Willard Ide Pierce
Willard Ide Pierce, author of Plain Talks on Materia Medica (1911) and Repertory of Cough, Better and Worse (1907). Dr. Willard Ide Pierce was a Director and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Kent's post-graduate school in Philadelphia.