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LOBELIA INFLATA – A Primer of Materia Medica for practitioners of Homoeopathy by Timothy Field Allen

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LOBELIA INFLATA

General action :

Violent vomiting, with profound prostration, failure of the heart and
respiration, ending in fatal stupor.
Laryngeal and bronchial spasms, associated with deathly nausea.

Generalities :

Extreme weakness.
General amelioration towards evening.

Head :

Vertigo, with nausea.
Pain from one temple to the other across the forehead.

Mouth :

Salivation.
Disagreeable taste.

Throat :

Constant need to clear the throat of mucus.
Contraction of the śsophagus like a lump in the pit of the throat, with
difficult swallowing.

Stomach :

Nausea ; worse in the morning ; > a little water, with
vertigo, cold sweat on the head and face, ineffectual retching, with
oppression of the stomach, heat, pain.
Burning and weak feeling.
Faintness and sinking of the pit of the stomach.

Urinary organs :

Urine deposits a rosy red sediment.

Respiratory organs :

Difficult breathing, caused by constriction in the middle of the chest.
Asthmatic breathing, with great oppression, > moving about.
Spasmodic croup, with nausea, vomiting and threatening suffocation.

Fever :

Chilliness, coldness.
Sweat towards evening or at night.

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