Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.35.10
666.35.10 Lobelia cardinalis
Names: Lobelia splendens.
English: Red lobelia; Cardinal Flower.
Content: piperidine alkaloids, lobinaline.
Mind
Anorexia.
Sadness, despondency, depression, melancholy.
Shrieking, screaming, shouting, < pain, with the: abdomen, in.
Singing desire, < walking, < startled.
Ailments from: grief, sorrow, care.
Dreams: many, constant; athletic competition; unable to move; being crushed.
Interruptions and disturbances aggravate.
Great impatience.
Irritable, < being disturbed and annoyed.
Undertaking many things, persevering in nothing.
Nervous.
Desire to sing, when walking.
General
Sensation: needle, sprain; burning, raw, sore, stitching.
Sweat: hot, forehead.
Time: < 8 am.
Desire: cold water; appetite very indifferent.
Aversion: food.
Physical: < motion, < shaking of head.
Sleep: sleepy, < lying; difficult falling asleep; startling, jerking of hands.
Body
Energy: debility, languor, weakness.
Head: headache, base of occiput, full, dull, throbbing, distressing, < shaking of head; stiffness in nape; forehead, full, throbbing, shooting pain; light head.
Eyes: burning, watery, sore, smarting, < closing them, <- light; flashes of light before eyes.
Nose: dry, full, > sneezing.
Face: dull pains in the upper maxillary bone of each side, with aching in the molar teeth.
Mouth: dry; burning in tongue, throat, > cold drinks; tongue raw, sore, very red, especially at its tip, blister tip; unpleasant taste.
Throat: sore, burning, dry, raw, extending to pharynx, oesophagus, - > swallow, - > hawking up phlegm.
Chest: sticking, pricking, left lung, attacks of several minutes, > pressure, < breathing, breathless; oppression of breath, dull, distressing pain in the lower part of the sternum, with the same feeling on each side forming a kind of circle; relieved by beating lightly upon the part with the hand.
Stomach: nausea; dull, heavy, sticking pain, distress at left epigastrium, sensation of a weight or load.
Abdomen: sticking, pricking, various parts, left chest, left hypochondrium, > pressure, > massage fingertips.
Rectum: stool at first thin and then more consistent.
Urinary: kidney: weak, sprain across the kidneys.
Back: stiff nape.
Limbs: legs, throbbing, weak; sticking, pricking of needles, inner part of the right thigh, just above the knee, calf of the left leg and the heel, sole of the left foot, shooting; knees bend < walking.
Skin: eruption, small vesicular pimples, sore < touch, forehead.