Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.35.17
666.35.17 Lobelia siphilitica, Lobelia syphilitica
Names: Lobelia cerulia.
English: Great Blue Lobelia.
Botany: milky juice; low grounds in North America.
Content: silex, iron, chlorate and phosphate of Lime.
Mind
Confusion, dullness, difficult thinking, comprehending; mental prostration, exhaustion, brain fag, < mental exertion; mistakes: spelling, writing.
Cheerfulness, gaiety, happiness: general.
Sadness, despondency, depression, melancholy; weeping, tearful.
As if he would go wild.
Ailments: grief, sorrow, care, suppressions.
General
Sensation: tingling.
Weather: < inhaling cool air worse, flushes of heat, < dinner, > open air.
Time: < night.
Food: > cold water, < after dinner.
Physical: < touch, < motion, < deep inspiration, < mental exertion, < reading, < writing.
Body
Head: pain, forehead over eyes, < reading, < writing; pain back of head extending down nape.
Nose: catarrh; coryza, hayfever, sneezing influenza involving the posterior sinuses, palate and throat; pain < cold air; pain dull, aching, root of nose; deafness; <<< unhealthy, soft, swollen, easily bleeding; catarrh.
Ears: eustachian catarrh.
Throat: catarrh; sore, > secretion of thick mucus, adenoids; pain tonsil, alternating sides.
Lungs: asthma, breathing difficult; oppression lower chest, as if air could not reach there; cough dry, hacking; pain under short ribs of left side.
Stomach: dyspepsia; acidity; epigastric sinking, pain pylorus, > cold water.
Abdomen: rumbling, flatulence, diarrhoea; spleen disorders, pain posterior part.
Rectum: copious watery stools, ineffectual straining and soreness of anus.
Urinary: kidneys pains.
Back: lumbago, extending down legs from eighth rib downward; pain spine; sciatica.
Limbs: ischium sore, < touch; cartilages, pains; knee pain; prickling soles; pain on inside of right scapula, < after weeping; pain in right maxillary joint with pain in middle of right lung, pain in breast and larynx, pain in left side of chest near axilla with aching in left shoulder and arm.