Lobelia inflata
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
RELAXATION; with increased secretions and weakness; with sweat; with deathly sickness all over; with oppressed, rattling respiration. Sits with elbows on knees. Prickles all over. .................... Flow of saliva; with retching, hiccough, nausea, dyspnœa, etc. As of a lump in throat or stomach. Deathly nausea; with vertigo; < night and early A.M., > eating or drinking. Vomiting; with sweat (cold on face). Nausea and vomiting, with profuse sweat; with respiratory symptoms. Weak, sinking at stomach. Deep red urine, with red sediment. Urine suppressed or infrequent. Dyspnœa; nervous; with labor pains; as from a wedge in larynx; > rapid motion; with general prickling. Asthma. Spasmodic cough; with sneezing, belching or gastric pain. Rattle in chest, but don't expectorate. Constriction or oppressive fulness in chest. Pulse weak, or soft; flowing. Plaques of œdema (figurata); with ecchymoses.
Worse
Cold bathing. Suppressions. Sleep; after. Tobacco.
Better
Rapid motion. Eating a little.
Region
RESPIRATION. Vaso-motor nerves. Secretions. Heart. Epigastrium.
Relationships
Related: Ant-t. Ip. Tab.
What the other books say about Lobelia inflata
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Lobelia inflata in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Lobelia inflata in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Lobelia inflata — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/lobelia-inflata. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.