Tabacum

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

Tobacco

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Keynotes

Relaxing irritant; causing prostration, free secretions and exciting muscles of hollow organs. Cramp, then paralysis; of bowels, heart, etc. Paroxysmal or jerky effects. Stormy, dangerous cases, with rapid changes. Pains, < from heat. Faintness; slides down. Tremor. .................... Morose, despairing and wretched or indifferent. Confusion. Mental fag. Excessive vertigo; with copious sweat (cold), < opening eyes. Retina retains images too long. Deathly pale, pinched look. Retracted lips. Spasm of lower jaw. Tetanus. Much spitting; with complaints. Clutching about throat. Deathly nausea and violent vomiting; < least motion; with much spitting. Retching. Pregnancy. Seasickness. Acidity. Sinking at epigastrium. Wants abdomen uncovered. Heaviness in r. abdomen. Colic; with weakness. Involuntary choleraic or thick, curdled, watery stool; like sour milk. Ileus. Dribbling urine. Renal colic. Emissions. Impotency. Constricted chest. Asthma. Twisting about heart. Angina pectoris; with nausea, cold sweat and collapse. Unsteady heart beat. Backache, < lying > walking. Fuzzy fingertips. Nightmare. Icy cold skin. Thready, intermittent pulse. Cold legs. Heat; of one cheek; down spine; internal. Sudden cold sweats; with chills; in renal colic, angina pectoris, etc.

Worse

MOTION; of riding. Lying on left side.

Better

Cold; fresh air. Twilight. Uncovering abdomen.

Region

Nerves: Cerebro-spinal. Vagus. Sympathetic. Ganglia. HEART. GLANDS. SECRETIONS.

Relationships

Complementary: Op. Related: Ars. Gel. Ver-a.

What the other books say about Tabacum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Tabacum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Tabacum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Tabacum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Tabacum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/tabacum. 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.