(Tobacco)
The symptomatology of Tabacum is exceedingly well
marked. The nausea, giddiness, death-like pallor, vomiting, icy coldness,
and sweat, with the intermittent pulse, are all most characteristic. Has
marked antiseptic qualities, antidotal to cholera germs. Complete
prostration of the entire muscular system. Collapse. Gastralgia,
enteralgia, seasickness, cholera infantum; cold, but wants
abdomen uncovered. Vigorous peristaltic activity. Diarrhea. Produces
high tension and arteriosclerosis of the coronary arteries. Should prove
the most homeopathic drug for angina pectoris, with coronaritis and high
tension (Cartier). Constriction of throat, chest, bladder, rectum. Pallor,
breathlessness, hard cord-like pulse. | ||
| Mind. Sensation
of excessive wretchedness. Very despondent. Forgetful.
Discontented. | ||
| Head. Vertigo
on opening eyes; sick headache, with deathly nausea; periodical.
Tight feeling as from a band. Sudden pain, as if struck by a hammer.
Nervous deafness. Secretion from eyes, nose and mouth
increased. | ||
| Eyes. Dim
sight; sees as through a veil; strabismus. Amaurosis; muscae
volitantes. Central scotoma. Rapid blindness without lesion, followed by
venous hyperemia and atrophy of optic nerve. | ||
| Face. Pale,
blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered with cold sweat. [Ars.; Verat.]
Freckles. | ||
| Throat.
Nasopharyngitis and tracheitis, hemming, morning cough, sometimes
with vomiting. Hoarseness of public speakers. | ||
| Stomach.
Incessant nausea; worse, smell of tobacco smoke [Phos.]; vomiting on least motion, sometimes of fecal
matter. During pregnancy with much spitting. Seasickness; terrible
faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach. Sense of relaxation of
stomach, with nausea. [Ip.] Gastralgia; pain from
cardiac end extending to left arm. | ||
| Abdomen. Cold.
Wants abdomen uncovered. It lessens the nausea and vomiting. Painful
distension. Incarcerated hernia. | ||
| Rectum.
Constipation; rectum paralyzed, prolapsed. Diarrhea, sudden, watery, with
nausea and vomiting, prostration, and cold sweat; discharges look like sour
milk, thick, curdled, watery. Rectal tenesmus. | ||
| Urine. Renal
colic; violent pain along ureter, left side. | ||
| Heart.
Palpitation when lying on left side. Pulse intermits, feeble,
imperceptible. Angina pectoris, pain in precordial region. Pain radiates
from center of sternum. Tachycardia. Bradycardia. Acute dilatation
caused by shock or violent physical exertion (Royal). | ||
| Respiratory.
Difficult, violent constriction of chest. Precordial oppression, with
palpitation and pain between shoulders. Cough followed by hiccough. Cough
dry, teasing, must take a swallow of cold water. [Caust.; Phos.] Dyspnea, with
tingling down left arm when lying on left side. | ||
| Extremities.
Legs and hands icy cold; limbs tremble. Paralysis following apoplexy. Gait
shuffling, unsteady. Feebleness of arms. | ||
| Sleep. Insomnia
with dilated heart, with cold, clammy skin and anxiety. | ||
| Fever. Chills,
with cold sweat. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, opening eyes; evening; extremes of heat and cold.
Better, uncovering, open fresh air. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Verat.; Ars. Antidote: Vinegar; sour apples. Camphor in the physiological antagonist. Ars. (chewing tobacco); Ign. (smoking); Sep. (neuralgia and dyspepsia); Lyc. (impotency); Nux-v. (bad taste due to tobacco); Phos. (tobacco heart, sexual weakness). | ||
| Dose. Third to
thirtieth and higher potencies. |