Lobelia Cardinalis

• ▸Cooper, who is the sole authority for Lob.
• ▸er.
• ▸, says.
• ▸"This common and

insignificant-looking plant possesses beyond question remarkable curative powers." He has only

used it in single doses of @. In the Schema the sex of the patients on whom the observations were

made is indicated in brackets after the symptom produced or cured. Its chief power is manifested

in malignant diseases. For example: (/) Woman, 36, had for three weeks noticed a painfully

inflamed spot, size of a shilling, scabbed over and resting on a scirrhous base close to |. nipple,

which was retracted below the surface. This had led to the breast being condemned to operation.

Axillary tenderness and a large soft swelling existed for eight years immediately below the

• ▸breast.
• ▸The disease yielded completely to single doses of Lob.
• ▸er.
• ▸given at long intervals during

nine months of treatment, the lower swelling having in this time gone down to one-quarter of its

former size, and the suspicious painful swelling having entirely disappeared. (2) An elderly lady

had both breasts affected, left indurated and discharging, with scattered nodules of induration

over adjacent tissues, pains burning and stinging, left arm oedematous with axillary involvement.

Lob. er. @ was given on July 26th at a time when the pain was excessive and had resisted other

remedies, and till the end of life on September 21st perfect freedom from pain was secured.

Cooper also mentions interstitial keratitis in hereditary syphilis as having been influenced by

Lob. er.

Low spirits, dyspnoea, and flatulence (m. 64; full-blooded healthy except for cataract;

1st day).—Great depression following heat and perspiration.

Tightness across occiput, head felt heavy as if brain rolling over, and could hardly

stand for fear of moving, breathing continued short (2nd day; 3rd day felt altogether better.—m.

64).

Fearful earache, said to be from cancer of the nose and throat, goes away after the

dose, but returns after a few days—Deafness with history of otorrhoea, also aneemia.—Deafness

of both ears, dating from excision of tonsils at seven years old, and rapidly getting worse

(improved rapidly after the dose. —w. 21).

Burning and stinging in tongue and fauces (lasting fourteen hours); > by copious

draughts of cold water.—Tongue raw, sore, very red, esp. at tip, where is a blister—Mouth and

fauces dry, with raw, distressed feeling extending down to epigastrium 8 a.m.—Unpleasant taste,

morning and through the day.

Throat sore, dry, with disposition to swallow and hawk.—Soreness of fauces,

extending down into upper cesophagus; when it leaves fauces burning and pricking remain there.

Pains of cancer of pylorus with distended stomach go away for a whole

afternoon, great depression, mental and physical, follow at once on the dose, and next day she

has neuralgic pains down r. arm to fingers followed on third day by great pain in r. knee lasting

two days (W. 33; healthy otherwise).—Habitual indigestion; no power to digest (cured).

Sticking pain at 1. hypochondrium, which came suddenly and so violently as to

cause him to cry out, > placing ends of fingers over spot.

Great discharge of flatus (M. 23).—Burning as of a red-hot poker and

shootings in rectum, generally < at night, lessen at once (m. 47).

Menses come on too often, with much bearing down last time; this

bearing down kept on for a month, being < at the period (w. 35).

Pain r. chest same evening (of dose), and again three days later, causing aching in

back; and then pain came on each evening for three days and then disappeared (w. 30).—Right

breast eaten away by cancer, "heavenly relief to local pain and distress" (w. 78).

Throbbing and weakness in lower limbs, with headache compelling him to

• ▸lie down.
• ▸—Sticking like pricking with needles: inner r.
• ▸thigh; 1.
• ▸calf and heel; 1.
• ▸sole, shooting up.

24. Generalities—Debility all day.—Symptoms continued two weeks, and it was three weeks

before the appetite came back.

Whilst lying down great sleepiness with difficulty of falling asleep.—Starting in

sleep, with jerking of hands.

Felt hot and perspired freely, followed by great depression (w. 35).—Persistent high

temperature in tuberculous children with diarrhcea.

• ▸Breast, cancer of.
• ▸Cancer.
• ▸Deafness.
• ▸Earache.
• ▸Fever, hectic.
• ▸Indigestion.
• ▸Keratitis,

interstitial.

• ▸Compare: Lob.
• ▸1.
• ▸, Lob.
• ▸s.
• ▸; Caps.
• ▸(burning in mouth and throat; but Caps is < by cold

water, Lob. cd. >).