Tabacum

Nicotiana tabacum received its specific name from Jean Nicot, French

ambassador to Portugal, who was the means of introducing the tobacco plant into France about

1560. When Columbus and his followers landed in Cuba in 1492 the practice of smoking tobacco

was in common use among the natives throughout the island, and also throughout the continent

of America. On their return to Spain the practice rapidly spread throughout the Peninsula. Sir

Walter Raleigh and his companions introduced the practice into England in 1586. From that time

the cultivation, manufacture, and use of tobacco, either by smoking, snuffing, or chewing,

rapidly became universal. The symptoms of the pathogenesis are composed partly of provings

made by Lembke, Schreter, and others, and partly of poisonings and over-dosings. Several

instructive articles on tobacco appeared in the Homeopathic News of 1897, from the pen of M.

E. Douglass, then practising at Danville, Virginia, in the midst of tobacco plantations. His third

article (July, 1897) was devoted to the "medicinal uses" of Tobacco; and it seems that it is

regarded as a perfect panacea by the Virginians for diseases of men and cattle. One use he

mentions is as a palliative for bee-stings and mosquito-bites. A portion of a leaf is moistened

• ▸with vinegar and applied to the part.
• ▸This is interesting, as /pec.
• ▸, one of the antidotes of Tab.
• ▸, has

a similar reputation. Strong tobacco-juice is the most effectual destroyer of the burrowing-flea,

Chigoe. For headache leaves of Tobacco are moistened with vinegar or camphor solution, and

applied to the forehead and nape. The pain is allayed and sleep induced. The local application

over the pit of the stomach relieves nausea. Douglass made in involuntary proving on himself

when about twenty. He was attending an evening writing-class, when a class-mate gave him a bit

of tobacco to chew, and he put it in his mouth. In a few minutes the bell rang and he took his

seat, after first removing the tobacco. He soon began to feel dizzy, and could not distinguish his

copy; the letters danced all over the page; a cold perspiration broke out on the forehead, and

extended all over the body. He felt a deathly nausea at his stomach; his hands trembled so that he

could not hold pen to paper. He felt so weak and faint he feared he would fall out of his seat. His

desk-mate helped him out of the house into the cold air, and gave him a sour apple, bidding him

eat it. It did not seem possible, but he finally tried, and was so much relieved that he ate it all. In

half an hour he was able to return to the class, but was so weak and tremulous, he did not attempt

to write. The nausea was the first symptom to disappear, then the cold perspiration. The

dizziness, trembling, and excessive weakness did not entirely leave till next day. Since then

Douglass has used small doses of vinegar in acute symptoms of nicotine poisoning, either

chewing or smoking, with excellent results. Nothing, he says, relieves the sensation of

constriction of the cesophagus (in his own case the symptom was a very disagreeable one, "as of

a hand clutching the throat") so quickly as vinegar. One of Douglass's patients, a young man in

good health, who was very fond of cigars, was certain, if he smoked two in an evening, to have

an emission on the same night, sometimes with, but oftener without, dreams. Next day he was

prostrated, hypochondriacal, tongue furred with a thick, fuzzy, yellow coat at base; and dull,

occipital headache. Prostatorrhoea and impotence are also among the effects of Tab. The

constrictive sensation is not confined to the throat; it affects the rectum, bladder, and chest. There

is violent rectal tenesmus; and there is also paralysis and prolapsus ani. The vesical sphincter is

paralysed, there is debility of urine, and enuresis. Two of Lembke's provers, students accustomed

to smoke and drink coffee and beer, had incontinence of urine; in one the quantity of urine was

not increased, but it was "passed more frequently, and dribbled away involuntarily, with slight

itching of urethra in the case of the other the urine was increased, pale, and he "had to pass it

several times in the night, almost amounting to incontinence." The power of Tab. to paralyse

sphincters and also morbid constrictions accounts for its traditional use in cases of strangulated

hernia and obstruction of the bowels, which has been confirmed in homceopathic practice. Renal

colic comes under the same heading. The same pair of opposites—relaxation and

constriction—are seen in the weakness and paralysis on the one hand, and the convulsions on the

other. All shades of nervous tremors, faintings, cramps, jerkings, and restlessness are noted, and

it is by its power of antidoting these conditions that Zab. holds its place in society. "After an

unusually vexatious day," says Douglass, "when I am in that unpleasant condition of mind when

it seems as though the slightest word would cause an outburst of passion, nothing else does me

quite so much good as a smoke." This is a central nervous action, and if too much indulged leads

to degeneration of nerve tissue, as seen in tobacco-blindness. Tab. also produces a condition like

brain-fag; inability to concentrate thoughts; this may even go on to a state of idiocy. Silly talking

• ▸in boys.
• ▸A curious state was induced in Mr.
• ▸Harrison (C.
• ▸D.
• ▸P.
• ▸), who slept in the cabin of a

sloop, the cabin being full of large packages of tobacco. His sleep was harassed by wild and

frightful dreams, and he suddenly awakened about midnight, bathed in a cold dew, and totally

unable to speak or move. He knew perfectly where he was, and recollected what had occurred

the day before; but could not make any bodily effort whatever, and tried in vain to get up or

change his position. "Four bells" was struck on deck, and he heard the sounds (though rather, it

seemed, through their vibrating in his body than by the ears); and he was conscious of other

things that occurred—so he was not dreaming. At length be became totally insensible for a time,

till a roll of the ship roused him, and he awakened and got on deck. His memory was totally lost

for a quarter of an hour; he knew he was in a ship, but nothing more. While in this state he saw a

man drawing water, and asked him to pour a bucket on his head. This was done, and all his

faculties were instantly restored; and he acquired a most vivid recollection of a vast variety of

ideas and events which seemed to have passed through his mind, and that had occupied him

during the time of his Supposed insensibility—The nutrition is profoundly influenced by Tab.,

and it probably retards growth in children. It produces a deathly sinking and craving at the

stomach, and it is no doubt by virtue of this, acting homeeopathically, that Zab. enables persons

who cannot have proper meals to endure starvation better than they otherwise would. Decaisne

• ▸(C.
• ▸D.
• ▸P.
• ▸) observed the effects of smoking on youths, aged from 9 to 15.
• ▸Among the effects

were: Bruit in carotids and diminution of red corpuscles of the blood. Palpitation. Deficient

• ▸digestive power.
• ▸Sluggish intellect.
• ▸Craving for alcoholic stimulants.
• ▸Epistaxis.
• ▸Ulcerated mouth.

"The younger the boy, the more marked the symptoms; the better fed suffer least." "Rapid

emaciation, especially of back and cheeks" has been noted among the effects. Zab. has a number

• ▸of backaches, and some are peculiar.
• ▸C.
• ▸M.
• ▸Boger (Hahn.
• ▸A.
• ▸, xxxviii, 41) cured this with Zab.

cm: Backache persistent; < lying down, > walking; history of anginoid attacks. in cases of

cholera, sea-sickness, sickness of pregnancy, renal colic, strangulated hernia, &c., the keynote

symptoms are: deathly nausea, pallor, coldness; icy cold surface, covered with cold sweat;

vomiting violent, as soon as he began to move, > on deck and in fresh air. Terrible faint, sinking

feeling at pit of stomach. Terry cured a case of sea-sickness with heat along spine from nape

down; cold sweat; then vomit. He also cured a case of Méniére's disease with a feeling as if sea-

sick. A keynote symptom of much importance in many abdominal cases is: > by uncovering

abdomen. Child wants abdomen uncovered; it > nausea and vomiting. There may be coldness of

• ▸the abdomen at the same time.
• ▸Zab.
• ▸produces a number of skin affections, notably pruritus.
• ▸Teste

cured with it several cases of freckles; he repeated the remedy and gave it for weeks at a time: "A

country girl had her face and hands covered with freckles, two-thirds of which disappeared

completely [under 7ab.] in summer, the season in which they are most frequent and obstinate."

Burnett told me that an infusion of tobacco is a popular German remedy for scrofulous glands.

• ▸Cooper gives as in indication, "intermittent heart in old people.
• ▸" E.
• ▸T.
• ▸Blake (7.
• ▸R.
• ▸, ii.
• ▸68)

records a case of rheumatism with rigid joints and spinal insomnia in a lady, 40, who had been

heavily drugged with narcotics before he saw her. "Whenever she composed herself for sleep,

just as she was lapsing into unconsciousness, the knees would attempt to fly up towards the chest

with an abrupt jerk, tearing painfully at the acetabular adhesions." Other symptoms were:

sweating, impaired memory, hypochondriasis, drumming in the ears, facial as well as crural

clonus, white tongue, epigastric sinking, alternating with nausea and flatulence, heart action

increased by day, diminished down to severe fainting during the night. Zab. 12 gave three hours'

refreshing sleep the first night, more the second, and after the third the leg-jerk departed for

• ▸good.
• ▸C.
• ▸W.
• ▸(H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxvi.
• ▸207) was troubled with spasm of lower jaw, < out of doors.
• ▸No remedy

did good till he remained one evening with two friends who were smoking, and got himself well

saturated with the smoke. That cured him. Slight subsequent returns were always removed by

• ▸Tab.
• ▸J.
• ▸W.
• ▸Scott (H.
• ▸P.
• ▸, xvi.
• ▸420) observed a case of epileptiform convulsions brought on by

tobacco. For five months the patient had two attacks weekly, and they grew worse in spite of

treatment till the tobacco was discontinued. Sensations are: Sensation of excessive wretchedness.

As if struck by a hammer on right side of head. As if a band round head. As if brains were being

• ▸bored out.
• ▸As if black dots filled visual field.
• ▸As if ears were closed.
• ▸As of a plug in cesophagus.

• ▸As if throat gripped by a hand.
• ▸As if sea-sick.
• ▸As if stomach were relaxed.
• ▸As if chest too tight.

As if a crowbar were twisted round heart. The symptoms are: > Uncovering abdomen. < By

• ▸pressure.
• ▸< Motion of vessel.
• ▸< Lying; > walking.
• ▸Lying on left side = palpitation.
• ▸Motion (even

• ▸least) <.
• ▸Coughing = hiccough; stitches in pit of stomach.
• ▸Rising <.
• ▸< Morning: vomiting;

• ▸diarrhoea; sickness of pregnancy; cramps in fingers.
• ▸Thirst < night.
• ▸Sight < evening.
• ▸> In open

• ▸air; (ear symptoms <).
• ▸> Cold affusion to head.
• ▸< Indoors.
• ▸Symptoms come in paroxysms; are

• ▸periodical.
• ▸< By stimulants.
• ▸Weeping >.
• ▸Vomiting >.
• ▸Music pains in ears.

• ▸Sensation of excessive wretchedness.
• ▸Very despondent.
• ▸Forgetful.
• ▸Discontented.

Gloomy melancholy.—Inclination to weep.—Anguish and inquietude, generally in the

afternoon, > by weeping.—Restlessness, which prompts continual change of place.—Dislike to

labour and conversation.—Excessive vertigo; mental faculties much impaired; cannot read or

study; sufferings from abuse of tobacco.—Difficulty of concentrating mind for any length of time

on one subject.—Feels as if some one were coming to arrest him, or murder him; always with

• ▸singing in ears (produced—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Suicidal tendency, gloomy forebodings, inclined to hang

• ▸down head, breath becomes short, appetite goes (produced—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Feels intoxicated, hands

and feet tremble —Over-excitement and great liveliness, with songs, dancing, and great

loquacity—The Mexican priests incite courage and bravery by means of an ointment of

tobacco.—Abject cowardice, thinks he is going to die and is in extreme terror of death (from

• ▸smoking many cigars.
• ▸—J.
• ▸H.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Frequent laughter without cause.
• ▸—Silly talk, cannot stop; loss

of memory.—(Attacks of silliness; cannot help talking sillily and memory goes, blames himself

• ▸for things, inclines to suicide and despair.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Idiotic; epileptic idiocy.
• ▸—Concourse of

confused ideas.—Cataleptic state-—Stupor—Coma.

Pressive pains, with agitation throughout body, and anxious

perspiration.—Sudden breaking out of cold, clammy sweat; with much nausea, feeble, irregular

pulse; collapse.—Cramps and tingling in limbs.—Restlessness, wants to change place

continually.—Gait slow and shuffling, difficulty in ascending stairs —Excessive

emaciation.—Anemia of boys and girls, particularly with brain symptoms (cured with

• ▸dilutions.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Paralytic and painful weakness of limbs.
• ▸—Trembling of limbs.
• ▸—Great

general lassitude.—Jerkings throughout body, with pulsation and palpitation of the

heart.—Convulsions, head firmly drawn back, with rigidity of muscles at back of neck; constantly

recurring rigid tetanic spasms, muscles of back being principally affected, till death a week after

• ▸he chewed the tobacco.
• ▸—Epileptiform convulsions.
• ▸—Symptoms < on |.
• ▸side; from great heat or

great cold, and esp. in stormy weather; from walking, riding in a carriage, and jar of a railway

train.—> In the open air; from vomiting.

• ▸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.

Emptiness and confusion in the head.—Dizziness.—Vertigo, which often produces loss

of consciousness, with nausea (< indoors; > in open air), and pains in head and eyes.—Vertigo <

on rising and looking up—brought on by immoderate use of cigars.—Giddiness in

• ▸occiput.
• ▸—Headache, with nausea and vertigo.
• ▸—Excessive heaviness of head.
• ▸—Pressive headache,

• ▸esp.
• ▸above eyes, vertex, and temples.
• ▸—Shootings in head.
• ▸—Headache from one temple to the

other, involving orbits, or with shooting in |. eye, > from cold.—While passing urine, suddenly

attacked with pains in head, so severe he screamed for assistance; immediately followed by

vomiting.—Congestion of blood in head, with internal heat, and throbbing in temples.—Neuralgic

headache, sensation as of sudden blows struck by a hammer.—Periodical sick-headache from

fatigue or excitement.—Tightness in head as though a band stretched round it, disturbance of

vision, tinnitus, and vertigo.—Headache > in the open air.—Burning and tingling sensation in

• ▸exterior of head.
• ▸—Trembling of head.
• ▸—Hair falls out—Formication above |.
• ▸temple.

• ▸Dim sight; sees as through a veil; strabismus.
• ▸Amaurosis; muscae volitantes.
• ▸Central scotoma.
• ▸Rapid blindness without lesion, followed by venous hyperaemia and atrophy of optic nerve.

Pain in eyes, as from much weeping.—Aching in eyes, extending into bottom of

• ▸orbits.
• ▸—Sensation, as if there were a hair in eye.
• ▸Smarting in eyes.
• ▸—Heat and burning sensation

in eyes, with redness —Contraction of the lids.—Pupils: dilated and insensible; irregularly dilated;

contracted.—Amblyopia with intolerance of light—Loss of sight on looking steadily at anything

white.—Confused sight, in evening, as if looking through a veil.—Sees as through a fog, and

• ▸hears as through cotton wool (produced—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Squinting when trying to

read.—Insufficiency of internal recti——Sparks and black specks before eyes.—Central colour

• ▸scotoma.
• ▸—White or grey atrophia of optic nerve.
• ▸—Optic neuritis.
• ▸—Sudden failure of

• ▸vision.
• ▸—Tobacco-blindness commences in one eye, generally r.
• ▸; sight < evening.
• ▸—Photophobia.

Shootings in ears, esp. in open air, and when listening to music.—Hyperesthesia to

• ▸music and loud talking.
• ▸—Jerking tearing in r.
• ▸ear, and in front of it externally.
• ▸—Burning heat and

• ▸redness of the ears.
• ▸—Hard reddish swelling behind (1.
• ▸) ear, with shootings.
• ▸—Ringing; roaring;

rushing; humming in ears, < by loud noise or going into open air.—Tinnitus and

vertigo.—Fluttering in r. ear both heard and felt.

Burning sensation and tingling in the nose.—Diminished power of smell, which,

however, is very sensitive to odour of wine; fumes all but intoxicate her—Frequent

sneezing.—Dryness and obstruction of nose.

Pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered with cold sweat (Ars; Verat). Freckles.

Deadly paleness of face (during the nausea; face collapsed, cold sweat on).—Burning

heat in face, with redness, sometimes of one cheek only, and paleness of the other.—Face covered

• ▸with cold sweat.
• ▸—R.
• ▸cheek glowing, the other pale.
• ▸-—Red spots on face.
• ▸—Tearings in bones of

face (and teeth, in evening).—Pimples on cheeks, wings of nose, and corners of mouth.—Violent

• ▸tearing in r.
• ▸facial bones and teeth.
• ▸—Granulated tuberosities on cheeks.
• ▸—Emaciation of

• ▸face.
• ▸—Lips dry, burning, rough, and cracked.
• ▸—Epithelioma of lip (27 per cent.
• ▸in men; 1 1/2 in

women).—Eruption on commissures of lips.—Lancinating pains in maxillary joint, when

laughing.

Dryness of the mouth and tongue, with violent thirst—Tongue feels

swollen.—Tongue: trembles; white; red; furred; dry and parched; covered with blackish-brown

crust.—Frothing from the mouth.—Profuse salivation—Accumulation of white, tenacious mucus

in mouth and throat, which must be frequently expectorated —Swelling of glands under

tongue—Weak, interrupted speech.—Drawling, monotonous style of reading.

Toothache, with drawing and tearing pains.—Lancinations in carious teeth, when

masticating.—Violent tearing in r. teeth —Throbbing or jumping pains in teeth Drawing pain in

gums.—Gums pale and parched.

Roughness, dryness, and scraping in throat, as from a foreign body.—Dry, hot,

sulphur feeling in throat, with dry, parched mouth comes on after dose of @ and remains for a

• ▸week off and on, but generally < in morning after sleep (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Throat dry, can hardly

swallow.—Crawling and tickling in throat.—Swallowing very painful from spasms in

throat —Peculiar sensation of plug in cesophagus, with constant dull pressure.—Redness of

fauces.—Burning in pharynx.—Accumulation of viscid mucus in throat.

10. Appetite-—Mawkish and clammy, or bitter and sour taste.—Acid taste of all

food.—Acidulated taste of water, as if it contained wine —Adipsia, and dread of water—Great

thirst; < at night——Absence of hunger and appetite.-—Constant hunger, with nausea if nothing is

eaten.

Nasopharyngitis and tracheitis, hemming, morning cough, sometimes with vomiting. Hoarseness of public speakers.

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 (Ipec). Gastralgia; pain from cardiac end extending to left arm.

• ▸Frequent empty and noisy risings.
• ▸—Sour, burning risings.
• ▸—Pyrosis.
• ▸—Spasmodic

hiccough.—Frequent nausea, esp. during movement, often inducing syncope, with deadly

paleness of face, disappearing generally in open air.—Deathly nausea, with vertigo, in

paroxysms, body covered with cold sweat; sea-sickness.—Nausea, with inclination to vomit,

sensation of coldness in stomach, or pinchings in abdomen.—Vomiting of water only, with

yellow and greenish reflection before eyes.—Vomiting of acid serum, often mixed with

mucus.—Violent vomiting; easy, of sour liquid; watery, insipid, sometimes bitter in

• ▸morning.
• ▸—The vomiting is renewed by the slightest movement.
• ▸—Stomach-ache.
• ▸—Squeezing,

contractive cramps in stomach, sometimes after a meal, often accompanied by nausea, and an

accumulation of saliva in mouth.—Shootings in the scrobiculus, which pass through

back.—Relaxation, and sensation of coldness or burning in stomach.—Sinking at the pit of

stomach.—Dreadful faint feeling in stomach.

• ▸Cold.
• ▸Wants abdomen uncovered.
• ▸It lessens the nausea and vomiting.
• ▸Painful distension.
• ▸Incarcerated hernia.

Hepatic pain, when pressing on the part—Hepatic and renal regions sensitive to

pressure.—Pressure in hepatic region, as from a heavy body.—Shooting in hepatic

• ▸region.
• ▸—Shootings in the |.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Great sensitiveness of abdomen to slightest

touch—Uncovering abdomen > nausea and vomiting.—Painful distension of abdomen.—Pressive

pains in abdomen, esp. in umbilical region, with spasmodic retraction of that part —Violent

burning in abdomen, horrible pains, must shriek.—Nocturnal tearings in abdomen.—Pinchings

and borborygmi in abdomen.—Incarcerated hernia.

Constipation; rectum paralyzed, prolapsed. Diarrhoea, sudden, watery, with nausea and vomiting, prostration, and cold sweat; discharges look like sour milk, thick, curdled, watery. Rectal tenesmus.

Constipation.—Chronic constipation, great pain and tympanitic distension

of intestines; great dyspnoea.—Stools clay-colour or mottled grey and brown.—Habitual

constipation; paralysis of rectum; spasm of anal sphincter.—Prolapsus ani; great drowsiness

during day when trying to study.—Frequent tenesmus.—Soft feeces of consistence of pap, also at

night.—Violent pain in small of back during soft stool.—Shifting of flatulence, formed by sudden,

papescent, yellow-green or greenish, slimy stools with tenesmus.—Violent diarrhoea, fetid or

yellowish green slime; also at night, accompanied and followed by violent tenesmus, and

burning sensation in anus.—Cholera-like stools; watery, urgent, painless.

Renal colic; violent pains along ureters; cold sweat; deathly

• ▸nausea.
• ▸—Paralysis of sphincter, constant dribbling.
• ▸—Enuresis.
• ▸—Urine yellowish-red, with

increased secretion.—Inflammation of the orifice of the urethra.

Renal colic; violent pain along ureter, left side.

Retarded and profuse catamenia.—Leucorrheea, like sanguineous

water.—Leucorrhcea of serous liquid after the menses.—In climacteric period, also during menses;

subjective coldness; epigastric sinking, palpitation, severe diarrhoea, muscular relaxation,

excessive sense of wretchedness.—Morning sickness of pregnancy; nausea and vomiting, patient

dreads least movement.—During pregnancy, insupportable pruritus over whole body, pyrosis,

toothache, and other gastric symptoms.

Frequent erections.—Flow of prostatic fluid.—Nocturnal emissions;

• ▸until waking.
• ▸—Genital organs flabby; no erections or sexual desire.
• ▸—Varicocele.
• ▸—(Masturbation

• ▸and its consequences.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)

• ▸Difficult, violent constriction of chest.
• ▸Praecordial oppression, with palpitation and pain between shoulders.
• ▸Cough followed by hiccough.
• ▸Cough dry, teasing, must take a swallow of cold water (Caust; Phos).
• ▸Dyspnoea, with tingling down left arm when lying on left side.

Dry cough, excited by a tickling in throat, in morning and towards

evening.—Cough = in pit of stomach sensation as of a wound by some sharp instrument.—Cough,

with hiccough (at same time), almost suffocating; (or hiccough after every paroxysm of

whooping-cough).—Difficult respiration.—Paroxysm of suffocation.

• ▸Palpitation when lying on left side.
• ▸Pulse intermits, feeble, imperceptible.
• ▸Angina pectoris, pain in praecordial region.
• ▸Pain radiates from center of sternum.
• ▸Tachycardia.
• ▸Bradycardia.
• ▸Acute dilatation caused by shock or violent physical exertion (Royal).

Oppression of the chest, with anguish.—Constriction of the chest.—Pressure on the

chest and sternum.—Shootings in chest and sides of chest, sometimes when drawing

breath —Sticking under sternum with inability to take a deep breath._(A trembling, frightened

feeling across pit of chest with sudden and irregular sinkings.—Nervous indigestion, constant

• ▸sinking in chest.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—On taking a deep breath it seemed as if chest were too

• ▸tight.
• ▸—Sensation as if a crowbar were pressed tightly from r.
• ▸breast to 1.
• ▸till it came and twisted

in a knot around heart, which stopped, then leaped violently; after the attack heart missed every

fourth beat.—Pain, as from excoriation, in chest, during a meal.—Itching pimples on chest.

Sudden attacks of extreme faintness; feeling of oppression around cardiac

• ▸region.
• ▸—Angina pectoris (single doses of © relieved much; not to be repeated often.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.

• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Feeble, irregular pulse.
• ▸—Palpitation of heart, when lying on 1.
• ▸side.

Stiffness of the neck.—Head drawn back in convulsions.—Neuralgic pains

in neck and between shoulders.—Burning under scapula.—Neuralgia of back with tightness of

throat —Contractive pains in the loins, esp. after a stool.—Violent pain in small of back and loins

• ▸(renal calculi).
• ▸—Throbbing in sacral region, evening.
• ▸—Pain in small of back and loins, esp.
• ▸after

sitting.—Intolerable pain in small of back much < while sitting.—Pains in small of back,

constriction; esp. after a stool —Pressive pain in lumbar region on rising from a seat and

beginning to walk, goes off on walking —Emaciation of the back.—Red, itching eruption on the

back.

Painful weakness of hands and arms, which are, as it were,

• ▸paralysed.
• ▸—Constant need to stretch arms.
• ▸—Shootings and drawing in shoulders.
• ▸—Red spots on

• ▸shoulder, which burn when they are touched.
• ▸—Tension in arm, esp.
• ▸in elbow.
• ▸—Pain and

shootings in 1. arm, which disable it and prevent its extension.—(Coldness and trembling of the

limbs), trembling of hands.—Cold perspiration on hands.—Cramps in the arms and

• ▸hands.
• ▸—Cramps in single fingers, esp.
• ▸while washing; early morning.
• ▸—Cramps and tingling in

fingers.—Swelling of fingers.—Itching pimples on fingers.

Burning pain in knee and soles.—Legs icy cold from knees down.—Shooting

in knee and ham.—Flexion of knees, when walking.—Cramp in toes, extending into

• ▸knees.
• ▸—Jerking of legs in bed.
• ▸—Tingling, crawling, from knee to toes.
• ▸—Tension in leg when

walking, from knee to foot.—Trembling and paralytic weakness of feet.

• ▸Legs and hands icy cold; limbs tremble.
• ▸Paralysis following apoplexy (Plumb).
• ▸Gait shuffling, unsteady.
• ▸Feebleness of arms.

Itching in skin, as from flea-bites.—Itching over the whole body.—Eruption of itching

pimples, or vesicles, with yellow serum and red areola.

Insomnia with dilated heart, with cold, clammy skin and anxiety.

Urgent inclination to sleep, esp. after a meal, and towards evening, with frequent

yawnings.—Retarded sleep in evening, and difficulty in waking in morning.—Stupefying sleep at

night.—Disturbed sleep at night, with fright —Nightmare.

Chills, with cold sweat.

Pulse full, hard, and rapid, or small, imperceptible, intermittent, slow.—Coldness and

shivering, sometimes with chattering of teeth—Coldness of legs from knees to toes; warm body,

cold hands.—Chilliness after eating and drinking.—Frequent attacks of shuddering, sometimes

with flushes of heat.—Permanent shuddering, from morning till evening.—Perspiration at

night—Viscid cold sweat, with intermitting pulse.—Cold sweat, in hands, on forehead and face.

Tamus.

• ▸Tamus communis.
• ▸Black Bryony.
• ▸Ladies' Seal.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Dioscoreacez.
• ▸Tincture of fresh root.

Tincture of the berries.

Chilblains.

Characteristics—T7amus is the only European representative of the Dioscoreacez. There are two

• ▸species, 7.
• ▸communis and T.
• ▸cretica.
• ▸The Greeks use the young suckers of both like asparagus,

• ▸which they much resemble.
• ▸7.
• ▸communis is the Black Bryony of our hedges.
• ▸"The root is very

great and thick, oftentimes as big as a man's leg, blackish without and very clammy or slimy

within; which having been scraped with a knife, it seems to be a matter fit to be spread upon

cloth or leather in manner of a plaister of sear-cloth" (Gerarde). Dioscorides, according to the

same authority, says the fruit or berries take away sun-burns and other blemishes of the skin; and

Gerarde adds that these "very quickly waste and consume away black and blue marks that come

of bruises and dry beatings: which thing also the roots perform being laid upon them." The fruits

steeped in gin are a popular remedy for chilblains, and the only use that Tamus has been made of

by Homeceopaths is as a paint for chilblains. Gerarde says of the root-plaister that it removes scars

and deformities; breaks hard apostems, draws forth splinters and broken bones, dissolves

congealed blood, and if laid on hip or knuckle-bones or any other part where there is great pain,

it takes away the pain speedily.

• ▸Antidoted by: Vinegar, Sour Apples, Camph.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸; Ipec.
• ▸(primary effects:

vomiting); Ars. (effects of chewing tobacco); Nux (bad taste in mouth in morning, amblyopia);

• ▸Phos.
• ▸(palpitation, tobacco heart, amblyopia, sexual weakness); Spig.
• ▸(heart affections); Ign.
• ▸,

• ▸Puls.
• ▸(hiccough); Clem.
• ▸(toothache); Sep.
• ▸(neuralgia in face and dyspepsia, chronic nervousness);

• ▸Lyc.
• ▸(impotence); Wine (spasms, cold sweat from excessive smoking).
• ▸Plant.
• ▸maj.
• ▸has

• ▸sometimes caused aversion to tobacco.
• ▸Gels.
• ▸(occipital headache and vertigo); Tab.
• ▸200, or 1,000

• ▸for the craving when discontinuing its use.
• ▸Antidote to: Cic.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸Compare: Nicotinum.
• ▸Cold

• ▸sweat, Ver.
• ▸(Ver.
• ▸on forehead; Tab.
• ▸all over).
• ▸Coldness in abdomen, Colch.
• ▸, Elps.
• ▸, Lach.

• ▸Spasmodic pains along |.
• ▸ureter, Berb.
• ▸Méniére's disease, Salicin.
• ▸Incarcerated hernia, Aco.
• ▸, Nux,

• ▸Op.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Chills or creeps precede headache (Chel.
• ▸, accompany headache).
• ▸Sinking immediately

• ▸after meals, Ars.
• ▸, Cin.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Sel.
• ▸, Stp.
• ▸, Ur.
• ▸nit.
• ▸Hair sensation, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸(Tab.
• ▸, in eye).

• ▸Blindness, optic atrophy, Carb.
• ▸s.
• ▸, Benz.
• ▸din.
• ▸, Filix.
• ▸m.
• ▸Emissions, heart, anzemia, Dig.
• ▸Retracted

• ▸abdomen, Pb.
• ▸Jerking of legs in bed, Meny.
• ▸As if a hand clutching throat (Bell.
• ▸, intestines).

Compare: Hydrobromic acid; Camph; Verat; Ars. Compare: Nicotinum (Alternate tonic and clonic spasms, followed by general relaxation and trembling; nausea, cold sweat, and speedy collapse; head drawn back, contraction of eyelids and masseter muscles; muscles of neck and back rigid; hissing respiration from spasm of laryngeal and bronchial muscles).

Third to thirtieth and higher potencies.

Vinegar; sour apples. Camphor in the physiological antagonist. Ars (chewing tobacco); Ign; (smoking); Sep (neuralgia and dyspepsia); Lycop (impotency); Nux (bad taste due to tobacco); Calad and Plantag (cause aversion to tobacco); Phosph (tobacco heart, sexual weakness).