Lobelia Inflata – Indian Tobacco

The mother tincture is prepared from the whole fresh plant in flower of Lobelia in- flata L., a common weed growing by the wayside and in fallow fields in Eastern North America. N.O. Campanulaceae.

The main indications are:

Vertigo and nausea with cold sweat. Vomiting. Hyperemesis gravidarum, aggra- vated at night and in the mornings after sleep, ameliorated after eating. Dyspnoea and bronchial asthma, feeling of weakness in the pit of the stomach. Spasmodic cough, retching, vomiting, sneezing, eructations and stomach-pain, weakness per-

sisting. In asthma, only effective in combination with constitutional remedies (Sul- phur, Carbo Vegetabilis, etc.).

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Lobelia inflata, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for lobelia inflata: disorders of the autonomic nervous system, and of the respiratory centre with hypotension; hay fever; bronchial asthma; morning sickness (during pregnancy) with vomiting.