TABACUM
Tobacco
The symptomatology of Tabacum is relatively nicely 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 complete muscular system. Collapse. Gastralgia, enteralgia, seasickness, cholera infantum; cold, however needs stomach uncovered. Vigorous peristaltic pastime diarrhoea. Produces excessive anxiety and arteriosclerosis of the coronary arteries. Should show the most homeopathic drug for angina pectoris, with coronaritis and high anxiety (Cartier). Constriction of throat, chest, bladder, rectum. Pallor, breathlessness, hard-cordlike pulse.
Mind.–Sensation of immoderate wretchedness. Very despondent. Forgetful. Discontented.
Head.–Vertigo on opening eyes; in poor health headache, with deathly nausea; periodical. Tight feeling as from a band. Sudden pain, as if struck by way of a hammer. Nervous deafness. Secretion from eyes, nostril and mouth increased.
Eyes.–Dim sight; sees as via a veil; strabismus. Amaurosis; muscae volitantes. Central scotoma. Rapid blindness besides lesion, accompanied by means of venous hyperaemia and atrophy of optic nerve.
Face.–Pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, protected with bloodless sweat (Ars; Verat). Freckles.
Throat.–Nasopharyngitis and tracheitis, hemming, morning cough, every so often with vomiting. Hoarseness of public speakers.
Stomach.–Incessant nausea; worse, odor of tobacco smoke (Phos); vomiting on least motion, on occasion of fecal matter, in the course of being pregnant with lots spitting. Seasickness; horrible faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach. Sense of rest of stomach, with nausea (Ipec). Gastralgia; ache from cardiac give up extending to left arm.
Abdomen.–Cold. Wants stomach uncovered. It lessens the nausea and vomiting. Painful distension. Incarcerated hernia.
Rectum.–Constipation; rectum paralyzed, prolapsed. Diarrhoea, sudden, watery, with nausea and vomiting, prostration, and bloodless sweat; discharges seem like bitter milk, thick, curdled, watery. Rectal tenesmus.
Urinary.–Renal colic; violent ache alongside ureter, left side.
Heart.–Palpitation when mendacity on left side. Pulse intermits, feeble, imperceptible. Angina pectoris, ache in praecordial region. Pain radiates from middle of sternum. Tachycardia. Bradycardia. Acute dilatation brought about with the aid of shock or violent bodily exertion (Royal).
Respiratory.–Difficult, violent constriction of chest. Praecordial oppression, with palpitation and ache between shoulders. Cough observed by using hiccough. Cough dry, teasing, ought to take a swallow of bloodless water (Caust; Phos). Dyspnoea, with tingling down left arm when mendacity on left side.
Extremities.–Legs and arms icy cold; limbs tremble. Paralysis following apoplexy (Plumb). Gait shuffling, unsteady. Feebleness of arms.
Sleep.–Insomnia with dilated heart, with cold, clammy pores and skin and anxiety.
Fever.–Chills, with bloodless sweat.
Modalities.–Worse, opening eyes; evening; extremes of warmth and cold. Better, uncovering, open sparkling air.
Relationship.–Compare: Hydrobromic acid; Camph; Verat; Ars. Compare: Nicotinum (Alternate tonic and clonic spasms, accompanied by means of normal leisure and trembling; nausea, bloodless sweat, and rapid collapse; head drawn back, contraction of eyelids and masseter muscles; muscle mass of neck and returned rigid; hissing breathing from spasm of laryngeal and bronchial muscles).
Antidotes.–Vinegar; bitter apples. Camphor in the physiological antagonist. Ars (chewing tobacco); Ign; (smoking); Sep (neuralgia and dyspepsia); Lycop (impotency); Nux (bad style due to tobacco); Calad and Plantag (cause aversion to tobacco); Phosph (tobacco heart, sexual weakness).
Dose.–Third to thirtieth and greater potencies
