Tobacco (Solanaceae)
- Diseases originating in cerebral irritation followed by marked irritation of functions of vagi.
- Emaciation of cheeks and back.
- Complete prostration of entire muscular system.
- Sensation of excessive wretchedness.
- Icy coldness of surface; covered with cold sweat.
- Symptoms occur in paroxysms - asthma, sick headache, vertigo, sneezing.
- Great despondency with indigestion, palpitation, intermittent pulse.
- Vertigo: death-like pallor, increases to loss of consciousness; relieved in open air and by vomiting; on rising or looking upward; on opening the eyes.
- Sick headache coming on in early morning, intolerable by noon, deathly nausea, violent vomiting; < by noise and light; periodical, lasting one or two days.
- Sudden pain on right side, of head as if struck by a hammer or a club.
- Dim-sighted: see as though a veil; strabismus, depending upon brain troubles.
- Amaurosis, from atrophy of retina or optic nerve.
- Face pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered with cold sweat (cold sweat on forehad, Ver.).
- Nausea: incessant, as if seasick; vomiting, on least motion; with faintness; > in open air.
- Vomiting: violent, with cold sweat; soon as he begins to move; during pregnancy, when Lactic acid fails (Psor.).
- Seasickness; deathly nausea, pallor, coldness; < by least motion and > on deck in fresh, cold air.
- Terrible, faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach.
- Sense of relaxation of stomach with nausea (Ipec., Staph.).
- Child wants abdomen uncovered; relieves nausea and vomiting; coldness in abdomen (Colch., Elaps, Lach.).
- Constipation: inactive bowel or paralysis of rectum; spasms of sphincter; prolapsus ani; of years' standing; herpes of anus.
- Diarrhoea: sudden, yellowish, greenish, slimy; urgent, watery; with nausea, vomiting, prostration and cold sweat (Ver.); with extreme faintness; from excessive smoking.
- Renal colic: violent spasmodic pains along ureter left side (Berb.); deathly nausea and cold perspiration.
- Palpitation: violent when lying on left side; goes off when turning to the right.
- Pulse: quick, full, large; small intermittent, exceedingly slow; feeble, irregular, almost imperceptible.
- Hands icy cold, body warm.
- Legs icy cold, from knees down; trembling of limbs.
Relations
- Antidotes, for abuse of tobacco, are:
- Ipec., for excessive nausea and vomiting.
- Ars., for bad effects of tobacco chewing.
- Nux, for the gastric symptoms next morning after smoking.
- Phos., palpitation, tobacco heart, sexual weakness.
- Ign., for annoying hiccough from tobacco chewing.
- Clem., or Plant., for tobacco toothache.
- Sep., neuralgic affections of right side of face; dyspepsia; chronic nervousness, especially in sedentary occupations.
- Lyc., for impotence, spasms, cold sweat from excessive smoking.
- Gels., occipital headache and vertigo from excessive use, specially smoking.
- Tabacum, potentized (200 or 1000) to relieve terrible craving when discontinuing use.
Amelioration
- Open, fresh, cold air; uncovering.
