Tobacco
- The symptomatology of Tabacum is exceedingly well 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 entire muscular system.
- Collapse.
- Gastralgia, enteralgia, seasickness, cholera infantum; cold, but wants abdomen uncovered.
- Vigorous peristaltic activity diarrhoea.
- Produces high tension and arteriosclerosis of the coronary arteries.
- Should prove the most homeopathic drug for angina pectoris, with coronaritis and high tension (Cartier).
- Constriction of throat, chest, bladder, rectum.
- Pallor, breathlessness, hard-cordlike pulse.
Mind
- Sensation of excessive wretchedness.
- Very despondent.
- Forgetful. Discontented.
Head
- 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.
Eyes
- 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.
Face
- Pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered with cold sweat (Ars; Verat).
- Freckles.
Throat
- Nasopharyngitis and tracheitis, hemming, morning cough, sometimes with vomiting.
- Hoarseness of public speakers.
Stomach
- 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.
Abdomen
- Cold.
- Wants abdomen 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 cold sweat; discharges look like sour milk, thick, curdled, watery.
- Rectal tenesmus.
Urinary
- Renal colic; violent pain along ureter, left side.
Heart
- Palpitation when lying on left side.
- Pulse intermits, feeble, imperceptible.
- Angina pectoris, pain in precordial region.
- Pain radiates from center of sternum.
- Tachycardia.
- Bradycardia.
- Acute dilatation caused by shock or violent physical exertion (Royal).
Respiratory
- Difficult, violent constriction of chest.
- Precordial 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.
Extremities
- Legs and hands icy cold; limbs tremble.
- Paralysis following apoplexy (Plumb).
- Gait shuffling, unsteady.
- Feebleness of arms.
Sleep
- Insomnia with dilated heart, with cold, clammy skin and anxiety.
Fever
- Chills, with cold sweat.
Modalities
- Worse, opening eyes; evening; extremes of heat and cold.
- Better, uncovering, open fresh air.
Relationship
- 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).
Antidotes
- 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).
Dose
- Third to thirtieth and higher potencies.
