lobelia homeopathic supplement 3x?

Question

my husband got this by accident but it turns out thats all they had anyway ...im an herbalist not a homeopath and I dont know how to use this. I have a 2 and 3 year old with bronchitis and I normaly use lobelia herbal extract in a apple cider vinegar base 2 droppers fulls as needed. The directions on the homeopathic dropps says .25ml three times per day but that seem so little and is definatly not working as my lobelia extract does.. Is there a difference for maintainace dosing and acute dosing as with herbal extracts? How much and how often can I use this homeopathic version of lobelia for acute conditions.

Thanks in advance.

(((please only real knowledgeable help...dont tell me to see a doctor..)))

Answer 1

Homeopathic medicine are prescribed according to the patients symptoms not of the disaese. I am giving you the proving of the remedy Lobelia Inflata as given in Materia Medica of Homeopathic Medicine, please read it carefully.

LOBELIA INFLATA
Indian Tobacco

Is a vaso-motor stimulant; increases the activity of all vegetative processes; spends its force mainly upon the pneumogastric nerve, producing a depressed relaxed condition with oppression of the chest and epigastrium, impeded respiration, nausea and vomiting.

Languor, relaxation of muscles, nausea, vomiting and dyspepsia are the general indications that point to the use of this remedy, in asthma and gastric affections. Best adapted to light complexioned fleshy people. Bad effects of drunkenness. Suppressed discharges (Sulph). Diphtheria. Catarrhal jaundice (Chionanth).

Head.--Vertigo, and fear of death. Gastric headache, with nausea, vomiting, and great prostration; worse, afternoon until midnight; tobacco. Dull, heavy pain.

Face.--Bathed in cold sweat. Sudden pallor.

Ears.--Deafness due to suppressed discharges or eczema. Shooting pain from throat.

Mouth.--Profuse flow of saliva; acrid burning taste; mercurial taste; tenacious mucus, tongue coated white.

Stomach.--Acidity, flatulence, shortness of breath after eating. Heartburn with profuse flow of saliva. Extreme nausea and vomiting. Morning sickness. Faintness and weakness at epigastrium. Profuse salivation, with good appetite. Profuse sweat and prostration. Cannot bear smell or taste of tobacco. Acrid, burning taste; acidity, with contractive feeling in pit of stomach. Flatulence, shortness of breath after eating. Heartburn.

Respiratory.--Dyspnœa from constriction of chest; worse, any exertion. Sensation of pressure or weight in chest; better by rapid walking. Feels as if heart would stop. Asthma; attacks, with weakness, felt in pit of stomach and preceded by prickling all over. Cramp, ringing cough, short breath, catching at throat. Senile emphysema.

Back.--Pain in sacrum; cannot bear slightest touch. Sits leaning forward.

Urinary.--Deep red color and copious red sediment.

Skin.--Prickling, itching with intense nausea.

Modalities.--Worse, tobacco, afternoon, slightest motion, cold, especially cold washing. Better, by rapid walking; (chest pain), toward evening, and from warmth.

Relationship.--Antidote: Ipec.

Compare: Tabac; Ars; Tart e; Verat; Rosa.

Lobelia syphilitica or cerulea (gives a perfect picture of sneezing influenza, involving the posterior nares, palate, and fauces. Very depressed. Pain in forehead over eyes; pain and gas in bowels, followed by copious watery stools with tenesmus and soreness of anus. Pain in knees. Prickling in soles. Great oppression in lower part of chest, as if air could not reach there. Pain in chest under short ribs of left side. Dry, hacking cough. Breathing difficult. Dull, aching pain over root of nose. Eustachian catarrh. Pain in posterior part of spleen). Lobelia erinus (malignant growths, extremely rapid development; colloid cancer of the omentum; cork-screw-like pains in abdomen; great dryness of skin, nasal and buccal mucous membranes; distaste for brandy; dry, eczematous patches covering points of first fingers. Malignant disease of the face. Epithelioma).

Dose.--Tincture, to thirtieth potency. Locally the tincture is antidotal to Poison-oak. Often the Acetum Lobelia acts better than any other preparation. Lobelia hypodermically acts clinically almost precisely as the antitoxin of diphtheria does upon the infection and renders the system stronger to resist future infections (F. Ellingwood).

http://homeoint.org/books/boericmm/l/lob.htm


I hope is helpful to you. Feel free to email me if you have more questions about Homeopathic Medicine

Take Care and God Bless.


Edit :- Please do not give LOBELIA to the child the symptoms that you have given in your email are those of BELLADONNA give it in 30C or 30X potency. The Symptoms that you gave are " My child's symptoms are
fever (has not broken a sweat yet) with redness in the face
croupy wheezy cough, wheezy breathing and labored breathing-- ribs pull in also called retractions.
Is lobelia in homeopathic form not a good remedy for this condition? I am an herbalist and i dont treat symptoms so this is beyond me."
Please read about the remedy BELLADONNA by clicking the link below. And please keep me posted about the childs progress .
http://homeoint.org/books/boericmm/b/bell.htm

Take Care and God Bless.

Answer 2

You have probably heard of the PDR (physician's desk reference). It tells all about pharmaceuticals. But most people don't know there is a PDR for Herbal Medicines. It is an impressive book with every herbal medicine listed. There are histories of each herb, along with various usages and dosages, if known. There is a section where you can look up a malady or illness and they list the traditional cures. All you ever needed to know and more is in that book. Most larger libraries should have a copy. My copy is the third edition. I don't know if they are up to a fourth edition yet. Check it out and you will be amazed.