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Nausea, giddiness, death like pallor vomiting, icy
coldness, sweat and intermittent pulse.
Prostration, collapse, cold but wants abdomen uncovered.
Sea-sickness.
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COMMON NAME
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Tobacco
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FAMILY
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Solanaceae
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A/F
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MODALITIES
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| < | Extremes of heat and cold
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MIND
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| - | Very despondent. Sadness > complaining.
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| - | Sense of excessive wretchedness [especially at climacteric or during
menses].
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| - | Sudden anxiety, anxiety at night.
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| - | Anxiety from thinking about it.
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| - | Does not recognize his relatives.
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| - | Unconsciousness; as in a trance.
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| - | Unconsciousness > cold water poured over head.
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| - | Feels as if someone were coming to arrest him or murder him.
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| - | Suicidal disposition but lacks courage. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | Has marked antiseptic qualities antidotal to
cholera germs.
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| - | Icy coldness of the surface, covered with cold sweat.
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| - | Wants abdomen uncovered [Colch, Elaps, Lach].
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| - | Complete prostration and relaxation of entire muscular system.
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| - | Constriction of muscles of hollow organs - throat, chest, bladder and
rectum.
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| - | Symptoms occur in paroxysms.
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| - | Vertigo - Excessive vertigo and copious sweat < opening eyes < indoors
> open air.
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| - | Vertigo followed by vomiting of food and tremulous weakness.
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| - | Vertigo, on rising or looking upward, increasing to loss of consciousness
> open air, vomiting.
Head - Headache increases with rising of sun and decreases on its going down.
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| - | Periodical sick headache lasting 1-2 days with deathly nausea.
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| - | Sudden pain on right side of head as if struck by a hammer or club.
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| - | Eyes - Rapid blindness without lesion followed by venous hyperaemia and
atrophy of optic nerve.
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| - | Face - Deathly pale, blue, pinched, sunken covered with cold sweat [Ars,
Verat].
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| - | Incessant nausea < smell of tobacco smoke [Phos]
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| - | Vomiting on least motion, sometimes of faecal matter, vomiting during
pregnancy, much spitting > uncovering abdomen.
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| - | Sea sickness > on deck, in open air.
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| - | Terrible faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach.
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| - | Craving for tobacco [Morrison].
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| - | Involuntary choleraic or thick, curdled watery stools, like sour milk.
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| - | Respiratory system - Cough - dry, teasing, must take a swallow of cold water
[Caust, Phos].
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| - | C.V.S. - Acute dilatation of heart caused by shock or violent physical
exertion.
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| - | Palpitation due to tobacco < lying on left side, goes off when turning to
right.
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| - | Pulse - quick, full, large, small, intermittent, exceedingly slow, feeble,
irregular, almost imperceptible.
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| - | High tension and arteriosclerosis of the coronary arteries.
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| - | Urinary system - Renal colic, left sided with deathly nausea and cold sweat. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Seasickness > on deck, in fresh open air.
- Wants abdomen uncovered.
- Vertigo on rising or looking upward, increasing to loss of consciousness
< opening eyes > in open air > by vomiting.
- Cold sweats, icy cold skin.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Seasickness > on deck, in fresh, cold air.
- Vertigo - On rising or looking upward, increasing to loss of consciousness
< opening eyes > in open air > by vomiting.
- Face deathly pale, blue, pinched, sunken, covered with cold sweat.
- Collapse.
- Incessant nausea < smell of tobacco smoke, vomiting on least motion, sometimes
of faecal matter.
- Vomiting during pregnancy, much spitting > uncovering abdomen.
- Icy coldness of the body with cold sweat.
- Complete prostration and relaxation of entire muscular system.
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CLINICAL
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| - | Vomiting of pregnancy when Lactic acid fails.
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| - | Tabacum potentized (200 or 1000) to relieve terrible craving when
discontinuing use of tobacco.
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| - | Caladium causes a disgust for tobacco.
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| - | Sea sickness with occipital headache, give Petroleum instead of Tabacum. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Compare: Acon, Ars, Benz-d, Berb, Carbn-s, Cina, Colch, Dig,
Elaps, Fil, Kali-bi, Lach, Lyc, Meny, Nicot, Nux-v, Op, Plb, Salin, Sel, Sil,
Staph, Sulph, Uran-n, Verat
Antidoted By: Ars, Camph, Clem, Coff, Gels, Ign, Ip, Lyc, Nux-v, Phos,
Puls, Sep, Spig
It Antidotes: Cic, Stram
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