Lobelia erinus
Plant · Campanulaceae
Lobelia erinus is indicated in persons suffering from malignant tumours, particularly of the breast, with indurated, burning, stinging lesions and axillary gland involvement. It is also suited to debilitated individuals with hectic fever, deafness, and digestive complaints associated with cancerous states.
Key symptoms
- Cancerous and scirrhous affections of the breast responding to single doses
- Burning and stinging pains in malignant breast disease completely relieved
- Fearful earache from cancer of nose and throat relieved by each dose
- Deafness with history of otorrhoea or from tonsillectomy improved rapidly
- Persistent high temperature in tuberculous children with diarrhoea
- Great depression following heat and perspiration
Worse (aggravation)
- At the menstrual period (bearing down pains worse)
Lobelia erinus. N. O. Lobeliaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Breast, cancer of. Cancer. Deafness. Earache. Fever, hectic. Indigestion. Keratitis, interstitial.
Characteristics
Cooper, who is the sole authority for Lob. er., says. "This common and insignificant-looking plant possesses beyond question remarkable curative powers." He has only used it in single doses of Ø. In the Schema the sex of the patients on whom the observations were made is indicated in brackets after the symptom produced or cured. Its chief power is manifested in malignant diseases. For example: (1) Woman, 36, had for three weeks noticed a painfully inflamed spot, size of a shilling, scabbed over and resting on a scirrhous base close to l. nipple, which was retracted below the surface. This had led to the breast being condemned to operation. Axillary tenderness and a large soft swelling existed for eight years immediately below the breast. The disease yielded completely to single doses of Lob. er. given at long intervals during …
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