Nicotinum

Nicotiana tabacum · Tobacco plant,Nicotiana tabacum · Plant · Solanaceae

Clarke

The remedy is best suited to people who feel wretched and gloomy. They are usually unable to concentrate for long.

Severe nausea is a key symptom treated by Tabacum. The nausea is similar to that experienced by someone on inhaling their first cigarette, and causes a deathly, icy cold sensation. It may be used for motion sickness or acute digestive upset, especially during pregnancy or chemotherapy. Tabacum is also thought to help ease acute diarrhea or, conversely, habitual constipation with rectal paralysis or spasms. A sensation of obstruction or constriction in the rectum or intestines, with weakness and cramping pain, is typical.

Key symptoms

Violent tonic and clonic spasms; epilepsy and tetanus
Loss of consciousness with indistinctness of senses
Head drawn back with rigidity of neck and back muscles
Coldness extending from tips of fingers and toes over trunk
Emptiness and faintness in stomach; jerking respiration
Sensitiveness of eye to light with indistinct vision

Worse (aggravation)

For extremes of heat and cold; in the evening; for lying on the left side; for the movement of a car or boat; for opening the eyes.

Better (amelioration)

For cold and cold compresses on the affected area; at twilight; for uncovering the abdomen; for vinegar and sour foods or drinks.

John Henry Clarke

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900

Nicotine. An alkaloid from Nicotiana tabacum. C10H14N2. Solutions in distilled water or alcohol.

Clinical

Aura of epilepsy. Brain-fag. Collapse. Epilepsy. Seasickness. Spasms. Tetanus. Tobacco, effects of.

Characteristics

Nicotin. has had a very heroic proving by Falk, Wochenfeld, Wertheim, Schroff, and Reil. Very violent tonic and clonic spasms were produced; indistinctness of senses; loss of consciousness. Peculiar symptoms and sensations were: Great sensitiveness of eye to light, along with indistinct vision. Aura in upper jaw. As though a sharp brush had been drawn through œsophagus to stomach. Disagreeable sensation extending upwards and downwards from stomach. Emptiness and faintness in stomach. Coldness extends from tips of fingers and toes over trunk; and warmth streams into them from the stomach. Jerking respiration.

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