Latin, Rapuntium inflatum;
English, Asthma root, Bladder-podded lobelia, Bugle weed, Emetic herb, Emetic weed, Eye bright, Pever cure, Indian tobacco, Lobelia, Puke root, Wild tobacco ;
French, Herbe de lobelie enflee ;
German, Lobelienkraut ;
Urdu, Tambakoo.
An annual or biennial herb, with slender, fibrous, yellowish-White
root. The stem, 8 inches to 2 feet high, is round, erect, striated,
leafy, paniculately branched above, divergently hirsute below,
somewhat angled, the leaves are alternate, irregularly scattered,
the lower petioled, the others sessile, veiny, ovate, or oblong
below, foliaceous or subulate bracts above, longer then the pedicels,
acute, irregularly dentate, thin, pubescent and pale-green. The
inconspicuous, small, irregular, pale-blue flowers appear from July
to October, in loose, terminal, leafy, spike-like racemes, each from
the axil of a small leaf. The plant yields a milky, acrid, poisonous
juice.
Found in :-
North America from Hudson Bay to Saskatchewan, southward to Georgia
and the Mississippi, common everywhere.
Introduced into homoeopathic practice:-- |
By Noack, Hygea, XV. 37. in 1841. ( Allen’s Encyc. Mat, Med. V. 611.)
The whole fresh plant.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Lobelia inflnata, moist magma containing solids | 100 gm
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Plant moisture 300 Cc. | = 400.
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Strong alcohol | 730 Cc.
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To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.
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(b) Dilutions: 2x to contain one part of tincture,
two parts distilled water,
seven parts alcohol ;
3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
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