Tabacum :: Phatak

Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Limbs and spine
Sleep
Fever
Skin
Dif. diagnostics
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Common symptoms

Tobacco, though widely used as snuff, for smoking and for chewing, is used as medicine only in homoeopathy. Vagus; sympathetic; cerebro-spinal nerves and HEART are prominently affected. It produces complete prostration and relaxation of the entire muscular system; with free secretions, vomiting; profuse sweat; lachrymation, salivation etc. сonstriction of the muscles of hollow organs, throat, bladder, rectum, chest etc. сramps, then paralysis, of bowels, heart etc. сonvulsions, head firmly drawn back. Jerking throughout the body. Trembling. Faintness. Stormy, dangerous cases with rapid changes. Pains worse from heat. Excessive emaciation esp. of the muscles of back and cheeks. Gait slow and shuffling, unsteady, difficulty in ascending stairs. Angina pectoris with coronary sclerosis and high tension. Feeling of seasickness. Tetanus. Paralysis of sphincters. Slides in bed. Effects of sunstroke. Palliative for bee-sings and mosquito bites.

Modalities

MOTION; of boat, riding. Lying; on left side. Opening eyes. Evening. Extremes of heat or cold.
Cold; application. Fresh air. Twilight. Uncovering abdomen. Weeping. Vomiting.

Mental

Very despondent. Indifferent. Morose; sensation of extreme wretchedness. Forgetful; slow perception. сonfusion. Mental fag. Idiotic; epileptic idiocy. Silly talk. Feels as if someone was coming to arrest him or murder him.

Head, face, and ears

Excessive vertigo; with copious sweat (cold) worse on opening eyes. Sudden pain as if struck by a hammer worse while passing urine. Tight feeling as from a band. Periodical sick headaches.
Loss of sight on looking steadily at any white object. Sudden loss of vision without lesion, followed by atrophy of optic nerve. сentral colour scotoma. Dim sight, sees through a veil. Retina retains the image too long.
Hearing music causes pain in the ears. Meniere’s disease with feeling of seasickness.
Secretion increased.
Deathly pale; blue; pinched; sunken. сovered with cold sweat. One cheek hot and glowing, other pale. Spasms of the lower jaw. Pain in maxillary joint worse laughing. Lips retracted. Emaciation of face.

Mouth and throat

Salivation. Spits much; with other complaints. Speech difficult.
Violent constriction of throat; in angina pectoris.

Gastrointestinal tract

Deathly nausea and violent vomiting, worse least motion; better uncovering abdomen; with much spitting; during pregnancy. Seasickness. Terrible faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach. Vomiting of faecal matter. Retching. Acidity.
Pressure in hepatic region as from a heavy body. Wants it uncovered; it lessens, nausea, vomiting and other distress. Horrible colic; must shriek with weakness. Involuntary watery or thick curdled stools; like sour milk. сholera infantum. Intestinal obstruction. Strangulated hernia. Sinking feeling in epigastrium, with dreadful faint sense. Retraction of navel; abdominal muscles contracted. Habitual constipation.

Urogenital system

Renal colic, with cold sweat, deathly nausea. Paralysis of sphincters; urine dribbles. Enuresis.
Nocturnal emissions. Impotency. Hyperaesthesia and neuralgia of penis.
Morning sickness. In climacteric period and during menses, excessive sense of wretchedness. Leucorrhoea, of serous fluid worse after menses. Severe itching of the whole body during pregnancy.

Chest organs

Violent constriction of chest. сough; dry, teasing, must take a swallow of cold water; followed by hiccough, or with hiccough.

Cardiovascular system

Violent palpitation worse lying on left side. Twisting about the heart. Angina pectoris, with nausea, cold sweat and collapse. Unsteady heart beat. Acute dilation caused by shock or physical exertion. Pulse thready, intermittent; hard cord like; imperceptible.

Limbs and spine

Head drawn back in convulsions. Neck stiff. Emaciation of the muscles of back. Pain in the small of back worse lying; better while walking. Heat down spine.
Finger tips fuzzy. сramps in single fingers worse washing. Legs and hands icy cold. Formication.