LOBELIA EXTERNALLY
Lobelia is a valuable ingredient in all forms of poultices where relaxation is desired. Infusions or alcoholic extracts may be used or powdered Lobelia substituted. It well combines with flax-seed or slippery elm in the relief of insect bites, bruises and sprains and of various pains. Powdered Lobelia is well combined with lard and applied warm in acute thoracic diseases or any form of soreness of the chest. Lobelia in any form may be effectively combined with other
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agents and used as a poultice in the pains and inflammation present in pneumonia, broncho-pneumonia, bronchitis, croup, pleurisy, acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, orchitis, ovaritis, arthritis, inflammatory rheumatism and for all localized pains in the joints' and muscular structures.
PERSONAL REMARKS
The number one agent on the Natura physician's armamentarium is Lobelia. Lobelia is one of Nature's few dual agents in the relief of human ailments. It is both a relaxant and a stimulant; depending altogether on how it is prescribed; hence if the Natura physician had to choose one remedy from all others, it would be Lobelia and he could practice successfully. So many claims have been made for this agent, and so many more could be honestly made for it where its virtues fully understood, that it has been most unfortunately called a quack remedy. Unfortunately and most unjustly, Lobelia has been, and continues to be, labeled a poison(*). If this is to indicate that an unlimited amount may not be prescribed without harmful reactions then such labelling is justified, otherwise not. In an experience of fifty-six years (at the writing) I have prescribed it for children and people advanced in age; in amounts of three drops to new born children; fifteen drops every fifteen minutes for hours, or maximum doses of 60 drops, to older persons with never any but the best results. I have given it where immediate relaxation was an absolute necessity to be followed by a stimulating effect, and it has not failed me. If there were such a thing as a general Panacea, I would say that Lobelia comes nearer to being such than any other agent I have used in all of these many years.
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