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ates. Give pennyroyal or other herb tea, for a drink.
4. Tablets may be substituted for the herb. Ten to fifteen grains in half a cup of warm water every fifteen minutes until the stomach has been completely relieved of all its contents.
Lobelia will do quickly all that the stomach pump can do. Do it as efficiently and with better results.
Lobelia
According to Drs. Thomson, Scudder, Lyle, Greer, Stephens and modern physicians.
Lobelia is indicated when the pulse is full and oppressed, or small and feeble, oppression in the precordium, labored action of the heart, cardiac (heart) pain, oppression of the chest with difficult and labored respiration and the accumulation of mucous in the bronchial tubes.
Lobelia is a specific in most cases of angina pectoris and neuralgia of the heart. It is the indicated remedy when the patient complains of oppression in the chest and difficult breathing. It is the remedy in larynigitis in both children and adults. It is directly indicated in all conditions where there is a morbid congestion of the mucous membranes. Lobelia is one of the most direct and valuable stimulants to the sympathetic nervous system, and it favorably influences every organ and function supplied or controlled by these nerves.
Where there is lack of power Lobelia is always indicated.
Lobelia is dual in its activity. It is a relaxant, and it is a stimulant. In small doses it stimulates. In large doses it relaxes and must be followed by a stimulant such as Capsicum.
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