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Materia Medica

The symptomatology of Tabacum is exceedingly well marked. The nausea, giddiness, death-like pallor, vomiting, icy coldness, and sweat, with the intermittent pulse, are all most characteristic. Has marked antiseptic qualities, antidotal to cholera germs. Complete prostration of the entire muscular system. Collapse. Gastralgia, enteralgia, seasickness, cholera infantum; cold, but wants abdomen uncovered. Vigorous peristaltic activity diarrhoea. Produces high tension and arteriosclerosis of the coronary arteries. Should prove the most homeopathic drug for angina pectoris, with coronaritis and high tension (Cartier). Constriction of throat, chest, bladder, rectum. Pallor, breathlessness, hard-cordlike pulse.

Mind: Sensation of excessive wretchedness. Very despondent. Forgetful. Discontented.



Face: Pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered with cold sweat (Ars; Verat). Freckles.

Throat: Nasopharyngitis and tracheitis, hemming, morning cough, sometimes with vomiting. Hoarseness of public speakers.

Stomach: Incessant nausea; worse, smell of tobacco smoke (Phos); vomiting on least motion, sometimes of fecal matter, during pregnancy with much spitting. Seasickness; terrible faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach. Sense of relaxation of stomach, with nausea (Ipec). Gastralgia; pain from cardiac end extending to left arm.

Abdomen: Cold. Wants abdomen uncovered. It lessens the nausea and vomiting. Painful distension. Incarcerated hernia.


Urinary: Renal colic; violent pain along ureter, left side.

Heart: Palpitation when lying on left side. Pulse intermits, feeble, imperceptible. Angina pectoris, pain in praecordial region. Pain radiates from center of sternum. Tachycardia. Bradycardia. Acute dilatation caused by shock or violent physical exertion (Royal).

Respiratory: Difficult, violent constriction of chest. Praecordial oppression, with palpitation and pain between shoulders. Cough followed by hiccough. Cough dry, teasing, must take a swallow of cold water (Caust; Phos). Dyspnoea, with tingling down left arm when lying on left side.

Extremities: Legs and hands icy cold; limbs tremble. Paralysis following apoplexy (Plumb). Gait shuffling, unsteady. Feebleness of arms.

Sleep: Insomnia with dilated heart, with cold, clammy skin and anxiety.

Fever: Chills, with cold sweat.

Modalities: Worse, opening eyes; evening; extremes of heat and cold. Better, uncovering, open fresh air.


Vinegar; sour apples.


Ign; (smoking


Camphor in the physiological antagonist.


Sep (neuralgia and dyspepsia


Ars (chewing tobacco


Lycop (impotency


Nux (bad taste due to tobacco


Calad and Plantag (cause aversion to tobacco


Phosph (tobacco heart, sexual weakness


Hydrobromic acid; Camph; Verat; Ars.

