Indian tobacco

Clinical Notes. Seeds are most concentrated part of plant High dose=emetic, Low dose=all other actions For smoking cessation take in combination w/ nervine herbs for best effect

Therapy. External. Infusion of lobelia, or the alcoholic preparations diluted and constantly applied by means of compresses, are among the most efficient applications in rhus poisoning. A lotion or a poultice (with flaxseed or elm) often relieves insect bites and stings, articular pain, the pain of bruises and sprains, and sometimes causes relaxation in strangulated hernia, and relieves the discomfort of erysipelatous inflammation.

Therapy. In spasmodic asthma, if given in a dose of from thirty minims to one dram during the paroxysm, the benefit is apparent almost immediately. Small doses are of but little or no benefit in such a case. This full dose may be once repeated, but this is seldom necessary, and a single dose seldom produces vomiting.

Properties and Uses. The herb and the seeds are of the same action, the seeds being twice the strength of the herb. The herb is usually spoken of, unless the seeds are especially mentioned. It is a pure relaxant, possessing only the faintest moiety of stimulating property, and this of a transient character, expending itself upon the fauces, and the glands and mucous membrane of the mouth and respiratory organs.